Working Groups in Data Analysis and Mining

Fred S. Roberts, PI
The Center for Discrete Mathematics and Theoretical Computer Science (DIMACS)
Rutgers University

Contact Information:

Fred S. Roberts, Director of DIMACS

DIMACS Center

Rutgers University

96 Frelinghuysen Road

Piscataway, NJ 08854-8018

Email: froberts@dimacs.rutgers.edu

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Grant Report for the period 9/15/01-8/31/02

Project Award Information:

Award Number IIS-0100921

Duration: 9/15/01 - 8/31/03

Title: Working Groups in Data Analysis and Mining

Keywords:

Massive data sets, data mining, multidimensional scaling, computer conjectures, streaming data, fullerenes.

Project Summary:

This project will involve three "working groups" of researchers addressing different aspects of the massive data analysis problems we face today and in different types of applied contexts. One group will be concerned with "streaming" data analysis and mining. The group will deal with computational and analytical methods relevant to the problems that arise when decisions must be made in one, initial scan as data "stream" by. A second group will study new models and algorithms for and applications of multidimensional scaling. MDS, a traditional tool of data analysis in marketing, psychology, and other social and behavioral sciences, faces new challenges from the sheer volume of data in today's databases and from a variety of new applications. A third group will bring together researchers designing computers to generate scientific conjectures. Specifically, the group will deal with conjectures in graph theory and related areas of chemistry that are generated from databases of graph invariants and relations between them and of chemical structures such as of fullerenes.

Extended web pages of working groups supported by the project:

Algorithms for Multidimensional Scaling I

Dates: August 6 - 10, 2001

Location: DIMACS Center, CoRE Building, Rutgers University

Organizers: J. Douglas Carroll and Phipps Arabie, Rutgers University

Email: dcarroll@rci.rutgers.edu, arabie@andromeda.rutgers.edu

Streaming Data Analysis and Mining I

Dates: November 5 - 9, 2001

Location: DIMACS Center, CoRE Building, Rutgers University

Organizers: Adam Buchsbaum, AT&T Labs

Email: alb@research.att.com

Computer-Generated Conjectures from Graph Theoretic and Chemical Databases I

Dates: November 12 -16, 2001

Location: DIMACS Center, CoRE Building, Rutgers University

Organizers: Patrick Fowler, University of Exeter; Pierre Hansen, GERAD - University of Montreal

Email: P.W.Fowler@exeter.ac.uk, pierreh@crt.umontreal.ca

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