- Provides a comprehensive overview of the field including the theory of outlier ensembles and various techniques built around this theory
- Offers numerous practical insights about the implementation of ensemble methods and base algorithms
- Includes exercises for students and access to a solutions manual for instructors
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- About this Textbook
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This book discusses a variety of methods for outlier ensembles and organizes them by the specific principles with which accuracy improvements are achieved. In addition, it covers the techniques with which such methods can be made more effective. A formal classification of these methods is provided, and the circumstances in which they work well are examined. The authors cover how outlier ensembles relate (both theoretically and practically) to the ensemble techniques used commonly for other data mining problems like classification. The similarities and (subtle) differences in the ensemble techniques for the classification and outlier detection problems are explored. These subtle differences do impact the design of ensemble algorithms for the latter problem. This book can be used for courses in data mining and related curricula. Many illustrative examples and exercises are provided in order to facilitate classroom teaching. A familiarity is assumed to the outlier detection problem and also to generic problem of ensemble analysis in classification. This is because many of the ensemble methods discussed in this book are adaptations from their counterparts in the classification domain. Some techniques explained in this book, such as wagging, randomized feature weighting, and geometric subsampling, provide new insights that are not available elsewhere. Also included is an analysis of the performance of various types of base detectors and their relative effectiveness. The book is valuable for researchers and practitioners for leveraging ensemble methods into optimal algorithmic design.
- About the authors
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Charu C. Aggarwal is a Distinguished Research Staff Member (DRSM) at the IBM T. J. Watson Research Center in Yorktown Heights, New York. He completed his undergraduate degree in Computer Science from the Indian Institute of Technology at Kanpur in 1993 and his Ph.D. in Operations Research from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1996. He has published more than 300 papers in refereed conferences and journals, and has applied for or been granted more than 80 patents. He is author or editor of 16 books, including textbooks on data mining, recommender systems, and outlier analysis. Because of the commercial value of his patents, he has thrice been designated a Master Inventor at IBM. He has received several internal and external awards, including the EDBT Test-of-Time Award (2014) and the IEEE ICDM Research Contributions Award (2015). He has also served as program or general chair of many major conferences in data mining. He is a fellow of the SIAM, ACM, and the IEEE, for ‘”contributions to knowledge discovery and data mining algorithms.”
Saket Sathe has worked at IBM Research (Australia/United States) since 2013. Saket received a Ph.D. degree in Computer Science from EPFL (Lausanne) in 2013. Before that he received a Master's (M.Tech.) degree in Electrical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology at Bombay and also spent one year working for a startup. His primary areas of interest are data mining and data management. Saket has served on program committees of several top-ranked conferences and has been invited to review papers for prominent peer-reviewed journals. His research has led to more than 20 papers and 5 patents. His work on sensor data management received the runner-up best-paper award in IEEE CollaborateCom 2014. He is a member of the ACM, IEEE, and the SIAM.
- Table of contents (6 chapters)
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An Introduction to Outlier Ensembles
Pages 1-34
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Theory of Outlier Ensembles
Pages 35-74
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Variance Reduction in Outlier Ensembles
Pages 75-161
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Bias Reduction in Outlier Ensembles: The Guessing Game
Pages 163-186
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Model Combination Methods for Outlier Ensembles
Pages 187-205
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Table of contents (6 chapters)
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Bibliographic Information
- Bibliographic Information
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- Book Title
- Outlier Ensembles
- Book Subtitle
- An Introduction
- Authors
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- Charu C. Aggarwal
- Saket Sathe
- Copyright
- 2017
- Publisher
- Springer International Publishing
- Copyright Holder
- Springer International Publishing AG
- eBook ISBN
- 978-3-319-54765-7
- DOI
- 10.1007/978-3-319-54765-7
- Hardcover ISBN
- 978-3-319-54764-0
- Softcover ISBN
- 978-3-319-85474-8
- Edition Number
- 1
- Number of Pages
- XVI, 276
- Number of Illustrations
- 46 b/w illustrations, 9 illustrations in colour
- Topics
