Fuzzy versus quantitative association rules: A fair data-driven comparison

IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics, Part B: Cybernetics

Volumn 36, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 679-684

  Verlinde, Hannes ^a   De Cock, Martine ^a   Boute, Raymond ^a  

^a GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Data mining; Fuzzy association rules; Quantitative association rules; Triangular norms

Indexed keywords

ASSOCIATIVE PROCESSING; DATA MINING; DATABASE SYSTEMS; FUZZY SETS;

FUZZY ASSOCIATION RULES; QUANTITATIVE ASSOCIATION RULES; RULE MINING; TRIANGULAR NORMS;

CYBERNETICS;

ALGORITHM; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEM; FACTUAL DATABASE; FUZZY LOGIC; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; LETTER; METHODOLOGY; STATISTICAL MODEL;

ALGORITHMS; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DATABASES, FACTUAL; DECISION SUPPORT TECHNIQUES; FUZZY LOGIC; INFORMATION STORAGE AND RETRIEVAL; MODELS, STATISTICAL;

EID: 33744549830     PISSN: 10834419     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TSMCB.2005.860134     Document Type: Article

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