Title : 
An Improved Algorithm for Apriori
         
        
            Author : 
Changsheng, Zhang ; Zhongyue, Li ; Dongsong, Zheng
         
        
            Author_Institution : 
Comput. Inst., Wenzhou Univ., Wenzhou
         
        
        
        
        
        
        
            Abstract : 
In this paper, we studied the Apriori Algorithm and its performance, which is used to mine association rules. The algorithm for reducing the size of the candidate-itemsets is optimized. Meanwhile, the performance of algorithm is improved to reduce I/O spending by cutting down unnecessary transaction records.
         
        
            Keywords : 
data mining; apriori algorithm; association rule mining; candidate-itemset; data mining; Association rules; Clustering algorithms; Computer science; Computer science education; Data mining; Educational technology; Frequency; Itemsets; Transaction databases; Visual databases; Apriori algorithm; association rule; candidate-itemsets; data mining;
         
        
        
        
            Conference_Titel : 
Education Technology and Computer Science, 2009. ETCS '09. First International Workshop on
         
        
            Conference_Location : 
Wuhan, Hubei
         
        
            Print_ISBN : 
978-1-4244-3581-4
         
        
        
            DOI : 
10.1109/ETCS.2009.227