• Journal of KIISE:Databases
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• v.32 no.6
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• pp.567-584
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• 2005

Temporal data mining, the incorporation of temporal semantics to existing data mining techniques, refers to a set of techniques for discovering implicit and useful temporal knowledge from temporal data. Association rules and classification are applied to various applications which are the typical data mining problems. However, these approaches do not consider temporal attribute and have been pursued for discovering knowledge from static data although a large proportion of data contains temporal dimension. Also, data mining researches from temporal data treat problems for discovering knowledge from data stamped with time point and adding time constraint. Therefore, these do not consider temporal semantics and temporal relationships containing data. This paper suggests that temporal associative classification technique based on temporal class association rules. This temporal classification applies rules discovered by temporal class association rules which extends existing associative classification by containing temporal dimension for generating temporal classification rules. Therefore, this technique can discover more useful knowledge in compared with typical classification techniques.