期刊名称：International Journal of Advanced Computer Science and Applications(IJACSA)
印刷版ISSN：2158-107X
电子版ISSN：2156-5570
出版年度：2017
卷号：8
期号：5
DOI：10.14569/IJACSA.2017.080541
出版社：Science and Information Society (SAI)
摘要：Data mining is used for extracting related data. The association rules approach is one of the used methods for analyzing, discovering and extracting knowledge and mining the relationships among raw data. Commonly, it is important to understand and discover such knowledge directly from huge records of items stored in a relational database. This paper proposes an approach for generating human-like fuzzy association rules based on fuzzy ontology. It focuses on enhancing the process of extracting association rules from a huge database respecting a predefined domain fuzzy ontology. Commonly, association rules mining based on crisp ontology is found to be more flexible than classical ones as it considers the relationships between concepts or items. Yet, crisp ontology suffers from the problem of information losing resulted from the rigid boundaries of crisp relationships, which are approximated to be 0 or 1, between concepts. In contrast, the smooth boundaries of fuzzy sets make it able to represent partial relationships that range from 0 to 1 between concepts in an ontology in a more flexible human-like manner. Consequently, generating fuzzy association rules based on fuzzy ontology makes it more human-like and reliable compared with other previous ones. An illustrative case study, on two different data sets, shows the added value of the proposed approach compared with some other recent approaches.
关键词：Fuzzy Ontology; Crisp Ontology; Data Mining; Fuzzy Association Rule
