篇名 | Fuzzy Weighted Data Mining from Quantitative Transactions with Linguistic Minimum Supports and Confidences |
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卷期 | 8:4 |
作者 | Tzung-Pei Hong 、 Ming-Jer Chiang 、 Shyue-Liang Wang |
頁次 | 173-182 |
關鍵字 | Association rule 、 data mining 、 weighted item 、 fuzzy set 、 fuzzy ranking 、 quantitative data 、 EI 、 SCI 、 SCIE 、 Scopus |
出刊日期 | 200612 |
Data mining is the process of extracting desirable knowledge or interesting patterns from existing da-tabases for specific purposes. Most conventional data-mining algorithms identify the relationships among transactions using binary values and set the minimum supports and minimum confidences at nu-merical values. Linguistic minimum support and minimum confidence values are, however, more natural and understandable for human beings. Transactions with quantitative values are also com-monly seen in real-world applications. This paper thus attempts to propose a new mining approach for extracting linguistic weighted association rules from quantitative transactions, when the parameters needed in the mining process are given in linguistic terms. Items are also evaluated by managers as lin-guistic terms to reflect their importance, which are then transformed as fuzzy sets of weights. Fuzzy op-erations are then used to find weighted fuzzy large itemsets and fuzzy association rules. An example is given to clearly illustrate the proposed approach.