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White Papers
Text Analysis: The Next Step in Search
Jun 2009
In general, text analysis refers to the process of extracting interesting and non-trivial information and knowledge from unstructured text. Text analysis differs from traditional search in that,...
Provided by ZyLAB
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Case Studies
Shenzhen Municipal Bureau of Human Resources and Social Security Speeds Reporting Time
Apr 2010
Shenzhen Municipal Bureau of Human Resources and Social Security wanted to integrate and organize a large volume of social insurance data accumulated over the past 10 years and replace legacy...
Provided by Oracle
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Case Studies
Ferrovie dello Stato Improves Customers' Online Ticketing Experiences by Analyzing User-Behavior
Apr 2010
Ferrovie dello Stato wanted to get prompt, precise insight into bottlenecks and usability problems in the Web site's rail ticket order process and establish a single source of truth for business...
Provided by Oracle
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Case Studies
Vodafone Czech Republic a.s. Improves Revenue Assurance Processes and Prevents Revenue Loss
Apr 2010
Vodafone Czech Republic wanted to make the mobile provider's Revenue Assurance (RA) controls more precise to avoid even minor revenue loss and automate RA controls to reduce processing time and...
Provided by Oracle
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Case Studies
Liquidnet Increases Business Agility With Streamlined IBM Cognos Reporting and Dashboarding Solution
Apr 2010
Liquidnet needed to replace manual reporting process with scalable, robust reporting and dashboarding solution. The IBM Cognos 8 BI solution had the flexibility to handle Liquidnet's ad-hoc...
Provided by IBM
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Case Studies
IBM Case Study: AirPlus Air Travel Card Vertriebsgesellschaft MbH
Oct 2009
AirPlus of Austria wanted to have growing volumes of data and a wider range of reporting requirements resulting from the company's success. An IBM Cognos 8 BI system that generates timely and...
Provided by IBM
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Case Studies
CNI Increases Competitive Advantage With Enhanced Data Access and Business Intelligence
Sep 2009
With data residing across multiple and disparate data sources, it was difficult to access or leverage critical information in a reasonable time period. IBM Business Partner mLogica helped CNI...
Provided by IBM
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Case Studies
IBM Case Study: FIDUCIA IT AG
Sep 2009
To meet the evolving needs of German banks, FIDUCIA has to offer value-added applications and services that help them stay competitive and attract new customers. It also has to minimize IT costs...
Provided by IBM
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Case Studies
Fiserv's CheckFree Leverages Its Data Warehouse to Innovate in Financial Services
Nov 2008
CheckFree, now part of Fiserv Inc. wanted to leverage data and resources in new ways to foster business growth, maintain high service quality and keep operational costs down. As a solution they...
Provided by IBM
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Case Studies
Trucking Company Rolls Out Integrated Business Intelligence Solution to Drive Profits
May 2010
Mesilla Valley Transportation (MVT) is one of the largest transportation providers in Western Texas and Southern New Mexico, with a fleet of 800 trucks and 3,500 trailers that haul goods across...
Provided by Microsoft
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Case Studies
TransUnion Uses IBM Data Warehouse to Help Improve Efficiency and Business Expansion
Mar 2010
After building a solid foundation using the Informix database, TransUnion sought to hone its competitive edge by improving and expanding its credit scoring services for Hong Kong and, later, for...
Provided by IBM
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Case Studies
Cellular South Gets a Budgeting, Planning and Reporting Makeover With IBM Cognos TM1 and Revelwood
Feb 2010
The company was using Excel spreadsheets and an old general ledger system that flowed into its financial reporting tool and had no functionality to create a comprehensive budget. The use of...
Provided by IBM
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Case Studies
Cyprus Telecommunications to Support a 100 Percent Increase in Data Volume Without Increasing Database Costs Using IBM DB2 9
Aug 2008
Cyprus Telecommunications Authority (CYTA), a leading telecommunications provider in Cyprus, offers a full range of services including fixed and mobile telephony, ISDN, high-speed networks and...
Provided by IBM
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White Papers
Data Handling in the SAP NetWeaver System Landscape Directory - Step by Step
Feb 2009
The System Landscape Directory (SLD) of SAP NetWeaver is a central provider of information on software and systems. It is used by many client applications, such as SAP NetWeaver Process...
