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Journal Visualization by a Dual Hierarchical Data Visualization Technique
Apr 2009
Researchers often search for specific papers from journals, or look over the trends of the journals. This task is not always easy: for example, various kinds of papers may be extracted if the...
Provided by Ochanomizu University
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White Papers
A Similarity-Based 3D Time-Varying Data Visualization Technique
Mar 2009
Time-varying data visualization is an active research topic in these years. This paper is currently focusing on visualization of various time-varying data, including weather, gene expression, and...
Provided by Ochanomizu University
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A Web Service for Data Visualization in Distributed Automation and Information Systems
Jul 2008
This paper is an attempt to continue development of the multi-tier model for distributed automation systems proposed in previous work. It suggests the use of an open-source Web service application...
Provided by Technical University of Sofia
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Visualization of Corpus Data by a Dual Hierarchical Data Visualization Technique
Dec 2008
The paper presents a technique for visualization of corpus data consists of thousands of Japanese newspaper articles, and introduces several interesting trends discovered from the results. The...
Provided by Ochanomizu University
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A Method to Visualize Numerical Data With Geographical Information Using Feathered Circles Painted by Color Gradation
Dec 2008
Some kind of data has its value and subsidiary data of geographical information. This paper presents a method to visualize this kind of data. A typical example of the data is a value with location...
Provided by Okayama University
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3D Cardiac MRI Data Visualization Based on Volume Data Preprocessing and Transfer Function Design
Nov 2008
The diversity and complexity of cardiac tissues makes it very challenging to visualize 3D cardiac Magnetic Resonance Image (MRI) data. This paper proposed an adaptive volume data preprocessing...
Provided by Harbin Institute of Technology
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Interactive Visualization of Oil Reservoir Data
Jul 2008
Computer-based information systems have evolved for decades and are very popular in today's market. They are well equipped with intuitive and powerful features in terms of data retrieval and...
Provided by University of Southern California (Marshall)
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A Phrase-Driven Grammar System for Interactive Data Visualization
Dec 2007
A Phrase-Driven Grammar System (PDGS) is a novel GUI for facilitating the visualization of data. The PDGS integrates data source applications and external visualization tools into its framework...
Provided by SPIE
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White Papers
Statistics 695V: Data Visualization, Spring 2005
Jan 2008
Many approaches to learning from data today involve the use of complex tools that extent tailor themselves to the patterns of the data, a form of automated learning. But human guidance from data...
Provided by Columbia University
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White Papers
Knowledge-Assisted Visualization of Seismic Data
Jun 2009
This paper presents novel techniques for knowledge-assisted annotation and computer-assisted interpretation of seism data for oil and gas exploration. The paper describe the existing procedure for...
Provided by Reed Elsevier
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White Papers
An Visualization Model of Global Images Based on QTM
Jun 2008
Constructing interactive visualization model of global image data is one of the hot research topics in Geo-spatial information sciences. Conventionally, global image data is used as texture in...
Provided by China University Of Mining And Technology
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A Cartographic Data Model for Better Geographical Visualization Based on Knowledge
Jun 2008
Firstly, this paper makes analyses on the geographical visualization and mapping functionality in GIS software which have some shortcomings. So, the idea of geographical information cartographic...
Provided by Wuhan University
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White Papers
"Lenticular Foil Display" New Geo-Data Visualization Tools for Participatory Urban Planning
May 2008
Visualization is one of the most attractive tools for participants to be effectively involved in planning processes. The development trends in Urban Planning and Management to more strategic...
Provided by International Federation of Surveyors
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Systematic Methods for Multi Variate Data Visualization and Numerical Asessment of Class Separability and Overlap in Automated Visual Industrial Quality Control
Nov 2007
The focus of this work is on systematic methods for visualization and quality assessment with regards to classification of multivariate data sets. This novel methods and criteria give in visual...
Provided by Darmstadt University of Technology
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White Papers
Run-Time Visualization of Program Data
Nov 2007
An important improvement to visualization systems will provide a graphics "Window into an application" displaying program data at run-time through an easy-to-use graphical interface. With little...
