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  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,791 Views
19 Pages

27 December 2023

Alarm systems are commonly deployed in complex industries to monitor the operation status of the production process in real time. Actual alarm systems generally have alarm overloading problems. One of the major factors leading to excessive alarms is...

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
4,967 Views
13 Pages

Natural microbial communities in soils are highly diverse, allowing for rich networks of microbial interactions to unfold. Identifying key players in these networks is difficult as the distribution of microbial diversity at the local scale is typical...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
2,577 Views
22 Pages

Within the evolving field of sentiment analysis, the integration of topic modeling and association rule mining presents a promising yet underexplored method. This approach currently lacks an organized framework for maximizing insights that aid in dra...

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
1,236 Views
28 Pages

11 June 2025

In this paper, a novel mathematical formalization of Crisp-Set Qualitative Comparative Analysis (csQCA) that enables a rigorous connection with a specific class of association rule mining (ARM) problems is proposed. Although these two methodologies a...

  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
3,516 Views
20 Pages

15 August 2023

Coal mine gas accidents will cause great economic losses and casualties. It is of great significance to find out the essential causes of coal mine gas accidents and put forward measures to prevent them. In this paper, 110 coal mine gas accidents whic...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,095 Views
20 Pages

11 February 2025

Geochemical data serve as crucial references for prospecting, and the effective extraction of prospecting information from such data determines the success rate of exploration. In the era of big data, novel prospecting methods based on geochemical da...

  • Systematic Review
  • Open Access
13 Citations
6,196 Views
50 Pages

22 November 2021

This review aimed to comprehensively assess the efficacy and safety of oral East Asian herbal medicine (EAHM) for overall peripheral neuropathy (PN). In addition, an Apriori algorithm-based association rule analysis was performed to identify the core...

  • Article
  • Open Access
48 Citations
5,492 Views
14 Pages

This study aimed to identify the prevalence and patterns of multimorbidity among Korean adults. A descriptive study design was used. Of 11,232 adults aged 18 and older extracted from the 2014 Korean Health Panel Survey, 7118 had one or more chronic c...

  • Article
  • Open Access
31 Citations
6,782 Views
20 Pages

17 November 2017

Significant amounts of energy are consumed in the commercial building sector, resulting in various adverse environmental issues. To reduce energy consumption and improve energy efficiency in commercial buildings, it is necessary to develop effective...

  • Article
  • Open Access
46 Citations
7,500 Views
19 Pages

22 June 2020

A patent is an important document issued by the government to protect inventions or product design. Inventions consist of mechanical structures, production processes, quality improvements of products, and so on. Generally, goods or appliances in ever...

  • Article
  • Open Access
45 Citations
6,617 Views
14 Pages

24 January 2019

A construction defect can cause schedule delay, cost overrun and quality deterioration. In order to minimize these negative impacts of construction defects, this paper aims to analyze the causality of construction defects. Specifically, association r...

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
8,183 Views
29 Pages

21 March 2022

Decisional processes are at the basis of most businesses in several application domains. However, they are often not fully transparent and can be affected by human or algorithmic biases that may lead to systematically incorrect or unfair outcomes. In...

  • Article
  • Open Access
15 Citations
3,123 Views
14 Pages

A Fault Analysis Method Based on Association Rule Mining for Distribution Terminal Unit

  • Xuecen Zhang,
  • Yi Tang,
  • Qiang Liu,
  • Guofeng Liu,
  • Xin Ning and
  • Jiankun Chen

4 June 2021

With the development of distribution networks, large amounts of distribution terminal units (DTU) are gradually integrated into the power system. However, limited numbers of maintenance engineers can hardly cope with the pressure brought about by the...

  • Article
  • Open Access
784 Views
21 Pages

7 November 2025

Construction accidents continue to threaten worker safety despite advances in management systems. Existing research catalogs accident attributes but rarely explains how triggers like human error, equipment failure, or procedural lapses interact with...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,113 Views
20 Pages

Exploration Vectors and Indicators Extracted by Factor Analysis and Association Rule Algorithms at the Lintan Carlin-Type Gold Deposit, Youjiang Basin, China

  • Xiaolong Wang,
  • Shengtao Cao,
  • Qinping Tan,
  • Zhuojun Xie,
  • Yong Xia,
  • Lujing Zheng,
  • Jianzhong Liu,
  • Kelin Zhou,
  • Jingdan Xiao and
  • Tingxian Ren

7 May 2024

The Youjiang Basin in China is the world’s second-largest concentrated area of Carlin-type Au deposits after Nevada, USA, boasting cumulative Au reserves nearing 1000 t. This study examined the recently unearthed Lintan Carlin-type Au deposit w...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,926 Views
12 Pages

17 January 2023

The relationship between risk factors for de novo hygroma in patients with traumatic brain injury (TBI) was investigated. We collected data on 222 patients with TBI to determine the risk factors for de novo hygroma, including sex, age, centrum semiov...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,760 Views
18 Pages

8 February 2021

A model-building framework is proposed that combines two data mining techniques, TreeNet and association rules analysis (ASA) with multinomial logit model building. TreeNet provides plots that play a key role in transforming quantitative variables in...

