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Developing decision support systems (DSS) based on imbalanced datasets is one the critical challenges in data mining and decision-analytics. A dataset is called imbalanced when the number of examples from one class outnumbers the number of the instances from another class. Learning from imbalanced datasets is one of the major challenges in machine learning. While a standard classifier could have a very good performance on a balanced dataset, when applied to an imbalanced dataset, its performance deteriorates dramatically. This poor performance is rather troublesome, especially in detecting the minority class, which usually is the class of interest. Therefore, the poor performance of machine learning techniques, which are used to develop DSS, negatively affect the practicality of DSS in real word problems. Over-sampling the minority class is one of the most promising remedies for imbalanced data …