Provided by University of Illinois
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White Papers
Choosing Effective Colours for Data Visualization
Nov 2007
This paper has presented a simple method for choosing effective colours for use during data visualization. This is accomplished by controlling colour distance, linear separation of colours, and...
Provided by University of British Columbia
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Visualizing Time-Dependent Data in Multivariate Hierarchic Plots - Design and Evaluation of an Economic Application
Apr 2008
For successfully competing in a modern economy, large amounts of hierarchic time-dependent data need to be analyzed. As an example, one could consider the geographic composition of inflation in...
Provided by Technische Universitat Darmstadt
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White Papers
TraXplorer: Multi-Focus Interaction in Time-Series Data Visualization
Aug 2009
Information visualization shows tremendous potential for helping both expert and casual users alike make sense of temporal data, but current time series visualization tools provide poor support...
Provided by Purdue University (Krannert)
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White Papers
Real-Time Data Delivery and Remote Visualization Through Multi-Layer Interfaces
Dec 2008
The high resolution NEXRAD Level II data provides critical information for researchers and the broader community to understand, monitor, and predict weather in a timely manner. There are several...
Provided by Purdue University (Krannert)
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White Papers
Interactive Data Visualization
May 2008
A graph typically presents static information of two or more variables. While this can accurately depict relationships between these variables, there are often trends that become more apparent...
Provided by matt blackshaw
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White Papers
Visualizing Multivariate Time Series Data to Detect Specific Medical Conditions
Jul 2008
Efficient unsupervised algorithms for the detection of patterns in time series data, often called motifs, have been used in many applications, such as identifying words in different languages,...
Provided by University of Maryland
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White Papers
A Data Visualization and Data Mining Approach to Response and Non-Response Analysis in Survey Research
Dec 2007
Survey data based on self-selected samples are inherently subject to the threat of selection bias. In this study, both data visualization and data mining techniques were employed to examine...
Provided by Arizona State University
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White Papers
Visualization of Time-Varying Volumetric Data Using Differential Time-Histogram Table
Jan 2010
This paper introduces a novel data structure called Differential Time-Histogram Table (DTHT) for visualization of time-varying scalar data. This data structure only stores voxels that are changing...
Provided by EUROGRAPHICS Association
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White Papers
Exploring Uncertainty Visualization in Large Data Sets
Mar 2008
This is a proposal to renew and extend the current project with LANL on uncertainty visualization of large data sets. The size of the data sets and the uncertainty in the data sets come from the...
Provided by University of California
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White Papers
Temporal Visualization of Planning Polygons for Efficient Partitioning of Geo-Spatial Data
Jan 2010
Partitioning of geo-spatial data for efficient allocation of resources such as schools and emergency health care services is driven by a need to provide better and more effective services....
Provided by University of Maryland
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White Papers
Living Color Frame System: PC Graphics Tool for Data Visualization
Aug 2008
Living Color Frame System (LCFS) is a personal computer software tool for generating real-time graphics applications. It is highly applicable for a wide range of data visualization in virtual...
Provided by NASA
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White Papers
Patient-Oriented Segmentation and Visualization of Medical Data
Jan 2010
The PREPaRe system (Personal Repository for Electronic Patient Records) is a patient-oriented internet-based information system that is able to store, combine, process and visualize all types of...
Provided by Technical University of Berlin
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White Papers
Powerful Data Fusion for Data Visualization and Knowledge Discovery
Oct 2008
The Virtual Global Explorer and Observatory - vGeo - is a powerful visual analysis and data fusion software system designed specifically for today's scientists and engineers faced with the...
Provided by Mechdyne
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White Papers
Visualizing Web Navigation Data With Polygon Graphs
Jan 2010
As the volume of digitally accessible information grows, there is increasing pressure on the development of data visualization methods to enable humans to interpret that data. This paper provides...
Provided by University of Alberta
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White Papers
7 Things You Should Know About Data Visualization
Oct 2007
Data visualization is the graphical representation of information. Bar charts, scatter graphs, and maps are examples of simple data visualizations that have been used for decades. Information...
