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Exploratory Mining and Pruning Optimizations of Constrained Association Rules

Summary: Constraint-based, human-centered exploratory mining replaces black-box association-rule mining with constrained association queries (domain, class, and SQL-style aggregates) to guide discovery. CAP uses anti-monotonicity and succinctness to classify constraints into four categories and prune aggressively, delivering up to 80× speedups. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID
hba4f1a44dc519df3
Venue
SIGMOD
Year
1998
Pagerank
0.00010240418
Overall Rank
1,561 | 89.51%
DOI
10.1145/276304.276307

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BibTeX Citation

@inproceedings{ng_sigmod98,
        title = {{Exploratory Mining and Pruning Optimizations of Constrained Association Rules}},
        author = {Ng, Raymond T. and Lakshmanan, Laks V. S. and Han, Jiawei and Pang, Alex},
        series = {{SIGMOD} '98},
        booktitle = {Proceedings of the {ACM} {SIGMOD} International Conference on Management of Data},
        publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},
        doi = {10.1145/276304.276307},
        url = {https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/276304.276307},
        year = {1998}
}

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