Research Article

An Asynchronous Periodic Sequential Pattern Mining Algorithm with Multiple Minimum Item Supports for Ad Hoc Networking

Table 5

Parameters of synthetic dataset generation algorithm.

ParametersMeaningValue

Scale of temporal symbolic sequences5000
Total number of items300
High Proportion of high frequency items1/3 (60%)
Medium Proportion of medium frequency items1/3 (30%)
Low Proportion of low frequency items1/3 (10%)
Possible number of asynchronous periodic sequential patterns5
Average periodic length of sequential patterns5
Average number of item sets of sequential patterns8
Average number of items2
Average repeat count of contained segments25
Average ratio of random disturbance to period8