“…In recent years, probabilistic frequent itemsets (Aggarwal, Li, & Wang, 2009;Chui, Kao, & Hung, 2007;Tong, Chen, Cheng, & Yu, 2012) and high utility itemsets (Ahmed, Tanbeer, Jeong, & Choi, 2011;Lin, Tu, & Hsueh, 2012;Tseng, Wu, Shie, & Yu, 2010;Yin, Zheng, & Cao, 2012) have received a great deal of attention due to their wide applications. Mining probabilistic frequent itemsets and high utility itemsets has emerged as hot topics in the field of pattern mining.…”