Mining temporal association rules with frequent itemsets tree

A novel framework for mining temporal association rules by discovering itemsets with frequent itemsets tree is introduced. In order to solve the problem of handling time series by including temporal relation between the multi items into association rules, a frequent itemsets tree is constructed in parallel with mining frequent itemsets to improve the efficiency and interpretability of rule mining without generating candidate itemsets. Experimental results show that our algorithm can provide better efficiency and interpretability in mining temporal association rules in comparison with other algorithms and has good application prospects.