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Knowledge acquisition via incremental conceptual clustering

Douglas H. Fisher
- 01 Sep 1987 - 
- Vol. 2, Iss: 2, pp 139-172
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COBWEB is a conceptual clustering system that organizes data so as to maximize inference ability, and is incremental and computationally economical, and thus can be flexibly applied in a variety of domains.
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Conceptual clustering is an important way of summarizing and explaining data. However, the recent formulation of this paradigm has allowed little exploration of conceptual clustering as a means of improving performance. Furthermore, previous work in conceptual clustering has not explicitly dealt with constraints imposed by real world environments. This article presents COBWEB, a conceptual clustering system that organizes data so as to maximize inference ability. Additionally, COBWEB is incremental and computationally economical, and thus can be flexibly applied in a variety of domains.

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