Meetings

Fractal and Self-Similarity in Data Mining: Approaches and Issues

in conjunction with 8th ACM SIGKDD International Conference on Knowledge Discovery & Data Mining July 23 - 26, 2002, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada

Workshop Date: July 23, 2002

Co-chairs: Jafar Adibi, ISI/USC, Christos Faloutsos, CMU

http://www.isi.edu/~adibi/FractalKDD02

Human brains, economic markets, network data, earthquake activity, music melodies and nature create enormously complex behavior that is much richer than the behavior of the individual component units. Self-similar stochastic processes, which introduced forty years ago, brought to the attention of probabilists and statisticians and they have been used in hydrology geophysics, biophysics, biology, financial economics and communications systems. Even recent measurements of local-area and wide-area traffic have shown that network traffic exhibits variability at a wide range of time scales.

Recently, several techniques have been proposed to apply data mining techniques through fractal dimensions and self-similar characteristics in different domains. These techniques include but not limited to: dimension reduction, predictive modeling, using self-similar characteristics to mine databases such as association rules, clustering, classification, modeling and finding outliers, selectivity estimation, spatial databases, R-trees, Quadtrees and model distributions of data. Although fractals and self-similarities in Data Mining have attracted researchers' attention, this is still an open research issue. We believe that much progress could be achieved from a concerted effort and a greater amount of interactions between researchers in different research areas. The purpose of this workshop is to provide a forum to foster such interactions, discuss the new achievements and identify future research directions.

ORGANIZING COMMITTEE ==================== Co-chairs :

Jafar Adibi , Information Sciences Institute, USC Christos Faloutsos , Carnegie Mellon University

Program Committee:

Daniel Barbara, George Mason University Reza Sadri, Procom Technology Caetano Traina, University of Sao Paulo. Wei-Min Shen, ISI/USC Homayoun Yousefi'zadeh, UCI

Workshop Contact:

Jafar Adibi adibi@isi.edu