iTM: An Efficient Algorithm for Frequent Pattern Mining in the Incremental Database without Rescanning

  • Authors:
  • Bi-Ru Dai;Pai-Yu Lin

  • Affiliations:
  • Department of Computer Science and Information Engineering, National Taiwan University of Science and Technology, Taipei, Taiwan, ROC;Department of Computer Science and Information Engineering, National Taiwan University of Science and Technology, Taipei, Taiwan, ROC

  • Venue:
  • IEA/AIE '09 Proceedings of the 22nd International Conference on Industrial, Engineering and Other Applications of Applied Intelligent Systems: Next-Generation Applied Intelligence
  • Year:
  • 2009

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Abstract

Frequent pattern mining plays an important role in the data mining community since it is usually a fundamental step in various mining tasks. However, maintenance of frequent patterns is very expensive in the incremental database. In addition, the status of a pattern changes with time. In other words, a frequent pattern is possible to become infrequent, and vice versa. In order to exactly find all frequent patterns, most algorithms have to scan the original database completely whenever an update occurs. In this paper, we propose a new algorithm iTM, stands for incremental Transaction Mapping algorithm for incremental frequent pattern mining without rescanning the whole database. It transfers the transaction dataset to the vertical representation such that the incremental dataset can be integrated to the original database easily. As demonstrated in our experiments, the proposed method is very efficient and suitable for mining frequent patterns in the incremental database.