“…For example, if max-gap = 30, min-gap = 0, and window-size = 7, a sequential pattern h(a, b), (c, d)i means that items a and b were purchased within 7 days of each other, items c and d also were purchased within 7 days of each other, and the time-interval between itemsets (a, b) and (c, d) is more than 7 days but within 30 days. Other researchers followed this concept and proposed more efficient algorithms [3,22,24,25]. Joshi et al [18] presented a universal formulation of sequential patterns, which unifies and generalizes most previous studies in generalized sequential pattern mining.…”