Part of the process of data integration is determining which sets of identifiers refer to the same real-world entities. In integrating databases found on the Web or obtained by us...
We present a algorithm based on factor analysis for performing collaborative quality filtering (CQF). Unlike previous approaches to CQF, which estimate the consensus opinion of a...
Direct marketing is a process of identifying likely buyers of certain products and promoting the products accordingly. It is increasingly used by banks, insurance companies, and t...
Many classification algorithms are designed to work with datasets that contain only discrete attributes. Discretization is the process of converting the continuous attributes of ...
Affordable, fast computers with large memories have lessened the demand for program efficiency, but applications such as browsing and searching very large databases often have rat...