This document proposes a new approach to improve the Apriori algorithm for mining association rules from transactional databases. The approach uses a Boolean modeling of the association rules mined to represent them in a cellular automaton. The key steps are:
1) Applying the Apriori-Cell algorithm to a transactional database to extract frequent itemsets and generate association rules.
2) Representing the association rules using a Boolean model within a cellular automaton framework consisting of two layers - one for items and one for transactions.
3) Managing and simulating inference on the represented association rules using the cellular automaton's inference engine to optimize representation and processing of the rules.
An example is provided to illustrate
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