• International Journal of Fuzzy Logic and Intelligent Systems
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• v.2 no.3
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• pp.210-214
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• 2002

Association rule mining is an exploratory learning task to discover some hidden dependency relationships among items in transaction data. Quantitative association rules denote association rules with both categorical and quantitative attributes. There have been several works on quantitative association rule mining such as the application of fuzzy techniques to quantitative association rule mining, the generalized association rule mining for quantitative association rules, and importance weight incorporation into association rule mining fer taking into account the users interest. This paper introduces a new method for generalized fuzzy quantitative association rule mining with importance weights. The method uses fuzzy concept hierarchies fer categorical attributes and generalization hierarchies of fuzzy linguistic terms fur quantitative attributes. It enables the users to flexibly perform the association rule mining by controlling the generalization levels for attributes and the importance weights f3r attributes.

• Journal of the Korean Data and Information Science Society
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• v.19 no.3
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• pp.903-911
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• 2008

Association rule mining searches for interesting relationships among items in a given large database. Association rules are frequently used by retail stores to assist in marketing, advertising, floor placement, and inventory control. Many data is most quantitative data. There is a need for partitioning techniques to quantitative data. The partitioning process is referred to as binning. We introduce several binning methods ; parameter mean binning, equi-width binning, equi-depth binning, clustering-based binning. So we apply these binning methods to several distribution types of quantitative data and present the best binning method for association rule discovery.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Intelligent Systems Conference
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• 2001.05a
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• pp.8-11
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• 2001

연관규칙 마이닝은 트랜잭션 데이터를 이루고 있는 항목간의 잠재적인 의존관계를 발견하는 데이터 마이닝의 한 분야이다. 정량 연관규칙이란 부류적 속성과 정량적 속성을 모두 포함한 연관규칙이다. 정량 연관규칙 마아닝을 위한 퍼지 기술의 응용, 정량 연관규칙 마이닝을 위한 일반화된 연관규칙 마이닝, 사용자의 관심도를 반영한 중요도 가중치가 있는 연관규칙 마이닝 등에 대한 연구가 이루어져 왔다. 이 논문에서는 중요도 가중치가 있는 일반화된 퍼지 정량 연관규칙 마이닝의 새로운 방법을 제안한다. 이 방법은 부류적 속성의 퍼지 개념 계층과 정량적 속성의 퍼지 언어항 일반화 계층을 일반화된 추출하기 위해 이용한다. 이것은 속성들의 수준별 일반화 계층과 속성의 중요도 가중치를 이용함으로써 사용자가 보다 융통성 있는 연관규칙을 마이닝할 수 있게 해준다.

• Journal of the Korea Academia-Industrial cooperation Society
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• v.11 no.6
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• pp.2214-2218
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• 2010

Association rule is one of meaning and useful extraction methods from large amounts of data, and furnish useful information to user for data describing a pattern or similarity among attributes in database. Association rule have been studied about existence and nonexistence rule in boolean database. In this paper, we propose an intelligent query system using fuzzy association rule by extraction association rule changing a quantitative attribute data to a nominal attribute value.

• Asian-Australasian Journal of Animal Sciences
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• v.21 no.11
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• pp.1559-1571
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• 2008

A rule was developed to constrain the annual rate of inbreeding to a predefined value in a population with different lifetimes between sires and dams, and to maximize the selection response over generations. This rule considers that the animals in a population should be divided into sex-age classes based on the theory of gene flow, and restricts the increase of average inbreeding coefficient for new offspring by limiting the increase of the mean additive genetic relationship for parents selected. The optimization problem of this rule was formulated as a quadratic programming problem. Inputs for the rule were the BLUP estimated breeding values, the additive genetic relationship matrix of all animals, and the long-term contributions of sex-age classes. Outputs were optimal number and contributions of selected animals. In addition, this rule was combined with the optimization of emphasis given to QTL, and further increased the genetic gain over the planning horizon. Stochastic simulations of closed nucleus schemes for pigs were used to investigate the potential advantages obtained from this rule by combining the standard QTL selection, optimal QTL selection and conventional BLUP selection. Results showed that the predefined rates of inbreeding were actually achieved by this rule in three selection strategies. The rule obtained up to 9.23% extra genetic gain over truncation selection at the same rates of inbreeding. The combination of the extended rule and the optimization of emphasis given to QTL allowed substantial increases in selection response at a fixed annual rate of inbreeding, and solved substantially the conflict between short-term and long-term selection response in QTL-assisted selection schemes.

• Proceedings of the Korean Information Science Society Conference
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• 2002.04b
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• pp.235-237
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• 2002

연관규칙(association rule)이란 데이터 베이스에 존재하는 속성들 사이에 유사성 또는 패턴을 기술하는 것으로, 사용자에게 데이터에 관한 유용한 조보를 줄 수 있다. 그러나, 지금가지의 연관규칙은 이진 (boolean) 데이터 베이스에 존재하는 연관규칙의 발견에 대해서 주로 연구되어 왔으며, 정량적(수치적, quantitative) 속성을 갖는 데이터에 대한 연관규칙의 연구는 미비하였다. 그 이유는 정량적 속성을 갖는 데이터를 기호적(nominal) 속성값으로 바꾼 후 연관규칙 보다 성능이 우수함을 보이고 있다. 또한 본 논문에서는 퍼지 연관규칙에서 소속함수(항목, 아이템, 속성값)의 모양과 개수를 데이터 분포에 대한 통계적 특성을 나타내는 히스토그램을 이용하여 소속함수를 자동 생성하는 효율적인 연관규칙 추출방법을 제안한다

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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• v.8 no.6
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• pp.1284-1290
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• 2004

In market-basket analysis, weighted association rule(WAR) discovery can mine the rules which include more beneficial information by reflecting item importance for special products. However, when items are divided into more than one group and item importance for each group must be measured by different measurement or separately, we cannot directly apply traditional weighted association rule discovery. To solve this problem, we propose a novel methodology to discovery the weighted association rule in this paper In this methodology, the items should be first divided into sub-groups according to the properties of the items, and the item importance is defined or calculated only with the items enclosed to the sub-group. Our algorithm makes qualitative evaluation for network risk assessment possible by generating risk rule set for risk factor using network sorority data, and quantitative evaluation possible by calculating risk value using statistical factors such as weight applied in rule generation. And, It can be widely used for new model of more delicate analysis in market-basket database in which the data items are distinctly separated.

