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    • Spatial Data Mining
    • Computational Geography

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    • Co-location patterns are crucial for understanding spatial relationships between features.
    • Existing methods for co-location pattern mining often overlook instance heterogeneity, leading to inaccurate prevalence measures.
    • This heterogeneity arises from variations in the number and distribution of feature instances.

    Purpose of the Study:

    • To propose a novel interest measure, the mixed prevalence index (MPI), that addresses the limitations of existing measures in spatial co-location pattern mining.
    • To develop an efficient algorithm, Branch-Opt-MPI, for mining co-location patterns using the proposed MPI.
    • To evaluate the effectiveness and efficiency of MPI and Branch-Opt-MPI against existing methods.

    Main Methods:

    • Introduction of the mixed prevalence index (MPI) to incorporate feature-level and instance-level heterogeneity.
    • Development of a branch-based search algorithm (Branch-Opt-MPI) leveraging the partial antimonotone property of MPI.
    • Optimization strategies for MPI calculation within the Branch-Opt-MPI algorithm.
    • Extensive experimental validation on real and synthetic spatial datasets.

    Main Results:

    • The proposed MPI demonstrates superiority over existing interest measures for spatial co-location patterns.
    • The Branch-Opt-MPI algorithm exhibits significant efficiency and scalability in mining these patterns.
    • Experimental results show Branch-Opt-MPI outperforms baseline methods, especially in dense datasets, by several orders of magnitude.

    Conclusions:

    • The mixed prevalence index (MPI) provides a more accurate measure of co-location pattern prevalence by considering data heterogeneity.
    • The Branch-Opt-MPI algorithm is an efficient and scalable solution for spatial co-location pattern mining.
    • This research offers improved methods for analyzing spatial relationships in geographic data.