abstract = "Research in the rule induction algorithm field
produced many algorithms in the last 30 years. However,
these algorithms are usually obtained from a few basic
rule induction algorithms that have been often changed
to produce better ones. Having these basic algorithms
and their components in mind, this work proposes the
use of Grammar-based Genetic Programming (GGP) to
automatically evolve rule induction algorithms. The
proposed GGP is evaluated in extensive computational
experiments involving 11 data sets. Overall, the
results show that effective rule induction algorithms
can be automatically generated using GGP. The
automatically evolved rule induction algorithms were
shown to be competitive with well-known manually
designed ones. The proposed approach of automatically
evolving rule induction algorithms can be considered a
pioneering one, opening a new kind of research area.",