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You are Simon, an intelligent personal assistant within the KIOS system. You can access knowledge bases provided in the user's "CONTEXT" and should expertly interpret this information to deliver the most relevant responses. In the "CONTEXT", prioritize information from the text tagged "FEEDBACK:". Your role is to act as an expert at reading the information provided by the user and giving the most relevant information. Prioritize clarity, trustworthiness, and appropriate formality when communicating with enterprise users. If a topic is outside your knowledge scope, admit it honestly and suggest alternative ways to obtain the information. Utilize chat history effectively to avoid redundancy and enhance relevance, continuously integrating necessary details. Focus on providing precise and accurate information in your answers. **Elapsed Time: 0.18 seconds** FINAL QUERY Final Query: CONTEXT: ########## File: Data%20Mining%20Concepts%20and%20Techniques%20-%20Jiawei%20Han%2C%20Micheline%20Kamber%2C%20Jian%20Pei%20%28PDF%29.pdf Page: 663 Context: esearchpapers,conference,authors,andtopics).Whatarethemajordifferencesbetweenmethodologiesforminingheterogeneousinformationnetworksandmethodsfortheirhomogeneouscounterparts?13.4Researchanddescribeadataminingapplicationthatwasnotpresentedinthischapter.Discusshowdifferentformsofdataminingcanbeusedintheapplication.13.5Whyistheestablishmentoftheoreticalfoundationsimportantfordatamining?Nameanddescribethemaintheoreticalfoundationsthathavebeenproposedfordatamin-ing.Commentonhowtheyeachsatisfy(orfailtosatisfy)therequirementsofanidealtheoreticalframeworkfordatamining. #################### File: 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HAN08-ch01-001-038-97801238147912011/6/13:12Page16#1616Chapter1IntroductionThereareseveralmethodsforeffectivedatasummarizationandcharacterization.SimpledatasummariesbasedonstatisticalmeasuresandplotsaredescribedinChapter2.Thedatacube-basedOLAProll-upoperation(Section1.3.2)canbeusedtoperformuser-controlleddatasummarizationalongaspecifieddimension.Thispro-cessisfurtherdetailedinChapters4and5,whichdiscussdatawarehousing.Anattribute-orientedinductiontechniquecanbeusedtoperformdatageneralizationandcharacterizationwithoutstep-by-stepuserinteraction.ThistechniqueisalsodescribedinChapter4.Theoutputofdatacharacterizationcanbepresentedinvariousforms.Examplesincludepiecharts,barcharts,curves,multidimensionaldatacubes,andmultidimen-sionaltables,includingcrosstabs.Theresultingdescriptionscanalsobepresentedasgeneralizedrelationsorinruleform(calledcharacteristicrules).Example1.5Datacharacterization.AcustomerrelationshipmanageratAllElectronicsmayorderthefollowingdataminingtask:Summarizethecharacteristicsofcustomerswhospendmorethan$5000ayearatAllElectronics.Theresultisageneralprofileofthesecustomers,suchasthattheyare40to50yearsold,employed,andhaveexcellentcreditratings.Thedataminingsystemshouldallowthecustomerrelationshipmanagertodrilldownonanydimension,suchasonoccupationtoviewthesecustomersaccordingtotheirtypeofemployment.Datadiscriminationisacomparisonofthegeneralfeaturesofthetargetclassdataobjectsagainstthegeneralfeaturesofobjectsfromoneormultiplecontrastingclasses.Thetargetandcontrastingclassescanbespecifiedbyauser,andthecorrespondingdataobjectscanberetrievedthroughdatabasequeries.Forexample,ausermaywanttocomparethegeneralfeaturesofsoftwareproductswithsalesthatincreasedby10%lastyearagainstthosewithsalesthatdecreasedbyatleast30%duringthesameperiod.Themethodsusedfordatadiscriminationaresimilartothoseusedfordatacharacterization.“Howarediscriminationdescriptionsoutput?”Theformsofoutputpresentationaresimilartothoseforcharacteristicdescriptions,althoughdiscriminationdescrip-tionsshoul 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HAN08-ch01-001-038-97801238147912011/6/13:12Page33#331.8Summary33Invisibledatamining:Wecannotexpecteveryoneinsocietytolearnandmasterdataminingtechniques.Moreandmoresystemsshouldhavedataminingfunc-tionsbuiltwithinsothatpeoplecanperformdataminingorusedataminingresultssimplybymouseclicking,withoutanyknowledgeofdataminingalgorithms.Intelli-gentsearchenginesandInternet-basedstoresperformsuchinvisibledataminingbyincorporatingdataminingintotheircomponentstoimprovetheirfunctionalityandperformance.Thisisdoneoftenunbeknownsttotheuser.Forexample,whenpur-chasingitemsonline,usersmaybeunawarethatthestoreislikelycollectingdataonthebuyingpatternsofitscustomers,whichmaybeusedtorecommendotheritemsforpurchaseinthefuture.Theseissuesandmanyadditionalonesrelatingtotheresearch,development,andapplicationofdataminingarediscussedthroughoutthebook.1.8SummaryNecessityisthemotherofinvention.Withthemountinggrowthofdataineveryappli-cation,dataminingmeetstheimminentneedforeffective,scalable,andflexibledataanalysisinoursociety.Dataminingcanbeconsideredasanaturalevolutionofinfor-mationtechnologyandaconfluenceofseveralrelateddisciplinesandapplicationdomains.Dataminingistheprocessofdiscoveringinterestingpatternsfrommassiveamountsofdata.Asaknowledgediscoveryprocess,ittypicallyinvolvesdatacleaning,datainte-gration,dataselection,datatransformation,patterndiscovery,patternevaluation,andknowledgepresentation.Apatternisinterestingifitisvalidontestdatawithsomedegreeofcertainty,novel,potentiallyuseful(e.g.,canbeactedonorvalidatesahunchaboutwhichtheuserwascurious),andeasilyunderstoodbyhumans.Interestingpatternsrepresentknowl-edge.Measuresofpatterninterestingness,eitherobjectiveorsubjective,canbeusedtoguidethediscoveryprocess.Wepresentamultidimensionalviewofdatamining.Themajordimensionsaredata,knowledge,technologies,andapplications.Dataminingcanbeconductedonanykindofdataaslongasthedataaremeaningfulforatargetapplication,suchasdatabasedata,datawarehousedata,transactionaldata,andadvanceddatatypes.Advanceddatatyp 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HAN11-ch04-125-186-97801238147912011/6/13:17Page179#554.6Summary179Adatacubeconsistsofalatticeofcuboids,eachcorrespondingtoadifferentdegreeofsummarizationofthegivenmultidimensionaldata.Concepthierarchiesorganizethevaluesofattributesordimensionsintogradualabstractionlevels.Theyareusefulinminingatmultipleabstractionlevels.Onlineanalyticalprocessingcanbeperformedindatawarehouses/martsusingthemultidimensionaldatamodel.TypicalOLAPoperationsincluderoll-up,anddrill-(down,across,through),slice-and-dice,andpivot(rotate),aswellasstatisticaloperationssuchasrankingandcomputingmovingaveragesandgrowthrates.OLAPoperationscanbeimplementedefficientlyusingthedatacubestructure.Datawarehousesareusedforinformationprocessing(queryingandreporting),analyticalprocessing(whichallowsuserstonavigatethroughsummarizedanddetaileddatabyOLAPoperations),anddatamining(whichsupportsknowledgediscovery).OLAP-baseddataminingisreferredtoasmultidimensionaldatamin-ing(alsoknownasexploratorymultidimensionaldatamining,onlineanalyticalmining,orOLAM).Itemphasizestheinteractiveandexploratorynatureofdatamining.OLAPserversmayadoptarelationalOLAP(ROLAP),amultidimensionalOLAP(MOLAP),orahybridOLAP(HOLAP)implementation.AROLAPserverusesanextendedrelationalDBMSthatmapsOLAPoperationsonmultidimensionaldatatostandardrelationaloperations.AMOLAPservermapsmultidimensionaldataviewsdirectlytoarraystructures.AHOLAPservercombinesROLAPandMOLAP.Forexample,itmayuseROLAPforhistoricdatawhilemaintainingfrequentlyaccesseddatainaseparateMOLAPstore.Fullmaterializationreferstothecomputationofallofthecuboidsinthelatticedefiningadatacube.Ittypicallyrequiresanexcessiveamountofstoragespace,particularlyasthenumberofdimensionsandsizeofassociatedconcepthierarchiesgrow.Thisproblemisknownasthecurseofdimensionality.Alternatively,partialmaterializationistheselectivecomputationofasubsetofthecuboidsorsubcubesinthelattice.Forexample,anicebergcubeisadatacubethatstoresonlythosecubecellsthathaveanaggregatevalue(e.g.,count)abovesomeminimumsupportthreshold.O 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HAN19-ch12-543-584-97801238147912011/6/13:25Page581#3912.9Summary58112.9SummaryAssumethatagivenstatisticalprocessisusedtogenerateasetofdataobjects.Anoutlierisadataobjectthatdeviatessignificantlyfromtherestoftheobjects,asifitweregeneratedbyadifferentmechanism.Typesofoutliersincludeglobaloutliers,contextualoutliers,andcollectiveoutliers.Anobjectmaybemorethanonetypeofoutlier.Globaloutliersarethesimplestformofoutlierandtheeasiesttodetect.Acontextualoutlierdeviatessignificantlywithrespecttoaspecificcontextoftheobject(e.g.,aTorontotemperaturevalueof28◦Cisanoutlierifitoccursinthecontextofwinter).Asubsetofdataobjectsformsacollectiveoutlieriftheobjectsasawholedeviatesignificantlyfromtheentiredataset,eventhoughtheindividualdataobjectsmaynotbeoutliers.Collectiveoutlierdetectionrequiresbackgroundinformationtomodeltherelationshipsamongobjectstofindoutliergroups.Challengesinoutlierdetectionincludefindingappropriatedatamodels,thedepen-denceofoutlierdetectionsystemsontheapplicationinvolved,findingwaystodistinguishoutliersfromnoise,andprovidingjustificationforidentifyingoutliersassuch.Outlierdetectionmethodscanbecategorizedaccordingtowhetherthesampleofdataforanalysisisgivenwithexpert-providedlabelsthatcanbeusedtobuildanoutlierdetectionmodel.Inthiscase,thedetectionmethodsaresupervised,semi-supervised,orunsupervised.Alternatively,outlierdetectionmethodsmaybeorganizedaccordingtotheirassumptionsregardingnormalobjectsversusout-liers.Thiscategorizationincludesstatisticalmethods,proximity-basedmethods,andclustering-basedmethods.Statisticaloutlierdetectionmethods(ormodel-basedmethods)assumethatthenormaldataobjectsfollowastatisticalmodel,wheredatanotfollowingthemodelareconsideredoutliers.Suchmethodsmaybeparametric(theyassumethatthedataaregeneratedbyaparametricdistribution)ornonparametric(theylearnamodelforthedata,ratherthanassumingoneapriori).ParametricmethodsformultivariatedatamayemploytheMahalanobisdistance,theχ2-statistic,oramixtureofmul-tipleparametricmodels.Histogramsandkerneldensityes 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HAN20-ch13-585-632-97801238147912011/6/13:26Page625#4113.6Summary625Furtherdevelopmentofprivacy-preservingdataminingmethodsisforeseen.Thecollaborationoftechnologists,socialscientists,lawexperts,governments,andcompaniesisneededtoproducearigorousprivacyandsecurityprotectionmech-anismfordatapublishinganddatamining.Withconfidence,welookforwardtothenextgenerationofdataminingtechnologyandthefurtherbenefitsthatitwillbring.13.6SummaryMiningcomplexdatatypesposeschallengingissues,forwhichtherearemanydedi-catedlinesofresearchanddevelopment.Thischapterpresentsahigh-leveloverviewofminingcomplexdatatypes,whichincludesminingsequencedatasuchastimeseries,symbolicsequences,andbiologicalsequences;mininggraphsandnetworks;andminingotherkindsofdata,includingspatiotemporalandcyber-physicalsystemdata,multimedia,textandWebdata,anddatastreams.Severalwell-establishedstatisticalmethodshavebeenproposedfordataanalysissuchasregression,generalizedlinearmodels,analysisofvariance,mixed-effectmod-els,factoranalysis,discriminantanalysis,survivalanalysis,andqualitycontrol.Fullcoverageofstatisticaldataanalysismethodsisbeyondthescopeofthisbook.Inter-estedreadersarereferredtothestatisticalliteraturecitedinthebibliographicnotes(Section13.8).Researchershavebeenstrivingtobuildtheoreticalfoundationsfordatamining.Sev-eralinterestingproposalshaveappeared,basedondatareduction,datacompression,probabilityandstatisticstheory,microeconomictheory,andpatterndiscovery–basedinductivedatabases.Visualdataminingintegratesdatamininganddatavisualizationtodiscoverimplicitandusefulknowledgefromlargedatasets.Visualdataminingincludesdatavisu-alization,dataminingresultvisualization,dataminingprocessvisualization,andinteractivevisualdatamining.Audiodataminingusesaudiosignalstoindicatedatapatternsorfeaturesofdataminingresults.Manycustomizeddataminingtoolshavebeendevelopedfordomain-specificapplications,includingfinance,theretailandtelecommunicationindustries,scienceandengineering,intrusiondetectionandprevention,andrecommendersystems 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HAN11-ch04-125-186-97801238147912011/6/13:17Page180#56180Chapter4DataWarehousingandOnlineAnalyticalProcessingattribute-orientedinduction.Conceptdescriptionisthemostbasicformofdescrip-tivedatamining.Itdescribesagivensetoftask-relevantdatainaconciseandsummarativemanner,presentinginterestinggeneralpropertiesofthedata.Concept(orclass)descriptionconsistsofcharacterizationandcomparison(ordiscrimi-nation).Theformersummarizesanddescribesadatacollection,calledthetargetclass,whereasthelattersummarizesanddistinguishesonedatacollection,calledthetargetclass,fromotherdatacollection(s),collectivelycalledthecontrastingclass(es).Conceptcharacterizationcanbeimplementedusingdatacube(OLAP-based)approachesandtheattribute-orientedinductionapproach.Theseareattribute-ordimension-basedgeneralizationapproaches.Theattribute-orientedinductionapproachconsistsofthefollowingtechniques:datafocusing,datageneralizationbyattributeremovalorattributegeneralization,countandaggregatevalueaccumulation,attributegeneralizationcontrol,andgeneralizationdatavisualization.Conceptcomparisoncanbeperformedusingtheattribute-orientedinductionordatacubeapproachesinamannersimilartoconceptcharacterization.Generalizedtuplesfromthetargetandcontrastingclassescanbequantitativelycomparedandcontrasted.4.7Exercises4.1Statewhy,fortheintegrationofmultipleheterogeneousinformationsources,manycompaniesinindustryprefertheupdate-drivenapproach(whichconstructsandusesdatawarehouses),ratherthanthequery-drivenapproach(whichapplieswrappersandintegrators).Describesituationswherethequery-drivenapproachispreferabletotheupdate-drivenapproach.4.2Brieflycomparethefollowingconcepts.Youmayuseanexampletoexplainyourpoint(s).(a)Snowflakeschema,factconstellation,starnetquerymodel(b)Datacleaning,datatransformation,refresh(c)Discovery-drivencube,multifeaturecube,virtualwarehouse4.3Supposethatadatawarehouseconsistsofthethreedimensionstime,doctor,andpatient,andthetwomeasurescountandcharge,wherechargeisthefeethatadoctorchargesapatientforavisit.(a)Enume 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Methods | | -------- | -------- | Figure P .1 A suggested sequence of chapters for a short introductory course. Depending on the length of the instruction period, the background of students, and your interests, you may select subsets of chapters to teach in various sequential order- ings. For example, if you would like to give only a short introduction to students on data mining, you may follow the suggested sequence in Figure P.1. Notice that depending on the need, you can also omit some sections or subsections in a chapter if desired. Depending on the length of the course and its technical scope, you may choose to selectively add more chapters to this preliminary sequence. For example, instructors who are more interested in advanced classification methods may first add “Chapter 9. Classification: Advanced Methods”; those more interested in pattern mining may choose to include “Chapter 7. Advanced Pattern Mining”; whereas those interested in OLAP and data cube technology may like to add “Chapter 4. Data Warehousing and Online Analytical Processing” and “Chapter 5. Data Cube Technology.” Alternatively, you may choose to teach the whole book in a two-course sequence that covers all of the chapters in the book, plus, when time permits, some advanced topics such as graph and network mining. Material for such advanced topics may be selected from the companion chapters available from the book’s web site, accompanied with a set of selected research papers. Individual chapters in this book can also be used for tutorials or for special topics in related courses, such as machine learning, pattern recognition, data warehousing, and intelligent data analysis. Each chapter ends with a set of exercises, suitable as assigned homework. The exer- cises are either short questions that test basic mastery of the material covered, longer questions that require analytical thinking, or implementation projects. Some exercises can also be used as research discussion topics. The bibliographic notes at the end of each chapter can be used to find the research literature that contains the origin of the concepts and methods presented, in-depth treatment of related topics, and possible extensions. T o the Student We hope that this textbook will spark your interest in the young yet fast-evolving field of data mining. We have attempted to present the material in a clear manner, with careful explanation of the topics covered. Each chapter ends with a summary describing the main points. We have included many figures and illustrations throughout the text to make the book more enjoyable and reader-friendly. Although this book was designed as a textbook, we have tried to organize it so that it will also be useful to you as a reference #################### File: Data%20Mining%20Concepts%20and%20Techniques%20-%20Jiawei%20Han%2C%20Micheline%20Kamber%2C%20Jian%20Pei%20%28PDF%29.pdf Page: 219 Context: HAN11-ch04-125-186-97801238147912011/6/13:17Page182#58182Chapter4DataWarehousingandOnlineAnalyticalProcessing(a)Presentanexampleillustratingsuchahugeandsparsedatacube.(b)Designanimplementationmethodthatcanelegantlyovercomethissparsematrixproblem.Notethatyouneedtoexplainyourdatastructuresindetailanddiscussthespaceneeded,aswellashowtoretrievedatafromyourstructures.(c)Modifyyourdesignin(b)tohandleincrementaldataupdates.Givethereasoningbehindyournewdesign.4.9Regardingthecomputationofmeasuresinadatacube:(a)Enumeratethreecategoriesofmeasures,basedonthekindofaggregatefunctionsusedincomputingadatacube.(b)Foradatacubewiththethreedimensionstime,location,anditem,whichcategorydoesthefunctionvariancebelongto?Describehowtocomputeitifthecubeispartitionedintomanychunks.Hint:Theformulaforcomputingvarianceis1N(cid:80)Ni=1(xi−¯xi)2,where¯xiistheaverageofxis.(c)Supposethefunctionis“top10sales.”Discusshowtoefficientlycomputethismeasureinadatacube.4.10Supposeacompanywantstodesignadatawarehousetofacilitatetheanalysisofmovingvehiclesinanonlineanalyticalprocessingmanner.Thecompanyregistershugeamountsofautomovementdataintheformatof(AutoID,location,speed,time).EachAutoIDrepresentsavehicleassociatedwithinformation(e.g.,vehiclecategory,drivercategory),andeachlocationmaybeassociatedwithastreetinacity.Assumethatastreetmapisavailableforthecity.(a)Designsuchadatawarehousetofacilitateeffectiveonlineanalyticalprocessinginmultidimensionalspace.(b)Themovementdatamaycontainnoise.Discusshowyouwoulddevelopamethodtoautomaticallydiscoverdatarecordsthatwerelikelyerroneouslyregisteredinthedatarepository.(c)Themovementdatamaybesparse.Discusshowyouwoulddevelopamethodthatconstructsareliabledatawarehousedespitethesparsityofdata.