The 3W Model and Algebra for Unified Data Mining

Summary: 3W model: three worlds (intensional, extensional, data sets) with hierarchies to unify multi-step mining and interlink outputs. Dimension algebra with bridge operators manipulates dimensions, captures end-to-end pipelines, demonstrates identities, and discusses efficient implementation. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: 8822
Venue: VLDB
Year: 2000
Pagerank: 6.0486927e-05
Overall Rank: 5,895 | 59.56%
DOI: -

Incoming Non-self Citations Over Time

Authors

1. Theodore Johnson (AT&T)
2. Laks V. S. Lakshmanan (Concordia University; Indian Institute of Technology Mumbai)
3. Raymond T. Ng (University of British Columbia)

BibTeX Citation

@article{johnson_vldb00,
        title = {{The 3W Model and Algebra for Unified Data Mining}},
        author = {Johnson, Theodore and Lakshmanan, Laks V. S. and Ng, Raymond T.},
        journal = {PVLDB},
        series = {{VLDB} '00},
        year = {2000}
}

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Showing 3 of 3 citing papers.

Rank	Citing Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
12,753	PSYCHO: A Prototype System for Pattern Management	2005	VLDB	5.093636e-05
12,766	Cost-Based Labeling of Groups of Mass Spectra	2004	SIGMOD	5.093636e-05
13,964	GEA: a Toolkit for Gene Expression Analysis	2002	SIGMOD	-

Outgoing Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

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Citations counted here include only citations to other VLDB/SIGMOD/CIDR/PODS papers in this database.

Rank	Cited Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
2	R-Trees: A Dynamic Index Structure For Spatial Searching	1984	SIGMOD	0.0020210012
4	The R*-tree: An Efficient and Robust Access Method for Points and Rectangles	1990	SIGMOD	0.001157935
13	Mining Association Rules between Sets of Items in Large Databases	1993	SIGMOD	0.0006567919
27	Fast Algorithms for Mining Association Rules	1994	VLDB	0.00052255472
31	BIRCH: An Efficient Data Clustering Method for Very Large Databases	1996	SIGMOD	0.00050347119
88	Efficient and Effective Clustering Methods for Spatial Data Mining	1994	VLDB	0.00035240327
291	OPTICS: Ordering Points To Identify the Clustering Structure	1999	SIGMOD	0.00022264197
304	Automatic Subspace Clustering of High Dimensional Data for Data Mining Applications	1998	SIGMOD	0.00021917388
456	Discovery of Multiple-Level Association Rules from Large Databases	1995	VLDB	0.00018124452
711	Beyond Market Baskets: Generalizing Association Rules to Correlations	1997	SIGMOD	0.00014713746
980	Integrating Association Rule Mining with Relational Database Systems: Alternatives and Implications	1998	SIGMOD	0.00012844074
1,473	Towards a Theory of Spatial Database Queries (Extended Abstract)	1994	PODS	0.0001066845
1,535	Exploratory Mining and Pruning Optimizations of Constrained Association Rules	1998	SIGMOD	0.00010463058
1,626	Scalable Techniques for Mining Causal Structures	1998	VLDB	0.00010190299
1,890	Relational Expressive Power of Constraint Query Languages	1996	PODS	9.5330753e-05
2,251	Query Flocks: A Generalization of Association-Rule Mining	1998	SIGMOD	8.8684789e-05
4,154	A New SQL-like Operator for Mining Association Rules	1996	VLDB	6.8670958e-05
4,354	Online Association Rule Mining	1999	SIGMOD	6.7479905e-05
4,427	What can Hierarchies do for Data Warehouses?	1999	VLDB	6.7095871e-05
4,969	Optimization of Constrained Frequent Set Queries with 2-variable Constraints	1999	SIGMOD	6.4201643e-05
5,152	SPIRIT: Sequential Pattern Mining with Regular Expression Constraints	1999	VLDB	6.3432765e-05
8,052	Complete geometrical query languages (extended abstract)	1997	PODS	5.4995351e-05

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