Fundamentals of association rules in data mining and knowledge discovery

Association Rule Mining (ARM) is a well recognized and interesting area of research in the field of Data Mining. In ARM, significant amount of research work has been reported. On the contrary, very less work has been reported for Negative Association Rule Mining (NARM). ARM concentrates only on positive rules while NARM explores negative rules. Also, most researchers have worked with discrete transaction dataset. So, in this paper, we propose a technique called Negative and Positive Fuzzy Association Rule Mining (NP-FARM), which mines both negative and positive association rules from a fuzzy transaction dataset. NP-FARM algorithm has been implemented and the experimental results determine the optimal minimum support threshold and optimal minimum confidence threshold for the given dataset. Also, the experimental results demonstrate that, as the size of the dataset increases, a negligible change in execution time is witnessed to mine the growing dataset. Keywords: Association Rule Mining. Fuzzy Transactions, Positive and Negative Item Sets

Association rules mining is an important research topic in data mining and knowledge discovery. Traditional algorithms for mining association rules are built on the binary attributes databases, which has three limitations. Firstly, it can not concern quantitative attributes; secondly, only the positive association rules are discovered; thirdly, it treat each item with the same frequency although different item may have different frequency. In this paper, we put forward a discovery algorithm for mining positive and negative fuzzy association rules to resolve these three limitations.

Association rule mining is one of the most popular data mining techniques to find associations among items in a set by mining necessary patterns in a large database. Typical association rules consider only items enumerated in transactions. Such rules are referred to as positive association rules. Negative association rules also consider the same items, but in addition consider negated items (i.e. absent from transactions). Negative association rules are useful in market-basket analysis to identify products that conflict with each other or products that complement each other. They are also very useful for constructing associative classifiers. In this paper, we propose an algorithm that mines positive and negative association rules without adding any additional measure and extra database scans.

Recently Negative Association Rule Mining (NARM) has become a focus in the field of spatial data mining. Negative association rules are useful in data analysis to identify objects that conflict with each other or that complement each other. Much effort has been devoted for developing algorithms for efficiently discovering relation between objects in space. All the traditional association rule mining algorithms were developed to find positive associations between objects. By positive correlation we refer to associations between frequently occurring objects in space such as a city is always located near a river and so on. Recently the problem of identifying negative associations (or “dissociations”) that is absence of objects has been explored and considered relevant. This paper presents an improved design approach for mining both positive and negative association rules in spatial databases. This approach extends traditional association rules to include negative association rules using a minimum support count. Experimental results show that this approach is efficient on simple and sparse datasets when minimum support is high to some degree, and it overcomes some limitations of the previous mining methods. The proposed form will extend related applications of negative association rules to a greater extent.

Data mining examines large pre-existing databases in order to generate new information. There are various tasks included under Data mining and association rule mining is considered as one of the crucial tasks among its. They are in form of if-then kind of statements which help to find relationships among huge data which do not hold relationship with each other within a relational database or any other information repository. As there are many applications like market basket analysis, detection of fraud in web, medical diagnosis, census data, Customer Relationship Management of credit card business which uses association rules so it is possible to improve the process of Decision making. Security is required for individual transaction and for frequent itemsets when the database is partitioned horizontally among multiple sites. In this case, every site is interested in globally supported association rules without revealing its own local information. To fulfill this goal, We use a secure multi-party algorithm based on secure sum technique to simplify the operation of mining association rule when the database is horizontally partitioned among multiple sites. We are using a Frequent-Pattern (FP) growth algorithm to find frequent itemsets and try to reduce total computation time.

The discovery of association rules in data mining is an important issue, the core of which is the frequent pattern mining, Apriori algorithm is classical for the association rule mining, but it should repeatedly scan the database and can produce plenty of candidates. By examples, it is proved that Boolean matrix association rules algorithm can improve the algorithmic efficiency by reducing the times of accessing database and without producing candidates.

Association rule mining is one of the most important data mining techniques. Typical association rules consider only items enumerated in transactions. Such rules are referred to as positive association rules. Negative association rules also consider the same items, but in addition consider negated items (i.e. absent from transactions). Negative association rules are useful in market-basket analysis to identify products that conflict with each other or products that complement each other. All of the literature on negative association mining, to our best knowledge, is confined to the traditional, relatively static database environment, no research work has been conducted on mining negative associations over data streams. In this paper, we propose an algorithm for mining negative associations over data streams. Experiments on the synthetic data stream are performed to show the effectiveness and efficiency of the proposed approach.

