The traditional association rule problem is extended by allowing a weight to be associate with each item in a transaction to reflect interest/intensity of each item within the transaction. The weighted association rules from a set of tuple lists are discovered, where each tuple consists of an item and...http://www.google.fr/patents/US6415287?utm_source=gb-gplus-shareBrevet US6415287 - Method and system for mining weighted association rule
Method and system for mining weighted association rule