(d)IfyouwanttodrivefromAtoBstartingataparticulartime,discusshowasystemmayusethedatainthiswarehousetoworkoutafastroute.4.11Radio-frequencyidentificationiscommonlyusedtotraceobjectmovementandper-forminventorycontrol.AnRFIDreadercansuccessfullyreadanRFIDtagfromalimiteddistanceatanyscheduledti #################### File: BIOS%20Disassembly%20Ninjutsu%20Uncovered%201st%20Edition%20-%20Darmawan%20Salihun%20%28PDF%29%20BIOS_Disassembly_Ninjutsu_Uncovered.pdf Page: 528 Context: Figure 13.3 Steps in comprehending TCG standards implementation in PC architecture Figure 13.3 shows that the first document you have to read is the TCG Specification Architecture Overview. Then, proceed to the platform-specific design guide document, which in the current context is the PC platform specification document. You have to consult the concepts explained in the TPM main specification, parts 1–4, and the TSS document while reading the PC platform specification document—the dashed blue arrows in figure 13.3 mean "consult." You can download the TCG Specification Architecture Overview and TPM main specification, parts 1–4, at https://www.trustedcomputinggroup.org/specs/TPM. The TSS document is available for download at https://www.trustedcomputinggroup.org/specs/TSS, and the PC platform specification document is available for download at https://www.trustedcomputinggroup.org/specs/PCClient. The PC platform specification document consists of several files; the relevant ones are TCG PC Client–Specific Implementation Specification for Conventional BIOS (as of the writing of this book, the latest version of this document is 1.20 final) and PC Client TPM Interface Specification FAQ. Reading these documents will give you a glimpse of the concepts of trusted computing and some details about its implementation in PC architecture. Before moving forward, I'll explain a bit more about the fundamental concept of trusted computing that is covered by the TCG standards. The TCG Specification Architecture Overview defines trust as the "expectation that a device will behave in a particular manner for a specific purpose." The advanced features that exist in a trusted platform are protected capabilities, integrity measurement, and integrity reporting. The focus is on the integrity measurement feature because this feature relates directly to the BIOS. As per the TCG Specification Architecture Overview, integrity measurement is "the process of obtaining metrics of platform characteristics that affect the integrity (trustworthiness) of a platform; storing those metrics; and putting digests of those metrics in PCRs [platform configuration registers]." I'm not going to delve into this definition or the specifics about PCRs. Nonetheless, it's important to note that in the TCG standards for PC architecture, core root of trust measurement (CRTM) is synonymous with BIOS boot block. At this point, you have #################### File: Data%20Mining%20Concepts%20and%20Techniques%20-%20Jiawei%20Han%2C%20Micheline%20Kamber%2C%20Jian%20Pei%20%28PDF%29.pdf Page: 136 Context: eddatasetshouldbemoreefficientyetproducethesame(oralmostthesame)analyticalresults.Inthissection,wefirstpresentanoverviewofdatareductionstrategies,followedbyacloserlookatindividualtechniques.3.4.1OverviewofDataReductionStrategiesDatareductionstrategiesincludedimensionalityreduction,numerosityreduction,anddatacompression.Dimensionalityreductionistheprocessofreducingthenumberofrandomvariablesorattributesunderconsideration.Dimensionalityreductionmethodsincludewavelet #################### File: Data%20Mining%20Concepts%20and%20Techniques%20-%20Jiawei%20Han%2C%20Micheline%20Kamber%2C%20Jian%20Pei%20%28PDF%29.pdf Page: 272 Context: HAN12-ch05-187-242-97801238147912011/6/13:19Page235#495.6Exercises235lattice.Icebergcubesandshellfragmentsareexamplesofpartialmaterialization.Anicebergcubeisadatacubethatstoresonlythosecubecellsthathaveanaggregatevalue(e.g.,count)abovesomeminimumsupportthreshold.Forshellfragmentsofadatacube,onlysomecuboidsinvolvingasmallnumberofdimensionsarecom-puted,andqueriesonadditionalcombinationsofthedimensionscanbecomputedon-the-fly.Thereareseveralefficientdatacubecomputationmethods.Inthischapter,wedis-cussedfourcubecomputationmethodsindetail:(1)MultiWayarrayaggregationformaterializingfulldatacubesinsparse-array-based,bottom-up,sharedcomputation;(2)BUCforcomputingicebergcubesbyexploringorderingandsortingforefficienttop-downcomputation;(3)Star-Cubingforcomputingicebergcubesbyintegratingtop-downandbottom-upcomputationusingastar-treestructure;and(4)shell-fragmentcubing,whichsupportshigh-dimensionalOLAPbyprecomputingonlythepartitionedcubeshellfragments.Multidimensionaldataminingincubespaceistheintegrationofknowledgediscov-erywithmultidimensionaldatacubes.Itfacilitatessystematicandfocusedknowledgediscoveryinlargestructuredandsemi-structureddatasets.Itwillcontinuetoendowanalystswithtremendousflexibilityandpoweratmultidimensionalandmultigran-ularityexploratoryanalysis.Thisisavastopenareaforresearcherstobuildpowerfulandsophisticateddataminingmechanisms.Techniquesforprocessingadvancedquerieshavebeenproposedthattakeadvantageofcubetechnology.Theseincludesamplingcubesformultidimensionalanalysisonsamplingdata,andrankingcubesforefficienttop-k(ranking)queryprocessinginlargerelationaldatasets.Thischapterhighlightedthreeapproachestomultidimensionaldataanalysiswithdatacubes.Predictioncubescomputepredictionmodelsinmultidimensionalcubespace.Theyhelpusersidentifyinterestingdatasubsetsatvaryingdegreesofgranularityforeffectiveprediction.Multifeaturecubescomputecomplexqueriesinvolvingmultipledependentaggregatesatmultiplegranularities.Exception-based,discovery-drivenexplorationofcubespacedisplaysvis #################### File: BIOS%20Disassembly%20Ninjutsu%20Uncovered%201st%20Edition%20-%20Darmawan%20Salihun%20%28PDF%29%20BIOS_Disassembly_Ninjutsu_Uncovered.pdf Page: 2 Context: Preface BIOS DISASSEMBLY NINJUTSU UNCOVERED – THE BOOK For many years, there has been a myth among computer enthusiasts and practitioners that PC BIOS (Basic Input Output System) modification is a kind of black art and only a handful of people can do it or only the motherboard vendor can carry out such a task. On the contrary, this book will prove that with the right tools and approach, anyone can understand and modify the BIOS to suit their needs without the existence of its source code. It can be achieved by using a systematic approach to BIOS reverse engineering and modification. An advanced level of this modification technique is injecting a custom code to the BIOS binary. There are many reasons to carry out BIOS reverse engineering and modification, from the fun of doing it to achieve higher clock speed in overclocking scenario, patching certain bug, injecting a custom security code into the BIOS, up to commercial interest in the embedded x86 BIOS market. The emergence of embedded x86 platform as consumer electronic products such as TV set-top boxes, telecom-related appliances and embedded x86 kiosks have raised the interest in BIOS reverse engineering and modification. In the coming years, these techniques will become even more important as the state of the art bus protocols have delegate a lot of their initialization task to the firmware, i.e. the BIOS. Thus, by understanding the techniques, one can dig the relevant firmware codes and understand the implementation of those protocols within the BIOS binary. The main purpose of the BIOS is to initialize the system into execution environment suitable for the operating system. This task is getting more complex over the years, since x86 hardware evolves quite significantly. It’s one of the most dynamic computing platform on earth. Introduction of new chipsets happens once in 3 or at least 6 month. This event introduces a new code base for the silicon support routine within the BIOS. Nevertheless, the overall architecture of the BIOS is changing very slowly and the basic principle of the code inside the BIOS is preserved over generations of its code. However, there has been a quite significant change in the BIOS scene in the last few years, with the introduction of EFI (extensible Firmware Interface) by several major hardware vendors and with the growth in OpenBIOS project. With these advances in BIOS technology, it’s even getting more important to know systematically what lays within the BIOS. In this book, the term BIOS has a much broader meaning than only motherboard BIOS, which is familiar to most of the reader. It also means the expansion ROM. The latter term is the official term used to refer to the firmware in the expansion cards within the PC, be it ISA, PCI or PCI Express. So, what can you expect after reading this book? Understanding the BIOS will open a new frontier. You will be able to grasp how exactly the PC hardware works in its lowest level. Understanding contemporary BIOS will reveal the implementation of the latest bus protocol technology, i.e. HyperTransport and PCI-Express. In the software engineering front, you will be able to appreciate the application of compression technology in the BIOS. The most important of all, you will be able to carry out reverse engineering using advanced techniques and tools. You will be able to use the powerful IDA Pro disassembler efficiently. Some reader with advanced knowledge in hardware and software might even want to “borrow” some of the algorithm within the BIOS for their own purposes. In short, you will be on the same level as other BIOS code-diggers. This book also presents a generic approach to PCI expansion ROM development using the widely available GNU tools. There will be no more myth in the BIOS and everyone will be able to learn from this state-of-the-art software technology for their own benefits. THE AUDIENCE This book is primarily oriented toward system programmers and computer security experts. In addition, electronic engineers, pc technicians and computer enthusiasts can also benefit a lot from this book. Furthermore, due to heavy explanation of applied computer architecture (x86 #################### File: Data%20Mining%20Concepts%20and%20Techniques%20-%20Jiawei%20Han%2C%20Micheline%20Kamber%2C%20Jian%20Pei%20%28PDF%29.pdf Page: 204 Context: HAN11-ch04-125-186-97801238147912011/6/13:17Page167#434.5DataGeneralizationbyAttribute-OrientedInduction167Usercontrolversusautomation:Onlineanalyticalprocessingindatawarehousesisauser-controlledprocess.TheselectionofdimensionsandtheapplicationofOLAPoperations(e.g.,drill-down,roll-up,slicing,anddicing)areprimarilydirectedandcontrolledbyusers.AlthoughthecontrolinmostOLAPsystemsisquiteuser-friendly,usersdorequireagoodunderstandingoftheroleofeachdimension.Furthermore,inordertofindasatisfactorydescriptionofthedata,usersmayneedtospecifyalongsequenceofOLAPoperations.Itisoftendesirabletohaveamoreauto-matedprocessthathelpsusersdeterminewhichdimensions(orattributes)shouldbeincludedintheanalysis,andthedegreetowhichthegivendatasetshouldbegeneralizedinordertoproduceaninterestingsummarizationofthedata.Thissectionpresentsanalternativemethodforconceptdescription,calledattribute-orientedinduction,whichworksforcomplexdatatypesandreliesonadata-drivengeneralizationprocess.4.5.1Attribute-OrientedInductionforDataCharacterizationTheattribute-orientedinduction(AOI)approachtoconceptdescriptionwasfirstpro-posedin1989,afewyearsbeforetheintroductionofthedatacubeapproach.Thedatacubeapproachisessentiallybasedonmaterializedviewsofthedata,whichtypicallyhavebeenprecomputedinadatawarehouse.Ingeneral,itperformsofflineaggre-gationbeforeanOLAPordataminingqueryissubmittedforprocessing.Ontheotherhand,theattribute-orientedinductionapproachisbasicallyaquery-oriented,generalization-based,onlinedataanalysistechnique.Notethatthereisnoinherentbarrierdistinguishingthetwoapproachesbasedononlineaggregationversusofflineprecomputation.Someaggregationsinthedatacubecanbecomputedonline,whileofflineprecomputationofmultidimensionalspacecanspeedupattribute-orientedinductionaswell.Thegeneralideaofattribute-orientedinductionistofirstcollectthetask-relevantdatausingadatabasequeryandthenperformgeneralizationbasedontheexaminationofthenumberofeachattribute’sdistinctvaluesintherelevantdataset.Thegenerali-zationisperformedby 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HAN11-ch04-125-186-97801238147912011/6/13:17Page125#14DataWarehousingandOnlineAnalyticalProcessingDatawarehousesgeneralizeandconsolidatedatainmultidimensionalspace.Theconstructionofdatawarehousesinvolvesdatacleaning,dataintegration,anddatatransformation,andcanbeviewedasanimportantpreprocessingstepfordatamining.Moreover,datawarehousesprovideonlineanalyticalprocessing(OLAP)toolsfortheinteractiveanalysisofmultidimensionaldataofvariedgranularities,whichfacilitateseffectivedatagene-ralizationanddatamining.Manyotherdataminingfunctions,suchasassociation,classification,prediction,andclustering,canbeintegratedwithOLAPoperationstoenhanceinteractiveminingofknowledgeatmultiplelevelsofabstraction.Hence,thedatawarehousehasbecomeanincreasinglyimportantplatformfordataanalysisandOLAPandwillprovideaneffectiveplatformfordatamining.Therefore,datawarehous-ingandOLAPformanessentialstepintheknowledgediscoveryprocess.ThischapterpresentsanoverviewofdatawarehouseandOLAPtechnology.Thisoverviewisessentialforunderstandingtheoveralldataminingandknowledgediscoveryprocess.Inthischapter,westudyawell-accepteddefinitionofthedatawarehouseandseewhymoreandmoreorganizationsarebuildingdatawarehousesfortheanalysisoftheirdata(Section4.1).Inparticular,westudythedatacube,amultidimensionaldatamodelfordatawarehousesandOLAP,aswellasOLAPoperationssuchasroll-up,drill-down,slicing,anddicing(Section4.2).Wealsolookatdatawarehousedesignandusage(Section4.3).Inaddition,wediscussmultidimensionaldatamining,apower-fulparadigmthatintegratesdatawarehouseandOLAPtechnologywiththatofdatamining.Anoverviewofdatawarehouseimplementationexaminesgeneralstrategiesforefficientdatacubecomputation,OLAPdataindexing,andOLAPqueryprocess-ing(Section4.4).Finally,westudydatageneralizationbyattribute-orientedinduction(Section4.5).Thismethodusesconcepthierarchiestogeneralizedatatomultiplelevelsofabstraction.4.1DataWarehouse:BasicConceptsThissectiongivesanintroductiontodatawarehouses.Webeginwithadefinitionofthedatawarehouse(Section4.1.1).Weoutlin 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HAN11-ch04-125-186-97801238147912011/6/13:17Page178#54178Chapter4DataWarehousingandOnlineAnalyticalProcessingOLAPoperationsmaybeperformedonthetargetandcontrastingclassesasdeemednecessarybytheuserinordertoadjusttheabstractionlevelsofthefinaldescription.Insummary,attribute-orientedinductionfordatacharacterizationandgeneraliza-tionprovidesanalternativedatageneralizationmethodincomparisontothedatacubeapproach.Itisnotconfinedtorelationaldatabecausesuchaninductioncanbeper-formedonspatial,multimedia,sequence,andotherkindsofdatasets.Inaddition,thereisnoneedtoprecomputeadatacubebecausegeneralizationcanbeperformedonlineuponreceivingauser’squery.Moreover,automatedanalysiscanbeaddedtosuchaninductionprocesstoauto-maticallyfilteroutirrelevantorunimportantattributes.However,becauseattribute-orientedinductionautomaticallygeneralizesdatatoahigherlevel,itcannotefficientlysupporttheprocessofdrillingdowntolevelsdeeperthanthoseprovidedinthegeneral-izedrelation.Theintegrationofdatacubetechnologywithattribute-orientedinductionmayprovideabalancebetweenprecomputationandonlinecomputation.Thiswouldalsosupportfastonlinecomputationwhenitisnecessarytodrilldowntoaleveldeeperthanthatprovidedinthegeneralizedrelation.4.6SummaryAdatawarehouseisasubject-oriented,integrated,time-variant,andnonvolatiledatacollectionorganizedinsupportofmanagementdecisionmaking.Severalfactorsdistinguishdatawarehousesfromoperationaldatabases.Becausethetwosystemsprovidequitedifferentfunctionalitiesandrequiredifferentkindsofdata,itisnecessarytomaintaindatawarehousesseparatelyfromoperationaldatabases.Datawarehousesoftenadoptathree-tierarchitecture.Thebottomtierisaware-housedatabaseserver,whichistypicallyarelationaldatabasesystem.ThemiddletierisanOLAPserver,andthetoptierisaclientthatcontainsqueryandreportingtools.Adatawarehousecontainsback-endtoolsandutilitiesforpopulatingandrefresh-ingthewarehouse.Thesecoverdataextraction,datacleaning,datatransformation,loading,refreshing,andwarehousemanagement.Datawarehousemetadataaredatade 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HAN12-ch05-187-242-97801238147912011/6/13:19Page238#52238Chapter5DataCubeTechnology(b)Supposewewanttocomputeadatacubewheretheconditionisthattheminimumnumberofrecordsis10andtheaveragefareisover$500.Outlineanefficientcubecomputationmethod(basedoncommonsenseaboutflightdatadistribution).5.11(Implementationproject)Therearefourtypicaldatacubecomputationmethods:Mul-tiWay[ZDN97],BUC[BR99],H-Cubing[HPDW01],andStar-Cubing[XHLW03].(a)Implementanyoneofthesecubecomputationalgorithmsanddescribeyourimplementation,experimentation,andperformance.Findanotherstudentwhohasimplementedadifferentalgorithmonthesameplatform(e.g.,C++onLinux)andcompareyouralgorithmperformancewithhisorhers.Input:i.Ann-dimensionalbasecuboidtable(forn<20),whichisessentiallyarelationaltablewithnattributes.ii.Anicebergcondition:count(C)≥k,wherekisapositiveintegerasaparameter.Output:i.Thesetofcomputedcuboidsthatsatisfytheicebergcondition,intheorderofyouroutputgeneration.ii.Summaryofthesetofcuboidsintheformof“cuboidID:thenumberofnonemptycells,”sortedinalphabeticalorderofcuboids(e.g.,A:155,AB:120,ABC:22,ABCD:4,ABCE:6,ABD:36),wherethenumberafter:representsthenumberofnonemptycells.(Thisisusedtoquicklycheckthecorrectnessofyourresults.)(b)Basedonyourimplementation,discussthefollowing:i.Whatchallengingcomputationproblemsareencounteredasthenumberofdimensionsgrowslarge?ii.Howcanicebergcubingsolvetheproblemsofpart(a)forsomedatasets(andcharacterizesuchdatasets)?iii.Giveonesimpleexampletoshowthatsometimesicebergcubescannotprovideagoodsolution.(c)Insteadofcomputingahigh-dimensionalitydatacube,wemaychoosetomateri-alizethecuboidsthathaveonlyasmallnumberofdimensioncombinations.Forexample,fora30-Ddatacube,wemayonlycomputethe5-Dcuboidsforeverypossible5-Dcombination.Theresultingcuboidsformashellcube.Discusshoweasyorharditistomodifyyourcubecomputationalgorithmtofacilitatesuchcomputation.5.12Thesamplingcubewasproposedformultidimensionalanalysisofsamplingdata(e.g.,surveydata).Inmanyrealapplications,samplingdatacanbeofhighdimensionalit 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This chapter dwells on the opposite point of view, that of the defenders. The focuses are on the prevention and mitigation of BIOS-related attacks. I start with the prevention method and then advance to the mitigation methods to heal systems that have been compromised by BIOS-related attack techniques. 13.1. Prevention Methods This section explains the methods to prevent an attacker from implanting a BIOS-based rootkit in your system. As you learned in the previous chapters, there are two kinds of subsystems that can be attacked by a BIOS-based rootkit, the motherboard BIOS and the PCI expansion ROM. I start with the motherboard BIOS and proceed to the PCI expansion ROM issue. 