Finding Association Rules Using Fast Bit Computation: Machine-Oriented Modeling

This paper continue the study of machine oriented models initiated by the second author. An attribute value is regarded as a name of the collection (called granule) of the entities that have the same property (specified by the attribute value). The relational model uses these granules (e.g., bit representation of subsets) as attribute values is called machine oriented data model. The model transforms data mining, particularly finding association rules, into Boolean operations. This paper show that this approach speed up data mining process tremendously; in the experiments, it is approximately 50 times faster, the pre-processing time was included).