Carnegie Mellon University
15-826 Multimedia Databases and Data Mining
Spring 2009 - C. Faloutsos

Final exam study guide

Preliminaries:

• All aids allowed, except laptops, cell-phones and any device with connection capabilities
• Duration: 3 hours
• The exam will be comprehensive, with more emphasis on the material after the midterm

Reminders:

• Time and place: as announced at the 'hub': http://www.cmu.edu/hub/current-finals.pdf
• Extra office hours by instructor: Tu 5/5, 3-4:30
• Several of the links are internal to CMU.

Material to be examined

Foils:

Everything we covered in the foils (see their pdf, from the course schedule page)

A. Multimedia Indexing

• Primary key access methods
  • Litwin, W., (1980), Linear Hashing: A New Tool for File and Table Addressing, VLDB, Montreal, Canada, 1980.
  • Textbook, chapters 2-3
• Secondary key and spatial access methods
  • (NEW: 1/12/2009) Jon Louis Bentley, Multidimensional binary search trees used for associative searching, Comm. of the ACM  (CACM), Volume 18 ,  Issue 9, pp. 509-517,  (September 1975)
  • A. Guttman R-Trees: a Dynamic Index Structure for Spatial Searching, Proc. ACM SIGMOD, June 1984, pp. 47-57, Boston, Mass.
  • J. Orenstein, Spatial Query Processing in an Object-Oriented Database System, Proc. ACM SIGMOD, May, 1986, pp. 326-336, Washington D.C.
  • Ibrahim Kamel and Christos Faloutsos, Hilbert R-tree: An improved R-tree using fractals Proc. of VLDB Conference, Santiago, Chile, Sept. 12-15, 1994, pp. 500-509.
  • Roberto F. Santos Filho, Agma Traina, Caetano Traina Jr., and Christos Faloutsos: Similarity search without tears: the OMNI family of all-purpose access methods ICDE, Heidelberg, Germany, April 2-6 2001.
  • Textbook, chapters 4 and 5.
• Fractals
  
  • Christos Faloutsos and Ibrahim Kamel, Beyond Uniformity and Independence: Analysis of R-trees Using the Concept of Fractal Dimension, Proc. ACM SIGACT-SIGMOD-SIGART PODS, May 1994, pp. 4-13, Minneapolis, MN.
  •  Alberto Belussi and Christos Faloutsos, Estimating the Selectivity of Spatial Queries Using the `Correlation' Fractal Dimension Proc. of VLDB, p. 299-310, 1995 (and gzipped postscript )
  • Power laws, lognormals etc: M. E. J. Newman, Power laws, Pareto distributions and Zipf's law Contemporary Physics 46, 323-351 (2005) (local pdf copy)
• Text and LSI
  • Textbook, chapter 6
  • Peter W. Foltz and Susan T. Dumais, Personalized Information Delivery: an Analysis of Information Filtering Methods, Comm. of ACM (CACM), 35, 12, Dec. 1992, pp. 51-60.
  • SVD: In PTVF ch. 2.6; Textbook Appendix D
  • PageRank: Sergey Brin, Lawrence Page The Anatomy of a Large-Scale Hypertextual Web Search Engine (1998) (local pdf)
  • HITS: Jon M. Kleinberg Authoritative Sources in a Hyperlinked Environment JACM, 46,5 (1999) (local pdf)
  • Tensors: Tamara G. Kolda and Brett W. Bader. Tensor decompositions and applications. Technical Report SAND2007-6702, Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque, NM and Livermore, CA, November 2007 (local pdf copy )
• Time sequences
  • Textbook, chapters 7, 8 and 10.
• DSP and image databases
  • Myron Flickner, Harpreet Sawhney, Wayne Niblack, Jon Ashley, Qian Huang, Byron Dom, Monika Gorkani, Jim Hafner, Denis Lee, Dragutin Petkovic, David Steele and Peter Yanker Query by Image and Video Content: the QBIC System IEEE Computer 28, 9, Sep. 1995, pp. 23-32.
  • Journal of Intelligent Inf. Systems, 3, 3/4, pp. 231-262, 1994 An earlier, more technical version of the IEEE Computer '95 paper.
  • FastMap: Textbook chapter 11; Also in: C. Faloutsos and K.I. Lin FastMap: A Fast Algorithm for Indexing, Data-Mining and Visualization of Traditional and Multimedia Datasets ACM SIGMOD 95, pp. 163-174 .
  • DFT/DCT: In PTVF ch. 12.1, 12.3, 12.4; in Textbook Appendix B.
  • Wavelets: In PTVF ch. 13.10; in Textbook Appendix C
  • Karhunen-Loeve: in Textbook Appendix D.
  • JPEG: Gregory K. Wallace, The JPEG Still Picture Compression Standard, CACM, 34, 4, April 1991, pp. 31-44
  • MPEG: D. Le Gall, MPEG: a Video Compression Standard for Multimedia Applications CACM, 34, 4, April 1991, pp. 46-58
  • Fractal compression: M.F. Barnsley and A.D. Sloan, A Better Way to Compress Images, BYTE, Jan. 1988, pp. 215-223.
  • Textbook, chapter 9

