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
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