  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
5,665 Views
23 Pages

6 September 2023

Retail transactions have become an integral part of the economic cycle of every country and even on a global scale. Retail transactions are a trade sector that has the potential to be developed continuously in the future. This research focused on bui...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
2,425 Views
16 Pages

10 June 2022

Recent technical innovations and developments in computer-based technology have enabled bioscience researchers to acquire comprehensive datasets and identify unique parameters within experimental datasets. However, field researchers may face the chal...

  • Article
  • Open Access
496 Views
22 Pages

14 December 2025

This study investigates the causes of traffic accidents involving Advanced Driver Assistance Systems (ADAS) and Autonomous Driving Systems (ADS) and their interdependencies. Using a source dataset comprising 3015 ADAS accident records and 1085 ADS ac...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,091 Views
19 Pages

19 September 2025

This study investigates the behavioral determinants of tourists’ selection of ESG-certified hotels by applying association rule mining to 895,962 valid records derived from datasets of the Ministry of Transportation and the Ministry of Environm...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
1,946 Views
20 Pages

13 July 2021

The fault data of the secondary system of smart substations hide some information that the association analysis algorithm can mine. The convergence speed of the Apriori algorithm and FP-growth algorithm is slow, and there is a lack of indicators to e...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,082 Views
26 Pages

27 April 2025

Airline customers will often complain to the relevant authorities if they encounter an unpleasant flight experience. The specific complaint information can directly reflect the various service problems encountered, so conducting in-depth research on...

  • Article
  • Open Access
78 Citations
10,312 Views
15 Pages

Finding Influential Users in Social Media Using Association Rule Learning

  • Fredrik Erlandsson,
  • Piotr Bródka,
  • Anton Borg and
  • Henric Johnson

27 April 2016

Influential users play an important role in online social networks since users tend to have an impact on one other. Therefore, the proposed work analyzes users and their behavior in order to identify influential users and predict user participation....

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
4,553 Views
20 Pages

14 May 2025

Association rule mining plays a critical role in uncovering item correlations and hidden patterns within transactional data, particularly in e-commerce environments. Despite the widespread use of Apriori and FP-Growth algorithms, few studies offer a...

  • Article
  • Open Access
722 Views
24 Pages

ICRSSD: Identification and Classification for Railway Structured Sensitive Data

  • Yage Jin,
  • Hongming Chen,
  • Rui Ma,
  • Yanhua Wu and
  • Qingxin Li

The rapid growth of the railway industry has resulted in the accumulation of large structured data that makes data security a critical component of reliable railway system operations. However, existing methods for identifying and classifying often su...

  • Article
  • Open Access
595 Views
17 Pages

4 July 2025

This study introduces a data-driven framework for enhancing the sustainable management of fish species in Romania’s Natura 2000 protected areas through ecosystem modeling and association rule mining (ARM). Drawing on seven years of ecological m...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,858 Views
14 Pages

The safety performance test of intelligent driving vehicles needs to rely on the collision scenarios in a real road traffic environment. In order to study the collision scenarios and accident characteristics of vehicles and two wheelers (TWs) in line...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
1,336 Views
22 Pages

The frequent occurrence of collision accidents between merchant and fishing vessels in China’s offshore waters not only threatens human lives and property, but also disrupts shipping and fishing activities and may cause marine environmental pol...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
3,236 Views
11 Pages

24 October 2022

Background and objectives: Quality of life and sleep quality of college students were extensively studied. The present study evaluated sleep quality and quality of life of college students in Taiwan by using the Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index (PSQI)...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
5,269 Views
20 Pages

22 June 2022

Corruption represents the misuse of public power by government departments for personal gain, hindering a country’s economic growth. Corruption cannot be eliminated by implementing the national democratic system, and mature democratic countries...

  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
4,142 Views
14 Pages

Cancer survivors suffer from emotional distress, which varies depending on several factors. However, existing emotion management programs are insufficient and do not take into consideration all of the factors. Social media provides a platform for und...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
4,411 Views
14 Pages

Integrating Data Mining Techniques for Naïve Bayes Classification: Applications to Medical Datasets

  • Pannapa Changpetch,
  • Apasiri Pitpeng,
  • Sasiprapa Hiriote and
  • Chumpol Yuangyai

In this study, we designed a framework in which three techniques—classification tree, association rules analysis (ASA), and the naïve Bayes classifier—were combined to improve the performance of the latter. A classification tree was used to discretiz...

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
21 Citations
7,126 Views
45 Pages

Applied Big Data Analysis to Build Customer Product Recommendation Model

  • Rong-Ho. Lin,
  • Wei-Wei Chuang,
  • Chun-Ling Chuang and
  • Wan-Sin Chang

29 April 2021

With the development of the Internet environment, the trend of the retail industry in the future. It cannot be separated from the community, data and experience. Consumers’ lifestyles and purchasing behaviors are constantly changing and retailers mus...

