Graphic representations of association rules exist in the litterature. These representations aim to facilitate the user’s exploitation of results given by rule mining algorithms, but the main representations are only available on commercial datamining software.

The ARV software (Association rules viewer) proposes three representations : 3D, line and double decker plot visualizations. The idea of such an application is to be able to compare rules obtained according to different criteria, and in this case, according to the optimization criteria J1 but also to other widely used measures: support (supp), confidence (conf), completeness (compl.), ... This application is independent of the rule mining algorithm and takes into input a XML file.