scholarly journals Study of B40 Schoolchildren Lifestyles and Academic Performance using Association Rule Mining

2021 ◽  
Vol 5 (5) ◽  
pp. 60-68
Author(s):  
Puteri NE Nohuddin ◽  
Zuraini Zainol ◽  
Mohd Hanafi Ahmad Hijazi
Keyword(s):  
Academic Achievement ◽  
Academic Performance ◽  
Association Rules ◽  
Association Rule ◽  
Healthy Lifestyle ◽  
Decision Makers ◽  
Analysis Framework ◽  
Rule Mining ◽  
The Government ◽  
Association Rules Analysis

B40 community school children experience many underprivileged lifestyles which impacted their academic performance. Through data trends and patterns, the education top management can observe the progress of academic performance and the lifestyle relationships of students in a school or nearby school. It can also help to identify the causes of progress or deterioration of the performance of B40 community students. Therefore, a data analytics framework is essential to help decision-makers to see and analyze the changing trends and patterns of academic progress in data and related lifestyles of B40 community students more effectively and accurately. The objective of this study is to design and develop association rules analysis to deduce the relevance of academic achievement and lifestyle among schoolchildren from the B40 family. The analysis framework is established in several stages that involve data collection and processing and transformation, then the design, application and evaluate of the association rules algorithms. The framework is expected to benefit students, teachers and Education Ministry. This study foresees whether educational programs and healthy lifestyle awareness can be designed specifically for the B40 children so as to improve their academic achievement as desired by the government.

scholarly journals Binary Particle Swarm Optimization-Based Association Rule Mining for Discovering Relationships between Machine Capabilities and Product Features

2018 ◽  
Vol 2018 ◽  
pp. 1-16 ◽  
Author(s):  
Zhicong Kou ◽  
Lifeng Xi
Keyword(s):  
Particle Swarm Optimization ◽  
Association Rules ◽  
Association Rule ◽  
Association Rule Mining ◽  
Particle Swarm ◽  
Performance Comparison ◽  
Binary Particle Swarm Optimization ◽  
Rule Mining ◽  
Swarm Optimization ◽  
Product Features

An effective data mining method to automatically extract association rules between manufacturing capabilities and product features from the available historical data is essential for an efficient and cost-effective product development and production. This paper proposes a new binary particle swarm optimization- (BPSO-) based association rule mining (BPSO-ARM) method for discovering the hidden relationships between machine capabilities and product features. In particular, BPSO-ARM does not need to predefine thresholds of minimum support and confidence, which improves its applicability in real-world industrial cases. Moreover, a novel overlapping measure indication is further proposed to eliminate those lower quality rules to further improve the applicability of BPSO-ARM. The effectiveness of BPSO-ARM is demonstrated on a benchmark case and an industrial case about the automotive part manufacturing. The performance comparison indicates that BPSO-ARM outperforms other regular methods (e.g., Apriori) for ARM. The experimental results indicate that BPSO-ARM is capable of discovering important association rules between machine capabilities and product features. This will help support planners and engineers for the new product design and manufacturing.

Semi-Automatic Ontology Construction by Exploiting Functional Dependencies and Association Rules

Semantic Web ◽  
2013 ◽  
pp. 76-96
Author(s):  
Luca Cagliero ◽  
Tania Cerquitelli ◽  
Paolo Garza
Keyword(s):  
Association Rules ◽  
Association Rule ◽  
Association Rule Mining ◽  
Description Logic ◽  
Functional Dependency ◽  
Functional Dependencies ◽  
Rule Mining ◽  
Domain Experts ◽  
Data Schema ◽  
Input Dataset

This paper presents a novel semi-automatic approach to construct conceptual ontologies over structured data by exploiting both the schema and content of the input dataset. It effectively combines two well-founded database and data mining techniques, i.e., functional dependency discovery and association rule mining, to support domain experts in the construction of meaningful ontologies, tailored to the analyzed data, by using Description Logic (DL). To this aim, functional dependencies are first discovered to highlight valuable conceptual relationships among attributes of the data schema (i.e., among concepts). The set of discovered correlations effectively support analysts in the assertion of the Tbox ontological statements (i.e., the statements involving shared data conceptualizations and their relationships). Then, the analyst-validated dependencies are exploited to drive the association rule mining process. Association rules represent relevant and hidden correlations among data content and they are used to provide valuable knowledge at the instance level. The pushing of functional dependency constraints into the rule mining process allows analysts to look into and exploit only the most significant data item recurrences in the assertion of the Abox ontological statements (i.e., the statements involving concept instances and their relationships).

