Research Article

The Construction of Support Vector Machine Classifier Using the Firefly Algorithm

Table 4

Classification results of the firefly-SVM and PSO-SVM with feature selection.

Data sets  Number of original featuresFirefly-SVMPSO-SVM
CCR (mean ± SD)Number of featuresCCR (mean ± SD)Average number of features

SPECTF heart4485.89 ± 1.431882.34 ± 2.17422.6
Breast Cancer Wisconsin (diagnosis)3298.44 ± 0.391498.44 ± 0.9013.4
Statlog (heart)1386.75 ± 2.19887.51 ± 2.218.6
German credit data2079.34 ± 1.141275.33 ± 2.2314.3
Sonar6095.23 ± 3.412091.31 ± 2.4232.7
Pima-Indians-diabetes878.83 ± 1.62577.87 ± 1.495.4
Australian credit approval1489.43 ± 1.65884.34 ± 4.778.6
Liver disorders775.36 ± 2.29474.76 ± 2.125.2
Ionosphere3497.98 ± 3.151295.21 ± 2.1417.6
Breast Cancer Wisconsin (original)1098.67 ± 0.53698.67 ± 1.396.7