Date of Award
2012
Type
Thesis
Major
Computer Science - Applied Computing Track
Degree Type
Master of Science in Applied Computer Science
Department
TSYS School of Computer Science
First Advisor
Dr. Shamim Kahn
Second Advisor
Dr. Timothy G. Howard
Third Advisor
Dr. Lydia Ray
Abstract
This thesis proposes and investigates a new hybrid technique based on Genetic Programming (GP) and Ant Colony Optimization (ACO) techniques for inducing data classification rules. The proposed hybrid approach aims to improve on the accuracy of data classification rules produced by the original GP technique, which uses randomly generated initial populations. This hybrid technique relies on the ACO technique to produce the initial populations for the GP technique. To evaluate and compare their effectiveness in producing good data classification rules, GP, ACO, and hybrid techniques were implemented in the C programming language. The data classification rules were created and evaluated by executing these codes with two datasets for credit scoring problems, widely known as the Australian and German datasets, available from the Machine Learning Repository at the University of California, Irvine. The experimental results demonstrate that although all tree techniques yield similar accuracy during testing, on average, the hybrid ACO-GP approach performs better than either GP or ACO during training.
Recommended Citation
Aliehyaei, Rojin, "An Investigation Into a Hybrid Genetic Programming and Ant Colony Optimization Method for Credit Scoring" (2012). Theses and Dissertations. 61.
https://csuepress.columbusstate.edu/theses_dissertations/61
