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Sequence mining is one of the most investigated tasks in data mining and it has been studied under several perspectives. With the rise of Big Data technologies, the perspective of efficiency becomes prominent especially when mining massive sequences. In this paper, we perform a thorough experimental evaluation of several algorithms for sequential pattern mining and we provide an analysis of the results focusing on the different algorithmic choices and how these affect the performance of each algorithm. Experiments performed on real-world and synthetic datasets highlight relevant differences between existing algorithms and provide indications for Big Data scenarios.
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Skenduli, M.P., Loglisci, C., Ceci, M., Biba, M., Malerba, D. (2018). An Empirical Evaluation of Sequential Pattern Mining Algorithms. In: Barolli, L., Xhafa, F., Javaid, N., Spaho, E., Kolici, V. (eds) Advances in Internet, Data & Web Technologies. EIDWT 2018. Lecture Notes on Data Engineering and Communications Technologies, vol 17. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-75928-9_55
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