Mining top-k maximal reference sequences from streaming web click-sequences with a damped sliding window

Online mining of path traversal patterns from continuous Web click streams is one of the challenging research problems of Web usage mining. Most of previous works focus on mining path traversal patterns over the entire history of Web click streams. Mining the recent changes of Web click streams can provide valuable information for the analysis of the Web click streams. In this paper, we propose a new, online mining algorithm, called Top-DSW (top-k path traversal patterns of stream Damped Sliding Window), to discover the set of top-k path traversal patterns from streaming maximal forward references, where k is the desired number of path traversal patterns to be mined. An effective summary data structure, called TKP-DSW-list (a list of top-k path traversal patterns of stream Damped Sliding Windows) is developed to maintain the essential information about the top-k path traversal patterns from the maximal forward references within a stream damped sliding window. An effective space pruning mechanism, called TKR-list-maintain, is developed to control the memory requirement of the TKP-DSW-list. Experimental studies show that the proposed Top-DSW algorithm is an efficient, single-pass algorithm for online mining of the set of top-k path traversal patterns over stream damped sliding windows.     

Sliding window based weighted maximal frequent pattern mining over data streams

As data have been accumulated more quickly in recent years, corresponding databases have also become huger, and thus, general frequent pattern mining methods have been faced with limitations that do not appropriately respond to the massive data. To overcome this problem, data mining researchers have studied methods which can conduct more efficient and immediate mining tasks by scanning databases only once. Thereafter, the sliding window model, which can perform mining operations focusing on recently accumulated parts over data streams, was proposed, and a variety of mining approaches related to this have been suggested. However, it is hard to mine all of the frequent patterns in the data stream environment since generated patterns are remarkably increased as data streams are continuously extended. Thus, methods for efficiently compressing generated patterns are needed in order to solve that problem. In addition, since not only support conditions but also weight constraints expressing items’ importance are one of the important factors in the pattern mining, we need to consider them in mining process. Motivated by these issues, we propose a novel algorithm, weighted maximal frequent pattern mining over data streams based on sliding window model (WMFP-SW) to obtain weighted maximal frequent patterns reflecting recent information over data streams. Performance experiments report that MWFP-SW outperforms previous algorithms in terms of runtime, memory usage, and scalability.     

基于滑动窗口的数据流闭合频繁模式的挖掘

频繁闭合模式集惟一确定频繁模式完全集并且数量小得多,然而,如何挖掘滑动窗口中的频繁闭合模式集是一个很大的挑战．根据数据流的特点,提出了一种发现滑动窗口中频繁闭合模式的新方法DS_CFI．DS_CFI算法将滑动窗口分割为若干个基本窗口,以基本窗口为更新单位。利用已有的频繁闭合模式挖掘算法计算每个基本窗口的潜在频繁闭合项集,将它们及其子集存储到一种新的数据结构DSCFI_tree中,DSCFI_tree能够增量更新,利用DSCFI_tree可以快速地挖掘滑动窗口中的所有频繁闭合模式．最后,通过实验验证了这种方法的有效性．     

挖掘数据流滑动时间窗口内Top-K频繁模式

由于数据流滑动时间窗口中流数据包含模式的支持度是动态变化的,很难给出一个合适的支持度门限来挖掘数据流滑动时间窗口内的频繁模式.在研究数据流滑动时间窗口内流数据变化特点的基础上,论文提出了一种挖掘数据流滑动时间窗口内Top-k频繁模式的方法,该方法能够在保证模式挖掘误差基础上快速删除窗口内不频繁模式信息,保留重要的模式信息,并能按照支持度降序输出Top-k频繁模式.仿真实验结果表明,该算法具有较好的效率和正确性,并优于其它同类算法.     

窗口模式下在线数据流中频繁项集的挖掘*

拟采用一种基于滑动窗模式的单遍挖掘算法,专注于处理近期数据;为了减少处理时间和占用的内存,设计了一种新的事务表示方法。通过处理这个事务的表达式,频繁项集可以被高效输出,并解决了使用基于Apriori理论的算法时,由候选频繁1-项集生成频繁2-项集时数据项顺序判断不准确问题。该算法称为MRFI-SW算法。     

