A Fast Algorithm for Mining Top-Rank-k Erasable Closed Patterns

The task of mining erasable patterns(EPs)is a data mining problem that can help factory managers come up with the best product plans for the future.This problem has been studied by many scientists in recent times,and many approaches for mining EPs have been proposed.Erasable closed patterns(ECPs)are an abbreviated representation of EPs and can be con-sidered condensed representations of EPs without information loss.Current methods of mining ECPs identify huge numbers of such patterns,whereas intelligent systems only need a small number.A ranking process therefore needs to be applied prior to use,which causes a reduction in efficiency.To overcome this limitation,this study presents a robust method for mining top-rank-k ECPs in which the mining and ranking phases are combined into a single step.First,we propose a virtual-threshold-based pruning strategy to improve the mining speed.Based on this strategy and dPidset structure,we then develop a fast algorithm for mining top-rank-k ECPs,which we call TRK-ECP.Finally,we carry out experiments to compare the runtime of our TRK-ECP algorithm with two algorithms modified from dVM and TEPUS(Top-rank-k Erasable Pattern mining Using the Subsume concept),which are state-of-the-art algorithms for mining top-rank-k EPs.The results for the running time confirm that TRK-ECP outperforms the other experimental approaches in terms of mining the top-rank-k ECPs.

Efficient Mining of Frequent Closed XML Query Pattern

Previous research works have presented convincing arguments that a frequent pattern mining algorithm should not mine all frequent but only the closed ones because the latter leads to not only more compact yet complete result set but also better efficiency. Upon discovery of frequent closed XML query patterns, indexing and caching can be effectively adopted for query performance enhancement. Most of the previous algorithms for finding frequent patterns basically introduced a straightforward generate-and-test strategy. In this paper, we present SOLARIA＊, an efficient algorithm for mining frequent closed XML query patterns without candidate maintenance and costly tree-containment checking. Efficient algorithm of sequence mining is involved in discovering frequent tree-structured patterns, which aims at replacing expensive containment testing with cheap parent-child checking in sequences. SOLARIA＊ deeply prunes unrelated search space for frequent pattern enumeration by parent-child relationship constraint. By a thorough experimental study on various real-life data, we demonstrate the efficiency and scalability of SOLARIA＊ over the previous known alternative. SOLARIA＊ is also linearly scalable in terms of XML queries＇ size.