Real world data mining applications must address the issue of learning from imbalanced data sets. The problem occurs when the number of instances in one class greatly outnumbers t...
We propose a new decision tree algorithm, Class Confidence Proportion Decision Tree (CCPDT), which is robust and insensitive to class distribution and generates rules which are st...
Wei Liu, Sanjay Chawla, David A. Cieslak, Nitesh V...
Traditional Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery algorithms assume free access to data, either at a centralized location or in federated form. Increasingly, privacy and security co...
Feature selection for unsupervised tasks is particularly challenging, especially when dealing with text data. The increase in online documents and email communication creates a nee...
Nirmalie Wiratunga, Robert Lothian, Stewart Massie
Estimating insurance premia from data is a difficult regression problem for several reasons: the large number of variables, many of which are discrete, and the very peculiar shape...
Nicolas Chapados, Yoshua Bengio, Pascal Vincent, J...