Recently databases are increasing continuously without bound, due to new data acquisition technologies. One challenge is how to gain knowledge from these large data sets. In this thesis, we analyze and improve the algorithmic ...

Knowledge Discovery in Databases (KDD) is the nontrivial extraction of implicit, previously unknown and potentially useful information from data. Data preprocessing is a step of the KDD process that reduces the complexity ...

The development of technologies such as microarrays has generated a large amount of data. The main characteristic of this kind of data it is the large number of predictors (genes) and few observations (experiments). Thus, ...

Today, data generation is growing exponentially in both directions; instances (rows) and features (columns). This causes that many datasets can not be analyzed without preprocessing. The large size of the dataset to be ...