@article {785, title = {Monotonic classification: An overview on algorithms, performance measures and data sets}, journal = {Neurocomputing}, volume = {341}, year = {2019}, note = {TIN2017-89517-P; TIN2015-70308-REDT; TIN2014-54583-C2-1-R; TEC2015-69496-R}, month = {05/2019}, pages = {168-182}, abstract = {Currently, knowledge discovery in databases is an essential first step when identifying valid, novel and useful patterns for decision making. There are many real-world scenarios, such as bankruptcy prediction, option pricing or medical diagnosis, where the classification models to be learned need to fulfill restrictions of monotonicity (i.e. the target class label should not decrease when input attributes values increase). For instance, it is rational to assume that a higher debt ratio of a company should never result in a lower level of bankruptcy risk. Consequently, there is a growing interest from the data mining research community concerning monotonic predictive models. This paper aims to present an overview of the literature in the field, analyzing existing techniques and proposing a taxonomy of the algorithms based on the type of model generated. For each method, we review the quality metrics considered in the evaluation and the different data sets and monotonic problems used in the analysis. In this way, this paper serves as an overview of monotonic classification research in specialized literature and can be used as a functional guide for the field.}, keywords = {Monotonic classification, Monotonic data sets, Ordinal classification, Software Performance metrics, Taxonomy}, doi = {https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neucom.2019.02.024}, author = {J. R. Cano and Pedro Antonio Guti{\'e}rrez and Bartosz Krawczyk and Michat Wo{\'z}niak and Garc{\'\i}a, Salvador} } @article {FERNANDEZ2015109, title = {Revisiting Evolutionary Fuzzy Systems: Taxonomy, applications, new trends and challenges}, journal = {Knowledge-Based Systems}, volume = {80}, year = {2015}, note = {25th anniversary of Knowledge-Based Systems}, pages = {109 - 121}, abstract = {Evolutionary Fuzzy Systems are a successful hybridization between fuzzy systems and Evolutionary Algorithms. They integrate both the management of imprecision/uncertainty and inherent interpretability of Fuzzy Rule Based Systems, with the learning and adaptation capabilities of evolutionary optimization. Over the years, many different approaches in Evolutionary Fuzzy Systems have been developed for improving the behavior of fuzzy systems, either acting on the Fuzzy Rule Base Systems{\textquoteright} elements, or by defining new approaches for the evolutionary components. All these efforts have enabled Evolutionary Fuzzy Systems to be successfully applied in several areas of Data Mining and engineering. In accordance with the former, a wide number of applications have been also taken advantage of these types of systems. However, with the new advances in computation, novel problems and challenges are raised every day. All these issues motivate researchers to make an effort in releasing new ways of addressing them with Evolutionary Fuzzy Systems. In this paper, we will review the progression of Evolutionary Fuzzy Systems by analyzing their taxonomy and components. We will also stress those problems and applications already tackled by this type of approach. We will present a discussion on the most recent and difficult Data Mining tasks to be addressed, and which are the latest trends in the development of Evolutionary Fuzzy Systems.}, keywords = {Big Data, data mining, Evolutionary Fuzzy Systems, fuzzy rule based systems, Multi-Objective Evolutionary Fuzzy Systems, New trends, Scalability, Taxonomy}, issn = {0950-7051}, doi = {https://doi.org/10.1016/j.knosys.2015.01.013}, url = {http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0950705115000209}, author = {Alberto Fernandez and Victoria L{\'o}pez and M. J. del Jesus and F. Herrera} }