Journal
IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON EVOLUTIONARY COMPUTATION
Volume 6, Issue 4, Pages 321-332Publisher
IEEE-INST ELECTRICAL ELECTRONICS ENGINEERS INC
DOI: 10.1109/TEVC.2002.802452
Keywords
ant colony optimization; classification; data mining; knowledge discovery
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This paper proposes an algorithm for data mining called Ant-Miner (ant-colony-based data miner). The goal of Ant-Miner is to extract classification rules from data. The algorithm is inspired by both research on the behavior of real ant colonies and some data mining concepts as well as principles. We compare the performance of Ant-Miner with CN2, a well-known data mining algorithm for classification, in six public domain data sets. The results provide evidence that: 1) Ant-Miner is competitive with CN2 with respect to predictive accuracy and 2) the rule lists discovered by Ant-Miner are considerably simpler (smaller) than those discovered by CN2.
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