Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to investigate different effects of three network externality factors, i.e. local network size, network strength, and total network size, ...
Chance discovery provides a way to find rare but very important events for future decision making. It can be applied to stock market prediction, earthquake alarm, intrusion detect...
—The management of patient referrals is an interesting issue when it comes to predicting future patient demand to increase hospital productivity. In general, a patient is referre...
Most people consider a database is merely a data repository that supports data storage and retrieval. Actually, a database contains rich, inter-related, multi-typed data and infor...
—Peer-to-peer (P2P) networks are vulnerable to peers who cheat, propagate malicious code, leech on the network, or simply do not cooperate. The traditional security techniques de...