Discovering quantitative association rules: A novel approach based on evolutionary algorithms

This work proposes a novel methodology to improve the discovery of quantitative association rules in continuous datasets. This methodology comprises several evolutionary algorithms able to deal with real-valued variables without performing a static discretization process. Additionally, several quali...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor: Martínez Ballesteros, María del Mar
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Estado:Versión publicada
Fecha de publicación:2014
País:España
Institución:Universidad de Sevilla (US)
Repositorio:idUS. Depósito de Investigación de la Universidad de Sevilla
OAI Identifier:oai:idus.us.es:11441/162014
Acceso en línea:https://hdl.handle.net/11441/162014
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Data mining
Evolutionary algorithms
Quantitative association rules
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Sumario:This work proposes a novel methodology to improve the discovery of quantitative association rules in continuous datasets. This methodology comprises several evolutionary algorithms able to deal with real-valued variables without performing a static discretization process. Additionally, several quality measures are analysed to select the set of measures to be optimized with the aim of finding high-quality rules.