Overview
- Integrates the mathematics of data mining with its applications
- Comprehensive study of set-theoretical and combinatorial foundations of data mining
- Provides the necessary mathematical background for researchers and graduate students
Part of the book series: Advanced Information and Knowledge Processing (AI&KP)
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This volume was born from the experience of the authors as researchers and educators,whichsuggeststhatmanystudentsofdataminingarehandicapped in their research by the lack of a formal, systematic education in its mat- matics. The data mining literature contains many excellent titles that address the needs of users with a variety of interests ranging from decision making to p- tern investigation in biological data. However, these books do not deal with the mathematical tools that are currently needed by data mining researchers and doctoral students. We felt it timely to produce a book that integrates the mathematics of data mining with its applications. We emphasize that this book is about mathematical tools for data mining and not about data mining itself; despite this, a substantial amount of applications of mathematical c- cepts in data mining are presented. The book is intended as a reference for the working data miner. In our opinion, three areas of mathematics are vital for data mining: set theory,includingpartially orderedsetsandcombinatorics;linear algebra,with its many applications in principal component analysis and neural networks; and probability theory, which plays a foundational role in statistics, machine learning and data mining. Thisvolumeisdedicatedtothestudyofset-theoreticalfoundationsofdata mining. Two further volumes are contemplated that will cover linear algebra and probability theory. The ?rst part of this book, dedicated to set theory, begins with a study of functionsandrelations.Applicationsofthesefundamentalconceptstosuch- sues as equivalences and partitions are discussed. Also, we prepare the ground for the following volumes by discussing indicator functions, ?elds and?-?elds, and other concepts.
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Table of contents (15 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Set Theory
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Metric Spaces
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Combinatorics
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Reviews
From the reviews:
"The book is organized into four parts, with a total of 15 chapters. Each chapter … offers numerous exercises and references for further reading. … Overall, Simovici and Djeraba’s presentation of both the theoretical grounds and the practical aspects of the various data mining methodologies is good. … The book is intended for readers who have a data mining background … . It will help this audience to improve their knowledge of how different data mining strategies operate from a mathematical standpoint." (Aris Gkoulalas-Divanis, ACM Computing Reviews, February, 2009)
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Mathematical Tools for Data Mining
Book Subtitle: Set Theory, Partial Orders, Combinatorics
Authors: Dan A. Simovici, Chabane Djeraba
Series Title: Advanced Information and Knowledge Processing
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-84800-201-2
Publisher: Springer London
eBook Packages: Computer Science, Computer Science (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag London 2008
eBook ISBN: 978-1-84800-201-2Published: 15 August 2008
Series ISSN: 1610-3947
Series E-ISSN: 2197-8441
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XII, 615
Topics: Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery, Mathematics of Computing, Discrete Mathematics in Computer Science, Computational Mathematics and Numerical Analysis