Magnum Opus Publications

The following papers describe the core technologies on which Magnum Opus is based.  Internet access is required to follow links.

G.I. Webb and S. Zhang (2005). K-Optimal Rule Discovery. Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery, 10(1): 39-79. [Prepublication PDF from author's web site][Link to DMKD journal]

Provides a detailed technical description of the k-optimal rule discovery techniques that underpin Magnum Opus.

G.I. Webb (2000). Efficient Search for Association Rules. In The Sixth ACM SIGKDD International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining, pages 99-107. ACM Press.  [Pre-publication PDF from the author's web site][Link to paper via ACM Portal website]

Describes the key search algorithm used by Magnum Opus.

G.I. Webb, S. Butler, and D. Newlands (2003). On Detecting Differences Between Groups. In Proceedings of The Ninth ACM SIGKDD International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (KDD'03), pages 256-265. ACM. [Pre-publication PDF from the author's web site]

Explores how Magnum Opus can be used to find differences between groups.

Webb, G.I. (2007). Discovering Significant Patterns. Machine Learning 68(1). Netherlands: Springer, pages 1-33. [Pre-publication PDF] [Link to paper via Springerlink]

Detailed description of the techniques used by Magnum Opus to deliver statistically sound pattern discovery.

G.I. Webb (2006). Discovering Significant Rules. In L. Ungar, M. Craven, D. Gunopulos and T. Eliassi-Rad (Eds.), Proceedings of the Twelfth ACM SIGKDD International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (KDD-2006) Philadelphia, PA. New York: The Association for Computing Machinery, pages 434 - 443. [Pre-publication PDF from author's web site] [Link to paper via ACM Portal website]

Describes the techniques used by Magnum Opus to deliver statistically sound rule discovery.

G.I. Webb  (1995). OPUS: An Efficient Admissible Algorithm For Unordered Search. Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research, 3:431-465. [Link to paper via JAIR website]

Describes the OPUS search algorithm on which Magnum Opus' search algorithms are based.