This chapter investigates subgroup discovery as a task of constraint-based mining of local patterns, aimed at describing groups of individuals with unusual distributional character...
In this paper we introduce graph-evolution rules, a novel type of frequency-based pattern that describe the evolution of large networks over time, at a local level. Given a sequenc...
Abstract. We present a novel approach for classification using a discretised function representation which is independent of the data locations. We construct the classifier as a su...
The recent years have witnessed a surge of interests of semi-supervised clustering methods, which aim to cluster the data set under the guidance of some supervisory information. U...
A common task in many text mining applications is to generate a multi-faceted overview of a topic in a text collection. Such an overview not only directly serves as an informative...
Xu Ling, Qiaozhu Mei, ChengXiang Zhai, Bruce R. Sc...