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CALL FOR CHAPTERS

High-Utility Pattern Mining: Theory, Algorithms and Applications

Editors: Philippe Fournier-Viger, Chun-Wei Lin, Roger Nkambou, Bay Vo

An edited book to be published by Springer in 2018

Chapter proposal deadline: 1st October 2017
Proposal acceptance date: 10th October 2017
Full chapter submission deadline:   15th January 2018
Planned publication date:      1st July 2018

Introduction
High utility pattern mining is a popular and emerging research area in the field of data mining, which consists of discovering patterns of high importance in databases. The importance of patterns can be expressed in terms of various criteria such as the utility, weight or importance of patterns. One of the major applications of utility mining is the analysis of customer transaction databases to discover sets of items that generate a high profit when purchased together. This book provides an introduction to this field, reviews state-of-the-art techniques, and discusses recent advances.

Book aims

  • Presents an overview of the theory and core methods used in utility mining
  • Covers recent advances on high utility mining
  • Covers stream, incremental, sequence and the big data paradigm.
  • Discusses important applications and open-source software.

Topics of interest (not limited to):

  • high-utility itemset mining
  • high-utility sequential patterns and rules
  • high-utility episode mining
  • incremental high-utility itemset mining
  • utility mining in streams
  • utility mining in uncertain databases
  • utility mining in big data
  • concise representations of utility patterns
  • periodic, recent, high utility patterns
  • visualization techniques.
  • privacy preserving utility mining
  • open-source software
  • applications

A chapter can be either a survey of a topic of interest or be a research paper.

Submissions

Interested researchers are invited to submit a chapter proposal clearly stating your focused problems and contributions related to one of the above topics due on the 1st October 2017. This must include a proposed title, abstract, author list with names/affiliations/e-mails, and a brief description of the organization of your chapter in terms of sections and content. Authors of accepted chapters will be notified by the 10th October 2017. Full chapters are due by the 15th January 2017. The Springer LaTeX template for multi-author books must be used for chapters..