Improved Malware Detection Model with Apriori Association Rule and Particle Swarm Optimization

Table 8

Selection Algorithms’ Memory and Execution time efficiency with 20% support and 80% confidence.

	Features Quantity
	100	200	300	400	700	1000	100	200	300	400	700	1000
Selection Algorithms	Time taken (seconds)						Memory (MB)
AA	8.2	15.5	20.8	25.1	37.0	54.0	8.4	9.0	9.8	10.2	49.2	52.5
PSO	7.1	14.2	18.5	22.2	28.5	45.0	11.0	13.2	15.8	20.0	40.9	41.2
FP GROWTH	6.9	13.7	17.1	21.2	25.8	35.3	8.7	9.9	13.5	17.3	27.1	40.9
AA-aPSO	6.5	12.4	16.5	20.8	24.5	31.0	6.6	8.8	12.4	15.4	22.0	40.2