数据流中基于滑动窗口的序列模式挖掘算法

序列模式发现是最重要的数据挖掘任务之一,并有着广阔的应用前景。针对静态数据库,序列模式挖掘已经被深入地研究,但针对基于数据流的序列模式挖掘的研究还不是十分深入。数据流有着无限性的特性,因此往往不能保存数据流中全部的数据,同时很多时候只对最近的时间段的序列模式感兴趣,提出一个有效的结合滑动窗口技术的挖掘序列模式的算法FPM-SW,算法利用到3个数据结构（PatternTable,CountTable和Ta-tree）来处理基于数据流的序列模式挖掘的复杂性问题。算法通过CountTable结构来保存以往的潜在频繁序列,考虑到在某些情况下CountTable占用内存过多,算法还结合了一种压缩CountTable技术来减少内存占用。FPM-SW的优点是可以最大限度地降低负正例的产生,实验表明FPM-SW具有较高的准确率。     

数据流频繁模式挖掘综述

一些先进应用如欺诈检测和趋势学习等带来了数据流频繁模式挖掘的发展。不同于静态数据,数据流挖掘面临着时空约束和项集组合爆炸等问题。对已有数据流频繁模式挖掘算法进行综述并对经典和最新算法进行分析。按照模式集合的完整程度进行分类,数据流中频繁模式分为全集模式和压缩模式。压缩模式主要包括闭合模式、最大模式、top-k模式以及三者的组合模式。不同之处是闭合模式是无损压缩的,而其他模式是有损压缩的。为了得到有趣的频繁模式,可以挖掘基于用户约束的模式。为了处理数据流中的新近事务,将算法分为基于窗口模型和基于衰减模型的方法。数据流中模式挖掘常见的还包含序列模式和高效用模式,对经典和最新算法进行介绍。最后给出了数据流模式挖掘的下一步工作。     

Interactive mining of high utility patterns over data streams

High utility pattern (HUP) mining over data streams has become a challenging research issue in data mining. When a data stream flows through, the old information may not be interesting in the current time period. Therefore, incremental HUP mining is necessary over data streams. Even though some methods have been proposed to discover recent HUPs by using a sliding window, they suffer from the level-wise candidate generation-and-test problem. Hence, they need a large amount of execution time and memory. Moreover, their data structures are not suitable for interactive mining. To solve these problems of the existing algorithms, in this paper, we propose a novel tree structure, called HUS-tree (high utility stream tree) and a new algorithm, called HUPMS (high utility pattern mining over stream data) for incremental and interactive HUP mining over data streams with a sliding window. By capturing the important information of stream data into an HUS-tree, our HUPMS algorithm can mine all the HUPs in the current window with a pattern growth approach. Furthermore, HUS-tree is very efficient for interactive mining. Extensive performance analyses show that our algorithm is very efficient for incremental and interactive HUP mining over data streams and significantly outperforms the existing sliding window-based HUP mining algorithms.     

Sliding window-based frequent pattern mining over data streams

Finding frequent patterns in a continuous stream of transactions is critical for many applications such as retail market data analysis, network monitoring, web usage mining, and stock market prediction. Even though numerous frequent pattern mining algorithms have been developed over the past decade, new solutions for handling stream data are still required due to the continuous, unbounded, and ordered sequence of data elements generated at a rapid rate in a data stream. Therefore, extracting frequent patterns from more recent data can enhance the analysis of stream data. In this paper, we propose an efficient technique to discover the complete set of recent frequent patterns from a high-speed data stream over a sliding window. We develop a Compact Pattern Stream tree (CPS-tree) to capture the recent stream data content and efficiently remove the obsolete, old stream data content. We also introduce the concept of dynamic tree restructuring in our CPS-tree to produce a highly compact frequency-descending tree structure at runtime. The complete set of recent frequent patterns is obtained from the CPS-tree of the current window using an FP-growth mining technique. Extensive experimental analyses show that our CPS-tree is highly efficient in terms of memory and time complexity when finding recent frequent patterns from a high-speed data stream.     

Efficient algorithms for mining maximal high utility itemsets from data streams with different models

Data stream mining is an emerging research topic in the data mining field. Finding frequent itemsets is one of the most important tasks in data stream mining with wide applications like online e-business and web click-stream analysis. However, two main problems existed in relevant studies: (1) The utilities (e.g., importance or profits) of items are not considered. Actual utilities of patterns cannot be reflected in frequent itemsets. (2) Existing utility mining methods produce too many patterns and this makes it difficult for the users to filter useful patterns among the huge set of patterns. In view of this, in this paper we propose a novel framework, named GUIDE (Generation of maximal high Utility Itemsets from Data strEams), to find maximal high utility itemsets from data streams with different models, i.e., landmark, sliding window and time fading models. The proposed structure, named MUI-Tree (Maximal high Utility Itemset Tree), maintains essential information for the mining processes and the proposed strategies further facilitates the performance of GUIDE. Main contributions of this paper are as follows: (1) To the best of our knowledge, this is the first work on mining the compact form of high utility patterns from data streams; (2) GUIDE is an effective one-pass framework which meets the requirements of data stream mining; (3) GUIDE generates novel patterns which are not only high utility but also maximal, which provide compact and insightful hidden information in the data streams. Experimental results show that our approach outperforms the state-of-the-art algorithms under various conditions in data stream environments on different models.     

