Potential methods in pattern recognition: Part 5. ALLOC, Action-orientated Decision Making

Abstract The possibilities of action-orientated pattern recognition with the supervised pattern recognition technique, ALLOC, are discussed. The emphasis is on the importance of the definition of overlapping regions between classes as a way for obtaining more information about the separation between classes. Action-orientated classification and feature selection with ALLOC are discussed using the results obtained for two data bases concerning the characterization of the functional state of the thyroid and the determination of the origin of milk samples.