First IEEE International Conference on Data Mining (ICDM'01)
Theory and Applications of Attribute Decomposition
San Jose, California
November 29-December 02
ISBN: 0-7695-1119-8
This paper examines the Attribute Decomposition Approach with simple Bayesian combination for dealing with classi?cation problems that contain high number of attributes and moderate numbers of records. According to the attribute Decomposition approach, the set of input attributes is automatically decomposed into several subsets. classi?cation model is built for each subset, then all the models are combined using simple Bayesian combination. This paper presents theoretical and practical foundation for the Attribute Decomposition approach. A greedy procedure, called D-IFN, is developed to decompose the input attributes set into subsets and build a classi?cation model for each subset separately. The results achieved in the empirical comparison testing with well-known classi?cation methods (like C4.5)indicate the superiority of the decomposition approach.