104 research outputs found

    Interactive visual exploration of association rules with rule-focusing methodology

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    International audienceOn account of the enormous amounts of rules that can be produced by data mining algorithms, knowledge post-processing is a difficult stage in an association rule discovery process. In order to find relevant knowledge for decision making, the user (a decision maker specialized in the data studied) needs to rummage through the rules. To assist him/her in this task, we here propose the rule-focusing methodology, an interactive methodology for the visual post-processing of association rules. It allows the user to explore large sets of rules freely by focusing his/her attention on limited subsets. This new approach relies on rule interestingness measures, on a visual representation, and on interactive navigation among the rules. We have implemented the rule-focusing methodology in a prototype system called ARVis. It exploits the user's focus to guide the generation of the rules by means of a specific constraint-based rule-mining algorithm

    Post-Processing of Discovered Association Rules Using Ontologies

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    In Data Mining, the usefulness of association rules is strongly limited by the huge amount of delivered rules. In this paper we propose a new approach to prune and filter discovered rules. Using Domain Ontologies, we strengthen the integration of user knowledge in the post-processing task. Furthermore, an interactive and iterative framework is designed to assist the user along the analyzing task. On the one hand, we represent user domain knowledge using a Domain Ontology over database. On the other hand, a novel technique is suggested to prune and to filter discovered rules. The proposed framework was applied successfully over the client database provided by Nantes Habitat

    Une méthodologie de recommandations produits fondée sur l'actionnabilité et l'intérêt économique des clients

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    National audienceDans un contexte économique difficile, la fidélisation des clients figure au premier rang des préoccupations des entreprises. En effet, selon le Gartner, fidéliser des clients existants coûterait beaucoup moins cher que prospecter de nouveaux clients. Pour y parvenir, les entreprises optimisent la marge et le cycle de vie des clients en développant une relation personnalisée aboutissant à demeilleures recommandations. Dans cet article, nous proposons une méthodologie pour les systèmes de recommandations fondée sur l'analyse des chiffres d'affaires des clients sur des familles de produits. Plus précisément, la méthodologie consiste à extraire des comportements de référence sous la forme de règles d'association et à en évaluer l'intérêt économique et l'actionnabilité. Les recommandations sont réalisées en ciblant les contre-exemples les plus actionnables sur les règles les plus rentables.Notreméthodologie est appliquée sur 12 000 clients et 100 000 produits de VMMatériaux afin d'orienter les commerciaux sur les possibilités d'accroissement de la valeur client

    Distinction between Pore Assembly by Staphylococcal α-Toxin versus Leukotoxins

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    The staphylococcal bipartite leukotoxins and the homoheptameric α-toxin belong to the same family of β-barrel pore-forming toxins despite slight differences. In the α-toxin pore, the N-terminal extremity of each protomer interacts as a deployed latch with two consecutive protomers in the vicinity of the pore lumen. N-terminal extremities of leukotoxins as seen in their three-dimensional structures are heterogeneous in length and take part in the β-sandwich core of soluble monomers. Hence, the interaction of these N-terminal extremities within structures of adjacent monomers is questionable. We show here that modifications of their N-termini by two different processes, using fusion with glutathione S-transferase (GST) and bridging of the N-terminal extremity to the adjacent β-sheet via disulphide bridges, are not deleterious for biological activity. Therefore, bipartite leukotoxins do not need a large extension of their N-terminal extremities to form functional pores, thus illustrating a microheterogeneity of the structural organizations between bipartite leukotoxins and α-toxin
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