New Discrete Crow Search Algorithm for Class Association Rule Mining

Abstract

Associative Classification (AC) or Class Association Rule (CAR) mining is a very efficient method for the classification problem. It can build comprehensible classification models in the form of a list of simple IF-THEN classification rules from the available data. In this paper, we present a new, and improved discrete version of the Crow Search Algorithm (CSA) called NDCSA-CAR to mine the Class Association Rules. The goal of this article is to improve the data classification accuracy and the simplicity of classifiers. The authors applied the proposed NDCSA-CAR algorithm on eleven benchmark dataset and compared its result with traditional algorithms and recent well known rule-based classification algorithms. The experimental results show that the proposed algorithm outperformed other rule-based approaches in all evaluated criteria.