Mining optimal item packages using mixed integer programming

Traditional methods for discovering frequent patterns from large databases are based on attributing equal weights to all items of the database. In the real world, managerial decisions are based on economic values attached to the item sets. In this paper, we introduce the concept of the value based f...

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Main Authors: Achuthan, Narasimaha, Gopalan, Raj, Rudra, Amit
Format: Conference Paper
Published: UTS, Sydney 2004
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/25760
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author Achuthan, Narasimaha
Gopalan, Raj
Rudra, Amit
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Gopalan, Raj
Rudra, Amit
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description Traditional methods for discovering frequent patterns from large databases are based on attributing equal weights to all items of the database. In the real world, managerial decisions are based on economic values attached to the item sets. In this paper, we introduce the concept of the value based frequent item packages problems. Furthermore, we provide a mixed integer linear programming (MILP) model for value based optimization problem in the context of transaction data. The problem discussed in this paper is to find an optimal set of item packages (or item sets making up the whole transaction) that returns maximum profit to the organization under some limited resources. The specification of this problem opens the way for applying existing and new MILP solution techniques to deal with a number of practical decision problems. The model has been implemented and tested with real life retail data. The test results are reported in the paper.
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spelling curtin-20.500.11937-257602017-01-30T12:50:06Z Mining optimal item packages using mixed integer programming Achuthan, Narasimaha Gopalan, Raj Rudra, Amit Traditional methods for discovering frequent patterns from large databases are based on attributing equal weights to all items of the database. In the real world, managerial decisions are based on economic values attached to the item sets. In this paper, we introduce the concept of the value based frequent item packages problems. Furthermore, we provide a mixed integer linear programming (MILP) model for value based optimization problem in the context of transaction data. The problem discussed in this paper is to find an optimal set of item packages (or item sets making up the whole transaction) that returns maximum profit to the organization under some limited resources. The specification of this problem opens the way for applying existing and new MILP solution techniques to deal with a number of practical decision problems. The model has been implemented and tested with real life retail data. The test results are reported in the paper. 2004 Conference Paper http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/25760 UTS, Sydney fulltext
spellingShingle Achuthan, Narasimaha
Gopalan, Raj
Rudra, Amit
Mining optimal item packages using mixed integer programming
title Mining optimal item packages using mixed integer programming
title_full Mining optimal item packages using mixed integer programming
title_fullStr Mining optimal item packages using mixed integer programming
title_full_unstemmed Mining optimal item packages using mixed integer programming
title_short Mining optimal item packages using mixed integer programming
title_sort mining optimal item packages using mixed integer programming
url http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/25760