Enhanced mining of association rules from data cubes

  • Authors:
  • Riadh Ben Messaoud;Sabine Loudcher Rabaséda;Omar Boussaid;Rokia Missaoui

  • Affiliations:
  • Université Lumière Lyon 2;Université Lumière Lyon 2;Université Lumière Lyon 2;Université du Québec en Outaouais

  • Venue:
  • DOLAP '06 Proceedings of the 9th ACM international workshop on Data warehousing and OLAP
  • Year:
  • 2006

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Abstract

On-line analytical processing (OLAP) provides tools to explore and navigate into data cubes in order to extract interesting information. Nevertheless, OLAP is not capable of explaining relationships that could exist in a data cube. Association rules are one kind of data mining techniques which finds associations among data. In this paper, we propose a framework for mining inter-dimensional association rules from data cubes according to a sum-based aggregate measure more general than simple frequencies provided by the traditional COUNT measure. Our mining process is guided by a meta-rule context driven by analysis objectives and exploits aggregate measures to revisit the definition of support and confidence. We also evaluate the interestingness of mined association rules according to Lift and Loevinger criteria and propose an efficient algorithm for mining inter-dimensional association rules directly from a multidimensional data.