There is, I think, something ethereal about i —the square root of minus one. I remember first hearing about it at school. It seemed an odd beast at that time—an intruder hovering on the edge of reality.

Usually familiarity dulls this sense of the bizarre, but in the case of i it was the reverse: over the years the sense of its surreal nature intensified. It seemed that it was impossible to write mathematics that described the real world in …

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The increasing volume of data in modern business and science calls for more complex and sophisticated tools. Although advances in data mining technology have made extensive data collection much easier, it's still always evolving and there is a constant need for new techniques and tools that can help us transform this data into useful information and knowledge. Since the previous edition's publication, great advances have been made in the field of data mining. Not only does the third of edition of Data Mining: Concepts and Techniques continue the tradition of equipping you with an understanding and application of the theory and practice of discovering patterns hidden in large data sets, it also focuses on new, important topics in the field: data warehouses and data cube technology, mining stream, mining social networks, and mining spatial, multimedia and other complex data. Each chapter is a stand-alone guide to a critical topic, presenting proven algorithms and sound implementations ready to be used directly or with strategic modification against live data. This is the resource you need if you want to apply today's most powerful data mining techniques to meet real business challenges. * Presents dozens of algorithms and implementation examples, all in pseudo-code and suitable for use in real-world, large-scale data mining projects. * Addresses advanced topics such as mining object-relational databases, spatial databases, multimedia databases, time-series databases, text databases, the World Wide Web, and applications in several fields. *Provides a comprehensive, practical look at the concepts and techniques you need to get the most out of real business data

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Data Mining: Concepts and Techniques

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Pattern Recognition with Fuzzy Objective Function Algorithms

Clustering is the unsupervised classification of patterns (observations, data items, or feature vectors) into groups (clusters). The clustering problem has been addressed in many contexts and by researchers in many disciplines; this reflects its broad appeal and usefulness as one of the steps in exploratory data analysis. However, clustering is a difficult problem combinatorially, and differences in assumptions and contexts in different communities has made the transfer of useful generic concepts and methodologies slow to occur. This paper presents an overview of pattern clustering methods from a statistical pattern recognition perspective, with a goal of providing useful advice and references to fundamental concepts accessible to the broad community of clustering practitioners. We present a taxonomy of clustering techniques, and identify cross-cutting themes and recent advances. We also describe some important applications of clustering algorithms such as image segmentation, object recognition, and information retrieval.

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Data clustering: a review

Data Mining - Concepts and Techniques.

First, we identify an algorithmic defect of the generalized learning vector quantization (GLVQ) scheme that causes it to behave erratically for a certain scaling of the input data. We show that GLVQ can behave incorrectly because its learning rates are reciprocally dependent on the sum of squares of distances from an input vector to the node weight vectors. Finally, we propose a new family of models-the GLVQ-F family-that remedies the problem. We derive competitive learning algorithms for each member of the GLVQ-F model and prove that they are invariant to all scalings of the data. We show that GLVQ-F offers a wide range of learning models since it reduces to LVQ as its weighting exponent (a parameter of the algorithm) approaches one from above. As this parameter increases, GLVQ-F then transitions to a model in which either all nodes may be excited according to their (inverse) distances from an input or in which the winner is excited while losers are penalized. And as this parameter increases without limit, GLVQ-F updates all nodes equally. We illustrate the failure of GLVQ and success of GLVQ-F with the IRIS data.

Repairs to GLVQ: a new family of competitive learning schemes

The role of and interaction between statistical, fuzzy, and neural-like models for certain problems associated with the three main areas of pattern recognition system design are discussed. Some questions concerning fuzzy sets are answered, and the design of fuzzy pattern recognition systems is reviewed. Pattern recognition, statistical pattern recognition and fuzzy pattern recognition systems are described. The use of computational neural-like networks in fuzzy pattern recognition is also discussed. >

Computing with uncertainty

The method involves displaying at least three different parameters of particle-related data in multiple two-parameter data fields on a screen for viewing by a user. A position variable cursor is applied to any two-parameter data field and a region of data events is created within the data field by the cursor. Data events in the created region are linked and corresponding data events, defined by all other parameter data fields displayed on the screen, are then located. This method includes visually differentiating the data events in the other data fields which correspond to the data events in the created region of the first data field. This differentiation permits the user to identify these same data events on all of the two-parameter data fields to thereby facilitate visual exploratory data analysis.

Method of displaying multi-parameter data sets to aid in the analysis of data characteristics

This paper updates several recent surveys on the use of fuzzy models for segmentation and edge detection in medical image data. Our survey is divided into methods based on supervised and unsupervised learning (that is, on whether there are or are not labelled data available for supervising the computations), and is organized first and foremost by groups (that we know of) that are active in this area. Our review is aimed more towards `who is doing it' rather than `how good it is'. This is partially dictated by the fact that direct comparisons of supervised and unsupervised methods is somewhat akin to comparing apples and oranges. There is a further subdivision into methods for two-and three-dimensional data and/or problems. We do not cover methods based on neural-like networks or fuzzy reasoning systems. These topics are covered in a recently published companion survey by Keller et al.

Medical image analysis with fuzzy models

We discuss a new formulation of a fuzzy validity index that generalizes the Newman-Girvan (NG) modularity function. The NG function serves as a cluster validity functional in community detection studies. The input data is an undirected weighted graph that represents, e.g., a social network. Clusters correspond to socially similar substructures in the network. We compare our fuzzy modularity with two existing modularity functions using the well-studied Karate Club and American College Football datasets.

James C. Bezdek

Papers

Repairs to GLVQ: a new family of competitive learning schemes

Computing with uncertainty

Method of displaying multi-parameter data sets to aid in the analysis of data characteristics

Medical image analysis with fuzzy models

A Soft Modularity Function For Detecting Fuzzy Communities in Social Networks