Classification is one of the most essential tasks in data mining. Unlike other methods, associative classification tries to find all the frequent patterns existing in the input...
Graphs are being increasingly used to model a wide range of scientific data. Such widespread usage of graphs has generated considerable interest in mining patterns from graph datab...
In this chapter we consider a cell phone network as a set of automatically deployed sensors that records movement and interaction patterns of the population. We discuss methods fo...
The application of frequent patterns in classification has demonstrated its power in recent studies. It often adopts a two-step approach: frequent pattern (or classification rule) ...
The problem of automatically classifying the gender of a blog author has important applications in many commercial domains. Existing systems mainly use features such as words, wor...