Real-life data mining applications are interesting because they often present a different set of problems for data miners. One such real-life application that we have done is on t...
A "chance" is an event or a situation significant for making a decision in a complex environment. Since we organized a session of Chance Discovery in KES 2000, the basic...
The kernel function plays a central role in kernel methods. In this paper, we consider the automated learning of the kernel matrix over a convex combination of pre-specified kerne...
Measuring similarity or distance between two entities is a key step for several data mining and knowledge discovery tasks. The notion of similarity for continuous data is relative...
Privacy is one of the most important properties of an information system must satisfy. In which systems the need to share information among different, not trusted entities, the pro...