• The Journal of Information Systems
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• v.20 no.3
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• pp.63-79
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• 2011

Deducting the risk level of infrastructure and buildings based on past human disaster risk cases and implementing prevention measures are important activities for disaster prevention. The object of this study is to measure the confidence to proceed quantitative analysis of various disaster risk cases through text mining methodology. Indeed, by examining confidence calculation process and method, this study suggests also a basic quantitative framework. The framework to measure the confidence is composed into four stages. First step describes correlation by categorizing basic elements based on human disaster ontology. Secondly, terms and cases of Term-Document Matrix will be created and the frequency of certain cases and terms will be quantified, the correlation value will be added to the missing values. In the third stage, association rules will be created according to the basic elements of human disaster risk cases. Lastly, the confidence value of disaster risk cases will be measured through association rules. This kind of confidence value will become a key element when deciding a risk level of a new disaster risk, followed up by preventive measures. Through collection of human disaster risk cases related to road infrastructure, this study will demonstrate a case where the four steps of the quantitative framework and process had been actually used for verification.

• Journal of the Korean Society of Safety
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• v.32 no.5
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• pp.88-95
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• 2017

As the safety fields are expanding to a variety of industrial fields, safety technology has been developed by convergence between industrial safety fields such as mechanics, ergonomics, electronics, chemistry, construction, and information science. As the technology convergence is facilitating recently advanced safety technology, it is important to explore the trends of safety technology for understanding which industrial technologies have been integrated thus far. For studying the trends of technology, the patent is considered one of the useful sources that has provided the ample information of new technology. The patent has been also used to identify the patterns of technology convergence through various quantitative methods. In this respect, this study aims to identify the convergence patterns and fields of safety technology using association rule mining(ARM)-based patent co-classification(co-class) analysis. The patent co-class data is especially useful for constructing convergence network between technological fields. Through linkages between technological fields, the core and hub classes of convergence network are explored to provide insight into the fields of safety technology. As the representative method for analyzing patent co-class network, the ARM is used to find the likelihood of co-occurrence of patent classes and the ARM network is presented to visualize the convergence network of safety technology. As a result, we find three major convergence fields of safety technology: working safety, medical safety, and vehicle safety.

• Asia pacific journal of information systems
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• v.18 no.2
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• pp.95-114
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• 2008

Recent interests in data mining result from the expansion of the amount of business data and the growing business needs for extracting valuable knowledge from the data and then utilizing it for decision making process. In particular, recent advances in association rule mining techniques enable us to acquire knowledge concerning sales patterns among individual items from the voluminous transactional data. Certainly, one of the major purposes of association rule mining is to utilize acquired knowledge in providing marketing strategies such as cross-selling, sales promotion, and shelf-space allocation. In spite of the potential applicability of association rule mining, unfortunately, it is not often the case that the marketing mix acquired from data mining leads to the realized profit. The main difficulty of mining-based profit realization can be found in the fact that tremendous numbers of patterns are discovered by the association rule mining. Due to the many patterns, data mining experts should perform additional mining of the results of initial mining in order to extract only actionable and profitable knowledge, which exhausts much time and costs. In the literature, a number of interestingness measures have been devised for estimating discovered patterns. Most of the measures can be directly calculated from what is known as a contingency table, which summarizes the sales frequencies of exclusive items or itemsets. A contingency table can provide brief insights into the relationship between two or more itemsets of concern. However, it is important to note that some useful information concerning sales transactions may be lost when a contingency table is constructed. For instance, information regarding the size of each market basket(i.e., the number of items in each transaction) cannot be described in a contingency table. It is natural that a larger basket has a tendency to consist of more sales patterns. Therefore, if two itemsets are sold together in a very large basket, it can be expected that the basket contains two or more patterns and that the two itemsets belong to mutually different patterns. Therefore, we should classify frequent itemset into two categories, inter-pattern co-occurrence and intra-pattern co-occurrence, and investigate the effect of the market basket size on the two categories. This notion implies that any interestingness measures for association rules should consider not only the total frequency of target itemsets but also the size of each basket. There have been many attempts on analyzing various interestingness measures in the literature. Most of them have conducted qualitative comparison among various measures. The studies proposed desirable properties of interestingness measures and then surveyed how many properties are obeyed by each measure. However, relatively few attentions have been made on evaluating how well the patterns discovered by each measure are regarded to be valuable in the real world. In this paper, attempts are made to propose two notions regarding association rule measures. First, a quantitative criterion for estimating accuracy of association rule measures is presented. According to this criterion, a measure can be considered to be accurate if it assigns high scores to meaningful patterns that actually exist and low scores to arbitrary patterns that co-occur by coincidence. Next, complementary measures are presented to improve the accuracy of traditional association rule measures. By adopting the factor of market basket size, the devised measures attempt to discriminate the co-occurrence of itemsets in a small basket from another co-occurrence in a large basket. Intensive computer simulations under various workloads were performed in order to analyze the accuracy of various interestingness measures including traditional measures and the proposed measures.