Provided by EDUCAUSE
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White Papers
Introduction to Geographical Data Visualization
Apr 2009
The important stories that numbers have to tell often involve location - where things are or where they've occurred. When quantitative information displayed on a map, visual displays of both...
Provided by Perceptual Edge
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White Papers
Advanced Data Visualization Developer Guide
Feb 2008
Displaying data in a chart or graph can make data interpretation much easier for users of the applications that one develops with the Adobe Flex product line. Rather than present a simple table of...
Provided by Adobe Systems
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White Papers
MayaVi: A Free Tool for CFD Data Visualization
Jan 2010
Visualizing CFD data is extremely important. There are very few freely available tools that allow one to visualize scalar and vector data on rectilinear, structured and unstructured grids. MayaVi...
Provided by IIT Madras
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White Papers
Data Visualization Specialization Overview: Reducing Costs and Complexity Through Strong Visualization
Oct 2007
While a picture may be worth a thousand words, having the right pieces of data associated with that picture can be invaluable to IT professionals and business managers alike in making better...
Provided by WellOiledPC
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White Papers
Research on Layout Algorithms for Better Data Visualization
Dec 2009
Based on the theory and technology of data visualization, this paper improves some layout algorithms regarding its own natures and characteristics. It also discusses the problem of how to choose...
Provided by Academy Publisher
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Whitepapers
IBM InfoSphere DataStage Performance and Scalability Benchmark Whitepaper: Data Warehousing Scenario
Feb 2010
Information available to business leaders continues to explode, creating the opportunity for a new kind of intelligence to drive insightful, informed business decisions. On a Smarter Planet,...
Provided by IBM
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Whitepapers
The Mandate of Customer-Centric IT
Jan 2010
Business intelligence and reporting have served companies well over the years by inspiring smart decisions based on sales analysis. But remaining competitive in the new, constricted world economy,...
Provided by IBM
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White Papers
Unified Performance Management: The Key to Successful Performance Management
Apr 2009
The rapid pace of business today requires organizations to do everything possible to provide members of their workforce with the information and tools they need to successfully complete their...
Provided by Ventana Research
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Whitepapers
IBM Cognos 8 Business Intelligence Software for Use With SAP NetWeaver Business Warehouse Accelerator
Oct 2009
As business data volumes expand, the challenge of channeling reams of disparate data accumulated over years of operation, into usable information that supports effective decision making. Leading...
Provided by IBM
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Whitepapers
Content Analytics: Tapping Unstructured Content for Business Advantage
Dec 2009
Content analytics is an emerging field of analytics that enables companies to gain new business insights from "Unstructured" and "semi-structured" content. This content can include forms,...
Provided by IBM
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Whitepapers
Relational Data Mining Through Extraction of Representative Exemplars
Jul 2012
With the growing interest on Network Analysis, Relational Data Mining is becoming an emphasized domain of Data Mining. This paper addresses the problem of extracting representative elements from a...
Provided by University of Regina-Bookstore
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Whitepapers
Data Mining on Educational Domain
May 2012
Educational Data Mining (EDM) is defined as the area of scientific inquiry centered around the development of methods for making discoveries within the unique kinds of data that come from...
Provided by Cornell University
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Whitepapers
Data Mining the MNC Like Internal Co-Opetition Duality in a University Context
Aug 2012
The goal of the paper is to quantify the simultaneous competition and cooperation that takes place in organizations. As the concepts seem to be dichotomous opposites at first, the term internal...
Provided by Cornell University
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Whitepapers
Hybrid Data Mining Technique for Knowledge Discovery from Engineering Materials' Data sets
Jan 2011
Studying materials informatics from a data mining perspective can be beneficial for manufacturing and other industrial engineering applications. Predictive data mining technique and machine...
Provided by MANGALORE UNIVERSITY
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Whitepapers
Mining Social Data to Extract Intellectual Knowledge
Jul 2012
Social data mining is an interesting phenomenon which colligates different sources of social data to extract information. This information can be used in relationship prediction, decision making,...