B. Data mining

• Graph mining and social networks:
  • Michalis Faloutsos, Petros Faloutsos and Christos Faloutsos, On Power-Law Relationships of the Internet Topology, SIGCOMM 1999.
  • R. Albert, H. Jeong, and A.-L. Barabási, Diameter of the World Wide Web Nature, 401, 130-131 (1999).
  • Réka Albert and Albert-László Barabási Statistical mechanics of complex networks, Reviews of Modern Physics, 74, 47 (2002). 
  • Jure Leskovec, Jon Kleinberg, Christos Faloutsos Graphs over Time: Densification Laws, Shrinking Diameters and Possible Explanations, KDD 2005, Chicago, IL, USA, 2005.
  • D. Chakrabarti and C. Faloutsos, Graph Mining: Laws, Generators and Algorithms, in ACM Computing Surveys, 38(1), 2006 ( pdf draft, internal to CMU)
  • J. Leskovec, D. Chakrabarti, J. Kleinberg, and C. Faloutsos, Realistic, Mathematically Tractable Graph Generation and Evolution, Using Kronecker Multiplication, in PKDD 2005, Porto, Portugal
• Classification
  
  • Rakesh Agrawal, Sakti Ghosh, Tomasz Imielinski, Bala Iyer and Arun Swami An Interval Classifier for Database Mining Applications VLDB Conf. Proc. Vancouver, BC, Canada, Aug. 1992, pp. 560-573.
  • M. Mehta, R. Agrawal and J. Rissanen, ` SLIQ: A Fast Scalable Classifier for Data Mining', Proc. of the Fifth Int'l Conference on Extending Database Technology, Avignon, France, March 1996.
• Data Mining in Databases:
  • Data warehouses, OLAP and DataCubes: [HK], ch. 2.1-4 (1st ed), or 3.1-4 (2nd ed)
  • Association Rules:
    • [HK] chapter 6.1-2 (1st ed) or chapter 5.1-2 (2nd edition)
    • Rakesh Agrawal, Tomasz Imielinski and Arun Swami Mining Association Rules Between Sets of Items in Large Databases Proc. ACM SIGMOD, Washington, DC, May 1993, pp. 207-216

Reminders: Required text

• [Textbook] C. Faloutsos Searching Multimedia Databases by Content, Kluwer Academic Press, 1996. Evaluation draft (internal to CMU - pdf)

Recommended text

• [HK] Jiawei Han and Micheline Kamber, Data Mining: Concepts and Techniques, Morgan Kaufmann, 2000 (1st edition); 2006 (2nd edition).
• [PTVF] William H. Press Saul A. Teukolsky William T. Vetterling Brian P. Flannery Numerical Recipes in C Cambridge University Press, 1992, 2nd Edition. On-line evaluation copy
• Undergraduate DB textbook, for those who took a db class too long ago:
  • Raghu Ramakrishnan, Johannes Gehrke, "Database Management Systems," McGraw-Hill 2002 (3rd ed).

Last modified: April 26, 2009, by Christos Faloutsos