Exploratory rule discovery, as exemplified by association rule discovery, is has proven very popular. In this paper I investigate issues surrounding the statistical validity of rules found using this approach and methods that might be employed to deliver statistically sound exploratory rule discovery.

Many-to-many relations are often observed between real life objects. When many-tomany relations are between objects in the same class the data mining process becomes more complicated than mining objects when there are no such recursive relations. Mining objects related to other objects in the same class requires construction and execution of recursive queries and hence interpretation of the res...

We consider the problem of finding rules relating patterns in a time series to other patterns in that series, or patterns in one series to patterns in another series. A simple example is a rule such as "a period of low telephone call activity is usually followed by a sharp rise ill call vohune". Examples of rules relating two or more time series are "if the Microsoft stock price goes up and lnt...

In this research study, we analyze the performance of bio inspired classification approaches by selecting Ant-Miners (Ant-Miner, cAnt_Miner, cAnt_Miner2 and cAnt_MinerPB) for the discovery of classification rules in terms of accuracy, terms per rule, number of rules, running time and model size discovered by the corresponding rule mining algorithm. Classification rule discovery is still a chall...

Relational rule learning is typically used in solving classification and prediction tasks. However, relational rule learning can be adapted also to subgroup discovery. This paper proposes a propositionalization approach to relational subgroup discovery, achieved through appropriately adapting rule learning and first-order feature construction. The proposed approach, applicable to subgroup disco...

Learning classifier systems, their parameterisation, and their rule discovery systems have often been evaluated by measuring classification accuracy on small Boolean functions. We demonstrate that by restricting the rule set to the initial random population high classification accuracy can still be achieved, and that relatively small functions require few rules. We argue this demonstrates that ...

Association rule discovery has become one of the most widely applied data mining strategies. Techniques for association rule discovery have been dominated by the frequent itemset strategy as exemplified by the Apriori algorithm. One limitation of this approach is that it provides little opportunity to detect and remove association rules on the basis of relationships between rules. As a result, ...

This project [4] centers on regional association rule mining and scoping in spatial datasets. We introduces a methodology for mining spatial association rules and proposes new algorithms to determine the scope of a spatial association rule. We develop a reward-based region discovery framework that employs clustering to find interesting regions. The framework is applied to solve two distinct reg...