| Abstract: | Extraction of interesting and general spatial association rules from large spatial databases is an important task in the development of spatial database systems. In this paper, we investigate the generalization-based knowledge discovery mechanism that integrates attribute-oriented induction on nonspatial data and spatial merging and generalization on spatial data. Furthermore, we present linguistic cloud models for knowledge representation and uncertainty handling to enhance current generalization-based method. With these models, spatial and nonspatial attribute values are well generalized at higher-concept levels, allowing discovery of strong spatial association rules. Combining the cloud model based generalization method with Apriori algorithm for mining association rules from a spatial database shows the benefits in effectiveness and flexibility. |
