BIOLOGICAL
CLASSIFICATION OF RIVER WATER QUALITY
(LAI & KUL in cooperation with Staffordshire University/NRA)
Given a list of biological
indicators present at a sampling site
(families of macro-benthic
invertebrates) and their abundance levels
Classify the sample
into one of five classes B1a, B1b, B2, B3, B4
Examples: 300 samples
from the upper Trent catchment (British Midlands), classified by expert
river ecologist
Background knowledge:
relations between abundance levels
ILP systems applied:
GOLEM, CLAUDIEN
Interesting rules discovered
(according to expert evaluation)
