Association Rule Mining through Adaptive Parameter Control in

Particle Swarm Optimization

Revision Status based on Reviewer comments
S.N
o

Comment

Revision made
Reviewer #1:

P2L6-9. Please show the

reference about this
sentence

2
3
4

P3 L49 tale-> table

P9L2 x 1-> x1
P10 L33 as follows -> as
follows;
P10 L 53 "." is missing.
P17 L46 than1 -> than 1
P18: Execution time is
depends on the PC.
Please describe the detail
of the spec of PC
(memory size, CPU type)
References
Some papers are not
cited in context.

5
6
7

business intelligence [11], and now extended to

epidemiology, clinical medicine, fluid dynamics,
astrophysics, and crime prevention [10].
Corrected tale as table in p10 L49
Corrected
Corrected
Corrected
Corrected
All the results were obtained using a Pentium IV PC
with clock rate of 2.4 GHz and 512 MB of main
memory.
Corrected
Reviewer #3:

2
3
4

Formulas should be
written in equation
format. if possible use
latex.
Use same fonts all the
time. Figure captions etc.
Introduction, literature,
PSO introduction is ok.
Methodology description
is ok but you should a sub
section describing
differences and
contributions than other
PSO implementations.
explain the differences
briefly in the beginning.

All formulas are written using Microsoft

Equation
Corrected

In the past few years, many approaches have been

applied to investigate how to adapt suitable parameters.
In some early works, Shi et al. analyzed the impact of
the inertia weight and maximum velocity in PSO [43].
They revealed that different combinations of inertia
weights and maximum velocities may result in different
performance on the Schaffer function. Based on the
empirical analysis, it was concluded that a time-varying
inertia weight can lead to better performance.
In [44], Shi et al. proposed a PSO variant, which
implements a fuzzy rule to control the parameters.
Following the same line of thinking, Due to the fact that

most of the PSO research works related to adaptive

schemes is empirical, Bergh et al. investigate the
influence of parameters, such as the inertia term, from
the perspective of particle trajectories for general
swarms [5]. All the parameter adaptation has been
experimentally proven to be able to remarkably improve
the performance, when applied for association rule
mining the adaptation based on data involved might
enhance the system further than data independent
adaption. Thus the adaptive Particle Swarm
optimization based on the dataset values is proposed.
5

Comparisons and results

are satisfactory.