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In this thesis, we propose FeLOF, addressing this challenging setting of outlier detection in feature-evolving and high-dimensional data. Our algorithms extends the well-known Local Outlier Factor algorithm to the feature-evolving stream setting. We employ a variation of StreamHash random hashing projections to create a lower-dimensional feature space embedding, thereby mitigating the effects of the curse of dimensionality. To address non-stationary data distributions, we employ a sliding window approach. FeLOF utilizes efficient data structures to speed up search queries and data updates.

Extensive experiments show that our algorithm achieves state-of-the-art outlier detection performance in the static, row stream and feature-evolving stream settings on real-world benchmark data. Additionally, we provide an evaluation of our StreamHash adaptation, demonstrating its ability to cope with sparsely populated high-dimensional data.

In this thesis, we explore another approach for estimating the expected loss of an ML classifier. The aim is to enhance test data with additional expert knowledge. Inspired by recent feature attribution techniques, such as LIME or Saliency Maps, the idea is that experts annotate inputs not only with desired classes, but also with desired feature attributions. We then explore different methods to derive a large conventional test data set based on few such feature attribution annotations. We empirically evaluate the loss estimates of our approach against ground-truth estimates on large existing test data sets, with a focus on the tradeoff between the number of expert annotations and the achieved estimation accuracy.

Portfolio-basierte Methoden zum Lösen von SAT-Instanzen nutzen die komplementäre Stärke von einer Menge von verschiedenen SAT-Algorithmen aus. Hierbei wird aus einer gegebenen Menge von Algorithmen, dem sogenannten Portfolio, mittels eines Vorhersagemodells derjenige Algorithmus ausgewählt, der die bestmögliche Performance für die betrachtete SAT-Instanz verspricht.

In dieser Arbeit interessieren wir uns besonders für erklärbare Portfolios, sprich für Portfolios, für die man nachvollziehen kann, wie die Vorhersage zu ihrem Ergebnis kommt. Gute Erklärbarkeit resultiert einerseits aus einer geringen Größe des Portfolios, andererseits aus einer reduzierten Komplexität des Vorhersagemodells.

Im Vordergrund der Arbeit liegt das effiziente Finden von kleinen Portfolios aus einer größeren Menge von Algorithmen, sowie den Einfluss der Portfoliogröße auf die Performance des Portfolios.

In this thesis we present an evaluation framework for Automated Feature Generation methods, that is integrated into the scikit-learn framework for Python. We integrate nine Automated Feature Generation methods into this framework. We further evaluate the methods on 91 datasets for classification problems. The datasets in our evaluation have up to 58 features and 12,958 observations. As Machine Learning models we investigate five models including state of the art models like XGBoost.

In this thesis, we propose GAK-SVDD. We combine the well-known SVDD algorithm to detect outliers in an unsupervised fashion with Global Alignment Kernels (GAK), bypassing the feature-extraction step. We evaluate GAK-SVDD's performance on 28 standard benchmark data sets and show that it is on par with its closest competitors. Comparing GAK with a DTW-based kernel, GAK improves the median Balanced Accuracy by 4%. Additionally, we extend our method to the active learning setting and examine the combination of GAK and domain-independent attributes.

In this thesis, we provide a novel approach to enable verification of process models with data values, so-called data-value-aware process models. A distinctive of our approach is to support modification of data values while preserving the verification results. We show the functionality of our approach by conducting the verification of a real-world application: the German 4G spectrum auction model.