MINING SEQUENTIAL PATTERNS WITH REGULAR EXPRESSION CONSTRAINTS USING SEQUENTIAL PATTERN TREE

Meer Hamza, Khaled Mahar, Mohamed Younis

2004

Abstract

The significant growth of sequence database sizes in recent years increase the importance of developing new techniques for data organization and query processing. Discovering sequential patterns is an important problem in data mining with a host of application domains. For effectiveness and efficiency consideration, constraints are essential for many sequential applications. In this paper, we give a brief review of different sequential pattern mining algorithms, and then introduce a new algorithm (termed NewSPIRIT) for mining frequent sequential patterns that satisfy user specified regular expression constraints. The general idea of our algorithm is to use a finite state automata to represent the regular expression constraints and build a sequential pattern tree that represents all sequences of data which satisfy this constraints by scanning the database of sequences only once. Experimental results shows that our NewSPIRIT is much more efficient than existing algorithms.

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Hamza M., Mahar K. and Younis M. (2004). MINING SEQUENTIAL PATTERNS WITH REGULAR EXPRESSION CONSTRAINTS USING SEQUENTIAL PATTERN TREE . In Proceedings of the Sixth International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems - Volume 2: ICEIS, ISBN 972-8865-00-7, pages 116-121. DOI: 10.5220/0002621601160121


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@conference{iceis04,
author={Meer Hamza and Khaled Mahar and Mohamed Younis},
title={MINING SEQUENTIAL PATTERNS WITH REGULAR EXPRESSION CONSTRAINTS USING SEQUENTIAL PATTERN TREE},
booktitle={Proceedings of the Sixth International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems - Volume 2: ICEIS,},
year={2004},
pages={116-121},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0002621601160121},
isbn={972-8865-00-7},
}


in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the Sixth International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems - Volume 2: ICEIS,
TI - MINING SEQUENTIAL PATTERNS WITH REGULAR EXPRESSION CONSTRAINTS USING SEQUENTIAL PATTERN TREE
SN - 972-8865-00-7
AU - Hamza M.
AU - Mahar K.
AU - Younis M.
PY - 2004
SP - 116
EP - 121
DO - 10.5220/0002621601160121