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Case Studies
University of Missouri Works With Insight Team to Identify Strategic Priorities
Jun 2008
The University of Missouri, as a land grant university and Missouri's only public research and doctoral level institution, discovers, disseminates, preserves, and applies knowledge. The University...
Provided by Oracle
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Case Studies
IDS GmbH Enhances Central Investment Data Warehouse System With Scalable IT Solution
Jun 2008
IDS GmbH - Analysis and Reporting Services (IDS) wanted to produce performance and risk analyses and extensive finance-specific evaluations for the Allianz Group. The challenge was to enable...
Provided by Oracle
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Whitepapers
Why You Shouldn't Ignore Business Analysts: Business Analysts Can Be Valuable Allies for You, if You Let Them
Aug 2008
In this paper, one learns what business analysts do and why they can be valuable allies. Often misunderstood, business analysts can make one's life easier and help ensure the success of the...
Provided by IBM
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White Papers
The Chinese Text Categorization System With Category Priorities
Oct 2010
The process of text categorization involves some understanding of the content of the documents and/or some previous knowledge of the categories. For the content of the documents, the authors use a...
Provided by Academy Publisher
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White Papers
The Topological Properties of the Approximation Operators on A CCD Lattice
Sep 2010
Rough sets, a tool for data mining, deal with the vagueness and granularity in information systems. Rough approximations on a Complete Completely Distributive lattice (CCD lattice for short) and...
Provided by Academy Publisher
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White Papers
Auto-Corner Detection Based on the Eigenvalues Product of Covariance Matrices Over Multi-Regions of Support
Aug 2010
In this paper, the authors present an Auto-Detection corner based on Eigenvalues Product of Covariance Matrices (ADEPCM) of boundary points over multi-region of support. The algorithm starts with...
Provided by Academy Publisher
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White Papers
An Approach to Deal With Time-Evolving Categorical Data Based on NIR Using Clustering
Sep 2011
Data clustering is an important technique for exploratory data analysis and has been the focus of substantial research in several domains for decades among which Sampling has been recognized as an...
Provided by Vivekananda Institute of Technology & Science
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White Papers
A Novel Extension Data Mining Approach Based on Rough Sets Pair Analysis
Apr 2010
In the data base of information system, usually there are some attributes which are unimportant to the decision attribute, and some records that disturb the decision making. In this paper,...
Provided by Academy Publisher
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White Papers
Data Mining: A Healthy Tool for Your Information Retrieval and Text Mining
Sep 2011
Data Warehousing and Data Mining are widely used by many industries like banking, insurance, healthcare, security and many others, however very little work has been done for Text-mining. Text...
Provided by International Journal of Computer Science and Information Technologies
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White Papers
Business Intelligence (BI) Governance
Jan 2008
Governance became a critical concept in the after "IT bubble" days, as IT faced the challenge of dealing with diminishing budgets, without demand on its services being reduced proportionally. The...
Provided by ITNetwork365
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White Papers
Cognos Delivering Analytics and BI for Your Workforce
Jun 2007
Performance management requires companies to balance processes, information, technology and people to meet business objectives. Although many companies have invested in performance management...
Provided by ITNetwork365
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White Papers
Moving Data Mining Tools Toward a Business Intelligence System
Feb 2008
Data Mining (DM) is the process of finding and extracting frequent patterns that can describe the data, or predict unknown or future values. These goals are achieved by using various learning...
Provided by Suranaree University of Technology
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White Papers
Effective Visualization Technique for Business Intelligence (BI): Clickable Mock-Ups
Nov 2007
Effective Business Intelligence (BI) can help companies gain a comprehensive understanding of the factors affecting their business, enabling them to make informed business decisions for the...
Provided by Infosys Technologies
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White Papers
Intergrating Salient Regions with New Perceptual Texture Features Based on Wavelet Transform for Image Retrieval
Oct 2009
In content-based image retrieval, the representation of local properties in an image is one of the most active research issues. This paper introduces a salient region detector based on wavelet...
Provided by Academy Publisher
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Case Studies
Death-Care Company Uses Expert Resources to Achieve Business Intelligence Solution
Feb 2008
Stewart Enterprises, a "Death-care" company, needed a business intelligence tool and data warehouse solution to track data from its more than 359 locations, most of which were acquisitions. By...
