Data Mining using Genetic Programming : Classification and Symbolic Regression
Jeroen Eggermont · Data Archiving and Networked Services (DANS) · 2005
Genetic ProgrammingWe focus our attention on decision tree representations for data classification.Before introducing our first decision tree representation we give an overview and analysis of other tree-based Genetic Programming (gp) representations for data classification.Then we introduce a simple decision tree representation by defining which internal and external nodes can occur in a tree.Using this simple representation we investigate the potential and complexity of tree-based gp algorithms for data classification tasks and compare our simple gp algorithm to other evolutionary and non-evolutionary algorithms using a number of data sets.