Efficient strategies for tough aggregate constraint-based sequential pattern mining
Information Sciences: an International Journal
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Sequential pattern mining is now widely used in various areas, such as the analysis of biological sequences, Web access patterns, customer purchase patterns and etc. In this paper, we propose a new definition for M-sequences. Also we present multiple supports: local support, total support, and distribution support for their related mining of local sequential patterns, total sequential patterns and existence sequential patterns. Based on multiple supports, a multi-supports-based sequential pattern mining algorithm is developed which can be generally applied to find such patterns.