An Efficient Method for Mining Erasable Itemsets Using Multicore Processor Platform

Algorithm 1

pMEI method.

Input: product database and a minimum given threshold

Output: , the list of EIs

1  root=NULL

2  Scan to calculate the whole profit of , the index of profit (), and

     erasable 1-itemsets with their pidsets ()

3  Sort by the size of their pidsets in descending order

4  , where is a child node

5  For each ( in ) do

6   Start new task

7   pMEI_Ext (, )

8  End for