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Utilizing Genetic Algorithms to Optimize Membership Functions for Fuzzy Weighted Association Rules Mining

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Utilizing Genetic Algorithms to Optimize Membership Functions for Fuzzy Weighted Association Rules Mining
It is not an easy task to know a priori the most appropriate fuzzy sets that cover the domains of quantitative attributes for fuzzy association rules mining. In general, it is unrealistic that experts can always provide such sets. And finding the most appropriate fuzzy sets becomes a more complex problem when items are not considered to have equal importance and the support and confidence parameters required for the association rules mining process are specified as linguistic terms. Existing clustering based automated methods are not satisfactory because they do not consider the optimization of the discovered membership functions. In order to tackle this problem, we propose Genetic Algorithms (GAs) based clustering method, which dynamically adjusts the fuzzy sets to provide maximum profit based on user specified linguistic minimum support and confidence terms. This is achieved by tuning the base values of the membership functions for each quantitative attribute with respect to two diff...
Mehmet Kaya, Reda Alhajj
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Type Journal
Year 2006
Where APIN
Authors Mehmet Kaya, Reda Alhajj
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