• Journal of the Korean Data and Information Science Society
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• v.24 no.2
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• pp.267-275
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• 2013

Among data mining techniques, the association rule is the most recently developed technique, and it finds the relevance between two items in a large database. And it is directly applied in the field because it clearly quantifies the relationship between two or more items. When we determine whether an association rule is meaningful, we utilize interestingness measures such as support, confidence, and lift. Interestingness measures are meaningful in that it shows the causes for pruning uninteresting rules statistically or logically. But the criteria of these measures are chosen by experiences, and the number of useful rules is hard to estimate. If too many rules are generated, we cannot effectively extract the useful rules.In this paper, we designed a variety of non-linear regression equations considering all association thresholds between the number of rules and three interestingness measures. And then we diagnosed multi-collinearity and autocorrelation problems, and used analysis of variance results and adjusted coefficients of determination for the best model through numerical experiments.

• Journal of the Korean Data and Information Science Society
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• v.22 no.3
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• pp.495-503
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• 2011

The most widely used data mining technique is to find association rules. Association rule mining is the method to quantify the relationship between each set of items in very huge database based on the association thresholds. There are some basic association thresholds to explore meaningful association rules ; support, confidence, lift, etc. Among them, confidence is the most frequently used, but it has the drawback that it can not determine the direction of the association. The net confidence and the attributably pure confidence were developed to compensate for this drawback, but they have other drawbacks.In this paper we consider some predictive similarity measures for binary data in cluster analysis and multi-dimensional analysis as association threshold to compensate for these drawbacks. The comparative studies with net confidence, attributably pure confidence, and some predictive similarity measures are shown by numerical example.

• Journal of the Korean Data and Information Science Society
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• v.22 no.2
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• pp.235-243
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• 2011

The most widely used data mining technique is to explore association rules. This technique has been used to find the relationship between each set of items based on the association thresholds such as support, confidence, lift, etc. There are many interestingness measures as the criteria for evaluating association rules. Among them, confidence is the most frequently used, but it has the drawback that it can not determine the direction of the association. The net confidence measure was developed to compensate for this drawback, but it is useless in the case that the value of positive confidence is the same as that of negative confidence. This paper propose a attributably pure confidence to evaluate association rules and then describe some properties for a proposed measure. The comparative studies with confidence, net confidence, and attributably pure confidence are shown by numerical example. The results show that the attributably pure confidence is better than confidence or net confidence.

• Journal of the Korean Data and Information Science Society
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• v.27 no.2
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• pp.353-362
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• 2016

By Wikipedia, data mining is the process of discovering patterns in a big data set involving methods at the intersection of association rule, decision tree, clustering, artificial intelligence, machine learning. and database systems. Association rule is a method for discovering interesting relations between items in large transactions by interestingness measures. Association rule interestingness measures play a major role within a knowledge discovery process in databases, and have been developed by many researchers. Among them, the Hellinger measure is a good association threshold considering the information content and the generality of a rule. But it has the drawback that it can not determine the direction of the association. In this paper we proposed a signed Hellinger measure to be able to interpret operationally, and we checked three conditions of association threshold. Furthermore, we investigated some aspects through a few examples. The results showed that the signed Hellinger measure was better than the Hellinger measure because the signed one was able to estimate the right direction of association.

• Journal of the Korean Data and Information Science Society
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• v.25 no.6
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• pp.1345-1352
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• 2014

Data mining is the representative methodology to obtain meaningful information in the era of big data.By Wikipedia, association rule learning is a popular and well researched method for discovering interesting relationship between itemsets in large databases using association thresholds. It is intended to identify strong rules discovered in databases using different interestingness measures. Unlike general association rule, inverse association rule mining finds the rules that a special item does not occur if an item does not occur. If two types of association rule can be simultaneously considered, we can obtain the marketing information for some related products as well as the information of specific product marketing. In this paper, we propose a balanced attributable relative accuracy applicable to these association rule techniques, and then check the three conditions of interestingness measures by Piatetsky-Shapiro (1991). The comparative studies with rule accuracy, relative accuracy, attributable relative accuracy, and balanced attributable relative accuracy are shown by numerical example. The results show that balanced attributable relative accuracy is better than any other accuracy measures.

