A data mining approach to discovering reliable sequential patterns

  • Authors:
  • Huan-Jyh Shyur;Chichang Jou;Keng Chang

  • Affiliations:
  • -;-;-

  • Venue:
  • Journal of Systems and Software
  • Year:
  • 2013

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Abstract

Sequential pattern mining is a data mining method for obtaining frequent sequential patterns in a sequential database. Conventional sequence data mining methods could be divided into two categories: Apriori-like methods and pattern growth methods. In a sequential pattern, probability of time between two adjacent events could provide valuable information for decision-makers. As far as we know, there has been no methodology developed to extract this probability in the sequential pattern mining process. We extend the PrefixSpan algorithm and propose a new sequential pattern mining approach: P-PrefixSpan. Besides minimum support-count constraint, this approach imposes minimum time-probability constraint, so that fewer but more reliable patterns will be obtained. P-PrefixSpan is compared with PrefixSpan in terms of number of patterns obtained and execution efficiency. Our experimental results show that P-PrefixSpan is an efficient and scalable method for sequential pattern mining.