A Generic Approach for Modeling and Mining n-ary Patterns

International audienceThe aim of this paper is to model and mine patterns combining several local patterns (n-ary patterns). First, the user expresses his/her query under constraints involving n-ary patterns. Second, a constraint solver generates the correct and complete set of solutions. This approach enables to model in a flexible way sets of constraints combining several local patterns and it leads to discover patterns of higher level. Experiments show the feasibility and the interest of our approach