A Micro-Extended Belief Rule-Based System for Big Data Multi-Class Classification Problems

Longhao Yang, J. Liu, Yingming Wang, Luis Martinez

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Abstract

Big data classification problems have drawn great attention from diverse fields, and many classifiers have been developed. Among those classifiers, the extended belief rule-based system (EBRBS) has shown its potential in both big data and multiclass situations, while the time complexity and computing efficiency are two challenging issues to be handled in EBRBS. As such, three improvements of EBRBS are proposed first in this paper to decrease the time complexity and computing efficiency of EBRBS for multiclass classification under the assumption of large amount of data, including the strategy to skip rule weight calculation, a simplified evidential reasoning algorithm, and the domain division-based rule reduction method. This turns out to be a micro version of the EBRBS, called Micro-EBRBS. Moreover, one of commonly used cluster computing, named Apache Spark, is then applied to implement the parallel rule generation and inference schemes of the Micro-EBRBS for big data multiclass classification problems. The comparative analyses of experimental studies demonstrate that the Micro-EBRBS not only can obtain a desired accuracy but also has the comparatively better time complexity and computing efficiency than some popular classifiers, especially for multiclass classification problems.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)420-440
Number of pages21
JournalIEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics: Systems
Volume51
Issue number1
Early online date26 Oct 2018
DOIs
Publication statusPublished (in print/issue) - 1 Jan 2021

Bibliographical note

Funding Information:
Manuscript received July 1, 2018; accepted September 11, 2018. Date of publication October 26, 2018; date of current version January 12, 2021. This work was supported in part by the National Natural Science Foundation of China under Grant 72001043, Grant 61773123, Grant 71701050, Grant 71501047, and Grant 72001042; in part by the Humanities and Social Science Foundation of the Ministry of Education under Grant 20YJC630188; and in part by the Natural Science Foundation of Fujian Province, China, under Grant 2020J05122. This paper was recommended by Associate Editor L. Wang. (Corresponding author: Ying-Ming Wang.) L.-H. Yang is with the Decision Sciences Institute, Fuzhou University, Fuzhou 350108, China, and also with the Department of Computer Science, University of Jaén, 23008 Jaén, Spain (e-mail: [email protected]).

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Keywords

  • Apache spark
  • big data
  • extended belief rule-based system (EBRBS)
  • multiclass

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