Post-Mining of Association Rules: Techniques for Effective Knowledge Extraction

A book edited by Dr. Yanchang Zhao, Prof. Chengqi Zhang and Dr. Longbing Cao

To be published by IGI Global (formerly Idea Group)

Proposal Submission Closed

News  Introduction  Objective  Audience  Topics  Important Dates  Submission  Advisory Board  Reviewers  Contact

News

July 9, 2008: Due to delay in reviewing process, notifications of acceptance/rejection will be sent out by July 15, 2008. Camera ready versions are expected to be submit by August 15, 2008. Our apologies for any inconvenience caused.

May 22, 2008: IGI Global is now able to accept faxed and scanned copies of copyright agreements in addition to original, signed copies.

IGI Global has recently created a Word template, and all contributing authors are requested to utilize it when preparing their final versions.

The materials you submit will be considered final and ready for publication as is. As such, all authors are requested that their chapters must be copy edited PRIOR to final submission.

May 19, 2008: The 2nd International Workshop on Domain Driven Data Mining (DDDM 2008) will be held in conjunction with ICDM'08 in Pisa, Italy, on December 15, 2008. The submission deadline is August 1, 2008.

Chapters received: 1, 3, 4, 6, 8, 9, 10, 11, 13, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 38, 39, 41.
Please contact us if your submitted chapter is missing from the list.

May 11, 2008: Received Chapters have been sent out to reviewers.

April 21, 2008: Authors are expected to remove author info from their manuscripts for the purpose of double-blind review.

April 21, 2008: Review Committee

March 2, 2008: Notifications sent out for all proposals.

Introduction

There are often a huge number of association rules discovered in a data mining practice, making it difficult for users to identify those that are of particular interest to them. Therefore, it is important to remove insignificant rules and prune redundancy as well as summarize, visualize and post-mine the discovered rules. Moreover, the information we can get from traditional association rules is very limited, so new forms of association rules are needed to discover useful and actionable knowledge. The book aims to present a whole picture of the post-analysis, summarization and new forms of association rules and introduce the up-to-date research on the above topics to extract useful knowledge from a large number of discovered association rules.

 The Overall Objective of the Book

The book will focus on the post-analysis of association rules to extract useful and actionable knowledge from a large number of discovered rules. It will cover interest, redundancy, post-mining, summarization, presentation and visualization of association rules, as well as novel forms and new trends of association rules. It will not only present academia with a systematic view of the current research progress on the above topics, but it will also help industry learn from the ideas and apply them to find actionable knowledge in real-world applications.

 The Target Audience

The audience of this book will be researchers in the field of data mining, postgraduate students who are interested in data mining, and industry data miners. Note that the audience is not limited to those interested in association rules because the post-mining of association rules involves clustering, classification and many other techniques of data mining, as well as statistics and artificial intelligence, which are actually beyond association rule mining itself.

 Recommended topics include, but not limited to

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Subjective and objective interestingness of association rules

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Removing redundancy in association rules

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Summarization and generalization of association rules

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Presentation and visualization of association rules

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Maintenance of association rules

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Post-mining of association rules, e.g., clustering association rules

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Class association rules and association classifier

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Quantitative association rules and inter-transaction association rules

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New forms/challenges/trends of association rules and association mining

Important Dates

1st Proposal submission deadline: December 31, 2007 passed
2nd Proposal submission deadline: January 31, 2008  Proposal submission closed.
Notification of proposal acceptance: February 28, 2008 Notifications have been sent out.
Full chapter submission: April 30, 2008 extended to May 7, 2008
Notification of acceptance:   June 30, 2008 postpone to July 15, 2008
Camera ready copy submission: August 15, 2008

 Submission Procedure and Guidelines

Researchers and practitioners are invited to submit on or before January 31, 2008, a 2-5 page manuscript proposal clearly explaining the mission and concerns of the proposed chapter. Authors of accepted proposals will be notified by February 28, 2008 about the status of their proposals and sent chapter organizational guidelines. Full chapters are expected to be submitted by April 30, 2008. All submitted chapters will be reviewed on a double-blind review basis. The book is scheduled to be published by IGI Global (formerly Idea Group), www.igi-global.com, publisher of the IGI Publishing (Idea Group Publishing), Information Science Publishing, IRM Press, CyberTech Publishing, Information Science Reference (formerly Idea Group Reference) and Medical Information Science Reference imprints.

 

The chapter proposals and full chapters can be submitted for reviewing in either PDF or WORD format. However, if accepted after reviewing, the camera-ready versions should be submitted in WORD format only.

