Association Action Rules

Action rules describe possible transitions of objects from one state to another with respect to a distinguished attribute. Previous research on action rule discovery usually required the extraction of classification rules before constructing any action rule. This paper gives anew approach for generating association-type action rules. The notion of frequent action sets and Apriori-like strategy generating them is proposed. We introduce the notion of a representative action rules and give an algorithm to construct them directly from frequent action sets. Finally, we introduce the notion of a simple association action rule, the cost of association action rule, and give a strategy to construct simple association action rules of a lowest cost.