13.1.1. Hardware-Based Security Measures Recall from section 11.4 in chapter 11 that there is a hardware-based security measure in the motherboard BIOS chip to prevent an attacker from altering its contents. Certain registers in the BIOS chip—the BLRs—can prevent access to the BIOS chip, and their value cannot be changed after the BIOS initializes them,1 meaning that only changing the BIOS setup would change the status of the hardware-based protection. Therefore, the attacker needs physical access to the system to disable the protection. Nonetheless, there is a flaw to this prevention mechanism. If the default value of the BIOS setting in the BIOS code disables this protection, there is a possibility that the attacker can invalidate the values inside the CMOS chip remotely—within the running operating system—and restart the machine remotely afterward to disable the hardware-level protection. This happens because most machines force loading of the default value of the BIOS setting if the checksum of values in the CMOS is invalid. Before proceeding, a comparison study among flash ROM chips used as the BIOS chip in the motherboard is important because you need to know the nature of the implementation of the hardware-level protection. I presented the hardware-based protection example in chapter 11 with the Winbond W39V040FA chip. Now, look at another sample from a 1 Once the lock-down bit in the chip is activated, the state of the write-protection mechanism cannot be changed before the next boot or reboot. This doesn't imply that you can change the write-protection mechanism in the next reboot. For example, if the lock-down bit initialization is carried out by the BIOS, you cannot change the state of the write protection unless you change the BIOS. #################### File: BIOS%20Disassembly%20Ninjutsu%20Uncovered%201st%20Edition%20-%20Darmawan%20Salihun%20%28PDF%29%20BIOS_Disassembly_Ninjutsu_Uncovered.pdf Page: 268 Context: Chapter 8 PCI Expansion ROM Reverse Engineering PREVIEW This chapter is devoted to explaining PCI expansion ROM reverse engineering. You learned the structure of the PCI expansion ROM in the previous chapter. Thus, it will be straightforward to do the reverse engineering. However, I note some differences among different PCI expansion ROMs. 8.1. Binary Architecture In the previous chapter, you learned about PCI expansion ROM structure. The structure of such a binary is summarized in figure 8.1. Figure 8.1 PCI expansion ROM binary layout 1 #################### File: BIOS%20Disassembly%20Ninjutsu%20Uncovered%201st%20Edition%20-%20Darmawan%20Salihun%20%28PDF%29%20BIOS_Disassembly_Ninjutsu_Uncovered.pdf Page: 438 Context: Chapter 12 BIOS Rootkit Engineering PREVIEW In the previous chapters, you learned the basic techniques to interact with the firmware in the system. This chapter combines those techniques into the ultimate tool, the BIOS rootkit. I start by reviewing the history of BIOS exploitation, dissecting the legendary CIH virus, and then proceed to explaining how to devise a BIOS rootkit. The techniques that you learn in this chapter could be classified as "forbidden" techniques; in the ninjutsu realm they would be kinjutsu, or "forbidden" skills. The techniques I show here are only for experts because they are complicated, are risky, and can damage your system permanently. Don't try any of these techniques if you don't understand their mechanism in detail. You have been warned. 12.1. Looking Back through BIOS Exploitation History In the history of PC-based computing, there was one major virus outbreak on the PC BIOS, the CIH virus, written by Chen Ing Hau of Taiwan. There were several variants of CIH. This section shows a snippet from source code of CIH version 1.5. It shows the method used by CIH to destroy the BIOS. I don't explain the infection method used by CIH in detail because the focus in this chapter is synthesizing a BIOS rootkit. The source code is available at http://vx.netlux.org/src_view.php?file=cih15.zip. This website has a search feature; you can use it to locate other versions of CIH source code. As with other viruses' code, CIH source code is twisted and hard to understand because it uses many indirect branching instructions. I show you the basic idea behind this virus before delving into its code snippets. The characteristics of CIH 1.5 are as follows: 1. It infects executable files, particularly the so-called portable executable (PE) file. In this context, PE files are 32-bit executable files that run on the Windows platform. 2. It modifies the interrupt descriptor table (IDT) with an exception handler entry that points to the custom exception handler routine in the virus code. 3. It raises an exception to enter kernel mode. The kernel mode code is in the virus's custom exception handler routine. 4. Characteristics 2 and 3 imply that the virus code must be able to modify IDT entries from user-mode code. Therefore, CIH cannot run in Windows versions based on an NT kernel, i.e., it cannot run in Windows NT/2000/XP because IDT is not accessible to user-mode code in these Windows versions. CIH can run only in Windows 9x operating systems because IDT can be modified from user-mode code in these operating systems. 5. In its exception handler, it installs a new file system hook in Windows 9x to infect executable files. 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HAN20-ch13-585-632-97801238147912011/6/13:26Page620#36620Chapter13DataMiningTrendsandResearchFrontiersforatopicofinterest.Googlereturnsalistofwebsitesonyourtopic,mined,indexed,andorganizedbyasetofdataminingalgorithmsincludingPageRank.Moreover,ifyoutype“BostonNewYork,”GooglewillshowyoubusandtrainschedulesfromBostontoNewYork;however,aminorchangeto“BostonParis”willleadtoflightschedulesfromBostontoParis.Suchsmartofferingsofinformationorservicesarelikelybasedonthefrequentpatternsminedfromtheclickstreamsofmanypreviousqueries.WhileyouareviewingtheresultsofyourGooglequery,variousadspopuprelatingtoyourquery.Google’sstrategyoftailoringadvertisingtomatchtheuser’sinterestsisoneofthetypicalservicesbeingexploredbyeveryInternetsearchprovider.Thisalsomakesyouhappier,becauseyouarelesslikelytobepesteredwithirrelevantads.Dataminingisomnipresent,ascanbeseenfromthesedaily-encounteredexamples.Wecouldgoonandonwithsuchscenarios.Inmanycases,dataminingisinvisible,asusersmaybeunawarethattheyareexaminingresultsreturnedbydataminingorthattheirclicksareactuallyfedasnewdataintosomedataminingfunctions.Fordataminingtobecomefurtherimprovedandacceptedasatechnology,continuingresearchanddevelopmentareneededinthemanyareasmentionedaschallengesthroughoutthisbook.Theseincludeefficiencyandscalability,increaseduserinteraction,incorporationofbackgroundknowledgeandvisualizationtechniques,effectivemethodsforfindinginterestingpatterns,improvedhandlingofcomplexdatatypesandstreamdata,real-timedatamining,webmining,andsoon.Inaddition,theintegrationofdataminingintoexistingbusinessandscientifictechnologies,toprovidedomain-specificdatamin-ingtools,willfurthercontributetotheadvancementofthetechnology.Thesuccessofdataminingsolutionstailoredfore-commerceapplications,asopposedtogenericdataminingsystems,isanexample.13.4.2Privacy,Security,andSocialImpactsofDataMiningWithmoreandmoreinformationaccessibleinelectronicformsandavailableontheWeb,andwithincreasinglypowerfuldataminingtoolsbeingdevelopedandputintouse,thereareincreasin 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HAN20-ch13-585-632-97801238147912011/6/13:26Page585#113DataMiningTrendsandResearchFrontiersAsayoungresearchfield,datamininghasmadesignificantprogressandcoveredabroadspec-trumofapplicationssincethe1980s.Today,dataminingisusedinavastarrayofareas.Numerouscommercialdataminingsystemsandservicesareavailable.Manychal-lenges,however,stillremain.Inthisfinalchapter,weintroducetheminingofcomplexdatatypesasapreludetofurtherin-depthstudyreadersmaychoosetodo.Inaddi-tion,wefocusontrendsandresearchfrontiersindatamining.Section13.1presentsanoverviewofmethodologiesforminingcomplexdatatypes,whichextendtheconceptsandtasksintroducedinthisbook.Suchminingincludesminingtime-series,sequentialpatterns,andbiologicalsequences;graphsandnetworks;spatiotemporaldata,includinggeospatialdata,moving-objectdata,andcyber-physicalsystemdata;multimediadata;textdata;webdata;anddatastreams.Section13.2brieflyintroducesotherapproachestodatamining,includingstatisticalmethods,theoreticalfoundations,andvisualandaudiodatamining.InSection13.3,youwilllearnmoreaboutdataminingapplicationsinbusinessandinscience,includingthefinancialretail,andtelecommunicationindustries,scienceandengineering,andrecommendersystems.ThesocialimpactsofdataminingarediscussedinSection13.4,includingubiquitousandinvisibledatamining,andprivacy-preservingdatamining.Finally,inSection13.5wespeculateoncurrentandexpecteddataminingtrendsthatariseinresponsetonewchallengesinthefield.13.1MiningComplexDataTypesInthissection,weoutlinethemajordevelopmentsandresearcheffortsinminingcom-plexdatatypes.ComplexdatatypesaresummarizedinFigure13.1.Section13.1.1coversminingsequencedatasuchastime-series,symbolicsequences,andbiologicalsequences.Section13.1.2discussesmininggraphsandsocialandinformationnetworks.Section13.1.3addressesminingotherkindsofdata,includingspatialdata,spatiotem-poraldata,moving-objectdata,cyber-physicalsystemdata,multimediadata,textdata,c(cid:13)2012ElsevierInc.Allrightsreserved.DataMining:ConceptsandTechniques585 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HAN08-ch01-001-038-97801238147912011/6/13:12Page29#291.7MajorIssuesinDataMining291.7MajorIssuesinDataMiningLifeisshortbutartislong.–HippocratesDataminingisadynamicandfast-expandingfieldwithgreatstrengths.Inthissection,webrieflyoutlinethemajorissuesindataminingresearch,partitioningthemintofivegroups:miningmethodology,userinteraction,efficiencyandscalability,diversityofdatatypes,anddataminingandsociety.Manyoftheseissueshavebeenaddressedinrecentdataminingresearchanddevelopmenttoacertainextentandarenowconsid-ereddataminingrequirements;othersarestillattheresearchstage.Theissuescontinuetostimulatefurtherinvestigationandimprovementindatamining.1.7.1MiningMethodologyResearchershavebeenvigorouslydevelopingnewdataminingmethodologies.Thisinvolvestheinvestigationofnewkindsofknowledge,mininginmultidimensionalspace,integratingmethodsfromotherdisciplines,andtheconsiderationofsemantictiesamongdataobjects.Inaddition,miningmethodologiesshouldconsiderissuessuchasdatauncertainty,noise,andincompleteness.Someminingmethodsexplorehowuser-specifiedmeasurescanbeusedtoassesstheinterestingnessofdiscoveredpatternsaswellasguidethediscoveryprocess.Let’shavealookatthesevariousaspectsofminingmethodology.Miningvariousandnewkindsofknowledge:Dataminingcoversawidespectrumofdataanalysisandknowledgediscoverytasks,fromdatacharacterizationanddiscrim-inationtoassociationandcorrelationanalysis,classification,regression,clustering,outlieranalysis,sequenceanalysis,andtrendandevolutionanalysis.Thesetasksmayusethesamedatabaseindifferentwaysandrequirethedevelopmentofnumerousdataminingtechniques.Duetothediversityofapplications,newminingtaskscon-tinuetoemerge,makingdataminingadynamicandfast-growingfield.Forexample,foreffectiveknowledgediscoveryininformationnetworks,integratedclusteringandrankingmayleadtothediscoveryofhigh-qualityclustersandobjectranksinlargenetworks.Miningknowledgeinmultidimensionalspace:Whensearchingforknowledgeinlargedatasets,wecanexplorethedatainmultidimensionalspace.Thatis,wecansearchforintere 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HAN11-ch04-125-186-97801238147912011/6/13:17Page183#594.7Exercises183(b)TheRFIDdatamaycontainlotsofredundantinformation.DiscussamethodthatmaximallyreducesredundancyduringdataregistrationintheRFIDdatawarehouse.(c)TheRFIDdatamaycontainlotsofnoisesuchasmissingregistrationandmisreadIDs.DiscussamethodthateffectivelycleansupthenoisydataintheRFIDdatawarehouse.(d)YoumaywanttoperformonlineanalyticalprocessingtodeterminehowmanyTVsetswereshippedfromtheLAseaporttoBestBuyinChampaign,IL,bymonth,brand,andpricerange.OutlinehowthiscouldbedoneefficientlyifyouweretostoresuchRFIDdatainthewarehouse.(e)Ifacustomerreturnsajugofmilkandcomplainsthatishasspoiledbeforeitsexpi-rationdate,discusshowyoucaninvestigatesuchacaseinthewarehousetofindoutwhattheproblemis,eitherinshippingorinstorage.4.12Inmanyapplications,newdatasetsareincrementallyaddedtotheexistinglargedatasets.Thus,animportantconsiderationiswhetherameasurecanbecomputedefficientlyinanincrementalmanner.Usecount,standarddeviation,andmedianasexamplestoshowthatadistributiveoralgebraicmeasurefacilitatesefficientincrementalcomputation,whereasaholisticmeasuredoesnot.4.13Supposethatweneedtorecordthreemeasuresinadatacube:min(),average(),andmedian().Designanefficientcomputationandstoragemethodforeachmeasuregiventhatthecubeallowsdatatobedeletedincrementally(i.e.,insmallportionsatatime)fromthecube.4.14Indatawarehousetechnology,amultipledimensionalviewcanbeimplementedbyarelationaldatabasetechnique(ROLAP),byamultidimensionaldatabasetechnique(MOLAP),orbyahybriddatabasetechnique(HOLAP).(a)Brieflydescribeeachimplementationtechnique.(b)Foreachtechnique,explainhoweachofthefollowingfunctionsmaybeimplemented:i.Thegenerationofadatawarehouse(includingaggregation)ii.Roll-upiii.Drill-downiv.Incrementalupdating(c)Whichimplementationtechniquesdoyouprefer,andwhy?4.15Supposethatadatawarehousecontains20dimensions,eachwithaboutfivelevelsofgranularity.(a)Usersaremainlyinterestedinfourparticulardimensions,eachhavingthreefre-quentlyaccessedlevelsforrollingupanddrilli 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HAN08-ch01-001-038-97801238147912011/6/13:12Page4#44Chapter1IntroductionSincethe1960s,databaseandinformationtechnologyhasevolvedsystematicallyfromprimitivefileprocessingsystemstosophisticatedandpowerfuldatabasesystems.Theresearchanddevelopmentindatabasesystemssincethe1970sprogressedfromearlyhierarchicalandnetworkdatabasesystemstorelationaldatabasesystems(wheredataarestoredinrelationaltablestructures;seeSection1.3.1),datamodelingtools,andindexingandaccessingmethods.Inaddition,usersgainedconvenientandflexibledataaccessthroughquerylanguages,userinterfaces,queryoptimization,andtransac-tionmanagement.Efficientmethodsforonlinetransactionprocessing(OLTP),whereaqueryisviewedasaread-onlytransaction,contributedsubstantiallytotheevolutionandwideacceptanceofrelationaltechnologyasamajortoolforefficientstorage,retrieval,andmanagementoflargeamountsofdata.Aftertheestablishmentofdatabasemanagementsystems,databasetechnologymovedtowardthedevelopmentofadvanceddatabasesystems,datawarehousing,anddataminingforadvanceddataanalysisandweb-baseddatabases.Advanceddatabasesystems,forexample,resultedfromanupsurgeofresearchfromthemid-1980sonward.Thesesystemsincorporatenewandpowerfuldatamodelssuchasextended-relational,object-oriented,object-relational,anddeductivemodels.Application-orienteddatabasesystemshaveflourished,includingspatial,temporal,multimedia,active,streamandsensor,scientificandengineeringdatabases,knowledgebases,andofficeinformationbases.Issuesrelatedtothedistribution,diversification,andsharingofdatahavebeenstudiedextensively.Advanceddataanalysissprangupfromthelate1980sonward.Thesteadyanddazzlingprogressofcomputerhardwaretechnologyinthepastthreedecadesledtolargesuppliesofpowerfulandaffordablecomputers,datacollectionequipment,andstoragemedia.Thistechnologyprovidesagreatboosttothedatabaseandinformationindustry,anditenablesahugenumberofdatabasesandinformationrepositoriestobeavailablefortransactionmanagement,informationretrieval,anddataanalysis.Datacannowbestoredinmanydifferentkindsofd 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HAN14-ch07-279-326-97801238147912011/6/13:21Page308#30308Chapter7AdvancedPatternMiningpattern/ruleinterestingnessandcorrelation(Section6.3)canalsobeusedtohelpconfinethesearchtopatterns/rulesofinterest.Inthissection,welookattwoformsof“compression”offrequentpatternsthatbuildontheconceptsofclosedpatternsandmax-patterns.RecallfromSection6.2.6thataclosedpatternisalosslesscompressionofthesetoffrequentpatterns,whereasamax-patternisalossycompression.Inparticular,Section7.5.1exploresclustering-basedcompressionoffrequentpatterns,whichgroupspatternstogetherbasedontheirsimilar-ityandfrequencysupport.Section7.5.2takesa“summarization”approach,wheretheaimistoderiveredundancy-awaretop-krepresentativepatternsthatcoverthewholesetof(closed)frequentitemsets.Theapproachconsidersnotonlytherepresentativenessofpatternsbutalsotheirmutualindependencetoavoidredundancyinthesetofgener-atedpatterns.Thekrepresentativesprovidecompactcompressionoverthecollectionoffrequentpatterns,makingthemeasiertointerpretanduse.7.5.1MiningCompressedPatternsbyPatternClusteringPatterncompressioncanbeachievedbypatternclustering.ClusteringtechniquesaredescribedindetailinChapters10and11.Inthissection,itisnotnecessarytoknowthefinedetailsofclustering.Rather,youwilllearnhowtheconceptofclusteringcanbeappliedtocompressfrequentpatterns.Clusteringistheautomaticprocessofgroupinglikeobjectstogether,sothatobjectswithinaclusteraresimilartooneanotheranddis-similartoobjectsinotherclusters.Inthiscase,theobjectsarefrequentpatterns.Thefrequentpatternsareclusteredusingatightnessmeasurecalledδ-cluster.Arepresenta-tivepatternisselectedforeachcluster,therebyofferingacompressedversionofthesetoffrequentpatterns.Beforewebegin,let’sreviewsomedefinitions.AnitemsetXisaclosedfrequentitemsetinadatasetDifXisfrequentandthereexistsnopropersuper-itemsetYofXsuchthatYhasthesamesupportcountasXinD.AnitemsetXisamaximalfrequentitemsetindatasetDifXisfrequentandthereexistsnosuper-itemsetYsuchthatX⊂YandYisfrequentinD.Usingtheseconceptsaloneisnotenoughtoobt 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HAN05-pref-xxiii-xxx-97801238147912011/6/13:35Pagexxiii#1PrefaceThecomputerizationofoursocietyhassubstantiallyenhancedourcapabilitiesforbothgeneratingandcollectingdatafromdiversesources.Atremendousamountofdatahasfloodedalmosteveryaspectofourlives.Thisexplosivegrowthinstoredortransientdatahasgeneratedanurgentneedfornewtechniquesandautomatedtoolsthatcanintelligentlyassistusintransformingthevastamountsofdataintousefulinformationandknowledge.Thishasledtothegenerationofapromisingandflourishingfrontierincomputersciencecalleddatamining,anditsvariousapplications.Datamining,alsopopularlyreferredtoasknowledgediscoveryfromdata(KDD),istheautomatedorcon-venientextractionofpatternsrepresentingknowledgeimplicitlystoredorcapturedinlargedatabases,datawarehouses,theWeb,othermassiveinformationrepositories,ordatastreams.Thisbookexplorestheconceptsandtechniquesofknowledgediscoveryanddatamin-ing.Asamultidisciplinaryfield,dataminingdrawsonworkfromareasincludingstatistics,machinelearning,patternrecognition,databasetechnology,informationretrieval,networkscience,knowledge-basedsystems,artificialintelligence,high-performancecomputing,anddatavisualization.Wefocusonissuesrelatingtothefeasibility,use-fulness,effectiveness,andscalabilityoftechniquesforthediscoveryofpatternshiddeninlargedatasets.Asaresult,thisbookisnotintendedasanintroductiontostatis-tics,machinelearning,databasesystems,orothersuchareas,althoughwedoprovidesomebackgroundknowledgetofacilitatethereader’scomprehensionoftheirrespectiverolesindatamining.Rather,thebookisacomprehensiveintroductiontodatamining.Itisusefulforcomputingsciencestudents,applicationdevelopers,andbusinessprofessionals,aswellasresearchersinvolvedinanyofthedisciplinespreviouslylisted.Dataminingemergedduringthelate1980s,madegreatstridesduringthe1990s,andcontinuestoflourishintothenewmillennium.Thisbookpresentsanoverallpictureofthefield,introducinginterestingdataminingtechniquesandsystemsanddiscussingapplicationsandresearchdirections.Animportantmotivationforwritingt 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TrustedCore Notebook for mobile platforms You have learned about the detail implementation of Phoenix TrustedCore for desktop platforms in chapter 13. Therefore, I don’t explain it in detail in this chapter. Now, you will look at the comparison between different types of TrustedCore variants. It’s shown in table 15.1. | | TrustedCore Server & | | TrustedCore
