abstract = "The distributed evolutionary computation platform
EC-Star is extended in this paper to probabilistic
classifiers. This extension, called PRETSL, allows the
distributed age-layered evolution of probabilistic rule
sets, which in turn makes more fine-grained decisions
possible. The method is tested on 20 UCI data problems,
as well as a larger dataset of arterial blood pressure
waveforms. The Results show consistent improvement in
all cases compared to binary classification rule-sets.
Probabilistic rule evolution is thus a promising
approach to difficult classification tasks and
particularly well suited for time-series
classification.",