An efficient data mining approach for discovering interesting knowledge from customer transactions

Authors:
Show-Jane Yen;Yue-Shi Lee
Affiliations:
Department of Computer Science and Information Engineering, Ming Chuan University, Taipei, Taiwan, ROC;Department of Computer Science and Information Engineering, Ming Chuan University, Taipei, Taiwan, ROC
Venue:
Expert Systems with Applications: An International Journal
Year:
2006

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Abstract

Mining association rules and mining sequential patterns both are to discover customer purchasing behaviors from a transaction database, such that the quality of business decision can be improved. However, the size of the transaction database can be very large. It is very time consuming to find all the association rules and sequential patterns from a large database, and users may be only interested in some information. Moreover, the criteria of the discovered association rules and sequential patterns for the user requirements may not be the same. Many uninteresting information for the user requirements can be generated when traditional mining methods are applied. Hence, a data mining language needs to be provided such that users can query only interesting knowledge to them from a large database of customer transactions. In this paper, a data mining language is presented. From the data mining language, users can specify the interested items and the criteria of the association rules or sequential patterns to be discovered. Also, the efficient data mining techniques are proposed to extract the association rules and the sequential patterns according to the user requirements.