Association rules in data mining are considered from a point of view of Chellas’s conditional logic. Thereby the association rules with full and no confidence can be naturally translated into conditionals. Further, an extension of conditional logic is introduced for dealing with association rules with intermediate values of confidence based on fuzzy-measure-based semantics.

The best known and most widely utilized pattern finding algorithm in data mining applications is association rule mining (ARM). Extraction of frequent patterns is an indispensable step in ARM. Most studies in the literature have been implemented on the concept of support and confidence framework utilization. Here, we investigated an efficient and robust ARM scheme based on a self-organizing map (SOM) and an optimized genetic algorithm (OGA). A SOM is an unsupervised neural network that efficaciously produces spatially coordinated internal feature representations and detected abstractions in the input space and is the most efficient clustering technique that reveals conventional similarities in the input space by performing a topology maintaining mapping. Hence, a SOM is utilized to generate accurate clustered frequency patterns and an OGA is used to generate positive and negative association rules with multiple consequences by studying all possible patterns. Experimental analysis on various datasets has shown the robustness of our proposed ARM in comparison to traditional rule mining approaches by proving that a greater number of positive and negative association rules is generated by the proposed methodology resulting in a better performance when compared to conventional rule mining schemes.

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To reduce invalid rules in the mining of association rules, we have analyzed the reasons and presented a relative confidence in the judgment criteria. Based on the value of relative confidence, we classify strong association rules into positive, invalid and negative association rules. We offer an algorithm of mining association rules with new judgment criterion and make tests with Visual FoxPro. The tests indicate that the new method stated in this paper can obviously reduce invalid association rules.

The weighted association rules (WARs) mining are made because importance of the items is different. Negative association rules (NARs) play important roles in decision-making. But the misleading rules occur and some rules are uninteresting when discovering positive and negative weighted association rules (PNWARs) simultaneously. So another parameter is added to eliminate the uninteresting rules. A new model in the paper of extending the support-confidence framework with a sliding interest measure could avoid generating misleading rules. An interest measure was defined and added to the mining algorithm for association rules in the model. The interest measure was set according to the demand of users. The experiment demonstrates that the algorithm discovers interesting weighted negative association rules from large database and deletes the contrary rules.

The notion of rules is very popular and appears in different flavors, for example as association rules in data mining or as functional (or multivalued) dependencies in databases. Their syntax is the same but their semantics widely differs. In this article, we focus on semantics for which Armstrong’s axioms are sound and complete. In this setting, we propose a unifying framework in which any ”well-formed” semantics for rules may be integrated. We do not focus on the underlying data mining problems posed by the discovery of rules, rather we prefer to emphasize the expressiveness of our contribution in a particular domain of application: the understanding of gene regulatory networks from gene expression data. The key idea is that biologists have the opportunity to choose – among some predefined semantics – or to define the meaning of their rules which best fits into their requirements. Our proposition has been implemented and integrated into an existing open-source system named MeV of the TIGR environment devoted to microarray data interpretation.KeywordsGene Expression DataAssociation RuleFunctional DependencyGene Regulatory NetworkMicroarray Data AnalysisThese keywords were added by machine and not by the authors. This process is experimental and the keywords may be updated as the learning algorithm improves.

In recent years, there have been frequent cases of damage to the ecological environment, and the public interests of members of society have been repeatedly violated. The safety of the ecological environment is worrying. This paper uses the association rule algorithm and fuzzy comprehensive evaluation method to improve the management of the ecological environment damage compensation system. This article has deeply studied the role of association rules in data mining and practically improved them and applied them to the management of the compensation system for environmental damage. This article also constructed a fuzzy comprehensive evaluation model, following the principles of innovation, responsibility, judicial, and openness, clarified the fuzzy comprehensive evaluation and evaluation process, established a set of comments on the evaluation object, determined the membership function, and constructed the damage factor and multiple index factors such as compensation factor and damage object. Based on the use of the improved correlation algorithm, the accuracy and complexity of the model have been improved, reaching 85.47 and 76.32 points, respectively. It is hoped that the research in this article can contribute a little to accelerating the establishment of my country’s ecological environment damage compensation system, safeguarding the interests of the ecological environment, and protecting the ecological environment.

Association rules in data mining are used in order to discover latent information hidden in databases. The class of apriori algorithms provide a simple way to compute association rules. Despite the simplicity of the algorithm its computational comple