Research Article

A GA-Based Approach to Hide Sensitive High Utility Itemsets

Table 1

Nine cases and their results for transactions insertion based on the pre-large concepts.

CasesOriginal/newMerged results

Case 1Large/largeLarge

Case 2Large/prelargeLarge or prelarge, decided through existing information

Case 3Large/smallLarge, prelarge, or small, decided through existing information

Case 4Prelarge/largeLarge or prelarge, decided through existing information

Case 5Prelarge/prelargePrelarge

Case 6Prelarge/smallPrelarge or small, decided through existing information

Case 7Small/largePrelarge or small, when the number of transactions is small

Case 8Small/prelargePrelarge or small

Case 9Small/smallSmall