An evolutionary algorithm to discover quantitative association rules from huge databases without the need for an a priori discretization

Expert Systems with Applications

Volumn 39, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 585-593

  Pachón Álvarez, Victoria ^a   Mata Vázquez, Jacinto ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HUELVA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Association rules; Data mining; Evolutionary algorithms

Indexed keywords

CATEGORICAL ATTRIBUTES; DISCRETIZATIONS; QUANTITATIVE ASSOCIATION RULES; SYNTHETIC DATABASE;

ASSOCIATION RULES; DATA MINING; DATABASE SYSTEMS;

EVOLUTIONARY ALGORITHMS;

EID: 81855221745     PISSN: 09574174     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.eswa.2011.07.049     Document Type: Article

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