Interactive Data Mining (e-book) (used book) | Yan Zhao | bookbook.eu

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Yan Zhao's book, entitled "Interactive Data Mining" provides a con-ceptual framework and a systematic study of human-computer inter-actions and collaborations for effective data mining. The thesis is based on an assumption that the effectiveness of data mining systems depends crucially on semantics information about data and different user requirements. In contrast to many data mining models that con-centrate on automation and efficiency, interactive data mining sys-tems focus on adaptive and effective communication between human users and computer systems. Interactive systems fully explore the power of human intuition, creativity, heuristics and strategies with supports from computers. The thesis is well-balanced between theo-retical investigation and experimental evaluations. A user-oriented three-layered conceptual model is proposed. Within the framework, user perceptions and requirements are studied formally at the philo-sophical, technique and the application layers. The separation of the three layers leads to many new insights into data mining. Based on the conceptual framework, a prototype of Interactive Classification System (ICS) has been implemented.