Research on Multi-Relational Classification Approaches

As an important task of multi-relational data mining, multi-relational classification can directly look for patterns that involve multiple relations from a relational database and have more advantages than propositional data mining approaches. According to the differences in knowledge representation and strategy, the paper researched three kind of multi-relational classification approaches that are ILP based, graph-based and relational database-based classification approaches and discussed each relational classification technology, their characteristics, the comparisons and several challenging researching problems in detail.