Provided by Microsoft
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White Papers
Investigation into Alternative Representations for Intelligent Geoinformation Systems in Data-rich Environments
Sep 2009
Whilst a geographical information system may use many different representations of areal data, the vector format is the most commonly utilized structure. Although some researchers consider it...
Provided by Academy Publisher
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White Papers
EEG Based Brain Computer Interface
Aug 2009
Brain-Computer Interface (BCI) has added a new value to efforts being made under human machine interfaces. It has not only introduced new dimensions in machine control but the researchers round...
Provided by Academy Publisher
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White Papers
A Semantic Approach for Document Clustering
Jul 2009
Conventional document mining systems mainly use the presence or absence of keywords to mine texts. However, simple word counting and frequency distributions of term appearances do not capture the...
Provided by Academy Publisher
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White Papers
Constructive Data Mining: Modeling Argentine Broad Money Demand
Sep 2008
This paper assesses the empirical merits of PcGets and Autometrics - two recent algorithms for computer-automated model selection - using them to improve upon Kamin and Ericsson's (1993) model of...
Provided by Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System
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White Papers
Optimized Performance With SAP Net Weaver BI Accelerator
Mar 2011
This paper describes the SAP Net weaver BI accelerator and its features and how the accelerator can be used for optimized performance in any IT industry. The objective is to provide the best...
Provided by Rayalaseema University
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White Papers
Speeding Up Multi-Relational Data Mining
Jan 2008
This paper presents a general approach to speeding up a family of multi-relational data mining algorithms that construct and use selection graphs to obtain the information needed for building...
Provided by Iowa State University
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White Papers
Dynamic Load Balancing on Single-And Multi-GPU Systems
Jan 2010
The computational power provided by many-core Graphics Processing Units (GPUs) has been exploited in many applications. The programming techniques currently employed on these GPUs are not...
Provided by University of Delaware
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White Papers
BlogBrain Ops: Proposal for a Semi-automatic Social Web Mining and Cyberinfluence Decision-support Tool for Info Ops Teams
Nov 2011
In this paper, the author is proposing to develop BlogBrain Ops, a novel semi-automatic, Social Web cyberinfluence decision-making tool for 21st century Info Ops teams in the Social Internet age....
Provided by Academy Publisher
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White Papers
The Six Technical Gaps between Intelligent Applications and Real-Time Data Mining: A Critical Review
May 2011
Intelligent application is characterized by its ability to make decision autonomously. Some examples are distributed agents that collaboratively complete a complex task, yet each one of them is...
Provided by Academy Publisher
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White Papers
An Architecture for Integrated Online Analytical Mining
May 2011
OnLine Analytical Processing (OLAP) technology is an essential element of the decision support system and permits decision makers to visualize huge operational data for quick, consistent,...
Provided by Academy Publisher
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White Papers
Improving Graph-based Approaches for Personalized Tag Recommendation
May 2011
Social tagging applications allow users to annotate online resources, resulting in a complex network of interrelated users, resources and tags often called a Folksonomy. A folksonomy is often...
Provided by Academy Publisher
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White Papers
A Two-stage Information Filtering Based on Rough Decision Rule and Pattern Mining
Nov 2010
Information Overload and Mismatch are two fundamental problems affecting the effectiveness of information filtering systems. Even though both term-based and pattern-based approaches have been...
Provided by Academy Publisher
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White Papers
Efficient Visual Cryptography
May 2010
Visual Cryptography Scheme (VCS) is a secret-sharing scheme which allows the encryption of a secret image into n shares that are distributed to n participants. The beauty of such a scheme is that,...
Provided by Academy Publisher
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White Papers
Geography-Based Analysis of the Internet Infrastructure
Mar 2011
In this paper, the authors study some geographic aspects of the Internet. They base their analysis on a large set of geolocated IP hop-level session data (including about 300; 000 backbone...
Provided by Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
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White Papers
Designing Integration Flows Using Hypercubes
Mar 2011
The design and implementation of an ETL (Extract-TransformLoad) process for a data warehouse proceeds from a conceptual model to a logical model, and then a physical model and implementation. The...
