An Optimal Constrained Pruning Strategy for Decision Trees

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dc.contributor.authorSherali, Hanif D.en
dc.contributor.authorHobeika, Antoine G.en
dc.contributor.authorJeenanunta, Chawaliten
dc.contributor.departmentCivil and Environmental Engineeringen
dc.contributor.departmentIndustrial and Systems Engineeringen
dc.date.accessed2014-02-05en
dc.date.accessioned2014-03-05T14:00:23Zen
dc.date.available2014-03-05T14:00:23Zen
dc.date.issued2009en
dc.description.abstractThis paper is concerned with the optimal constrained pruning of decision trees. We present a novel 0-1 programming model for pruning the tree to minimize some general penalty function based on the resulting leaf nodes, and show that this model possesses a totally unimodular structure that enables it to be solved as a shortest-path problem on an acyclic graph. Moreover, we prove that this problem can be solved in strongly polynomial time while incorporating an additional constraint on the number of residual leaf nodes. Furthermore, the framework of the proposed modeling approach renders it suitable to accommodate different (multiple) objective functions and side-constraints, and we identify various such modeling options that can be applied in practice. The developed methodology is illustrated using a numerical example to provide insights, and some computational results are presented to demonstrate the efficacy of solving generically constrained problems of this type. We also apply this technique to a large-scale transportation analysis and simulation system (TRANSIMS), and present related computational results using real data to exhibit the flexibility and effectiveness of the proposed approach.en
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dc.identifier.citationSherali, Hanif D.; Hobeika, Antoine G.; Jeenanunta, Chawalit. An Optimal Constrained Pruning Strategy for Decision Trees. INFORMS Journal on Computing 2009 21:1, 49-61. doi: 10.1287/ijoc.1080.0278en
dc.identifier.doihttps://doi.org/10.1287/ijoc.1080.0278en
dc.identifier.issn1091-9856en
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10919/25833en
dc.identifier.urlhttp://pubsonline.informs.org/doi/pdf/10.1287/ijoc.1080.0278en
dc.language.isoenen
dc.publisherINFORMSen
dc.rightsIn Copyrighten
dc.rights.urihttp://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/en
dc.subjectDecision analysisen
dc.subjectAnalysis of algorithmsen
dc.subjectComputer programmingen
dc.subjectIntegeren
dc.subjectTransportationen
dc.titleAn Optimal Constrained Pruning Strategy for Decision Treesen
dc.title.serialInforms Journal on Computingen
dc.typeArticle - Refereeden
dc.type.dcmitypeTexten

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