Ontology-Incorporated Mining of Association Rules in Data Warehouse

With the rise of the Internet and the development of various electronic information resources, mining useful information from large databases has become one of the most important issues in information research for users. Data warehousing plays the key role in providing data for data mining tools to explore knowledge. However, there are still many problems that cause users to spend extra time to get genuine knowledge. In this paper, we explore the problems with contemporary association rule mining in data warehousing systems, explain the essence and propose a framework that incorporates ontologies to resolve the problems. Some interesting research issues and technical challenges on realizing such ontology-incorporated association rule mining in data warehousing systems are pointed out.