Data mining using rule extraction from Kohonen self-organising maps
Malone, James, McGarry, Kenneth, Wermter, Stefan and Bowerman, Chris (2006) Data mining using rule extraction from Kohonen self-organising maps. Neural Computing & Applications, 15 (1). pp. 9-17. ISSN 0941-0643
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Abstract
The Kohonen self-organising feature map (SOM) has several important properties that can be used within the data mining/knowledge discovery and exploratory data analysis process. A key characteristic of the SOM is its topology preserving ability to map a multi-dimensional input into a two-dimensional form. This feature is used for classification and clustering of data. However, a great deal of effort is still required to interpret the cluster boundaries. In this paper we present a technique which can be used to extract propositional IF..THEN type rules from the SOM network’s internal parameters. Such extracted rules can provide a human understandable description of the discovered clusters.
Item Type: | Article |
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Subjects: | Computing > Databases Computing > Information Systems Computing |
Divisions: | Faculty of Technology Faculty of Technology > School of Computer Science Faculty of Technology > FOT Executive |
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Depositing User: | Hannah Dodd |
Date Deposited: | 22 Dec 2014 16:50 |
Last Modified: | 18 Dec 2019 15:37 |
URI: | http://sure.sunderland.ac.uk/id/eprint/5208 |
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