TY - BOOK AU - Shahira Mohamed Mahmoud Abdelfatah AU - Diyaa Abdein M. Atiya , AU - Laila Fahmy Abdelal , AU - Mervat H. Gheith , TI - Data - mining as a competition enforcement tool / PY - 2012/// CY - Cairo : PB - Shahira Mohamed Mahmoud Abdelfatah , KW - Association rules KW - Bid rigging KW - Data mining N1 - Thesis (M.Sc.) - Cairo University - Faculty of Science - Department of Mathematics; Issued also as CD N2 - The essential objective in this thesis is to find a system for enforcing competition by detecting fraud in procurement bidding . We use data mining techniques , to continuously sift through market data and proactively look for odd patterns or anomalous signs that might indicate the existence of bid rigging in procurement . We provide an overiew on data mining and bid rigging , then we propose and experiment with two data mining techniques (decision trees and association rules) for the detection of bid rigging activities in market data UR - http://172.23.153.220/th.pdf ER -