Provided by SAP
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White Papers
Visualization and Analysis of Large Data Collections: A Case Study Applied to Confocal Microscopy Data
Jan 2010
This paper proposes an approach in which interactive visualization and analysis are combined with batch tools for the processing of large data collections. Large and heterogeneous data collections...
Provided by Centrum voor Wiskunde en Informatica
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White Papers
MobiVis: A Visualization System for Exploring Mobile Data
Dec 2007
The widespread use of mobile devices brings opportunities to capture large-scale, continuous information about human behavior. Mobile data has tremendous value, leading to business opportunities,...
Provided by University of California
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White Papers
From Web Data to Visualization Via Ontology Mapping
Apr 2008
This paper proposes a novel approach for automatic generation of visualizations from domain-specific data available on the web. The paper describes a general system pipeline that combines ontology...
Provided by EUROGRAPHICS Association
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White Papers
Visualization and Data Mining in an 3D Immersive Environment: Summer Project 2003
Jan 2010
This paper describes the application of some simple data-mining tools and visualization of the results in the NIST RAVE, an immersive 3D environment. The project builds upon several previous...
Provided by NIST
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White Papers
Information Visualization: Challenge for the Humanities
Apr 2009
Digital archiving creates a vast store of knowledge that can be accessed only through digital tools. Users of this information will need fluency in the tools of digital access, exploration,...
Provided by Council on Library and Information Resources
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White Papers
Improving Attack Graph Visualization Through Data Reduction and Attack Grouping
Jun 2008
Various tools exist to analyze enterprise network systems and to produce attack graphs detailing how attackers might penetrate into the system. These attack graphs, however, are often complex and...
Provided by Kansas State University
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White Papers
A Grad Student 'How-To' Paper on Grant Prep: Preliminary Data, Power Analysis, and Presentation
Mar 2010
Grant preparation is often challenging due to short timelines, changing study designs, and sample sizes limited by logistics and/or budget constraints. The author recently submitted a U-19 grant...
Provided by University of North Texas Health Science Center at Fort Worth
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White Papers
SAS Web Report Studio
Mar 2010
For many users, the most common Web content will consist of SAS reports. These are dynamic views of a SAS information map. Once an information map has been constructed, it can be displayed as a...
Provided by Eastern Oregon University
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White Papers
SAS Maps as Tools to Display and Clarify Healthcare Outcomes
Mar 2010
Changes in healthcare and other industries often have a spatial component. Maps can be used to convey this type of information to the user more quickly than tabular reports and other non-graphical...
Provided by SAS Institute
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White Papers
A SAS Business Intelligence - A Technology for Register-Based Censuses
Mar 2010
Any member of the United Nations has to carry out an entire national census between the years 2005 and 2014. While the demographic characteristics of the population in the still very widespread...
Provided by SAS Institute
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White Papers
The MEANS/SUMMARY Procedure: Doing More
Mar 2010
The MEANS/SUMMARY procedure is a workhorse for most data analysts. It is used to create tables of summary statistics as well as complex summary data sets. The user has a great many options which...
Provided by SAS Institute
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White Papers
Rediscovering SAS/IML Software: Modern Data Analysis for the Practicing Statistician
Mar 2010
For over 25 years, the SAS/IML programming language has been used by researchers and SAS programmers who write custom algorithms and analyses. Recently, SAS/IML Studio arrived with flashy...
Provided by SAS Institute
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White Papers
Data Extraction From ONCORE Using SAS
Mar 2010
This paper will present a method to extract data from the Oracle based ONCORE database system using SAS. The paper will examine in detail the necessary SAS code to execute such a procedure. Pros...
Provided by SAS Institute
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White Papers
Integrating Tables and Graphs With ODS LAYOUT
Mar 2010
ODS layout of PDF output can arrange multiple tables and graphs on the same page, and even overlay tables onto graphs and vice versa. This can replace GREPLAY coding of multiple graphs with...
Provided by Federal Reserve Board
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White Papers
Using SAS BI to Deliver Ongoing Professional Practice Evaluation (OPPE) at Maine Medical Center
Mar 2010
Maine Medical Center (MMC) is leveraging the power of the SAS Business Intelligence (BI) platform in delivering customized physician evaluation reports 24/7 via MMC's intranet and the internet....
Provided by SAS Institute
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White Papers
Creating Forest Plots From Pre-Computed Data Using PROC SGPLOT and Graph Template Language
Apr 2010
Historically, forest plots graphically display the information from the individual studies that went into the meta-analysis, and more recently the results of observational studies (e.g....
