Pattern mining: Current challenges and opportunities

P Fournier-Viger, W Gan, Y Wu, M Nouioua… - … on Database Systems …, 2022 - Springer
Pattern mining is a key subfield of data mining that aims at developing algorithms to discover
interesting patterns in databases. The discovered patterns can be used to help …

Targeted mining of top-k high utility itemsets

S Huang, W Gan, J Miao, X Han… - … Applications of Artificial …, 2023 - Elsevier
Finding high-importance patterns in data is an emerging data mining task known as High-
utility itemset mining (HUIM). Given a minimum utility threshold, a HUIM algorithm extracts all …

Targeted mining of contiguous sequential patterns

K Hu, W Gan, S Huang, H Peng, P Fournier-Viger - Information Sciences, 2024 - Elsevier
In recent years, sequential pattern mining (SPM) has been applied in many domains,
including recommender systems, fraud detection, and other related industries. Target …

TaSPM: Targeted sequential pattern mining

G Huang, W Gan, PS Yu - ACM Transactions on Knowledge Discovery …, 2024 - dl.acm.org
Sequential pattern mining (SPM) is an important technique in the field of pattern mining,
which has many applications in reality. Although many efficient SPM algorithms have been …

Targeted high-utility itemset querying

J Miao, S Wan, W Gan, J Sun… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Traditional high-utility itemset mining (HUIM) aims to determine all high-utility itemsets
(HUIs) that satisfy the minimum utility threshold in transaction databases. However, in most …

TUSQ: Targeted high-utility sequence querying

C Zhang, Q Dai, Z Du, W Gan, J Weng… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Significant efforts have been expended in the research and development of a database
management system (DBMS) that has a wide range of applications for managing an …

TALENT: Targeted mining of non-overlapping sequential patterns

Z Chen, W Gan, G Huang, Z Qi, Y Li, PS Yu - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2023 - arxiv.org
With the widespread application of efficient pattern mining algorithms, sequential patterns
that allow gap constraints have become a valuable tool to discover knowledge from …

Survey on using constraints in data mining

V Grossi, A Romei, F Turini - Data mining and knowledge discovery, 2017 - Springer
This paper provides an overview of the current state-of-the-art on using constraints in
knowledge discovery and data mining. The use of constraints in a data mining task requires …

Incremental Targeted Mining in Sequences

K Hu, W Gan, G Huang, G Chen… - 2023 IEEE 10th …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
High utility sequential pattern mining (HUSPM) is a critical research topic in data analytics
(eg, smart-city technologies), which takes into consideration three pivotal factors of data …

Towards target sequential rules

W Gan, G Huang, J Weng, T Gu, PS Yu - arXiv preprint arXiv:2206.04728, 2022 - arxiv.org
In many real-world applications, sequential rule mining (SRM) can provide prediction and
recommendation functions for a variety of services. It is an important technique of pattern …