Extraction of interesting and general spatial association rules from large spatial databases is an important task in the development of spatial database systems. In this paper, we investigate the generalization-based ...Extraction of interesting and general spatial association rules from large spatial databases is an important task in the development of spatial database systems. In this paper, we investigate the generalization-based knowledge discovery mechanism that integrates attribute-oriented induction on nonspatial data and spatial merging and generalization on spatial data. Furthermore, we present linguistic cloud models for knowledge representation and uncertainty handling to enhance current generalization-based method. With these models, spatial and nonspatial attribute values are well generalized at higher-concept levels, allowing discovery of strong spatial association rules. Combining the cloud model based generalization method with Apriori algorithm for mining accociation rules from a spatial database shows the benefits in effectiveness and flexibility.展开更多
文摘Extraction of interesting and general spatial association rules from large spatial databases is an important task in the development of spatial database systems. In this paper, we investigate the generalization-based knowledge discovery mechanism that integrates attribute-oriented induction on nonspatial data and spatial merging and generalization on spatial data. Furthermore, we present linguistic cloud models for knowledge representation and uncertainty handling to enhance current generalization-based method. With these models, spatial and nonspatial attribute values are well generalized at higher-concept levels, allowing discovery of strong spatial association rules. Combining the cloud model based generalization method with Apriori algorithm for mining accociation rules from a spatial database shows the benefits in effectiveness and flexibility.
