eBook - Computational Intelligence and Feature Selection : Rough and Fuzzy Approaches

  • ISBN: 9789373324197
  • 356 pages

Available Exclusively as an eBook | Part of the AI eBook Collection | Only for Institutional Purchase | Publication Year: 2008

Description

Computational Intelligence and Feature Selection explores feature selection techniques based on rough and fuzzy set theories. It reviews existing methods, presents algorithms, discusses real-world applications, and investigates related areas like rule induction and clustering. The book serves advanced students, researchers, and professionals, offering foundational knowledge and practical insights into fuzzy-rough set approaches for intelligent data analysis.

About the Author

Richard Jensen is a Lecturer with the Department of Computer Science at Aberystwyth University, United Kingdom; Qiang Shen is Professor and Director of Research with the Department of Computer Science at Aberystwyth University and an Honorary Fellow at the University of Edinburgh.

Table of Contents

PREFACE.

1 THE IMPORTANCE OF FEATURE SELECTION.

2 SET THEORY.

3 CLASSIFICATION METHODS.

4 DIMENSIONALITY REDUCTION.

5 ROUGH SET BASED APPROACHES TO FEATURE SELECTION.

6 APPLICATIONS I: USE OF RSAR.

7 ROUGH AND FUZZY HYBRIDIZATION.

8 FUZZY-ROUGH FEATURE SELECTION.

9 NEW DEVELOPMENTS OF FRFS.

10 FURTHER ADVANCED FS METHODS.

11 APPLICATIONS II: WEB CONTENT CATEGORIZATION.

12 APPLICATIONS III: COMPLEX SYSTEMS MONITORING.

13 APPLICATIONS IV: ALGAE POPULATION ESTIMATION.

14 APPLICATIONS V: FORENSIC GLASS ANALYSIS.

15 SUPPLEMENTARY DEVELOPMENTS AND INVESTIGATIONS.

APPENDIX A: METRIC COMPARISON RESULTS: CLASSIFICATION DATASETS.

APPENDIX B: METRIC COMPARISON RESULTS: REGRESSION DATASETS.

REFERENCES.

INDEX

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