A novel approach to ensemble learning in distributed data mining

Abstract

Several data mining techniques have been proposed to take out hidden information from databases. Data mining and knowledge extraction becomes challenging when data is massive, distributed and heterogeneous. Classification is an extensively applied task in data mining for prediction. Huge numbers of machine learning techniques have been developed for the purpose. Ensemble learning merges multiple base classifiers to improve the performance of individual classification algorithms. In particular, ensemble learning plays a significant role in distributed data mining. So, study of ensemble learning is crucial in order to apply it in real-world data mining problems. We propose a technique to construct ensemble of classifiers and study its performance using popular learning techniques on a range of publicly available datasets from biomedical domain.