Abdul Fattah Mashat

Work place: Faculty of Computing and Information Technology. King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia

E-mail: asmashat@kau.edu.sa

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Research Interests: Computer Science & Information Technology, Computer systems and computational processes, Computer Architecture and Organization, Computer Networks, Multimedia Information System

Biography

Dr. Abdul Fattah Suleman Mashat is the Dean of Faculty of Computing and Information Technology, King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. He received his Ph.D. degree in Distributed Multimedia Systems from the University of Leeds, UK in 1999. His research interests include Multimedia Systems, E- learning , computer networks, Ad-hoc and wireless networks, QoS Support for multimedia traffic, Modeling and simulation of computer networks.

Author Articles
Discovery of Association Rules from University Admission System Data

By Abdul Fattah Mashat Mohammed M. Fouad Philip S. Yu Tarek F. Gharib

DOI: https://doi.org/10.5815/ijmecs.2013.04.01, Pub. Date: 8 Apr. 2013

Association rules discovery is one of the vital data mining techniques. Currently there is an increasing interest in data mining and educational systems, making educational data mining (EDM) as a new growing research community. In this paper, we present a model for association rules discovery from King Abdulaziz University (KAU) admission system data. The main objective is to extract the rules and relations between admission system attributes for better analysis. The model utilizes an apriori algorithm for association rule mining. Detailed analysis and interpretation of the experimental results is presented with respect to admission office perspective.

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