Discussion and review on evolving data streams and concept drift adapting

Abstract

Recent advances in computational intelligent systems have focused on addressing complex problems related to the dynamicity of the environments. In increasing number of real world applications, data are presented as streams that may evolve over time and this is known by concept drift. Handling concept drift is becoming an attractive topic of research that concerns multidisciplinary domains such that machine learning, data mining, ubiquitous knowledge discovery, statistic decision theory, etc... Therefore, a rich body of the literature has been devoted to the study of methods and techniques for handling drifting data. However, this literature is fairly dispersed and it does not define guidelines for choosing an appropriate approach for a given application. Hence, the main objective of this survey is to present an ease understanding of the concept drift issues and related works, in order to help researchers from different disciplines to consider concept drift handling in their applications. This survey covers different facets of existing approaches, evokes discussion and helps readers to underline the sharp criteria that allow them to properly design their own approach. For this purpose, a new categorization of the existing state-of-the-art is presented with criticisms, future tendencies and not-yet-addressed challenges.