Fast discovery of long patterns for association rules

• Main Authors: Mustapha, N., Sulaiman, M.N., Othman, M., Selamat, M.H.
• Format: Article
• Published: Informa UK Limited 2003
• Online Access: http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/115364/; https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/0020716031000112376
• Institution: Universiti Putra Malaysia

The most time consuming process in discovering association rules is identifying the frequent patterns especially in the cases when the database contains long patterns. An algorithm called Flex for identifying frequent patterns especially efficient when the patterns are long is proposed by successive...