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Convertible Constraints

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Convertible antimonotone constraints; Convertible antimonotonic constraints; Convertible monotone constraints; Convertible monotonic constraints

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A constraint C is convertible if and only if C is convertible antimonotone or convertible monotone. A constraint C is convertible antimonotone provided there is an order R on items such that when an ordered itemset S satisfies constraint C, so does any prefix of S. A constraint C is convertible monotone provided there is an order R′ on items such that when an ordered itemset S′ violates constraint C, so does any prefix of S′.

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Although some constraints are neither antimonotone nor monotone in general, several of them can be converted into antimonotone or monotone ones by properly ordering the items. These convertible constraints [3654,3655,3] possess the following nice properties. By arranging items according to some proper order R, if an itemset S satisfies a convertible antimonotone constraint Ccam, then all...

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Leung, C.KS. (2018). Convertible Constraints. In: Liu, L., Özsu, M.T. (eds) Encyclopedia of Database Systems. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-8265-9_5047

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