Distinguished Lecture Series: Data Mining and the “Curse of Dimensionality”

Tuesday 1st April

Booth Lecture Theatre, School of Medicine

Schedule:

  • Talk 1: 10:00 – 11:30
  • Lunch: 12:00 – 13:00
  • Talk 2 : 13:00 – 14:30
  • Coffee break: 14:30 – 15:00
  • Talk 3: 15:00 – 16:30

We look forward to welcoming Professor Arthur Zimek, University of Southern Denmark in Odense, Denmark, who will talk about Data Mining and the “Curse of Dimensionality”.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_Zimek

Abstract:
While the “curse of dimensionality” is a famous (or rather infamous) phenomenon, it has many different aspects that are not always clearly distinguished, and the impact and relevance of these aspects for some specific task remains often unclear. In this lecture series we consider the challenges of the “curse” from the perspective of data mining. In the first part, we discuss the “curse” in more detail, identifying relevant aspects or problems. In the second part, we consider clustering facing these problems and discuss some strategies and example methods for subspace clustering. In the third and last part, we discuss outlier detection, considering strategies for improved efficiency, effectiveness, and subspace outlier detection.