Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1999 14:42:27 +0800 (GMT-8)
From: Liu Bing liub@comp.nus.edu.sg
Subject: Free CBA (Classification and Association Rules) system available
Web: http://www.comp.nus.edu.sg/~dm2
Name of the tool: CBA
Status: pub (free download)
download Web-site: http://www.comp.nus.edu.sg/~dm2
Description:
CBA is a data mining tool developed at School of Computing, National
University of Singapore. Its main algorithm was presented as a plenary
paper "Integrating Classification and Association Rule Mining" in the 4th
International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (KDD-98),
August 23-27, 1998, New York City, USA.
The key feature of CBA is that it integrates or unifies classification
and association rule mining. One central algorithm performs both tasks.
CBA originally stands for Classification Based on Associations. However,
it turns out that it is much more powerful than simply producing an
accurate classifier for prediction. It can also be used to mine various
forms of association rules using different data formats. It also helps
to solve a number of problems with the existing classification techniques
(e.g., decision tree, or neural networks, and many others).
In summary, CBA has the following unique features:
1. Building accurate classifiers using relational tables (databases).
2. Building accurate classifiers using transactional data, where each data
record has a variable number of items.
3. Perform cross validation of classifiers.
4. Mining association rules from relational data or transactional data,
with a fix tartget or without a fixed target attributes.
5. Visualising discovered rules using a tree viewer.
Platforms: Windows 95/98, NT.
Contact information:
Bing Liu
School of Computing
National University of Singapore
Lower Kent Ridge Road
Singapore 119260
Email: liub@comp.nus.edu.sg
Phone: +65 874 6736
Fax: +65 779 4580
Web: http://www.comp.nus.edu.sg/~liub
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