Title
Discovering diverse association rules from multidimensional schema
Abstract
The integration of data mining techniques with data warehousing is gaining popularity due to the fact that both disciplines complement each other in extracting knowledge from large datasets. However, the majority of approaches focus on applying data mining as a front end technology to mine data warehouses. Surprisingly, little progress has been made in incorporating mining techniques in the design of data warehouses. While methods such as data clustering applied on multidimensional data have been shown to enhance the knowledge discovery process, a number of fundamental issues remain unresolved with respect to the design of multidimensional schema. These relate to automated support for the selection of informative dimension and fact variables in high dimensional and data intensive environments, an activity which may challenge the capabilities of human designers on account of the sheer scale of data volume and variables involved. In this research, we propose a methodology that selects a subset of informative dimension and fact variables from an initial set of candidates. Our experimental results conducted on three real world datasets taken from the UCI machine learning repository show that the knowledge discovered from the schema that we generated was more diverse and informative than the standard approach of mining the original data without the use of our multidimensional structure imposed on it.
Year
DOI
Venue
2013
10.1016/j.eswa.2013.05.031
Expert Syst. Appl.
Keywords
Field
DocType
original data,data mining,data warehouse,data intensive environment,multidimensional data,data warehousing,diverse association rule,informative dimension,data volume,multidimensional schema,data mining technique,fact variable,knowledge discovery,association rules,data cubes
Data warehouse,Data science,Front and back ends,Data mining,Data stream mining,Computer science,Artificial intelligence,Cluster analysis,Schema (psychology),Association rule learning,Knowledge extraction,Data cube,Machine learning
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
40
15
0957-4174
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
4
0.43
39
Authors
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Muhammad Usman131677.54
Russel Pears220527.00
A. C. M. Fong316615.87