Provided by American International University
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Whitepapers
An Adaptive Parameter Free Data Mining Approach for Healthcare Application
Feb 2012
In today's world, healthcare is the most important factor affecting human life. Due to heavy work load it is not possible for personal healthcare. The proposed system acts as a preventive measure...
Provided by MIT College Of Engineering
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Whitepapers
Automating Legal Research Through Data Mining
Dec 2010
The term legal research generally refers to the process of identifying and retrieving appropriate information necessary to support legal decision-making from past case records. At present, the...
Provided by University of Montreal
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Whitepapers
Multi Relational Data Mining Approaches: A Data Mining Technique
Nov 2012
The multi relational data mining approach has developed as an alternative way for handling the structured data such that RDBMS. This will provides the mining in multiple tables directly. In MRDM...
Provided by Cornell University
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Whitepapers
Application of Data Mining in Protein Sequence Classification
Oct 2012
Protein sequence classification involves feature selection for accurate classification. Popular protein sequence classification techniques involve extraction of specific features from the...
Provided by West Bend Broadcasting, Inc.
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Whitepapers
Data Mining: A Prediction Technique for the Workers in the PR Department of Orissa
Oct 2012
This paper presents the method of mining the data and which contains the information about the large information about the PR (Panchayat Raj Department) of Orissa. The authors have focused some of...
Provided by Gandhi Institute of Engineering & Technology
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Whitepapers
Enterprise Collaboration Is Mobile Collaboration
Nov 2012
In a mobile-centric world, IT has a new challenge on its hands: ensuring that users can access and collaborate on content anytime, anywhere and on any device. Your business challenges very likely...
Provided by Box.net
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Case Studies
Hospital De Faro: Hospital Improves Operations and Patient Care, Establishing Powerful BI Capabilities
Jun 2010
With 2,300 employees, Hospital de Faro serves half a million citizens in Faro, Portugal. Relying on multiple disparate systems, hospital employees lacked holistic insight into patient and...
Provided by Microsoft
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Whitepapers
Frequent Item Set Mining Using Convertible Constraints in IMine
Nov 2011
Frequent item set mining has turned out to be a familiar area of investigation in the data mining field. Its key objective is to determine the sets of items that come collectively more than a...
Provided by EuroJournals
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Whitepapers
A Comparative Analysis of Fuzzy C-Means Clustering and Harmonic K Means Clustering Algorithms
Nov 2011
Data clustering is a common technique for data scrutiny, which is used in many fields, including machine learning, data mining, pattern recognition, image analysis, video analysis and...
Provided by EuroJournals
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Whitepapers
Performance Analysis of Data Mining Algorithms in Weka
Oct 2012
The retail industry collects vast amounts of data on sales, customer buying history, goods, and service with ease of use of modern computing technology. This paper elaborates the use of data...
Provided by IOSR Journal of Engineering
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Whitepapers
Hybrid Algorithm for Clustering Mixed Data Sets
Oct 2012
Clustering is one of the data mining techniques used to group similar objects into different meaningful classes known as clusters. Objects in each cluster have maximum similarity while the objects...
Provided by IOSR Journal of Engineering
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Whitepapers
Scalable Regression Tree Learning on Hadoop Using OpenPlanet
Apr 2012
As scientific and engineering domains attempt to effectively analyze the deluge of data arriving from sensors and instruments, machine learning is becoming a key data mining tool to build...
Provided by University of Southampton
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Whitepapers
A Review on Diverse Ensemble Methods for Classification
Jun 2012
Ensemble methods for different classifiers like bagging and boosting which combine the decisions of multiple hypotheses are some of the strongest existing machine learning methods. The diversity...
Provided by IOSR Journal of Engineering
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Whitepapers
Spatial and Spatio-Temporal Multidimensional Data Modelling: A Survey
Mar 2012
Data warehouse store and provide access to large volume of historical data supporting the strategic decisions of organizations. Data warehouse is based on a multidimensional model which allow to...
Provided by International Journal of Advanced Research in Computer and Communication Engineering (IJARCCE)
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Whitepapers
Selections: Internet Voting With Over-the Shoulder Coercion-Resistance
Feb 2012
The present Selections, a new cryptographic voting protocol that is end-to-end verifiable and suitable for Internet voting. After a one-time in-person registration, voters can cast ballots in an...
