Methodological Foundations of Validation and Quality Assessment of Pattern Analysis Results

Studies in Systems, Decision and Control. 2025. Vol. 615. P. 12–20.

Alexey Myachin

In this paper, we introduce a refined and rigorous methodological framework for the validation and quality assessment of pattern analysis outcomes. Our approach synergistically integrates a formal algorithmic model with novel conceptual constructs - specifically, the notions of the empty pattern and pattern complexity. A comprehensive array of metric approaches is employed to evaluate pattern analysis performance. Extensive experimental studies on synthetic data, as well as on the Pima Indians Diabetes Dataset and the Iris Data, attest to the robustness and broad applicability of our methods. The empirical findings, which reveal the superior performance of ordinal-invariant pattern clustering across multiple quality metrics (albeit with residual deviations from ideal benchmarks), underscore the transformative potential of this framework for applications ranging from predictive analytics in medicine to process optimization in economics and management.

Keywords: quality assessment, pattern analysis, pattern, metric evaluation