{"title":"Applications of Genetic Programming in Data Mining","authors":"Saleh Mesbah Elkaffas, Ahmed A. Toony","volume":17,"journal":"International Journal of Computer and Information Engineering","pagesStart":1539,"pagesEnd":1544,"ISSN":"1307-6892","URL":"https:\/\/publications.waset.org\/pdf\/2372","abstract":"This paper details the application of a genetic\nprogramming framework for induction of useful classification rules\nfrom a database of income statements, balance sheets, and cash flow\nstatements for North American public companies. Potentially\ninteresting classification rules are discovered. Anomalies in the\ndiscovery process merit further investigation of the application of\ngenetic programming to the dataset for the problem domain.","references":"[1] Little, J. B. and Rhodes, L., \"Understanding Wall Street\", Liberty\nPublishing Company, Cockeysville, MD, 1983.\n[2] Fayyad, U.M., Piattetsky-Shapiro, G., and Smyth, P., \"From data mining\nto knowledge discovery: an overview. Advances in Knowledge\nDiscovery and Data Mining\", 1-34. AAAI\/MIT Press, 1996.\n[3] COMPUSTAT, http:\/\/www.compustat.com\/www\/db\/na_descr.html,\nStandard & Poors Institutional Market Services, Englewood, CO, USA,\n2001.\n[4] Fidelis, M.V., Lopes, H.S., and Freitas, A.A., \"Discovering\ncomprehensible classification rules with a genetic algorithm\", Proc.\nCongress on Evolutionary Computation - 2000 (CEC-2000), 805-810.\nLa Jolla, CA, USA, 2000.\n[5] Freitas, A.A., \"A genetic programming framework for two data mining\ntasks: classification and generalized rule induction\", Genetic\nProgramming 1997: Proc. 2nd Annual Conf. (Stanford University, July\n1997), 96-101. Morgan Kaufmann, 1997.\n[6] Goldberg, David E., \"Genetic Algorithms in Search, Optimization, and\nMachine Learning\", Addison Wesley Longman, Inc, 1989.\n[7] Koza, John R., \"Genetic Programming: On the Programming of\nComputers by Means of Natural Selection\", Cambridge, MA: The MIT\nPress, 1992.","publisher":"World Academy of Science, Engineering and Technology","index":"Open Science Index 17, 2008"}