Using Genetic Programming for Feature Creation with a Genetic Algorithm Feature Selector

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@PhdThesis{Matthew.G.Smith:thesis,

• author = "Matthew Goble Smith",
• title = "Using Genetic Programming for Feature Creation with a Genetic Algorithm Feature Selector",
• school = "University of the West of England, Bristol",
• year = "2010",
• address = "UK",
• keywords = "genetic algorithms, genetic programming",
• URL = "http://www.thinkinglogic.com/Main/DataMining",
• URL = "http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?did=42&uin=uk.bl.ethos.525208",
• abstract = "This thesis examines the use of Genetic Programming and a Genetic Algorithm in a wrapper approach to pre-process data before it is classified by a (relatively simple) classifier such as C4.5. Genetic Programming is combined with a Genetic Algorithm to construct and select new features from those available in the data, a potentially significant process for data mining since it gives consideration to hidden relationships between features. Pre-processing data in this fashion for a simple classifier makes explicit the discovery of hidden relationships that is made implicitly by a more complex classifier such as an Artificial Neural Network or a Support Vector Machine. The algorithm is applied initially to C4.5, then to IBk and Naive Bayes, and allowed to select the most appropriate classifier type. Techniques are employed to improve the human readability of these new features and extract more information about the domain. Finally ensembles of heterogenous classifiers are constructed, both from the final population of a single run and by assembling the fittest individuals from many runs.",
• notes = "uk.bl.ethos.525208",

}

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