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Triclustering in Big Data Setting
The 13rd IEEE International Conference on Data Mining (IEEE ICDM 2013) has solicited workshops on topics related to new research directions and novel applications of data mining. The goal of the ICDM workshops program (IEEE ICDMW) is to identify grand challenges in data mining, to explore the possible paths to address these urgent problems, and to solicit broad participation from the data mining community and other relevant research communities. IEEE ICDMW 2013 was held on December 7 in Dallas, Texas, USA, and was immediately followed by IEEE ICDM 2013. This year, we have received 41 workshop proposals, a 141% increase from the number of proposals in the previous year. Of those submissions, 26 workshop proposals were accepted through a thorough review by the ICDMW workshop organization committee. 18 workshops eventually made their way to prepare their workshop programs after a rigorous paper review process. The final program consisted of 13 full-day workshops and 5 halfday workshops. Overall, the ICDMW Program received 364 submissions, which is a 19% increase from the number of submissions in the previous year. Of those submissions, 183 papers were accepted. The workshop proposal acceptance rate is about 44%, and the workshop papers acceptance rate is about 50%. The highly competitive acceptance rates have resulted in the highquality and exciting ICDMW proceedings. IEEE ICDMW 2013 covered many new research and application areas as well as fundamental data mining topics. The traditional and fundamental disciplines included spatial and spatiotemporal data mining, optimization, concept drift, domain driven data mining, opinion mining, and sentiment analysis. Emerging disciplines included high-dimensional data mining, causal discovery, cloud and distributed computing, data mining in service applications, and of course, big data. IEEE ICDMW 2013 provided discussion forums for exciting applications including biological data mining in healthcare, data mining in networks, data privacy, and data mining case studies. The ICDMW Program also explored new areas of data markets in sciences and businesses, data mining in experimental economics, and data mining in astronomical problems. Many people worked together in organizing IEEE ICDMW 2013. We would like to thank all workshop organizers for the high-quality workshop proposals received. The workshop organizers are the key to the success of the ICDMW program. We should thank them all for their tremendous effort putting together 18 exciting workshops in the final program.
The practical relevance of process mining is increasing as more and more event data become available. Process mining techniques aim to discover, monitor and improve real processes by extracting knowledge from event logs. The two most prominent process mining tasks are: (i) process discovery: learning a process model from example behavior recorded in an event log, and (ii) conformance checking: diagnosing and quantifying discrepancies between observed behavior and modeled behavior. The increasing volume of event data provides both opportunities and challenges for process mining. Existing process mining techniques have problems dealing with large event logs referring to many different activities. Therefore, we propose a generic approach to decompose process mining problems. The decomposition approach is generic and can be combined with different existing process discovery and conformance checking techniques. It is possible to split computationally challenging process mining problems into many smaller problems that can be analyzed easily and whose results can be combined into solutions for the original problems.
In 2015-2016 the Department of Communication, Media and Design of the National Research University “Higher School of Economics” in collaboration with non-profit organization ROCIT conducted research aimed to construct the Index of Digital Literacy in Russian Regions. This research was the priority and remain unmatched for the momentIn 2015-2016 the Department of Communication, Media and Design of the National Research University “Higher School of Economics” in collaboration with non-profit organization ROCIT conducted research aimed to construct the Index of Digital Literacy in Russian Regions. This research was the priority and remain unmatched for the moment
The article is dedicated to the analysis of Big Data perspective in jurisprudence. It is proved that Big Data have to be used as the explanatory and predictable tool. The author describes issues concerning Big Data application in legal research. The problems are technical (data access, technical imperfections, data verification) and informative (interpretation of data and correlations). It is concluded that there is the necessity to enhance Big Data investigations taking into account the abovementioned limits.
A model for organizing cargo transportation between two node stations connected by a railway line which contains a certain number of intermediate stations is considered. The movement of cargo is in one direction. Such a situation may occur, for example, if one of the node stations is located in a region which produce raw material for manufacturing industry located in another region, and there is another node station. The organization of freight traffic is performed by means of a number of technologies. These technologies determine the rules for taking on cargo at the initial node station, the rules of interaction between neighboring stations, as well as the rule of distribution of cargo to the final node stations. The process of cargo transportation is followed by the set rule of control. For such a model, one must determine possible modes of cargo transportation and describe their properties. This model is described by a finite-dimensional system of differential equations with nonlocal linear restrictions. The class of the solution satisfying nonlocal linear restrictions is extremely narrow. It results in the need for the “correct” extension of solutions of a system of differential equations to a class of quasi-solutions having the distinctive feature of gaps in a countable number of points. It was possible numerically using the Runge–Kutta method of the fourth order to build these quasi-solutions and determine their rate of growth. Let us note that in the technical plan the main complexity consisted in obtaining quasi-solutions satisfying the nonlocal linear restrictions. Furthermore, we investigated the dependence of quasi-solutions and, in particular, sizes of gaps (jumps) of solutions on a number of parameters of the model characterizing a rule of control, technologies for transportation of cargo and intensity of giving of cargo on a node station.
Event logs collected by modern information and technical systems usually contain enough data for automated process models discovery. A variety of algorithms was developed for process models discovery, conformance checking, log to model alignment, comparison of process models, etc., nevertheless a quick analysis of ad-hoc selected parts of a journal still have not get a full-fledged implementation. This paper describes an ROLAP-based method of multidimensional event logs storage for process mining. The result of the analysis of the journal is visualized as directed graph representing the union of all possible event sequences, ranked by their occurrence probability. Our implementation allows the analyst to discover process models for sublogs defined by ad-hoc selection of criteria and value of occurrence probability
The geographic information system (GIS) is based on the first and only Russian Imperial Census of 1897 and the First All-Union Census of the Soviet Union of 1926. The GIS features vector data (shapefiles) of allprovinces of the two states. For the 1897 census, there is information about linguistic, religious, and social estate groups. The part based on the 1926 census features nationality. Both shapefiles include information on gender, rural and urban population. The GIS allows for producing any necessary maps for individual studies of the period which require the administrative boundaries and demographic information.
Existing approaches suggest that IT strategy should be a reflection of business strategy. However, actually organisations do not often follow business strategy even if it is formally declared. In these conditions, IT strategy can be viewed not as a plan, but as an organisational shared view on the role of information systems. This approach generally reflects only a top-down perspective of IT strategy. So, it can be supplemented by a strategic behaviour pattern (i.e., more or less standard response to a changes that is formed as result of previous experience) to implement bottom-up approach. Two components that can help to establish effective reaction regarding new initiatives in IT are proposed here: model of IT-related decision making, and efficiency measurement metric to estimate maturity of business processes and appropriate IT. Usage of proposed tools is demonstrated in practical cases.