Combined mining approach to generate patterns for complex data

Jan Zizka (Eds) : CCSIT, SIPP, AISC, PDCTA - 2013
pp. 91–97, 2013. © CS & IT-CSCP 2013 DOI : 10.5121/csit.2013.3609
COMBINED MINING APPROACH TO
GENERATE PATTERNS FOR COMPLEX
DATA
Sumit Kumar*, Sweety˟, Manish Kumar˟
IVY Comptech Pvt. Ltd.-Hyderabad*, IIIT-Allahabad˟, India
[sumit78kumar90, sweety.bhagat89, manish.singh76]@gmail.com
ABSTRACT
In Data mining applications, which often involve complex data like multiple heterogeneous data
sources, user preferences, decision-making actions and business impacts etc., the complete
useful information cannot be obtained by using single data mining method in the form of
informative patterns as that would consume more time and space, if and only if it is possible to
join large relevant data sources for discovering patterns consisting of various aspects of useful
information. We consider combined mining as an approach for mining informative patterns
from multiple data-sources or multiple-features or by multiple-methods as per the requirements.
In combined mining approach, we applied Lossy-counting algorithm on each data-source to get
the frequent data item-sets and then get the combined association rules. In multi-feature
combined mining approach, we obtained pair patterns and cluster patterns and then generate
incremental pair patterns and incremental cluster patterns, which cannot be directly generated
by the existing methods. In multi-method combined mining approach, we combine FP-growth
and Bayesian Belief Network to make a classifier to get more informative knowledge.
KEYWORDS
Association Rule Mining, Lossy-Counting Algorithm, Incremental Pair-Patterns, Incremental
Cluster-Patterns, FP-growth, Bayesian Belief Network.
1. INTRODUCTION
In real-time data mining algorithms, data sampling generally not accepted because then it may
miss some important data that may be filtered out during sampling. If we have to deal with some
distinguish large data sets then joining of those data sets into one data set may not be possible as
that would be more time and space consuming. More often this approach of handling multiple
data sources can only be developed for specific cases and cannot be applied for all problems.
Combined mining is a two-to-multistep data mining approach, which involves first mining the
atomic patterns from each individual data source and then combines those atomic patterns into
combined-patterns by pattern-merging method, which is more suitable for a particular problem. In
multi-source combined mining approach, we first find the informative patterns from individual
data source and then generate the combined patterns, which can’t be directly generated by some
traditional algorithms like FP-growth etc. In multi-feature combined mining approach, we
consider features from multiple data sets while generating the informative patterns, where it is
necessary in order to make the patterns more actionable. In case of cluster patterns, we made the
cluster of patterns with same prefix but the remaining data items in the pattern make the results to
be different. The main advantage of our approach is that we don’t need to apply neither any

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pruning method nor any clustering method separately to get the more informative patterns as
during the lossy-counting algorithm’s implementation, we have already prune at the boundary of
the data sources and we also get the most similar data items in the same bucket itself.
2. RELATED WORKS
Kargupta and Park (2002) provide an overview of distributed data mining algorithms, systems
and applications. They pointed out a mismatch between the architecture of most off-the-shelf data
mining systems and the needs of mining systems for distributed applications. They also claim that
such a mismatch may cause a fundamental bottleneck in many distributed applications. Kargupta
et al (1999) presented a framework of collective data mining to conduct distributed data mining
from heterogeneous sites. They point out that in a heterogeneous environment, naïve approaches
to distributed data analysis may lead to incorrect data-model. Chattratichat et al (1999) designed
Kensington software architecture for distributed enterprise data mining, which addresses the
problem of data mining on logical and physical distribution of data and heterogeneous
computational resources. Karypis and Wang (2005) present a new classifier, HARMONY, which
is an example of direct mining for informative patterns as HARMONY directly mines the
resultant set of rules required for classification. G. Dong and J. Li (1999) introduce a new type of
patterns i.e. emerging patterns (EPs), for discovering knowledge from databases. They define EPs
as data item-sets whose support increases more significantly from one to other data-set. They
have used EPs to build very powerful classifiers. W. Fan et al (2008) builds a model based search
tree, which partitions the data onto different nodes and at each node, it directly find out a
discriminative pattern, which further divide its examples into more purer subsets. A novel
technique was proposed by B. Liu, W. Hsu, and Y. Ma (1999), which first prunes the discovered
association-rules to remove the insignificant association-rules from the entire set of association-
rules, and then finds a subset of the un-pruned association-rules by which a summary of the
discovered association-rules can be formed. They called that subset of association-rules as the
direction setting (DS) rules because they can be used to set the directions, which are followed by
the rest of the association-rules. By the help of the summary, the user can have more focus on the
important aspects of the particular domain and also can view the relevant details. They suggest
that their approach is effective as their experimental result shows that the set of DS rules is quite
very small. Lent, Swami and J. Widom (1997) proposed a method for clustering two-dimensional
associations in large data-bases. In their research work, they present a geometric-based algorithm
called BitOp, for clustering, embedded within ARCS (Association Rule Clustering System). They
also measure the quality of the segmentation generated by ARCS. J. Han et al (2006) proposed a
new approach called CrossMine, which mainly includes a set of novel and powerful methods for
multi-relational classification including 1) tuple ID propagation, 2) new definitions for predicates
and decision-tree nodes and 3) a selective sampling method. They also proposed two accurate and
scalable methods for multi-relational classification i.e. CrossMine-Rule and CrossMine-Tree. C.
Zhang et al (2008) proposed a novel approach of combined patterns to extract important,
actionable and impact oriented information from a large amount of association rules. They also
proposed definitions of combined patterns and also design novel matrices to measure their
interestingness and analyzed the redundancy in combined patterns. Combined mining as a general
approach is proposed by C. Zhang et al (2011) to mine the informative patterns. They summarize
general framework, paradigms and basic processes for various types of combined mining. They
also generate novel types of combined patterns from their proposed frameworks. H. Yu, J. Yang
and J. Han (2003) proposed a new method called as Clustering-Based SVM (CB-SVM), in which,
they scan the whole data set only once to have an SVM with samples that carry the statistical
information of the data by applying a hierarchical micro-clustering algorithm. They also show
that CB-SVM is also highly scalable for very large data sets and also generating very high
classification accuracy.

