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Journal of Information Science and Engineering, Vol. 31 No. 6, pp. 1849-1865


Mining Non-Redundant Inter-Transaction Rules


CHUN-SHENG WANG 
Department of Information Management 
Jinwen University of Science and Technology 
New Taipei City, 231 Taiwan


    Inter-transaction pattern and rule mining has been the subject of active research and has potential application in many areas. All the previous inter-transaction rule mining studies proposed generating a full set of inter-transaction rules (i.e., all frequent and confident rules) from a full set of inter-transaction patterns (i.e., all frequent patterns). However, generating a full set inter-transaction rules can be very expensive. In this paper, to resolve the explosive growth of inter-transaction rules, we propose a new research of mining non-redundant inter-transaction rules. We investigate and characterize non-r edundant inter-transaction rules, study the quality inter-transaction rule sets with respect to completeness and tightness. We develop an algorithm named NRITR-Miner to mine the non-redundant inter-transaction rules efficiently and an algorithm named ITR-Miner to mine the full-set of inter-transaction rules for comparing purpose. We demonstrate via experiments that the proposed algorithm is efficient and scalable, and outperform the compared algorithm in all cases.


Keywords: association rules, closed pattern, data mining, inter-transaction pattern, intertransaction rules, non-redundant rules

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