Table 1.

Table illustrating the key differences between iBCM* (our approach) and alternative sequence mining techniques.

		PrefixSpan	SPADE	cSPADE	BIDE	BIDED(C)	MiSeRe	SCIS	ISM	GoKrimp	iBCM	iBCM*
Type	Direct					✓	✓		✓
	Indirect	✓	✓	✓	✓			✓		✓	✓	✓
Support-based		✓	✓	✓	✓	✓		✓	✓	✓	✓	✓
Pattern type	Partial orders	✓	✓		✓	✓	✓		✓	✓
	Constraints			✓							✓	✓
Windows	Relative length										✓
	Absolute time											✓