Patent ID: 9367816
Filing Date: 2016-06-14
CPC Classification: G06F,G06N

Claim Text:
1. A computer implemented data mining system, for use with a data mining training database identifying samples of testing data, each of the samples containing a plurality of data items, comprising: a memory storing a candidate database having a pool of candidate individuals, each candidate individual having a plurality of conditions and outputting, for each of a plurality of the data items in a sample, an action which depends upon application of the individual's conditions to the data item, the conditions including a state of the individual, and the actions including at least one which affects the state of the individual if asserted, each candidate individual further having associated therewith an indication of a respective fitness estimate; a candidate pool processor which: a harvesting module providing for deployment of selected ones of the individuals from the candidate pool, wherein testing individuals from the candidate pool on the testing data includes, for each individual tested: