Title: Experiments on mining inconsistent data with bagging and the MLEM2 rule induction algorithm

Authors: Clinton Eugene Cohagan; Jerzy Witold Grzymala-Busse; Zdzislaw S. Hippe

Addresses: Kansas City Plant, National Nuclear Security Administration, Kansas City, MO 64141, USA. ' Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS 66045, USA; Institute of Computer Science, Polish Academy of Sciences, 01-237 Warsaw, Poland. ' Department of Expert Systems and Artificial Intelligence, University of Information Technology and Management, 35-225 Rzeszow, Poland

Abstract: We report results of experiments on mining inconsistent data using bagging combined with the MLEM2 rule induction algorithm based on rough set theory. The main objective of this paper was to compare the quality of rule sets induced using two different approaches to inconsistency – lower and upper approximations – and three different approaches to ensemble voting – based on support, strength and majority – in the bagged MLEM2. Our main conclusion is that there is no significant difference in performance between one of the most successful techniques used in bagging, majority voting, and voting based on support (two-tailed Wilcoxon test, 5% level of significance).

Keywords: data mining; inconsistent data; bagging; rule induction; rough set theory.

DOI: 10.1504/IJGCRSIS.2012.047019

International Journal of Granular Computing, Rough Sets and Intelligent Systems, 2012 Vol.2 No.3, pp.257 - 271

Received: 13 Jan 2011
Accepted: 24 Nov 2011
Published online: 29 Aug 2014 *

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