FARMER: Finding Interesting Rule Groups in Microarray Datasets

Summary: FARMER handles microarray data with many columns and few rows by mining rule groups tied to common row sets rather than single rules. Exploring row enumeration and applying min support, confidence, and chi-square, FARMER prunes and beats prior rule mining on data. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: 3576
Venue: SIGMOD
Year: 2004
Pagerank: 5.093636e-05
Overall Rank: 12,765 | 12.43%
DOI: 10.1145/1007568.1007587

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Authors

1. Gao Cong (National University of Singapore)
2. Anthony K. H. Tung (National University of Singapore)
3. Xin Xu (National University of Singapore)
4. Feng Pan (National University of Singapore)
5. Jiong Yang (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign)

BibTeX Citation

@inproceedings{cong_sigmod04,
        title = {{FARMER: Finding Interesting Rule Groups in Microarray Datasets}},
        author = {Cong, Gao and Tung, Anthony K. H. and Xu, Xin and Pan, Feng and Yang, Jiong},
        series = {{SIGMOD} '04},
        booktitle = {Proceedings of the {ACM} {SIGMOD} International Conference on Management of Data},
        publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},
        doi = {10.1145/1007568.1007587},
        url = {https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/1007568.1007587},
        year = {2004}
}

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Rank	Citing Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
3,862	CSV: Visualizing and Mining Cohesive Subgraphs	2008	SIGMOD	7.0665158e-05
12,729	Mining Top-k Covering Rule Groups for Gene Expression Data	2005	SIGMOD	5.093636e-05
13,906	Semantic Mining and Analysis of Gene Expression Data	2004	VLDB	-

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Rank	Cited Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
27	Fast Algorithms for Mining Association Rules	1994	VLDB	0.00052255472
393	Bottom-Up Computation of Sparse and Iceberg CUBEs	1999	SIGMOD	0.0001934104
1,535	Exploratory Mining and Pruning Optimizations of Constrained Association Rules	1998	SIGMOD	0.00010463058
1,994	RainForest - A Framework for Fast Decision Tree Construction of Large Datasets	1998	VLDB	9.3409624e-05
4,092	Traversing Itemset Lattices with Statistical Metric Pruning	2000	PODS	6.907339e-05

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