Provided by University of Arkansas
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White Papers
BMI Made Simple - What Is Your "Maximum Weight Limit ?
Mar 2010
BMI is a simple index of weight-for-height that is commonly used in screening overweight and obesity in adult populations. It is defined as the weight in kilograms divided by the square of the...
Provided by University of Nevada
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White Papers
Improving Your Statistical Consulting Prowess by Adding R to Your SAS Repertoire
Mar 2010
SAS is a powerful package with tremendous capabilities. However, no package contains every model, calculation, or graphics option. With SAS 9.2, it is easier to tap into the R programming...
Provided by University of Arkansas
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White Papers
Systems Management of the SAS 9.2 Enterprise Business Intelligence Environment
Mar 2010
The evolution of the SAS 9.2 architecture provides a powerful, distributed, and flexible environment for real-time, responsive analytic and reporting capabilities. This paper describes how...
Provided by SAS Institute
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White Papers
Improving Credit Risk Scorecards With Memory-Based Reasoning to Reject Inference With SAS Enterprise Miner
Apr 2010
Many business elements are used to develop credit scorecards. Reject inference, related to the issue of sample bias, is one of the key processes required to build relevant application scorecards...
Provided by SAS Institute
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White Papers
Using "Recycled Predictions" for Computing Marginal Effects
Apr 2010
A conventional way to estimate the marginal effect of a risk factor is to omit the risk factor (e.g., gender, treatment) from the multivariate model and then use the omitted risk factor as...
Provided by University of California
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White Papers
Understanding SAS/ACCESS Software's Role With Querying and Reporting in a Business Intelligence Environment
Mar 2010
Sometimes, SAS software users encounter errors when they use Business Intelligence (BI) clients to query database tables. For example, a user who queries an Oracle table using SAS Enterprise Guide...
Provided by SAS Institute
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White Papers
Fitting Linear and Nonlinear Growth Curve Models Using PROC NLMIXED
Jan 2010
Longitudinal data, or data that are repeated measurements on various subjects across time, are commonplace in everyday life. Multi-level mixed models are often used for analyzing longitudinal data...
Provided by University of Southern California (Marshall)
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White Papers
SAS System Viewer Is Replaced by the SAS Universal Viewer
Mar 2010
The SAS Viewer has been a useful, free, but increasingly limited tool. It is free. It has bugs and limitations. Starting with SAS9, this tool often will be unable to access the default data...
Provided by SAS Institute
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White Papers
Smart and Synchronized: Analytic-Driven Web Personalization Using SAS Customer Intelligence Solutions
Mar 2010
For most businesses, the Web has become an important channel for managing relationships with customers since it has become the preferred, and in some cases, the sole method by which many customers...
Provided by SAS Institute
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Zen and the Art of Enterprise SAS BI Server Deployment
Mar 2010
Sales presentations invariably demonstrate vendor CRM software products effortlessly solving all problems with a simple click of the mouse. So why does it always seem to be a nightmare of delays...
Provided by SAS Institute
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Whitepapers
Novel Web Usage Mining for Web Mining Techniques
Jan 2012
Web usage mining is a type of web mining, which exploits data mining techniques to discover valuable information from navigations of Web users. As in classical data mining, data processing and...
Provided by International Journal of Emerging Technology and Advanced Engineering (IJETAE)
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Whitepapers
The Succession of Data Warehouse Using Object Oriented Approach
Feb 2011
This paper describes techniques for designing both front & back end of a data warehouse in such a way that companies can continue to progress their warehouse and query tools as their business...
Provided by International Journal of Engineering Science and Technology (IJEST)
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Whitepapers
Transistor Implementation of Reversible PRT Gates
Mar 2011
Reversible logic has emerged as one of the most important approaches for power optimization with its application in low power VLSI design. Reversible or information lossless circuits have...
Provided by International Journal of Engineering Science and Technology (IJEST)
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Whitepapers
Optimized Approach of Analysing the Data Loads Through Process Chains in SAP Business Ware House
Feb 2012
This paper describes a unique technique to display the data loading status of all the process chains occurring in the system. The objective is to increase the speed on correcting the data load...
Provided by Universal Journal of Applied computer Science and Technology
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Whitepapers
Myriad - Parallel Data Generation on Shared-Nothing Architectures
Sep 2011
The need for efficient data generation for the purposes of testing and benchmarking newly developed massively-parallel data processing systems has increased with the emergence of BigData problems....
