Mass customization results in proliferation of products and the corresponding routings. It thus necessitates a coordination issue regarding product and process variety. In addition to coping with product and process variety individually, the linchpin of variety coordination lies in the mapping relationships between the product and process domains. Due to the unstructured nature inherent in prod...

Previous research has resulted in a number of different algorithms for rule discovery. Two approaches discussed here, the ‘all-rules’ algorithm and multiobjective metaheuristics, both result in the production of a large number of partial classification rules, or ‘nuggets’, for describing different subsets of the records in the class of interest. This paper describes the application of a number ...

Association rule mining is an often used method to find relationships in the data and has been extensively studied in the literature. Unfortunately, most of these methods do not work well for numerical attributes. State-of-the-art quantitative association rule mining algorithms follow a common routine: (1) discretize the data and (2) mine for association rules. Unfortunately, this two-step appr...

Concept lattice is an efficient tool for data analysis. Mining association rules is a important subfield of data mining. In this paper we investigate the ability of concept lattice on associate rules and present an efficient algorithm which generate the large itemsets incrementally on the basis of Godin’s work.

There are a great many metrics available for measuring the interestingness of rules. In this paper, we design a distinct approach for identifying association rules that maximizes the interestingness in an applied context. More specifically, the interestingness of association rules is defined as the dissimilarity between corresponding clusters. In addition, the interestingness assists in filteri...

background: gastric cancer is the second most common cause of death from cancer. as conflicting studies have recently been published, we aimed to evaluate the magnitude of the epidemiological evidence for an association between alcohol consumption and gastric cancer. methods: this study is a meta-analysis of case-control studies which have been performed during 1989 to 2007. we systematically r...

A large sample (initially 33,000 cases representing a ten percent trial) of university alumni giving records for a large public university in the southwestern United States is analyzed by Formal Concept Analysis. This likely represents the initial attempt to perform analysis of such data by means of a machine learning technique. The variables employed include the gift amount to the university f...

background: we aimed to elucidate the association between fat mass and obesity associated gene (fto) polymorphism and the risk of polycystic ovary syndrome (pcos) by meta-analysis. methods: we searched pubmed and embase databases to find the relevant studies. odds ratios (ors) and their corresponding 95% confidence intervals (cis) were used for pooled analysis. statistical analyses were carried...

When the International Association for the Evaluation of Educational Achievement (IEA) was established in 1959 the basic idea was to use comparative analysis of country differences in achievement to take advantage of the world as an educational laboratory. A large number of comparative studies involving substantial numbers of countries has since then been conducted and much has indeed been lear...