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NetDAP: (δ, γ) −approximate pattern matching with length constraints

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Pattern matching(PM) with gap constraints has been applied to compute the support of a pattern in a sequence, which is an essential task of the repetitive sequential pattern mining (or sequence pattern mining). Compared with exact PM, approximate PM allows data noise (differences) between the pattern and the matched subsequence. Therefore, more valuable patterns can be found. Approximate PM with gap constraints mainly adopts the Hamming distance to measure the approximation degree which only reflects the number of different characters between two sequences, but ignores the distance between different characters. Hence, this paper addresses (δ, γ) approximate PM with length constraints which employs local-global constraints to improve the accuracy of the PM, namely, the maximal distance between two corresponding characters is less or equal to the local threshold δ, and the sum of all the δ distances is also less or equal to the global threshold γ. To tackle the problem effectively, this paper proposes an effective online algorithm, named NetDAP, which employs a special designed data structure named approximate single-leaf Nettree. An approximate single-leaf Nettree can be created by adopting dynamic programming to determine the range of rootleaf, the minimal root, the maximal root, the range of nodes for each level, and the range of parents for each node. To improve the performance, two pruning strategies are proposed to prune the nodes and the parent-child relationships which do not satisfy the δ and γ distance constraints respectively. Finally, extensive experimental results on real protein data sets and time series verify the performance of the proposed algorithm.

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This work was partly supported by National Natural Science Foundation of China (61976240, 61571180, 917446209), National Key Research and Development Program of China(2016YFB1000901), and Graduate Student Innovation Program of Hebei Province (CXZZSS2019035).

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  1. School of Artificial Intelligence, Hebei University of Technology, Tianjin, 300401, China

    Youxi Wu & Jinquan Fan

  2. State Key Laboratory of Reliability and Intelligence of Electrical Equipment, Hebei University of Technology, Tianjin, 300401, China

    Youxi Wu & Lei Guo

  3. Hebei Key Laboratory of Big Data Computing, Tianjin, 300401, China

    Youxi Wu

  4. School of Economics and Management, Hebei University of Technology, Tianjin, 300401, China

    Yan Li

  5. Key Laboratory of Knowledge Engineering with Big Data (Hefei University of Technology), Ministry of Education, Hefei, 230009, China

    Xindong Wu

  6. Mininglamp Academy of Sciences, Mininglamp Technology, Beijing, 100084, China

    Xindong Wu

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Wu, Y., Fan, J., Li, Y. et al. NetDAP: (δ, γ) −approximate pattern matching with length constraints. Appl Intell 50, 4094–4116 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10489-020-01778-1

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