Fuzzy decision tree and fuzzy gradual decision tree: Application to job satisfaction

Abstract

In this paper, a comparison of the behaviour of fuzzy decision trees and gradual fuzzy decision trees is presented in a real-world application in the context of labour economics. The aim of this study is on one hand to present, in a real case, the good property of interpretability of such decision trees. On the other hand, it shows the importance to take into account a graduality relation between attributes and the class during the construction of a fuzzy decision tree. The obtained results illustrate the differences between the two types of fuzzy decision trees.