ARMiner Project

Overview:

Last ARMiner Server version is 1.0a (12/05/2001). Last ARMiner Client version is 1.0b (04/05/2001). Both the client and server were last compiled using the Sun JDK 1.3.1

For another association rule mining project, check also ARtool.

Main Links:

• ARMiner Presentation - here you can get an overview of the project.

• ARMiner F.A.Q. - please read this before sending email, answers to frequently asked questions will be put here.

• Download ARMiner - as a tar.gz file containing sources, manuals, and compiled code (~1.1MB). Read the readme.txt for a quickstart. A zip file can be downloaded here.

• ARMiner add-ons - stuff to use with ARMiner like new datasets or algorithms .

Relevant papers:

• Fast Algorithms for Mining Association Rules by Rakesh Agrawal and Ramakrishnan Srikant.

• Galois Connections and Data Mining by Dana Cristofor, Laurentiu Cristofor, and Dan Simovici.

• Mining Frequent Patterns without Candidate Generation by Jiawei Han, Jian Pei, and Yiwen Yin.

Last news and updates:

• 10/03/2006 - Due to space limitations, I removed the online sources and documentation - these are now available only by downloading the ARMiner archive file.

• 12/05/2001 - I fixed a couple of problems in the server, thus bringing the server version number to 1.0a. I also updated the FAQ and readme.txt, and added a link to the ARtool page. See readme.txt for more info on the changes I've made.

• 06/01/2001 - I added to the add-ons section an implementation of the FP-growth algorithm of Han, Pei, and Yin from Simon Fraser University and I have also put a link to their article on this page. Note that I first added a version that had an error which I replaced after 7 hours. If you got the first version then please download the archive again.

• 05/16/2001 - I added a slightly modified version of the Closure algorithm, called ClosureOpt, to the add-ons section. The archive contains a readme.txt, the source, and a .jar file that can be uploaded to an ARMiner server. Also set up an index page for ARMiner add-ons and changed the section name from goodies.

• 05/04/2001 - I added some tools (db_asc_tools.tar.gz) in the add-ons section for converting files between ARMiner's .db format and a simple ASCII format (.asc). I hope these tools will make the conversion of data for use with ARMiner easier than before. The tar.gz archive contains the sources of the tools, a short tutorial for using them, and a sample .asc file. The FAQ was also updated.

• 04/05/2001 - I have fixed some important problems with the server and added some minor features to the client. For a detailed list of the changes made see the readme.txt file. The makefile that I just added a couple of days ago has been put into the main distribution so it is no longer in the add-ons section.

• 04/03/2001 - I've updated the FAQ and added a makefile to the add-ons section.

• 02/29/2001 - I've recompiled the ARMiner client and server and created new jar files. Somehow the distribution ended up with a client and a server compiled with different versions of Java compilers and this caused an error when trying to add a new database and maybe in some other cases too. Now those problems should have been fixed.

• 11/30/2000 - A new version of ARMiner's server has been released. The server was not generating all the possible rules, now this has been fixed.

• 11/22/2000 - A new version of ARMiner's client and server has been released. I have fixed most major problems with the client and added an improvement to the synthetic data generator in the server. For a list of the changes made see the readme.txt file.

• 11/15/2000 - I decided to start fixing the client code. This will take me a while as I am quite busy and I'm doing this in the few spare time I have. Stay tuned though for a future release of the client part.

• 11/02/2000 - added mushroom dataset to add-ons section.