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Contrast pattern mining (CPM) aims to discover patterns whose support increases significantly from a background dataset compared to a target dataset. CPM is particularly useful for characterising changes in evolving systems, e.g., in…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2020-12-01 Elaheh AlipourChavary , Sarah M. Erfani , Christopher Leckie

Knowledge extraction from database is the fundamental task in database and data mining community, which has been applied to a wide range of real-world applications and situations. Different from the support-based mining models, the…

In pattern mining, sequential rules provide a formal framework to capture the temporal relationships and inferential dependencies between items. However, the discovery process is computationally intensive. To obtain mining results…

Databases · Computer Science 2026-02-20 Wensheng Gan , Gengsen Huang , Junyu Ren , Philip S. Yu

Because of usefulness and comprehensibility, fuzzy data mining has been extensively studied and is an emerging topic in recent years. Compared with utility-driven itemset mining technologies, fuzzy utility mining not only takes utilities…

Databases · Computer Science 2021-11-02 Shicheng Wan , Wensheng Gan , Xu Guo , Jiahui Chen , Unil Yun

Within the domain of data mining, one critical objective is the discovery of sequential rules with high utility. The goal is to discover sequential rules that exhibit both high utility and strong confidence, which are valuable in real-world…

Databases · Computer Science 2026-02-02 Chunkai Zhang , Jiarui Deng , Maohua Lyu , Wensheng Gan , Philip S. Yu

Utility mining has emerged as an important and interesting topic owing to its wide application and considerable popularity. However, conventional utility mining methods have a bias toward items that have longer on-shelf time as they have a…

Databases · Computer Science 2020-11-30 Chunkai Zhang , Zilin Du , Yuting Yang , Wensheng Gan , Philip S. Yu

This paper develops a memory-efficient approach for Sequential Pattern Mining (SPM), a fundamental topic in knowledge discovery that faces a well-known memory bottleneck for large data sets. Our methodology involves a novel hybrid trie data…

Databases · Computer Science 2024-07-30 Amin Hosseininasab , Willem-Jan van Hoeve , Andre A. Cire

Frequent-pattern mining is a common approach to reveal the valuable hidden trends behind data. However, existing frequent-pattern mining algorithms are designed for DRAM, instead of persistent memories (PMs), which can lead to severe…

Databases · Computer Science 2020-08-26 Jiaqi Dong , Runyu Zhang , Chaoshu Yang , Yujuan Tan , Duo Liu

Capturing users' precise preferences is a fundamental problem in large-scale recommender system. Currently, item-based Collaborative Filtering (CF) methods are common matching approaches in industry. However, they are not effective to model…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2020-01-01 Fuyu Lv , Taiwei Jin , Changlong Yu , Fei Sun , Quan Lin , Keping Yang , Wilfred Ng

There have been many recent studies on sequential pattern mining. The sequential pattern mining on progressive databases is relatively very new, in which we progressively discover the sequential patterns in period of interest. Period of…

Databases · Computer Science 2010-07-15 B. N. Keshavamurthy , Mitesh Sharma , Durga Toshniwal

The need to analyze information from streams arises in a variety of applications. One of its fundamental research directions is to mine sequential patterns over data streams. Current studies mine series of items based on the presence of the…

Databases · Computer Science 2022-04-12 Thomas Guyet , Wenbin Zhang , Albert Bifet

The main advantage of Constraint Programming (CP) approaches for sequential pattern mining (SPM) is their modularity, which includes the ability to add new constraints (regular expressions, length restrictions, etc). The current best CP…

Databases · Computer Science 2016-04-06 John O. R. Aoga , Tias Guns , Pierre Schaus

Sequence data, e.g., complex event sequence, is more commonly seen than other types of data (e.g., transaction data) in real-world applications. For the mining task from sequence data, several problems have been formulated, such as…

Databases · Computer Science 2019-12-30 Wensheng Gan , Jerry Chun-Wei Lin , Han-Chieh Chao , Philip S. Yu

Fuzzy clustering has become a widely used data mining technique and plays an important role in grouping, traversing and selectively using data for user specified applications. The deterministic Fuzzy C-Means (FCM) algorithm may result in…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2018-10-23 Saptarshi Sengupta , Sanchita Basak , Richard Alan Peters

With a user-specified minimum utility threshold (minutil), periodic high-utility pattern mining (PHUPM) aims to identify high-utility patterns that occur periodically in a transaction database. A pattern is deemed periodic if its period…

Databases · Computer Science 2025-09-22 Qingfeng Zhou , Wensheng Gan , Guoting Chen

Constrained sequential pattern mining aims at identifying frequent patterns on a sequential database of items while observing constraints defined over the item attributes. We introduce novel techniques for constraint-based sequential…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-01-01 Amin Hosseininasab , Willem-Jan van Hoeve , Andre A. Cire

High utility sequential pattern mining (HUSPM) is a significant and valuable activity in knowledge discovery and data analytics with many real-world applications. In some cases, HUSPM can not provide an excellent measure to predict what…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2022-09-28 Chunkai Zhang , Maohua Lyu , Wensheng Gan , Philip S. Yu

The main purpose of data mining and analytics is to find novel, potentially useful patterns that can be utilized in real-world applications to derive beneficial knowledge. For identifying and evaluating the usefulness of different kinds of…

For applied intelligence, utility-driven pattern discovery algorithms can identify insightful and useful patterns in databases. However, in these techniques for pattern discovery, the number of patterns can be huge, and the user is often…

Databases · Computer Science 2022-06-14 Jinbao Miao , Wensheng Gan , Shicheng Wan , Yongdong Wu , Philippe Fournier-Viger

Sequential pattern mining techniques extract patterns corresponding to frequent subsequences from a sequence database. A practical limitation of these techniques is that they overload the user with too many patterns. Local Process Model…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-09-24 Niek Tax , Marlon Dumas