This directory contains an implementation of the ARMOR algorithm for
mining association rules. This algorithm was published in the following:

1. "How Good are Association-Rule Mining Algorithms?" (poster), V. Pudi &
    J. Haritsa, Proc. of Intl. Conf. on Data Engineering (ICDE), San
    Jose, California, USA, February 2002.
2. "On the Efficiency of Association-rule Mining Algorithms", V. Pudi &
    J. Haritsa, Proc. of Pacific-Asia Conf. on Knowledge Discovery and
    Data Mining (PAKDD), Taipei, Taiwan, May 2002.

Type "make" to compile. This produces an executable "fim_all". Its usage:

    fim_all <dataset-file> <minsup> [<output-file>]

The input/output formats for this program have been prepared in
accordance with the instructions given for the FIMI workshop.

    Copyright (C) 2003 Database Systems Lab, SERC, IISc, Bangalore.

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