The Exposition of Fuzzy Decision Trees and Their Application in Biology

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Author(s): Malcolm J. Beynon (Cardiff University, UK)and Kirsty Park (University of Stirling, UK)
Copyright: 2009
Pages: 20
Source title: Advancing Artificial Intelligence through Biological Process Applications
Source Author(s)/Editor(s): Ana B. Porto Pazos (Coruna University, Spain), Alejandro Pazos Sierra (Coruna University, Spain)and Washington Buño Buceta (Cajal Institute, Spanish Council for Scientific Research, Spain)
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-59904-996-0.ch020

Keywords: Bioinformatics / Biologically-Inspired Computing / Medical Information Science Reference / Medicine & Healthcare

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This chapter employs the fuzzy decision tree classification technique in a series of biological based application problems. With its employment in a fuzzy environment, the results, in the form of fuzzy ‘if .. then ..’ decision rules, bring with them readability and subsequent interpretability. The two contrasting applications considered concern, the age of abalones and the lengths of torpor bouts of hibernating Greater Horseshoe bats. Emphasis is on the visual results presented, including the series of membership functions used to construct the linguistic variables representing the considered attributes and the final fuzzy decision trees constructed. Technical details presented further offer the opportunity to readers to future employ the technique in other biological applications.

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