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3. PROBLEM DEFINITION
As we know, complex data may contain incredible information, which cannot be mined directly
just by using a single method, and also it is tough to deal with such information using different
perspective such as client’s perspective, business analyst’s perspective and decision-makers
perspective etc. as complexity arises. Any service provider wants to predict the client’s behavior
to design the services according to client’s perspective and also to reduce the traffic load. In our
approach, we try to get patterns to retrieve useful information from complex data. This
information can be used in different places, for example in e-commerce, stock market, market
campaigns, measuring the success of marketing efforts and client-company behavior etc.
4. PROPOSED SOLUTION
The effectiveness and quality of the patterns which have to be discovered highly depends on the
richness and type of the data used during the pattern discovery process. We have taken our data-
set from UCI-Machine Learning Repository, named as “Adult” for our project work. This data-set
have 14 attributes, some of them are discrete attributes, while others are continuous attributes.
Our proposed solution according to the problem definition consists of following steps:
4.1 Preprocessing & Data mining approach
If any tuple in data-set contains unknown value (present as ‘?’ in our data-set) for any of the
attribute, then that tuple should be removed first, as such tuples are the source for noise and
errors. So, we remove all such tuples from our data-set first. After preprocessing step, we make
non-overlapping partitions of our dataset so that each of such partition can behave as a sub-
dataset. The main idea behind generating sub-datasets is that then each of the sub-dataset can be
used as a source of data for multi-source combined mining approach. We have generated 210
sub-datasets for our dataset as we try to have maximum number of distinct attributes from all of
the sub-dataset on the basis of information gain value and we get maximum 8 distinct attributes
(from ‫݁ݎݑ݃݅ܨ‬ 1), when we generates 210 partitions of our dataset. Our analysis on the data-set
for making the partitions is shown in the figure given below:
Fig. 1. Number of partitions vs. Number of distinct attributes
As we have already stated that our input dataset contains discrete as well as continuous attributes.
We have computed the information gain value for discrete attributes in a partition ܲ as given
below:
We consider the expected information needed for the classification of a tuple in a partition ܲ, if
the class label attribute has n distinct values, each of which defines a distinct class[2], as follows:

