
arXiv: cs/0111009
handle: 20.500.11770/128938
Inducing association rules is one of the central tasks in data mining applications. Quantitative association rules induced from databases describe rich and hidden relationships holding within data that can prove useful for various application purposes (e.g., market basket analysis, customer profiling, and others). Even though such association rules are quite widely used in practice, a thorough analysis of the computational complexity of inducing them is missing. This paper intends to provide a contribution in this setting. To this end, we first formally define quantitative association rule mining problems, which entail boolean association rules as a special case, and then analyze their computational complexities, by considering both the standard cases, and a some special interesting case, that is, association rule induction over databases with null values, fixed-size attribute set databases, sparse databases, fixed threshold problems.
FOS: Computer and information sciences, Computational Complexity; Data Mining, Analysis of algorithms and problem complexity, Database theory, Computational Complexity (cs.CC), Theoretical Computer Science, Computational complexity, Computer Science - Computational Complexity, Data mining, F.2.0, Computer Science(all)
FOS: Computer and information sciences, Computational Complexity; Data Mining, Analysis of algorithms and problem complexity, Database theory, Computational Complexity (cs.CC), Theoretical Computer Science, Computational complexity, Computer Science - Computational Complexity, Data mining, F.2.0, Computer Science(all)
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