XML-Enabled Association Analysis

2011 ◽  
pp. 2117-2122
Author(s):  
Ling Feng
Keyword(s):  
Data Mining ◽  
Decision Support ◽  
Marketing Strategy ◽  
Association Rules ◽  
Association Rule ◽  
Rule Mining ◽  
Xml Data ◽  
Market Basket ◽  
Transactional Databases ◽  
Mining Association Rules

The discovery of association rules from large amounts of structured or semi-structured data is an important data mining problem [Agrawal et al. 1993, Agrawal and Srikant 1994, Miyahara et al. 2001, Termier et al. 2002, Braga et al. 2002, Cong et al. 2002, Braga et al. 2003, Xiao et al. 2003, Maruyama and Uehara 2000, Wang and Liu 2000]. It has crucial applications in decision support and marketing strategy. The most prototypical application of association rules is market basket analysis using transaction databases from supermarkets. These databases contain sales transaction records, each of which details items bought by a customer in the transaction. Mining association rules is the process of discovering knowledge such as “80% of customers who bought diapers also bought beer, and 35% of customers bought both diapers and beer”, which can be expressed as “diaper ? beer” (35%, 80%), where 80% is the confidence level of the rule, and 35% is the support level of the rule indicating how frequently the customers bought both diapers and beer. In general, an association rule takes the form X ? Y (s, c), where X and Y are sets of items, and s and c are support and confidence, respectively. In the XML Era, mining association rules is confronted with more challenges than in the traditional well-structured world due to the inherent flexibilities of XML in both structure and semantics [Feng and Dillon 2005]. First, XML data has a more complex hierarchical structure than a database record. Second, elements in XML data have contextual positions, which thus carry the order notion. Third, XML data appears to be much bigger than traditional data. To address these challenges, the classic association rule mining framework originating with transactional databases needs to be re-examined.

Constraint-Based Association Rule Mining

2011 ◽  
pp. 307-312 ◽  
Author(s):  
Carson Kai-Sang Leung
Keyword(s):  
Data Mining ◽  
Association Rules ◽  
Association Rule ◽  
Association Rule Mining ◽  
Computational Cost ◽  
Knowledge Discovery In Databases ◽  
Rule Mining ◽  
The Subject ◽  
User Focus ◽  
High Computational Cost

The problem of association rule mining was introduced in 1993 (Agrawal et al., 1993). Since then, it has been the subject of numerous studies. Most of these studies focused on either performance issues or functionality issues. The former considered how to compute association rules efficiently, whereas the latter considered what kinds of rules to compute. Examples of the former include the Apriori-based mining framework (Agrawal & Srikant, 1994), its performance enhancements (Park et al., 1997; Leung et al., 2002), and the tree-based mining framework (Han et al., 2000); examples of the latter include extensions of the initial notion of association rules to other rules such as dependence rules (Silverstein et al., 1998) and ratio rules (Korn et al., 1998). In general, most of these studies basically considered the data mining exercise in isolation. They did not explore how data mining can interact with the human user, which is a key component in the broader picture of knowledge discovery in databases. Hence, they provided little or no support for user focus. Consequently, the user usually needs to wait for a long period of time to get numerous association rules, out of which only a small fraction may be interesting to the user. In other words, the user often incurs a high computational cost that is disproportionate to what he wants to get. This calls for constraint-based association rule mining.

Association Rule and Quantitative Association Rule Mining among Infrequent Items

2010 ◽  
pp. 15-32 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ling Zhou ◽  
Stephen Yau
Keyword(s):  
Data Mining ◽  
Association Rules ◽  
Association Rule ◽  
Association Rule Mining ◽  
Rule Mining ◽  
Transactional Databases ◽  
Frequent Items ◽  
Increasing Demand ◽  
Quantitative Association Rule

Association rule mining among frequent items has been extensively studied in data mining research. However, in recent years, there is an increasing demand for mining infrequent items (such as rare but expensive items). Since exploring interesting relationships among infrequent items has not been discussed much in the literature, in this chapter, the authors propose two simple, practical and effective schemes to mine association rules among rare items. Their algorithms can also be applied to frequent items with bounded length. Experiments are performed on the well-known IBM synthetic database. The authors’ schemes compare favorably to Apriori and FP-growth under the situation being evaluated. In addition, they explore quantitative association rule mining in transactional databases among infrequent items by associating quantities of items: some interesting examples are drawn to illustrate the significance of such mining.

