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PANELP: Is there really anything beyond Frequent Patterns, Classification and Clustering in Data Mining?Moderator: Vikram Pudi, IIIT Hyderabad, India Abstract:Data mining, the automatic discovery of interesting patterns from large databases, has become a mainstream database research topic. Various kinds of patterns have been identified by researchers including classification and regression models, clusters, association rules, frequent patterns, time-series patterns, summaries, etc. Among these different data mining tasks, frequent pattern mining, classification and clustering have received most attention from the database research community. This is perhaps justified by the fact that most other data mining tasks can be reduced to these three. Here are some examples:
In this context, the question naturally arises as to whether there is really anything more in data mining than frequent pattern mining, classification and clustering. This is an important question to be answered because if the question is answered in the affirmative, then future research may rather focus on the aspects of data mining that are beyond these basic tasks. On the other hand, if the question is answered in the negative, then we may well consider data mining as a "closed problem" because of the availability of very efficient algorithms for these three basic tasks. The objective of this panel is to discuss this high impact and provocative question, which is basically a disguised way of asking: Do any fundamental research issues remain to be solved in data mining? |