George Mason University
AES/CCS/SCS/Statistics Colloquium Series
Seminar Announcement


Density Estimation from Streaming Data Using Wavelets

Kyle Caudle

Department of Mathematics
United States Naval Academy


Innovation Hall, Room 136, Fairfax Campus
George Mason University, 4400 University Drive, Fairfax, VA 22030

Time: 10:30 a.m. Refreshments, 10:45 a.m. Colloquium Talk
Date: March 24, 2006



ABSTRACT

Computer technology in the 21st century has allowed us to gather and collect data at rates that would have seemed impossible less than a decade ago. As such, typical data base management systems (DBMS) are having great difficulty storing and analyzing data in the traditional way. Systems that receive large amounts of data in transient data streams generally need to analyze the data immediately without storing it on a disk. These systems, referred to as data stream management systems (DSMS), have been pushed to the forefront by technology that demands analysis of data in real time. Density estimation is an essential tool used to make sense of data collected by large scale systems. This talk will focus on an iterative method for constructing and continually updating a probability density function. The approach is shown to work well with simulated data as well as real data collected from URL Internet headers here at George Mason University.