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time we produce Lk , because prunning items is not 2000 Apriori
frequent. fpgrowth
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8-Constructed TreeMap contains all frequent information 1000
OurDev.
of the database; hence mining the database becomes
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mining the Treeap.
0
4. Experimental Evaluation 95 94 93 90 85 80 70
In this section, we present a performance Support(as a%)
comparison of our development with FP-growth and the
classical frequent pattern-mining algorithm Apriori. All
Figure 1. Chess database
the experiments are performed on a 1.7 GHZ Pentium PC
machine with 128 M.B main memory, running on
2- Mushroom
WindowsXP operating system. All programs were
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developed under the java compiler, version 1.3. For
verifying the usability of our algorithm, we used three of 700
Time (s)
Apriori
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datasets and two real data sets. The synthetic dataset is fpgrowth
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T10I4D100K with 1K items. In this data set, the average 300
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T10I4D100K 100 000 1000 10
300
Chess 3196 75 37
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Mushroom 8124 119 23
Time (s)
200 Apriori
fpgrowth
150 OurDev.
T=Numbers of transactions
I=Numbers of items 100
ATL=Average transactions length 50
0
The performance of Apriori, FP-growth, our 0.1 0.8 0.06 0.04 0.02 0.01
algorithm and these results are shown in figures (1- Support
Chess,2-Mushroom,3-T10I4D100K). The X-axis in these
graphs represents the support threshold values while the Figure 3. T10I4D100k database
Y-axis represents the response times of the algorithms
being evaluated.
5. Conclusion and future work
In these graphs, we see that the response times of all
Determining frequent objects is one of the most
algorithms increase exponentially as the support
important fields in data mining. It is well known that the
threshold is reduced. This is only to be expected since the
way candidates are defined has great effect on running
number of itemsets in the output, the frequent itemsets
time and memory need, and this is the reason for the
increases exponentially with decrease in the support
large number of algorithms. It is also clear that the
threshold.
applied data structure also influences efficiency
parameters. In this paper we presented an implementation
We also see that there is a considerable gap in the
that solved frequent itemset mining problem.
performance of Apriori and FP-growth with respect to
our algorithm.
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