\contentsline {chapter}{\numberline {1}Introduction}{1}
\contentsline {section}{\numberline {1.1}Statement of Thesis}{1}
\contentsline {section}{\numberline {1.2}Contributions of this Thesis}{2}
\contentsline {section}{\numberline {1.3}Structure of this Thesis}{2}
\contentsline {chapter}{\numberline {2}Background and Related Work}{3}
\contentsline {section}{\numberline {2.1}Dimension Reduction}{3}
\contentsline {subsection}{\numberline {2.1.1}Principal Component Analysis}{3}
\contentsline {subsection}{\numberline {2.1.2}FastMap}{3}
\contentsline {section}{\numberline {2.2}Prototype Learning}{4}
\contentsline {subsection}{\numberline {2.2.1}Chang}{4}
\contentsline {subsection}{\numberline {2.2.2}Minimal Consistent Set}{4}
\contentsline {section}{\numberline {2.3}Glass Forensic Models}{4}
\contentsline {subsection}{\numberline {2.3.1}Seheult 1978}{6}
\contentsline {subsection}{\numberline {2.3.2}Grove 1980}{6}
\contentsline {subsection}{\numberline {2.3.3}Evett 1995}{6}
\contentsline {subsection}{\numberline {2.3.4}Walsh 1996}{7}
\contentsline {section}{\numberline {2.4}Visualization of Brittleness in Models}{8}
\contentsline {chapter}{\numberline {3}CLIFF}{9}
\contentsline {section}{\numberline {3.1}Introduction}{9}
\contentsline {section}{\numberline {3.2}Dimensionality Reduction}{9}
\contentsline {section}{\numberline {3.3}Clustering}{9}
\contentsline {section}{\numberline {3.4}Classification with KNN}{9}
\contentsline {section}{\numberline {3.5}The Brittleness Measure}{10}
\contentsline {section}{\numberline {3.6}The CLIFF Selector}{10}
\contentsline {chapter}{\numberline {4}CLIFF Assessment}{13}
\contentsline {section}{\numberline {4.1}Data Set and Experimental Method}{13}
\contentsline {section}{\numberline {4.2}Experiment 1: KNN as a forensic model?}{13}
\contentsline {subsection}{\numberline {4.2.1}Results from Experiment 1}{13}
\contentsline {section}{\numberline {4.3}Experiment 2: Can brittleness be reduced?}{13}
\contentsline {subsection}{\numberline {4.3.1}Results from Experiment 2}{13}
\contentsline {chapter}{\numberline {5}Conclusion}{15}