Advanced Methods for Knowledge Discovery from Complex Data

Ujjwal Maulik

ISBN 10: 1852339896 / ISBN 13: 9781852339890

Edité par Springer London Nov 2005, 2005

Neuware - The growth in the amount of data collected and generated has exploded in recent times with the widespread automation of various day-to-day activities, advances in high-level scienti c and engineering research and the development of e cient data collection tools. This has given rise to the need for automa- callyanalyzingthedatainordertoextractknowledgefromit,therebymaking the data potentially more useful. Knowledge discovery and data mining (KDD) is the process of identifying valid, novel, potentially useful and ultimately understandable patterns from massive data repositories. It is a multi-disciplinary topic, drawing from s- eral elds including expert systems, machine learning, intelligent databases, knowledge acquisition, case-based reasoning, pattern recognition and stat- tics. Many data mining systems have typically evolved around well-organized database systems (e.g., relational databases) containing relevant information. But, more and more, one nds relevant information hidden in unstructured text and in other complex forms. Mining in the domains of the world-wide web, bioinformatics, geoscienti c data, and spatial and temporal applications comprise some illustrative examples in this regard. Discovery of knowledge, or potentially useful patterns, from such complex data often requires the - plication of advanced techniques that are better able to exploit the nature and representation of the data. Such advanced methods include, among o- ers, graph-based and tree-based approaches to relational learning, sequence mining, link-based classi cation, Bayesian networks, hidden Markov models, neural networks, kernel-based methods, evolutionary algorithms, rough sets and fuzzy logic, and hybrid systems. Many of these methods are developed in the followingchapters. N° de réf. du vendeur 9781852339890

Synopsis :

Knowledge discovery takes the raw results from data mining (the process of extracting trends or patterns from data) and carefully and accurately transforms them into useful and understandable information. In this book, active practitioners and leading researchers detail recent advances in knowledge discovery. Coverage presents a good balance of introductory material on the knowledge discovery process, advanced issues, and state-of-the-art tools and techniques. An overview of the field, looking at the issues and challenges involved, is followed by coverage of recent trends and important applications of advanced data mining techniques in areas such as life sciences, world-wide web, image databases, cyber security, and sensor networks.

Présentation de l'éditeur: This book brings together research articles by active practitioners and leading researchers reporting recent advances in the field of knowledge discovery. An overview of the field, looking at the issues and challenges involved is followed by coverage of recent trends in data mining. This provides the context for the subsequent chapters on methods and applications. Part I is devoted to the foundations of mining different types of complex data like trees, graphs, links and sequences. A knowledge discovery approach based on problem decomposition is also described. Part II presents important applications of advanced mining techniques to data in unconventional and complex domains, such as life sciences, world-wide web, image databases, cyber security and sensor networks. With a good balance of introductory material on the knowledge discovery process, advanced issues and state-of-the-art tools and techniques, this book will be useful to students at Masters and PhD level in Computer Science, as well as practitioners in the field.

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Titre : Advanced Methods for Knowledge Discovery ...
Éditeur : Springer London Nov 2005
Date d'édition : 2005
Reliure : Buch
Etat : Neu