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Firstly, a thousand symmetry structure cases, namely text data, are transformed into binary data. Then, the data analysis software RapidMiner is used to build an association rule mining model to obtain the association rules from symmetry to symmetry, from symmetry to requirements, from requirements to requirements and from requirements to symmetry. Among them, this paper focuses on the association rules with requirements as the premise and symmetry as the conclusion. Finally, according to the support and confidence of the association rules, the selection of symmetry under a single requirement, multiple requirements and decomposable requirements is discussed and summarized.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/sym14020338","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2022,2,7]],"date-time":"2022-02-07T20:36:42Z","timestamp":1644266202000},"page":"338","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":0,"title":["Association Analysis between Mechanical Symmetry and Requirements"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"14","author":[{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0001-8057-014X","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Xiuming","family":"Chen","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"State Key Laboratory of Computer Aided Design and Computer Graphics, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou 310027, China"}]},{"given":"Qingying","family":"Qiu","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"State Key Laboratory of Computer Aided Design and Computer Graphics, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou 310027, China"}]},{"given":"Peien","family":"Feng","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"State Key Laboratory of Computer Aided Design and Computer Graphics, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou 310027, China"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2022,2,7]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"1591","DOI":"10.3390\/sym2031591","article-title":"Asymmetry, Symmetry and Beauty","volume":"3","author":"Sabelli","year":"2010","journal-title":"Symmetry"},{"key":"ref_2","unstructured":"Makovicky, E. 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