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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

Mining useful patterns from varied types of databases is an important research topic, which has many real-life applications. Most studies have considered the frequency as sole interestingness measure for identifying high quality patterns.…

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

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

Detecting sets of relevant patterns from a given dataset is an important challenge in data mining. The relevance of a pattern, also called utility in the literature, is a subjective measure and can be actually assessed from very different…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-03-24 Francesco Cauteruccio , Giorgio Terracina

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

Discovering valuable insights from rich data is a crucial task for exploratory data analysis. Sequential pattern mining (SPM) has found widespread applications across various domains. In recent years, low-utility sequential pattern mining…

Databases · Computer Science 2026-04-28 Jian Zhu , Zhidong Lin , Wensheng Gan , Philip S. Yu

Recently, contiguous sequential pattern mining (CSPM) gained interest as a research topic, due to its varied potential real-world applications, such as web log and biological sequence analysis. To date, studies on the CSPM problem remain in…

Databases · Computer Science 2021-11-02 Chunkai Zhang , Quanjian Dai , Zilin Du , Wensheng Gan , Jian Weng , Philip S. Yu

In many real-world applications, sequential rule mining (SRM) can provide prediction and recommendation functions for a variety of services. It is an important technique of pattern mining to discover all valuable rules that belong to…

Databases · Computer Science 2022-06-13 Wensheng Gan , Gengsen Huang , Jian Weng , Tianlong Gu , Philip S. Yu

In a quantitative sequential database, numerous efficient algorithms have been developed for high-utility sequential pattern mining (HUSPM). HUSPM establishes a relationship between frequency and significance in the real world and reflects…

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

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…

Association Rule Mining (ARM) is the task of mining patterns among data features in the form of logical rules, with applications across a myriad of domains. However, high-dimensional datasets often result in an excessive number of rules,…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-01-01 Erkan Karabulut , Paul Groth , Victoria Degeler

Traditional high-utility itemset mining (HUIM) aims to determine all high-utility itemsets (HUIs) that satisfy the minimum utility threshold (\textit{minUtil}) in transaction databases. However, in most applications, not all HUIs are…

Databases · Computer Science 2021-11-02 Jinbao Miao , Shicheng Wan , Wensheng Gan , Jiayi Sun , Jiahui Chen

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

Analyzing sequence data usually leads to the discovery of interesting patterns and then anomaly detection. In recent years, numerous frameworks and methods have been proposed to discover interesting patterns in sequence data as well as…

Databases · Computer Science 2021-12-01 Wensheng Gan , Lili Chen , Shicheng Wan , Jiahui Chen , Chien-Ming Chen

Finding high-importance patterns in data is an emerging data mining task known as High-utility itemset mining (HUIM). Given a minimum utility threshold, a HUIM algorithm extracts all the high-utility itemsets (HUIs) whose utility values are…

Databases · Computer Science 2023-03-28 Shan Huang , Wensheng Gan , Jinbao Miao , Xuming Han , Philippe Fournier-Viger

In the field of data mining and analytics, the utility theory from Economic can bring benefits in many real-life applications. In recent decade, a new research field called utility-oriented mining has already attracted great attention.…

Databases · Computer Science 2019-09-13 Wensheng Gan , Jerry Chun-Wei Lin , Han-Chieh Chao , Hamido Fujita , Philip S. Yu

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

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

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…