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

Machine Learning is the study of methods for programming computers to learn. Computers are applied to a wide range of tasks, and for most of these it is relatively easy for programmers to design and implement the necessary software. However, there are many tasks for which this is difficult or impossible. These can be divided into four general categories. First, there are problems for which there exist no human experts. For example, in modern automated manufacturing facilities, there is a need to predict machine failures before they occur by analyzing sensor readings. Because the machines are new, there are no human experts who can be interviewed by a programmer to provide the knowledge necessary to build a computer system. A machine learning system can study recorded data and subsequent machine failures and learn prediction rules. Second, there are problems where human experts exist, but where they are unable to explain their expertise. This is the case in many perceptual tasks, such as speech recognition, hand-writing recognition, and natural language understanding. Virtually all humans exhibit expert-level abilities on these tasks, but none of them can describe the detailed steps that they follow as they perform them. Fortunately, humans can provide machines with examples of the inputs and correct outputs for these tasks, so machine learning algorithms can learn to map the inputs to the outputs. Third, there are problems where phenomena are changing rapidly. In finance, for example, people would like to predict the future behavior of the stock market, of consumer purchases, or of exchange rates. These behaviors change frequently, so that even if a programmer could construct a good predictive computer program, it would need to be rewritten frequently. A learning program can relieve the programmer of this burden by constantly modifying and tuning a set of learned prediction rules. Fourth, there are applications that need to be customized for each computer user separately. Consider, for example, a program to filter unwanted electronic mail messages. Different users will need different filters. It is unreasonable to expect each user to program his or her own rules, and it is infeasible to provide every user with a software engineer to keep the rules up-to-date. A machine learning system can learn which mail messages the user rejects and maintain the filtering rules automatically. Machine learning addresses many of the same research questions as the fields of statistics, data mining, and psychology, but with differences of emphasis. Statistics focuses on understanding the phenomena that have generated the data, often with the goal of testing different hypotheses about those phenomena. Data mining seeks to find patterns in the data that are understandable by people. Psychological studies of human learning aspire to understand the mechanisms underlying the various learning behaviors exhibited by people (concept learning, skill acquisition, strategy change, etc.).

Machine learning

Data Mining - Concepts and Techniques.

We present the Stanford Question Answering Dataset (SQuAD), a new reading comprehension dataset consisting of 100,000+ questions posed by crowdworkers on a set of Wikipedia articles, where the answer to each question is a segment of text from the corresponding reading passage. We analyze the dataset to understand the types of reasoning required to answer the questions, leaning heavily on dependency and constituency trees. We build a strong logistic regression model, which achieves an F1 score of 51.0%, a significant improvement over a simple baseline (20%). However, human performance (86.8%) is much higher, indicating that the dataset presents a good challenge problem for future research. 
The dataset is freely available at this https URL

SQuAD: 100,000+ Questions for Machine Comprehension of Text

The technology of very large knowledge databases (VLKDs) is employed in the network management system. An application which explores the knowledge acquisition from very large databases (VLDBs) in cooperation with a rule-based expert system for achieving flexible network management of interconnecting communication networks is investigated. The possibilities for the topology reconfigurations of networks as well as the optimal assignment of facilities in the network are shown. >

Knowledge acquisition in communication networks: towards flexible network management

Due to the recent expansion of network bandwidth, the data propagation delay has become a significant factor which influences the system performance in place of the data transmission delay. Based on this fact, we have proposed a new technology to reduce the bad influence of propagation delay on the performance of distributed database system by relocating dynamically the database through networks, which we call database migration. Furthermore, we have proposed a database relocation method to choose the transaction processing method between the conventional database fixed method and the proposed database migration method by giving consideration to the transaction complexity. In this paper, we explain our distributed database system with database migration mechanism based on these proposals, and the implementation of the DB-MANα system as a prototype system. The DB-MANα system reduces the database migration time by using a main memory database technique, which induces us to add a backup management mechanism for migratory databases. Moreover, we show some measurement results for the performance evaluation of the DB-MANα system. The results show that the implemented system works well in a practical environment.

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Design and implementation of DB-MANα: does database migration work well in a real environment?

An adaptive query processing strategy for mobile databases

A distributed database system based on database migration and its mechanism for concurrency control

In recent years, there has been an increasing interest in the broadcast database system where the server periodically broadcasts contents in a database to mobile clients such as portable computers and PDAs. There are three query processing methods in the broadcast database system, while each method consumes different amount of power for query processing. In this paper, we propose a new query processing method which dynamically chooses an appropriate method among the three query processing methods by considering energy consumption.

Shojiro Nishio

Papers

Knowledge acquisition in communication networks: towards flexible network management

Design and implementation of DB-MANα: does database migration work well in a real environment?

An adaptive query processing strategy for mobile databases

A distributed database system based on database migration and its mechanism for concurrency control

On query processing considering energy consumption for broadcast database systems