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Modelling Academic Resources: An Apriori Approach
| International Journal of Computer Applications |
| Foundation of Computer Science (FCS), NY, USA |
| Volume 144 - Number 9 |
| Year of Publication: 2016 |
| Authors: Zunera Farooq, Vinod Sharma, Muheet Ahmed Butt |
10.5120/ijca2016910426
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Zunera Farooq, Vinod Sharma, Muheet Ahmed Butt . Modelling Academic Resources: An Apriori Approach. International Journal of Computer Applications. 144, 9 ( Jun 2016), 12-17. DOI=10.5120/ijca2016910426
Abstract
“Data Mining or Knowledge Discovery is the process of discovering patterns in large data sets” [1] in the form databases and data warehouses in structured or unstructured manner. Association Rule Mining (ARM) is primarily focused on analyzing data for frequent if/then patterns and using the criteria support and confidence to identify the most meaningful relationships. In the area of academic data mining, it concerns with developing methods for discovering knowledge from data that come from Academic Enterprise Domain. There are several data mining algorithms pertaining to association rules used both offline and online platforms. One of the most popular and classical is Apriori algorithm that is used to extract frequent itemsets from large database and generating the association rule for discovering the knowledge. In the proposed research we have implemented an Apriori Algorithm implementation using Matlab and Dot Net Technologies using an academic examination registration dataset. The various Association Rules have been used to mine valuable knowledge regarding present, past and future course selection trends on subjects selected by the students at undergraduate level. The results will provide an insight in making future decisions regarding proposing academic infrastructure pertaining to human resource development/management, building of new departments/ centers, enhancing/ reducing intake capacity for a course/subject etc in an optimized manner.
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