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The rockburst hazard induced by the extreme release of the stress concentrated in rock mass in deep underground mines poses a significant threat to the safety and economy of the mining projects. Therefore, properly managing this hazard is critical for ensuring rock engineering projects’ sustainability. This study proposes comprehensible and practical classifiers for rockburst risk level appraisal by hybridizing K-means clustering with gene expression programming, GEP, logistic regression, LR, and classification and regression tree, CART (i.e., K-mean-GEP-LR and K-means-CART classifiers). A database containing 246 rockburst events with four risk levels of none, light, moderate, and severe was compiled from previous practices. Preliminary statistical analyses were conducted to detect the extreme outliers and determine the critical rockburst indicators. The K-means clustering analysis was performed to identify the main clusters within the database and relabel the rockburst events. The GEP algorithm was then utilized to develop binary models for predicting the occurrence of each class. Then, the likelihood of each class occurrence was determined using LR. Furthermore, the K-means clustering was combined with the CART algorithm to provide another visual tree structure model. The classifiers’ performance evaluation showed 96% and 95% accuracy values in the training and testing stages, respectively, for the K-means-GEP-LR model, while the accuracy values of 98.8% and 93.0% were obtained for the foregoing stages for the K-means-CART classifier. The results showed the robustness and high classification capability of both models. MatLab codes were also provided for the K-means-GEP-LR model, which assists other researchers/engineers in implementing the model in practice.












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Shirani Faradonbeh, R., Vaisey, W., Sharifzadeh, M. et al. Hybridized intelligent multi-class classifiers for rockburst risk assessment in deep underground mines. Neural Comput & Applic 36, 1681–1698 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00521-023-09189-2
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