Title
Mining Decision Rules from Deterministic Finite Automata
Abstract
This paper presents a novel approach for knowledge discovery from sequential data. Instead of mining the examples in their sequential form, we suppose they have been processed by a machine learning algorithm that has generalized them into a deterministic finite automaton (DFA). Thus, we present a theoretical framework to extract decision rules from this DFA. Our method relies on statistical inference theory and contrary to usual support-based frequent pattern mining techniques it does not depend on such a global threshold, but rather allows us to determine an adaptive relevance threshold. Various experiments show the advantage of mining DFA instead of mining sequences.
Year
DOI
Venue
2004
10.1109/ICTAI.2004.86
ICTAI
Keywords
Field
DocType
data mining,decision theory,deterministic automata,finite automata,inference mechanisms,learning (artificial intelligence),pattern matching,very large databases,decision rule mining,deterministic finite automata,knowledge discovery,machine learning algorithm,pattern mining,sequential data mining,statistical inference theory,very large database
Data mining,Computer science,Theoretical computer science,Artificial intelligence,Decision theory,Statistical inference,Decision rule,Deterministic finite automaton,Finite-state machine,DFA minimization,Knowledge extraction,Pattern matching,Machine learning
Conference
ISSN
ISBN
Citations 
1082-3409
0-7695-2236-X
0
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.34
0
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Francois Jacquenet171.16
Marc Sebban290661.18
Georges Valetudie300.68