Fusing decision trees based on genetic programming for classification of Microarray datasets

Conference Name:10th International Conference on Intelligent Computing, ICIC 2014. Conference Address: Taiyuan, China. Time:August 3, 2014 - August 6, 2014.IEEE Computational Intelligence Society; International Neural Network Society; National Science Foundation of ChinaIn this paper, a genetic programming(GP) based new ensemble system is proposed, named as GPES. Decision tree is used as base classifier, and fused by GP with three voting methods: min, max and average. In this way, each individual of GP acts as an ensemble system. When the evolution process of GP ends, the final ensemble committee is selected from the last generation by a forward search algorithm. GPES is evaluated on microarray datasets, and results show that this ensemble system is competitive compared with other ensemble systems. ? 2014 Springer International Publishing Switzerland