Data-Driven Exploration for Transient Association Rules

The mining of assciation rules disovers the trndency of events ocuring simultaneously in large databases. Previous announced research on association rules deals with associations with associations with respect to the whole transaction. However, xome association rules could have very high confidence in a sub-range of the time domain, even though they do not have quite high confidence in the whole time domain. Such kind of association rules are ecpected to be very usdful in various decion making problems.In this paper, we define transient association rule, as an association with high cimfidence worthy of special attention in a partial time interval, and propose an dfficeint algorithm wich finds out the time intervals appropriate to transient association rules from large-databases.We propose the data-driven retrival method excluding unecessary interval search, and design an effective data structure manageable in main memory obtined by one scanning of database, which offers the necessary information to next retrieval phase. In addition, our simulation shows that the suggested algorithm has reliable performance at the time cost acceptable in application areas.