Provided by Association for Computing Machinery
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White Papers
Road Crash Proneness Prediction Using Data Mining
Mar 2011
Developing safe and sustainable road systems is a common goal in all countries. Applications to assist with road asset management and crash minimization are sought universally. This paper presents...
Provided by Association for Computing Machinery
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White Papers
Macadamia: Master's Programme in Machine Learning and Data Mining
Apr 2008
The research focus has since shifted from neural networks to machine learning, algorithmic data analysis and data mining. Macadamia is a two-year master's programme for machine learning and data...
Provided by Helsinki University of Technology
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White Papers
Inferring Asymmetry of Inhabitant Flow Using Call Detail Records
Nov 2011
In this paper, the authors carry out a study of the inhabitant flow using a large mobile phone data with location estimates from subscribers in Suffolk county, Massachusetts, USA that reveals the...
Provided by Academy Publisher
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White Papers
A Review of Machine Learning Algorithms for Text-Documents Classification
Feb 2010
With the increasing availability of electronic documents and the rapid growth of the World Wide Web, the task of automatic categorization of documents became the key method for organizing the...
Provided by Academy Publisher
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White Papers
Neighborhood Component Feature Selection for High-Dimensional Data
Jan 2012
Feature selection is of considerable importance in data mining and machine learning, especially for high dimensional data. In this paper, the authors propose a novel nearest neighbor-based feature...
Provided by Academy Publisher
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White Papers
Mining Users Similarity of Interests in Web Community
Nov 2011
In Web Community marketing, it is an essential research to discover potential consumer groups based on their interests. In real society, the sociologists deem that the intimate friends show more...
Provided by Academy Publisher
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White Papers
A Distributed Blackboard Architecture for Interactive Data Visualization
Jan 2008
This paper presents distributed blackboard architecture for scientific visualization. The paper discusses the motivation, design and application of the architecture. The main advantage of the...
Provided by Centrum voor Wiskunde en Informatica
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White Papers
High-Resolution Data Visualization
Jul 2008
High-resolution data visualization is useful when wanting to look at data on a larger scale while maintaining finer details. While using a projector helps show information on a larger scale, the...
Provided by University of Maine
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White Papers
Variable Selection for Credit Risk Model Using Data Mining Technique
Sep 2011
With the emergence of the current financial crisis, societies see the increasing importance of credit risks management in financial institutions. Four mainstream credit risk rating models have...
Provided by Academy Publisher
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White Papers
A Model to Select System Core and Its Application
Sep 2011
The theory of system core is given a method to determine key elements of the system based on graph theory, but it is difficult to apply in practice for the question of how to change a system to a...
Provided by Academy Publisher
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Case Studies
CIO Scorecard Fosters Strategic Performance Management Culture
Jan 2009
As the worldwide leader in software for business and personal computing, the vision of Microsoft Corporation is to enable people and businesses throughout the world to realize their full...
Provided by Microsoft
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Whitepapers
The Full Promise of Business Intelligence
Dec 2008
IBM Cogno Business Intelligence supports corporate performance management because it delivers complete, consistent information. Together with integrated planning capabilities, one can then...
Provided by IBM
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White Papers
The Payoff of Pervasive Performance Management: Spreading Data Analysis Tools From the Executive Suite to the Shop Floor Brings Top-Line and Bottom-Line Benefits
May 2008
BusinessWeek Research Services (BWRS) launched a research program in early 2008 to determine the views of senior business and technology executives on whether widespread use and dispersal of...
Provided by McGraw-Hill Companies
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White Papers
Business Intelligence Solutions From the Microsoft and Teradata Partnership
Oct 2008
The trend toward evidence-based decision making is taking root in commercial, nonprofit, and public sector organizations. Driven by increased competition due to changing business models,...
Provided by IDG (International Data Group)
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White Papers
Pervasive Business Intelligence: Techniques and Technologies to Deploy BI on an Enterprise Scale
Jun 2008
This paper is designed for business and technical managers who oversee a business intelligence environment and wish to learn the best practices and pitfalls for deploying reporting and analysis...
