Effective pruning for the discovery of conditional functional dependencies

Li, Jiuyong and Liu, Jixue and Toivonen, Hannu and Yong, Jianming (2012) Effective pruning for the discovery of conditional functional dependencies. The Computer Journal . ISSN 0010-4620 (In Press)

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Official URL: http://comjnl.oxfordjournals.org/content/early/2012/06/23/comjnl.bxs082.short

Identification Number or DOI: doi: 10.1093/comjnl/bxs082

Abstract

Conditional functional dependencies (CFDs) have been proposed as a new type of semantic rules extended from traditional functional dependencies. They have shown great potential for detecting and repairing inconsistent data. Constant CFDs are 100% confidence association rules. The theoretical search space for the minimal set of CFDs is the set of minimal generators and their closures in data. This search space has been used in the currently most efficient constant CFD discovery algorithm. In this paper, we propose pruning criteria to further prune the theoretic search space, and design a fast algorithm for constant CFD discovery. We evaluate the proposed algorithm on a number of media to large real-world data sets. The proposed algorithm is faster than the currently most efficient constant CFD discovery algorithm, and has linear time performance in the size of a data set.

Item Type:Article (Commonwealth Reporting Category C)
Additional Information:Published online 24 Jun 2012. Permanent restricted access to ArticleFirst version in accordance with the copyright policy of the publisher.
Uncontrolled Keywords:functional dependencies; conditional functional dependencies; association rules; closed patterns
Fields of Research (FOR2008):08 Information and Computing Sciences > 0806 Information Systems > 080610 Information Systems Organisation
08 Information and Computing Sciences > 0806 Information Systems > 080604 Database Management
01 Mathematical Sciences > 0101 Pure Mathematics > 010107 Mathematical Logic, Set Theory, Lattices and Universal Algebra
Subjects:UNSPECIFIED
Socio-Economic Objective (SEO2008):E Expanding Knowledge > 97 Expanding Knowledge > 970108 Expanding Knowledge in the Information and Computing Sciences
ID Code:22121
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Deposited On:17 Oct 2012 13:03
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