From an ecological but also from an economical and in the meantime a technical view the fast ongoing increase of power consumption in today’s data centers is no longer feasible....
Over the last 2-3 years, the importance of data-intensive computing has increasingly been recognized, closely coupled with the emergence and popularity of map-reduce for developin...
Privacy concerns have become an important issue in data mining. A popular way to preserve privacy is to randomize the dataset to be mined in a systematic way and mine the randomiz...
In order for agents to act on behalf of users, they will have to retrieve and integrate vast amounts of textual data on the World Wide Web. However, much of the useful data on the...
The naive Bayesian classifier provides a simple and effective approach to classifier learning, but its attribute independence assumption is often violated in the real world. A numb...