Hanghang Tong – författare

Data Mining: Concepts and Techniques, Fourth Edition introduces concepts, principles, and methods for mining patterns, knowledge, and models from various kinds of data for diverse applications. Specifically, it delves into the processes for uncovering patterns and knowledge from massive collections of data, known as knowledge discovery from data, or KDD. It focuses on the feasibility, usefulness, effectiveness, and scalability of data mining techniques for large data sets.

After an introduction to the concept of data mining, the authors explain the methods for preprocessing, characterizing, and warehousing data. They then partition the data mining methods into several major tasks, introducing concepts and methods for mining frequent patterns, associations, and correlations for large data sets; data classificcation and model construction; cluster analysis; and outlier detection. Concepts and methods for deep learning are systematically introduced as one chapter. Finally, the book covers the trends, applications, and research frontiers in data mining.

This SpringerBrief presents a typical life-cycle of mobile data mining applications, including:

 Energy saving is a fundamental requirement of mobile applications, due to the limited battery capacity of smartphones. The authors  explore the existing practices in the methodology level (e.g. by designing hierarchical models) for saving energy. Another fundamental requirement of mobile applications is personalization.  Most of the existing methods tend to train generic models for all users, but the authors provide existing personalized treatments for mobile applications, as the behaviors may differ greatly from one user to another in many mobile applications. The third requirement is real-time. That is, the mobile application should return responses in a real-time manner, meanwhile balancing effectiveness and efficiency.

 This SpringerBrief targets data mining and machine learning researchers and practitioners working in these related fields. Advanced level students studying computer science and electrical engineering will also find this brief useful as a study guide. 

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Computational Data and Social Networks, CSoNet 2019, held in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, in November 2019.

The 22 full and 8 short papers presented in this book were carefully reviewed and selected from 120 submissions. The papers appear under the following topical headings: Combinatorial Optimization and Learning; Influence Modeling, Propagation, and Maximization; NLP and Affective Computing; Computational Methods for Social Good; and User Profiling and Behavior Modeling.