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    <journal-meta>
      <journal-id journal-id-type="publisher-id">109</journal-id>
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        <journal-title xml:lang="en">JUCS - Journal of Universal Computer Science</journal-title>
        <abbrev-journal-title xml:lang="en">jucs</abbrev-journal-title>
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      <issn pub-type="ppub">0948-695X</issn>
      <issn pub-type="epub">0948-6968</issn>
      <publisher>
        <publisher-name>Journal of Universal Computer Science</publisher-name>
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      <article-id pub-id-type="doi">10.3217/jucs-019-04-0484</article-id>
      <article-id pub-id-type="publisher-id">23091</article-id>
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        <subj-group subj-group-type="heading">
          <subject>Research Article</subject>
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        <subj-group subj-group-type="scientific_subject">
          <subject>H.3.3 - Information Search and Retrieval</subject>
          <subject>I.5.2 - Design Methodology</subject>
          <subject>I.6.1 - Simulation Theory</subject>
        </subj-group>
      </article-categories>
      <title-group>
        <article-title>Improving Accuracy of Decision Trees Using Clustering Techniques</article-title>
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      <contrib-group content-type="authors">
        <contrib contrib-type="author" corresp="yes">
          <name name-style="western">
            <surname>Torres-Niño</surname>
            <given-names>Javier</given-names>
          </name>
          <email xlink:type="simple">javier.torres@uc3m.es</email>
          <xref ref-type="aff" rid="A1">1</xref>
        </contrib>
        <contrib contrib-type="author" corresp="no">
          <name name-style="western">
            <surname>Rodríguez-González</surname>
            <given-names>Alejandro</given-names>
          </name>
          <xref ref-type="aff" rid="A2">2</xref>
        </contrib>
        <contrib contrib-type="author" corresp="no">
          <name name-style="western">
            <surname>Colomo-Palacios</surname>
            <given-names>Ricardo</given-names>
          </name>
          <xref ref-type="aff" rid="A3">3</xref>
        </contrib>
        <contrib contrib-type="author" corresp="no">
          <name name-style="western">
            <surname>Jiménez-Domingo</surname>
            <given-names>Enrique</given-names>
          </name>
          <xref ref-type="aff" rid="A1">1</xref>
        </contrib>
        <contrib contrib-type="author" corresp="no">
          <name name-style="western">
            <surname>Alor-Hernández</surname>
            <given-names>Giner</given-names>
          </name>
        </contrib>
      </contrib-group>
      <aff id="A1">
        <label>1</label>
        <addr-line content-type="verbatim">University Carlos III Madrid, Madrid, Spain</addr-line>
        <institution>University Carlos III Madrid</institution>
        <addr-line content-type="city">Madrid</addr-line>
        <country>Spain</country>
      </aff>
      <aff id="A2">
        <label>2</label>
        <addr-line content-type="verbatim">Centre for Plant Biotechnology and Genomics UPM-INIA, Madrid, Spain</addr-line>
        <institution>Centre for Plant Biotechnology and Genomics UPM-INIA</institution>
        <addr-line content-type="city">Madrid</addr-line>
        <country>Spain</country>
      </aff>
      <aff id="A3">
        <label>3</label>
        <addr-line content-type="verbatim">Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Leganes, Spain</addr-line>
        <institution>Universidad Carlos III de Madrid</institution>
        <addr-line content-type="city">Leganes</addr-line>
        <country>Spain</country>
      </aff>
      <aff id="A4">
        <label>4</label>
        <addr-line content-type="verbatim">Tecnológico Nacional de México/I. T. Orizaba, Veracruz, </addr-line>
        <institution>Tecnológico Nacional de México/I. T. Orizaba</institution>
        <addr-line content-type="city">Veracruz</addr-line>
      </aff>
      <author-notes>
        <fn fn-type="corresp">
          <p>Corresponding author: Javier Torres-Niño (<email xlink:type="simple">javier.torres@uc3m.es</email>).</p>
        </fn>
        <fn fn-type="edited-by">
          <p>Academic editor: </p>
        </fn>
      </author-notes>
      <pub-date pub-type="collection">
        <year>2013</year>
      </pub-date>
      <pub-date pub-type="epub">
        <day>28</day>
        <month>02</month>
        <year>2013</year>
      </pub-date>
      <volume>19</volume>
      <issue>4</issue>
      <fpage>484</fpage>
      <lpage>501</lpage>
      <uri content-type="arpha" xlink:href="http://openbiodiv.net/0A551362-6136-50E7-958B-3501F32FCBA2">0A551362-6136-50E7-958B-3501F32FCBA2</uri>
      <uri content-type="zenodo_dep_id" xlink:href="https://zenodo.org/record/5504991">5504991</uri>
      <history>
        <date date-type="received">
          <day>03</day>
          <month>08</month>
          <year>2012</year>
        </date>
        <date date-type="accepted">
          <day>20</day>
          <month>02</month>
          <year>2013</year>
        </date>
      </history>
      <permissions>
        <copyright-statement>Javier Torres-Niño, Alejandro Rodríguez-González, Ricardo Colomo-Palacios, Enrique Jiménez-Domingo, Giner Alor-Hernández</copyright-statement>
        <license license-type="creative-commons-attribution" xlink:href="" xlink:type="simple">
          <license-p>This article is freely available under the J.UCS Open Content License.</license-p>
        </license>
      </permissions>
      <abstract>
        <label>Abstract</label>
        <p>Data mining is an important part of information management technology. Simply put, it is a method to extract and analyze meaningful patterns and correlations in a large relational database. In Data mining, Decision trees are one of the most worldwide used tools for decision support. In the emerging area of Data mining applications, users of data mining tools are faced with the problem of data sets that are comprised of large numbers of features and instances. Such kinds of data sets are not easy to handle for mining because decision trees generally depends on several parameters like dataset used and configuration of the tree itself among others in order to build an accurate model classification. In this work a novel hybrid classifier system is presented for improving accuracy of decision trees using clustering techniques. This system is formed by a clustering algorithm, a decision tree and an optional module for identifying appropriate parameters for the clustering algorithm. These three modules working together are capable to increase the accuracy of the solutions. The validation of the results of this work has been performed using several well-known datasets and applying two decision trees algorithms. The accuracy percentages are compared in order to show our proposal improvement, obtaining good results. Finally two clustering algorithms have been used to compare the accuracy between different proposals.</p>
      </abstract>
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