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Notebook | | |Embedded Server | | | | | | -------- | -------- | -------- | -------- | -------- | -------- | | | | | • Supports completerange of embeddedplatforms, chipsets,and operatingenvironments tobuild everythingfrom Windowsindustrial PCs toembedded bladessystems• Delivers the widestrange of bootoptions in themarketplace. Bootfrom multiple mediatypes or from thenetwork• Leverages industrystandard x86architecture andindustry economicsto enable entirelynew embeddeddevice types• CoreArchitect 2.0support with dragand drop feature andautomatic codecreation | • Support forthe latestCPUs and• chipsets fromall majorvendors• Early bring-up for fast• prototypebuilds• Supports thelatest industry• hardware busstandards• Supports thelatest industry• softwarestandards• CoreArchitect2.0 supportwith drag anddrop featureand automaticcode creation | • Supports fullrange of mobilecomputingchipsets and formfactors, includingnotebook, sub-notebook andtablet PC• Optimized powermanagementincludesSpeedstep &PowerNowsupport andpower handlingof all ACPIpower states.• SupportsAbsoluteComputracePlus• CoreArchitect2.0 support withdrag and dropfeature andautomatic codecreation | Table 15.1 Phoenix TrustedCore products comparison Table 15.1 shows the comparison among different products derived from the TrustedCore code base. Table 15.1 does not state explicitly that Phoenix products based on TrustedCore code base is EFI-compliant. In fact, TrustedCore code base is an EFI version 1.1-compliant product. Therefore, the evolution that this product needed to be UEFI 2.0 compliant is minor, much like the changes in AMI Aptio and AMI Enterprise64 BIOS shown in figure #################### File: Data%20Mining%20Concepts%20and%20Techniques%20-%20Jiawei%20Han%2C%20Micheline%20Kamber%2C%20Jian%20Pei%20%28PDF%29.pdf Page: 352 Context: HAN14-ch07-279-326-97801238147912011/6/13:21Page315#377.6PatternExplorationandApplication315w(u2),...,w(un)(cid:105),wherew(ui)isaweightfunctionoftermui.Atransactiontisrepresentedasavector(cid:104)v1,v2,...,vm(cid:105),wherevi=1ifandonlyifvi∈t,otherwisevi=0.Basedontheseconcepts,wecandefinethebasictaskofsemanticpatternannotationasfollows:1.Selectcontextunitsanddesignastrengthweightforeachunittomodelthecontextsoffrequentpatterns.2.Designsimilaritymeasuresforthecontextsoftwopatterns,andforatransactionandapatterncontext.3.Foragivenfrequentpattern,extractthemostsignificantcontextindicators,repre-sentativetransactions,andsemanticallysimilarpatternstoconstructastructuredannotation.“Whichcontextunitsshouldweselectascontextindicators?”Althoughacontextunitcanbeanitem,atransaction,orapattern,typically,frequentpatternsprovidethemostsemanticinformationofthethree.Thereareusuallyalargenumberoffrequentpat-ternsassociatedwithapattern,p.Therefore,weneedasystematicwaytoselectonlytheimportantandnonredundantfrequentpatternsfromalargepatternset.Consideringthattheclosedpatternssetisalosslesscompressionoffrequentpat-ternsets,wecanfirstderivetheclosedpatternssetbyapplyingefficientclosedpatternminingmethods.However,asdiscussedinSection7.5,aclosedpatternsetisnotcom-pactenough,andpatterncompressionneedstobeperformed.WecouldusethepatterncompressionmethodsintroducedinSection7.5.1orexplorealternativecompressionmethodssuchasmicroclusteringusingtheJaccardcoefficient(Chapter2)andthenselectingthemostrepresentativepatternsfromeachcluster.“How,then,canweassignweightsforeachcontextindicator?”Agoodweightingfunc-tionshouldobeythefollowingproperties:(1)thebestsemanticindicatorofapattern,p,isitself,(2)assignthesamescoretotwopatternsiftheyareequallystrong,and(3)iftwopatternsareindependent,neithercanindicatethemeaningoftheother.Themeaningofapattern,p,canbeinferredfromeithertheappearanceorabsenceofindicators.Mutualinformationisoneofseveralpossibleweightingfunctions.Itiswidelyusedininformationtheorytomeasureth 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HAN05-pref-xxiii-xxx-97801238147912011/6/13:35Pagexxviii#6xxviiiPrefacebookorhandbook,shouldyoulaterdecidetoperformin-depthresearchintherelatedfieldsorpursueacareerindatamining.Whatdoyouneedtoknowtoreadthisbook?Youshouldhavesomeknowledgeoftheconceptsandterminologyassociatedwithstatistics,databasesystems,andmachinelearning.However,wedotrytoprovideenoughbackgroundofthebasics,sothatifyouarenotsofamiliarwiththesefieldsoryourmemoryisabitrusty,youwillnothavetroublefollowingthediscussionsinthebook.Youshouldhavesomeprogrammingexperience.Inparticular,youshouldbeabletoreadpseudocodeandunderstandsimpledatastructuressuchasmultidimensionalarrays.TotheProfessionalThisbookwasdesignedtocoverawiderangeoftopicsinthedataminingfield.Asaresult,itisanexcellenthandbookonthesubject.Becauseeachchapterisdesignedtobeasstandaloneaspossible,youcanfocusonthetopicsthatmostinterestyou.Thebookcanbeusedbyapplicationprogrammersandinformationservicemanagerswhowishtolearnaboutthekeyideasofdataminingontheirown.Thebookwouldalsobeusefulfortechnicaldataanalysisstaffinbanking,insurance,medicine,andretailingindustrieswhoareinterestedinapplyingdataminingsolutionstotheirbusinesses.Moreover,thebookmayserveasacomprehensivesurveyofthedataminingfield,whichmayalsobenefitresearcherswhowouldliketoadvancethestate-of-the-artindataminingandextendthescopeofdataminingapplications.Thetechniquesandalgorithmspresentedareofpracticalutility.Ratherthanselectingalgorithmsthatperformwellonsmall“toy”datasets,thealgorithmsdescribedinthebookaregearedforthediscoveryofpatternsandknowledgehiddeninlarge,realdatasets.Algorithmspresentedinthebookareillustratedinpseudocode.ThepseudocodeissimilartotheCprogramminglanguage,yetisdesignedsothatitshouldbeeasytofollowbyprogrammersunfamiliarwithCorC++.Ifyouwishtoimplementanyofthealgorithms,youshouldfindthetranslationofourpseudocodeintotheprogramminglanguageofyourchoicetobeafairlystraightforwardtask.BookWebSiteswithResourcesThebookhasawebsiteatwww.cs.uiuc.edu/∼hanj/bk3andanotherwithMorganKauf-mann 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HAN20-ch13-585-632-97801238147912011/6/13:26Page628#44628Chapter13DataMiningTrendsandResearchFrontiers13.13Whatarethemajorchallengesfacedinbringingdataminingresearchtomarket?Illus-trateonedataminingresearchissuethat,inyourview,mayhaveastrongimpactonthemarketandonsociety.Discusshowtoapproachsucharesearchissue.13.14Basedonyourview,whatisthemostchallengingresearchproblemindatamining?Ifyouweregivenanumberofyearsandagoodnumberofresearchersandimplementors,whatwouldyourplanbetomakegoodprogresstowardaneffectivesolutiontosuchaproblem?13.15Basedonyourexperienceandknowledge,suggestanewfrontierindataminingthatwasnotmentionedinthischapter.13.8BibliographicNotesForminingcomplexdatatypes,therearemanyresearchpapersandbookscoveringvariousthemes.Welistheresomerecentbooksandwell-citedsurveyorresearcharticlesforreferences.Time-seriesanalysishasbeenstudiedinstatisticsandcomputersciencecommu-nitiesfordecades,withmanytextbookssuchasBox,Jenkins,andReinsel[BJR08];BrockwellandDavis[BD02];Chatfield[Cha03b];Hamilton[Ham94];andShumwayandStoffer[SS05].Afastsubsequencematchingmethodintime-seriesdatabaseswaspresentedbyFaloutsos,Ranganathan,andManolopoulos[FRM94].Agrawal,Lin,Sawhney,andShim[ALSS95]developedamethodforfastsimilaritysearchinthepres-enceofnoise,scaling,andtranslationintime-seriesdatabases.ShashaandZhupresentanoverviewofthemethodsforhigh-performancediscoveryintimeseries[SZ04].Sequentialpatternminingmethodshavebeenstudiedbymanyresearchers,includingAgrawalandSrikant[AS95];Zaki[Zak01];Pei,Han,Mortazavi-Asl,etal.[PHM-A+04];andYan,Han,andAfshar[YHA03].Thestudyonsequenceclassifica-tionincludesJi,Bailey,andDong[JBD05]andYeandKeogh[YK09],withasurveybyXing,Pei,andKeogh[XPK10].DongandPei[DP07]provideanoverviewonsequencedataminingmethods.MethodsforanalysisofbiologicalsequencesincludingMarkovchainsandhiddenMarkovmodelsareintroducedinmanybooksortutorialssuchasWaterman[Wat95];SetubalandMeidanis[SM97];Durbin,Eddy,Krogh,andMitchison[DEKM98];BaldiandBrunak[BB01];KraneandRaymer[KR03];Rabiner[Rab89];Jones 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HAN14-ch07-279-326-97801238147912011/6/13:21Page319#417.7Summary319Thus,insteadofclusteringobjectsintheirfullhigh-dimensionalspaces,itcanbemoremeaningfultofindclustersincertainsubspaces.Recently,researchershavedevelopedsubspace-basedpatterngrowthmethodsthatclusterobjectsbasedontheircommonfrequentpatterns.Theyhaveshownthatsuchmethodsareeffectiveforclusteringmicroarray-basedgeneexpressiondata.SubspaceclusteringmethodsarediscussedinChapter11.Patternanalysisisusefulintheanalysisofspatiotemporaldata,time-seriesdata,imagedata,videodata,andmultimediadata.Anareaofspatiotemporaldataanalysisisthediscoveryofcolocationpatterns.These,forexample,canhelpdetermineifacertaindiseaseisgeographicallycolocatedwithcertainobjectslikeawell,ahospital,orariver.Intime-seriesdataanalysis,researchershavediscretizedtime-seriesvaluesintomultipleintervals(orlevels)sothattinyfluctuationsandvaluedifferencescanbeignored.Thedatacanthenbesummarizedintosequentialpatterns,whichcanbeindexedtofacili-tatesimilaritysearchorcomparativeanalysis.Inimageanalysisandpatternrecognition,researchershavealsoidentifiedfrequentlyoccurringvisualfragmentsas“visualwords,”whichcanbeusedforeffectiveclustering,classification,andcomparativeanalysis.Patternmininghasalsobeenusedfortheanalysisofsequenceorstructuraldatasuchastrees,graphs,subsequences,andnetworks.Insoftwareengineering,researchershaveidentifiedconsecutiveorgappedsubsequencesinprogramexecutionassequentialpatternsthathelpidentifysoftwarebugs.Copy-and-pastebugsinlargesoftwarepro-gramscanbeidentifiedbyextendedsequentialpatternanalysisofsourceprograms.Plagiarizedsoftwareprogramscanbeidentifiedbasedontheiressentiallyidenticalprogramflow/loopstructures.Authors’commonlyusedsentencesubstructurescanbeidentifiedandusedtodistinguisharticleswrittenbydifferentauthors.Frequentanddiscriminativepatternscanbeusedasprimitiveindexingstructures(knownasgraphindices)tohelpsearchlarge,complex,structureddatasetsandnet-works.Thesesupportasimilaritysearchingraph-structureddatasuchaschemical 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HAN12-ch05-187-242-97801238147912011/6/13:19Page194#8194Chapter5DataCubeTechnologyOptimizationTechnique4:TheAprioripruningmethodcanbeexploredtocomputeicebergcubesefficiently.TheAprioriproperty,3inthecontextofdatacubes,statesasfollows:Ifagivencelldoesnotsatisfyminimumsupport,thennodescen-dantofthecell(i.e.,morespecializedcell)willsatisfyminimumsupporteither.Thispropertycanbeusedtosubstantiallyreducethecomputationoficebergcubes.Recallthatthespecificationoficebergcubescontainsanicebergcondition,whichisaconstraintonthecellstobematerialized.Acommonicebergconditionisthatthecellsmustsatisfyaminimumsupportthresholdsuchasaminimumcountorsum.Inthissituation,theAprioripropertycanbeusedtopruneawaytheexplorationofthecell’sdescendants.Forexample,ifthecountofacell,c,inacuboidislessthanaminimumsupportthreshold,v,thenthecountofanyofc’sdescendantcellsinthelower-levelcuboidscanneverbegreaterthanorequaltov,andthuscanbepruned.Inotherwords,ifacondition(e.g.,theicebergconditionspecifiedinthehavingclause)isviolatedforsomecellc,theneverydescendantofcwillalsoviolatethatcon-dition.Measuresthatobeythispropertyareknownasantimonotonic.4Thisformofpruningwasmadepopularinfrequentpatternmining,yetalsoaidsindatacubecomputationbycuttingprocessingtimeanddiskspacerequirements.Itcanleadtoamorefocusedanalysisbecausecellsthatcannotpassthethresholdareunlikelytobeofinterest.Inthefollowingsections,weintroduceseveralpopularmethodsforefficientcubecomputationthatexploretheseoptimizationstrategies.5.2DataCubeComputationMethodsDatacubecomputationisanessentialtaskindatawarehouseimplementation.Thepre-computationofallorpartofadatacubecangreatlyreducetheresponsetimeandenhancetheperformanceofonlineanalyticalprocessing.However,suchcomputationischallengingbecauseitmayrequiresubstantialcomputationaltimeandstoragespace.Thissectionexploresefficientmethodsfordatacubecomputation.Section5.2.1describesthemultiwayarrayaggregation(MultiWay)methodforcomputingfullcubes.Section5.2.2describesamethodknownasBUC,whichcomputesicebergcubes #################### File: Competitive%20Programming%2C%202nd%20Edition%20-%20Steven%20Halim%20%28PDF%29.pdf Page: 167 Context: Chapter 6 String Processing The Human Genome has approximately 3.3 Giga base-pairs — Human Genome Project 6.1 Overview and Motivation In this chapter, we present one more topic that is tested in ICPC – although not as frequent as graph and mathematics problems – namely: string processing. String processing is common in the research field of bioinformatics. However, as the strings that researchers deal with are usually extremely long, efficient data structures and algorithms were necessary. Some of these problems are presented as contest problems in ICPCs. By mastering the content of this chapter, ICPC contestants will have a better chance at tackling those string processing problems. String processing tasks also appear in IOI, but usually they do not require advanced string data structures or algorithms due to syllabus [10] restriction. Additionally, the input and output format of IOI tasks are usually simple1. This eliminates the need to code tedious input parsing or output formatting commonly found in ICPC problems. IOI tasks that require string processing are usually still solvable using the problem solving paradigms mentioned in Chapter 3. It is sufficient for IOI contestants to skim through all sections in this chapter except Section 6.5 about string processing with DP. However, we believe that it may be advantageous for IOI contestants to learn some of the more advanced materials outside of their syllabus. 6.2 Basic String Processing Skills We begin this chapter by listing several basic string processing skills that every competitive pro- grammer must have. In this section, we give a series of mini tasks that you should solve one after another without skipping. You can use your favorite programming language (C, C++, or Java). Try your best to come up with the shortest, most efficient implementation that you can think of. Then, compare your implementations with ours (see Appendix A). If you are not surprised with any of our implementations (or can even give simpler implementations), then you are already in a good shape for tackling various string processing problems. Go ahead and read the next sections. Otherwise, please spend some time studying our implementations. 1. Given a text file that contains only alphabet characters [A-Za-z], digits [0-9], space, and period (‘.’), write a program to read this text file line by line until we encounter a line that starts with seven periods (‘‘.......’’). Concatenate (combine) each line into one long string T. When two lines are combined, give one space between them so that the last word of the previous line is separated from the first word of the current line. There can be up to 30 characters per line and no more than 10 lines for this input block. There is no trailing space at the end of each line. Note: The sample input text file ‘ch6.txt’ is shown on the next page; After question 1.(d) and before task 2. 1IOI 2010-2011 require contestants to implement function interfaces instead of coding I/O routines. 151 #################### File: BIOS%20Disassembly%20Ninjutsu%20Uncovered%201st%20Edition%20-%20Darmawan%20Salihun%20%28PDF%29%20BIOS_Disassembly_Ninjutsu_Uncovered.pdf Page: 77 Context: Part II Motherboard BIOS Reverse Engineering Chapter 4 Getting Acquainted With the System PREVIEW This chapter explains the big picture of the BIOS code execution mechanism. The BIOS does not execute code in the same way as most application software. The hardware and software intricacies, as well as the compatibility issues, inherited from the first-generation x86 processor complicate the mechanism. These intricacies and the x86 hardware architecture overall are explained thoroughly in this chapter. Note that the focus is on the motherboard, CPU, and system logic.1 4.1. Hardware Peculiarities When it comes to the BIOS, PC hardware has many peculiarities. This section dissects those peculiarities and looks at the effect of those peculiarities on BIOS code execution. 4.1.1. System Address Mapping and BIOS Chip Addressing The overall view of PC hardware architecture today is complex, especially for people who didn't grow up with DOS. What does modern-day hardware have to do with DOS? DOS has a strong bond with the BIOS and the rest of the hardware. This difficult relationship has been inherited for decades in the PC hardware architecture to maintain compatibility. DOS has many assumptions about the BIOS and the rest of the hardware that interact with it. Unlike a modern-day operating system, DOS allows the application software to interact directly with the hardware. Thus, many predefined address ranges have to be maintained in today's PC hardware as they worked in the DOS days. Currently, the bulk of these predefined address range tasks are handled by the motherboard chipset, along 1 System logic is another term for motherboard chipset. 1 #################### File: Competitive%20Programming%2C%202nd%20Edition%20-%20Steven%20Halim%20%28PDF%29.pdf Page: 136 Context: 4.8. CHAPTER NOTES c ⃝Steven & Felix This page is intentionally left blank to keep the number of pages per chapter even. 120 #################### File: Data%20Mining%20Concepts%20and%20Techniques%20-%20Jiawei%20Han%2C%20Micheline%20Kamber%2C%20Jian%20Pei%20%28PDF%29.pdf Page: 485 Context: HAN17-ch10-443-496-97801238147912011/6/13:44Page448#6448Chapter10ClusterAnalysis:BasicConceptsandMethodsaroadnetwork,avectorspace,oranyotherspace.Inothermethods,thesimilaritymaybedefinedbyconnectivitybasedondensityorcontiguity,andmaynotrelyontheabsolutedistancebetweentwoobjects.Similaritymeasuresplayafundamentalroleinthedesignofclusteringmethods.Whiledistance-basedmethodscanoftentakeadvantageofoptimizationtechniques,density-andcontinuity-basedmethodscanoftenfindclustersofarbitraryshape.Clusteringspace:Manyclusteringmethodssearchforclusterswithintheentiregivendataspace.Thesemethodsareusefulforlow-dimensionalitydatasets.Withhigh-dimensionaldata,however,therecanbemanyirrelevantattributes,whichcanmakesimilaritymeasurementsunreliable.Consequently,clustersfoundinthefullspaceareoftenmeaningless.It’softenbettertoinsteadsearchforclusterswithindifferentsubspacesofthesamedataset.Subspaceclusteringdiscoversclustersandsubspaces(oftenoflowdimensionality)thatmanifestobjectsimilarity.Toconclude,clusteringalgorithmshaveseveralrequirements.Thesefactorsincludescalabilityandtheabilitytodealwithdifferenttypesofattributes,noisydata,incremen-talupdates,clustersofarbitraryshape,andconstraints.Interpretabilityandusabilityarealsoimportant.Inaddition,clusteringmethodscandifferwithrespecttothepartition-inglevel,whetherornotclustersaremutuallyexclusive,thesimilaritymeasuresused,andwhetherornotsubspaceclusteringisperformed.10.1.3OverviewofBasicClusteringMethodsTherearemanyclusteringalgorithmsintheliterature.Itisdifficulttoprovideacrispcategorizationofclusteringmethodsbecausethesecategoriesmayoverlapsothatamethodmayhavefeaturesfromseveralcategories.Nevertheless,itisusefultopresentarelativelyorganizedpictureofclusteringmethods.Ingeneral,themajorfundamentalclusteringmethodscanbeclassifiedintothefollowingcategories,whicharediscussedintherestofthischapter.Partitioningmethods:Givenasetofnobjects,apartitioningmethodconstructskpartitionsofthedata,whereeachpartitionrepresentsaclusterandk≤n.Thatis,itdivi #################### File: Data%20Mining%20Concepts%20and%20Techniques%20-%20Jiawei%20Han%2C%20Micheline%20Kamber%2C%20Jian%20Pei%20%28PDF%29.pdf Page: 13 Context: HAN03-toc-ix-xviii-97801238147912011/6/13:32Pagexii#4xiiContents4.1.4DataWarehousing:AMultitieredArchitecture1304.1.5DataWarehouseModels:EnterpriseWarehouse,DataMart,andVirtualWarehouse1324.1.6Extraction,Transformation,andLoading1344.1.7MetadataRepository1344.2DataWarehouseModeling:DataCubeandOLAP1354.2.1DataCube:AMultidimensionalDataModel1364.2.2Stars,Snowflakes,andFactConstellations:SchemasforMultidimensionalDataModels1394.2.3Dimensions:TheRoleofConceptHierarchies1424.2.4Measures:TheirCategorizationandComputation1444.2.5TypicalOLAPOperations1464.2.6AStarnetQueryModelforQueryingMultidimensionalDatabases1494.3DataWarehouseDesignandUsage1504.3.1ABusinessAnalysisFrameworkforDataWarehouseDesign1504.3.2DataWarehouseDesignProcess1514.3.3DataWarehouseUsageforInformationProcessing1534.3.4FromOnlineAnalyticalProcessingtoMultidimensionalDataMining1554.4DataWarehouseImplementation1564.4.1EfficientDataCubeComputation:AnOverview1564.4.2IndexingOLAPData:BitmapIndexandJoinIndex1604.4.3EfficientProcessingofOLAPQueries1634.4.4OLAPServerArchitectures:ROLAPversusMOLAPversusHOLAP1644.5DataGeneralizationbyAttribute-OrientedInduction1664.5.1Attribute-OrientedInductionforDataCharacterization1674.5.2EfficientImplementationofAttribute-OrientedInduction1724.5.3Attribute-OrientedInductionforClassComparisons1754.6Summary1784.7Exercises1804.8BibliographicNotes184Chapter5DataCubeTechnology1875.1DataCubeComputation:PreliminaryConcepts1885.1.1CubeMaterialization:FullCube,IcebergCube,ClosedCube,andCubeShell1885.1.2GeneralStrategiesforDataCubeComputation1925.2DataCubeComputationMethods1945.2.1MultiwayArrayAggregationforFullCubeComputation195 #################### File: BIOS%20Disassembly%20Ninjutsu%20Uncovered%201st%20Edition%20-%20Darmawan%20Salihun%20%28PDF%29%20BIOS_Disassembly_Ninjutsu_Uncovered.pdf Page: 410 Context: Chapter 11 BIOS Security Measures PREVIEW This chapter talks about security measures implemented in the BIOS and security measures at the operating system level related with the BIOS. The security measures come in the form of password protection, BIOS component integrity checks, operating system– level protection, and hardware-based security measures. The component integrity check is not meant to be a security measure by BIOS vendors. Nevertheless, it has accidentally become one against random code injection to the BIOS binary. 