Research Article

The Design of Academic Programs Using Rough Set Association Rule Mining

Table 12

The upper bound rough set rules for the PEO-SO map.

PEOsabCdefGHIjkConf. intervalAvg. conf

P0/10/1100/10/100/10/1110.72–0.770.75
C000/110/10/10/10/100/10/10.77–0.910.84
G_S0/110/10/1100/10/110/10/10.60–0.770.69
T000100/10/10000/10.68–0.820.75
E000/10/10100/1000/10.84–0.890.87
L_L_L00000/10/10/10/1110/10.65–0.850.75
S000/10/10/10/10/110/10/10/10.81–0.900.86
L00010/10/10/10/10/10/10/10.65–0.760.71
T_C00/10/10/11/00/1000/10/110.66–0.740.70
C_D0/10/110/110/10/10/10/10/110.78–0.710.75

rule represents the uncertain range of a rough set (may or may not), which means that PEO with “0/1” SO entries, and a, b, e, f, and h SOs mean that these SOs may or may not exist in the rule.