1. (a) Explain metadata and Data Marting concepts briefly with reference to data warehousing.

(b) Draw the three tire decision support information diagram depicting the summary and detailed information. [8+8] 2. (a) Discuss data transformation and load (b) Explain Query Generation. 3. Describe the operational design issues involved in the data warehouse system. Explain with the help of an example situation. 4. (a) What is a Decision Tree? What are the advantages and disadvantages of DECISION TREE classifications? [3+5] (b) What is partitioning data? Discuss with an example of a partitioned retail sales fact table 5. (a) What are the different types of web mining? How is web usage mining different from web structure mining and web content mining? [3+5] (b) What is concept hierarchy? How is it related to web mining? [3+5] 6. (a) What is Constrained Sequence Mining Problem? In which situation we will use constrained sequence mining. [8] (b) Discuss about SPIRIT algorithm. In what way it is different from WUM. [5+3] 7. (a) Discuss the principles underlying text clustering. (b) Discuss about [8+8] i. Transverse & Intrinsic Links, ii. Reference Nods & Index nodes. 8. (a) What is time series analysis? What is n-series? Write in detail about similarity function. [3+2+3] (b) What is spatial mining? Explain about the spatial mining tasks? [3+5]