  • Article
  • Open Access
676 Views
31 Pages

10 October 2025

With the increasing intelligence of modern air-conditioning systems, the difficulty of acquiring data from air-conditioning systems has been significantly reduced. However, analyzing the massive amounts of data collected and obtaining more valuable i...

  • Article
  • Open Access
14 Citations
4,492 Views
15 Pages

8 March 2022

Pesticide residue is a prominent factor that leads to food safety problems. For this reason, many countries sample and detect pesticide residues in food every year, which generates a large amount of pesticide residue data. However, the way to deeply...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
3,812 Views
20 Pages

Understand Daily Fire Suppression Resource Ordering and Assignment Patterns by Unsupervised Learning

  • Yu Wei,
  • Matthew P. Thompson,
  • Erin J. Belval,
  • David E. Calkin and
  • Jude Bayham

Wildland fire management agencies are responsible for assigning suppression resources to control fire spread and mitigate fire risks. This study implements a principle component analysis and an association rule analysis to study wildland fire respons...

  • Article
  • Open Access
14 Citations
3,540 Views
17 Pages

24 February 2021

A data-driven method to identify frequent sets of course failures that students should avoid in order to minimize the likelihood of their dropping out from their university training is proposed. The overall probability distribution of the dropout is...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
10,229 Views
22 Pages

Sharing Followers in e-Government Twitter Accounts: The Case of Greece

  • Kostas Zafiropoulos,
  • Konstantinos Antoniadis and
  • Vasiliki Vrana

14 May 2014

The recent emergence of e-government and online social media offers opportunities for governments to meet the demands and expectations of citizens, to provide value-added services and overcome barriers of reduced public budgets. Twitter is the most p...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
2,391 Views
16 Pages

14 December 2022

It is the core prerequisite of landslide warning to mine short-term deformation patterns and extract disaster precursors from real-time and multi-source monitoring data. This study used the sliding window method and gray relation analysis to obtain f...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
4,328 Views
19 Pages

Application of the Apriori Algorithm for Traffic Crash Analysis in Thailand

  • Ittirit Mohamad,
  • Rattanaporn Kasemsri,
  • Vatanavongs Ratanavaraha and
  • Sajjakaj Jomnonkwao

28 August 2023

Accidents pose significant obstacles to economic progress and quality of life, especially in developing countries. Thailand faces such challenges and this research seeks to assess the frequency and most common causes of road accidents that lead to fa...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
3,062 Views
21 Pages

Studies have explored the factors influencing the safety of PTWs; however, very little has been carried out to comprehensively investigate the factors influencing fatal PTW crashes while considering the fault status of the rider in crash hotspot area...

  • Article
  • Open Access
48 Citations
7,760 Views
26 Pages

27 March 2020

Technology convergence has become a typical characteristic of innovation, which affects the evolution of industrial structures and the core competitiveness of organizations. However, the existing research has mainly focused on the development of core...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,164 Views
32 Pages

12 April 2025

In response to the increasing frequency of maritime traffic accidents along China’s coast, this study develops an accident-cause analysis framework that integrates an optimized Bidirectional Encoder Representations from Transformers (BERT) with...

  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
7,993 Views
31 Pages

23 October 2017

Hotspot analysis was implemented to find regions in the province of Alberta (Canada) with high frequency Cloud to Ground (CG) lightning strikes clustered together. Generally, hotspot regions are located in the central, central east, and south central...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
10,180 Views
21 Pages

A Data Mining Approach to Identify NBA Player Quarter-by-Quarter Performance Patterns

  • Dimitrios Iatropoulos,
  • Vangelis Sarlis and
  • Christos Tjortjis

Sports analytics is a fast-evolving domain using advanced data science methods to find useful insights. This study explores the way NBA player performance metrics evolve from quarter to quarter and affect game outcomes. Using Association Rule Mining,...

  • Article
  • Open Access
36 Citations
11,016 Views
27 Pages

Design of an Unsupervised Machine Learning-Based Movie Recommender System

  • Debby Cintia Ganesha Putri,
  • Jenq-Shiou Leu and
  • Pavel Seda

21 January 2020

This research aims to determine the similarities in groups of people to build a film recommender system for users. Users often have difficulty in finding suitable movies due to the increasing amount of movie information. The recommender system is ver...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,473 Views
15 Pages

25 November 2022

Background: Idiopathic cardiomyopathy (ICM) is a rare disease affecting numerous physiological and biomolecular systems with multimorbidity. However, due to the small sample size of uncommon diseases, the whole spectrum of chronic disease co-occurren...

  • Article
  • Open Access
14 Citations
4,304 Views
19 Pages

Usefulness of Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System for Machine-Learning Based Vaccine Research: A Case Study for COVID-19 Vaccines

  • James Flora,
  • Wasiq Khan,
  • Jennifer Jin,
  • Daniel Jin,
  • Abir Hussain,
  • Khalil Dajani and
  • Bilal Khan

Usefulness of Vaccine-Adverse Event-Reporting System (VAERS) data and protocols required for statistical analyses were pinpointed with a set of recommendations for the application of machine learning modeling or exploratory analyses on VAERS data wit...

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