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      <journal-id journal-id-type="publisher-id">109</journal-id>
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        <journal-title xml:lang="en">JUCS - Journal of Universal Computer Science</journal-title>
        <abbrev-journal-title xml:lang="en">jucs</abbrev-journal-title>
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      <issn pub-type="ppub">0948-695X</issn>
      <issn pub-type="epub">0948-6968</issn>
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        <publisher-name>Journal of Universal Computer Science</publisher-name>
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      <article-id pub-id-type="doi">10.3217/jucs-019-04-0521</article-id>
      <article-id pub-id-type="publisher-id">23094</article-id>
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        <subj-group subj-group-type="heading">
          <subject>Research Article</subject>
        </subj-group>
        <subj-group subj-group-type="scientific_subject">
          <subject>E.1 - DATA STRUCTURES</subject>
          <subject>H.2.8 - Database Applications</subject>
          <subject>M.4 - KNOWLEDGE MODELING</subject>
          <subject>M.7 - KNOWLEDGE RETRIEVAL</subject>
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        <article-title>An Integrated MFFP-tree Algorithm for Mining Global Fuzzy Rules from Distributed Databases</article-title>
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        <contrib contrib-type="author" corresp="yes">
          <name name-style="western">
            <surname>Lin</surname>
            <given-names>Chun-Wei</given-names>
          </name>
          <email xlink:type="simple">jerrylin@ieee.org</email>
          <xref ref-type="aff" rid="A1">1</xref>
        </contrib>
        <contrib contrib-type="author" corresp="no">
          <name name-style="western">
            <surname>Hong</surname>
            <given-names>Tzung-Pei</given-names>
          </name>
        </contrib>
        <contrib contrib-type="author" corresp="no">
          <name name-style="western">
            <surname>Chen</surname>
            <given-names>Yi-Fan</given-names>
          </name>
        </contrib>
        <contrib contrib-type="author" corresp="no">
          <name name-style="western">
            <surname>Lin</surname>
            <given-names>Tsung-Ching</given-names>
          </name>
        </contrib>
        <contrib contrib-type="author" corresp="no">
          <name name-style="western">
            <surname>Pan</surname>
            <given-names>Shing-Tai</given-names>
          </name>
        </contrib>
      </contrib-group>
      <aff id="A1">
        <label>1</label>
        <addr-line content-type="verbatim">Harbin Institute of Technology, Shenzhen, China</addr-line>
        <institution>Harbin Institute of Technology</institution>
        <addr-line content-type="city">Shenzhen</addr-line>
        <country>China</country>
      </aff>
      <aff id="A2">
        <label>2</label>
        <addr-line content-type="verbatim">National University of Kaohsiung, Kaohsiung, </addr-line>
        <institution>National University of Kaohsiung</institution>
        <addr-line content-type="city">Kaohsiung</addr-line>
      </aff>
      <author-notes>
        <fn fn-type="corresp">
          <p>Corresponding author: Chun-Wei Lin (<email xlink:type="simple">jerrylin@ieee.org</email>).</p>
        </fn>
        <fn fn-type="edited-by">
          <p>Academic editor: </p>
        </fn>
      </author-notes>
      <pub-date pub-type="collection">
        <year>2013</year>
      </pub-date>
      <pub-date pub-type="epub">
        <day>28</day>
        <month>02</month>
        <year>2013</year>
      </pub-date>
      <volume>19</volume>
      <issue>4</issue>
      <fpage>521</fpage>
      <lpage>538</lpage>
      <uri content-type="arpha" xlink:href="http://openbiodiv.net/41E044F5-8792-52AF-8258-07F0647AC336">41E044F5-8792-52AF-8258-07F0647AC336</uri>
      <uri content-type="zenodo_dep_id" xlink:href="https://zenodo.org/record/5504995">5504995</uri>
      <history>
        <date date-type="received">
          <day>03</day>
          <month>08</month>
          <year>2012</year>
        </date>
        <date date-type="accepted">
          <day>20</day>
          <month>02</month>
          <year>2013</year>
        </date>
      </history>
      <permissions>
        <copyright-statement>Chun-Wei Lin, Tzung-Pei Hong, Yi-Fan Chen, Tsung-Ching Lin, Shing-Tai Pan</copyright-statement>
        <license license-type="creative-commons-attribution" xlink:href="" xlink:type="simple">
          <license-p>This article is freely available under the J.UCS Open Content License.</license-p>
        </license>
      </permissions>
      <abstract>
        <label>Abstract</label>
        <p>In the past, many algorithms have been proposed for mining association rules from binary databases. Transactions with quantitative values are, however, also commonly seen in real-world applications. Each transaction in a quantitative database consists of items with their purchased quantities. The multiple fuzzy frequent pattern tree (MFFP-tree) algorithm was thus designed to handle a quantitative database for efficiently mining complete fuzzy frequent itemsets. It however, only processes a database for mining the desired rules. In this paper, we propose an integrated MFFP (called iMFFP)-tree algorithm for merging several individual MFFP trees into an integrated one. The proposed iMFFP-tree algorithm firstly handles the fuzzy regions for providing linguistic knowledge for human beings. The integration mechanism of the proposed algorithm thus efficiently and completely moves a branch from one sub-tree to the integrated tree. The proposed approach can derive both global and local fuzzy rules from distributed databases, thus allowing managers to make more significant and flexible decisions. Experimental results also showed the performance of the proposed approach.</p>
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