Enhancing the Efficiency of a Decision Support System through the Clustering of Complex Rule-Based Knowledge Bases and Modification of the Inference Algorithm

Table 6

Quality of rule clusters vs. clustering methods.

Clustering method	BCS		O		ARL		BRL
	Mean	SD	Mean	SD	Mean	SD	Mean	SD
SL	50.78	52.60	2.81	5.14	6.24	14.31	11.99	33.11
CL	83.01	64.37	3.14	5.49	6.26	14.06	14.22	40.03
AL	83.56	55.36	4.84	5.52	5.69	13.76	14.70	39.52
CoL	93.46	56.36	4.72	6.06	5.84	13.73	15.18	41.37