11.1. Password Protection The BIOS provides a mechanism that uses passwords to protect the PC from unauthorized usage and BIOS configuration changes. Some BIOSs implement two types of passwords, user password and supervisor password. In some motherboards, there is additional control over this password under BIOS's Advanced BIOS Features menu in the Security Option setting. The Security Option setting consists of two selectable options, the System option and the Setup option. If you set the Security Option to System, BIOS will ask you for password upon boot. If you set the Security Option to Setup, BIOS will ask you for password when you enter the BIOS setup menu. As for the user password and supervisor password, I haven't found any differences between them. Only the Security Option setting shows a difference in a password authentication request in my motherboard,1 although yours may differ. Figure 11.1 shows the BIOS security option setting for my motherboard. 1 DFI 865PE Infinity revision 1.1; the BIOS date is December 28, 2004. #################### File: BIOS%20Disassembly%20Ninjutsu%20Uncovered%201st%20Edition%20-%20Darmawan%20Salihun%20%28PDF%29%20BIOS_Disassembly_Ninjutsu_Uncovered.pdf Page: 436 Context: 000000C0 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 ................ 000000D0 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 ................ 000000E0 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 ................ ........ 0007FFB0 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 ................ 0007FFC0 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 ................ 0007FFD0 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 ................ 0007FFE0 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 ................ 0007FFF0 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 ................ Hex dump 11.4 shows a bogus result, because every byte contains 00h.17 It shouldn't be 00h in all address ranges because the original hexadecimal dump doesn't contain 00h in all address ranges. You can compare hex dumps 11.3 and 11.4 to clarify my statement. At this point, you can conclude that the BIOS chip doesn't respond when it's accessed after being disabled. A further writing experiment that I carried out on the BIOS chip also gave a bogus result. The content of the BIOS chip doesn't change after access to the BIOS chip is disabled. Rebooting the machine confirms this result. The little experiment that I carried out shows that a hardware security measure that's implemented correctly can fight against BIOS tampering effectively. Nonetheless, it only works for motherboard BIOS; PCI expansion ROM that's not part of the motherboard BIOS still risks of being easily tampered with. Some motherboard manufacturers also don't implement this feature correctly. They only set the write-lock bit in the BIOS chip when you set BIOS flash protect to enabled in the BIOS setting. They don't set the lock down bit. Therefore, it's easy for Windows-based or Linux-based software to tamper with the BIOS chip contents. You learned how to do that in chapter 9. You can imagine the effect if the software is a malicious application. Now, into another issue that seems to be a hardware solution to BIOS tampering, the so-called dual BIOS18 solution that uses two BIOS chips to protect against system failure caused by malfunction in one chip. Some motherboard manufacturers that sell motherboards equipped with dual BIOS state that one purpose of dual BIOS is to fight a malicious BIOS virus. Indeed, this kind of protection will work against old viruses such as the CIH, or Chernobyl, virus written by Chen Ing Hau of Taiwan that render the BIOS contents useless and made the system unable to boot. Nonetheless, as I explained previously, the hardware protection will prevent BIOS tampering only if the BIOS chip is inaccessible or at least the write-lock and the lock-down bits in the chip are set to one. Dual BIOS won't protect the system from "correct" BIOS tampering, because as long as the system can boot perfectly from the primary BIOS chip, it will boot from it. In this case, the system won't be aware that the BIOS chip contents have been modified; as long as the modification doesn't screw up the BIOS, it's OK. By "correct" BIOS tampering, I mean a modification to BIOS chip that still keeps the system usable. For example, a BIOS code injection is legitimate BIOS tampering from the dual BIOS point of view, because the system will still boot from the primary BIOS chip. Therefore, dual BIOS might be useful 17 Every byte in the hex dump result contains 00h, from the beginning to end. It's not shown entirely because of the space constraints in this book. 18 Some manufacturers name this feature top-hat flash, and there are many other terms. I stick to dual BIOS. #################### File: Data%20Mining%20Concepts%20and%20Techniques%20-%20Jiawei%20Han%2C%20Micheline%20Kamber%2C%20Jian%20Pei%20%28PDF%29.pdf Page: 26 Context: ntroducesbasicconceptsandmethodsforclassification,includingdecisiontreeinduction,Bayesclassification,andrule-basedclassification.Italsodiscussesmodelevaluationandselectionmethodsandmethodsforimprovingclassificationaccuracy,includingensemblemethodsandhowtohandleimbalanceddata.Chapter9discussesadvancedmethodsforclassification,includingBayesianbeliefnetworks,theneuralnetworktechniqueofbackpropagation,supportvectormachines,classificationusingfrequentpatterns,k-nearest-neighborclassifiers,case-basedreasoning,geneticalgo-rithms,roughsettheory,andfuzzysetapproaches.Additionaltopicsincludemulticlassclassification,semi-supervisedclassification,activelearning,andtransferlearning.ClusteranalysisformsthetopicofChapters10and11.Chapter10introducesthebasicconceptsandmethodsfordataclustering,includinganoverviewofbasicclusteranalysismethods,partitioningmethods,hierarchicalmethods,density-basedmethods,andgrid-basedmethods.Italsointroducesmethodsfortheevaluationofclustering.Chapter11discussesadvancedmethodsforclustering,includingprobabilisticmodel-basedclustering,clusteringhigh-dimensionaldata,clusteringgraphandnetworkdata,andclusteringwithconstraints. #################### File: BIOS%20Disassembly%20Ninjutsu%20Uncovered%201st%20Edition%20-%20Darmawan%20Salihun%20%28PDF%29%20BIOS_Disassembly_Ninjutsu_Uncovered.pdf Page: 3 Context: architecture) and compression algorithm, computer science students might also find it useful. However, nothing prevents any people who is curious about BIOS technology to read this book and get benefit from it. Some prerequisite knowledge is needed to fully understand this book. It is not mandatory, but it will be very difficult to grasp some of the concepts without it. The most important knowledge is the understanding of x86 assembly language. Explanation of the disassembled code resulting from the BIOS binary and also the sample BIOS patches are presented in x86 assembly language. They are scattered throughout the book. Thus, it’s vital to know x86 assembly language, even with very modest familiarity. It’s also assumed that the reader have some familiarity with C programming language. The chapter that dwell on expansion ROM development along with the introductory chapter in BIOS related software development uses C language heavily for the example code. C is also used heavily in the section that covers IDA Pro scripts and plugin development. IDA Pro scripts have many similarities with C programming language. Familiarity with Windows Application Programming Interface (Win32API) is not a requirement, but is very useful to grasp the concept in the Optional section of chapter 3 that covers IDA Pro plugin development. THE ORGANIZATION The first part of the book lays the foundation knowledge to do BIOS reverse engineering and Expansion ROM development. In this part, the reader is introduced with: a. Various bus protocols in use nowadays within the x86 platform, i.e. PCI, HyperTransport and PCI-Express. The focus is toward the relationship between BIOS code execution and the implementation of protocols. b. Reverse engineering tools and techniques needed to carry out the tasks in later chapter, mostly introduction to IDA Pro disassembler along with its advanced techniques. c. Crash course on advanced compiler tricks needed to develop firmware. The emphasis is in using GNU C compiler to develop a firmware framework. The second part of this book reveals the details of motherboard BIOS reverse engineering and modification. This includes indepth coverage of BIOS file structure, algorithms used within the BIOS, explanation of various BIOS specific tools from its corresponding vendor and explanation of tricks to perform BIOS modification. The third part of the book deals with the development of PCI expansion ROM. In this part, PCI Expansion ROM structure is explained thoroughly. Then, a systematic PCI expansion ROM development with GNU tools is presented. The fourth part of the book deals heavily with the security concerns within the BIOS. This part is biased toward possible implementation of rootkits within the BIOS and possible exploitation scenario that might be used by an attacker by exploiting the BIOS flaw. Computer security experts will find a lot of important information in this part. This part is the central theme in this book. It’s presented to improve the awareness against malicious code that can be injected into BIOS. The fifth part of the book deals with the application of BIOS technology outside of its traditional space, i.e. the PC. In this chapter, the reader is presented with various application of the BIOS technology in the emerging embedded x86 platform. In the end of this part, further application of the technology presented in this book is explained briefly. Some explanation regarding the OpenBIOS and Extensible Firmware Interface (EFI) is also presented. SOFTWARE TOOLS COMPATIBILITY This book mainly deals with reverse engineering tools running in windows operating system. However, in chapters that deal with PCI Expansion ROM development, an x86 Linux installation #################### File: Competitive%20Programming%2C%202nd%20Edition%20-%20Steven%20Halim%20%28PDF%29.pdf Page: 228 Context: 8.5. 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resentingthestrengthofthecollaborationsuchashowmanypublicationsthetwoauthors(astheendvertices)coauthored.Clus-teringthecoauthornetworkprovidesinsightastocommunitiesofauthorsandpatternsofcollaboration.“Arethereanychallengesspecifictoclusteranalysisongraphandnetworkdata?”Inmostoftheclusteringmethodsdiscussedsofar,objectsarerepresentedusingasetofattributes.Auniquefeatureofgraphandnetworkdataisthatonlyobjects(asvertices)andrelationshipsbetweenthem(asedges)aregiven.Nodimensionsorattributesareexplicitlydefined.Toconductclusteranalysisongraphandnetworkdata,therearetwomajornewchallenges.“Howcanwemeasurethesimilaritybetweentwoobjectsonagraphaccordingly?”Typically,wecannotuseconventionaldistancemeasures,suchasEuclideandis-tance.Instead,weneedtodevelopnewmeasurestoquantifythesimilarity.Such #################### File: Data%20Mining%20Concepts%20and%20Techniques%20-%20Jiawei%20Han%2C%20Micheline%20Kamber%2C%20Jian%20Pei%20%28PDF%29.pdf Page: 480 Context: HAN17-ch10-443-496-97801238147912011/6/13:44Page443#110ClusterAnalysis:BasicConceptsandMethodsImaginethatyouaretheDirectorofCustomerRelationshipsatAllElectronics,andyouhavefivemanagersworkingforyou.Youwouldliketoorganizeallthecompany’scustomersintofivegroupssothateachgroupcanbeassignedtoadifferentmanager.Strategically,youwouldlikethatthecustomersineachgroupareassimilaraspossible.Moreover,twogivencustomershavingverydifferentbusinesspatternsshouldnotbeplacedinthesamegroup.Yourintentionbehindthisbusinessstrategyistodevelopcustomerrelationshipcampaignsthatspecificallytargeteachgroup,basedoncommonfeaturessharedbythecustomerspergroup.Whatkindofdataminingtechniquescanhelpyoutoaccomplishthistask?Unlikeinclassification,theclasslabel(orgroupID)ofeachcustomerisunknown.Youneedtodiscoverthesegroupings.Givenalargenumberofcustomersandmanyattributesdescribingcustomerprofiles,itcanbeverycostlyoreveninfeasibletohaveahumanstudythedataandmanuallycomeupwithawaytopartitionthecustomersintostrategicgroups.Youneedaclusteringtooltohelp.Clusteringistheprocessofgroupingasetofdataobjectsintomultiplegroupsorclus-terssothatobjectswithinaclusterhavehighsimilarity,butareverydissimilartoobjectsinotherclusters.Dissimilaritiesandsimilaritiesareassessedbasedontheattributeval-uesdescribingtheobjectsandofteninvolvedistancemeasures.1Clusteringasadataminingtoolhasitsrootsinmanyapplicationareassuchasbiology,security,businessintelligence,andWebsearch.Thischapterpresentsthebasicconceptsandmethodsofclusteranalysis.InSection10.1,weintroducethetopicandstudytherequirementsofclusteringmeth-odsformassiveamountsofdataandvariousapplications.Youwilllearnseveralbasicclusteringtechniques,organizedintothefollowingcategories:partitioningmethods(Section10.2),hierarchicalmethods(Section10.3),density-basedmethods(Section10.4),andgrid-basedmethods(Section10.5).InSection10.6,webrieflydiscusshowtoevaluate1DatasimilarityanddissimilarityarediscussedindetailinSection2.4.Youmaywanttorefertothatsectionforaquickreview.c(cid:13)2012E 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HAN08-ch01-001-038-97801238147912011/6/13:12Page35#351.10BibliographicNotes35outlieranalysis.Giveexamplesofeachdataminingfunctionality,usingareal-lifedatabasethatyouarefamiliarwith.1.4Presentanexamplewheredataminingiscrucialtothesuccessofabusiness.Whatdataminingfunctionalitiesdoesthisbusinessneed(e.g.,thinkofthekindsofpatternsthatcouldbemined)?Cansuchpatternsbegeneratedalternativelybydataqueryprocessingorsimplestatisticalanalysis?1.5Explainthedifferenceandsimilaritybetweendiscriminationandclassification,betweencharacterizationandclustering,andbetweenclassificationandregression.1.6Basedonyourobservations,describeanotherpossiblekindofknowledgethatneedstobediscoveredbydataminingmethodsbuthasnotbeenlistedinthischapter.Doesitrequireaminingmethodologythatisquitedifferentfromthoseoutlinedinthischapter?1.7Outliersareoftendiscardedasnoise.However,oneperson’sgarbagecouldbeanother’streasure.Forexample,exceptionsincreditcardtransactionscanhelpusdetectthefraudulentuseofcreditcards.Usingfraudulencedetectionasanexample,proposetwomethodsthatcanbeusedtodetectoutliersanddiscusswhichoneismorereliable.1.8Describethreechallengestodataminingregardingdataminingmethodologyanduserinteractionissues.1.9Whatarethemajorchallengesofminingahugeamountofdata(e.g.,billionsoftuples)incomparisonwithminingasmallamountofdata(e.g.,datasetofafewhundredtuple)?1.10Outlinethemajorresearchchallengesofdatamininginonespecificapplicationdomain,suchasstream/sensordataanalysis,spatiotemporaldataanalysis,orbioinformatics.1.10BibliographicNotesThebookKnowledgeDiscoveryinDatabases,editedbyPiatetsky-ShapiroandFrawley[P-SF91],isanearlycollectionofresearchpapersonknowledgediscoveryfromdata.ThebookAdvancesinKnowledgeDiscoveryandDataMining,editedbyFayyad,Piatetsky-Shapiro,Smyth,andUthurusamy[FPSS+96],isacollectionoflaterresearchresultsonknowledgediscoveryanddatamining.Therehavebeenmanydatamin-ingbookspublishedinrecentyears,includingTheElementsofStatisticalLearningbyHastie,Tibshirani,andFriedman[HTF09];IntroductiontoDataMi 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HAN11-ch04-125-186-97801238147912011/6/13:17Page150#26150Chapter4DataWarehousingandOnlineAnalyticalProcessingtimedimensionfrommonthtoquarter,or,say,drilldownalongthelocationdimensionfromcountrytocity.Concepthierarchiescanbeusedtogeneralizedatabyreplacinglow-levelvalues(suchas“day”forthetimedimension)byhigher-levelabstractions(suchas“year”),ortospecializedatabyreplacinghigher-levelabstractionswithlower-levelvalues.4.3DataWarehouseDesignandUsage“Whatgoesintoadatawarehousedesign?Howaredatawarehousesused?HowdodatawarehousingandOLAPrelatetodatamining?”Thissectiontacklesthesequestions.Westudythedesignandusageofdatawarehousingforinformationprocessing,analyti-calprocessing,anddatamining.Webeginbypresentingabusinessanalysisframeworkfordatawarehousedesign(Section4.3.1).Section4.3.2looksatthedesignprocess,whileSection4.3.3studiesdatawarehouseusage.Finally,Section4.3.4describesmulti-dimensionaldatamining,apowerfulparadigmthatintegratesOLAPwithdataminingtechnology.4.3.1ABusinessAnalysisFrameworkforDataWarehouseDesign“Whatcanbusinessanalystsgainfromhavingadatawarehouse?”First,havingadatawarehousemayprovideacompetitiveadvantagebypresentingrelevantinformationfromwhichtomeasureperformanceandmakecriticaladjustmentstohelpwinovercompetitors.Second,adatawarehousecanenhancebusinessproductivitybecauseitisabletoquicklyandefficientlygatherinformationthataccuratelydescribestheorgani-zation.Third,adatawarehousefacilitatescustomerrelationshipmanagementbecauseitprovidesaconsistentviewofcustomersanditemsacrossalllinesofbusiness,alldepart-ments,andallmarkets.Finally,adatawarehousemaybringaboutcostreductionbytrackingtrends,patterns,andexceptionsoverlongperiodsinaconsistentandreliablemanner.Todesignaneffectivedatawarehouseweneedtounderstandandanalyzebusi-nessneedsandconstructabusinessanalysisframework.Theconstructionofalargeandcomplexinformationsystemcanbeviewedastheconstructionofalargeandcomplexbuilding,forwhichtheowner,architect,andbuilderhavedifferentviews.Theseviewsarecombinedtoformacomplexfram 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HAN08-ch01-001-038-97801238147912011/6/13:12Page1#11IntroductionThisbookisanintroductiontotheyoungandfast-growingfieldofdatamining(alsoknownasknowledgediscoveryfromdata,orKDDforshort).Thebookfocusesonfundamentaldataminingconceptsandtechniquesfordiscoveringinterestingpatternsfromdatainvariousapplications.Inparticular,weemphasizeprominenttechniquesfordevelopingeffective,efficient,andscalabledataminingtools.Thischapterisorganizedasfollows.InSection1.1,youwilllearnwhydataminingisinhighdemandandhowitispartofthenaturalevolutionofinformationtechnology.Section1.2definesdataminingwithrespecttotheknowledgediscoveryprocess.Next,youwilllearnaboutdataminingfrommanyaspects,suchasthekindsofdatathatcanbemined(Section1.3),thekindsofknowledgetobemined(Section1.4),thekindsoftechnologiestobeused(Section1.5),andtargetedapplications(Section1.6).Inthisway,youwillgainamultidimensionalviewofdatamining.Finally,Section1.7outlinesmajordataminingresearchanddevelopmentissues.1.1WhyDataMining?Necessity,whoisthemotherofinvention.