Provided by 1105 Media
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White Papers
Advanced Corda CenterView Data Visualization for the BusinessObjects Intelligence Platform
Aug 2008
The BusinessObjects Business Intelligence (BI) platform pulls company data into one centralized location to ensure that every person connected within an organization has trusted, immediate access...
Provided by CORDA Technologies
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White Papers
Corda CenterView Gives Companies a Comprehensive View of SAP BW Data
Jan 2009
Companies that invest in SAP Business Warehouse (SAP BW) make a tremendous investment in the value of their information. Although SAP BW makes a wealth of information available to these companies,...
Provided by CORDA Technologies
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White Papers
Operational Business Intelligence: The State of Art
Aug 2009
BI solutions have evolved to focus on operational BI - the ability to more effectively manage and optimize daily business activities by seamlessly sly integrating BI analytics within operational...
Provided by BeyeNETWORK
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Case Studies
Fujitsu Case Study: RED.ES
Jan 2009
The Spanish National Observatory of Telecommunications and the Information Society (ONTSI), part of the public organisation red.es within the Ministry of Industry, Tourism and Commerce, is...
Provided by Fujitsu
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Case Studies
PGG Wrightson Data Warehouse
Jan 2009
PGG Wrightson is New Zealand's largest provider to the agricultural sector, offering a wide range of products, services and solutions to farmers, growers and processors in New Zealand and...
Provided by Montage Professional Services
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Case Studies
Pitney Bowes Case Study: Scotiabank
Jul 2009
Scotiabank, Canada's international bank, employs nearly 56,000 individuals, and along with its affiliates, serves upwards of 10 million customers in approximately 50 countries around the world....
Provided by Pitney Bowes
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Case Studies
Deploying a Business Intelligence Solution for One of the Leading Global Pharmaceutical Company
Jan 2009
The customer needed a solution that allowed users to do their own ad hoc reporting and analysis. The customer selected Datamatics to deploy a business intelligence solution that would meet its...
Provided by Datamatics Global Services
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Case Studies
Cognos 8-Based Reporting Tool for One of the Largest Global Publicly-Traded Global Asset Management Firms
Jan 2009
One of the largest publicly traded global asset management firms in the world. It provides diversified, global investment management services that include growth and value equities, blend...
Provided by Datamatics Global Services
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Case Studies
Implementing a Business Intelligence Solution for a Leading Media Company in North America
Jan 2009
The customer found the existing business intelligence applications inadequate to manage the voluminous data across disparate applications. The customer selected Datamatics services to deploy a...
Provided by Datamatics Global Services
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Case Studies
Integrated Marketing and Decision Support Solution Using Business Intelligence and ETL
Jan 2009
A $300-million online real estate management, information, media and technology services provider needed single, integrated solution to make analysis of market data easy. It deployed business...
Provided by Datamatics Global Services
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Case Studies
Crane Pumps & Systems: Suffering During Recession? Not With Leadership and the Right Business Intelligence Tool, Says Crane Pumps & Systems
Dec 2008
Since 1948, Crane Pumps & Systems (CP&S) has manufactured a diverse range of pumps, accessories, and services to provide successful solutions for water, wastewater, military, and engineered pump...
Provided by LogiXML
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Case Studies
Mission Accomplished for Customer Support Command Center
Jun 2009
A leading global manufacturer of high-technology products needed better insight to deliver on Service Level Agreements (SLAs) with enterprise customers worldwide. It needed to develop a continuous...
Provided by IBM
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Case Studies
Burgess Pigment Improves Reporting and Analysis of Orders With a Data Warehousing Solution
Jul 2009
Burgess Pigment Company is a leading provider of functional anhydrous and hydrous aluminum silicates, used in everything from ceramics, paints and ink to additives in food, medicines and...
Provided by IBM
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Case Studies
Sun World Analyzes Crop Costs and Harvesting Efficiency With IBM Cognos TM1
Jun 2009
Based in Bakersfield, California, Sun World International grows and markets fresh fruit and vegetables. It needed to improve operating efficiency through detailed operations and cost analysis. It...
