The PMCRI (Parallel Modular Classification Rule Induction)
framework was developed by the German researcher Dr. Frederic Stahl in association with the present author as a distributed version of Prism. In this
and the following section PMCRI will be used as a vehicle for explaining some
general principles, but the algorithm itself will not be described in detail here.
The account in these two sections draws heavily from [4]. Figures 13.5 to 13.7
are reproduced from [4] and Figures 13.4 and 13.8 are reproduced from [6] with
permission.