On probabilistic models for uncertain sequential pattern mining

  • Authors:
  • Muhammad Muzammal;Rajeev Raman

  • Affiliations:
  • Department of Computer Science, University of Leicester, UK;Department of Computer Science, University of Leicester, UK

  • Venue:
  • ADMA'10 Proceedings of the 6th international conference on Advanced data mining and applications: Part I
  • Year:
  • 2010

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Abstract

We study uncertainty models in sequential pattern mining. We consider situations where there is uncertainty either about a source or an event. We show that both these types of uncertainties could be modelled using probabilistic databases, and give possible-worlds semantics for both. We then describe "interestingness" criteria based on two notions of frequentness (previously studied for frequent itemset mining) namely expected support [C. Aggarwal et al. KDD'09;Chui et al., PAKDD'07,'08] and probabilistic frequentness [Bernecker et al., KDD'09]. We study the interestingness criteria from a complexity-theoretic perspective, and show that in case of source-level uncertainty, evaluating probabilistic frequentness is #P-complete, and thus no polynomial time algorithms are likely to exist, but evaluate the interestingness predicate in polynomial time in the remaining cases.