Provided by IBM
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Case Studies
Nestle Achieves Global Excellence With SAP NetWeaver BI and IBM
Mar 2008
Nestle is the largest worldwide company in the food and beverages sector, with sales for 2006 up to CHF 98.5 billion and a net profit of CHF 9 billion. Implementing and running a business...
Provided by IBM
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Case Studies
Moran Pioneers Aged Care Business Intelligence
Oct 2008
The Group's general manager for finance, Chris Mamarelis, told iTNews that the aged care revenue model in Australia is extremely complex due to government subsidies and regulatory compliance. The...
Provided by IBM
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Case Studies
Martin's Point Identifies Health Trends With IBM Cognos Software to Improve Care Delivery
Oct 2008
Martin's Point is a non-profit health care provider offering reliable, proven clinical services at health care centers in Maine and New Hampshire. It needed to move away from a paper reporting...
Provided by IBM
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Case Studies
Mueller Gains Greater Insight Into Financial Performance With IBM Cognos Software
Nov 2008
Mueller, Inc. is the industry leader in Steel Building and Metal Roofing solutions throughout the south central United States. It needed to extract and disseminate the information essential in...
Provided by IBM
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Case Studies
Vicor Evaluates Business Performance in Realtime Using IBM Cognos Software
Aug 2008
Vicor Corporation designs, manufactures, and markets modular power components and power systems used in the communications, data processing, industrial controls, test equipment, medical, and...
Provided by IBM
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Case Studies
Movia Gets on Board With IBM Cognos Technologies
Dec 2008
Trafikselskabet Movia is the Danish public transport agency responsible for managing bus lines and local railways in the regions of Sjælland and Hovedstaden. Administrating the finances of 600...
Provided by IBM
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Case Studies
The Business Analysis Team at Fenmarc Expands Its Role and Streamlines Processes With IBM Cognos
Feb 2009
Fenmarc is a dedicated large-scale supplier of fresh vegetables to Asda, one of the UK's leading supermarket chains. It needed to consolidate and coordinate budgeting and forecasting throughout...
Provided by IBM
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Case Studies
IBM Case Study: Ryobi
Feb 2009
Ryobi sells power tools and outdoor power equipment, and has won supplier awards in multiple categories at The Home Depot in North America, for six consecutive years. The company was also...
Provided by IBM
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Case Studies
Gamesys Finds a Safe Bet With Its Balanced Warehouse Solution From IBM
May 2009
Founded in 2001, the Gamesys Group has rapidly built a profitable online entertainment business providing Instant Win, Bingo and Casino games to a worldwide audience. Despite its rapid growth, in...
Provided by IBM
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Case Studies
Providing Cost Efficient Care at Martin's Point
Jun 2009
Founded in 1981 and headquartered in Portland, Maine, Martin's Point Health Care serves approximately 88,000 members and patients. Containing costs, while improving clinical outcomes, and at the...
Provided by IBM
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Case Studies
IBM Cognos Is the Glue That Brings Management and Clinical Departments Together at the Bloorview Kids Rehab Center
Jul 2009
Bloorview Kids Rehab, known as Bloorview, is Canada's largest children's rehabilitation hospital. In 2002, Bloorview partnered with the University of Toronto to become Canada's first teaching...
Provided by IBM
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Case Studies
Powerful Business Intelligence for the University of Calgary: An IBM Cognos Solution
Aug 2009
Located in northwest Calgary, the University of Calgary (U of C) campus is home to scholars in 16 faculties and 36 research institutes and centers. It needed to consolidate complex and confusing...
Provided by IBM
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Case Studies
Edmonton Police Service Takes a Bigger Bite Out of Crime, Thanks to an IBM Cognos System
Jul 2009
Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, has a population of approximately 780,000, with a regional population of more than 1 million residents. The city's Police Service has more than 1,800 employees. It...
Provided by IBM
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Case Studies
ElegantJ BI Business Intelligence: Implementation for a Leading Construction & Infrastructure Development Company in India
Jun 2009
Founded in 1982 as a construction company, client has successfully positioned itself amongst the top 10 construction & infrastructure management companies in India. To address the analytical...
