Fourth IEEE International Conference on Data Mining (ICDM'04)
Mining Generalized Substructures from a Set of Labeled Graphs
Brighton, United Kingdom
November 01-November 04
ISBN: 0-7695-2142-8
The problem of mining frequent itemsets in transactional data has been studied frequently and has yielded several algorithms that can find the itemsets within a limited amount of time. Some of them can derive "generalized" frequent itemsets consisting of items at any level of a taxonomy. Recently, several approaches have been proposed to mine frequent substructures (patterns) from a set of labeled graphs. The graph mining approaches are easily extended to mine generalized patterns where some vertices and/or edges have labels at any level of a taxonomy of the labels by extending the definition of "subgraph". However, the extended method outputs a massive set of the patterns most of which are over-generalized, which causes computation explosion. In this paper, an efficient and novel method is proposed to discover all frequent patterns which are not over-generalized from labeled graphs, when taxonomies on vertex and edge labels are available.