The increasingly larger scale of available data and the more restrictive concerns on their privacy are some of the challenging aspects of data mining today. In this paper, Entropy-based Consensus on Cluster Centers (EC3) is introduced for clustering in distributed systems with a consideration for confidentiality of data; i.e. it is the negotiations among local cluster centers that are used in t...

Abstract We study a novel multi-terminal source coding setup motivated by the biclustering problem. Two separate encoders observe two i.i.d. sequences $X^n$ and $Y^n$, respectively. The goal is to find rate-limited encodings $f(x^n)$ $g(z^n)$ that maximize mutual information $\textrm{I}(\,{f(X^n)};{g(Y^n)})/n$. discuss connections of this problem with hypothesis testing against independence, pa...

in this study, we introduce and study a concept of distributed fuzzymodeling. fuzzy modeling encountered so far is predominantly of a centralizednature by being focused on the use of a single data set. in contrast to this style ofmodeling, the proposed paradigm of distributed and collaborative modeling isconcerned with distributed models which are constructed in a highly collaborativefashion. i...