\input zb-basic \input zb-ioport \iteman{io-port 06067591} \itemau{Pears, Russel; Koh, Yun Sing} \itemti{Weighted association rule mining using particle swarm optimization.} \itemso{Cao, Longbing (ed.) et al., New frontiers in applied data mining. PAKDD 2011 international workshops, Shenzhen, China, May 24--27, 2011. Revised selected papers. Berlin: Springer (ISBN 978-3-642-28319-2/pbk). Lecture Notes in Computer Science 7104. Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence, 327-338 (2012).} \itemab Summary: Association rule mining is an important data mining task that discovers relationships among items in a transaction database. Most approaches to association rule mining assume that the items within the dataset have a uniform distribution. Therefore, weighted association rule mining (WARM) was introduced to provide a notion of importance to individual items. In previous work most of these approaches require users to assign weights for each item. This is infeasible when we have millions of items in a dataset. In this paper we propose a novel method, Weighted Association Rule Mining using Particle Swarm Optimization (WARM SWARM), which uses particle swarm optimization to assign meaningful item weights for association rule mining. \itemrv{~} \itemcc{} \itemut{weighted items; particle swarm optimization; association rule mining} \itemli{doi:10.1007/978-3-642-28320-8\_28} \end