Abstract--The increasing popularity of social media is shortening the distance between people. Social activities, e.g., tagging in Flickr, bookmarking in Delicious, twittering in T...
In many applications of data mining we know beforehand that the response variable should be increasing (or decreasing) in the attributes. Such relations between response and attrib...
Active learning has been proven a reliable strategy to reduce manual efforts in training data labeling. Such strategies incorporate the user as oracle: the classifier selects the m...
We present a mining system that can predict the future health status of the patient using the temporal trajectories of health status of a set of similar patients. The main noveltie...
Abstract--The Affinity Propagation (AP) clustering algorithm proposed by Frey and Dueck (2007) provides an understandable, nearly optimal summary of a data set. However, it suffers...