MEMSA: mining emerging melody structures from music query data

Effective and efficient mining of music structure patterns from music query data is one of the most interesting issues of multimedia data mining. In this paper, we introduce a new kind of pattern, called emerging melody structure (EMS), for knowledge discovery from music melody streams. EMSs are defined as music data items with melody strings whose support increase significantly from one sliding window to another window from streaming melody sequences. The discovered EMS can be used to predict the future trend of online music style recommendation, to personalize the Web service of music downloading priority, for music composers to compose new music or for service provider to collect more similar music. Therefore, an efficient data mining approach, called MEMSA (Mining Emerging Melody Structure Algorithm), is proposed to discover all EMSs from streaming music query data over sliding windows. In the framework of MEMSA, a prefix tree-based data structure, called EMS-tree (Emerging Melody Structure tree), is constructed for maintaining temporal EMSs effectively. Experimental results show that the proposed method MEMSA is an efficient algorithm for mining all EMSs from streaming melody sequences efficiently.     

Stream mining on univariate uncertain data

In this paper, we propose mining frequent patterns from univariate uncertain data streams, which have a quantitative interval for each attribute in a transaction and a probability density function indicating the possibilities that the values in the interval appear. Many data streams comprise flows of univariate uncertain data, for example, the records of atmospheric pollution sensors, and network monitoring records. We propose two algorithms to address this issue: the ExactU2Stream algorithm and the ApproxiU2Stream algorithm. The former incrementally stores the incoming transactions, and delays the mining process until it is requested. The latter mines the transactions immediately when they arrive, and stores the derived frequent patterns. Compared with the latter, the former returns results that are more accurate, but it also requires more response time. Both algorithms utilize the sliding window scheme, which decomposes the continuous data stream into discrete, overlapping chunks. The proposed algorithms outperform the compared methods in terms of runtime and memory usage. We have applied the two proposed algorithms to the data streams recording the air quality in Taiwan; the derived frequent patterns not only show the common air quality in Taiwan but also show the extremely bad air quality when a sand storm affects Taiwan.     

Interactive mining of top-K frequent closed itemsets from data streams

Mining closed frequent itemsets from data streams is of interest recently. However, it is not easy for users to determine a proper minimum support threshold. Hence, it is more reasonable to ask users to set a bound on the result size. Therefore, an interactive single-pass algorithm, called TKC-DS (top-K frequent closed itemsets of data streams), is proposed for mining top-K closed itemsets from data streams efficiently. A novel data structure, called CIL (closed itemset lattice), is developed for maintaining the essential information of closed itemsets generated so far. Experimental results show that the proposed TKC-DS algorithm is an efficient method for mining top-K frequent itemsets from data streams.     

基于数据流频繁闭合模式的挖掘

用挖掘频繁闭合模式集代替挖掘频繁模式集是近年来提出的一个重要策略。根据数据流的特点,提出了一种基于滑动窗口的频繁闭合模式的新方法DSFC_Mine。该算法以滑动窗口中的基本窗口为更新单位,利用改进的CHARM算法计算每个基本窗口的潜在频繁闭合项集,将它们存储到一种新的数据结构中,利用该数据结构可以快速地挖掘滑动窗口中的所有频繁闭合项集。实验验证了该算法在时间上和空间上的可行性和有效性。     

概念漂移数据流挖掘算法综述

数据流是一种新型的数据模型,具有动态、无限、高维、有序、高速和变化等特性。在真实的数据流环境中,一些数据分布是随着时间改变的,即具有概念漂移特征,称为可变数据流或概念漂移数据流。因此处理数据流模型的方法需要处理时空约束和自适应调整概念变化。对概念漂移问题和概念漂移数据流分类、聚类和模式挖掘等内容进行综述。首先介绍概念漂移的类型和常用概念改变检测方法。为了解决概念漂移问题,数据流挖掘中常使用滑动窗口模型对新近事务进行处理。数据流分类常用的模型包括单分类模型和集成分类模型,常用的方法包括决策树、分类关联规则等。数据流聚类方式通常包括基于k- means的和非基于k- means的。模式挖掘可以为分类、聚类和关联规则等提供有用信息。概念漂移数据流中的模式包括频繁模式、序列模式、episode、模式树、模式图和高效用模式等。最后详细介绍其中的频繁模式挖掘算法和高效用模式挖掘算法。     