Provided by ELegant MicroWeb Technologies
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Case Studies
Business Intelligence Helps Mental Health Provider Improve Responsiveness and Quality of Care
Jun 2009
Serving over 750,000 residents in the county of Lincolnshire, Lincolnshire Partnership NHS Foundation Trust is deeply committed to delivering patient-centered mental health services and...
Provided by Microsoft
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Case Studies
Law Firm Expedites Report Creation for Better Budgeting and Decision Making
Mar 2009
Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal LLP, which employs more than 800 lawyers and professionals in 15 offices worldwide, had outgrown the labor-intensive ways in which it created budgets and monitored...
Provided by Microsoft
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Case Studies
Bloor Research Case Study: SenSage at O2 Ireland
Apr 2009
O2 is a part of Telefónica, which was originally established as Companiia Telefónica Nacional de Espana in 1924 as the Spanish subsidiary of AT&T. It needed to meet the requirements of the EU Data...
Provided by Bloor Research
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Case Studies
Achieved 17% Year End Inventory Reduction in Less Than 5 Months
Jul 2009
Headquartered in Fullerton, California, Beckman Coulter is a $2.6 billion global medical device company with more than 78% of its revenue generated by recurring revenue from test kits, supplies...
Provided by Oco
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Case Studies
State Rail Authority - Board Reporting Online
Sep 2008
State Rail Authority provides passenger rail transport throughout New South Wales through its CityRail and CountryLink services and is responsible for the safe operation, crewing and maintenance...
Provided by CALUMO
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Case Studies
Implementing a Statistical Database Using Business Intelligence Tools and Data Warehouse Concepts
Feb 2009
The Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (DFAT) provides foreign and trade policy advice to the government and is the lead agency managing Australia's international presence. DFAT has been...
Provided by Praxa
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Case Studies
The Ergon Energy Analytics Business Intelligence Solution
Feb 2009
Ergon Energy is a power utility company supplying electricity and related products and services to regional Queensland. It needed to develop a state of the art BI solution to enable increased...
Provided by Praxa
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White Papers
Auto-Corner Detection Based on the Eigenvalues Product of Covariance Matrices Over Multi-Regions of Support
Aug 2010
In this paper, the authors present an Auto-Detection corner based on Eigenvalues Product of Covariance Matrices (ADEPCM) of boundary points over multi-region of support. The algorithm starts with...
Provided by Academy Publisher
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White Papers
An Approach to Deal With Time-Evolving Categorical Data Based on NIR Using Clustering
Sep 2011
Data clustering is an important technique for exploratory data analysis and has been the focus of substantial research in several domains for decades among which Sampling has been recognized as an...
Provided by Vivekananda Institute of Technology & Science
-
White Papers
A Novel Extension Data Mining Approach Based on Rough Sets Pair Analysis
Apr 2010
In the data base of information system, usually there are some attributes which are unimportant to the decision attribute, and some records that disturb the decision making. In this paper,...
Provided by Academy Publisher
-
White Papers
Data Mining: A Healthy Tool for Your Information Retrieval and Text Mining
Sep 2011
Data Warehousing and Data Mining are widely used by many industries like banking, insurance, healthcare, security and many others, however very little work has been done for Text-mining. Text...
Provided by International Journal of Computer Science and Information Technologies
-
White Papers
Business Intelligence (BI) Governance
Jan 2008
Governance became a critical concept in the after "IT bubble" days, as IT faced the challenge of dealing with diminishing budgets, without demand on its services being reduced proportionally. The...
Provided by ITNetwork365
-
White Papers
Cognos Delivering Analytics and BI for Your Workforce
Jun 2007
Performance management requires companies to balance processes, information, technology and people to meet business objectives. Although many companies have invested in performance management...
Provided by ITNetwork365
-
White Papers
Moving Data Mining Tools Toward a Business Intelligence System
Feb 2008
Data Mining (DM) is the process of finding and extracting frequent patterns that can describe the data, or predict unknown or future values. These goals are achieved by using various learning...
Provided by Suranaree University of Technology
-
White Papers
Effective Visualization Technique for Business Intelligence (BI): Clickable Mock-Ups
Nov 2007
Effective Business Intelligence (BI) can help companies gain a comprehensive understanding of the factors affecting their business, enabling them to make informed business decisions for the...
