Details
Name
Pedro StrechtCluster
Computer ScienceRole
External Research CollaboratorSince
01st April 2014
Nationality
PortugalCentre
Artificial Intelligence and Decision SupportContacts
+351222094398
pedro.strecht@inesctec.pt
2022
Authors
Strecht, P; Mendes-Moreira, J; Soares, C;
Publication
Advanced Data Mining and Applications - Lecture Notes in Computer Science
Abstract
2015
Authors
Strecht, P; Cruz, L; Soares, C; Moreira, JM; Abreu, R;
Publication
Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Educational Data Mining, EDM 2015, Madrid, Spain, June 26-29, 2015
Abstract
2014
Authors
Strecht, P; Mendes Moreira, J; Soares, C;
Publication
ADVANCED DATA MINING AND APPLICATIONS, ADMA 2014
Abstract
Predicting the failure of students in university courses can provide useful information for course and programme managers as well as to explain the drop out phenomenon. While it is important to have models at course level, their number makes it hard to extract knowledge that can be useful at the university level. Therefore, to support decision making at this level, it is important to generalize the knowledge contained in those models. We propose an approach to group and merge interpretable models in order to replace them with more general ones without compromising the quality of predictive performance. We evaluate our approach using data from the U. Porto. The results obtained are promising, although they suggest alternative approaches to the problem.
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