“…Those interesting knowledge can be significant, implicit, novel, or potentially useful (Han et al, 2011). Association rule mining (ARM; Agrawal, Imieliński, & Swami, 1993; J. Han, 2006; Suresh & Harshni, 2017; Suba & Christopher, 2012) is a sub‐area within the data mining, which aims at discovering interesting frequent patterns, correlation, or association in a dataset. Unfortunately, extracting classical association rules (ARs) from huge data amounts suffers from a diversity of problems such as extraction of repetitive rules, the huge amount of extracted rules, and possible loss of important rules (Ayouni, Yahia, & Laurent, 2011; Helm, 2007; Khiat, Belbachir, & Rahal, 2014).…”