Evolution of Genetic Algorithms in Classification Rule Mining
Dipankar Dutta, Jaya Sil · IGI Global eBooks · 2012
Classification is one of the most studied areas of data mining, which gives classification rules during training or learning. Classification rule mining, an important data-mining task, extracts significant rules for classification of objects. In this chapter class specific rules are represented in IF THEN form. With the popularity of soft computing methods, researchers explore different soft computing tools for rule discovery. Genetic algorithm (GA) is one of such tools. Over time, new techniques of GA for forming classification rules are invented. In this chapter, the authors focus on an understanding of the evolution of GA in classification rule mining to get an optimal rule set that builds an efficient classifier.