Provided by Infosys Technologies
-
White Papers
Intergrating Salient Regions with New Perceptual Texture Features Based on Wavelet Transform for Image Retrieval
Oct 2009
In content-based image retrieval, the representation of local properties in an image is one of the most active research issues. This paper introduces a salient region detector based on wavelet...
Provided by Academy Publisher
-
Case Studies
Death-Care Company Uses Expert Resources to Achieve Business Intelligence Solution
Feb 2008
Stewart Enterprises, a "Death-care" company, needed a business intelligence tool and data warehouse solution to track data from its more than 359 locations, most of which were acquisitions. By...
Provided by Microsoft
-
White Papers
Investigation into Alternative Representations for Intelligent Geoinformation Systems in Data-rich Environments
Sep 2009
Whilst a geographical information system may use many different representations of areal data, the vector format is the most commonly utilized structure. Although some researchers consider it...
Provided by Academy Publisher
-
White Papers
EEG Based Brain Computer Interface
Aug 2009
Brain-Computer Interface (BCI) has added a new value to efforts being made under human machine interfaces. It has not only introduced new dimensions in machine control but the researchers round...
Provided by Academy Publisher
-
White Papers
A Semantic Approach for Document Clustering
Jul 2009
Conventional document mining systems mainly use the presence or absence of keywords to mine texts. However, simple word counting and frequency distributions of term appearances do not capture the...
Provided by Academy Publisher
-
White Papers
Constructive Data Mining: Modeling Argentine Broad Money Demand
Sep 2008
This paper assesses the empirical merits of PcGets and Autometrics - two recent algorithms for computer-automated model selection - using them to improve upon Kamin and Ericsson's (1993) model of...
Provided by Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System
-
White Papers
Optimized Performance With SAP Net Weaver BI Accelerator
Mar 2011
This paper describes the SAP Net weaver BI accelerator and its features and how the accelerator can be used for optimized performance in any IT industry. The objective is to provide the best...
Provided by Rayalaseema University
-
White Papers
Speeding Up Multi-Relational Data Mining
Jan 2008
This paper presents a general approach to speeding up a family of multi-relational data mining algorithms that construct and use selection graphs to obtain the information needed for building...
Provided by Iowa State University
-
White Papers
Dynamic Load Balancing on Single-And Multi-GPU Systems
Jan 2010
The computational power provided by many-core Graphics Processing Units (GPUs) has been exploited in many applications. The programming techniques currently employed on these GPUs are not...
Provided by University of Delaware
-
White Papers
BlogBrain Ops: Proposal for a Semi-automatic Social Web Mining and Cyberinfluence Decision-support Tool for Info Ops Teams
Nov 2011
In this paper, the author is proposing to develop BlogBrain Ops, a novel semi-automatic, Social Web cyberinfluence decision-making tool for 21st century Info Ops teams in the Social Internet age....
Provided by Academy Publisher
-
White Papers
The Six Technical Gaps between Intelligent Applications and Real-Time Data Mining: A Critical Review
May 2011
Intelligent application is characterized by its ability to make decision autonomously. Some examples are distributed agents that collaboratively complete a complex task, yet each one of them is...
Provided by Academy Publisher
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White Papers
An Architecture for Integrated Online Analytical Mining
May 2011
OnLine Analytical Processing (OLAP) technology is an essential element of the decision support system and permits decision makers to visualize huge operational data for quick, consistent,...
Provided by Academy Publisher
-
White Papers
Improving Graph-based Approaches for Personalized Tag Recommendation
May 2011
Social tagging applications allow users to annotate online resources, resulting in a complex network of interrelated users, resources and tags often called a Folksonomy. A folksonomy is often...
Provided by Academy Publisher
-
White Papers
A Two-stage Information Filtering Based on Rough Decision Rule and Pattern Mining
Nov 2010
Information Overload and Mismatch are two fundamental problems affecting the effectiveness of information filtering systems. Even though both term-based and pattern-based approaches have been...
Provided by Academy Publisher
-
White Papers
Efficient Visual Cryptography
May 2010
Visual Cryptography Scheme (VCS) is a secret-sharing scheme which allows the encryption of a secret image into n shares that are distributed to n participants. The beauty of such a scheme is that,...
