Title : 
Towards a Particle Swarm Optimization-Based Regression Rule Miner
         
        
            Author : 
Minnaert, Bart ; Martens, David
         
        
            Author_Institution : 
Fac. of Econ. & Bus. Adm., Ghent Univ., Ghent, Belgium
         
        
        
        
        
        
            Abstract : 
We present the work in progress on a rule mining algorithm for regression using particle swarm optimization (PSO). Sub problems occuring during development involve the encoding of rules as particles and suitable PSO parameter tuning. A key subtask is the selection of a good rule learning heuristic. We introduce a novel heuristic for which preliminary results show promise.
         
        
            Keywords : 
data mining; learning (artificial intelligence); particle swarm optimisation; regression analysis; PSO parameter tuning; key subtask; particle swarm optimization; regression algorithm; rule learning heuristic; rule mining algorithm; Data mining; Educational institutions; Linear programming; Measurement; Particle swarm optimization; Regression tree analysis; Training; heuristic; particle swarm optimization; regression; rule mining;
         
        
        
        
            Conference_Titel : 
Data Mining Workshops (ICDMW), 2012 IEEE 12th International Conference on
         
        
            Conference_Location : 
Brussels
         
        
            Print_ISBN : 
978-1-4673-5164-5
         
        
        
            DOI : 
10.1109/ICDMW.2012.44