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INFORMATION SCIENCES
Volume 180, Issue 13, Pages 2528-2539Publisher
ELSEVIER SCIENCE INC
DOI: 10.1016/j.ins.2010.03.008
Keywords
Analytic network process; Interdependence; Genetic algorithm; Pattern classification; Multi-attribute decision analysis
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- National Science Council of Taiwan [NSC 97-2410-H-033-015-MY2]
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The analytic network process (ANP) is a useful technique for multi-attribute decision analysis (MCDA) that employs a network representation to describe interrelationships between diverse attributes. Owing to effectiveness of the ANP in allowing for complex interrelationships between attributes, this paper develops an ANP-based classifier for pattern classification problems with interdependence or independence among attributes. To deal with interdependence, this study employs genetic algorithms (GAs) to automatically determine elements in the supermatrix that are not easily user-specified, to find degrees of importance of respective attributes. Then, with the relative importance for each attribute in the limiting supermatrix, the current work determines the class label of a pattern by its synthetic evaluation. Experimental results obtained by the proposed ANP-based classifier are comparable to those obtained by other fuzzy or non-fuzzy classification methods. (C) 2010 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
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