Redundant association rules reduction techniques Online publication date: Sat, 31-Mar-2007
by Mafruz Zaman Ashrafi, David Taniar, Kate Smith
International Journal of Business Intelligence and Data Mining (IJBIDM), Vol. 2, No. 1, 2007
Abstract: To discover hidden correlations, association rule mining methods use two important constraints known as support and confidence. However, mining methods are often unable to find the best value for these constraints: large number of rules when these thresholds are low; very few rules when these thresholds are high. In addition, regardless of these above thresholds, mining methods produce many rules that have identical meaning or, redundant rules. Indeed such redundant rules seem as a main impediment to efficient utilisation of discovered rules, and should be removed. To achieve this aim, here we present several methods that identify those rules that are redundant and eliminate them.
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