Provided by Academy Publisher
-
White Papers
Geography-Based Analysis of the Internet Infrastructure
Mar 2011
In this paper, the authors study some geographic aspects of the Internet. They base their analysis on a large set of geolocated IP hop-level session data (including about 300; 000 backbone...
Provided by Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
-
White Papers
Designing Integration Flows Using Hypercubes
Mar 2011
The design and implementation of an ETL (Extract-TransformLoad) process for a data warehouse proceeds from a conceptual model to a logical model, and then a physical model and implementation. The...
Provided by Association for Computing Machinery
-
White Papers
Road Crash Proneness Prediction Using Data Mining
Mar 2011
Developing safe and sustainable road systems is a common goal in all countries. Applications to assist with road asset management and crash minimization are sought universally. This paper presents...
Provided by Association for Computing Machinery
-
White Papers
Macadamia: Master's Programme in Machine Learning and Data Mining
Apr 2008
The research focus has since shifted from neural networks to machine learning, algorithmic data analysis and data mining. Macadamia is a two-year master's programme for machine learning and data...
Provided by Helsinki University of Technology
-
White Papers
Inferring Asymmetry of Inhabitant Flow Using Call Detail Records
Nov 2011
In this paper, the authors carry out a study of the inhabitant flow using a large mobile phone data with location estimates from subscribers in Suffolk county, Massachusetts, USA that reveals the...
Provided by Academy Publisher
-
White Papers
A Review of Machine Learning Algorithms for Text-Documents Classification
Feb 2010
With the increasing availability of electronic documents and the rapid growth of the World Wide Web, the task of automatic categorization of documents became the key method for organizing the...
Provided by Academy Publisher
-
White Papers
Neighborhood Component Feature Selection for High-Dimensional Data
Jan 2012
Feature selection is of considerable importance in data mining and machine learning, especially for high dimensional data. In this paper, the authors propose a novel nearest neighbor-based feature...
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Mining Users Similarity of Interests in Web Community
Nov 2011
In Web Community marketing, it is an essential research to discover potential consumer groups based on their interests. In real society, the sociologists deem that the intimate friends show more...
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A Distributed Blackboard Architecture for Interactive Data Visualization
Jan 2008
This paper presents distributed blackboard architecture for scientific visualization. The paper discusses the motivation, design and application of the architecture. The main advantage of the...
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High-Resolution Data Visualization
Jul 2008
High-resolution data visualization is useful when wanting to look at data on a larger scale while maintaining finer details. While using a projector helps show information on a larger scale, the...
Provided by University of Maine
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Variable Selection for Credit Risk Model Using Data Mining Technique
Sep 2011
With the emergence of the current financial crisis, societies see the increasing importance of credit risks management in financial institutions. Four mainstream credit risk rating models have...
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A Model to Select System Core and Its Application
Sep 2011
The theory of system core is given a method to determine key elements of the system based on graph theory, but it is difficult to apply in practice for the question of how to change a system to a...
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Adaptive Multi-Valued Volume Data Visualization Using Data-Dependent Error Metrics
Jan 2008
Adaptive, and especially view-dependent, volume visualization is used to display large volume data at interactive frame rates preserving high visual quality in specified or implied regions of...
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Dual Multiresolution HyperSlice for Multivariate Data Visualization
Jan 2008
This paper presents a new multiresolution visualization design which allows a user to control the physical data resolution as well as the logical display resolution of multivariate data. A system...
Provided by University of New Hampshire
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Orchid: Integrating Schema Mapping and ETL
Nov 2007
This paper describes Orchid, a system that converts declarative mapping specifications into data flow specifications (ETL jobs) and vice versa. Orchid provides an abstract operator model that...
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Managing ETL Processes
Aug 2008
ETL tools allow the definition of sometimes complex processes to extract, transform, and load heterogeneous data into a data warehouse or to perform other data migration tasks. In larger...
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Preliminary Thoughts on the Data Acquisition for the Next Generation of Silicon Tracking Systems
Dec 2007
Preliminary thoughts about the data acquisition system to be developed for the next generation of large area silicon tracker are presented in this paper. This paper describes the set of data...
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