Pattern Classification Using Genetic Algorithms: Determination of H
Abstract
A methodology based on the concept of variable string length GA (VGA) is developed for determining automatically the number of hyperplanes for modeling the class boundaries in GA classifier. The genetic operators and fitness function are newly defined to take care of the variability in chromosome length. It is proved that the said method is able to arrive at the optimal number of misclassifications after sufficiently large number of iterations, and will need minimal number of hyperplanes for this purpose. Experimental results on different artificial and real life data sets demonstrate that the classifier, using the concept of variable length chromosome, can automatically evolve an appropriate value of H, and also provide performance better than those of the fixed length version. Its comparison with another approach using VGA is provided.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- May 01, 1998
- Accession Number
- ADA358030
Entities
People
- C. A. Murthy
- S. K. Pal
- Saumil Bandyopadhyay
Organizations
- Pennsylvania State University