Patent ID: 8190539

Claim:
An evolutionary feature selection system for determining a meta-feature space, comprising: a computing device, including: a system for generating a plurality of chromosomes; an agglomerative K-means clustering system for generating a cluster space for each of the plurality of chromosomes, wherein the generating of the cluster space includes evaluating data elements for cluster membership based on a minimum Euclidean distance between a feature vector of a data element and a multi-dimensional centroid of each cluster, wherein each cluster space is associated with a different one of the chromosomes and includes a set of clusters; a linear discriminant analysis system for scoring each of the cluster spaces, wherein the linear discriminant analysis system determines a score based on a ratio maximization of between class scatter and within class scatter; and an evolutionary mating system that performs the following: genetically mutates and mates chromosomes in a pairwise fashion based on the scoring of associated cluster spaces, wherein the genetically mutating and mating of the chromosomes includes continuously mating a top two scoring chromosomes in the chromosomes as a pair; and generates a final chromosome that defines a meta-feature space after completion of the continuously mating.