Anomaly detection is critical across domains, from cybersecurity to fraud prevention. Graphs, adept at modeling intricate relationships, offer a flexible framework for capturing complex data structures. This paper proposes a novel anomaly detection approach, combining Graph Convolutional Networks (GCNs) and Density-Based Spatial Clustering of Applications with Noise (DBSCAN). GCNs, a specialized deep learning model for graph data, extracts meaningful node and edge representations by incorporating graph topology and attribute information. This facilitates learning expressive node embeddings capturing local and global structural patterns. For anomaly detection, DBSCAN, a density-based clustering algorithm effective in identifying clusters of varying densities amidst noise, is employed. By defining a minimum distance threshold and a minimum number of points within that distance, DBSCAN proficiently distinguishes normal graph elements from anomalies. Our approach involves training a GCN model on a labeled graph dataset, generating appropriately labeled node embeddings. These embeddings serve as input to DBSCAN, identifying clusters and isolating anomalies as noise points. The evaluation on benchmark datasets highlights the superior performance of our approach in anomaly detection compared to traditional methods. The fusion of GCNs and DBSCAN demonstrates a significant potential for accurate and efficient anomaly detection in graphs. This research contributes to advancing graph-based anomaly detection, with promising applications in domains where safeguarding data integrity and security is paramount.

Academic researchers publish their work in various formats, such as papers, patents, and research reports, on different academic sites. When searching for a particular researcher’s work, it can be challenging to pinpoint the right individual, especially when there are multiple researchers with the same name. In order to handle this issue, we propose a name disambiguation scheme for researchers with the same name based on heterogeneous academic sites. The proposed scheme collects and integrates research results from these varied academic sites, focusing on attributes crucial for disambiguation. It then employs clustering techniques to identify individuals who share the same name. Additionally, we implement the proposed rule-based algorithm name disambiguation method and the existing deep learning-based identification method. This approach allows for the selection of the most accurate disambiguation scheme, taking into account the metadata available in the academic sites, using a multi-classifier approach. We consider various researchers’ achievements and metadata of articles registered in various academic search sites. The proposed scheme showed an exceptionally high F1-measure value of 0.99. In this paper, we propose a multi-classifier that executes the most appropriate disambiguation scheme depending on the inputted metadata. The proposed multi-classifier shows the high F1-measure value of 0.67.

Accurate detection and state analysis of traffic flows are essential for effectively reconstructing traffic flows and reducing the risk of severe injury and fatality. For this reason, several studies have proposed crowdsourcing to resolve traffic problems, in which drivers provide real-time traffic information using mobile devices to monitor traffic conditions. Using data collected via crowdsourcing for traffic event detection has advantages in terms of improved accuracy and reduced time and cost. In this paper, we propose a technique that employs crowdsourcing to collect traffic-related data for detecting events that influence traffic. The proposed technique uses various machine-learning methods to accurately identify events and location information. Therefore, it can resolve problems typically encountered with conventionally provided location information, such as broadly defined locations or inaccurate location information. The proposed technique has advantages in terms of reducing time and cost while increasing accuracy. Performance evaluations also demonstrated its validity and effectiveness.

In this study, we propose three k-nearest neighbor (k-NN) optimization techniques for a distributed, in-memory-based, high-dimensional indexing method to speed up content-based image retrieval. The proposed techniques perform distributed, in-memory, high-dimensional indexing-based k-NN query optimization: a density-based optimization technique that performs k-NN optimization using data distribution; a cost-based optimization technique using query processing cost statistics; and a learning-based optimization technique using a deep learning model, based on query logs. The proposed techniques were implemented on Spark, which supports a master/slave model for large-scale distributed processing. We showed the superiority and validity of the proposed techniques through various performance evaluations, based on high-dimensional data.

Accurate detection and state analysis of traffic flows are essential for effectively reconstructing traffic flows and reducing the risk of severe injury and fatality. For this reason, several studies on resolving traffic problems have proposed the use of crowdsourcing, in which drivers provide real-time traffic information using mobile devices, to monitor traffic conditions. Using data collected via crowdsourcing for traffic event detection has advantages in terms of improved accuracy and reduced time cost in collecting relevant data. In this paper, we propose a technique that employs crowdsourcing to collect traffic-related data and uses these data to detect events that influence traffic. The proposed technique uses various machine-learning methods to more accurately identify events and find accurate location information. Therefore, it is able to resolve problems typically encountered with conventionally provided location information, such as broadly defined locations or inaccurate location information. The proposed technique has advantages in terms of reducing time and cost while increasing accuracy. Its validity and effectiveness were also demonstrated through various performance evaluations.