Title
Soft constraints for pattern mining
Abstract
Constraint-based pattern discovery is at the core of numerous data mining tasks. Patterns are extracted with respect to a given set of constraints (frequency, closedness, size, etc). In practice, many constraints require threshold values whose choice is often arbitrary. This difficulty is even harder when several thresholds are required and have to be combined. Moreover, patterns barely missing a threshold will not be extracted even if they may be relevant. The paper advocates the introduction of softness into the pattern discovery process. By using Constraint Programming, we propose efficient methods to relax threshold constraints as well as constraints involved in patterns such as the top-k patterns and the skypatterns. We show the relevance and the efficiency of our approach through a case study in chemoinformatics for discovering toxicophores.
Year
DOI
Venue
2015
10.1007/s10844-013-0281-4
Journal of Intelligent Information Systems
Keywords
Field
DocType
Constraint-based pattern mining,Soft constraints,Soft skypatterns,Constraint Programming,Disjonctive relaxation,Chemoinformatics
Data mining,Constraint (mathematics),Computer science,Constraint programming,Business process discovery,Cheminformatics
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
44
2
0925-9902
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
0
0.34
21
Authors
5
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Willy Ugarte184.91
Patrice Boizumault229431.56
Samir Loudni315221.48
Bruno Crémilleux437334.98
Alban Lepailleur5254.27