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===== Clus =====
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Software for predictive clustering
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Clus is a decision tree and rule induction system that implements the [[http://www.cs.kuleuven.ac.be/cgi-bin-dtai/publ_info.pl?id=20419|predictive clustering]] framework. This framework unifies unsupervised clustering and predictive modeling and allows for a natural extension to more complex prediction settings such as multi-task learning and multi-label classification. While most decision tree learners induce classification or regression trees, Clus generalizes this approach by learning trees that are interpreted as cluster hierarchies. We call such trees predictive clustering trees or PCTs. Depending on the learning task at hand, different goal criteria are to be optimized while creating the clusters, and different heuristics will be suitable to achieve this.
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Classification and regression trees are special cases of PCTs, and by choosing the right parameter settings Clus can closely mimic the behavior of tree learners such as [[http://www.amazon.com/Classification-Regression-Trees-Leo-Breiman/dp/0412048418|CART]] or [[http://www.amazon.com/C4-5-Programs-Machine-Learning-Kaufmann/dp/1558602380|C4.5]]. However, its applicability goes well beyond classical classification or regression tasks: Clus has been successfully applied to many different tasks including multi-task learning (multi-target classification and regression), structured output learning, multi-label classification, hierarchical classification, and time series prediction. Next to these supervised learning tasks, PCTs are also applicable to semi-supervised learning, subgroup discovery, and clustering. In a similar way, predictive clustering rules or PCRs generalize [[http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=112163|classification rule sets]] and also apply to the aforementioned learning tasks.
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Clus is co-developed by the [[http://dtai.cs.kuleuven.be/|Declarative Languages and Artificial Intelligence]] group of the [[http://www.kuleuven.be/|Katholieke Universiteit Leuven]], Belgium, and the [[http://kt.ijs.si/|Department of Knowledge Technologies]] of the [[http://www.ijs.si/|Jožef Stefan Institute]], Ljubljana, Slovenia. It is written in Java and is open-source software licensed under the [[http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html|GPL]].
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[[http://www.kuleuven.be/|{{logo_kul.png}}]] [[http://www.ijs.si/|{{logo_ijs.png}}]] |
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