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University College of Engineering (Autonomous), Kakinada
Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University Kakinada
M. Tech I Semester [DT] Regular (R16) End Examinations, JAN-2017
DATA MINING AND KNOWLEDGE DISCOVERY
(CSE- Information Technology)
Time: 3 hrs. Max Marks: 60

Answer any FIVE questions

All questions carry equal marks
Note: All parts of the question must be answered at one place.
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1 a) Define Data Mining? Explain in brief about the Data Preprocessing? (6M)
b) Explain in brief about the Issues in Proximity Calculation? (6M)

2 a) Explain in brief about the General Approach for Solving a Classification Problem?(7M)
b) Differentiate between Nonlinear SVM and Linear SVM? (4M)

3 a) How a Rule-Based Classifier Works? Explain in brief about How to Build a Rule-Based
Classifier? (7M)
b) Explain in brief about Multilayer Artificial Neural Network? (5M)

4 Explain in brief about FP-Growth Algorithm? (12M)

5 a) Explain in brief about Discretisation and Non Discretization based methods? (7M)
b) Explain in brief about the steps involved Handling Categorical Attributes? (5M)

6 a) Explain in brief about Basic Agglomerative Hierarchical Clustering Algorithm? (6M)

b) Explain in brief about The DBSCAN Algorithm? List out its Strengths and
Weaknesses? (6M)

7 a) Explain in brief about the Unsupervised Cluster Evaluation Using the Proximity
Matrix? (7M)
b) Explain in brief about CURE Clustering Algorithm? (5M)

8 Explain in brief about web content and web usage mining? (12M)
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