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Data Minability Evaluation by Compression – An Experimental Study

Authors:
Dan Simovici
Dan Pletea
Saaid Baraty

Keywords: data mining; lossless compression; LZW; market basket data; patterns; Kronecker product

Abstract:
The effectiveness of compression algorithms is increasing as the data subjected to compression contains patterns which occur with a certain regularity. This basic idea is used to detect the existence of regularities in various types of data ranging from market basket data to undirected graphs. The results are quite independent of the particular algorithms used for compression and offer an indication of the potential of discovering patterns in data before the actual mining process takes place.

Pages: 237 to 245

Copyright: Copyright (c) to authors, 2013. Used with permission.

Publication date: December 31, 2013

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ISSN: 1942-2628