Closeness Preference - A new interestingness measure for sequential rules mining

  • Authors:
  • Ion Railean;Philippe Lenca;Sorin Moga;Monica Borda

  • Affiliations:
  • Institut Telecom, Telecom Bretagne, UMR CNRS 6285 Lab-STICC, Université européene de Bretagne, France, Technopôle Brest-Iroise, CS 83818, 29238 Brest Cedex 3, France and Technical U ...;Institut Telecom, Telecom Bretagne, UMR CNRS 6285 Lab-STICC, Université européene de Bretagne, France, Technopôle Brest-Iroise, CS 83818, 29238 Brest Cedex 3, France;Institut Telecom, Telecom Bretagne, UMR CNRS 6285 Lab-STICC, Université européene de Bretagne, France, Technopôle Brest-Iroise, CS 83818, 29238 Brest Cedex 3, France;Technical University of Cluj-Napoca, Faculty of Electronics, Telecommunications and Information Technology, 26-28 Baritiu Street, 400027 Cluj-Napoca, Romania

  • Venue:
  • Knowledge-Based Systems
  • Year:
  • 2013

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Abstract

The time-interval between the antecedent and the consequent of a sequential rule can be considered as an important aspect in sequential rules interest. For example, in web logs analysis, the end-user can be interested in predicting the next page that will be visited by an internet surfer based on a history of visited pages. A Closeness Preference measure is proposed to favour the sequential rules with close itemsets based on user time-preference in a post-processing step. We illustrate the interest of the Closeness Preference measure with two real datasets (web logs data and activities of daily living data) for first, a predictive task and second, a descriptive one. Both of them show that Closeness Preference measure is helpful to find small and efficient sets of simple sequential rules.