Provided by Springer Healthcare
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Whitepapers
Graph Coloring and Conditional Graph Entropy
Jul 2010
The authors consider the remote computation of a function of two sources where one is receiver side information. Specifically, given side information Y, they wish to compute f(X, Y) based on...
Provided by Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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Whitepapers
Redescription Mining With Three Primary Data Mining Functionalities
Aug 2012
Describing an object in two ways or shifting the vocabulary of the same concept is Redescription. Not a new problem, Redescription Mining premise had resulted the subsets of objects that afford...
Provided by Academy & Industry Research Collaboration Center
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Whitepapers
An Architecture Framework fr Patiotemporal Data Mining System
Sep 2012
Spatiotemporal data mining is an emerging area of research. Applications for mining different kinds of spatiotemporal patterns and trends are being developed by researchers in various domains....
Provided by Academy & Industry Research Collaboration Center
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Whitepapers
Fast Packed String Matching for Short Patterns
Feb 2012
Searching for all occurrences of a pattern in a text is a fundamental problem in computer science with applications in many other fields, like natural language processing, information retrieval...
Provided by Cornell University
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Whitepapers
Anomaly, Novelty, One-Class Classification: A Comprehensive Introduction
Jan 2011
In data analysis and decision making the authors need frequently to judge whether the observed data items are normal or abnormal. This happens in banking, credit card use, diagnosing patient...
Provided by Dynamic Publishers
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Whitepapers
Horizontal Format Data Mining With Extended Bitmaps
Dec 2011
Analyzing the data warehouses to foresee the patterns of the transactions often needs high computational power and memory space due to the huge set of past history of the data transactions. With...
Provided by Dynamic Publishers
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Whitepapers
The Survey of Data Mining Applications and Feature Scope
Jun 2012
In this paper, the authors have focused a variety of techniques, approaches and different areas of the research which are helpful and marked as the important field of data mining Technologies. As...
Provided by Academy & Industry Research Collaboration Center
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Whitepapers
Classification by Object Recognition in Satellite Images by Using Data Mining
Jul 2011
In this paper, an approach for classification of satellite images has been presented. Satellite images are rich in geographical information. Geographical information can be used in a number of...
Provided by International Association of Engineers
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Whitepapers
Exploratory Data Analysis of Turbulent Flows
Aug 2012
Large Eddy Simulations (LES) contains 3D instantaneous velocity fields as well as passive scalar concentration field describing the coherent flow structures. The study of coherent flow structures...
Provided by International Journal of Computer Science & Engineering Technology (IJCSET)
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Whitepapers
Implementation of FS-DT Algorithm to Enhance the Performance of Decision Tree
Nov 2011
In recent days Data mining gained a large amount importance because it enables modeling and knowledge extraction from the abundance of data which is available. In which Decision trees are powerful...
Provided by International Journal of Engineering Research and Applications (IJERA)
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Whitepapers
Fast Query-Processing With Clustering Algorithm
Jul 2011
Clustering, in data mining, is useful for discovering groups and identifying interesting distributions in the underlying data and to fast query processing. Traditional clustering algorithms either...
Provided by International Journal of Engineering Research and Applications (IJERA)
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Whitepapers
A Hybrid Evolutionary Functional Link Artificial Neural Network for Data Mining and Classification
Sep 2012
This paper presents a specific structure of neural network as the Functional Link Artificial Neural Network (FLANN). This technique has been employed for classification tasks of data mining. In...
Provided by The Schwa
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Whitepapers
Forecasting Stream Flow Using Support Vector Regression and M5 Model Trees
Jul 2012
The paper presents use of two recent data driven techniques namely model tree and support vector regression to forecast stream flow at two different locations one in Narmada river basin and the...
Provided by International Journal of Engineering Research and Development (IJERD)
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Whitepapers
Distributed Formal Concept Analysis Algorithms Based on an Iterative MapReduce Framework
Oct 2012
While many existing formal concept analysis algorithms are efficient, they are typically unsuitable for distributed implementation. Taking the MapReduce (MR) framework as the authors' inspiration...
