booktitle = "IEEE International Autumn Meeting on Power,
Electronics and Computing (ROPEC 2014)",
title = "Towards simultaneous prototype and Feature
Generation",
year = "2014",
month = nov,
abstract = "Nearest-neighbour (NN) methods are among the most
popular and highly effective techniques used in pattern
recognition tasks. However, these methods have several
drawbacks that impair their performance in large scale
problems and noisy data sets. Some of these
disadvantages includes its high storage requirements,
its sensitivity to noisy instances, and the
computational cost for estimating the distance among
all instances. To address these problems different
techniques like Prototype Generation (PG) to reduce the
number of instances, and Feature Generation (FG) to
obtain a new set of features have been proposed;
traditionally, both techniques have been applied
separately. This paper introduces a new method for
simultaneous generation of prototypes and features in
order to obtain a good tirade between accuracy of
classification with a NN classifier, instance reduction
rate and feature reduction rate. The method presented
is based on the algorithm NSGA-II; the main idea of the
proposed method is to combine instances and attributes
to produce a set of prototypes and a new feature space
for each class of the classification problem via
genetic programming. The proposed approach overcomes
some limitations of NN without compromising its
performance in classification task. Experimental
results are reported and compared with several other
techniques.",