AntMiner+

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AntMiner+ is a classification technique which is based on the principles of Ant Colony Optimization. The goal is to infer comprehensible rule-based classification models from a data set.

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Technical papers on AntMiner+

• Classification with Ant Colony Optimization
  David Martens, Manu De Backer, Raf Haesen, Jan Vanthienen, Monique Snoeck, Bart Baesens
  IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation Vol. 11, Nb. 5, pp. 651—665, 2007
  SCI 2006 Impact Factor: 3.770
  © IEEE 2007

• Ant-Based Approach to the Knowledge Fusion Problem
  David Martens, Manu De Backer, Raf Haesen, Bart Baesens, Christophe Mues, Jan Vanthienen
  ANTS Workshop 2006, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Brussels (Belgium), September 2006
  © Springer 2006

• A Stigmergy Based Approach to Data Mining
  Manu De Backer, Raf Haesen, David Martens, Bart Baesens
  The 18th Australian Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AI 2005), Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Sydney (Australia), pp. 975-978, December 2005
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Application papers

• Credit Risk Management Using Ant Colony Optimization
  David Martens, Tony Van Gestel, Manu De Backer, Raf Haesen, Jan Vanthienen, Christophe Mues, Bart Baesens
  Journal of the Operational Research Society, Forthcoming
  SCI 2006 Impact Factor: 0.784
   
• Predicting Going Concern Opinion with Data Mining
  David Martens, Liesbeth Bruynseels, Bart Baesens, Marleen Willekens, Jan Vanthienen
  Decision Support Systems, Vol. 45, pp. 765-777, 2008
  SCI 2007 Impact Factor: 1.119
   
• Inferring rules for business/ICT alignment using Ants
  Bjorn Cumps, David Martens, Manu De Backer, Stijn Viaene, Guido Dedene, Raf Haesen, Monique Snoeck, Bart Baesens
  Information & Management, Vol. 46, Nb. 2, pp. 116-124, 2009
  SCI 2007 Impact Factor: 1.631
   
• Mining Software Repositories for Comprehensible Software Fault Prediction Models
  Olivier Vandecruys, David Martens, Bart Baesens, Christophe Mues, Manu De Backer, Raf Haesen
  Journal of Systems and Software, Vol. 81, Nb. 5, pp. 823-839, 2008
  SCI 2007 Impact Factor: 0.799
  © Elsevier 2007
  
   

Dutch Publications

• See "In the Press" Section
   
• Artificiële Mieren en Hun Zoektocht Naar Kennis
  David Martens, Raf Haesen, Manu De Backer, Bart Baesens
  Informatie, pp. 12-17, Mei 2006
  © Sdu 2006

• AntMiner+: Een systeem van kennis-ontginnende mieren
  Raf Haesen, David Martens, Manu De Backer, Bart Baesens
  Business InZicht, Nummer 20, pp. 1-4, November 2005
  

Book chapter

• Ants Building Rule-Based Classifiers
  David Martens, Raf Haesen, Manu De Backer, Bart Baesens
  Swarm Intelligence and Data Mining, Series in Computational Intelligence, Springer

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