IሺPሻ = − ෍ p୧logଶp୧
௡
௜ୀଵ
(1)
Where, ‫݌‬௜ is the probability that a particular tuple in partition ܲ belongs to class ‫ܥ‬௜ and we can
compute ‫݌‬௜ as ‫݌‬௜ = |‫ܥ‬௜,௣| / |ܲ| and where ‫ܥ‬௜,௣ defines the set of tuples of class ‫ܥ‬௜ in ܲ while
|‫ܥ‬௜,௣| and |ܲ| denotes the number of tuples in ‫ܥ‬௜,௣ and ܲ respectively.
Then we have to classify the tuples in ܲ on some attribute ‫ܣ‬ having m distinct values, as observed
from the training dataset. Then the amount of information would be required for an exact
classification [2] is measured by:
I୅ሺܲሻ = ෍ሺ|P୨|/|P|ሻ × IሺP୨ሻ
௠
௝ୀଵ
(2)
Then the information Gain ‫ܩ‬ሺ‫ܣ‬ሻ for attribute ‫ܣ‬ is measured as:
‫ܩ‬ሺ‫ܣ‬ሻ = ‫ܫ‬ሺܲሻ– ‫ܫ‬஺ሺܲሻ (3)
For computing the information gain for continuous attributes ‫ܤ‬ in a partition ܲ, we have to
compute the information gain for every possible split-point for ‫ܤ‬ and then choosing the best split-
point. We consider split-point as a threshold on ‫.ܤ‬ First, we have to sort the values of ‫ܤ‬ in
increasing order and then typically the mid-point between each pair of adjacent values considered
as a possible split-point. So, if there are ‫ݕ‬ values of ‫,ܤ‬ then ሺ‫ݕ‬ − 1ሻ possible splits has to be
computed. The reason for sorting the values of ‫ܤ‬ is that if the values are already sorted then for
determining the best split for ‫ܤ‬ requires only one pass through the values. Then, for each possible
split-point for ‫,ܤ‬ by using ݁‫݊݋݅ݐܽݑݍ‬ ሺ2ሻ, we measured ‫ܫ‬஺ሺܲሻ, where the number of value of
݉ = 2. The point with the minimum expected information requirement for ‫ܤ‬ will be selected as
the best split-point for ‫.ܤ‬
After finding out the information gain for each attribute, we have taken an attribute with
maximum information gain from each partition ܲ௜ and then by concatenating the attribute values
from all partitions, we form a data-stream, which serves as an input for lossy-counting algorithm.
A. Lossy-counting Algorithm
Lossy-counting is a deterministic algorithm [2], which computes frequency counts over a stream
of data-items. It approximates the frequency of items or item-sets within a user-specified error
bound ߝ. If ܰ is the current length of the data-stream then this algorithm takes 1/ߝ݈‫݃݋‬ሺߝܰሻ space
in worst-case for computing the frequency counts of a single data-item. The steps for the
implementation of this algorithm are as follows:
Input: Support ‫,ݏ‬ error bound ߝ and input data-stream
Output: Set of data-items with frequency counts at least equals to ሺ‫ݏ‬ − ߝሻܰ
Step 1: The input data-stream logically divided into the buckets of width ‫ݓ‬ = ݈ܿ݁݅ሺ1/ ߝሻ and
each bucket is labeled with bucket id, initially starting from 1 for the first bucket, and the current
bucket id is denoted by ‫ܤ‬௖௨௥௥௘௡௧, which is equal to ݈ܿ݁݅ሺܰ/ ߝሻ.
Step 2: Then maintain a data-structure ‫,ܵܦ‬ which is a set of values of the form ሺ‫,ܧ‬ ‫ܨ‬ா, ߜሻ, where,
‫ܧ‬ is an element from the input data-stream and ‫ܨ‬ா is the true frequency of the element ‫ܧ‬ and ߜ

