Recent Frequent Item Mining Algorithm in a Data Stream Based on Flexible Counter Windows

In the paper the author introduces FCW_MRFI, which is a streaming data frequent item mining algorithm based on variable window. The FCW_MRFI algorithm can mine frequent item in any window of recent streaming data, whose given length is L. Meanwhile, it divides recent streaming data into several windows of variable length according to m, which is the number of the counter array. This algorithm can achieve smaller query error in recent windows, and can minimize the maximum query error in the whole recent streaming data.