Utilizing genetic algorithms to optimize membership functions for fuzzy weighted association rules mining

Applied Intelligence

Volumn 24, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 7-15

  Kaya, Mehmet ^a   Alhajj, Reda ^b,c  

^a FIRAT UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

^c GLOBAL UNIVERSITY   (Lebanon)

Author keywords

Clustering; Data mining; Fuzzy association rules; Genetic algorithms; Linguistic terms; Weighted rules

Indexed keywords

DATA MINING; DATABASE SYSTEMS; GENETIC ALGORITHMS; OPTIMIZATION; PROBLEM SOLVING;

CLUSTERING; FUZZY ASSOCIATION RULES; LINGUISTIC TERMS; WEIGHTED RULES;

FUZZY SETS;

EID: 31144468507     PISSN: 0924669X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10489-006-6925-0     Document Type: Article

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