Using optimisation techniques to granulise rough set partitions

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dc.contributor.authorCrossingham, Bodie
dc.date.accessioned2009-01-26T08:58:40Z
dc.date.available2009-01-26T08:58:40Z
dc.date.issued2009-01-26T08:58:40Z
dc.description.abstractRough set theory (RST) is concerned with the formal approximation of crisp sets and is a mathematical tool which deals with vagueness and uncertainty. RST can be integrated into machine learning and can be used to forecast predictions as well as to determine the causal interpretations for a particular data set. The work performed in this research is concerned with using various optimisation techniques to granulise the rough set input partitions in order to achieve the highest forecasting accuracy produced by the rough set. The forecasting accuracy is measured by using the area under the curve (AUC) of the receiver operating characteristic (ROC) curve. The four optimisation techniques used are genetic algorithm, particle swarm optimisation, hill climbing and simulated annealing. This newly proposed method is tested on two data sets, namely, the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) data set and the militarised interstate dispute (MID) data set. The results obtained from this granulisation method are compared to two previous static granulisation methods, namely, equal-width-bin and equal-frequency-bin partitioning. The results conclude that all of the proposed optimised methods produce higher forecasting accuracies than that of the two static methods. In the case of the HIV data set, the hill climbing approach produced the highest accuracy, an accuracy of 69.02% is achieved in a time of 12624 minutes. For the MID data, the genetic algorithm approach produced the highest accuracy. The accuracy achieved is 95.82% in a time of 420 minutes. The rules generated from the rough set are linguistic and easy-to-interpret, but this does come at the expense of the accuracy lost in the discretisation process where the granularity of the variables are decreased.en
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10539/5967
dc.language.isoenen
dc.subjectBioinformatics applicationen
dc.subjectHIV modellingen
dc.subjectEvolutionary optimisation techniquesen
dc.subjectRough set theoryen
dc.titleUsing optimisation techniques to granulise rough set partitionsen
dc.typeThesisen
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