In data mining, searching for frequent patterns is a common basic operation. It forms the basis of many interesting decision support processes. In this paper we present a new type of patterns, binary expressions. Based on the properties of a specified binary test, such as reflexivity, transitivity and symmetry, we construct a generic algorithm that mines all frequent binary expressions. We pres...

A dissimilarity measure between adjacent pixels of an image is usually determined by the intensity values of these pixels and therefore does not depend on statistics computed over the whole image domain. In this paper, new dissimilarity measures exploiting image statistics are proposed. This is achieved by introducing the notion of dissimilarity function defined for every possible pair of inten...

Computing the frequent subsets of large multi-attribute data is both computationand data-intensive. The standard parallel algorithms require multiple passes through the data. The cost of data access may easily outweigh any performance gained by parallelizing the computational part. We address three opportunities for performance improvement: using an approximate algorithm that requires only a si...

The process of resource distribution and load balance of a distributed P2P network can be described as the process of mining Supplement Frequent Patterns (SFPs) from query transaction database. With given minimum support (min_sup) and minimum share support (min_share_sup), each SFP includes a core frequent pattern (BFP) used to draw other frequent or sub-frequent items. A latter query returns a...

This paper introduces the notion of frequent frames, distributional patterns based on cooccurrence patterns of words in sentences, then investigates the usefulness of this information in grammatical categorization. A frame is defined as two jointly occurring words with one word intervening. Qualitative and quantitative results from distributional analyses of six different corpora of child direc...