Fun at a department store: data mining meets switching theory

  • Authors:
  • Anna Bernasconi;Valentina Ciriani;Fabrizio Luccio;Linda Pagli

  • Affiliations:
  • Dipartimento di Informatica, Università di Pisa, Italy;Dipartimento di Tecnologie dell'Informazione, Università degli Studi di Milano, Italy;Dipartimento di Informatica, Università di Pisa, Italy;Dipartimento di Informatica, Università di Pisa, Italy

  • Venue:
  • FUN'10 Proceedings of the 5th international conference on Fun with algorithms
  • Year:
  • 2010

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Abstract

In this paper we introduce new algebraic forms, SOP+ and DSOP+, to represent functions f : {0,1}n → N, based on arithmetic sums of products. These expressions are a direct generalization of the classical SOP and DSOP forms. We propose optimal and heuristic algorithms for minimal SOP+ and DSOP+ synthesis. We then show how the DSOP+ form can be exploited for Data Mining applications. In particular we propose a new compact representation for the database of transactions to be used by the LCM algorithms for mining frequent closed itemsets.