An Improved Feature Selection Algorithm Based on Ant Colony Optimization

The diversity and complexity of network data bring great challenges to data classification technology. Feature selection has always been an important and difficult problem in classification technology. To improve the classification performance of the classifier, an improved feature selection algorit...

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Main Authors: Huijun Peng, Chun Ying, Shuhua Tan, Bing Hu, Zhixin Sun
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: IEEE 2018-01-01
Series:IEEE Access
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Online Access:https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/8532385/
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author Huijun Peng
Chun Ying
Shuhua Tan
Bing Hu
Zhixin Sun
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Zhixin Sun
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description The diversity and complexity of network data bring great challenges to data classification technology. Feature selection has always been an important and difficult problem in classification technology. To improve the classification performance of the classifier, an improved feature selection algorithm, FACO, is proposed by combining the ant colony optimization algorithm and feature selection. A fitness function is designed, and the pheromone updating rule is optimized to effectively eliminate redundant features and prevent feature selection from falling into a local optimum. The experimental results show that the classification accuracy of the classifier can be significantly improved by selecting the data features using the FACO algorithm, which is of practical significance.
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spelling doaj.art-8dc2b5dce54e47a8b318846045df3f872022-12-21T22:56:36ZengIEEEIEEE Access2169-35362018-01-016692036920910.1109/ACCESS.2018.28795838532385An Improved Feature Selection Algorithm Based on Ant Colony OptimizationHuijun Peng0https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0334-3263Chun Ying1Shuhua Tan2https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1558-2704Bing Hu3https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4037-4352Zhixin Sun4Key Laboratory of Broadband Wireless Communication and Sensor Network Technology, Nanjing University of Posts and Telecommunications, Nanjing, ChinaNational Engineering Laboratory for Logistics Information Technology, Yuantong Express Company Ltd., Shanghai, ChinaNational Engineering Laboratory for Logistics Information Technology, Yuantong Express Company Ltd., Shanghai, ChinaKey Laboratory of Broadband Wireless Communication and Sensor Network Technology, Nanjing University of Posts and Telecommunications, Nanjing, ChinaKey Laboratory of Broadband Wireless Communication and Sensor Network Technology, Nanjing University of Posts and Telecommunications, Nanjing, ChinaThe diversity and complexity of network data bring great challenges to data classification technology. Feature selection has always been an important and difficult problem in classification technology. To improve the classification performance of the classifier, an improved feature selection algorithm, FACO, is proposed by combining the ant colony optimization algorithm and feature selection. A fitness function is designed, and the pheromone updating rule is optimized to effectively eliminate redundant features and prevent feature selection from falling into a local optimum. The experimental results show that the classification accuracy of the classifier can be significantly improved by selecting the data features using the FACO algorithm, which is of practical significance.https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/8532385/Feature extractionant colony optimizationintrusion detection
spellingShingle Huijun Peng
Chun Ying
Shuhua Tan
Bing Hu
Zhixin Sun
An Improved Feature Selection Algorithm Based on Ant Colony Optimization
IEEE Access
Feature extraction
ant colony optimization
intrusion detection
title An Improved Feature Selection Algorithm Based on Ant Colony Optimization
title_full An Improved Feature Selection Algorithm Based on Ant Colony Optimization
title_fullStr An Improved Feature Selection Algorithm Based on Ant Colony Optimization
title_full_unstemmed An Improved Feature Selection Algorithm Based on Ant Colony Optimization
title_short An Improved Feature Selection Algorithm Based on Ant Colony Optimization
title_sort improved feature selection algorithm based on ant colony optimization
topic Feature extraction
ant colony optimization
intrusion detection
url https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/8532385/
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