An evolutionary system for automatic explicit rule extraction

The search for novel and useful patterns within large databases, known as data mining, has become of great importance owing to the ever-increasing amounts of data collected by large organizations. In particular the emphasis is devoted to heuristic search methods able to discover patterns that are hard or impossible to detect using standard query mechanisms and classical statistical techniques. In this paper an evolutionary system capable of extracting explicit classification rules is presented. The results are compared with those obtained by other approaches.