Decision tree design by simulated annealing
Grammatical Evolution (GE) is a novel data-driven, model-induction tool, inspired by the biological gene-to-protein mapping process. This study provides an introduction to GE, and demonstrates the methodology by applying it to construct a series of models for the prediction of bankruptcy, employing information drawn from financial statements. Unlike prior studies in this domain, the raw financial information is not preprocessed into pre-determined financial ratios. Instead, the ratios to be incorporated...
Our concern here, is the characterization of dissimilarity indexes defined over finite sets, whose spatial representation is spherical. Consequently, we propose a methodology (Normed MultiDimensional Scaling) to determine the spherical euclidean representation of a set of items best accounting for the initial dissimilarity between items. This methodology has the advantage of being graphically readable on individual qualities of projection like the normed PCA, of which it constitutes a generalization....
Les dissimilarités multivoies sont une généralisation naturelle des dissimilarités usuelles deux voies. Dans ce papier, des classes de dissimilarités multivoies sont étudiées, ainsi que des modèles de passage d'un nombre de voies donné à un autre nombre de voies. Une application à la spécification de systèmes classifiants a conduit à une bijection entre une classe de dissimilarités multivoies et une famille de systèmes stratifiés de classifccation.