TOWARDS A LINGUISTIC APPROACH TO ASSESS FUZZY ASSOCIATION RULES

Nowadays, databases are not only considered as stores for data, but also as a source of knowledge that can help organizations to improve their management and to reach their goals. This fact has motivated an increasing research in the field of Knowledge Discovery during the last ten years. Knowledge discovery is concerned with obtaining novel, previously unknown and potentially useful knowledge from databases. Many results in this area fall into data mining, the task of the knowledge discovery process that attempts to find novel and significant patterns in data. One factor that determines the kind of patterns we can mine is the structure of data. In man