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	کاوش قوانین انجمنی (آپریوری)	محاسبات دانه‌ای (دانه‌بندی اطلاعات)
حوزه	یادگیری ماشین	محاسبات نرم
خانواده	Machine learning	Machine learning
سال پیدایش	1994	1997
پدیدآور	Rakesh Agrawal & Ramakrishnan Srikant	Lotfi A. Zadeh (information granulation); developed by Pedrycz, Skowron, Yao
نوع	Unsupervised pattern discovery algorithm	Framework for multi-granularity information processing
منبع بنیادین	Agrawal, R., Imieliński, T., & Swami, A. (1993). Mining association rules between sets of items in large databases. ACM SIGMOD, 207–216.	Zadeh, L. A. (1997). Toward a theory of fuzzy information granulation and its centrality in human reasoning and fuzzy logic. Fuzzy Sets and Systems, 90(2), 111–127.
نام‌های دیگر	Market Basket Analysis, Frequent Itemset Mining, Birliktelik Kuralı Madenciliği, Itemset Association Analysis	information granulation, computing with granules, three-way granular computing, tanecikli hesaplama
مرتبط	3	3
خلاصه	Association Rule Mining is an unsupervised data-mining technique that discovers co-occurrence patterns among items in transactional datasets. Formally introduced by Agrawal, Imieliński, and Swami in 1993, and refined with the landmark Apriori algorithm by Agrawal and Srikant in 1994, it identifies rules of the form X ⇒ Y — meaning that transactions containing itemset X tend to also contain itemset Y — quantified by support, confidence, and lift.	Granular computing is a problem-solving paradigm that processes information in 'granules' — clumps of objects drawn together by indistinguishability, similarity, or functionality — rather than at the level of individual data points. Articulated by Lotfi Zadeh in 1997 as fuzzy information granulation and developed into a broad framework, it provides a unifying umbrella over fuzzy sets, rough sets, and interval methods, letting analysis move to whichever level of detail a problem actually requires.