Data stream mining

Data Stream Mining is the process of extracting knowledge structures from continuous, rapid data records. A data stream is an ordered sequence of instances that in many applications of data stream mining can be read only once or a small number of times using limited computing and storage capabilities.

In many data stream mining applications, the goal is to predict the class or value of new instances in the data stream given some knowledge about the class membership or values of previous instances in the data stream. Machine learning techniques can be used to learn this prediction task from labeled examples in an automated fashion. Often, concepts from the field of incremental learning are applied to cope with structural changes, on-line learning and real-time demands. In many applications, especially operating within non-stationary environments, the distribution underlying the instances or the rules underlying their labeling may change over time, i.e. the goal of the prediction, the class to be predicted or the target value to be predicted, may change over time. This problem is referred to as concept drift.

Examples of data streams include computer network traffic, phone conversations, ATM transactions, web searches, and sensor data. Data stream mining can be considered a subfield of data mining, machine learning, and knowledge discovery.

Software for data stream mining

• MOA (Massive Online Analysis): free open-source software specific for mining data streams with concept drift. It has several machine learning algorithms (classification, regression, clustering, outlier detection and recommender systems). Also it contains a prequential evaluation method, the EDDM concept drift methods, a reader of ARFF real datasets, and artificial stream generators as SEA concepts, STAGGER, rotating hyperplane, random tree, and random radius based functions. MOA supports bi-directional interaction with Weka (machine learning).
• RapidMiner: commercial software for knowledge discovery, data mining, and machine learning also featuring data stream mining, learning time-varying concepts, and tracking drifting concept (if used in combination with its data stream mining plugin (formerly: Concept Drift plugin))

Events

• International Workshop on Ubiquitous Data Mining held in conjunction with the International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI) in Beijing, China, August 3–5, 2013.
• International Workshop on Knowledge Discovery from Ubiquitous Data Streams held in conjunction with the 18th European Conference on Machine Learning (ECML) and the 11th European Conference on Principles and Practice of Knowledge Discovery in Databases (PKDD) in Warsaw, Poland, in September 2007.
• ACM Symposium on Applied Computing Data Streams Track held in conjunction with the 2007 ACM Symposium on Applied Computing (SAC-2007) in Seoul, Korea, in March 2007.
• IEEE International Workshop on Mining Evolving and Streaming Data (IWMESD 2006) to be held in conjunction with the 2006 IEEE International Conference on Data Mining (ICDM-2006) in Hong Kong in December 2006.
• Fourth International Workshop on Knowledge Discovery from Data Streams (IWKDDS) to be held in conjunction with the 17th European Conference on Machine Learning (ECML) and the 10th European Conference on Principles and Practice of Knowledge Discovery in Databases (PKDD) (ECML/PKDD-2006) in Berlin, Germany, in September 2006.

See also

• Concept drift
• Data Mining
• Sequence mining
• Streaming Algorithm
• Stream processing
• Wireless sensor network
• Lambda architecture

Books

• Gama, João; Gaber, Mohamed Medhat, eds. (2007). Learning from Data Streams: Processing Techniques in Sensor Networks. Springer. p. 244. doi:10.1007/3-540-73679-4. ISBN 9783540736783.
• Ganguly, Auroop R.; Gama, João; Omitaomu, Olufemi A.; Gaber, Mohamed M.; Vatsavai, Ranga R., eds. (2008). Knowledge Discovery from Sensor Data. Industrial Innovation. CRC Press. p. 215. ISBN 9781420082326.
• Gama, João (2010). Knowledge Discovery from Data Streams. Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery. Chapman and Hall. p. 255. ISBN 9781439826119.
• Lughofer, Edwin (2011). Evolving Fuzzy Systems - Methodologies, Advanced Concepts and Applications. Studies in Fuzziness and Soft Computing. Vol. 266. Heidelberg: Springer. p. 456. doi:10.1007/978-3-642-18087-3. ISBN 9783642180866.
• Sayed-Mouchaweh, Moamar; Lughofer, Edwin, eds. (2012). Learning in Non-Stationary Environments: Methods and Applications. New York: Springer. p. 440. doi:10.1007/978-1-4419-8020-5. ISBN 9781441980199.

References

• Mohamed Medhat Gaber, Arkady Zaslavsky, and Shonali Krishnaswamy, "Mining Data Streams: A Review", ACM SIGMOD Record, Vol. 34, No. 2, June 2005, pp. 18–26.
• Brian Babcock, Shivnath Babu, Mayur Datar, Rajeev Motwani, and Jennifer Widom, "Models and Issues in Data Stream Systems", in Proc. 21st ACM SIGACT-SIGMOD-SIGART Symposium on Principles of Database Systems (PODS 2002), Madison, Wisconsin, USA, June 2002.
• Supervised Classification on Data Streams - "A Survey on Supervised Classification on Data Streams"
• Mining Data Streams Bibliography