Provided by Technische Universität Berlin
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Whitepapers
Survey of Web Usage Mining
Sep 2011
Web mining, i.e., the application of data mining techniques to extract knowledge from Web content, structure, and usage, is the collection of technologies to fulfill the potential of extracting...
Provided by International Journal on Computer Science and Technology (IJCST)
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Whitepapers
Data Warehousing-A Case-Based Courseware
Sep 2011
Data warehousing is one of the important approaches for data integration and data preprocessing. This paper is to develop a web-based interactive courseware to help beginner data warehouse...
Provided by International Journal on Computer Science and Technology (IJCST)
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Whitepapers
ANN Model for Estimation of Capacitance Requirements to Maintain Constant Air-Gap Voltage of Self-Excited Induction Generator With Variable Load
Dec 2011
It is essential to supply electric power at rated voltage and frequency to the consumers for efficient and safe operation of electric equipment or other appliances under varying conditions of load...
Provided by International Journal on Computer Science and Technology (IJCST)
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Whitepapers
General-Purpose FPGA Platform for Efficient Encryption and Hashing
Jul 2010
Many applications require protection of secret or sensitive information, from sensor nodes and embedded applications to large distributed systems. The confidentiality of data can be protected by...
Provided by Institute of Electrical & Electronic Engineers
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Whitepapers
Integrating Hadoop and Parallel DBMS
Jun 2010
Teradata's parallel DBMS has been successfully deployed in large data warehouses over the last two decades for large scale business analysis in various industries over data sets ranging from a few...
Provided by Association for Computing Machinery
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Whitepapers
Distributed Knowledge Discovery With Non Linear Dimensionality Reduction
Feb 2011
Data mining tasks results are usually improved by reducing the dimensionality of data. This improvement however is achieved harder in the case that data lay on a non linear manifold and are...
Provided by Athens University of Economics and Business
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Whitepapers
Calculation of Weight Vectors for Wideband Beamforming Using Graphics Processing Units
Feb 2011
In order to be viable for use in communication and radar systems, wideband beamforming requires the calculation of filter coefficients to be performed quickly so as to avoid undesirable latency in...
Provided by Tennessee Technological University
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White Papers
Feature Weighting of Support Vector Machines Based on Derivative Saliency Analysis and Its Application to Financial Data Mining
Jan 2012
This paper proposes a novel feature weighting approach based on derivative saliency analysis, which can specifically display to what extent the output of support vector regression machines varies...
Provided by AICIT
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White Papers
The Association Rule Theory and Its Application on the Complete Lattice
May 2012
In recent years, with the rapid development of information science and technology, people accumulate more and more data, but often fall into the situation of "Wealth of data and poor in...
Provided by AICIT
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White Papers
Outlier Detection From ETL Execution Trace
Jan 2012
Extract, Transform, Load (ETL) is an integral part of Data Warehousing (DW) implementation. The commercial tools that are used for this purpose captures lot of execution trace in form of various...
Provided by Institute of Electrical & Electronic Engineers
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White Papers
A New Hybrid Approach for Data Clustering Using Firefly Algorithm and K-Means
Apr 2012
Data clustering is a common technique for data analysis and is used in many fields, including data mining, pattern recognition and image analysis. K-means clustering is a common and simple...
Provided by Azad University
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Case Studies
AeGON Delivers Fast and Easy Product Development Across Central and Eastern Europe With a Common Graphtalk A.I.a Solution
Oct 2008
One of the world's largest life insurance and pension companies, AEGON Critical to AEGON's business strategy is its belief that markets have different characteristics across the world. AEGON had...
Provided by CSC
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White Papers
ELF-Miner: Using Structural Knowledge and Data Mining for Detecting Linux Malicious Executables
Feb 2011
Linux malware can pose a significant threat - its (Linux) penetration is exponentially increasing - because little is known or understood about its vulnerabilities. The authors believe that now is...
Provided by National University of Computer and Emerging Sciences
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White Papers
A Maintenance Approach of a BJI Index Configuration
Oct 2011
In data warehousing domain, OLAP (On Line Analytical Processing) queries are complex since they use several tables with huge cardinalities. Several optimization techniques have been studied in the...
