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This paper presents a relational framework for studying properties of labeled data points related to proximity and labeling information in order to improve the performance of the 1NN rule. Specifically, the class conditional nearest neighbor (ccnn) relation over pairs of points in a labeled training set is introduced. For a given class label c, this relation associates to each point a its nearest neighbor computed among only those points with class label e (excluded a). A characterization of ccnn in terms of two graphs is given. These graphs are used for defining a novel scoring function over instances by means of an information-theoretic divergence measure applied to the degree distributions of these graphs. The scoring function is employed to develop an effective large margin instance selection method, which is empirically demonstrated to improve storage and accuracy performance of the INN rule on artificial and real-life data sets. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper analyzes experimentally discretization algorithms for handling continuous attributes in evolutionary learning. We consider a learning system that induces a set of rules in a fragment of first-order logic (evolutionary inductive logic programming), and introduce a method where a given discretization algorithm is used to generate initial inequalities, which describe subranges of attributes' values. Mutation operators exploiting information on the class label of the examples (supervised discretization) are used during the learning process for refining inequalities. The evolutionary learning system is used as a platform for testing experimentally four algorithms: two variants of the proposed method, a popular supervised discretization algorithm applied prior to induction, and a discretization method which does not use information on the class labels of the examples (unsupervised discretization). Results of experiments conducted on artificial and real life datasets suggest that the proposed method provides an effective and robust technique for handling continuous attributes by means of inequalities. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Development and application of pattern recognition techniques in the field of bioinformatics is of utmost importance for gaining new insights about phenomena in life sciences through the analysis of biological data. In this special section, three research manuscripts in their significantly extended form were selected from the papers presented at the Eighth IAPR International Conference on Pattern Recognition in Bioinformatics (PRIB 2013), which was held in Nice, France. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]