Template-Type: ReDIF-Paper 1.0 Author-Name: Pijls, W.H.L.M. Author-Name-Last: Pijls Author-Name-First: Wim Author-Name: Kosters, W.A. Author-Name-Last: Kosters Author-Name-First: Walter A. Title: Mining frequent itemsets a perspective from operations research Abstract: Many papers on frequent itemsets have been published. Besides some contests in this field were held. In the majority of the papers the focus is on speed. Ad hoc algorithms and datastructures were introduced. In this paper we put most of the algorithms in one framework, using classical Operations Research paradigms such as backtracking, depth-first and breadth-first search, and branch-and-bound. Moreover we present experimental results where the different algorithms are implemented under similar designs. Creation-Date: 2008-11-10 File-URL: https://repub.eur.nl/pub/13776/Report%20Ectrie%202008-24.pdf File-Format: application/pdf Series: RePEc:ems:eureir Number: EI 2008-24 Keywords: Frequent itemsets, data mining, operation research Handle: RePEc:ems:eureir:13776