This paper focuses on the data-driven generation of fuzzy IF...THEN rules. The resulted fuzzy rule base can be applied to build a classifier, a model used for prediction, or it can be applied to form a decision support system. Among the wide range of possible approaches, the decision tree and the association rule based algorithms are overviewed, and two new approaches are presented based on the...

The problem of finding association rules from a dataset is to find all possible associations that hold among the items, given a minimum support value and a minimum confidence. This involves finding frequent sets first and then the association rules that hold within the items in the frequent sets. The problem of mining temporal association rules from temporal dataset is to find association rules...

A novel method is presented for mining fuzzy association rules that have a temporal pattern. Our proposed method contributes towards discovering temporal patterns that could otherwise be lost from defining the membership functions before the mining process. The novelty of this research lies in exploring the composition of fuzzy and temporal association rules, and using a multi-objective evoluti...

Due to the increasing occurrence of very large databases, mining useful information and knowledge from transactions is evolving into an important research area. In the past, many algorithms were proposed for mining association rules, most of which were based on items with binary values. Transactions with quantitative values are, however, commonly seen in real-world applications. In this paper, ...

Despite the existence of different methods, including data mining techniques, available to be used in recommender systems, such systems still contain numerous limitations. They are in a constant need for personalization in order to make effective suggestions and to provide valuable information of items available. A way to reach such personalization is by means of an alternative data mining tech...

This paper presents an investigation into two fuzzy association rule mining models for enhancing prediction performance. The first model (the FCM-Apriori model) integrates Fuzzy C-Means (FCM) and the Apriori approach for road traffic performance prediction. FCM is used to define the membership functions of fuzzy sets and the Apriori approach is employed to identify the Fuzzy Association Rules (...

During the last ten years, data mining, also known as knowledge discovery in databases, has established its position as a prominent and important research area. Mining association rules is one of the important research problems in data mining. Many algorithms have been proposed to nd association rules in large databases containing both categorical and quantitative attributes. We generalize this...

We have been using fuzzy data mining techniques to extract patterns that represent normal behavior for intrusion detection. In this paper we describe a variety of modifications that we have made to the data mining algorithms in order to improve accuracy and efficiency. We use sets of fuzzy association rules that are mined from network audit data as models of " normal behavior. " To detect anoma...

Frequent Itemset Mining is an important approach for Market Basket Analysis. Earlier, the frequent itemsets are determined based on the customer transactions of binary data. Recently, fuzzy data are used to determine the frequent itemsets because it provides the nature of frequent itemset ie. , it describes whether the frequent itemset consists of only highly purchased items or medium purchased...