Clustering event logs using iterative partitioning

Proceedings of the ACM SIGKDD International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 1255-1263

  Makanju, Adetokunbo ^a   Zincir Heywood, A Nur ^a   Milios, Evangelos E ^a  

^a DALHOUSIE UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Event log mining; Fault management; Telecommunications

Indexed keywords

APRIORI ALGORITHMS; AUTOMATIC ANALYSIS; CLUSTER DESCRIPTION; EVENT LOG MINING; F-MEASURE; FAULT MANAGEMENT; HIERARCHICAL PARTITIONING; LOG DATA; LOG FILE; LOG MINING; NOVEL ALGORITHM; OTHER ALGORITHMS;

FAILURE ANALYSIS; MINING;

ALGORITHMS;

EID: 70350639547     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1557019.1557154     Document Type: Conference Paper

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