Traditional association rules mining cannot meet the demands arising from some real applications. By considering the different values of individual items as utilities, utility mini...
We define sporadic rules as those with low support but high confidence: for example, a rare association of two symptoms indicating a rare disease. To find such rules using the w...
—Defining the support (or frequency) of a subgraph is trivial when a database of graphs is given: it is simply the number of graphs in the database that contain the subgraph. Ho...
For complex data mining queries, query optimization issues arise, similar to those for the traditional database queries. However, few works have applied the cost-based query optim...
Mining frequent patterns in transaction databases, time-series databases, and many other kinds of databases has been studied popularly in data mining research. Most of the previous...