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)
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