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Weighted Association Rule Mining using Weighted Support and Significance Framework

Weighted Association Rule Mining using Weighted Support and Significance Framework
Weighted Association Rule Mining using Weighted Support and Significance Framework
We address the issues of discovering significant binary relationships in transaction datasets in a weighted setting. Traditional model of association rule mining is adapted to handle weighted association rule mining problems where each item is allowed to have a weight. The goal is to steer the mining focus to those significant relationships involving items with significant weights rather than being flooded in the combinatorial explosion of insignificant relationships. We identify the challenge of using weights in the iterative process of generating large itemsets. The problem of invalidation of the “downward closure property” in the weighted setting is solved by using an improved model of weighted support measurements and exploiting a “weighted downward closure property”. A new algorithm called WARM (Weighted Association Rule Mining) is developed based on the improved model. The algorithm is both scalable and efficient in discovering significant relationships in weighted settings as illustrated by experiments performed on simulated datasets.
Weighted Association Rule Mining, Weighted Support, Significant relationship, weighted downward closure roperty, WARM algorithm
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Tao, Feng
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Murtagh, Fionn
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Farid, Mohsen
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Tao, Feng
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Murtagh, Fionn
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Farid, Mohsen
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Tao, Feng, Murtagh, Fionn and Farid, Mohsen (2003) Weighted Association Rule Mining using Weighted Support and Significance Framework. The Ninth ACM SIGKDD International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (ACM SIGKDD 2003), Washington DC, United States. 24 - 27 Aug 2003. pp. 661-666 .

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Abstract

We address the issues of discovering significant binary relationships in transaction datasets in a weighted setting. Traditional model of association rule mining is adapted to handle weighted association rule mining problems where each item is allowed to have a weight. The goal is to steer the mining focus to those significant relationships involving items with significant weights rather than being flooded in the combinatorial explosion of insignificant relationships. We identify the challenge of using weights in the iterative process of generating large itemsets. The problem of invalidation of the “downward closure property” in the weighted setting is solved by using an improved model of weighted support measurements and exploiting a “weighted downward closure property”. A new algorithm called WARM (Weighted Association Rule Mining) is developed based on the improved model. The algorithm is both scalable and efficient in discovering significant relationships in weighted settings as illustrated by experiments performed on simulated datasets.

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Published date: 2003
Additional Information: Event Dates: August 24 - 27
Venue - Dates: The Ninth ACM SIGKDD International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (ACM SIGKDD 2003), Washington DC, United States, 2003-08-24 - 2003-08-27
Keywords: Weighted Association Rule Mining, Weighted Support, Significant relationship, weighted downward closure roperty, WARM algorithm
Organisations: Electronics & Computer Science

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Local EPrints ID: 257986
URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/257986
PURE UUID: a0126934-3882-4ab9-80e3-5e619ab1c3d6

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Date deposited: 24 Jul 2003
Last modified: 14 Mar 2024 06:04

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Author: Feng Tao
Author: Fionn Murtagh
Author: Mohsen Farid

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