Evolving temporal fuzzy itemsets from quantitative data with a multi-objective evolutionary algorithm

Stephen G. Matthews, Mario A. Gongora, Adrian A. Hopgood

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Abstract

We present a novel method for mining itemsets that are both quantitative and temporal, for association rule mining, using multi-objective evolutionary search and optimisation. This method successfully identifies temporal itemsets that occur more frequently in areas of a dataset with specific quantitative values represented with fuzzy sets. Current approaches preprocess data which can often lead to a loss of information. The novelty of this research lies in exploring the composition of quantitative and temporal fuzzy itemsets and the approach of using a multi-objective evolutionary algorithm. This preliminary work presents the problem, a novel approach and promising results that will lead to future work. Results show the ability of NSGA-II to evolve target itemsets that have been augmented into synthetic datasets. Itemsets with different levels of support have been augmented to demonstrate this approach with varying difficulties.
Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationThe IEEE 5th International Workshop on Genetic and Evolutionary Fuzzy Systems (GEFS 2011)
Place of PublicationPiscataway, NJ
PublisherInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
Pages9-16
Number of pages8
ISBN (Print)9781612840499
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2011

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