Data Mining: Practical Machine Learning Tools and Techniques offers a thorough grounding in machine learning concepts as well as practical advice on applying machine learning tools and techniques in real-world data mining situations. This highly anticipated third edition of the most acclaimed work on data mining and machine learning will teach you everything you need to know about preparing inputs, interpreting outputs, evaluating results, and the algorithmic methods at the heart of successful data mining. Thorough updates reflect the technical changes and modernizations that have taken place in the field since the last edition, including new material on Data Transformations, Ensemble Learning, Massive Data Sets, Multi-instance Learning, plus a new version of the popular Weka machine learning software developed by the authors. Witten, Frank, and Hall include both tried-and-true techniques of today as well as methods at the leading edge of contemporary research. *Provides a thorough grounding in machine learning concepts as well as practical advice on applying the tools and techniques to your data mining projects *Offers concrete tips and techniques for performance improvement that work by transforming the input or output in machine learning methods *Includes downloadable Weka software toolkit, a collection of machine learning algorithms for data mining tasks-in an updated, interactive interface. Algorithms in toolkit cover: data pre-processing, classification, regression, clustering, association rules, visualization

Data Mining: Practical Machine Learning Tools and Techniques

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Pattern Recognition with Fuzzy Objective Function Algorithms

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Written by the author of the best-selling HyperText & HyperMedia, this book provides an excellent guide to the methods of usability engineering. Special features: emphasizes cost-effective methods that will help developers improve their user interfaces immediately, shows you how to avoid the four most frequently listed reasons for delay in software projects, provides step-by-step information about which methods to use at various stages during the development life cycle, and offers information on the unique issues relating to informational usability. You do not need to have previous knowledge of usability to implement the methods provided, yet all of the latest research is covered.

Usability Engineering

Fuzzy Set Theory - And Its Applications, Third Edition is a textbook for courses in fuzzy set theory. It can also be used as an introduction to the subject. The character of a textbook is balanced with the dynamic nature of the research in the field by including many useful references to develop a deeper understanding among interested readers. The book updates the research agenda (which has witnessed profound and startling advances since its inception some 30 years ago) with chapters on possibility theory, fuzzy logic and approximate reasoning, expert systems, fuzzy control, fuzzy data analysis, decision making and fuzzy set models in operations research. All chapters have been updated. Exercises are included.

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Fuzzy Set Theory - and Its Applications

This paper describes an experiment on the “linguistic” synthesis of a controller for a model industrial plant (a steam engine). Fuzzy logic is used to convert heuristic control rules stated by a human operator into an automatic control strategy. The experiment was initiated to investigate the possibility of human interaction with a learning controller. However, the control strategy set up linguistically proved to be far better than expected in its own right, and the basic experiment of linguistic control synthesis in a non-learning controller is reported here.

An Experiment in Linguistic Synthesis with a Fuzzy Logic Controller

The problem of transforming the knowledge bases of performance systems using induced rules or decision trees into comprehensible knowledge structures is addressed. A knowledge structure is developed that generalizes and subsumes production rules, decision trees, and rules with exceptions. It gives rise to a natural complexity measure that allows them to be understood, analyzed and compared on a uniform basis. This structure is a rooted directed acyclic graph with the semantics that nodes are concepts, some of which have attached conclusions, and the arcs are 'isa' inheritance links with disjunctive multiple inheritance. A detailed example is given of the generation of a range of such structures of equivalent performance for a simple problem, and the complexity measure of a particular structure is shown to relate to its perceived complexity. The simplest structures are generated by an algorithm that factors common concepts from the premises of rules. A more complex example of a chess dataset is used to show the value of this technique in generating comprehensible knowledge structures.

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Exception dags as knowledge structures

Knowledge base building environments must progress in two important directions: (i) increased participation of domain experts in the knowledge design process through new computational models and effective man-machine interfaces and (ii) automated knowledge acquisition tools to facilitate the overt expression of knowledge. This paper presents the integration of a knowledge acquisition methodology with a performance system. The resulting architecture represents a combination of techniques from psychology, cognitive sciences and artificial intelligence. New dimensions emerge from this implementation and integration both at the theoretical and practical levels. The overall system is not linked to a particular control structure and is not task dependent. We discuss the value of intermediate representations in this context and the role of different approaches to the induction process. Topological induction is particularly efficient in the elicitation process and stresses the importance of interactive inductive techniques with participation from the experts. While the knowledge acquisition tool provides an analysis and structuring of the domain knowledge, the control is implemented using the performance system's interface. Therefore, both modules participate in the overall knowledge acquisition process. Beyond the integration of these knowledge acquisition and performance systems, the architecture can also be integrated with databases, text analysis techniques, and hypermedia systems.

Integrating Knowledge Acquisition and Performance Systems

This paper extends a previous survey of techniques for the analysis of repertory grids. It compares principal component analysis, Q-analysis, FOCUS and a new logical technique ENTAIL on some examples, and discusses the similarities and differences in the results.

Recent advances in the analysis of a repertory grid.

It has been interesting to revisit the era when my path crossed with those of John Andreae, Joe Goguen, George Klir, Ladislav Kohout, Abe Mamdani, Gordon Pask, Ted Poppelbaum and Lotfi Zadeh, all precious friends and colleagues, some of whom are, unfortunately, no longer with us; their ideas live on and flourish as a continuing inspiration. I was tempted to entitle this article after Gurdieff, Meetings with Remarkable People, and that will be its focus, particularly the background to the initial development of fuzzy controllers. There have been studies analyzing their history and the basis of their success—this article provides some details from my personal experience.

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Living in an Uncertain Universe

The Japanese initiative in scheduling a development program for a fifth generation of computers has shocked a drowsy West into realizing that computer technology has reached a new maturity. We are ready to take a step forward and integrate into systems the advances in very-large-scale integration, artificial intelligence, database management systems, and the human-computer interface of the last decade. Suddenly, work on the fringes of the computer industry, particularly that in artificial intelligence, is perceived as central and of commercial and military strategic importance. This paper examines the economic, historic, social, and technical logic behind the fifth-generation program from several perspectives. It gives a basis for evaluating the program, responses to it, and its effect on our industry and society.

Brian R. Gaines

Papers

Exception dags as knowledge structures

Integrating Knowledge Acquisition and Performance Systems

Recent advances in the analysis of a repertory grid.

Living in an Uncertain Universe

A framework for the fifth generation