Sequential pattern mining aims to find frequent patterns (guarded by a minimum support) in a database of sequences. As the support decreases the number of sequential patterns will...
The single minimum support (minsup) based frequent pattern mining approaches like Apriori and FP-growth suffer from“rare item problem”while extracting frequent patterns. That...
Abstract—In this paper we have proposed an improved approach to extract rare association rules. Rare association rules are the association rules containing rare items. Rare items...
When companies seek for the combination of products which can constantly generate high profit, the association rule mining (ARM) or the utility mining will not achieve such task. ...
—The strategies for mining frequent itemsets, which is the essential part of discovering association rules, have been widely studied over the last decade. In real-world datasets,...