Frequent Item Set Mining Using INC_MINE in Massive Online Analysis Frame Work

Abstract

Frequent Pattern Mining is one of the major data mining techniques, which is exhaustively studied in the past decade. The technological advancements have resulted in huge data generation, having increased rate of data distribution. The generated data is called as a ‘data stream’. Data streams can be mined only by using sophisticated techniques. The paper aims at carrying out frequent pattern mining on data streams. Stream mining has great challenges due to high memory usage and computational costs. Massive online analysis frame work is a software environment used to perform frequent pattern mining using INC_MINE algorithm. The algorithm uses the method of closed frequent mining. The data sets used in the analysis are Electricity data set and Airline data set. The authors also generated their own data set, OUR-GENERATOR for the purpose of analysis and the results are found interesting. In the experiments five samples of instance sizes (10000, 15000, 25000, 35000, 50000) are used with varying minimum support and window sizes for determining frequent closed itemsets and semi frequent closed itemsets respectively. The present work establishes that association rule mining could be performed even in the case of data stream mining by INC_MINE algorithm by generating closed frequent itemsets which is first of its kind in the literature.