Discovery of Actionable Patterns in Databases: The Action Hierarchy Approach

An approach to defining actionability as a measure of interestingness of patterns is proposed. This approach is based on the concept of an action hierarchy which is defined as a tree of actions with patterns and pattern templates (data mining queries) assigned to its nodes. A method for discovering actionable patterns is presented and various techniques for optimizing the discovery process are proposed.

• Type: Conference
• Year: 1997
• Where: KDD
• Authors: Gediminas Adomavicius, Alexander Tuzhilin
• Keywords: Action Hierarchy, Actionable Patterns, Data Mining, Data Mining Queries, KDD 1997