Skewed distributions appear very often in practice. Unfortunately, the traditional Zipf distribution often fails to model them well. In this paper, we propose a new probability di...
The rapid growth of blog (also known as “weblog”) data provides a rich resource for social community mining. In this paper, we put forward a novel research problem of mining t...
We describe techniques for combining two types of knowledge systems: expert and machine learning. Both the expert system and the learning system represent information by logical d...
Practical knowledge discovery is an iterative process. First, the experiences gained from one mining run are used to inform the parameter setting and the dataset and attribute sel...
Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) technology is fast becoming a prevalent tool in tracking commodities in supply chain management applications. The movement of commodities thr...