In the Search of NECTARs from Evolutionary Trees

  • Authors:
  • Ling Chen;Sourav S. Bhowmick

  • Affiliations:
  • L3S, University of Hannover, Germany;School of Computer Engineering, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore

  • Venue:
  • DASFAA '09 Proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Database Systems for Advanced Applications
  • Year:
  • 2009

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Abstract

Mining trees is very useful in domains like bioinformatics, web mining, mining semi-structured data, and so on. These efforts largely assumed that the trees are static. However, in many real applications, tree data are evolutionary in nature. In this paper, we focus on mining evolution patterns from historical tree-structured data. Specifically, we propose a novel approach to discover negatively correlated subtree patterns (nectar s) from a sequence of historical versions of unordered trees.The objective is to extract subtrees that are negatively correlated in undergoing structural changes. We propose an algorithm called nectar -Miner based on a set of evolution metrics to extract nectar s. nectar s can be useful in several applications such as maintaining mirrors of a website and maintaining xml path selectivity estimation. Extensive experiments show that the proposed algorithm has good performance and can discover nectar s accurately.