 

Authors are expected to remove author info from their manuscripts for the purpose of double-blind review.

 

Chapter Organization Guidelines [DOC]

IMPORTANT Details to Keep in Mind [DOC]

Editorial Advisory Board

Jean-Francois Boulicaut Institut National des Sciences Appliquées de Lyon, France
Ramamohanarao Kotagiri The University of Melbourne, Australia
Jian Pei Simon Fraser University, Canada
Jaideep Srivastava University of Minnesota, USA
Philip S. Yu University of Illinois at Chicago, USA

Review Committee

Maria-Luiza Antonie University of Alberta, Canada
James Bailey The University of Melbourne, Australia
Elena Baralis Politecnico di Torino, Italy
Julien Blanchard Nantes University, France
Mirko Bottcher Otto-von-Guericke-University of Magdeburg, Germany
Michal Burda University of Ostrava, Czech Republic
Martine Cadot Université Henri Poincaré / LORIA, France
Huiping Cao Arizona State University, USA
Tania Cerquitelli Politecnico di Torino, Italy
Ping Chen University of Houston-Downtown, USA
Yi Chen Ricoh Software Research Center (Beijing), China
Silvia Chiusano Politecnico di Torino, Italy
David Chodos University of Alberta, Canada
Guozhu Dong Wright State University, USA
Mengling Feng Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
Gabriel Pui Cheong Fung The University of Queensland, Australia
Paolo Garza Politecnico di Torino, Italy
Dominique Gay University of New Caledonia, France
Tarek Hamrouni Faculty of Sciences of Tunis, Tunisia
Nan Jiang University of Oklahoma, USA
Warren Jin National ICT Australia
Paul Kennedy University of Technology, Sydney, Australia
Ng Wee Keong  Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
Siau-Cheng Khoo National University of Singapore, Singapore
Byung-Joo Kim Youngsan University, Korea
Pascale Kuntz Nantes University, France
Chris Leckie The University of Melbourne, Australia
Chunhung Li Hong Kong Baptist University, China
Jiye Li University of Waterloo, Canada
Xue Li The University of Queensland, Australia
Xuemin Lin University of New South Wales
Dayou Liu Jilin University, China
Huawen Liu Jilin University, China
David Lo National University of Singapore, Singapore
Stefano De Luca University of Rome, Italy
Shahar Maoz The Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel
Paul McNicholas University of Guelph, Canada
Edson Augusto Melanda Federal University of São Carlos, Brazil
Barzan Mozafari University of California, Los Angeles, USA
Amedeo Napoli INRIA Sophia Antipolis, France
Detlef Nauck BT Intelligent Systems Research Centre, UK
Willie Ng Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
Engelbert Mephu Nguifo Université d'Artois, France
Nicolas Pasquier Université de Nice, France
Luigi Pontieri The National Research Council, Italy
Ronaldo C. Prati University of São Paulo – Campus of São Carlos, Brazil
Kulathur S. Rajasethupathy The College at Brockport, State University of New York, USA
Silvia Ruffini University of Rome, Italy
Georg Russ Otto-von-Guericke-University of Magdeburg, Germany
Anthony Scime The College at Brockport, State University of New York, USA
Nazha Selmaoui ERIM - University of New Caledonia, France
Simeon Simoff University of Western Sydney, Australia
Dan Simovici University of Massachusetts at Boston, USA
Arnaud Soulet Université François Rabelais de Tours, France
Hetal Thakkar University of California, Los Angeles, USA
Yannick Toussaint Université Henri Poincaré / LORIA, France
Vincent S. Tseng National Cheng Kung University, Taiwan
Tomoyuki Uchida Hiroshima City University, Japan
Jinlong Wang Qingdao Technological University, China 
Ruizhi Wang Tongji University, China
Wei Wang Fudan University, China
Yi Wang Nottingham Trent University, UK
Raymond Chi-Wing Wong The Chinese University of Hong Kong, China
Sadok Ben Yahia Faculty of Sciences of Tunis, Tunisia
Yanfang Ye Xiamen University, China
Carlo Zaniolo University of California, Los Angeles, USA
Ke Zhu University of New South Wales, Australia
Albrecht Zimmermann Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium

 

Contact

Inquiries and submissions can be forwarded electronically (Word document) to:

Dr. Yanchang Zhao

Faculty of Information Technology,
University of Technology, Sydney (UTS), Australia

Tel.: +61 2 6155 1550  •  Mobile: +61 4300 93392
Email: yczhao (at) it.uts.edu.au