Provided by IARIA
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White Papers
FEROM: Feature Extraction and Refinement for Opinion Mining
Oct 2011
Opinion mining involves the analysis of customer opinions using product reviews and provides meaningful information including the polarity of the opinions. In opinion mining, feature extraction is...
Provided by ETRI Journal
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White Papers
Interactive Visual Analysis of Hierarchical Enterprise Data
Aug 2010
In this paper, the authors present an interactive visual technique for analyzing and understanding hierarchical data, which they have applied to analyzing a corpus of technical reports produced by...
Provided by University of California
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White Papers
Visitor Schedule Management System- An Intelligent Decision Support Systems
Apr 2012
Travelling salesman problem is a problem which is of high interest for researchers, industry professionals, and academicians. Visitor or salesman used to face lot of problems with respect to...
Provided by Blekinge Institute of Technology
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White Papers
Collective Sequential Pattern Mining in Distributed Evolving Data Streams
Jan 2012
The advances in processing and communication techniques resulted in a multitude of emerging applications that interact with streams of data. Traditional data mining systems store arriving data,...
Provided by International Association of Computer Science & Information Technology (IACSIT)
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White Papers
Warehouse Management for Improved Efficiency in a Small Warehouse
Jan 2012
Recently new innovative warehouse layouts are suggested that do not follow usual restrictions of ubiquitous traditional designs. One of them, called fishbone layout, showed potential to reduce...
Provided by International Journal of Computer Science and Information Technologies
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White Papers
Comparitive Study of Probabilistic Neural Network and Radial Basis Functional Link Neural Network in Time Series Data Mining
Nov 2011
This paper proposes a comparative analysis between Radial Basis Functional Link Network (RBFLN) - a combination of radial basis functions with the random vector functional link nets with...
Provided by International Journal of Computer Science and Information Technologies
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White Papers
Data Mining : A Prediction of Performer or Underperformer Using Classification
May 2011
Now a day's students have a large set of data having precious information hidden. Data mining technique can help to find this hidden information. In this paper, data mining techniques name Byes...
Provided by International Journal of Computer Science and Information Technologies
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White Papers
Intelligent Data Analysis Using Data Mining Techniques
Jul 2011
The power of modern computing technology makes data gathering and storage easier. This leads to create new range of problems and challenges for data analysis. In this paper approach based on...
Provided by International Journal of Computer Science and Information Technologies
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White Papers
The BARC BI Survey 10 - QlikView Highlights
Dec 2011
In October 2011, Business Application Research Center (BARC) published The BI Survey 10 - The Customer Verdict. BARC gathered the information contained in this paper via a comprehensive survey of...
Provided by QlikTech
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White Papers
Writer Identification and Recognition Using Radial Basis Function
Jun 2010
Handwriting has continued to persist as a means of communication and recording information in day-to-day life even with the introduction of new technologies. Given its ubiquity in human...
Provided by International Journal of Computer Science and Information Technologies
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Case Studies
IBM Skills and Competency Analyzer (SCAN) Automates and Speeds Up Accurate Skills Analysis
Sep 2010
IBM's business model is built to support two principal goals: helping its clients succeed in delivering business value by becoming more efficient and competitive. Analyzing the gap between the...
Provided by IBM
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White Papers
Formal Modelling Framework of Data Acquisition Modules Using a Synchronous Approach for Timing Analysis
Oct 2009
In the field of process control, data acquisition modules (such as device drivers) require special care in their design, because they usually stand as bottlenecks between hardware devices and...
Provided by Universite de Lyon
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White Papers
Analysis of View Selection Problem in Data Warehousing Environment
Jan 2012
A Data Warehouse (DW) can be seen as a set of materialized views defined over the source relations. During the initial design and evolution of a DW, the DW designer is faced, on many occasions,...
Provided by International Journal of Engineering and Technology
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White Papers
Using Ontologies for the Design of Data Warehouses
May 2011
Obtaining an implementation of a data warehouse is a complex task that forces designers to acquire wide knowledge of the domain, thus requiring a high level of expertise and becoming it a...
Provided by Academy & Industry Research Collaboration Center
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White Papers
A Survey of User-Centric Data Warehouses: From Personalization to Recommendation
May 2011
Providing a customized support for the OLAP brings tremendous challenges to the OLAP technology. Standing at the crossroads of the preferences and the data warehouse, two emerging trends are...
