Detecting Aggregate Incongruities in XML

The problem of identifying deviating patterns in XML repositories has important applications in data cleaning, fraud detection, and stock market analysis. Current methods determine data discrepancies by assessing whether the data conforms to the expected distribution of its immediate neighborhood. This approach may miss interesting deviations involving aggregated information. For example, the average number of transactions of a particular bank account may be exceptionally high as compared to other accounts with similar profiles. Such incongruity could only be revealed through aggregating appropriate data and analyzing the aggregated results in the associated neighborhood. This neighborhood is implicitly encapsulated in the XML structure. In addition, the hierarchical nathe XML structure reflects the different levels of abstractions in the real world. This work presents a framework that detects incongruities in aggregate information. It utilizes the inherent characteristics of the XML s...

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2009
• Where: DASFAA
• Authors: Wynne Hsu, Qiangfeng Peter Lau, Mong-Li Lee
• Keywords: DASFAA 2009, Database, Methods Determine Data, Nathe Xml Structure, XML Structure