Introducing Uncertainty into Pattern Discovery in Temporal Event Sequences

  • Authors:
  • Xingzhi Sun;Maria E. Orlowska;Xue Li

  • Affiliations:
  • -;-;-

  • Venue:
  • ICDM '03 Proceedings of the Third IEEE International Conference on Data Mining
  • Year:
  • 2003

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Abstract

Pattern discovery in temporal event sequences is of greatimportance in many application domains, such as telecommunicationnetwork fault analysis. In reality, not every typeof event has an accurate timestamp. Some of them, definedas inaccurate events in this paper, may only have an intervalas possible time of occurrence. The existence of inaccurateevents may cause uncertainty in event ordering. Thetraditional support model cannot deal with this uncertainty,which would cause some interesting patterns to be missing.In this paper, a new concept, precise support, is introducedto evaluate the probability of a pattern contained in a sequence.Based on this new metric, we define the uncertaintymodel and present an algorithm to discover interesting patternsin the sequence database that has one type of inaccurateevent. In our model, the number of types of inaccurateevents can be extended to k readily, however, at a cost ofincreasing computational complexity.