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A Note on Quality Measures for Fuzzy Association Rules

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Several approaches generalizing association rules to fuzzy association rules have been proposed so far. While the formal specification of fuzzy associations is more or less straightforward, the evaluation of such rules by means of appropriate quality measures assumes an understanding of the semantic meaning of a fuzzy rule. In this respect, most existing proposals can be considered ad-hoc to some extent. In this paper, we suggest a theoretical basis of fuzzy association rules by generalizing the classification of the data stored in a database into positive, negative, and irrelevant examples of a rule.

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  1. Institut de Recherche en Informatique de Toulouse, France

    Didier Dubois & Henri Prade

  2. Informatics Institute, Marburg University, Germany

    Eyke Hüllermeier

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  1. Department of Industrial Engineering, Boğaziçi University, 34342, Bebek, Istanbul, Turkey

    Taner Bilgiç

  2. Dept. of Applied Mathematics, Biometrics and Process Control, Ghent University, Coupure links 653, 9000, Gent, Belgium

    Bernard De Baets

  3. Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Boğaziçi University, 34342, Bebek, Istanbul, Turkey

    Okyay Kaynak

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Dubois, D., Hüllermeier, E., Prade, H. (2003). A Note on Quality Measures for Fuzzy Association Rules. In: Bilgiç, T., De Baets, B., Kaynak, O. (eds) Fuzzy Sets and Systems — IFSA 2003. IFSA 2003. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 2715. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-44967-1_41

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