denotes the maximum number of times ‫ܧ‬ could have occurred in first ‫ܤ‬௖௨௥௥௘௡௧ − 1 buckets.
Initially ‫ܵܦ‬ will be empty.
Step 3: For an element from the data-stream, if ‫ܧ‬ already exists in ‫ܵܦ‬ then increase its ‫ܨ‬ா by 1
else we have to create a new entry in ‫ܵܦ‬ such as ሺ‫,ܧ‬ 1, ‫ܤ‬௖௨௥௥௘௡௧ − 1ሻ.
Step 4: If it is the bucket boundary then we have to prune ‫ܵܦ‬ as follows:
if ‫ܨ‬ா + ߜ ≤ ‫ܤ‬௖௨௥௥௘௡௧, then the entry ሺ‫,ܧ‬ ‫ܨ‬ா, ߜሻ has to be deleted from ‫.ܵܦ‬
Step 5: When a user wants a final list of frequent data-items with support ‫,ݏ‬ then output all those
entries in ‫ܵܦ‬ with ‫ܨ‬ா ≥ ሺ‫ݏ‬ − ߝሻܰ.
Then, we generate the combined association rules (C. Zhang et al, 2011) of the frequent data-
items computed by lossy-counting algorithm.
4.2 Multi-feature mining approach
After the generation of the combined association rules, we consider the heterogeneous features of
different data types as well as of different data categories.
If the combined association rule is of the form “‫ܨܫ‬ ܺ ܶ‫ܰܧܪ‬ ܻ”, where ܺ is the antecedent and ܻ
is the consequent part of the rule, then we have some traditional definitions for support,
confidence and lift of the rule as given below in the Table 1.
ܷܱܴܵܲܲܶ ܲ‫ܾ݋ݎ‬ሺܺ ܷ ܻሻ
‫ܧܥܰܧܦܫܨܱܰܥ‬ ܲ‫ܾ݋ݎ‬ሺܺ ܷ ܻሻ / ܲ‫ܾ݋ݎ‬ሺܺሻ
‫ܶܨܫܮ‬ ܲ‫ܾ݋ݎ‬ሺܺ ܷ ܻሻ / ሺܲ‫ܾ݋ݎ‬ሺܺሻ × ܲ‫ܾ݋ݎ‬ሺܻሻሻ
Table 1. Support, Confidence and Lift for the Rule ܺ → ܻ
On the basis of these traditional definitions of support, confidence and lift, we can compute the
Contribution and Interestingness [1] ‫ܫ‬ோ௎௅ாof the rule ܺ௣ܷܺோ → ܻ as follows:
‫݊݋݅ݐݑܾ݅ݎݐ݊݋ܥ‬ ሺܺ௉ܷܺோ → ܻሻ = ‫ܶܨܫܮ‬ ሺܺ௉ ܷ ܺோ → ܻሻ / ‫ܶܨܫܮ‬ ሺܺ௉ → ܻሻ
= ‫ܧܥܰܧܦܫܨܱܰܥ‬ ሺܺ௉ ܷ ܺோ → ܻሻ/‫ܧܥܰܧܦܫܨܱܰܥ‬ ሺܺ௉ → ܻሻ (4)
‫ܫ‬ோ௎௅ா ሺܺ௉ܷ ܺோ → ܻሻ = ‫݊݋݅ݐݑܾ݅ݎݐ݊݋ܥ‬ ሺܺ௉ ܷ ܺோ → ܻሻ / ‫ܶܨܫܮ‬ ሺܺோ → ܻሻ (5)
Where, ‫ܫ‬ோ௎௅ா indicates whether the Contribution of ܺ௉ (or ܺோ) to the occurrence of ܻ increases,
while considering ܺோ (or ܺ௉) as a precondition to the rule. To get more information, we also
generate pair patterns, cluster pattern, incremental pair-pattern and incremental cluster-patterns
(C. Zhang et al, 2011), and their respective contribution and interestingness matrices. In case of
pair pattern, two atomic rules are taken to form a pair-pattern if and only if the two atomic rules
have at least one common data-item in their antecedent parts and after removing those common
data-item/data-items from the atomic rules the antecedent parts of none of the atomic rules should
be null. In case of incremental pair-pattern, we actually remove the common data-item/data-items
from the pair-patterns and consider the common data-items as a pre-condition. In case of cluster
pattern formation, we try to include as much as rules in a single cluster on the basis of the
common data-item/data-items in their antecedent parts and also take care of the fact that after
removing the common data-item/data-items from the antecedent parts of the respective rules, the
antecedent part of the rules should not be empty or null. In case of incremental cluster-patterns,
we actually remove the common data-item/data-items from the respective rules in a cluster and
consider the common data-item/data-items as a precondition for that particular cluster of rules.

4.3 Multi-method mining approach
In this approach, we first generates the association rules by using FP-growth algorithm(Han and
Kamber, 2006) and then make the bayesian belief network (Jie Cheng, D. A. Bell and Weiru Liu,
1997) by those association rules during training phase and then classify the testing data-set by
Bayesian belief network during testing phase.
5. RESULT AND ANALYSIS
Fig. 2. Support vs. Run-Time Fig. 3. Support vs. Correct Classification %
Fig. 4. Confidence vs. Run-Time Fig. 5. Confidence vs. Correct Classification %
We take our data-set (as mentioned earlier) with 32,561 entries and after preprocessing step, we
get 30,162 entries, for mining the useful information. We have used Java as a programming
language interface. By getting various kinds of patterns, we mine the information by including
other perspective like client’s perspective etc. In ݂݅݃. 2 & 3, we have shown the variation of run-
time (in seconds) and correct classification percentage by bayesian belief network vs. support by
keeping ܿ‫݂݁ܿ݊݁݀݅݊݋‬ = 90% fixed for FP-growth implementation and in ݂݅݃. 4 & 5, we have
shown the variation of run-time (in seconds) and correct classification percentage by bayesian
belief network vs. confidence by keeping ‫ݐݎ݋݌݌ݑݏ‬ = 90 % fixed for FP-growth
implementation.
6. CONCLUSION AND FUTURE WORK
The support have impact on run-time as well as correct classification percentage by Bayesian
belief network, while confidence have approximately no effect neither on run-time nor on correct
classification percentage. We have also identified combined patterns, which are more
informative, actionable and impact-oriented as compared to any single patterns identified by
traditional methods like FP-growth etc. We can have such frameworks, which are flexible and
customizable for handling a large amount of complex data, for which data sampling and table
joining may not be acceptable. We further can develop some effective paradigms, for handling
large and multiple sources of data available in industry projects for government, insurance, stock
market, e-commerce and banking etc. in real-time.

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