An Interval Classifier for Database Mining Applications

Summary: Introduces an interval classifier that learns group-specific retrieval functions from a small labeled sample to classify a large unlabeled population database. Optimized for interactive ad hoc queries and missing values, it offers fast model generation/retrieval with accuracy competitive with ID3. (summarized by gpt-5.6-luna on Jul 24 2026)

Paper ID: hca8302017d9c9fe4
Venue: VLDB
Year: 1992
Pagerank: 0.00018018759
Overall Rank: 452 | 96.97%
DOI: -

Incoming Non-self Citations Over Time

Authors

1. Rakesh Agrawal (IBM)
2. Sakti Ghosh (IBM)
3. Tomasz Imielinski (IBM; Rutgers University)
4. Bala Iyer (IBM)
5. Arun Swami (IBM)

BibTeX Citation

@article{agrawal_vldb92,
        title = {{An Interval Classifier for Database Mining Applications}},
        author = {Agrawal, Rakesh and Ghosh, Sakti and Imielinski, Tomasz and Iyer, Bala and Swami, Arun},
        journal = {PVLDB},
        series = {{VLDB} '92},
        pages = {560--573},
        year = {1992}
}

Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 21 of 21 citing papers.

Rank	Citing Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
13	Mining Association Rules between Sets of Items in Large Databases	1993	SIGMOD	0.00064420972
29	Fast Algorithms for Mining Association Rules	1994	VLDB	0.0005121339
42	Fast Subsequence Matching in Time-Series Databases	1994	SIGMOD	0.00045773967
68	Privacy-Preserving Data Mining	2000	SIGMOD	0.00037958605
94	Efficient and Effective Clustering Methods for Spatial Data Mining	1994	VLDB	0.00034579889
250	An Effective Hash-Based Algorithm for Mining Association Rules	1995	SIGMOD	0.00023156569
1,519	SPRINT: A Scalable Parallel Classifier for Data Mining	1996	VLDB	0.00010393924
1,640	Combinatorial Pattern Discovery for Scientific Data: Some Preliminary Results	1994	SIGMOD	0.00010011692
2,031	RainForest - A Framework for Fast Decision Tree Construction of Large Datasets	1998	VLDB	9.1572841e-05
2,701	Finding Intensional Knowledge of Distance-Based Outliers	1999	VLDB	8.1185059e-05
2,870	BOAT—Optimistic Decision Tree Construction	1999	SIGMOD	7.9233098e-05
4,231	A New SQL-like Operator for Mining Association Rules	1996	VLDB	6.7147891e-05
4,600	Constructing Efficient Decision Trees by Using Optimized Numeric Association Rules	1996	VLDB	6.507687e-05
4,664	Data Mining Using Two-Dimensional Optimized Association Rules: Scheme, Algorithms, and Visualization	1996	SIGMOD	6.4800763e-05
4,873	Mining Optimized Association Rules for Numeric Attributes	1996	PODS	6.372839e-05
5,299	PUBLIC: A Decision Tree Classifier that Integrates Building and Pruning	1998	VLDB	6.1898928e-05
6,443	NeuroRule: A Connectionist Approach to Data Mining	1995	VLDB	5.782709e-05
13,175	Decision Tables: Scalable Classification Exploring RDBMS Capabilities	2000	VLDB	4.9793485e-05
13,215	A Data Mining Application: Customer Retention at the Port of Singapore Authority (PSA)	1998	SIGMOD	4.9793485e-05
13,309	Tutorial Database Mining	1994	PODS	4.9793485e-05
14,622	Quest: A Project on Database Mining	1994	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
46	Benchmarking Database Systems: A Systematic Approach	1983	VLDB	0.00044784799

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