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The aim of sequential pattern mining (SPM) is to discover potentially useful information from a given se-quence. Although various SPM methods have been investigated, most of these focus on mining all of the patterns. However, users…

Databases · Computer Science 2023-01-31 Yan Li , Chang Zhang , Jie Li , Wei Song , Zhenlian Qi , Youxi Wu , Xindong Wu

Useful knowledge, embedded in a database, is likely to change over time. Identifying recent changes in temporal databases can provide valuable up-to-date information to decision-makers. Nevertheless, techniques for mining high-utility…

Based on the analysis of the proportion of utility in the supporting transactions used in the field of data mining, high utility-occupancy pattern mining (HUOPM) has recently attracted widespread attention. Unlike high-utility pattern…

Databases · Computer Science 2021-11-25 Chien-Ming Chen , Lili Chen , Wensheng Gan

It is widely known that there is a lot of useful information hidden in big data, leading to a new saying that "data is money." Thus, it is prevalent for individuals to mine crucial information for utilization in many real-world…

Databases · Computer Science 2021-04-01 Chien-Ming Chen , Lili Chen , Wensheng Gan , Lina Qiu , Weiping Ding

Sequential pattern mining (SPM) is an important technique of pattern mining, which has many applications in reality. Although many efficient sequential pattern mining algorithms have been proposed, there are few studies can focus on target…

Databases · Computer Science 2022-03-01 Gengsen Huang , Wensheng Gan , Philip S. Yu

Sequential pattern mining is an interesting research area with broad range of applications. Most prior research on sequential pattern mining has considered point-based data where events occur instantaneously. However, in many application…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-09-16 S. Mohammad Mirbagheri , Howard J. Hamilton

This paper introduces a novel formulation of the clustering problem, namely the Minimum Sum-of-Squares Clustering of Infinitely Tall Data (MSSC-ITD), and presents HPClust, an innovative set of hybrid parallel approaches for its effective…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2024-06-26 Ravil Mussabayev , Rustam Mussabayev

The increasing availability of large clinical datasets collected from patients can enable new avenues for computational characterization of complex diseases using different analytic algorithms. One of the promising new methods for…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-09-13 Jonas Hügel , Ulrich Sax , Shawn N. Murphy , Hossein Estiri

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

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

Incorporating utility into targeted pattern mining can address the practical limitations of traditional frequency-based approaches. However, utility-based methods often suffer from generating a large number of long and complicated…

Databases · Computer Science 2025-12-23 Kai Cao , Yucong Duan , Wensheng Gan

Utility-oriented mining which integrates utility theory and data mining is a useful tool for understanding economic consumer behavior. Traditional algorithms for mining high-utility patterns (HUPs) applies a single/uniform minimum…

Databases · Computer Science 2021-04-01 Wensheng Gan , Jerry Chun-Wei Lin , Philippe Fournier-Viger , Han-Chieh Chao , Philip S Yu

Significant efforts have been expended in the research and development of a database management system (DBMS) that has a wide range of applications for managing an enormous collection of multisource, heterogeneous, complex, or growing data.…

Databases · Computer Science 2021-04-01 Chunkai Zhang , Zilin Du , Quanjian Dai , Wensheng Gan , Jian Weng , Philip S. Yu

Reinforcement learning (RL) techniques, while often powerful, can suffer from slow learning speeds, particularly in high dimensional spaces. Decomposition of tasks into a hierarchical structure holds the potential to significantly speed up…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2018-11-21 Behzad Ghazanfari , Fatemeh Afghah , Matthew E. Taylor

On-shelf utility mining (OSUM) is an emerging research direction in data mining. It aims to discover itemsets that have high relative utility in their selling time period. Compared with traditional utility mining, OSUM can find more…

Databases · Computer Science 2022-08-31 Jiahui Chen , Xu Guo , Wensheng Gan , Shichen Wan , Philip S. Yu

Episode mining is a fundamental problem in analyzing a sequence of numerous events. For discovering strong relationships between events in a complex event sequence, episode rule mining is proposed. However, both the episode and episode…

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

High utility pattern mining is an interesting yet challenging problem. The intrinsic computational cost of the problem will impose further challenges if efficiency in addition to the efficacy of a solution is sought. Recently, this problem…

Databases · Computer Science 2024-01-01 S. Mohammad Mirbagheri

High utility itemset mining approaches discover hidden patterns from large amounts of temporal data. However, an inescapable problem of high utility itemset mining is that its discovered results hide the quantities of patterns, which causes…

Databases · Computer Science 2022-08-29 Shicheng Wan , Zhenqiang Ye , Wensheng Gan , Jiahui Chen

High-order clustering aims to identify heterogeneous substructures in multiway datasets that arise commonly in neuroimaging, genomics, social network studies, etc. The non-convex and discontinuous nature of this problem pose significant…

Methodology · Statistics 2022-10-11 Rungang Han , Yuetian Luo , Miaoyan Wang , Anru R. Zhang

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