Title
A unified view of the apriori-based algorithms for frequent episode discovery
Abstract
Frequent episode discovery framework is a popular framework in temporal data mining with many applications. Over the years, many different notions of frequencies of episodes have been proposed along with different algorithms for episode discovery. In this paper, we present a unified view of all the apriori-based discovery methods for serial episodes under these different notions of frequencies. Specifically, we present a unified view of the various frequency counting algorithms. We propose a generic counting algorithm such that all current algorithms are special cases of it. This unified view allows one to gain insights into different frequencies, and we present quantitative relationships among different frequencies. Our unified view also helps in obtaining correctness proofs for various counting algorithms as we show here. It also aids in understanding and obtaining the anti-monotonicity properties satisfied by the various frequencies, the properties exploited by the candidate generation step of any apriori-based method. We also point out how our unified view of counting helps to consider generalization of the algorithm to count episodes with general partial orders.
Year
DOI
Venue
2012
10.1007/s10115-011-0408-2
Clinical Orthopaedics and Related Research
Keywords
Field
DocType
different algorithm,frequent episode discovery framework,different notion,different frequency,apriori-based method,unified view,frequent episode mining · serial episodes · apriori-based · frequency notions,apriori-based discovery method,various frequency,episode discovery,apriori-based algorithm,various counting algorithm,satisfiability,electrical engineering,partial order
Data mining,Correctness proofs,Computer science,A priori and a posteriori,Algorithm,Theoretical computer science,Artificial intelligence,Temporal data mining,Machine learning
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
31
2
0219-3116
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
25
0.88
24
Authors
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Avinash Achar1564.34
Srivatsan Laxman242121.65
P. S. Sastry374157.27