GA-TVRC: A novel relational time varying classifier to extract temporal information using genetic algorithms

Ismail Güneş*, Zehra Çataltepe, Şule Gündüz Öǧüdücü

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Abstract

Almost all networks in real world evolve over time, and analysis of these temporal changes may help in understanding or explanation of some properties or processes of a network. This paper presents GA-TVRC, a novel Relational Time Varying Classifier which uses Genetic Algorithms to extract temporal information. GA-TVRC uses Evolutionary Strategies to optimize the influence of each previous time period on classification of new nodes. A Relational Bayesian Classifier (RBC) that is proposed by Neville et.al. [3] is utilized to compute the fitness function. The performance of GA-TVRC is compared with both the RBC, which ignores the time effect and the time varying relational classifier (TVRC) that is proposed by Sharan and Neville [20]. TVRC improves the RBC by taking the time effect into account using different predetermined weights. According to the experiments on two real world datasets, GA-TVRC extracts time effect better than the previous methods and improves the classification performance by up to 5% compared to TVRC and up to 10% compared to RBC.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationMachine Learning and Data Mining in Pattern Recognition - 7th International Conference, MLDM 2011, Proceedings
Pages568-583
Number of pages16
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2011
Event7th International Conference on Machine Learning and Data Mining, MLDM 2011 - New York, NY, United States
Duration: 30 Aug 20113 Sept 2011

Publication series

NameLecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
Volume6871 LNAI
ISSN (Print)0302-9743
ISSN (Electronic)1611-3349

Conference

Conference7th International Conference on Machine Learning and Data Mining, MLDM 2011
Country/TerritoryUnited States
CityNew York, NY
Period30/08/113/09/11

Keywords

  • Evolutionary Strategies
  • Evolving Networks
  • Genetic Algorithms
  • Relational Bayesian Classifier
  • Time-Varying Relational Classifier

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