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Swarm Optimisation as a New Tool for Data Mining

Authors

Tiago Sousa
Ana Paula Neves F. da Silva
Arlindo Silva

Abstract

This paper proposes the use of Particle Swarm Optimisers
as a tool for data mining. To evaluate its usefulness, we
empirically compare the performance of three variants of
the Particle Optimiser with another evolutionary
algorithm, namely a Genetic Algorithm, in rule discovery
for classification tasks. Such tasks are considered core
tools for Decision Support Systems in a widespread area,
ranging from the industry, commerce, military and
scientific fields. The data sources used here for
experimental testing are commonly used and considered
as a de facto standard for rule discovery algorithms
reliability ranking. The results obtained in these domains
seem to indicate that Particle Swarm Optimisers are
competitive with other evolutionary techniques, and can be
successfully applied to more demanding problem domains.

Keywords

PSO, Data Mining

Subject

Particle Swarm Optimization

Conference

IPDPS, April 2003


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