Title: Granule mining oriented data warehousing model for representations of multidimensional association rules

Authors: Wanzhong Yang, Yuefeng Li, Jingtong Wu, Yue Xu

Addresses: Faculty of Information Technology, Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, Australia. ' Faculty of Information Technology, Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, Australia. ' Faculty of Information Technology, Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, Australia. ' Faculty of Information Technology, Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, Australia

Abstract: To promise the quality of multidimensional association mining in real applications is a challenging research issue. The challenging issue is how to represent multidimensional association rules efficiently because of the complicated correlation between attributes. Multi-tier granule mining is one initiative in solving this challenge. This paper presents a granule mining oriented data warehousing model. It can divide attributes into tiers and discover granules for each tier from large multidimensional databases. In addition, it uses association mappings to generate association rules for describing the correlation between tiers. Experiments for the proposed model and the testing results are prosecuted.

Keywords: data mining; data warehousing; multidimensional association rules; multi-tier granule mining.

DOI: 10.1504/IJIIDS.2008.017248

International Journal of Intelligent Information and Database Systems, 2008 Vol.2 No.1, pp.125 - 145

Published online: 20 Feb 2008 *

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