• Journal of the Korean Data and Information Science Society
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• v.21 no.6
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• pp.1147-1154
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• 2010

One of the important goals in data mining is to discover and decide the relationships between different variables. Association rules are required for this technique and it find meaningful rules by quantifying the relationship between two items based on association measures such as support, confidence, and lift. In this paper, we presented the evaluation criteria of weighted association rule considering item RFM scores as importance of items. Original RFM technique has been used most widely applied method using customer information to find the most profitable customers. And then we compared general association rule technique with weighted association rule technique through the simulation data.

• The Journal of the Institute of Internet, Broadcasting and Communication
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• v.11 no.6
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• pp.63-71
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• 2011

The current Web portal sites provide significant keywords with high popularity or importance; specifically, user-friendly services such as tag clouds and associated word search are provided. However, in general, since news articles are classified only with their date and categories, it is not easy for users to find other articles related to some articles while reading news articles classified with categories. And the conventional associated keyword service has not satisfied users sufficiently because it depends only upon user queries. This paper proposes a way of searching news articles by utilizing the keywords tightly associated with users' queries. Basically, the proposed method discovers a set of keyword association patterns by using the association rule mining technique that extracts association patterns for keywords by focusing upon sentences containing some keywords. The method enables users to navigate the space of associated keywords hidden in large news articles.

• Information Systems Review
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• v.21 no.4
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• pp.69-97
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• 2019

Knowledge service firms are able to have higher 'Organizational Performance (OP)' by improving efficiency in management processes on customer problem solving. This study explores the role of inefficiency that has been overlooked up to now compared to the management process efficiency. We also suggest in this study 'Hierarchical Culture (HC)' and 'IT Relatedness (IR)' as the factors influencing the inefficiency of management processes, and propose the moderating effect of 'Task Difficulty (TD)' on the relationship between independent factors and 'Inefficiency of Business Process(IP)'. The results of analysis show that 'HC' has a positive effect on 'IP', and 'IR' has a negative effect on 'IP'. 'TD' was significant moderator of between independent variables and 'IP'. 'IP' was shown to play a full mediating role between independent factors and 'OP'. In conclusion, knowledge service firms are desired to reduce 'HC' and enhance 'IR' by minimizing unnecessary formal procedures, securing flexibility in decision making through appropriate empowerment, creating a smooth flow of knowledge, and enhancing the level of IT resource management and utilization. In addition, in order to effectively reduce 'IP', it is required that a company with a high degree of 'TD' to more reduce a 'HC' and a company with a low degree of 'TD' to more enhance a 'IR'.

• Journal of the Korean Data and Information Science Society
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• v.23 no.6
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• pp.1127-1135
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• 2012

Association rule mining is the method to quantify the relationship between each set of items in a large database. One of the well-studied problems in data mining is exploration for association rules. There are three primary quality measures for association rule, support and confidence and lift. We generate some association rules using confidence. Confidence is the most important measure of these measures, but it is an asymmetric measure and has only positive value. Thus we can face with difficult problems in generation of association rules. In this paper we apply the similarity measures by probabilistic interestingness measure to find a solution to this problem. The comparative studies with support, two confidences, lift, and some similarity measures by probabilistic interestingness measure are shown by numerical example. As the result, we knew that the similarity measures by probabilistic interestingness measure could be seen the degree of association same as confidence. And we could confirm the direction of association because they had the sign of their values.

• Journal of the Korean Data and Information Science Society
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• v.24 no.6
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• pp.1189-1197
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• 2013

Data mining is the process of analyzing a huge database from different perspectives and summarizing it into useful information. One of the well-studied problems in data mining is association rule generation. Association rule mining finds the relationship among several items in massive volume database using the interestingness measures such as support, confidence, lift, etc. Typical applications for this technique include retail market basket analysis, item recommendation systems, cross-selling, customer relationship management, etc. But these interestingness measures cannot be used to establish a causality relationship between antecedent and consequent item sets. This paper propose causal association thresholds to compensate for this problem, and then check the three conditions of interestingness measures. The comparative studies with basic and causal association thresholds are shown by numerical example. The results show that causal association thresholds are better than basic association thresholds.