Provided by Academy & Industry Research Collaboration Center
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White Papers
Application of Data Mining Techniques to a Selected Business Organization With Special Reference to Buying Behavior
Nov 2011
Data mining is a new concept & an exploration and analysis of large data sets, in order to discover meaningful patterns and rules. Many organizations are now using the data mining techniques to...
Provided by Academy & Industry Research Collaboration Center
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White Papers
Customer Data Clustering Using Data Mining Technique
Nov 2011
Classification and patterns extraction from customer data is very important for business support and decision making. Timely identification of newly emerging trends is very important in business...
Provided by Academy & Industry Research Collaboration Center
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White Papers
Predictive Data Mining and Discovering Hidden Values of Data Warehouse
Apr 2011
Data Mining is an analytic process to explore data (usually large amounts of data - typically business or market related) in search of consistent patterns and/or systematic relationships between...
Provided by ARPN Journal of Systems and Software
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White Papers
Project Management Phases of a SCADA System for Automation of Electrical Distribution Networks
Mar 2012
The aim of this paper is, firstly, to recall the basic concepts of SCADA (Supervisory Control And Data Acquisition) systems, to present the project management phases of SCADA for real time...
Provided by International Journal of Computer Science Issues
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White Papers
Improving Performance of Distributed Data Mining (DDM) With Multi-Agent System
Mar 2012
Autonomous agents and multi-agent systems (or agents) and knowledge discovery (or data mining) are two of the most active areas in information technology. Ongoing research has revealed a number of...
Provided by International Journal of Computer Science Issues
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White Papers
Continuous Monitoring of Distance-Based Outliers Over Data Streams
Mar 2011
Anomaly detection is considered an important data mining task, aiming at the discovery of elements (also known as outliers) that show significant diversion from the expected case. More...
Provided by Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
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White Papers
MobiVis: A Visualization System for Exploring Mobile Data
Dec 2007
The widespread use of mobile devices brings opportunities to capture large-scale, continuous information about human behavior. Mobile data has tremendous value, leading to business opportunities,...
Provided by University of California
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White Papers
From Web Data to Visualization Via Ontology Mapping
Apr 2008
This paper proposes a novel approach for automatic generation of visualizations from domain-specific data available on the web. The paper describes a general system pipeline that combines ontology...
Provided by EUROGRAPHICS Association
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White Papers
Visualization and Data Mining in an 3D Immersive Environment: Summer Project 2003
Jan 2010
This paper describes the application of some simple data-mining tools and visualization of the results in the NIST RAVE, an immersive 3D environment. The project builds upon several previous...
Provided by NIST
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White Papers
Information Visualization: Challenge for the Humanities
Apr 2009
Digital archiving creates a vast store of knowledge that can be accessed only through digital tools. Users of this information will need fluency in the tools of digital access, exploration,...
Provided by Council on Library and Information Resources
-
White Papers
Improving Attack Graph Visualization Through Data Reduction and Attack Grouping
Jun 2008
Various tools exist to analyze enterprise network systems and to produce attack graphs detailing how attackers might penetrate into the system. These attack graphs, however, are often complex and...
Provided by Kansas State University
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White Papers
A Grad Student 'How-To' Paper on Grant Prep: Preliminary Data, Power Analysis, and Presentation
Mar 2010
Grant preparation is often challenging due to short timelines, changing study designs, and sample sizes limited by logistics and/or budget constraints. The author recently submitted a U-19 grant...
Provided by University of North Texas Health Science Center at Fort Worth
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White Papers
SAS Web Report Studio
Mar 2010
For many users, the most common Web content will consist of SAS reports. These are dynamic views of a SAS information map. Once an information map has been constructed, it can be displayed as a...
Provided by Eastern Oregon University
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White Papers
SAS Maps as Tools to Display and Clarify Healthcare Outcomes
Mar 2010
Changes in healthcare and other industries often have a spatial component. Maps can be used to convey this type of information to the user more quickly than tabular reports and other non-graphical...
Provided by SAS Institute
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White Papers
A SAS Business Intelligence - A Technology for Register-Based Censuses
Mar 2010
Any member of the United Nations has to carry out an entire national census between the years 2005 and 2014. While the demographic characteristics of the population in the still very widespread...
Provided by SAS Institute
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White Papers
The MEANS/SUMMARY Procedure: Doing More
Mar 2010
The MEANS/SUMMARY procedure is a workhorse for most data analysts. It is used to create tables of summary statistics as well as complex summary data sets. The user has a great many options which...
