Most of association rule mining approaches aim to mine association rules considering exact matches between items in transactions. In this paper we present a new algorithm called SSDM (Semantically Similar Data Miner), which considers not only exact matches between items, but also the semantic similarity between them. SSDM uses fuzzy logic concepts to represent the similarity degree between item...

A novel framework is described for mining fuzzy Association Rules (fuzzy ARs) relating the properties of composite attributes, i.e. attributes or items that each feature a number of values derived from a common schema. To apply fuzzy Association Rule Mining (ARM) we partition the property values into fuzzy property sets. This paper describes: (i) the process of deriving the fuzzy sets (Composit...

In order to allow for the analysis of data sets including numerical attributes, several generalizations of association rule mining based on fuzzy sets have been proposed in the literature. While the formal specification of fuzzy associations is more or less straightforward, the assessment of such rules by means of appropriate quality measures is less obvious. Particularly, it assumes an underst...

The aim of this paper is to provide a crystal clear insight into the true semantics of the measures of support and confidence that are used to assess rule quality in fuzzy association rule mining. To achieve this, we rely on two important pillars: the identification of transactions in a database as positive or negative examples of a given association between attributes, and the correspondence b...

Association rule mining is basically used to generate association rules on a real life datasets. A well-known algorithm called apriori is used to generate the frequent pattern itemsets for a given transaction. Since real life dataset consist of nominal, continuous, integer attribute fields, to convert it into binary format some type of pre-processing has to be done on the dataset. In this paper...

A novel framework is described for mining fuzzy Association Rules (ARs) relating the properties of composite attributes, i.e. attributes or items that each feature a number of values derived from a common schema. To apply fuzzy Association Rule Mining (ARM) we partition the property values into fuzzy property sets. This paper describes: (i) the process of deriving the fuzzy sets (Composite Fuzz...

Conventional Association Rule Mining (ARM) algorithms usually deal with datasets with categorical values and expect any numerical values to be converted to categorical ones using ranges (Age = 25 to 60). Fuzzy logic is used to convert quantitative values of attributes to categorical ones so as to eliminate any loss of information arising due to sharp partitioning (using ranges) and then generat...

Association rule mining is an important topic in data mining research. Many algorithms have been developed for such task and they typically assume that the underlying associations hidden in the data are stable over time. However, in real world domains, it is possible that the data characteristics and hence the associations change significantly over time. Existing data mining algorithms have not...

The authors [2-5] have studied and presented the quantitative method of linguistic variables and linguistic threshold by fuzzy set. Chien-Hua Wang, Chin-Pang Tzong proposed an algorithms for mining fuzzy association rule [2]. In this paper, we extend the algorithms proposed in [2] for number data and linguistic variables by using hedge algebras.