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The HCV induction algorithm

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HCV is a heuristic attribute-based induction algorithm based on the newly-developed extension matrix approach. By dividing the positive examples (PE) of a specific class in a given example set into intersecting groups and adopting a set of strategies to find a heuristic conjunctive formula in each group which covers all the group's positive examples and none of the negative examples (NE), it can find a covering formula in form of variable-valued logic for PE against NE in low-order polynomial time. This paper presents the HCV algorithm in detail and provides a performance comparison of HCV with other inductive algorithms such as ID3 and AQ11.

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              CSC '93: Proceedings of the 1993 ACM conference on Computer science
              March 1993
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              ISBN:0897915585
              DOI:10.1145/170791

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