Maintenance of Discovered Association Rules

While data mining large databases has become a very hot topic these years, few researches look into the maintenance of the information mined. We argue that incremental updating of discovered knowledge is no less important than data mining itself. In this chapter we define the problem of incrementally updating mined association rules. We present efficient technique that we have developed to solve this non-trivial problem. The proposed techniques are implemented and both theoretically and empirically verified.