<abstract xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><p>Due to the vast and rapid increase in the size of data, data mining has been an increasingly important tool for the purpose of knowledge discovery to prevent the presence of rich data but poor knowledge. In this context, machine learning can be seen as a powerful approach to achieve intelligent data mining. In practice, machine learning is also an intelligent approach for predictive modelling. Rule learning methods, a special type of machine learning methods, can be used to build a rule based system as a special type of expert systems for both knowledge discovery and predictive modelling. A rule based system may be represented through different structures. The techniques for representing rules are known as rule representation, which is significant for knowledge discovery in relation to the interpretability of the model, as well as for predictive modelling with regard to efficiency in predicting unseen instances. This paper justifies the significance of rule representation and presents several existing representation techniques. Two types of novel networked topologies for rule representation are developed against existing techniques. This paper also includes complexity analysis of the networked topologies in order to show their advantages comparing with the existing techniques in terms of model interpretability and computational efficiency.</p></abstract>

Due to the vast and rapid increase in the size of data, data mining has been an increasingly important tool for the purpose of knowledge discovery to prevent the presence of rich data but poor knowledge. In this context, machine learning can be seen as a powerful approach to achieve intelligent data mining. In practice, machine learning is also an intelligent approach for predictive modelling. Rule learning methods, a special type of machine learning methods, can be used to build a rule based system as a special type of expert systems for both knowledge discovery and predictive modelling. A rule based system may be represented through different structures. The techniques for representing rules are known as rule representation, which is significant for knowledge discovery in relation to the interpretability of the model, as well as for predictive modelling with regard to efficiency in predicting unseen instances. This paper justifies the significance of rule representation and presents several existing representation techniques. Two types of novel networked topologies for rule representation are developed against existing techniques. This paper also includes complexity analysis of the networked topologies in order to show their advantages comparing with the existing techniques in terms of model interpretability and computational efficiency.

Rule Based Networks: An Efficient and Interpretable Representation of Computational Models

School of Computing, University of Portsmouth Buckingham Building, Lion Terrace, Portsmouth, PO1 3HE,

Journal of Artificial Intelligence and Soft Computing Research

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Due to the vast and rapid increase in the size of data, data mining has been an increasingly important tool for the purpose of knowledge discovery to prevent...

Rule Based Networks: An Efficient and Interpretable Representation of Computational Models

Published Online: Feb 23, 2017

Page range: 111 - 123

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/jaiscr-2017-0008

Keywords
rule based networks, knowledge discovery, predictive modelling, rule representation

© 2017 Academy of Management (SWSPiZ), Lodz

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 3.0 License.

Rule Based Networks: An Efficient and Interpretable Representation of Computational Models

Published Online: Feb 23, 2017

Page range: 111 - 123

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/jaiscr-2017-0008

Keywordsrule based networks, knowledge discovery, predictive modelling, rule representation

© 2017 Academy of Management (SWSPiZ), Lodz

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 3.0 License.

Keywords
rule based networks, knowledge discovery, predictive modelling, rule representation