Learning effective classifiers with Z-value measure based on genetic programming

Abstract

This paper presents a learning scheme for data classification based on genetic programming. The proposed learning approach consists of an adaptive incremental learning strategy and distance-based fitness functions for generating the discriminant functions using genetic programming. To classify data using the discriminant functions effectively, the mechanism called Z-value measure is developed. Based on the Z-value measure, we give two classification algorithms to resolve ambiguity among the discriminant functions. The experiments show that the proposed approach has less training time than previous GP learning methods. The learned classifiers also have high accuracy of classification in comparison with the previous classifiers. (C) 2004 Pattern Recognition Society. Published by Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.