–PlatoWeliveinaworldwherevastamountsofdataarecollecteddaily.Analyzingsuchdataisanimportantneed.Section1.1.1looksathowdataminingcanmeetthisneedbyprovidingtoolstodiscoverknowledgefromdata.InSection1.1.2,weobservehowdataminingcanbeviewedasaresultofthenaturalevolutionofinformationtechnology.1.1.1MovingtowardtheInformationAge“Wearelivingintheinformationage”isapopularsaying;however,weareactuallylivinginthedataage.Terabytesorpetabytes1ofdatapourintoourcomputernetworks,theWorldWideWeb(WWW),andvariousdatastoragedeviceseverydayfrombusiness,1Apetabyteisaunitofinformationorcomputerstorageequalto1quadrillionbytes,orathousandterabytes,or1milliongigabytes.c(cid:13)2012ElsevierInc.Allrightsreserved.DataMining:ConceptsandTechniques1 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ListofTables1NotinIOISyllabus[10]Yet................................vii2LessonPlan.........................................vii1.1RecentACMICPCAsiaRegionalProblemTypes...................41.2Exercise:ClassifyTheseUVaProblems.........................51.3ProblemTypes(CompactForm).............................51.4RuleofThumbforthe‘WorstACAlgorithm’forvariousinputsizen........62.1ExampleofaCumulativeFrequencyTable........................353.1RunningBisectionMethodontheExampleFunction..................483.2DPDecisionTable.....................................603.3UVa108-MaximumSum.................................624.1GraphTraversalAlgorithmDecisionTable........................824.2FloydWarshall’sDPTable................................984.3SSSP/APSPAlgorithmDecisionTable..........................1005.1Part1:Findingkλ,f(x)=(7x+5)%12,x0=4.....................1435.2Part2:Findingμ......................................1445.3Part3:Findingλ......................................1446.1Left/Right:Before/AfterSorting;k=1;InitialSortedOrderAppears........1676.2Left/Right:Before/AfterSorting;k=2;‘GATAGACA’and‘GACA’areSwapped...1686.3BeforeandAftersorting;k=4;NoChange.......................1686.4StringMatchingusingSuffixArray............................1716.5ComputingtheLongestCommonPrefix(LCP)giventheSAofT=‘GATAGACA’..172A.1Exercise:ClassifyTheseUVaProblems.........................213xiv 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HAN05-pref-xxiii-xxx-97801238147912011/6/13:35Pagexxiv#2xxivPrefaceOrganizationoftheBookSincethepublicationofthefirsttwoeditionsofthisbook,greatprogresshasbeenmadeinthefieldofdatamining.Manynewdataminingmethodologies,systems,andapplicationshavebeendeveloped,especiallyforhandlingnewkindsofdata,includ-inginformationnetworks,graphs,complexstructures,anddatastreams,aswellastext,Web,multimedia,time-series,andspatiotemporaldata.Suchfastdevelopmentandrich,newtechnicalcontentsmakeitdifficulttocoverthefullspectrumofthefieldinasinglebook.Insteadofcontinuouslyexpandingthecoverageofthisbook,wehavedecidedtocoverthecorematerialinsufficientscopeanddepth,andleavethehandlingofcomplexdatatypestoaseparateforthcomingbook.Thethirdeditionsubstantiallyrevisesthefirsttwoeditionsofthebook,withnumer-ousenhancementsandareorganizationofthetechnicalcontents.Thecoretechnicalmaterial,whichhandlesminingongeneraldatatypes,isexpandedandsubstantiallyenhanced.Severalindividualchaptersfortopicsfromthesecondedition(e.g.,datapre-processing,frequentpatternmining,classification,andclustering)arenowaugmentedandeachsplitintotwochaptersforthisnewedition.Forthesetopics,onechapterencap-sulatesthebasicconceptsandtechniqueswhiletheotherpresentsadvancedconceptsandmethods.Chaptersfromthesecondeditiononminingcomplexdatatypes(e.g.,streamdata,sequencedata,graph-structureddata,socialnetworkdata,andmultirelationaldata,aswellastext,Web,multimedia,andspatiotemporaldata)arenowreservedforanewbookthatwillbededicatedtoadvancedtopicsindatamining.Still,tosupportreadersinlearningsuchadvancedtopics,wehaveplacedanelectronicversionoftherelevantchaptersfromthesecondeditionontothebook’swebsiteascompanionmaterialforthethirdedition.Thechaptersofthethirdeditionaredescribedbrieflyasfollows,withemphasisonthenewmaterial.Chapter1providesanintroductiontothemultidisciplinaryfieldofdatamining.Itdiscussestheevolutionarypathofinformationtechnology,whichhasledtotheneedfordatamining,andtheimportanceofitsapplications.Itexaminesthedatatypestobemine 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HAN11-ch04-125-186-97801238147912011/6/13:17Page168#44168Chapter4DataWarehousingandOnlineAnalyticalProcessingnumber),andgpa(gradepointaverage).Adataminingqueryforthischaracterizationcanbeexpressedinthedataminingquerylanguage,DMQL,asfollows:useBigUniversityDBminecharacteristicsas“ScienceStudents”inrelevancetoname,gender,major,birthplace,birthdate,residence,phone#,gpafromstudentwherestatusin“graduate”Wewillseehowthisexampleofatypicaldataminingquerycanapplyattribute-orientedinductiontotheminingofcharacteristicdescriptions.First,datafocusingshouldbeperformedbeforeattribute-orientedinduction.Thisstepcorrespondstothespecificationofthetask-relevantdata(i.e.,dataforanalysis).Thedataarecollectedbasedontheinformationprovidedinthedataminingquery.Becauseadataminingqueryisusuallyrelevanttoonlyaportionofthedatabase,selectingtherelevantdatasetnotonlymakesminingmoreefficient,butalsoderivesmoremeaningfulresultsthanminingtheentiredatabase.Specifyingthesetofrelevantattributes(i.e.,attributesformining,asindicatedinDMQLwiththeinrelevancetoclause)maybedifficultfortheuser.Ausermayselectonlyafewattributesthatheorshefeelsareimportant,whilemissingothersthatcouldalsoplayaroleinthedescription.Forexample,supposethatthedimensionbirthplaceisdefinedbytheattributescity,provinceorstate,andcountry.Oftheseattributes,let’ssaythattheuserhasonlythoughttospecifycity.Inordertoallowgeneralizationonthebirthplacedimension,theotherattributesdefiningthisdimensionshouldalsobeincluded.Inotherwords,havingthesystemautomaticallyincludeprovinceorstateandcountryasrelevantattributesallowscitytobegeneralizedtothesehigherconceptuallevelsduringtheinductionprocess.Attheotherextreme,supposethattheusermayhaveintroducedtoomanyattributesbyspecifyingallofthepossibleattributeswiththeclauseinrelevanceto∗.Inthiscase,alloftheattributesintherelationspecifiedbythefromclausewouldbeincludedintheanalysis.Manyoftheseattributesareunlikelytocontributetoaninterestingdescription.Acorrelation-basedanalysismethod(Section3.3.2)canbeusedtoperfo 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CHAPTER NOTES c ⃝Steven & Felix 1.4 Chapter Notes This and subsequent chapters are supported by many text books (see Figure 1.4 in the previous page) and Internet resources. Here are some additional references: • To improve your typing skill as mentioned in Tip 1, you may want to play lots of typing games that are available online. • Tip 2 is an adaptation from the introduction text in USACO training gateway [29]. • More details about Tip 3 can be found in many CS books, e.g. Chapter 1-5, 17 of [3]. • Online references for Tip 4 are: http://www.cppreference.com and http://www.sgi.com/tech/stl/ for C++ STL; http://java.sun.com/javase/6/docs/api for Java API. • For more insights to do better testing (Tip 5), a little detour to software engineering books may be worth trying. • There are many other Online Judges apart from those mentioned in Tip 6, e.g. – POJ http://acm.pku.edu.cn/JudgeOnline, – TOJ http://acm.tju.edu.cn/toj, – ZOJ http://acm.zju.edu.cn/onlinejudge/, – Ural/Timus OJ http://acm.timus.ru, etc. • For a note regarding team contest (Tip 7), read [7]. In this chapter, we have introduced the world of competitive programming to you. However, you cannot say that you are a competitive programmer if you can only solve Ad Hoc problems in every programming contest. Therefore, we do hope that you enjoy the ride and continue reading and learning the other chapters of this book, enthusiastically. Once you have finished reading this book, re-read it one more time. On the second round, attempt the various written exercises and the ≈ 1198 programming exercises as many as possible. There are ≈149 UVa (+ 11 others) programming exercises discussed in this chapter. (Only 34 in the first edition, a 371% increase). There are 19 pages in this chapter. (Only 13 in the first edition, a 46% increase). 19 #################### File: Data%20Mining%20Concepts%20and%20Techniques%20-%20Jiawei%20Han%2C%20Micheline%20Kamber%2C%20Jian%20Pei%20%28PDF%29.pdf Page: 660 Context: HAN20-ch13-585-632-97801238147912011/6/13:26Page623#3913.5DataMiningTrends623miningmethods,systemsandservices,andinteractiveandintegrateddataminingenvi-ronmentsisakeyareaofstudy.Theuseofdataminingtechniquestosolvelargeorsophisticatedapplicationproblemsisanimportanttaskfordataminingresearchersanddataminingsystemandapplicationdevelopers.Thissectiondescribessomeofthetrendsindataminingthatreflectthepursuitofthesechallenges.Applicationexploration:Earlydataminingapplicationsputalotofeffortintohelp-ingbusinessesgainacompetitiveedge.Theexplorationofdataminingforbusinessescontinuestoexpandase-commerceande-marketinghavebecomemainstreamintheretailindustry.Dataminingisincreasinglyusedfortheexplorationofapplicationsinotherareassuchaswebandtextanalysis,financialanalysis,industry,govern-ment,biomedicine,andscience.Emergingapplicationareasincludedataminingforcounterterrorismandmobile(wireless)datamining.Becausegenericdataminingsystemsmayhavelimitationsindealingwithapplication-specificproblems,wemayseeatrendtowardthedevelopmentofmoreapplication-specificdataminingsys-temsandtools,aswellasinvisibledataminingfunctionsembeddedinvariouskindsofservices.Scalableandinteractivedataminingmethods:Incontrastwithtraditionaldataanalysismethods,dataminingmustbeabletohandlehugeamountsofdataeffi-cientlyand,ifpossible,interactively.Becausetheamountofdatabeingcollectedcontinuestoincreaserapidly,scalablealgorithmsforindividualandintegrateddataminingfunctionsbecomeessential.Oneimportantdirectiontowardimprov-ingtheoverallefficiencyoftheminingprocesswhileincreasinguserinteractionisconstraint-basedmining.Thisprovidesuserswithaddedcontrolbyallowingthespecificationanduseofconstraintstoguidedataminingsystemsintheirsearchforinterestingpatternsandknowledge.Integrationofdataminingwithsearchengines,databasesystems,datawarehousesystems,andcloudcomputingsystems:Searchengines,databasesystems,datawarehousesystems,andcloudcomputingsystemsaremainstreaminformationpro-cessingandcomputingsystems.Itisimportanttoensurethat 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HAN20-ch13-585-632-97801238147912011/6/13:26Page594#10594Chapter13DataMiningTrendsandResearchFrontiersSimilarly,linkpredictioncanbeperformedbasedontheassessmentoftherank-ingoftheexpectedrelationshipsamongthecandidatenodes/links.Forexample,wemaypredictwhichpapersanauthormaywrite,read,orcite,basedontheauthor’srecentpublicationhistoryandthetrendofresearchonsimilartopics.Suchstudiesoftenrequireanalyzingtheproximityofnetworknodes/linksandthetrendsandconnectionsoftheirsimilarneighbors.Roughlyspeaking,peoplerefertolinkpredictionaslinkmining;however,linkminingcoversadditionaltasksincludinglink-basedobjectclassifi-cation,objecttypeprediction,linktypeprediction,linkexistenceprediction,linkcardinalityestimation,andobjectreconciliation(whichpredictswhethertwoobjectsare,infact,thesame).Italsoincludesgroupdetection(whichclustersobjects),aswellassubgraphiden-tification(whichfindscharacteristicsubgraphswithinnetworks)andmetadatamining(whichuncoversschema-typeinformationregardingunstructureddata).SimilaritySearchandOLAPinInformationNetworksSimilaritysearchisaprimitiveoperationindatabaseandwebsearchengines.Ahetero-geneousinformationnetworkconsistsofmultityped,interconnectedobjects.Examplesincludebibliographicnetworksandsocialmedianetworks,wheretwoobjectsarecon-sideredsimilariftheyarelinkedinasimilarwaywithmultitypedobjects.Ingeneral,objectsimilaritywithinanetworkcanbedeterminedbasedonnetworkstructuresandobjectproperties,andwithsimilaritymeasures.Moreover,networkclustersandhierarchicalnetworkstructureshelporganizeobjectsinanetworkandidentifysubcom-munities,aswellasfacilitatesimilaritysearch.Furthermore,similaritycanbedefineddifferentlyperuser.Byconsideringdifferentlinkagepaths,wecanderivevarioussimilaritysemanticsinanetwork,whichisknownaspath-basedsimilarity.Byorganizingnetworksbasedonthenotionofsimilarityandclusters,wecangen-eratemultiplehierarchieswithinanetwork.Onlineanalyticalprocessing(OLAP)canthenbeperformed.Forexample,wecandrilldownordiceinformationnetworksbasedondifferentlevel 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HAN11-ch04-125-186-97801238147912011/6/13:17Page132#8132Chapter4DataWarehousingandOnlineAnalyticalProcessingLinkingandEmbeddingDatabase)byMicrosoftandJDBC(JavaDatabaseConnec-tion).Thistieralsocontainsametadatarepository,whichstoresinformationaboutthedatawarehouseanditscontents.ThemetadatarepositoryisfurtherdescribedinSection4.1.7.2.ThemiddletierisanOLAPserverthatistypicallyimplementedusingeither(1)arelationalOLAP(ROLAP)model(i.e.,anextendedrelationalDBMSthatmapsoper-ationsonmultidimensionaldatatostandardrelationaloperations);or(2)amulti-dimensionalOLAP(MOLAP)model(i.e.,aspecial-purposeserverthatdirectlyimplementsmultidimensionaldataandoperations).OLAPserversarediscussedinSection4.4.4.3.Thetoptierisafront-endclientlayer,whichcontainsqueryandreportingtools,analysistools,and/ordataminingtools(e.g.,trendanalysis,prediction,andsoon).4.1.5DataWarehouseModels:EnterpriseWarehouse,DataMart,andVirtualWarehouseFromthearchitecturepointofview,therearethreedatawarehousemodels:theenterprisewarehouse,thedatamart,andthevirtualwarehouse.Enterprisewarehouse:Anenterprisewarehousecollectsalloftheinformationaboutsubjectsspanningtheentireorganization.Itprovidescorporate-widedatainte-gration,usuallyfromoneormoreoperationalsystemsorexternalinformationproviders,andiscross-functionalinscope.Ittypicallycontainsdetaileddataaswellassummarizeddata,andcanrangeinsizefromafewgigabytestohundredsofgigabytes,terabytes,orbeyond.Anenterprisedatawarehousemaybeimple-mentedontraditionalmainframes,computersuperservers,orparallelarchitectureplatforms.Itrequiresextensivebusinessmodelingandmaytakeyearstodesignandbuild.Datamart:Adatamartcontainsasubsetofcorporate-widedatathatisofvaluetoaspecificgroupofusers.Thescopeisconfinedtospecificselectedsubjects.Forexam-ple,amarketingdatamartmayconfineitssubjectstocustomer,item,andsales.Thedatacontainedindatamartstendtobesummarized.Datamartsareusuallyimplementedonlow-costdepartmentalserversthatareUnix/LinuxorWindowsbased.Theimplementationcycleofadatamartismorelikelytobemea 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All functions are called with C calling convention. | | | | … | | | | During boot services time, the processor is in the following excution mode: | | | | | | • Uniprocessor | | | | • Long mode, in 64-bit mode | | | | • Paging mode is enabled and any memory space defined by the | | | | UEFI memory map is identity mapped (virtual address equal | | | | physical address). The mappings to other regions are undefined | | | | and may vary from implementation to implementation | | | | • Selectors are set be flat and are otherwise not used | | | | • Interrupts are enabled—though no interrupt services are supported | | | | other than the UEFI boot services timer functions (All loaded | | | | device drivers are serviced synchrounously by “polling.”) | | | | • Direction flag in EFLAGs is clear | | | | • Other general purpose flasg registers are undefined | | | | • 128 KB, or more, of available stack space | As you can see from the previous citation, the system is running in protected mode or long mode with flat memory addressing in order to run the UEFI routines. It’s also clear from the citation that the code that runs in one of these execution environment is compiled by using C compiler. C is chosen as the standard language because it’s well suited for system programming task like this. Note that the executable inside an UEFI image can be in the form of EFI byte code, i.e. not in the form of “native” executable binary of the platform in which it runs. EFI byte code is portable between different platforms because it’s executed insinde an EFI interpreter that is required to be present in an UEFI-compliant firmware. There is more to UEFI specification than what I’ve explained so far. Nonetheless, I can give you some pointers to understand the specification more easily. The specification is more than a thousand pages long. It’s hard to grasp without a “roadmap”. The key to the specification is in chapter 1 and chapter 2 of UEFI specification, especially section 1.5, UEFI design overview and all of the sections in chapter 2 of UEFI specification. Once you have grasped those sections, you are ready to delve into the next sections that you are interested. This concludes this subsection. 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HAN12-ch05-187-242-97801238147912011/6/13:19Page188#2188Chapter5DataCubeTechnologyandtherebyreadyforuse)andpartialcuboidmaterialization(where,say,onlythemore“useful”partsofthedatacubeareprecomputed).Themultiwayarrayaggregationmethodisdetailedforfullcubecomputation.Methodsforpartialcubecomputation,includingBUC,Star-Cubing,andtheuseofcubeshellfragments,arediscussed.InSection5.3,westudycube-basedqueryprocessing.ThetechniquesdescribedbuildonthestandardmethodsofcubecomputationpresentedinSection5.2.YouwilllearnaboutsamplingcubesforOLAPqueryansweringonsamplingdata(e.g.,surveydata,whichrepresentasampleorsubsetofatargetdatapopulationofinterest).Inaddi-tion,youwilllearnhowtocomputerankingcubesforefficienttop-k(ranking)queryprocessinginlargerelationaldatasets.InSection5.4,wedescribevariouswaystoperformmultidimensionaldataanalysisusingdatacubes.Predictioncubesareintroduced,whichfacilitatepredictivemodelinginmultidimensionalspace.Wediscussmultifeaturecubes,whichcomputecomplexqueriesinvolvingmultipledependentaggregatesatmultiplegranularities.Youwillalsolearnabouttheexception-baseddiscovery-drivenexplorationofcubespace,wherevisualcuesaredisplayedtoindicatediscovereddataexceptionsatallaggregationlevels,therebyguidingtheuserinthedataanalysisprocess.5.1DataCubeComputation:PreliminaryConceptsDatacubesfacilitatetheonlineanalyticalprocessingofmultidimensionaldata.“Buthowcanwecomputedatacubesinadvance,sothattheyarehandyandreadilyavailableforqueryprocessing?”Thissectioncontrastsfullcubematerialization(i.e.,precomputation)versusvariousstrategiesforpartialcubematerialization.Forcompleteness,webeginwithareviewofthebasicterminologyinvolvingdatacubes.Wealsointroduceacubecellnotationthatisusefulfordescribingdatacubecomputationmethods.5.1.1CubeMaterialization:FullCube,IcebergCube,ClosedCube,andCubeShellFigure5.1showsa3-DdatacubeforthedimensionsA,B,andC,andanaggregatemea-sure,M.Commonlyusedmeasuresincludecount(),sum(),min(),max(),andtotalsales().Adatacubeisalatticeofcuboids.Eachcuboidrepresentsag 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HAN20-ch13-585-632-97801238147912011/6/13:26Page618#34618Chapter13DataMiningTrendsandResearchFrontiersAnotherchallengeforbothcontent-basedandcollaborativerecommendersystemsishowtodealwithnewusersforwhichabuyinghistoryisnotyetavailable.Hybridapproachesintegratebothcontent-basedandcollaborativemethodstoachievefurtherimprovedrecommendations.TheNetflixPrizewasanopencompeti-tionheldbyanonlineDVD-rentalservice,withapayoutof$1,000,000forthebestrecommenderalgorithmtopredictuserratingsforfilms,basedonpreviousratings.Thecompetitionandotherstudieshaveshownthatthepredictiveaccuracyofarec-ommendersystemcanbesubstantiallyimprovedwhenblendingmultiplepredictors,especiallybyusinganensembleofmanysubstantiallydifferentmethods,ratherthanrefiningasingletechnique.Collaborativerecommendersystemsareaformofintelligentqueryanswering,whichconsistsofanalyzingtheintentofaqueryandprovidinggeneralized,neighbor-hood,orassociatedinformationrelevanttothequery.Forexample,ratherthansimplyreturningthebookdescriptionandpriceinresponsetoacustomer’squery,returningadditionalinformationthatisrelatedtothequerybutthatwasnotexplicitlyaskedfor(e.g.,bookevaluationcomments,recommendationsofotherbooks,orsalesstatistics)providesanintelligentanswertothesamequery.13.4DataMiningandSocietyFormostofus,dataminingispartofourdailylives,althoughwemayoftenbeunawareofitspresence.Section13.4.1looksatseveralexamplesof“ubiquitousandinvisible”datamining,affectingeverydaythingsfromtheproductsstockedatourlocalsuper-market,totheadsweseewhilesurfingtheInternet,tocrimeprevention.Dataminingcanoffertheindividualmanybenefitsbyimprovingcustomerserviceandsatisfactionaswellaslifestyle,ingeneral.However,italsohasseriousimplicationsregardingone’srighttoprivacyanddatasecurity.TheseissuesarethetopicofSection13.4.2.13.4.1UbiquitousandInvisibleDataMiningDataminingispresentinmanyaspectsofourdailylives,whetherwerealizeitornot.Itaffectshowweshop,work,andsearchforinformation,andcaneveninfluenceourleisuretime,health,andwell-being.Inthissection,weloo 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ecollectionofqueriescol-lectedfromusersovertime?Interestingly,somepatternsfoundinusersearchqueriescandiscloseinvaluableknowledgethatcannotbeobtainedbyreadingindividualdataitemsalone.Forexample,Google’sFluTrendsusesspecificsearchtermsasindicatorsoffluactivity.Itfoundacloserelationshipbetweenthenumberofpeoplewhosearchforflu-relatedinformationandthenumberofpeoplewhoactuallyhaveflusymptoms.Apatternemergeswhenallofthesearchqueriesrelatedtofluareaggregated.Usingaggre-gatedGooglesearchdata,FluTrendscanestimatefluactivityuptotwoweeksfasterthantraditionalsystemscan.2Thisexampleshowshowdataminingcanturnalargecollectionofdataintoknowledgethatcanhelpmeetacurrentglobalchallenge.1.1.2DataMiningastheEvolutionofInformationTechnologyDataminingcanbeviewedasaresultofthenaturalevolutionofinformationtech-nology.Thedatabaseanddatamanagementindustryevolvedinthedevelopmentof2Thisisreportedin[GMP+09]. #################### File: 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taskFigure9.19Transferlearningversustraditionallearning.