Provided by Waterford Institute
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Whitepapers
Data Interpolation: An Efficient Sampling Alternative for Big Data Aggregation
Oct 2012
Given a large set of measurement sensor data, in order to identify a simple function that captures the essence of the data gathered by the sensors, the authors suggest representing the data by...
Provided by Ben-Gurion University of the Negev
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Whitepapers
A Comparative Analysis of Data Mining Tools in Agent Based Systems
Oct 2012
World wide technological advancement has brought in a widespread change in adoption and utilization of open source tools. Since, most of the organizations across the globe deal with a large amount...
Provided by Dayananda Sagar Institutions
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Whitepapers
Local Search Is Better Than Random Assignment for Bounded Occurrence Ordering K-CSPs
Oct 2012
The authors prove that the Bounded Occurrence Ordering k-CSP Problem is not approximation resistant. They give a very simple local search algorithm that always performs better than the random...
Provided by Cornell University
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Whitepapers
Scheduling Resources for Executing a Partial Set of Jobs
Oct 2012
In this paper, the authors consider the problem of choosing a minimum cost set of resources for executing a specified set of jobs. Each input job is an interval, determined by its start-time and...
Provided by Cornell University
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Whitepapers
On Online Labeling with Polynomially Many Labels
Oct 2012
In the online labeling problem with parameters n and m the authors are presented with a sequence of n keys from a totally ordered universe U and must assign each arriving key a label from the...
Provided by Charles University
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Whitepapers
An Optimized Conflict-Free Replicated Set
Oct 2012
Eventual consistency of replicated data supports concurrent updates, reduces latency and improves fault tolerance, but forgoes strong consistency. Accordingly, several cloud computing platforms...
Provided by ISSN
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White Papers
Real-Time Data Delivery and Remote Visualization Through Multi-Layer Interfaces
Dec 2008
The high resolution NEXRAD Level II data provides critical information for researchers and the broader community to understand, monitor, and predict weather in a timely manner. There are several...
Provided by Purdue University (Krannert)
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White Papers
Interactive Data Visualization
May 2008
A graph typically presents static information of two or more variables. While this can accurately depict relationships between these variables, there are often trends that become more apparent...
Provided by matt blackshaw
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White Papers
Visualizing Multivariate Time Series Data to Detect Specific Medical Conditions
Jul 2008
Efficient unsupervised algorithms for the detection of patterns in time series data, often called motifs, have been used in many applications, such as identifying words in different languages,...
Provided by University of Maryland
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White Papers
A Data Visualization and Data Mining Approach to Response and Non-Response Analysis in Survey Research
Dec 2007
Survey data based on self-selected samples are inherently subject to the threat of selection bias. In this study, both data visualization and data mining techniques were employed to examine...
Provided by Arizona State University
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White Papers
Visualization of Time-Varying Volumetric Data Using Differential Time-Histogram Table
Jan 2010
This paper introduces a novel data structure called Differential Time-Histogram Table (DTHT) for visualization of time-varying scalar data. This data structure only stores voxels that are changing...
Provided by EUROGRAPHICS Association
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White Papers
Exploring Uncertainty Visualization in Large Data Sets
Mar 2008
This is a proposal to renew and extend the current project with LANL on uncertainty visualization of large data sets. The size of the data sets and the uncertainty in the data sets come from the...
Provided by University of California
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White Papers
Temporal Visualization of Planning Polygons for Efficient Partitioning of Geo-Spatial Data
Jan 2010
Partitioning of geo-spatial data for efficient allocation of resources such as schools and emergency health care services is driven by a need to provide better and more effective services....
Provided by University of Maryland
-
White Papers
Living Color Frame System: PC Graphics Tool for Data Visualization
Aug 2008
Living Color Frame System (LCFS) is a personal computer software tool for generating real-time graphics applications. It is highly applicable for a wide range of data visualization in virtual...
Provided by NASA
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White Papers
Patient-Oriented Segmentation and Visualization of Medical Data
Jan 2010
The PREPaRe system (Personal Repository for Electronic Patient Records) is a patient-oriented internet-based information system that is able to store, combine, process and visualize all types of...