数据流最大频繁项挖掘方法

提出基于事务矩阵挖掘最大频繁项集的方法AFMI,该方法采取迭代精简事务矩阵的方式求解所有事务中的最大频繁项集,从精简后的事务向量交集的子集中搜索最大频繁项集,并运用逻辑运算和剪枝方法提高挖掘效率。基于AFMI方法,研究挖掘滑动窗口数据流最大频繁项集算法AFMI+,该算法可使用户周期性地挖掘当前窗口中的最大频繁项集。实验结果表明,AFMI和AFMI+算法均具有较好的性能。     

基于AO算法的数据流频繁项集挖掘

In view of a series of problems existing in support update, window update mode and frequent k-itemset mining of traditional frequent itemset mining algorithm in data flow, which results in low efficiency of space and time,an efficient AO algorithm for mining frequent itemsets in data streams is improved. The algorithm uses the idea of sliding window to mine the data stream in blocks; when there is new data flowing in the full window, the residual insertion is used to update the data; and operation is used to solve the support degree of frequent k-itemsets, and the superset detection is combined in the mining process, which greatly improves the mining efficiency.The experimental results show that the algorithm has good superiority in both time and space efficiency.     

Towards a variable size sliding window model for frequent itemset mining over data streams

Sliding window is a widely used model for data stream mining due to its emphasis on recent data and its bounded memory requirement. The main idea behind a transactional sliding window is to keep a fixed size window over a data stream. The window size is kept constant by removing old transactions from the window, when new transactions arrive. Older transactions of window are removed irrespective to whether a significant change has occurred or not. Another challenge of sliding window model is determining window size. The classic approach for determining the window size is to obtain it from the user. In order to determine the precise size of the window, the user must have prior knowledge about the time and scale of changes within the data stream. However, due to the unpredictable changing nature of data streams, this prior knowledge cannot be easily determined. Moreover, by using a fixed window size during a data stream mining, the performance of this model is degraded in terms of reflecting recent changes. Based on these observations, this study relaxes the notion of window size and proposes a new algorithm named VSW (Variable Size sliding Window frequent itemset mining) which is suitable for observing recent changes in the set of frequent itemsets over data streams. The window size is determined dynamically based on amounts of concept change that occurs within the arriving data stream. The window expands as the concept becomes stable and shrinks when a concept change occurs. In this study, it is shown that if stale transactions are removed from the window after a concept change, updated frequent itemsets always belong to the most recent concept. Experimental evaluations on both synthetic and real data show that our algorithm effectively detects the concept change, adjust the window size, and adapts itself to the new concepts along the data stream.     

改进的多数据流协同频繁项集挖掘算法

针对已有的多数据流协同频繁项集挖掘算法存在内存占用率高以及发现频繁项集效率低的问题,提出了改进的多数据流协同频繁项集挖掘（MCMD-Stream）算法。首先,该算法利用单遍扫描数据库的字节序列滑动窗口挖掘算法发现数据流中的潜在频繁项集和频繁项集;其次,构建类似频繁模式树（FP-Tree）的压缩频繁模式树（CP-Tree）存储已发现的潜在频繁项集和频繁项集,同时更新CP-Tree树中每个节点生成的对数倾斜时间表中的频繁项计数;最后,通过汇总分析得出在多条数据流中多次出现的且有价值的频繁项集,即协同频繁项集。相比A-Stream和H-Stream算法,MCMD-Stream算法不仅能够提高多数据流中协同频繁项集挖掘的效率,并且还降低了内存空间的使用率。实验结果表明MCMD-Stream算法能够有效地应用于多数据流的协同频繁项集挖掘。     

Mining top-K frequent itemsets from data streams

Frequent pattern mining on data streams is of interest recently. However, it is not easy for users to determine a proper frequency threshold. It is more reasonable to ask users to set a bound on the result size. We study the problem of mining top K frequent itemsets in data streams. We introduce a method based on the Chernoff bound with a guarantee of the output quality and also a bound on the memory usage. We also propose an algorithm based on the Lossy Counting Algorithm. In most of the experiments of the two proposed algorithms, we obtain perfect solutions and the memory space occupied by our algorithms is very small. Besides, we also propose the adapted approach of these two algorithms in order to handle the case when we are interested in mining the data in a sliding window. The experiments show that the results are accurate.