Empirical models based on machine learning techniques for determining approximate reliability expressions

Abstract In this paper two machine learning algorithms, decision trees (DT) and Hamming clustering (HC), are compared in building approximate reliability expression (RE). The main idea is to employ a classification technique, trained on a restricted subset of data, to produce an estimate of the RE, which provides reasonably accurate values of the reliability. The experiments show that although both methods yield excellent predictions, the HC procedure achieves better results with respect to the DT algorithm.