Abstract. In order to escape from local optima, it is standard practice to periodically restart a genetic algorithm according to some restart criteria/policy. This paper addresses ...
Fingerprint matching is one of the most important modules in automatic fingerprint identification systems (AFIS). Traditional methods treat this problem as point pattern matching,...
Partial periodicity search, i.e., search for partial periodic patterns in time-series databases, is an interesting data mining problem. Previous studies on periodicity search main...
In this paper, a pattern-based stock data mining approach which transforms the numeric stock data to symbolic sequences, carries out sequential and non-sequential association analy...
Supermarkets lose millions of pounds every year through lost trading and stock wastage caused by the failure of refrigerated cabinets. Therefore, a huge commercial market exists fo...