• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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• v.11 no.3
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• pp.619-626
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• 2007

Constructive induction is a technique to draw useful attributes from given primitive attributes to classify given examples more efficiently. Useful attributes are obtained from given primitive attributes by applying appropriate operators to them. The paper proposes a constructive induction approach for a GA-based inductive learning environment that learns classification rules that ate similar to rules used in PROSPECTOR from given examples. The paper explains our constructive induction approach in details, centering on operators to combine primitive attributes and methods to evaluate the usefulness of derived attributes, and presents the results of various experiments performed to evaluate the effect of our constructive induction approach on the GA-based learning environment.