Detection of Fuzzy Association Rules by Fuzzy Transforms

We present a new method based on the use of fuzzy transforms for detecting coarse-grained association rules in the datasets. The fuzzy association rules are represented in the form of linguistic expressions and we introduce a pre-processing phase to determine the optimal fuzzy partition of the domai...

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Main Authors: Ferdinando Di Martino, Salvatore Sessa
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Wiley 2012-01-01
Series:Advances in Fuzzy Systems
Online Access:http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2012/258476
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Summary:We present a new method based on the use of fuzzy transforms for detecting coarse-grained association rules in the datasets. The fuzzy association rules are represented in the form of linguistic expressions and we introduce a pre-processing phase to determine the optimal fuzzy partition of the domains of the quantitative attributes. In the extraction of the fuzzy association rules we use the AprioriGen algorithm and a confidence index calculated via the inverse fuzzy transform. Our method is applied to datasets of the 2001 census database of the district of Naples (Italy); the results show that the extracted fuzzy association rules provide a correct coarse-grained view of the data association rule set.
ISSN:1687-7101
1687-711X