An improved approach to find membership functions and multiple minimum supports in fuzzy data mining

Expert Systems with Applications

Volumn 36, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 10016-10024

  Chen, Chun Hao ^a   Hong, Tzung Pei ^b,c   Tseng, Vincent S ^a  

^a NATIONAL CHENG KUNG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF KAOHSIUNG   (Taiwan)

^c NATIONAL SUN YAT SEN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Data mining; Fuzzy set; Genetic algorithm; Genetic fuzzy mining; Membership functions; Multiple minimum supports

Indexed keywords

DIVIDE-AND-CONQUER; FUZZY ASSOCIATION RULES; FUZZY KNOWLEDGE; FUZZY MININGS; FUZZY SET; FUZZY-DATA MININGS; GENETIC-FUZZY MINING; MINIMUM SUPPORTS; MULTIPLE MINIMUM SUPPORTS; POSSIBLE SOLUTIONS;

ASSOCIATION RULES; ASSOCIATIVE PROCESSING; DATA MINING; FUZZY RULES; FUZZY SETS; GENETIC ALGORITHMS; KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT; MINING;

MEMBERSHIP FUNCTIONS;

EID: 64049084623     PISSN: 09574174     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.eswa.2009.01.067     Document Type: Article

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