Association Rule Mining Based on Bat Algorithm

Abstract

In this paper, we propose a bat-based algorithm (BA) for association rule mining (ARM Bat). Our algorithm aims to maximize the fitness function to generate the best rules in the defined dataset starting from a specific minimum support and minimum confidence. The efficiency of our proposed algorithm is tested on several generic datasets with different number of transactions and items. The results are compared to FPgrowth algorithm results on the same datasets. ARM bat algorithm perform better than the FPgrowth algorithm in term of computation speed and memory usage,