Design of Heuristic Decision Tree (HDT) Using Human Knowledge

Abstract Data mining is the process of extracting hidden patterns from collected data. At this time, for collected data which take important role as the basic information for prediction and recommendation, the process to discriminate incorrect data in order to enhance the performance of analysis result, is needed. The existing methods to discriminate unexpected data from collected data, mainly relies on methods w hich are based on statistics or simple distance between data. However, for these methods, the problematic point that even meaningful data could be excluded from analysis due that the environment and characteristic of the rel evant data are not considered, exists. This study proposes a method to endow human heuristic knowledge with weight value through the comparison between collected data and human heuristic knowledge, and to use the value for creating a decision tree. The data discrimination by the method proposed is more credible as human knowledge is reflecte d in the created tree. The validity of the proposed method is verified through an experiment. Key Words : Heuristic Decision Tree, Human-Knowledge Data Mining, Outlie r Data Reduction