Title
Flexible Frameworks for Actionable Knowledge Discovery
Abstract
Most data mining algorithms and tools stop at the mining and delivery of patterns satisfying expected technical interestingness. There are often many patterns mined but business people either are not interested in them or do not know what follow-up actions to take to support their business decisions. This issue has seriously affected the widespread employment of advanced data mining techniques in greatly promoting enterprise operational quality and productivity. In this paper, we present a formal view of actionable knowledge discovery (AKD) from the system and decision-making perspectives. AKD is a closed optimization problem-solving process from problem definition, framework/model design to actionable pattern discovery, and is designed to deliver operable business rules that can be seamlessly associated or integrated with business processes and systems. To support such processes, we correspondingly propose, formalize, and illustrate four types of generic AKD frameworks: Postanalysis-based AKD, Unified-Interestingness-based AKD, Combined-Mining-based AKD, and Multisource Combined-Mining-based AKD (MSCM-AKD). A real-life case study of MSCM-based AKD is demonstrated to extract debt prevention patterns from social security data. Substantial experiments show that the proposed frameworks are sufficiently general, flexible, and practical to tackle many complex problems and applications by extracting actionable deliverables for instant decision making.
Year
DOI
Venue
2010
10.1109/TKDE.2009.143
IEEE Trans. Knowl. Data Eng.
Keywords
Field
DocType
business process,postanalysis-based akd,mscm-based akd,unified-interestingness-based akd,flexible frameworks,business decision,combined-mining-based akd,operable business rule,actionable knowledge discovery,generic akd framework,business people,multisource combined-mining-based akd,knowledge discovery,design optimization,satisfiability,optimization problem,productivity,data mining,business rules,business processes,data security
Data science,Data mining,Data security,Business process,Computer science,Expert system,Decision support system,Knowledge extraction,Case-based reasoning,Business rule,Design pattern
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
22
9
1041-4347
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
25
1.08
30
Authors
6
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Longbing Cao12212185.04
Yanchang Zhao223320.01
Huaifeng Zhang324018.84
Dan Luo4384.65
Chengqi Zhang53636274.41
E. K. Park6251.08