Data mining Streams-A Review



The recent advances in hardware and software have enabled the capture of different measurements of data in a wide range of fields. These measurements are generated continuously and in a very high fluctuating data rates. Examples include sensor networks, web logs, and computer network traffic. The storage, querying and mining of such data sets are highly computationally challenging tasks. Mining data streams is concerned with extracting knowledge structures represented in models and patterns in non stopping streams of information. The research in data stream mining has gained a high attraction due to the importance of its applications and the increasing generation of streaming information. Applications of data stream analysis can vary from critical scientific and astronomical applications to important business and financial ones. Algorithms, systems and frameworks that address streaming challenges have been developed over the past three years. In this review paper, we present the stateof-the-art in this growing vital field.

The intelligent data analysis has passed through a number of stages. Each stage addresses novel research issues that have arisen. Statistical exploratory data analysis represents the first stage. The goal was to explore the available data in order to test a specific hypothesis. With the advances in computing power, machine learning field has arisen. The objective was to find computationally efficient solutions to data analysis problems. Along with the progress in machine learning research, new data analysis problems have been addressed. Due to the increase in database sizes, new algorithms have been proposed to deal with the scalability issue. Moreover machine learning and statistical analysis techniques have been adopted and modified in order to address the problem of very large databases. Data mining is that interdisciplinary field of study that can extract models and patterns from large amounts of information stored in data repositories

Advances in networking and parallel computation have lead to the introduction of distributed and parallel data mining. The goal was how to extract knowledge from different subsets of a dataset and integrate these generated knowledge structures in order to gain a global model of the whole dataset. Client/server, mobile agent based and hybrid models have been proposed to address the communication overhead issue. Different variations of algorithms have been developed in order to increase the accuracy of the generated global model. More details about distributed data mining could be found in . Recently, the data generation rates in some data sources become faster than ever before. This rapid generation of continuous streams of information has challenged our storage, computation and communication capabilities in computing systems. Systems, models and techniques have been proposed and developed over the past few years to address these challenges [5, 44]. In this paper, we review the theoretical foundations of data stream analysis. Mining data stream systems, techniques are critically reviewed. Finally, we outline and discuss research problems in streaming mining field of study. These research issues should be addressed in order to realize robust systems that are capable of fulfilling the needs of data stream mining applications.

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