CrystalBall: a framework for mining variants of association rules

  • Authors:
  • Kok-Leong Ong;Wee-Keong Ng;Ee-Peng Lim

  • Affiliations:
  • School of Computer Engineering, Nanyang Technological University, Nanyang Avenue, N4-B3C-14, Singapore;School of Computer Engineering, Nanyang Technological University, Nanyang Avenue, N4-B3C-14, Singapore;School of Computer Engineering, Nanyang Technological University, Nanyang Avenue, N4-B3C-14, Singapore

  • Venue:
  • ADC '03 Proceedings of the 14th Australasian database conference - Volume 17
  • Year:
  • 2003

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Abstract

The mining of informative rules calls for methods that include different attributes (e.g., weights, quantities, multiple-concepts) suitable for the context of the problem to be analyzed. Previous studies have focused on algorithms that considered individual attributes but ignored the information gain in each rule when the interaction of two or more attributes are taken into account. Motivated by the above, we developed a framework called CRYSTALBALL that supports declarative mining of different rules (i.e., variants) involving several attributes. It eliminates the time and cost of engineering algorithms as practiced in previous studies, and introduces a foundation for cross-variant enhancements. The framework consists of a generic rule mining engine (VI), and a variant description language (VDL) for defining attribute-specific behavior. Besides demonstrating the flexibility of the framework, we also discuss the experimental studies, the limitations of the framework, as well as future work in the paper.