Provided by Technical University of Berlin
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White Papers
Powerful Data Fusion for Data Visualization and Knowledge Discovery
Oct 2008
The Virtual Global Explorer and Observatory - vGeo - is a powerful visual analysis and data fusion software system designed specifically for today's scientists and engineers faced with the...
Provided by Mechdyne
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White Papers
Visualizing Web Navigation Data With Polygon Graphs
Jan 2010
As the volume of digitally accessible information grows, there is increasing pressure on the development of data visualization methods to enable humans to interpret that data. This paper provides...
Provided by University of Alberta
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White Papers
7 Things You Should Know About Data Visualization
Oct 2007
Data visualization is the graphical representation of information. Bar charts, scatter graphs, and maps are examples of simple data visualizations that have been used for decades. Information...
Provided by EDUCAUSE
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White Papers
Introduction to Geographical Data Visualization
Apr 2009
The important stories that numbers have to tell often involve location - where things are or where they've occurred. When quantitative information displayed on a map, visual displays of both...
Provided by Perceptual Edge
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White Papers
Advanced Data Visualization Developer Guide
Feb 2008
Displaying data in a chart or graph can make data interpretation much easier for users of the applications that one develops with the Adobe Flex product line. Rather than present a simple table of...
Provided by Adobe Systems
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White Papers
MayaVi: A Free Tool for CFD Data Visualization
Jan 2010
Visualizing CFD data is extremely important. There are very few freely available tools that allow one to visualize scalar and vector data on rectilinear, structured and unstructured grids. MayaVi...
Provided by IIT Madras
-
White Papers
Data Visualization Specialization Overview: Reducing Costs and Complexity Through Strong Visualization
Oct 2007
While a picture may be worth a thousand words, having the right pieces of data associated with that picture can be invaluable to IT professionals and business managers alike in making better...
Provided by WellOiledPC
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White Papers
Research on Layout Algorithms for Better Data Visualization
Dec 2009
Based on the theory and technology of data visualization, this paper improves some layout algorithms regarding its own natures and characteristics. It also discusses the problem of how to choose...
Provided by Academy Publisher
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Whitepapers
The Principles of Effective Dashboards
Feb 2010
The dashboard has emerged as a business framework to manage and share information in context. Dashboards provide an at a glance view of business performance for many individuals in an...
Provided by IBM
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Whitepapers
IBM InfoSphere DataStage Performance and Scalability Benchmark Whitepaper: Data Warehousing Scenario
Feb 2010
Information available to business leaders continues to explode, creating the opportunity for a new kind of intelligence to drive insightful, informed business decisions. On a Smarter Planet,...
Provided by IBM
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Whitepapers
The Mandate of Customer-Centric IT
Jan 2010
Business intelligence and reporting have served companies well over the years by inspiring smart decisions based on sales analysis. But remaining competitive in the new, constricted world economy,...
Provided by IBM
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White Papers
Unified Performance Management: The Key to Successful Performance Management
Apr 2009
The rapid pace of business today requires organizations to do everything possible to provide members of their workforce with the information and tools they need to successfully complete their...
Provided by Ventana Research
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Whitepapers
IBM Cognos 8 Business Intelligence Software for Use With SAP NetWeaver Business Warehouse Accelerator
Oct 2009
As business data volumes expand, the challenge of channeling reams of disparate data accumulated over years of operation, into usable information that supports effective decision making. Leading...
Provided by IBM
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Whitepapers
Content Analytics: Tapping Unstructured Content for Business Advantage
Dec 2009
Content analytics is an emerging field of analytics that enables companies to gain new business insights from "Unstructured" and "semi-structured" content. This content can include forms,...
Provided by IBM
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Whitepapers
Build or Buy: Selecting an Analytic Application
Nov 2009
The face of globalization is changing. According to the third edition of IBM's 2008 Global CEO study, private and public sector leaders agree that success in the global economy no longer relies...