Provided by SAS Institute
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White Papers
Rediscovering SAS/IML Software: Modern Data Analysis for the Practicing Statistician
Mar 2010
For over 25 years, the SAS/IML programming language has been used by researchers and SAS programmers who write custom algorithms and analyses. Recently, SAS/IML Studio arrived with flashy...
Provided by SAS Institute
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White Papers
Data Extraction From ONCORE Using SAS
Mar 2010
This paper will present a method to extract data from the Oracle based ONCORE database system using SAS. The paper will examine in detail the necessary SAS code to execute such a procedure. Pros...
Provided by SAS Institute
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White Papers
Integrating Tables and Graphs With ODS LAYOUT
Mar 2010
ODS layout of PDF output can arrange multiple tables and graphs on the same page, and even overlay tables onto graphs and vice versa. This can replace GREPLAY coding of multiple graphs with...
Provided by Federal Reserve Board
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White Papers
Using SAS BI to Deliver Ongoing Professional Practice Evaluation (OPPE) at Maine Medical Center
Mar 2010
Maine Medical Center (MMC) is leveraging the power of the SAS Business Intelligence (BI) platform in delivering customized physician evaluation reports 24/7 via MMC's intranet and the internet....
Provided by SAS Institute
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White Papers
Creating Forest Plots From Pre-Computed Data Using PROC SGPLOT and Graph Template Language
Apr 2010
Historically, forest plots graphically display the information from the individual studies that went into the meta-analysis, and more recently the results of observational studies (e.g....
Provided by University of Arkansas
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White Papers
BMI Made Simple - What Is Your "Maximum Weight Limit ?
Mar 2010
BMI is a simple index of weight-for-height that is commonly used in screening overweight and obesity in adult populations. It is defined as the weight in kilograms divided by the square of the...
Provided by University of Nevada
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White Papers
Improving Your Statistical Consulting Prowess by Adding R to Your SAS Repertoire
Mar 2010
SAS is a powerful package with tremendous capabilities. However, no package contains every model, calculation, or graphics option. With SAS 9.2, it is easier to tap into the R programming...
Provided by University of Arkansas
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White Papers
Systems Management of the SAS 9.2 Enterprise Business Intelligence Environment
Mar 2010
The evolution of the SAS 9.2 architecture provides a powerful, distributed, and flexible environment for real-time, responsive analytic and reporting capabilities. This paper describes how...
Provided by SAS Institute
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White Papers
Improving Credit Risk Scorecards With Memory-Based Reasoning to Reject Inference With SAS Enterprise Miner
Apr 2010
Many business elements are used to develop credit scorecards. Reject inference, related to the issue of sample bias, is one of the key processes required to build relevant application scorecards...
Provided by SAS Institute
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White Papers
Using "Recycled Predictions" for Computing Marginal Effects
Apr 2010
A conventional way to estimate the marginal effect of a risk factor is to omit the risk factor (e.g., gender, treatment) from the multivariate model and then use the omitted risk factor as...
Provided by University of California
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White Papers
Understanding SAS/ACCESS Software's Role With Querying and Reporting in a Business Intelligence Environment
Mar 2010
Sometimes, SAS software users encounter errors when they use Business Intelligence (BI) clients to query database tables. For example, a user who queries an Oracle table using SAS Enterprise Guide...
Provided by SAS Institute
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White Papers
Fitting Linear and Nonlinear Growth Curve Models Using PROC NLMIXED
Jan 2010
Longitudinal data, or data that are repeated measurements on various subjects across time, are commonplace in everyday life. Multi-level mixed models are often used for analyzing longitudinal data...
Provided by University of Southern California (Marshall)
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White Papers
SAS System Viewer Is Replaced by the SAS Universal Viewer
Mar 2010
The SAS Viewer has been a useful, free, but increasingly limited tool. It is free. It has bugs and limitations. Starting with SAS9, this tool often will be unable to access the default data...
Provided by SAS Institute
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White Papers
Smart and Synchronized: Analytic-Driven Web Personalization Using SAS Customer Intelligence Solutions
Mar 2010
For most businesses, the Web has become an important channel for managing relationships with customers since it has become the preferred, and in some cases, the sole method by which many customers...
Provided by SAS Institute
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White Papers
Zen and the Art of Enterprise SAS BI Server Deployment
Mar 2010
Sales presentations invariably demonstrate vendor CRM software products effortlessly solving all problems with a simple click of the mouse. So why does it always seem to be a nightmare of delays...
