Periodic Pattern Mining: Theory, Algorithms, and Applications

This book provides an introduction to the field of periodic pattern mining, reviews state—of—the—art techniques, discusses recent advances, and reviews open—source software. Periodic pattern mining is a popular and emerging research area in the field of data mining. It involves discovering all regularly occurring patterns in temporal databases. One of the major applications of periodic pattern mining is the analysis of customer transaction databases to discover sets of items that have been ...