README

Frequent Pattern Mining
By Simon David Pratt
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A brief foray into frequent pattern mining.  This project was used by
the author as a term project in COMP4106: Artificial Intelligence at
Carleton University in the Fall of 2012.

Implementations:
  - [X] Apriori
  - [X] FP-Growth
  - [X] Eclat

The following datasets were retrieved from the FIMI dataset repository
[1] on December 6th, 2012:
  - data/chess.dat
  - data/connect.dat
  - data/mushroom.dat
  - data/pumsb.dat
  - data/pumsb_star.dat

Resources used:
 - [1]: http://fimi.ua.ac.be/data/
 - http://www.borgelt.net/teach/fpm/slides.html
 - Frequent pattern mining: current status and future directions, 
   Jiawei Han and Hong Cheng and Dong Xin and Xifeng Yan, 2007.
 - Data Mining: Concepts and Techniques (Second Ed.)
   Jiawei Han, 2006.