USING ENSEMBLE AND LEARNING TECHNIQUES TOWARDS EXTENDING THE KNOWLEDGE DISCOVERY PIPELINE

Yu-N Cheah, Sakthiaseelan Karthigasoo, Selvakumar Manickam

2005

Abstract

Knowledge discovery presents itself as a very useful technique to transform enterprise data into actionable knowledge. However, their effectiveness is limited in view that it is difficult to develop a knowledge discovery pipeline that is suited for all types of datasets. Moreover, it is difficult to select the best possible algorithm for each stage of the pipeline. In this paper, we define (a) a novel clustering ensemble algorithm based on self-organizing maps to automate the annotation of un-annotated medical datasets; (b) a data discretization algorithm based on Boolean Reasoning to discretize continuous data values; (c) a rule filtering mechanism; and (d) to extend the regular knowledge discovery process by including a learning mechanism based on neural network ensembles to produce a neural knowledge base for decision support. We believe that this would result in a decision support system that is tolerant towards ambiguous queries, e.g. with incomplete inputs. We also believe that the boosting and aggregating features of ensemble techniques would help to compensate for any shortcomings in some stages of the pipeline. Ultimately, we combine these efforts to produce an extended knowledge discovery pipeline.

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in Harvard Style

Cheah Y., Karthigasoo S. and Manickam S. (2005). USING ENSEMBLE AND LEARNING TECHNIQUES TOWARDS EXTENDING THE KNOWLEDGE DISCOVERY PIPELINE . In Proceedings of the Seventh International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems - Volume 2: ICEIS, ISBN 972-8865-19-8, pages 408-411. DOI: 10.5220/0002538104080411


in Bibtex Style

@conference{iceis05,
author={Yu-N Cheah and Sakthiaseelan Karthigasoo and Selvakumar Manickam},
title={USING ENSEMBLE AND LEARNING TECHNIQUES TOWARDS EXTENDING THE KNOWLEDGE DISCOVERY PIPELINE},
booktitle={Proceedings of the Seventh International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems - Volume 2: ICEIS,},
year={2005},
pages={408-411},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0002538104080411},
isbn={972-8865-19-8},
}


in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the Seventh International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems - Volume 2: ICEIS,
TI - USING ENSEMBLE AND LEARNING TECHNIQUES TOWARDS EXTENDING THE KNOWLEDGE DISCOVERY PIPELINE
SN - 972-8865-19-8
AU - Cheah Y.
AU - Karthigasoo S.
AU - Manickam S.
PY - 2005
SP - 408
EP - 411
DO - 10.5220/0002538104080411