Cendrowska, Jadzia PRISM: An algorithm for inducing modular rules. (English) Zbl 0638.68110 Int. J. Man-Mach. Stud. 27, 349-370 (1987). The decision tree output of Quinlan’s ID3 algorithm is one of its major weakness. Not only can it be incomprehensible and difficult to manipulate, but its use in expert systems frequently demands irrelevant information to be supplied. This report argues that the problem lies in the induction algorithm itself and can only be remedied by radically altering the underlying strategy. It describes a new algorithm, PRISM which, although based on ID3, uses a different induction strategy to induce rules which are modular, thus avoiding many of the problems associated with decision trees. Cited in 15 Documents MSC: 68T99 Artificial intelligence 68T20 Problem solving in the context of artificial intelligence (heuristics, search strategies, etc.) Keywords:modular rules; knowledge acquisition; expert systems; decision tree; ID3 algorithm; induction algorithm PDFBibTeX XMLCite \textit{J. Cendrowska}, Int. J. Man-Mach. Stud. 27, 349--370 (1987; Zbl 0638.68110) Full Text: DOI