Association Rule Mining in Collaborative Filtering

2017 ◽  
pp. 159-179 ◽  
Author(s):  
Carson K.-S. Leung ◽  
Fan Jiang ◽  
Edson M. Dela Cruz ◽  
Vijay Sekar Elango
Keyword(s):  
Data Mining ◽  
Collaborative Filtering ◽  
Association Rules ◽  
Data Structures ◽  
Association Rule ◽  
Association Rule Mining ◽  
Real Life ◽  
Frequent Patterns ◽  
Rule Mining ◽  
Association Rule Miner

Collaborative filtering uses data mining and analysis to develop a system that helps users make appropriate decisions in real-life applications by removing redundant information and providing valuable to information users. Data mining aims to extract from data the implicit, previously unknown and potentially useful information such as association rules that reveals relationships between frequently co-occurring patterns in antecedent and consequent parts of association rules. This chapter presents an algorithm called CF-Miner for collaborative filtering with association rule miner. The CF-Miner algorithm first constructs bitwise data structures to capture important contents in the data. It then finds frequent patterns from the bitwise structures. Based on the mined frequent patterns, the algorithm forms association rules. Finally, the algorithm ranks the mined association rules to recommend appropriate merchandise products, goods or services to users. Evaluation results show the effectiveness of CF-Miner in using association rule mining in collaborative filtering.

Efficient Implementations for UWEP Incremental Frequent Itemset Mining Algorithm

2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 18-37
Author(s):  
Mehmet Bicer ◽  
Daniel Indictor ◽  
Ryan Yang ◽  
Xiaowen Zhang
Keyword(s):  
Association Rules ◽  
Association Rule ◽  
Search Space ◽  
Frequent Itemset ◽  
Incremental Algorithm ◽  
Frequent Patterns ◽  
Lazy Evaluation ◽  
Rule Mining ◽  
Implementation Techniques ◽  
Common Technique

Association rule mining is a common technique used in discovering interesting frequent patterns in data acquired in various application domains. The search space combinatorically explodes as the size of the data increases. Furthermore, the introduction of new data can invalidate old frequent patterns and introduce new ones. Hence, while finding the association rules efficiently is an important problem, maintaining and updating them is also crucial. Several algorithms have been introduced to find the association rules efficiently. One of them is Apriori. There are also algorithms written to update or maintain the existing association rules. Update with early pruning (UWEP) is one such algorithm. In this paper, the authors propose that in certain conditions it is preferable to use an incremental algorithm as opposed to the classic Apriori algorithm. They also propose new implementation techniques and improvements to the original UWEP paper in an algorithm we call UWEP2. These include the use of memorization and lazy evaluation to reduce scans of the dataset.

Usage of Fuzzy, Rough, and Soft Set Approach in Association Rule Mining

2012 ◽  
Vol 3 (3) ◽  
pp. 64-77 ◽  
Author(s):  
Satya Ranjan Dash ◽  
Satchidananda Dehuri ◽  
Uma kant Sahoo
Keyword(s):  
Set Theory ◽  
Association Rules ◽  
Association Rule ◽  
Association Rule Mining ◽  
Soft Set ◽  
Rule Mining

This paper is two folded. In first fold, the authors have illustrated the interplay among fuzzy, rough, and soft set theory and their way of handling vagueness. In second fold, the authors have studied their individual strengths to discover association rules. The performance of these three approaches in discovering comprehensible rules are presented.

Comprehensive Survey on Privacy Preserving Association Rule Mining: Models, Approaches, Techniques and Algorithms

2014 ◽  
Vol 23 (05) ◽  
pp. 1450004 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ibrahim S. Alwatban ◽  
Ahmed Z. Emam
Keyword(s):  
Data Mining ◽  
Association Rules ◽  
Association Rule ◽  
Association Rule Mining ◽  
Research Area ◽  
Privacy Preserving ◽  
Rule Mining ◽  
Privacy Preserving Data Mining ◽  
Comprehensive Survey ◽  
New Research

In recent years, a new research area known as privacy preserving data mining (PPDM) has emerged and captured the attention of many researchers interested in preventing the privacy violations that may occur during data mining. In this paper, we provide a review of studies on PPDM in the context of association rules (PPARM). This paper systematically defines the scope of this survey and determines the PPARM models. The problems of each model are formally described, and we discuss the relevant approaches, techniques and algorithms that have been proposed in the literature. A profile of each model and the accompanying algorithms are provided with a comparison of the PPARM models.

A Novel Efficient Mining Association Rules Algorithm for Distributed Databases

2010 ◽  
Vol 108-111 ◽  
pp. 50-56 ◽  
Author(s):  
Liang Zhong Shen
Keyword(s):  
Data Mining ◽  
Knowledge Discovery ◽  
Association Rules ◽  
Association Rule ◽  
Association Rule Mining ◽  
Distributed Databases ◽  
New Method ◽  
Rule Mining ◽  
Mining Association Rules

Due to the popularity of knowledge discovery and data mining, in practice as well as among academic and corporate professionals, association rule mining is receiving increasing attention. The technology of data mining is applied in analyzing data in databases. This paper puts forward a new method which is suit to design the distributed databases.

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