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Experimental Data

 

Experiments

 

The experiments were performed as follows:

            1. x= 4

     2. Use x weeks of data in arff format

     3. Learn rules for day of event

     4. Learn rules for duration of event

     5. Learn rules for time of event

     6. Run the personal assistant and schedule one week of data

         The personal assistant gathers the scheduled events and adds them to the data.

            7. x++

     8. Save rules and statistics for each week

            9. If x < 11 goto 2.

     This process was repeated three times. Once for the ID3 decision tree learner, once for C4.5 unpruned decision tree and finally for C4.5 pruned decision tree.

 

     The Experiments were run and the rules and stats keep for each of the three methods:

 

ID3

C4.5 unpruned

C4.5 pruned