Discovering regularities between entities in temporal graphs is vital for many real-world applications (e.g., social recommendation, emergency event detection, and cyberattack event detection). This paper proposes temporal graph association rules (TGARs) that extend traditional graph-pattern association rules in a static graph by incorporating the unique temporal information and constraints. We introduce quality measures (e.g., support, confidence, and diversification) to characterize meaningful TGARs that are useful and diversified. In addition, the proposed support metric is an upper bound for alternative metrics, allowing us to guarantee a superset of patterns. We extend conventional confidence measures in terms of maximal occurrences of TGARs. The diversification score strikes a balance between interestingness and diversity. Although the problem is NP-hard, we develop an effective discovery algorithm for TGARs that integrates TGARs generation and TGARs selection and shows that mining TGARs is feasible over a temporal graph. We propose pruning strategies to filter TGARs that have low support or cannot make top-
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Tsinghua Science and Technology 2023, 28(2): 344-359
Published: 29 September 2022
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