(a)Traditionallearningmethodsbuildanewclassifierfromscratchforeachclassificationtask.(b)Transferlearningappliesknowledgefromasourceclassifiertosimplifytheconstructionofaclassifierforanew,targettask.Source:FromPanandYang[PY10];usedwithpermission.Transferlearningaimstoextracttheknowledgefromoneormoresourcetasksandapplytheknowledgetoatargettask.Inourexample,thesourcetaskistheclassificationofcamerareviews,andthetargettaskistheclassificationofTVreviews.Figure9.19illustratesacomparisonbetweentraditionallearningmethodsandtransferlearning.Traditionallearningmethodsbuildanewclassifierforeachnewclassificationtask,basedonavailableclass-labeledtrainingandtestdata.Transferlearningalgorithmsapplyknowledgeaboutsourcetaskswhenbuildingaclassifierforanew(target)task.Con-structionoftheresultingclassifierrequiresfewertrainingdataandlesstrainingtime.Traditionallearningalgorithmsassumethatthetrainingdataandtestdataaredrawnfromthesamedistributionandthesamefeaturespace.Thus,ifthedistributionchanges,suchmethodsneedtorebuildthemodelsfromscratch.Transferlearningallowsthedistributions,tasks,andeventhedatadomainsusedintrainingandtestingtobedifferent.Transferlearningisanalogoustothewayhumansmayapplytheirknowledgeofatasktofacilitatethelearningofanothertask.Forexam-ple,ifweknowhowtoplaytherecorder,wemayapplyourknowledgeofnotereadingandmusictosimplifythetaskoflearningtoplaythepiano.Similarly,knowingSpanishmaymakeiteasiertolearnItalian.Transferlearningisusefulforcommonapplicationswherethedatabecomeoutdatedorthedistributionchanges.Herewegivetwomoreexamples.Considerweb-documentclassification,wherewemayhavetrainedaclassifiertolabel,say,articlesfromvari-ousnewsgroupsaccordingtopredefinedcategories.ThewebdatathatwereusedtotraintheclassifiercaneasilybecomeoutdatedbecausethetopicsontheWebchangefrequently.Anotherapplicationareafortransferlearningisemailspamfiltering.Wecouldtrainaclassifiertolabelemailaseither“spam”or“notspam,”usingemailfromagroupofusers.Ifnewuserscomealong,thedistributionoftheiremailcanbedifferentfromtheoriginalgroup,hencetheneedtoadaptthelearnedmodeltoincorporatethenewdata. 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This prevention method is accomplished by developing a device driver that will initialize the BLR upon the boot of the operating system. The initialization by the driver will configure the BLR bits so that the BIOS chip contents will be write-locked. This way, the attacker has to work to find the driver before he or she can infect the BIOS. This is especially hard for the attacker if the driver is stealthy. I'm not proposing a BIOS patching approach to alleviate the "bad" BIOS code implementation of the protection mechanism—BIOS that doesn't write-lock the BIOS chip upon boot—because I think it will be hard to modify the BIOS binary to make that happen, especially for a BIOS that has no publicly available modification tool. It's just too risky to implement such a thing in the today's BIOS. 13.1.2. Virtual Machine Defense Another prevention method that may help defend a BIOS rootkit is the implementation of a virtual machine. When attackers target the operating system running within the virtual machine, they may find a BIOS within that operating system. However, it's not the real motherboard BIOS. Thus, they won't harm the system. However, this method won't work if the attackers realize that the system running on top of a virtual machine because they will try to gain full control of the system to gain access to the real BIOS chip in the motherboard. As a side note, some virtual machines use a modified version of AMI BIOS as the BIOS. Another issue that I haven't researched yet is the "presentation" of the emulated hardware inside the virtual machine. I don't know yet how real the virtual machine–emulated hardware looks when an attacker has gained full access to the virtual machine entity remotely. 13.1.2. WBEM Security in Relation to the BIOS Rootkit In this subsection, I'm not going to delve into the issue of implementing a WBEM security measure because a WBEM-based attack entry point is in the application layer, not in the BIOS. However, I want to explain the danger caused by a compromised WBEM infrastructure2 in connection with a BIOS rootkit deployment scenario. This is important because few people are aware that a compromised WBEM infrastructure can help attackers launch a firmware-level assault on the systems inside the WBEM infrastructure. Attackers who have gained access to the overall WBEM infrastructure likely will implement a low-level rootkit to maintain their access in the compromised systems. This means they will probably try to infect the compromised system with BIOS rootkit. Here is 2 WBEM infrastructure in this context consists of desktops and servers that implement a certain WBEM specification and can respond to remote queries that request the system-level configuration information. #################### File: Data%20Mining%20Concepts%20and%20Techniques%20-%20Jiawei%20Han%2C%20Micheline%20Kamber%2C%20Jian%20Pei%20%28PDF%29.pdf Page: 575 Context: HAN18-ch11-497-542-97801238147912011/6/13:24Page538#42538Chapter11AdvancedClusterAnalysiskindsofjoinindicesbasedonthecomputationoftheshortestpaths:(1)VVindices,foranypairofobstaclevertices,and(2)MVindices,foranypairofmicroclusterandobstaclevertex.Useoftheindiceshelpsfurtheroptimizetheoverallperformance.Usingsuchprecomputationandoptimizationstrategies,thedistancebetweenanytwopoints(atthegranularitylevelofamicrocluster)canbecomputedefficiently.Thus,theclusteringprocesscanbeperformedinamannersimilartoatypicalefficientk-medoidsalgorithm,suchasCLARANS,andachievegoodclusteringqualityforlargedatasets.11.5SummaryInconventionalclusteranalysis,anobjectisassignedtooneclusterexclusively.How-ever,insomeapplications,thereisaneedtoassignanobjecttooneormoreclustersinafuzzyorprobabilisticway.Fuzzyclusteringandprobabilisticmodel-basedclus-teringallowanobjecttobelongtooneormoreclusters.Apartitionmatrixrecordsthemembershipdegreeofobjectsbelongingtoclusters.Probabilisticmodel-basedclusteringassumesthataclusterisaparameterizeddis-tribution.Usingthedatatobeclusteredastheobservedsamples,wecanestimatetheparametersoftheclusters.Amixturemodelassumesthatasetofobservedobjectsisamixtureofinstancesfrommultipleprobabilisticclusters.Conceptually,eachobservedobjectisgeneratedinde-pendentlybyfirstchoosingaprobabilisticclusteraccordingtotheprobabilitiesoftheclusters,andthenchoosingasampleaccordingtotheprobabilitydensityfunctionofthechosencluster.Anexpectation-maximizationalgorithmisaframeworkforapproachingmaximumlikelihoodormaximumaposterioriestimatesofparametersinstatisticalmodels.Expectation-maximizationalgorithmscanbeusedtocomputefuzzyclusteringandprobabilisticmodel-basedclustering.High-dimensionaldataposeseveralchallengesforclusteranalysis,includinghowtomodelhigh-dimensionalclustersandhowtosearchforsuchclusters.Therearetwomajorcategoriesofclusteringmethodsforhigh-dimensionaldata:subspaceclusteringmethodsanddimensionalityreductionmethods.Subspaceclusteringmethodssearchforclustersinsubspacesoftheori 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HAN16-ch09-393-442-97801238147912011/6/13:22Page429#379.7AdditionalTopicsRegardingClassification429measurement.Mostimportant,fuzzysettheoryallowsustodealwithvagueorinexactfacts.Forexample,beingamemberofasetofhighincomesisinexact(e.g.,if$50,000ishigh,thenwhatabout$49,000?or$48,000?)Unlikethenotionoftraditional“crisp”setswhereanelementbelongstoeitherasetSoritscomplement,infuzzysettheory,elementscanbelongtomorethanonefuzzyset.Forexample,theincomevalue$49,000belongstoboththemediumandhighfuzzysets,buttodifferingdegrees.UsingfuzzysetnotationandfollowingFigure9.15,thiscanbeshownasmmediumincome($49,000)=0.15andmhighincome($49,000)=0.96,wheremdenotesthemembershipfunction,thatisoperatingonthefuzzysetsofmediumincomeandhighincome,respectively.Infuzzysettheory,membershipval-uesforagivenelement,x(e.g.,for$49,000),donothavetosumto1.Thisisunliketraditionalprobabilitytheory,whichisconstrainedbyasummationaxiom.Fuzzysettheoryisusefulfordataminingsystemsperformingrule-basedclassi-fication.Itprovidesoperationsforcombiningfuzzymeasurements.Supposethatinadditiontothefuzzysetsforincome,wedefinedthefuzzysetsjunioremployeeandsenioremployeefortheattributeyearsemployed.Supposealsothatwehavearulethat,say,testshighincomeandsenioremployeeintheruleantecedent(IFpart)foragivenemployee,x.IfthesetwofuzzymeasuresareANDedtogether,theminimumoftheirmeasureistakenasthemeasureoftherule.Inotherwords,m(highincomeANDsenioremployee)(x)=min(mhighincome(x),msenioremployee(x)).Thisisakintosayingthatachainisasstrongasitsweakestlink.IfthetwomeasuresareORed,themaximumoftheirmeasureistakenasthemeasureoftherule.Inotherwords,m(highincomeORsenioremployee)(x)=max(mhighincome(x),msenioremployee(x)).Intuitively,thisislikesayingthataropeisasstrongasitsstrongeststrand.Givenatupletoclassify,morethanonefuzzyrulemayapply.Eachapplicablerulecontributesavoteformembershipinthecategories.Typically,thetruthvaluesforeachpredictedcategoryaresummed,andthesesumsarecombined.Severalproceduresexistfortranslatingtheresultingfuzzyoutputintoade 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HAN20-ch13-585-632-97801238147912011/6/13:26Page597#1313.1MiningComplexDataTypes597typicallydonethroughthediscoveryofpatternsandtrendsbymeanssuchasstatisticalpatternlearning,topicmodeling,andstatisticallanguagemodeling.Textminingusu-allyrequiresstructuringtheinputtext(e.g.,parsing,alongwiththeadditionofsomederivedlinguisticfeaturesandtheremovalofothers,andsubsequentinsertionintoadatabase).Thisisfollowedbyderivingpatternswithinthestructureddata,andevalua-tionandinterpretationoftheoutput.“Highquality”intextminingusuallyreferstoacombinationofrelevance,novelty,andinterestingness.Typicaltextminingtasksincludetextcategorization,textclustering,concept/entityextraction,productionofgranulartaxonomies,sentimentanalysis,documentsumma-rization,andentity-relationmodeling(i.e.,learningrelationsbetweennamedentities).Otherexamplesincludemultilingualdatamining,multidimensionaltextanalysis,con-textualtextmining,andtrustandevolutionanalysisintextdata,aswellastextminingapplicationsinsecurity,biomedicalliteratureanalysis,onlinemediaanalysis,andana-lyticalcustomerrelationshipmanagement.Variouskindsoftextminingandanalysissoftwareandtoolsareavailableinacademicinstitutions,open-sourceforums,andindustry.TextminingoftenalsousesWordNet,SematicWeb,Wikipedia,andotherinformationsourcestoenhancetheunderstandingandminingoftextdata.MiningWebDataTheWorldWideWebservesasahuge,widelydistributed,globalinformationcenterfornews,advertisements,consumerinformation,financialmanagement,education,gov-ernment,ande-commerce.Itcontainsarichanddynamiccollectionofinformationaboutwebpagecontentswithhypertextstructuresandmultimedia,hyperlinkinforma-tion,andaccessandusageinformation,providingfertilesourcesfordatamining.Webminingistheapplicationofdataminingtechniquestodiscoverpatterns,structures,andknowledgefromtheWeb.Accordingtoanalysistargets,webminingcanbeorganizedintothreemainareas:webcontentmining,webstructuremining,andwebusagemining.Webcontentmininganalyzeswebcontentsuchastext,multimediadata,andstruc-tureddata(wit 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HAN20-ch13-585-632-97801238147912011/6/13:26Page622#38622Chapter13DataMiningTrendsandResearchFrontiersofsensitivevalueswithinagroup,thenthosevaluesmaybeinferredforthealteredrecords.Thel-diversitymodelwasdesignedtohandlethisweaknessbyenforcingintragroupdiversityofsensitivevaluestoensureanonymization.Thegoalistomakeitsufficientlydifficultforadversariestousecombinationsofrecordattributestoexactlyidentifyindividualrecords.Distributedprivacypreservation:Largedatasetscouldbepartitionedanddis-tributedeitherhorizontally(i.e.,thedatasetsarepartitionedintodifferentsubsetsofrecordsanddistributedacrossmultiplesites)orvertically(i.e.,thedatasetsarepartitionedanddistributedbytheirattributes),oreveninacombinationofboth.Whiletheindividualsitesmaynotwanttosharetheirentiredatasets,theymayconsenttolimitedinformationsharingwiththeuseofavarietyofprotocols.Theoveralleffectofsuchmethodsistomaintainprivacyforeachindividualobject,whilederivingaggregateresultsoverallofthedata.Downgradingtheeffectivenessofdataminingresults:Inmanycases,eventhoughthedatamaynotbeavailable,theoutputofdatamining(e.g,associationrulesandclassificationmodels)mayresultinviolationsofprivacy.Thesolutioncouldbetodowngradetheeffectivenessofdataminingbyeithermodifyingdataorminingresults,suchashidingsomeassociationrulesorslightlydistortingsomeclassificationmodels.Recently,researchersproposednewideasinprivacy-preservingdataminingsuchasthenotionofdifferentialprivacy.Thegeneralideaisthat,foranytwodatasetsthatareclosetooneanother(i.e.,thatdifferonlyonatinydatasetsuchasasingleele-ment),agivendifferentiallyprivatealgorithmwillbehaveapproximatelythesameonbothdatasets.Thisdefinitiongivesastrongguaranteethatthepresenceorabsenceofatinydataset(e.g.,representinganindividual)willnotaffectthefinaloutputofthequerysignificantly.Basedonthisnotion,asetofdifferentialprivacy-preservingdataminingalgorithmshavebeendeveloped.Researchinthisdirectionisongoing.Weexpectmorepowerfulprivacy-preservingdatapublishinganddataminingalgorithmsinthenearfuture 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HAN17-ch10-443-496-97801238147912011/6/13:44Page468#26468Chapter10ClusterAnalysis:BasicConceptsandMethodsdistributionofopinionswithrespecttodifferentcustomers,whichcannotbeobtaineddirectlyandcompletely.Thetaskofclusteringistoestimatethegenerativemodelasaccuratelyaspossibleusingtheobserveddataobjectstobeclustered.Inpractice,wecanassumethatthedatagenerativemodelsadoptcommondistri-butionfunctions,suchasGaussiandistributionorBernoullidistribution,whicharegovernedbyparameters.Thetaskoflearningagenerativemodelisthenreducedtofindingtheparametervaluesforwhichthemodelbestfitstheobserveddataset.Example10.6Generativemodel.Supposewearegivenasetof1-DpointsX={x1,...,xn}forclusteringanalysis.LetusassumethatthedatapointsaregeneratedbyaGaussiandistribution,N(µ,σ2)=1√2πσ2e−(x−µ)22σ2,(10.14)wheretheparametersareµ(themean)andσ2(thevariance).Theprobabilitythatapointxi∈XisthengeneratedbythemodelisP(xi|µ,σ2)=1√2πσ2e−(xi−µ)22σ2.(10.15)Consequently,thelikelihoodthatXisgeneratedbythemodelisL(N(µ,σ2):X)=P(X|µ,σ2)=n(cid:89)i=11√2πσ2e−(xi−µ)22σ2.(10.16)Thetaskoflearningthegenerativemodelistofindtheparametersµandσ2suchthatthelikelihoodL(N(µ,σ2):X)ismaximized,thatis,findingN(µ0,σ20)=argmax{L(N(µ,σ2):X)},(10.17)wheremax{L(N(µ,σ2):X)}iscalledthemaximumlikelihood.Givenasetofobjects,thequalityofaclusterformedbyalltheobjectscanbemeasuredbythemaximumlikelihood.ForasetofobjectspartitionedintomclustersC1,...,Cm,thequalitycanbemeasuredbyQ({C1,...,Cm})=m(cid:89)i=1P(Ci),(10.18) 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They were competing standards. DMI reached the end of its life cycle in 2005. Therefore, my explanation regarding these protocols focuses on SMBIOS. Nevertheless, some artifacts from the DMI era are still found in SMBIOS for compatibility reasons. The first section explains the SMBIOS interface, and the second section deals with the real-world implementation of the interface in a sample BIOS binary, along with a simple SMBIOS structure table parser. You also get a glimpse of Windows management instrumentation (WMI). 10.1. DMI and SMBIOS DMI and SMBIOS are standards developed and maintained by the Distributed Management Task Force (DMTF). These standards are meant to take part in a software layer to provide seamless remote management for server and desktop machines. The purpose is to lower the total cost of ownership for organizations running various machines. The more machines an organization has, the greater the benefit it receives from being able to centralize the management tasks of the machines, such as monitoring machine performance and updating certain software. This machine management paradigm is termed Web-based enterprise management (WBEM) by the DMTF (http://www.dmtf.org/standards/wbem/). In this context, DMI or SMBIOS is only one of the software layers that provide management functions. Note that DMI has been deprecated and replaced by SMBIOS. 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thedatatypestobemined,includingrelational,transactional,anddatawarehousedata,aswellascomplexdatatypessuchastime-series,sequences,datastreams,spatiotemporaldata,multimediadata,textdata,graphs,socialnetworks,andWebdata.Thechapterpresentsageneralclassificationofdataminingtasks,basedonthekindsofknowledgetobemined,thekindsoftechnologiesused,andthekindsofapplicationsthataretargeted.Finally,majorchallengesinthefieldarediscussed.Chapter2introducesthegeneraldatafeatures.Itfirstdiscussesdataobjectsandattributetypesandthenintroducestypicalmeasuresforbasicstatisticaldatadescrip-tions.Itoverviewsdatavisualizationtechniquesforvariouskindsofdata.Inadditiontomethodsofnumericdatavisualization,methodsforvisualizingtext,tags,graphs,andmultidimensionaldataareintroduced.Chapter2alsointroduceswaystomeasuresimilarityanddissimilarityforvariouskindsofdata. #################### File: Data%20Mining%20Concepts%20and%20Techniques%20-%20Jiawei%20Han%2C%20Micheline%20Kamber%2C%20Jian%20Pei%20%28PDF%29.pdf Page: 170 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HAN11-ch04-125-186-97801238147912011/6/13:17Page133#94.1DataWarehouse:BasicConcepts133Virtualwarehouse:Avirtualwarehouseisasetofviewsoveroperationaldatabases.Forefficientqueryprocessing,onlysomeofthepossiblesummaryviewsmaybematerialized.Avirtualwarehouseiseasytobuildbutrequiresexcesscapacityonoperationaldatabaseservers.