Rule bases are increasingly being used as repositories of knowledge content on the Semantic Web. As the size and complexity of these rule bases s, developers and end users need met...
The usual data mining setting uses the full amount of data to derive patterns for different purposes. Taking cues from machine learning techniques, we explore ways to divide the d...
Mining user profiles is a crucial task for Web usage mining, and can be accomplished by mining frequent patterns. However, in the Web usage domain, sessions tend to be very sparse,...
Multiple-instance learning (MIL) is a popular concept among the AI community to support supervised learning applications in situations where only incomplete knowledge is available....
Pattern matching makes ML programs more concise and readable, and these qualities are also sought in object-oriented settings. However, objects and classes come with open erarchie...