An ant colony based system for data mining: applications to medical data

Abstract

This work describes an algorithm for rulediscovery in databases called AntMiner. Theobjective of the algorithm is the extraction ofclassification rules to be applied to unseen dataas a decision aid. The algorithm used todiscover such rules is inspired in the behaviorof a real ant colony, as well as some conceptsof information theory and data mining.AntMiner was applied to medical databases toobtain classification rule