2014 ImprovingManagementofAquaticInv

• (Xu et al., 2014) ⇒ Jian Xu, Thanuka L. Wickramarathne, Nitesh V. Chawla, Erin K. Grey, Karsten Steinhaeuser, Reuben P. Keller, John M. Drake, and David M. Lodge. (2014). “Improving Management of Aquatic Invasions by Integrating Shipping Network, Ecological, and Environmental Data: Data Mining for Social Good.” In: Proceedings of the 20th ACM SIGKDD International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (KDD-2014) Journal. ISBN:978-1-4503-2956-9 doi:10.1145/2623330.2623364

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• Clustering; data mining; data mining; data mining for social good; invasive species; networks; risk assessment

Abstract

The unintentional transport of invasive species (i.e., non-native and harmful species that adversely affect habitats and native species) through the Global Shipping Network (GSN) causes substantial losses to social and economic welfare (e.g., annual losses due to ship-borne invasions in the Laurentian Great Lakes is estimated to be as high as USD 800 million). Despite the huge negative impacts, management of such invasions remains challenging because of the complex processes that lead to species transport and establishment. Numerous difficulties associated with quantitative risk assessments (e.g., inadequate characterizations of invasion processes, lack of crucial data, large uncertainties associated with available data, etc.) have hampered the usefulness of such estimates in the task of supporting the authorities who are battling to manage invasions with limited resources. We present here an approach for addressing the problem at hand via creative use of computational techniques and multiple data sources, thus illustrating how data mining can be used for solving crucial, yet very complex problems towards social good. By modeling implicit species exchanges as a network that we refer to as the Species Flow Network (SFN), large-scale species flow dynamics are studied via a graph clustering approach that decomposes the SFN into clusters of ports and inter-cluster connections. We then exploit this decomposition to discover crucial knowledge on how patterns in GSN affect aquatic invasions, and then illustrate how such knowledge can be used to devise effective and economical invasive species management strategies. By experimenting on actual GSN traffic data for years 1997-2006, we have discovered crucial knowledge that can significantly aid the management authorities.

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	Author	volume	Date Value	title	type	journal	titleUrl	doi	note	year
2014 ImprovingManagementofAquaticInv	Nitesh V. Chawla Karsten Steinhaeuser Jian Xu Thanuka L. Wickramarathne Erin K. Grey Reuben P. Keller John M. Drake David M. Lodge			Improving Management of Aquatic Invasions by Integrating Shipping Network, Ecological, and Environmental Data: Data Mining for Social Good				10.1145/2623330.2623364		2014