Practical Applications of Data Mining

2.7 Mining of tiMe-ConstraineD assoCiation rules 67

2.7 MINING OF TIME-CONSTRAINED ASSOCIATION RULES 

Some databases, such as website traffic logs, contain sequential and timing

information. For example, the rules generated from web log databases need

to indicate sets of pages visited together in a certain order. This information

can be used to forecast the next set of pages a visitor might frequent. In

the generation of association rules considered so far, timing and sequential

data has not been taken into account. To indicate timing and sequential

constraints in association rules, the association rule generation algorithms ...