International Journal of Computer Applications |
Foundation of Computer Science (FCS), NY, USA |
Volume 77 - Number 10 |
Year of Publication: 2013 |
Authors: Shikha Maheshwari, Pooja Jain |
10.5120/13430-1126 |
Shikha Maheshwari, Pooja Jain . Novel Method of Apriori Algorithm using Top Down Approach. International Journal of Computer Applications. 77, 10 ( September 2013), 18-21. DOI=10.5120/13430-1126
Association Rule mining is one of the important and most popular data mining techniques. It extracts interesting correlations, frequent patterns and associations among sets of items in the transaction databases or other data repositories. Apriori algorithm is an influential algorithm for mining frequent itemsets for Boolean association rules. Firstly, the concept of association rules is introduced and the classic algorithms of association rule are analyzed. In Apriori algorithm, most time is consumed for scanning the database repeatedly. Therefore, the methods are presented about improving the Apriori algorithm efficiency, which reduces a lot of time of scanning database and shortens the computation time of the algorithm.