We define sporadic rules as those with low support but high confidence: for example, a rare association of two symptoms indicating a rare disease. To find such rules using the w...
Generalized association rules are rules that contain some background knowledge, therefore, giving a more general view of the domain. This knowledge is codified by a taxonomy set ...
Veronica Oliveira de Carvalho, Solange Oliveira Re...
Clustering attempts to discover significant groups present in a data set. It is an unsupervised process. It is difficult to define when a clustering result is acceptable. Thus,...
Background: Microarray technology is generating huge amounts of data about the expression level of thousands of genes, or even whole genomes, across different experimental conditi...
We study KDD (Knowledge Discovery in Databases) processes on OLAP (multidimensional and multilevel) data from a query point of view. Focusing on association rule mining, we consid...