Toward intelligent data warehouse mining: An ontology-integrated approach for multi-dimensional association mining

  • Authors:
  • Chin-Ang Wu;Wen-Yang Lin;Chang-Long Jiang;Chuan-Chun Wu

  • Affiliations:
  • Dept. of Information Engineering, I-Shou University, Kaohsiung County 840, Taiwan, ROC;Dept. of Computer Science and Information Engineering, National University of Kaohsiung, Kaohsiung 811, Taiwan, ROC;Dept. of Electrical Engineering, National University of Kaohsiung, Kaohsiung 811, Taiwan, ROC;Dept. of Information Management, I-Shou University, Kaohsiung County 840, Taiwan, ROC

  • Venue:
  • Expert Systems with Applications: An International Journal
  • Year:
  • 2011

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Abstract

A data warehouse is an important decision support system with cleaned and integrated data for knowledge discovery and data mining systems. In reality, the data warehouse mining system has provided many applicable solutions in industries, yet there are still many problems causing users extra problems in discovering knowledge or even failing to obtain the real and useful knowledge they need. To improve the overall data warehouse mining process, we present an intelligent data warehouse mining approach incorporated with schema ontology, schema constraint ontology, domain ontology and user preference ontology. The structures of these ontologies are illustrated and how they benefit the mining process is also demonstrated by examples utilizing rule mining. Finally, we present a prototype multidimensional association mining system, which with intelligent assistance through the support of the ontologies, can help users build useful data mining models, prevent ineffective pattern generation, discover concept extended rules, and provide an active knowledge re-discovering mechanism.