Empirical Support for Concept Drifting Approaches: Results Based on New Performance Metrics

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Parneeta Sidhu 1,* M.P.S. Bhatia 1

1. Division of COE, NSIT, Dwarka, New Delhi, 110078, India

* Corresponding author.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.5815/ijisa.2015.06.01

Received: 11 Jul. 2014 / Revised: 20 Dec. 2014 / Accepted: 11 Feb. 2015 / Published: 8 May 2015

Index Terms

Concept Drift, Ensemble, Homogeneity, Data Streams, Online Approaches

Abstract

Various types of online learning algorithms have been developed so far to handle concept drift in data streams. We perform more detailed evaluation of these algorithms through new performance metrics - prequential accuracy, kappa statistic, CPU evaluation time, model cost, and memory usage. Experimental evaluation using various artificial and real-world datasets prove that the various concept drifting algorithms provide highly accurate results in classifying new data instances even in a resource constrained environment, irrespective of size of dataset, type of drift or presence of noise in the dataset. We also present empirically the impact of various features- size of ensemble, period value, threshold value, multiplicative factor and the presence of noise on all the key performance metrics.

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Parneeta Sidhu, M.P.S. Bhatia, "Empirical Support for Concept Drifting Approaches: Results Based on New Performance Metrics", International Journal of Intelligent Systems and Applications(IJISA), vol.7, no.6, pp.1-20, 2015. DOI:10.5815/ijisa.2015.06.01

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