Mining useful patterns: my evolutionary view

Pattern mining has been studied in the data mining community for over 15 years, with lots of interesting results and methods reported. One critical issue in pattern mining is the usefulness of patterns, i.e., what patterns are likely useful for what applications, instead of yet another efficient pattern mining algorithm. In my talk, I will discuss my evolutionary view on the usefulness of patterns and present a set of examples on what patterns are considered to be useful in certain practice. This may give some insight on pattern analysis, based on my own study, and point out a few open research problems and possible exploration of broad applications of pattern mining.