SIMPLE FUZZY GRID PARTITION FOR MINING MULTIPLE-LEVEL FUZZY SEQUENTIAL PATTERNS

  • Authors:
  • Yi-Chung Hu

  • Affiliations:
  • Department of Business Administration, Chung Yuan Christian University, Chung-Li, Taiwan, ROC

  • Venue:
  • Cybernetics and Systems
  • Year:
  • 2007

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Abstract

Fuzzy sequential patterns are discovered by finding intertransaction fuzzy patterns among data items at a single level. In this paper, a fuzzy data mining method for finding fuzzy sequential patterns at multiple levels of abstraction is developed. Actually, a new method is proposed to mine multiple level fuzzy sequential patterns, using fuzzy partition by a simple fuzzy grid, among data items at a concept hierarchy. The proposed method is composed of two phases: one to find frequent level crossing fuzzy 1-sequences, and the other to generate multiple level fuzzy sequential patterns by analyzing the temporal relation between those frequent fuzzy 1-sequences. A numerical example along with a mining process is used to illustrate the usefulness of the proposed method.