“Whataretheprosandconsofthetop-downandbottom-upapproachestodataware-housedevelopment?”Thetop-downdevelopmentofanenterprisewarehouseservesasasystematicsolutionandminimizesintegrationproblems.However,itisexpensive,takesalongtimetodevelop,andlacksflexibilityduetothedifficultyinachievingconsistencyandconsensusforacommondatamodelfortheentireorganization.Thebottom-upapproachtothedesign,development,anddeploymentofindependentdatamartsprovidesflexibility,lowcost,andrapidreturnofinvestment.It,however,canleadtoproblemswhenintegratingvariousdisparatedatamartsintoaconsistententerprisedatawarehouse.Arecommendedmethodforthedevelopmentofdatawarehousesystemsistoimple-mentthewarehouseinanincrementalandevolutionarymanner,asshowninFigure4.2.First,ahigh-levelcorporatedatamodelisdefinedwithinareasonablyshortperiod(suchasoneortwomonths)thatprovidesacorporate-wide,consistent,integratedviewofdataamongdifferentsubjectsandpotentialusages.Thishigh-levelmodel,althoughitwillneedtoberefinedinthefurtherdevelopmentofenterprisedataware-housesanddepartmentaldatamarts,willgreatlyreducefutureintegrationproblems.Second,independentdatamartscanbeimplementedinparallelwiththeenterpriseEnterprisedatawarehouseMultitierdatawarehouseDistributeddata martsData martDefine a high-level corporate data modelData martModel refinementModel refinementFigure4.2Arecommendedapproachfordatawarehousedevelopment. #################### File: Data%20Mining%20Concepts%20and%20Techniques%20-%20Jiawei%20Han%2C%20Micheline%20Kamber%2C%20Jian%20Pei%20%28PDF%29.pdf Page: 724 Context: HAN22-ind-673-708-97801238147912011/6/13:27Page687#15Index687Ffactconstellation,141example,141–142illustrated,142facttables,136summary,165factoranalysis,600facts,136falsenegatives,365falsepositives,365farthest-neighborclusteringalgorithm,462fieldoverloading,92financialdataanalysis,607–609creditpolicyanalysis,608–609crimesdetection,609datawarehouses,608loanpaymentprediction,608–609targetedmarketing,609FindCBLOFalgorithm,569–570five-numbersummary,49fixed-widthclustering,570FOIL,359,363,418Forest-RC,383forwardalgorithm,591FP-growth,257–259,272algorithmillustration,260example,257–258performance,259FP-trees,257conditionpatternbase,258construction,257–258mainmemory-based,259mining,258,259Frag-Shells,212,213fraudulentanalysis,610–611frequencypatternsapproximate,281,307–312compressed,281,307–312constraint-based,281near-match,281redundancy-awaretop-k,281top-k,281frequentitemsetmining,18,272,282Apriorialgorithm,248–253closedpatterns,262–264marketbasketanalysis,244–246maxpatterns,262–264methods,248–264pattern-growthapproach,257–259withverticaldataformat,259–262,272frequentitemsets,243,246,272associationrulegenerationfrom,253,254closed,247,248,262–264,308finding,247findingbyconfinedcandidategeneration,248–253maximal,247,248,262–264,308subsets,309frequentpatternmining,279advancedformsofpatterns,320applicationdomain-specificsemantics,282applications,317–319,321approximatepatterns,307–312classificationcriteria,280–283colossalpatterns,301–307compressedpatterns,307–312constraint-based,294–301,320dataanalysisusages,282fordatacleaning,318directdiscriminative,422high-dimensionaldata,301–307inhigh-dimensionalspace,320inimagedataanalysis,319forindexingstructures,319kindsofdataandfeatures,282multidimensionalassociations,287–289inmultilevel,multidimensionalspace,283–294multilevelassociations,283–294inmultimediadataanalysis,319negativepatterns,291–294fornoisefiltering,318Pattern-Fusion,302–307quantitativeassociationrules,289–291rarepatterns,291–294inrecommendersystems,319roadmap,279–283scal 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HAN19-ch12-543-584-97801238147912011/6/13:25Page545#312.1OutliersandOutlierAnalysis545justifywhytheoutliersdetectedaregeneratedbysomeothermechanisms.Thisisoftenachievedbymakingvariousassumptionsontherestofthedataandshowingthattheoutliersdetectedviolatethoseassumptionssignificantly.Outlierdetectionisalsorelatedtonoveltydetectioninevolvingdatasets.Forexample,bymonitoringasocialmediawebsitewherenewcontentisincoming,noveltydetectionmayidentifynewtopicsandtrendsinatimelymanner.Noveltopicsmayinitiallyappearasoutliers.Tothisextent,outlierdetectionandnoveltydetectionsharesomesimilarityinmodelinganddetectionmethods.However,acriticaldifferencebetweenthetwoisthatinnoveltydetection,oncenewtopicsareconfirmed,theyareusuallyincorporatedintothemodelofnormalbehaviorsothatfollow-upinstancesarenottreatedasoutliersanymore.12.1.2TypesofOutliersIngeneral,outlierscanbeclassifiedintothreecategories,namelyglobaloutliers,con-textual(orconditional)outliers,andcollectiveoutliers.Let’sexamineeachofthesecategories.GlobalOutliersInagivendataset,adataobjectisaglobaloutlierifitdeviatessignificantlyfromtherestofthedataset.Globaloutliersaresometimescalledpointanomalies,andarethesimplesttypeofoutliers.Mostoutlierdetectionmethodsareaimedatfindingglobaloutliers.Example12.2Globaloutliers.ConsiderthepointsinFigure12.1again.ThepointsinregionRsignifi-cantlydeviatefromtherestofthedataset,andhenceareexamplesofglobaloutliers.Todetectglobaloutliers,acriticalissueistofindanappropriatemeasurementofdeviationwithrespecttotheapplicationinquestion.Variousmeasurementsarepro-posed,and,basedonthese,outlierdetectionmethodsarepartitionedintodifferentcategories.Wewillcometothisissueindetaillater.Globaloutlierdetectionisimportantinmanyapplications.Considerintrusiondetec-tionincomputernetworks,forexample.Ifthecommunicationbehaviorofacomputerisverydifferentfromthenormalpatterns(e.g.,alargenumberofpackagesisbroad-castinashorttime),thisbehaviormaybeconsideredasaglobaloutlierandthecorrespondingcomputerisasuspectedvictimofhacking 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HAN18-ch11-497-542-97801238147912011/6/13:24Page508#12508Chapter11AdvancedClusterAnalysisandσj=(cid:115)(cid:80)ni=1P((cid:50)j|oi,(cid:50))(oi−uj)2(cid:80)ni=1P((cid:50)j|oi,(cid:50)).(11.15)Inmanyapplications,probabilisticmodel-basedclusteringhasbeenshowntobeeffectivebecauseitismoregeneralthanpartitioningmethodsandfuzzyclusteringmethods.Adistinctadvantageisthatappropriatestatisticalmodelscanbeusedtocapturelatentclusters.TheEMalgorithmiscommonlyusedtohandlemanylearningproblemsindataminingandstatisticsduetoitssimplicity.Notethat,ingeneral,theEMalgorithmmaynotconvergetotheoptimalsolution.Itmayinsteadconvergetoalocalmaximum.Manyheuristicshavebeenexploredtoavoidthis.Forexample,wecouldruntheEMprocessmultipletimesusingdifferentrandominitialvalues.Furthermore,theEMalgorithmcanbeverycostlyifthenumberofdistributionsislargeorthedatasetcontainsveryfewobserveddatapoints.11.2ClusteringHigh-DimensionalDataTheclusteringmethodswehavestudiedsofarworkwellwhenthedimensionalityisnothigh,thatis,havinglessthan10attributes.Thereare,however,importantapplicationsofhighdimensionality.“Howcanweconductclusteranalysisonhigh-dimensionaldata?”Inthissection,westudyapproachestoclusteringhigh-dimensionaldata.Section11.2.1startswithanoverviewofthemajorchallengesandtheapproachesused.Methodsforhigh-dimensionaldataclusteringcanbedividedintotwocategories:subspaceclusteringmethods(Section11.2.2)anddimensionalityreductionmethods(Section11.2.3).11.2.1ClusteringHigh-DimensionalData:Problems,Challenges,andMajorMethodologiesBeforewepresentanyspecificmethodsforclusteringhigh-dimensionaldata,let’sfirstdemonstratetheneedsofclusteranalysisonhigh-dimensionaldatausingexamples.Weexaminethechallengesthatcallfornewmethods.Wethencategorizethemajormeth-odsaccordingtowhethertheysearchforclustersinsubspacesoftheoriginalspace,orwhethertheycreateanewlower-dimensionalityspaceandsearchforclustersthere.Insomeapplications,adataobjectmaybedescribedby10ormoreattributes.Suchobjectsarereferredtoasahigh-dimensionaldataspace.Example1 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In this respect, it can be viewed as the inability of the aged BIOS architecture to cope with new advances in firmware technology. In the future this won’t be as much of a problem because BIOS technology will move to UEFI-compliant solutions. As you have learned in section 15.1, UEFI specification has the so-called UEFI application. New features such as the etBIOS that converts an ordinary x86 systems into an embedded x86 appliances will be easier to develop. Moreover, because of the presence of UEFI specification, developers of value-added UEFI applications such as etBIOS will be able to port their application between different BIOS vendors almost seamslessly because all of the system firmware will adhere to the UEFI specification. The AMD vision of x86 everywhere that I mention in chapter 14 is also a driving force to the advances in embedded x86 firmware technology that will bring more x86-based embedded platform into our daily life. They key to x86 firmware development that will help the realization of ubiquitous computing environment is the presence of a well-defined interface to build embedded application on top of the system firmware. UEFI specification has paved the way by providing a well-defined interface for the development of pre-boot application, also known as UEFI applications. I predict that there will be a significant growth in UEFI application in the coming years, particularly value-added application that turns x86 platforms into value-added embedded x86 appliances. 15.3. The Future of BIOS-related Security Threat In the previous sections, I talk about the advances in BIOS-related technology. Now, let me continue into the security implication of those advances such as the possible exploitation scenarios and the weaknesses exposed by those advances. First, start with the BIOS code injection possibility. In section 6.2, I’ve explained the BIOS code injection in Award BIOS through the so-called POST jump table. Simple code injection technique like that is not applicable to EFI/UEFI because of the presence of cryptographic code integrity check in the EFI/UEFI-compliant firmware. Therefore, future code-injection techniques must overcome the cryptographic code integrity check first hand. As you have learned in section 13.1.4, the code integrity check in Phoenix TrustedCore is in the boot block. Other EFI/UEFI-compliant BIOS binaries very possibly implement the code integrity check in the same way because even the main BIOS module must be ensured to be unaltered illegally during boot time to ensure the security of the system. Therefore, a code injection attack to UEFI-compliant BIOS will include an attack to the code integrity check in the boot block and a code injection in the main BIOS module. Another possible and probably easier scenario is to develop UEFI application that will be inserted into the UEFI-compliant BIOS. However, an attack like this must first ensure that if the system is using TPM hardware, the hash value in TCG hardware for the corresponding UEFI application must be updated accordingly. This kind of attack is more complex than the BIOS code injection in section 6.2. Another consideration is the use of C compiler to build UEFI binary components. Moving-up the complexity of BIOS related development, also has it’s consequences to increase the possibility of complex attacks such as buffer overflows and other kind of attacks that usually attacks software developed by using higher level compiler than #################### File: Data%20Mining%20Concepts%20and%20Techniques%20-%20Jiawei%20Han%2C%20Micheline%20Kamber%2C%20Jian%20Pei%20%28PDF%29.pdf Page: 658 Context: HAN20-ch13-585-632-97801238147912011/6/13:26Page621#3713.4DataMiningandSociety621personallyidentifiableinformationiscollectedandstoredindigitalform,anddataminingprogramsareabletoaccesssuchdata,evenduringdatapreparation.Improperornonexistentdisclosurecontrolcanbetherootcauseofprivacyissues.Tohandlesuchconcerns,numerousdatasecurity-enhancingtechniqueshavebeendeveloped.Inaddition,therehasbeenagreatdealofrecenteffortondevelopingprivacy-preservingdataminingmethods.Inthissection,welookatsomeoftheadvancesinprotectingprivacyanddatasecurityindatamining.“Whatcanwedotosecuretheprivacyofindividualswhilecollectingandminingdata?”Manydatasecurity–enhancingtechniqueshavebeendevelopedtohelpprotectdata.Databasescanemployamultilevelsecuritymodeltoclassifyandrestrictdataaccordingtovarioussecuritylevels,withuserspermittedaccesstoonlytheirauthorizedlevel.Ithasbeenshown,however,thatusersexecutingspecificqueriesattheirauthorizedsecuritylevelcanstillinfermoresensitiveinformation,andthatasimilarpossibilitycanoccurthroughdatamining.Encryptionisanothertechniqueinwhichindividualdataitemsmaybeencoded.Thismayinvolveblindsignatures(whichbuildonpublickeyencryp-tion),biometricencryption(e.g.,wheretheimageofaperson’sirisorfingerprintisusedtoencodehisorherpersonalinformation),andanonymousdatabases(whichpermittheconsolidationofvariousdatabasesbutlimitaccesstopersonalinformationonlytothosewhoneedtoknow;personalinformationisencryptedandstoredatdifferentlocations).Intrusiondetectionisanotheractiveareaofresearchthathelpsprotecttheprivacyofpersonaldata.Privacy-preservingdataminingisanareaofdataminingresearchinresponsetoprivacyprotectionindatamining.Itisalsoknownasprivacy-enhancedorprivacy-sensitivedatamining.Itdealswithobtainingvaliddataminingresultswithoutdisclosingtheunderlyingsensitivedatavalues.Mostprivacy-preservingdataminingmethodsusesomeformoftransformationonthedatatoperformprivacypreservation.Typically,suchmethodsreducethegranularityofrepresentationtopreserveprivacy.Forexample,theymaygeneralizetheda 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HAN18-ch11-497-542-97801238147912011/6/13:24Page501#511.1ProbabilisticModel-BasedClustering501objectbelongstothecluster.Thisideacanbeextendedtofuzzyclustering.Foranyobject,oi,andcluster,Cj,ifwij>0,thendist(oi,cj)measureshowwelloiisrepresentedbycj,andthusbelongstoclusterCj.Becauseanobjectcanparticipateinmorethanonecluster,thesumofdistancestothecorrespondingclustercentersweightedbythedegreesofmembershipcaptureshowwelltheobjectfitstheclustering.Formally,foranobjectoi,thesumofthesquarederror(SSE)isgivenbySSE(oi)=k(cid:88)j=1wpijdist(oi,cj)2,(11.2)wheretheparameterp(p≥1)controlstheinfluenceofthedegreesofmembership.Thelargerthevalueofp,thelargertheinfluenceofthedegreesofmembership.Orthogonally,theSSEforacluster,Cj,isSSE(Cj)=n(cid:88)i=1wpijdist(oi,cj)2.(11.3)Finally,theSSEoftheclusteringisdefinedasSSE(C)=n(cid:88)i=1k(cid:88)j=1wpijdist(oi,cj)2.(11.4)TheSSEcanbeusedtomeasurehowwellafuzzyclusteringfitsadataset.Fuzzyclusteringisalsocalledsoftclusteringbecauseitallowsanobjecttobelongtomorethanonecluster.Itiseasytoseethattraditional(rigid)clustering,whichenforceseachobjecttobelongtoonlyoneclusterexclusively,isaspecialcaseoffuzzyclustering.WedeferthediscussionofhowtocomputefuzzyclusteringtoSection11.1.3.11.1.2ProbabilisticModel-BasedClusters“Fuzzyclusters(Section11.1.1)providetheflexibilityofallowinganobjecttoparticipateinmultipleclusters.Isthereageneralframeworktospecifyclusteringswhereobjectsmayparticipateinmultipleclustersinaprobabilisticway?”Inthissection,weintroducethegeneralnotionofprobabilisticmodel-basedclusterstoanswerthisquestion.AsdiscussedinChapter10,weconductclusteranalysisonadatasetbecauseweassumethattheobjectsinthedatasetinfactbelongtodifferentinherentcategories.Recallthatclusteringtendencyanalysis(Section10.6.1)canbeusedtoexaminewhetheradatasetcontainsobjectsthatmayleadtomeaningfulclusters.Here,theinherentcat-egorieshiddeninthedataarelatent,whichmeanstheycannotbedirectlyobserved.Instead,wehavetoinferthemusingthedataobserved.Forexample,thetopicshiddeninaseto 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HAN11-ch04-125-186-97801238147912011/6/13:17Page127#34.1DataWarehouse:BasicConcepts127Time-variant:Dataarestoredtoprovideinformationfromanhistoricperspective(e.g.,thepast5–10years).Everykeystructureinthedatawarehousecontains,eitherimplicitlyorexplicitly,atimeelement.Nonvolatile:Adatawarehouseisalwaysaphysicallyseparatestoreofdatatrans-formedfromtheapplicationdatafoundintheoperationalenvironment.Duetothisseparation,adatawarehousedoesnotrequiretransactionprocessing,recovery,andconcurrencycontrolmechanisms.Itusuallyrequiresonlytwooperationsindataaccessing:initialloadingofdataandaccessofdata.Insum,adatawarehouseisasemanticallyconsistentdatastorethatservesasaphysicalimplementationofadecisionsupportdatamodel.Itstorestheinformationanenterpriseneedstomakestrategicdecisions.Adatawarehouseisalsooftenviewedasanarchitecture,constructedbyintegratingdatafrommultipleheterogeneoussourcestosupportstructuredand/oradhocqueries,analyticalreporting,anddecisionmaking.Basedonthisinformation,weviewdatawarehousingastheprocessofconstruct-ingandusingdatawarehouses.Theconstructionofadatawarehouserequiresdatacleaning,dataintegration,anddataconsolidation.Theutilizationofadatawarehouseoftennecessitatesacollectionofdecisionsupporttechnologies.Thisallows“knowledgeworkers”(e.g.,managers,analysts,andexecutives)tousethewarehousetoquicklyandconvenientlyobtainanoverviewofthedata,andtomakesounddecisionsbasedoninformationinthewarehouse.Someauthorsusethetermdatawarehousingtoreferonlytotheprocessofdatawarehouseconstruction,whilethetermwarehouseDBMSisusedtorefertothemanagementandutilizationofdatawarehouses.Wewillnotmakethisdistinctionhere.“Howareorganizationsusingtheinformationfromdatawarehouses?”Manyorga-nizationsusethisinformationtosupportbusinessdecision-makingactivities,includ-ing(1)increasingcustomerfocus,whichincludestheanalysisofcustomerbuyingpatterns(suchasbuyingpreference,buyingtime,budgetcycles,andappetitesforspending);(2)repositioningproductsandmanagingproductportfoliosbycompar-ingtheperformanceof 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Page 582, Data%20Mining%20Concepts%20and%20Techniques%20-%20Jiawei%20Han%2C%20Micheline%20Kamber%2C%20Jian%20Pei%20%28PDF%29.pdf - Page 545, BIOS%20Disassembly%20Ninjutsu%20Uncovered%201st%20Edition%20-%20Darmawan%20Salihun%20%28PDF%29%20BIOS_Disassembly_Ninjutsu_Uncovered.pdf - Page 578, Data%20Mining%20Concepts%20and%20Techniques%20-%20Jiawei%20Han%2C%20Micheline%20Kamber%2C%20Jian%20Pei%20%28PDF%29.pdf - Page 658, Data%20Mining%20Concepts%20and%20Techniques%20-%20Jiawei%20Han%2C%20Micheline%20Kamber%2C%20Jian%20Pei%20%28PDF%29.pdf - Page 164 ================================================== **Elapsed Time: 9.34 seconds** ================================================== FINAL ANSWER Answer: Data mining is a dynamic and rapidly evolving field focused on discovering patterns and extracting valuable information from large datasets. It encompasses various methodologies, including statistical analysis, machine learning, and database systems. The process typically involves several stages: data cleaning, integration, selection, transformation, pattern discovery, evaluation, and knowledge presentation. Key techniques in data mining include classification, clustering, association rule mining, and outlier detection. Classification involves predicting categorical labels for data, while clustering groups similar data points together. Association rule mining identifies relationships between variables in large datasets, often used in market basket analysis. Outlier detection focuses on identifying data points that deviate significantly from the norm. Data mining applications span numerous domains, including finance for fraud detection, healthcare for patient outcome predictions, and marketing for customer segmentation. The effectiveness of data mining relies heavily on the quality of the data and the appropriateness of the algorithms used. As data continues to grow exponentially, the need for efficient and scalable data mining methods becomes increasingly critical. Ongoing research aims to address challenges such as handling complex data types, ensuring privacy and security, and improving user interaction with data mining systems. The integration of data mining with technologies like cloud computing and web services is also a significant trend, enhancing its applicability and effectiveness in various sectors. ================================================== **Elapsed Time: 0.06 seconds** ==================================================