“…The main limitation of the above algorithm is that they are based on the Apriori algorithm [1] that requires all candidate generation and examining with multiple scans of the original transaction database. Thus, weighted frequent pattern mining algorithms based on the pattern growth method have been proposed [2,8,12,22,27,33,34]. Moreover, lots of mining methods applied in various areas have been studied, such as mining weighted sequential patterns [5,32,35], weighted patterns over data streams [3,24,28], approximate weighted patterns [36,37], etc.…”