Matching dependency is a generalization of the functional dependency concept, which allows users to apply custom similarity functions for matching individual attributes. Matching dependencies have a wide range of applications for solving various data quality problems, such as ent…
Conditional functional dependencies (CFDs) are functional dependencies with a restricted scope: they specify the context in which a dependency holds and are useful for data-quality tasks, specifying complex integrity constraints, and extracting valuable insights from data. We stu…
Episode mining aims to extract subsequences of events that possess certain distinctive properties and constitute facts valuable to the user. Maximal frequent episode mining concentrates on discovery of frequently-appearing subsequences, which are not included into any other large…