Provided by SAS Institute
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White Papers
Using SAS Enterprise Miner 5.3 to Examine the Factor Such as Poverty Level in Different School Districts
Mar 2010
The U.S. Congress appropriates revenues for elementary and secondary education in the federal government's annual budget in the form of an appropriation. Title I is part of the federal Elementary...
Provided by University of Louisville
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White Papers
The Healthcare Performance Dashboard: Linking Strategy to Metrics
Mar 2010
There is little doubt that the change in the global business environment will continue to outpace complacency and "Tried and true" approaches for managing costs and increasing revenues. At the...
Provided by ThotWave Technologies
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Getting Correct Results From PROC REG
Mar 2010
PROC REG, SAS's implementation of linear regression, is often used to fit a line without checking the underlying assumptions of the model or understanding the output. As a result, one can...
Provided by SAS Institute
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Providing a Central IT Platform for the Irish Statistical System: Implementing SAS BI in the Central Statistics Office, Ireland
Mar 2010
The paper discusses the key technical decisions made when providing the solution, focusing on data storage and management, provision for multi-location offices, choice of operating system, user...
Provided by SAS Institute
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The MEANS/SUMMARY Procedure: Getting Started
Mar 2010
The MEANS/SUMMARY procedure is a workhorse for most data analysts. It is used to create tables of summary statistiPcs as well as complex summary data sets. The user has a great many options which...
Provided by SAS Institute
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Principles of Proper Inferences From Complex Survey Data
Mar 2010
This paper discusses commonly-encountered features of complex survey datasets that should be accounted for by employing the SURVEY family of SAS procedures. Concepts of clustering, stratification,...
Provided by University of Maryland
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The SAS Middle Tier: Providing Integration Services for the SAS Intelligence Platform
Apr 2010
As part of its mission to provide an integrated set of software applications, solutions, and services, SAS added a new level of integration capabilities with its release of 9.2. The SAS middle...
Provided by SAS Institute
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ROC Hard? No, ROC Made Easy!
Mar 2010
A ROC (Receiver Operator Characteristic) curve shows how well two groups are separated by plotting the Sensitivity by 1 - Specificity. When used alone, the cut off used to balance the desired...
Provided by GlaxoSmithKline
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Detecting Claim Fraud and Improving Product Quality: Case Studies in Reducing Warranty Costs
Apr 2010
Manufacturers are utilizing analytics to reduce service claim fraud and increase product quality, yielding warranty cost reductions over 20%. This presentation highlights case studies of...
Provided by SAS Institute
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Everything in Its Place: Efficient Geostatistical Analysis With SAS/STAT Spatial Procedures
Mar 2010
Got coordinates in the data? Feeling lost in space? Spatial data arise in a wealth of scientific fields; their stochastic structure poses unique analytical challenges that are different from most...
Provided by SAS Institute
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Survival Analysis: Overview of Parametric, Nonparametric and Semiparametric Approaches and New Developments
Mar 2010
Time to event data arise in several fields including biostatistics, demography, economics, engineering and sociology. The terms duration analysis, event-history analysis, failure-time analysis,...
Provided by Michigan State University
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Effective Visualization Techniques for Data Discovery and Analysis
Mar 2010
One of the best ways to understand data is through data visualization. The art of presenting data visually has matured from static graphs and dashboard widgets to interactive, animated graphs....
Provided by SAS Institute
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Optimizing Revenues in the Hospitality and Retail Industries: Comparing and Contrasting Different Industry Problems and How SAS Analytics Is Used to Solve Them
Apr 2010
With the acquisition of IDeaS by SAS in 2008, SAS now offers advanced revenue optimization solutions for both the retail (SAS Revenue Optimization Suite) and hospitality industries. This paper...
Provided by SAS Institute
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Analytics in the Converging Health and Life Sciences Industries: The Catalyst for the Next Generation of Healthcare
Mar 2010
Learn how analytics serves as a catalyst for both healthcare reform and the foundation for the next generation of healthcare. Understand the hurdles and opportunities presented as health...
Provided by SAS Institute
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Executive Dashboard: A Driver for Institutional Change and a Means to Broaden Understanding
Mar 2010
The financial meltdown created an uncertain and competitive environment, making it important for the institution to provide the executives insight into critical key metrics. The decision to create...
Provided by Pace University
