The confidence
of a rule reveals how often it can be expected to apply, while its support
idicates how trustworthy the entire rule is!
Both of them take values in the interval < 0 .. 1 >
The
Max Number of Items
field shows the max number of attibutes that a rule can contain
The
Focused Observation
field gives the opportunity for a user to see, either only those rules that contain a spesific attribute, either all the producted rules
Now about the
input file
we have to say that it must be in XML format and compatible to the DTD(COAS-like) that we have implement.