University of Houston
Department of Computer Science

In partial fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of
Master of Science

Tao Chen
will defend his thesis


Information Gain Computation on Parallel


Abstract

Information gain is a very important parameter in the process of decision tree construction, which is a classifier tool in Data mining.  With the explosive growth in data collection in business and scientific fields, the traditional data mining algorithms working on very large data sets take very long times on conventional computers to get result.  Although several parallel data mining algorithms have been introduced, no previous work focuses on how to compute gain information on parallel architectures.  In this thesis, we will focus on how to do this and what improvement we can get.



Date: Monday, November 29, 2004
Time: 3:00 PM
Place: 550-PGH

Faculty, students, and the general public are invited.
Thesis Advisor: Dr. Ricardo Vilalta