Mass-based dissimilarity Files

This software implement a data dependent dissimilarity Measure, named mass-based 
dissimilarity. This implementation uses an axis-parallel iForest (Isolation Forest).  
For more details, please refer to the original paper:

Overcoming Key Weaknesses of Distance-based Neighbourhood Methods using a Data 
Dependent Dissimilarity Measure. KDD 2016, http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/2939672.2939779


KDD2016-Presentation slides.pdf is used for presentation in KDD 2016.

Mass-based dissimilarity Ver 1.0.zip is the source code for this software.

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Copyright (c) 2016, Ye Zhu, Monash University, August 2016, version 1.0
All rights reserved. This software is licensed under GPLv3.

Since this software is licensed under the Gnu General Public license GPLv3, any derivative work
must be licensed under the GPL as well. 

This software is free only for non-commercial use. For commercial projects, it is possible to 
obtain a commercial license through the Commercial Services of Federation University Australia. 
Please email the first author of the original paper kaiming.ting@federation.edu.au 
for any enquiries about this software. 

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