Document Type

Conference Paper

Department/Unit

Department of Computer Science

Title

Mining local data sources for learning global cluster models

Language

English

Abstract

Distributed data mining has been a topic getting more important nowadays as there are many cases where physically sharing of data is probibited, e.g., due to huge data volume or data privacy. In this paper, we are interested in learning a global cluster model by exploring data in distributed sources. A methodology based on periodic model exchange and merge is proposed and applied to hyperlinked Web pages analysis. In addition, we have tested a number of variations of the basic idea, including putting more emphasis on the privacy concern and testing the effect of having different numbers of distributed sources. Experimental results show that the proposed distributed learning scheme is effective with accuracy close to the case with all the data physically shared for the learning.

Keywords

Data mining, Machine learning, Data analysis, Data privacy, Web pages, Testing, Frequency, Computer science, Machine learning algorithms, Training data

Publication Date

9-2004

Source Publication Title

Proceedings / IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on Web Intelligence, 2004, WI 2004 20 - 24 Sept. 2004, [Beijing, China]

Editors

Zhong, Ning ; Tirri, Henry ; Yao, Yiyu ; Zhou, Lizhu ; Liu, Jiming ; Cercone, Nick

Conference Location

Beijing, China

Publisher

IEEE

Peer Reviewed

1

Copyright

Copyright © 2004 by The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc.

Funder

This research work is partially supported by Hong Kong Baptist University under FRG/03-04/II-20.

DOI

10.1109/WI.2004.10044

Link to Publisher's Edition

http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/WI.2004.10044

ISBN (print)

9780769521008

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