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Knowledge-Based Systems
Volume 16, Issue 3, April 2003, Pages 137-147
 
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Discovering fuzzy association rules using fuzzy partition methods

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Yi-Chung HuE-mail The Corresponding Author, a, Ruey-Shun Chena and Gwo-Hshiung TzengCorresponding Author Contact Information, E-mail The Corresponding Author, b

a Institute of Information Management, National Chiao Tung University, Hsinchu 300, Taiwan, ROC

b Institute of Management and Technology, National Chiao Tung University, Hsinchu 300, Taiwan, ROC


Received 19 December 2000; 
revised 29 March 2002; 
accepted3 May 2002. ;
Available online 14 November 2002.

Abstract

Fuzzy association rules described by the natural language are well suited for the thinking of human subjects and will help to increase the flexibility for supporting users in making decisions or designing the fuzzy systems. In this paper, a new algorithm named fuzzy grids based rules mining algorithm (FGBRMA) is proposed to generate fuzzy association rules from a relational database. The proposed algorithm consists of two phases: one to generate the large fuzzy grids, and the other to generate the fuzzy association rules. A numerical example is presented to illustrate a detailed process for finding the fuzzy association rules from a specified database, demonstrating the effectiveness of the proposed algorithm.

Author Keywords: Data mining; Fuzzy partition; Association rules; Decision making

Article Outline

1. Introduction
2. Fuzzy partition method
2.1. Fuzzy partitioning in quantitative attributes
2.2. Fuzzy partitioning in qualitative attributes
3. Determine large fuzzy grids
3.1. Example
4. Fuzzy grids based rules mining algorithm
5. Numerical example
6. Discussions and analysis
6.1. Use the linguistic hedge to change the meaning of the fuzzy terms
6.2. Define different number of linguistic values in each quantitative attribute
6.3. Other topics
7. Conclusions
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