Mathematical Tools for Data Mining: Set Theory, Partial Orders, Combinatorics
Mathematical Tools for Data Mining: Set Theory, Partial Orders, Combinatorics
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DOI:
10.1007/978-1-84800-201-2
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发表时间:
2008-08
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D. Simovici;C. Djeraba
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作者:
D. Simovici;C. Djeraba
The data mining literature contains many excellent titles that address the needs of users with a variety of interests ranging from decision making to pattern investigation in biological data. However, these books do not deal with the mathematical tools that are currently needed by data mining researchers and doctoral students and we felt that it is timely to produce a new version of our book that integrates the mathematics of data mining with its applications. We emphasize that this book is about mathematical tools for data mining and not about data mining itself; despite this, many substantial applications of mathematical concepts in data mining are included. The book is intended as a reference for the working data miner. We present several areas of mathematics that, in our opinion are vital for data mining: set theory, including partially ordered sets and combinatorics; linear algebra, with its many applications in linear algorithms; topology that is used in understanding and structuring data, and graph theory that provides a powerful tool for constructing data models.