WPI Worcester Polytechnic Institute

Computer Science Department
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CS 4445 Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery in Databases - B Term 2012 
Homework and Project 5: Clustering and Anomaly Detection

Prof. Carolina Ruiz and Ken Loomis.

DUE DATES: Friday, Dec. 7, 11:00 am (electronic submission) and 1:00 pm (hardcopy submission) 
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HOMEWORK AND PROJECT OBJECTIVES

The purpose of this project is multi-fold:

HOMEWORK AND PROJECT ASSIGNMENTS

Readings: Read Chapter 8 and Chapter 10 of your textbook in great detail.

This project consists of two parts:

  • Part I. INDIVIDUAL HOMEWORK ASSIGNMENT

    See solutions by Ken Loomis. (Access restricted to the WPI domain.)

    1. [20 points] Exercise 16, p. 563 of the textbook. Show your work. Provided an updated similarity matrix at each step.

    2. [10 points] Exercise 32, p. 567 of the textbook. Explain your answer in detail.

    3. [10 points] Exercise 10, p. 682 of the textbook. Explain your answer in detail.

  • Part II. GROUP PROJECT ASSIGNMENT