• DocumentCode
    130325
  • Title

    Minimizing size of decision trees for multi-label decision tables

  • Author

    Azad, Mohammad ; Moshkov, Mikhail

  • Author_Institution
    Electr. & Math. Sci. & Eng. Div., King Abdullah Univ. of Sci. & Technol., Thuwal, Saudi Arabia
  • fYear
    2014
  • fDate
    7-10 Sept. 2014
  • Firstpage
    67
  • Lastpage
    74
  • Abstract
    We used decision tree as a model to discover the knowledge from multi-label decision tables where each row has a set of decisions attached to it and our goal is to find out one arbitrary decision from the set of decisions attached to a row. The size of the decision tree can be small as well as very large. We study here different greedy as well as dynamic programming algorithms to minimize the size of the decision trees. When we compare the optimal result from dynamic programming algorithm, we found some greedy algorithms produce results which are close to the optimal result for the minimization of number of nodes (at most 18.92% difference), number of nonterminal nodes (at most 20.76% difference), and number of terminal nodes (at most 18.71% difference).
  • Keywords
    data mining; decision tables; decision trees; dynamic programming; greedy algorithms; minimisation; decision tree size minimization; dynamic programming algorithms; greedy algorithms; knowledge discovery; multilabel decision tables; nonterminal nodes; Decision trees; Dynamic programming; Greedy algorithms; Heuristic algorithms; Impurities; Measurement uncertainty; Uncertainty;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Computer Science and Information Systems (FedCSIS), 2014 Federated Conference on
  • Conference_Location
    Warsaw
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.15439/2014F256
  • Filename
    6932998