A fuzzy logic based method to acquire user threshold of minimum-support for mining association rules

Information Sciences

Volumn 164, Issue 1-4, 2004, Pages 1-16

  Zhang, Shichao ^a,b   Lu, Jingli ^a   Zhang, Chengqi ^b  

^a GUANGXI NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; AUTOMATION; DATA ACQUISITION; DATABASE SYSTEMS; DECISION MAKING; FUZZY SETS; PROGRAMMABLE LOGIC CONTROLLERS;

ASSOCIATION ANALYSIS SYSTEMS; MAN-MACHINE INTERFACES; MINIMUM-SUPPORT;

DATA MINING;

EID: 3042851932     PISSN: 00200255     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ins.2003.09.017     Document Type: Article

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