due to the rapid growth of data mining technology, obtaining private data on users through this technology becomes easier. association rules mining is one of the data mining techniques to extract useful patterns in the form of association rules. one of the main problems in applying this technique on databases is the disclosure of sensitive data by endangering security and privacy. hiding the as...

The development of good measures of interestingness of the discovered rules is one of the important problems in data mining. Such measures of interestingness are divided into objective measures : – those that depend only on the structure of a rule and the underlying data used in the discovery process, and the subjective measures – those that depend on the class of users who examine the rule. Ho...

Each semester, students go through the process of selecting appropriate courses. It is difficult to find information about each course and ultimately make decisions. The objective of this paper is to design a course recommender model which takes student characteristics into account to recommend appropriate courses. The model uses clustering to identify students with similar interests and skills...