Analysis of Rare Categories

• Main Author: He, Jingrui (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2012.
• Series: Cognitive Technologies,
• Subjects: Computer science.; Data structures (Computer science).; Data mining.; Artificial intelligence.; Computational intelligence.; Computer Science.; Artificial Intelligence (incl. Robotics).; Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery.; Computational Intelligence.; Data Structures, Cryptology and Information Theory.

In many real-world problems, rare categories (minority classes) play essential roles despite their extreme scarcity. The discovery, characterization and prediction of rare categories of rare examples may protect us from fraudulent or malicious behavior, aid scientific discovery, and even save lives....

Table of Contents:

• Introduction
• Survey and Overview
• Rare Category Detection
• Rare Category Characterization
• Unsupervised Rare Category Analysis
• Conclusion and Future Directions.