An Incremental FUSP-Tree Maintenance Algorithm

In this paper, we attempt to handle the maintenance of sequential patterns. New transactions may come from both the new customers and old customers. A fast updated sequential pattern tree (called FUSP-tree) structure is proposed to make the tree update process become easy. An incremental FUSP-tree maintenance algorithm is also proposed for reducing the execution time in reconstructing the tree. The proposed approach is expected to achieve a good trade-off between execution time and tree complexity.