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An Overview of Issues in Developing Industrial Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery Applications
This paper surveys the growing number of indu5 trial applications of data mining and knowledge discovery. We look at the existing tools, describe some representative applications, and discuss the major issues and problems for building and deploying successful applications and their adoption by business users. Finally, we examine how to assess the potential of a knowledge discovery application.
Quantitative and Ordinal Association Rules Mining (QAR Mining)
Abstract. Association rules have exhibited an excellent ability to identify interesting association relationships among a set of binary variables describing huge amount of transactions. Although the rules can be relatively easily generalized to other variable types, the generalization can result in a computationally expensive algorithm generating a prohibitive number of redundant rules of little significance. This danger especially applies to quantitative and ordinal variables. This paper presents and verifies an alternative approach to the quantitative and ordinal association rule mining. In this approach, quantitative or ordinal variables are not immediately transformed into a set of binary variables. Instead, it applies simple arithmetic operations in order to construct the cedents and searches for areas of increased association which are finally decomposed into conjunctions of literals. This scenario outputs rules that do not syntactically differentiate from classical association rules
Hyperbolic Kac-Moody Algebras and Chaos in Kaluza-Klein Models
Some time ago, it was found that the never-ending oscillatory chaotic
behaviour discovered by Belinsky, Khalatnikov and Lifshitz (BKL) for the
generic solution of the vacuum Einstein equations in the vicinity of a
spacelike ("cosmological") singularity disappears in spacetime dimensions . Recently, a study of the generalization of the BKL chaotic behaviour
to the superstring effective Lagrangians has revealed that this chaos is rooted
in the structure of the fundamental Weyl chamber of some underlying hyperbolic
Kac-Moody algebra. In this letter, we show that the same connection applies to
pure gravity in any spacetime dimension , where the relevant algebras
are . In this way the disappearance of chaos in pure gravity models in dimensions becomes linked to the fact that the Kac-Moody algebras
are no longer hyperbolic for .Comment: 13 pages, 1 figur
Unsupervised fuzzy pattern discovery in gene expression data
2010-2011 > Academic research: refereed > Publication in refereed journalpublished_fina
Fossil evidence for spin alignment of SDSS galaxies in filaments
We search for and find fossil evidence that the distribution of the spin axes
of galaxies in cosmic web filaments relative to their host filaments are not
randomly distributed. This would indicate that the action of large scale tidal
torques effected the alignments of galaxies located in cosmic filaments. To
this end, we constructed a catalogue of clean filaments containing edge-on
galaxies. We started by applying the Multiscale Morphology Filter (MMF)
technique to the galaxies in a redshift-distortion corrected version of the
Sloan Digital Sky Survey DR5. From that sample we extracted those 426 filaments
that contained edge-on galaxies (b/a < 0.2). These filaments were then visually
classified relative to a variety of quality criteria. Statistical analysis
using "feature measures" indicates that the distribution of orientations of
these edge-on galaxies relative to their parent filament deviate significantly
from what would be expected on the basis of a random distribution of
orientations. The interpretation of this result may not be immediately
apparent, but it is easy to identify a population of 14 objects whose spin axes
are aligned perpendicular to the spine of the parent filament (\cos \theta <
0.2). The candidate objects are found in relatively less dense filaments. This
might be expected since galaxies in such locations suffer less interaction with
surrounding galaxies, and consequently better preserve their tidally induced
orientations relative to the parent filament. The technique of searching for
fossil evidence of alignment yields relatively few candidate objects, but it
does not suffer from the dilution effects inherent in correlation analysis of
large samples.Comment: 20 pages, 19 figures, slightly revised and upgraded version, accepted
for publication by MNRAS. For high-res version see
http://www.astro.rug.nl/~weygaert/SpinAlignJones.rev.pd
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