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Data mining and knowledge discovery with evolutionary algorithms

This book integrates two areas of computer science, namely data mining and evolutionary algorithms. Both these areas have become increasingly popular in the last few years, and their integration is currently an area of active research.In general, data mining consists of extracting knowledge from dat...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Alex A. Freitas
Format: Printed Book
Published: New York Springer 2002
Edition:1st. Indian Reprint .
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Table of Contents:
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. Data Mining Tasks and Concepts
  • 3. Data Mining Paradigms
  • 4. Data Preparation
  • 5. Basic Concepts of Evolutionary Algorithms
  • 6. Genetic Algorithms for Rule Discovery
  • 7. Genetic Programming for Rule Discovery
  • 8. Evolutionary Algorithms for Clustering
  • 9. Evolutionary Algorithms for Data Preparation
  • 10. Evolutionary Algorithms for Discovering Fuzzy Rules
  • 11. Scaling up Evolutionary Algorithms for Large Data Sets
  • 12. Conclusions and Research Directions.