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| Abstract: | Data mining is one of the hottest research areas nowadays as it has got wide variety of applications in common man’s life to make the world a better place to live. It is all about finding interesting hidden patterns in a huge history data base. As an example, from a sales data base, one can find an interesting pattern like “people who buy magazines tend to buy news papers also” using data mining. Now in the sales point of view the advantage is that one can place these things together in the shop to increase sales. In this research work, data mining is effectively applied to a domain called placement chance prediction, since taking wise career decision is so crucial for anybody for sure. In India technical manpower analysis is carried out by an organization named National Technical Manpower Information System (NTMIS), established in 1983-84 by India's Ministry of Education & Culture. The NTMIS comprises of a lead centre in the IAMR, New Delhi, and 21 nodal centres located at different parts of the country. The Kerala State Nodal Centre is located at Cochin University of Science and Technology. In Nodal Centre, they collect placement information by sending postal questionnaire to passed out students on a regular basis. From this raw data available in the nodal centre, a history data base was prepared. Each record in this data base includes entrance rank ranges, reservation, Sector, Sex, and a particular engineering. From each such combination of attributes from the history data base of student records, corresponding placement chances is computed and stored in the history data base. From this data, various popular data mining models are built and tested. These models can be used to predict the most suitable branch for a particular new student with one of the above combination of criteria. Also a detailed performance comparison of the various data mining models is done.This research work proposes to use a combination of data mining models namely a hybrid stacking ensemble for better predictions. A strategy to predict the overall absorption rate for various branches as well as the time it takes for all the students of a particular branch to get placed etc are also proposed. Finally, this research work puts forward a new data mining algorithm namely C 4.5 * stat for numeric data sets which has been proved to have competent accuracy over standard benchmarking data sets called UCI data sets. It also proposes an optimization strategy called parameter tuning to improve the standard C 4.5 algorithm. As a summary this research work passes through all four dimensions for a typical data mining research work, namely application to a domain, development of classifier models, optimization and ensemble methods. |
| Description: | Department of Computer Science, Cochin University of Science and Technology |
| URI: | http://dyuthi.cusat.ac.in/purl/3127 |
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| Abstract: | Identification and Control of Non‐linear dynamical systems are challenging problems to the control engineers.The topic is equally relevant in communication,weather prediction ,bio medical systems and even in social systems,where nonlinearity is an integral part of the system behavior.Most of the real world systems are nonlinear in nature and wide applications are there for nonlinear system identification/modeling.The basic approach in analyzing the nonlinear systems is to build a model from known behavior manifest in the form of system output.The problem of modeling boils down to computing a suitably parameterized model,representing the process.The parameters of the model are adjusted to optimize a performanace function,based on error between the given process output and identified process/model output.While the linear system identification is well established with many classical approaches,most of those methods cannot be directly applied for nonlinear system identification.The problem becomes more complex if the system is completely unknown but only the output time series is available.Blind recognition problem is the direct consequence of such a situation.The thesis concentrates on such problems.Capability of Artificial Neural Networks to approximate many nonlinear input-output maps makes it predominantly suitable for building a function for the identification of nonlinear systems,where only the time series is available.The literature is rich with a variety of algorithms to train the Neural Network model.A comprehensive study of the computation of the model parameters,using the different algorithms and the comparison among them to choose the best technique is still a demanding requirement from practical system designers,which is not available in a concise form in the literature.The thesis is thus an attempt to develop and evaluate some of the well known algorithms and propose some new techniques,in the context of Blind recognition of nonlinear systems.It also attempts to establish the relative merits and demerits of the different approaches.comprehensiveness is achieved in utilizing the benefits of well known evaluation techniques from statistics. The study concludes by providing the results of implementation of the currently available and modified versions and newly introduced techniques for nonlinear blind system modeling followed by a comparison of their performance.It is expected that,such comprehensive study and the comparison process can be of great relevance in many fields including chemical,electrical,biological,financial and weather data analysis.Further the results reported would be of immense help for practical system designers and analysts in selecting the most appropriate method based on the goodness of the model for the particular context. |
| Description: | Division of Electronics Engineering, School of Engineering, Cochin University of Science & Technology |
| URI: | http://dyuthi.cusat.ac.in/purl/2943 |
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| Abstract: | Modeling of chaotic systems, based on the output time series, is quite promising since the output often represents the characteristic behaviour of the total system. It has been an interesting topic for researchers over the past few years. So far, some methods are developed for the identification of chaotic systems. Because of the intense complexity of chaotic systems, the performance of existing algorithms is not always satisfactory. Application of chaotic system theory to socially relevant problems like environmental studies is the need of the hour Neural networks have the required self-learning capability to tune the network parameters (i.e. weights) for identifying highly non-linear and chaotic systems. In the present work, effectiveness of modeling a chaotic system using dynamic neural networks has been demonstrated. From the rich literature available for non-linear modeling with neural networks, the Recurrent Neural Network (RNN) structure is selected. The Extended Kalman Filter (EKF) algorithm is used to train the RNN. Further, the Expectation Maximization algorithm is used to effectively arrive at the initial states and the state covariance. Particle filter algorithm with its two important variants namely Sampling Importance Resampling (SIR) and Rao Blackwellised algorithms are also used for training the given RNN. Four standard chaotic systems, Lorenz, Rossler, Chua and Chen, are modelled with the three algorithms. The best algorithm is found to be EKF-EM based on the least mean square error criterion. Validation of RNN model with EKFEM algorithm is done in time domain by Estimation of embedding dimension, Phase plots, Lyapunov Exponents, Kaplan -Yorke dimension and Bifurcation diagrams. Analysis of the chaotic systems is also performed in the transform domain using Fourier, Wavelet and Mapped Real Transforms. viii Natural chaotic systems are analyzed based on the selected model structure and training algorithm, taken for analysis. Sunspot, Venice Lagoon and North Atlantic oscillations are the three of the natural chaotic systems modelled with the selected RNN model structure and EKF-EM algorithm. |
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