Provided by IBM
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Whitepapers
Why Performance Management?: A Guide for the Midsize Organization - Gain Competitive Advantage Without Breaking the Bank
Sep 2009
Performance management links the insights drawn from trusted information to the actions in strategic and operational plans. It sees reports, scorecards and plans not as separate technologies or...
Provided by IBM
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Whitepapers
Picturing Performance: IBM Cognos Dashboards and Scorecards for Healthcare
Sep 2009
Healthcare organizations around the globe are increasingly using dashboards to provide at-a-glance views of current business performance and decision-making. But not all dashboards are the same,...
Provided by IBM
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Whitepapers
The City Re-Examined: Measuring Municipal Performance for Smarter Services
Sep 2009
As cities become bigger and more influential in the world today, so grows their responsibility to provide maximum liveability and the best possible services to residents. With technology more able...
Provided by IBM
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Whitepapers
Top Ten Reports Every Insurance Executive Needs: Executive Insight With IBM Cognos Software
Sep 2009
The crisis in the financial markets jolted the insurance industry awake to the realities and dangers of highly complex global systems and the need to respond to rapid fluctuations in market...
Provided by IBM
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Whitepapers
How Performance Management Can Help You to Navigate Through Turbulent Times: Know Where Value Is Created and Destroyed
Aug 2009
Most companies write long proposals and memos to justify their case. This is not a learning process. It tells people why they have made a proposal that they should accept. Toyota has communication...
Provided by IBM
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Whitepapers
Measure What Matters: Five Reports Every Retailer Needs
Jul 2009
Business analytics, reports and measures give retail organizations the tools they need to develop company-wide strategies, put plans into place and track performance against objectives. They can...
Provided by IBM
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Whitepapers
Insurance Performance Management: Four Ways to Win With IBM Cognos Software
Jun 2009
The insurance industry will be reshaped and won by those innovators who can develop more flexible products, deliver new breakthrough services and create new business models and operational...
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IBM IMS Tools Performance and Tuning Solution - Helping You Achieve and Maintain Superior IMS Performance
Jun 2009
The IMS Tools Performance and Tuning Solution from IBM provides comprehensive performance analysis and tuning assistance for IMS transactions and databases, and includes functionality that is not...
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When the Going Gets Tough, the Tough Need Insight: Performance Management for Life Sciences Companies in a Weak Economy
Jun 2009
There are no times like tough times to make the case for performance management software. This white paper reviews the many hurdles faced by pharmaceutical and biotechnology organizations in a...
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Next-Generation Forecasting: How Rolling Forecasts Can Rescue Your Company's Performance
Mar 2010
Faster, more accurate forecasting is essential in today's turbulent business environment, where uncertainty, insecurity, declining markets and dwindling consumer demand have created significant...
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Why Insurers Are Getting Smart About Business Intelligence
Apr 2009
That's why more and more insurers are investing in Business Intelligence (BI) to gain more comprehensive knowledge about their customers, products and services, employees and overall company...
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10 Ways to Drive Performance in Pharmaceutical Sales and Marketing
Mar 2009
This paper outlines barriers to effective performance management, and the IBM Cognos corporate performance management solution, which provides reporting, scorecarding and analysis, and integrates...
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Integrating, Modeling, and Managing Data to Drive Performance
Jan 2009
Performance management is driven by information. And the quality of that information, who can access it and how, is critical to the success of any performance management solution. The powerful IBM...
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Managing the Business of Education: Uniting the Mission of Education With the Mission of the Marketplace
Mar 2009
Universities and other institutions of higher learning face a tough transition as they seek to behave more like big businesses and base their decisions on data rather than emotions or "hunches."...
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Next-Generation Forecasting: Performance Management and Rolling Forecasts
Jan 2009
Faster, more accurate forecasting is essential in today's business environment, where new profit opportunities emerge quickly and require rapid, strategic decision making. Rolling forecasting -...
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Manufacturing Quality Assurance With IBM Cognos Now!: Mitigate Quality Risk With Operational Performance Management
Mar 2009
This white paper reviews recent changes in the practice and implementation of manufacturing quality assurance, and the resulting impact on companies. It explains the technological problems faced...
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