A Review on Evolutionary Feature Selection

This paper presents a review of some of the most recent evolutionary algorithms used for solving feature selection based upon previously published research on feature selection. In addition, we discuss various research issues relating to each of the presented evolutionary algorithm. Evolutionary algorithms present several advantages over traditional search such as they require less domain-specific information. Such advantages have made them very popular within feature selection as explained in this paper. This paper covers the first part only of the evolutionary algorithms for the feature selection problem due to the limitation of the number of pages. The references cited in this paper cover the major theoretical issues, and provide access to the main branches of the literature dealing with such methods.