Generating Frequent Patterns with the Frequent Pattern List

  • Authors:
  • Fan-Chen Tseng;Ching-Chi Hsu

  • Affiliations:
  • -;-

  • Venue:
  • PAKDD '01 Proceedings of the 5th Pacific-Asia Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining
  • Year:
  • 2001

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Abstract

The generation of frequent patterns (or frequent itemsets) has been studied in various areas of data mining. Most of the studies take the Apriori-based generation-and-test approach, which is computationally costly in the generation of candidate frequent patterns. Methods like frequent pattern trees has been utilized to avoid candidate set generation, but they work with more complicated data structures. In this paper, we propose another approach to mining frequent patterns without candidate generation. Our approach uses a simple linear list called Frequent Pattern List (FPL). By performing simple operations on FPLs, we can discover frequent patterns easily. Two algorithms, FPL-Construction and FPL-Mining, are proposed to construct the FPL and generate frequent patterns from the FPL, respectively.