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Process discovery generates process models from event logs. Traditionally, an event log is defined as a multiset of traces, where each trace is a sequence of events. The total order of the events in a sequential trace is typically based on…

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…

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

Utilitarian algorithm configuration identifies a parameter setting for a given algorithm that maximizes a user's utility. Utility functions offer a theoretically well-grounded approach to optimizing decision-making under uncertainty and are…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-11-17 Devon Graham , Eros Rojas Velez , Kevin Leyton-Brown

Process mining provides methods to analyse event logs generated by information systems during the execution of processes. It thereby supports the design, validation, and execution of processes in domains ranging from healthcare, through…

Databases · Computer Science 2024-02-06 Mehdi Acheli , Daniela Grigori , Matthias Weidlich

One of the drawbacks of frequent episode mining is that overwhelmingly many of the discovered patterns are redundant. Free-rider episode, as a typical example, consists of a real pattern doped with some additional noise events. Because of…

Databases · Computer Science 2018-05-22 Xiang Ao , Yang Liu , Zhen Huang , Luo Zuo , Qing He

State-of-the-art automatic event detection struggles with interpretability and adaptability to evolving large-scale key events -- unlike episodic structures, which excel in these areas. Often overlooked, episodes represent cohesive clusters…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-06-10 Priyanka Kargupta , Yunyi Zhang , Yizhu Jiao , Siru Ouyang , Jiawei Han

Fuzzy systems have good modeling capabilities in several data science scenarios, and can provide human-explainable intelligence models with explainability and interpretability. In contrast to transaction data, which have been extensively…

Databases · Computer Science 2021-03-31 Wensheng Gan , Zilin Du , Weiping Ding , Chunkai Zhang , Han-Chieh Chao

Now a days, data mining and knowledge discovery methods are applied to a variety of enterprise and engineering disciplines to uncover interesting patterns from databases. The study of Sequential patterns is an important data mining problem…

Databases · Computer Science 2009-06-24 Jigyasa Bisaria , Namita Shrivastava , K. R. Pardasani

Particle filtering is a popular method for inferring latent states in stochastic dynamical systems, whose theoretical properties have been well studied in machine learning and statistics communities. In many control problems, e.g.,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-07-12 Simon S. Du , Wei Hu , Zhiyuan Li , Ruoqi Shen , Zhao Song , Jiajun Wu

The goal of Unsupervised Reinforcement Learning (URL) is to find a reward-agnostic prior policy on a task domain, such that the sample-efficiency on supervised downstream tasks is improved. Although agents initialized with such a prior…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-12-19 Frederik Schubert , Carolin Benjamins , Sebastian Döhler , Bodo Rosenhahn , Marius Lindauer

Complex Event Recognition (CER) systems are a prominent technology for finding user-defined query patterns over large data streams in real time. CER query evaluation is known to be computationally challenging, since it requires maintaining…

Databases · Computer Science 2022-05-30 Marco Bucchi , Alejandro Grez , Andrés Quintana , Cristian Riveros , Stijn Vansummeren

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

Out-of-distribution (OOD) detection is indispensable for machine learning models deployed in the open world. Recently, the use of an auxiliary outlier dataset during training (also known as outlier exposure) has shown promising performance.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-06-29 Yifei Ming , Ying Fan , Yixuan Li

Utility-oriented pattern mining has become an emerging topic since it can reveal high-utility patterns (e.g., itemsets, rules, sequences) from different types of data, which provides more information than the traditional…

Databases · Computer Science 2021-04-01 Wensheng Gan , Jerry Chun-Wei Lin , Jiexiong Zhang , 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

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

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

In this paper, we identify partial correlation information structures that allow for simpler reformulations in evaluating the maximum expected value of mixed integer linear programs with random objective coefficients. To this end, assuming…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-10-25 Divya Padmanabhan , Karthik Natarajan , Karthyek R. A. Murthy

We propose a learning-based framework for efficient power allocation in ad hoc interference networks under episodic constraints. The problem of optimal power allocation -- for maximizing a given network utility metric -- under instantaneous…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-01-22 Arindam Chowdhury , Santiago Paternain , Gunjan Verma , Ananthram Swami , Santiago Segarra