A decision-tree framework for instance-space decomposition

This paper presents a novel instance-space decomposition framework for decision trees. According to this framework, the original instance-space is decomposed into several subspaces in a parallel-to-axis manner. A different classifier is assigned to each subspace. Subsequently, an unlabelled instance is classified by employing the appropriate classifier based on the subspace where the instance belongs. An experimental study which was conducted in order to compare various implementations of this framework indicates that previously presented implementations can be improved both in terms of accuracy and computation time.