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This paper discusses actionable knowledge generation. Actionable knowledge is explicit symbolic knowledge, typically presented in the form of rules, that allows the decision maker to recognize some important relations and to perform an action, such as targeting a direct marketing campaign, or planning a population screening campaign aimed at targeting individuals with high disease risk. The disadvantages of using standard classification rule learning for this task are discussed, and a subgroup discovery approach proposed. This approach uses a novel definition of rule quality which is extensively discussed.
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Gamberger, D., Lavraç, N. (2002). Generating Actionable Knowledge by Expert-Guided Subgroup Discovery. In: Elomaa, T., Mannila, H., Toivonen, H. (eds) Principles of Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery. PKDD 2002. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 2431. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-45681-3_14
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