Recently Web mining has become a hot research topic, which combines two of the prominent research areas comprising of data mining and the World Wide Web (WWW) [8]. Web usage mining attempts to discover useful knowledge from the secondary data obtained from the interactions of the users with the Web. Web usage mining has become very critical for effective Web site management, business and suppor...

Recently Web mining has become a hot research topic, which combines two of the prominent research areas comprising of data mining and the World Wide Web (WWW). Web usage mining attempts to discover useful knowledge from the secondary data obtained from the interactions of the users with the Web. Web usage mining has become very critical for effective Web site management, business and support se...

Although an overall knowledge discovery process consists of a distinct pre-processing stage followed by the data mining step, it seems that existing formal concept analysis (FCA) and association rules mining (ARM) approaches, dealing with many-valued contexts, mainly focus on the data mining stage. An “intelligent” pre-processing of input contexts is often absent in existing FCA/ARM approaches,...

The goal of data mining is to find out interesting and meaningful patterns from large databases. In some real applications, many data are quantitative and linguistic. Fuzzy data mining was thus proposed to discover fuzzy knowledge from this kind of data. In the past, two mining algorithms based on the ant colony systems were proposed to find suitable membership functions for fuzzy association r...

Data mining is most commonly used in attempts to induce association rules from transaction data. In the past, we used the fuzzy and GA concepts to discover both useful fuzzy association rules and suitable membership functions from quantitative values. The evaluation for fitness values was, however, quite time-consuming. Due to dramatic increases in available computing power and concomitant decr...

Decision Tree Induction (DTI), one of the Data Mining classification methods, is used in this research for predictive problem solving in analyzing patient medical track records. In this paper, we extend the concept of DTI dealing with meaningful fuzzy labels in order to express human knowledge for mining fuzzy association rules. Meaningful fuzzy labels (using fuzzy sets) can be defined for each...

Intrusion Detection is one of the important area of research. Our work has explored the possibility of integrating the fuzzy logic with Data Mining methods using Genetic Algorithms for intrusion detection. The reasons for introducing fuzzy logic is two fold, the first being the involvement of many quantitative features where there is no separation between normal operations and anomalies. Thus f...

Fuzzy mining approaches have recently been discussed for deriving fuzzy knowledge. Since items may have their own characteristics, different minimum supports and membership functions may be specified for different items. In the past, we proposed a genetic-fuzzy data-mining algorithm for extracting minimum supports and membership functions for items from quantitative transactions. In that paper,...

In this paper, the fuzzy neural network is selected as the algorithm for data mining (DM), introducing the artificial neural network into the fuzzy logic by treating it as a computing tool, it is a networklized description form by using the artificial neural network as the membership function in a fuzzy system, fuzzy rules and extension principle. The fuzzy neural network (FNN) is selected as t...

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...