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Chapter and Conference Paper
Deriving High Confidence Rules from Spatial Data Using Peano Count Trees
The traditional task of association rule mining is to find all rules with high support and high confidence. In some applications, such as mining spatial datasets for natural resource location, the task is to f...
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Modeling of Facial Expressions Using NURBS Curves
This paper describes a new NURBS-based method for facial modeling and animation. NURBS curves are constructed to correspond with the facial anatomy, and the vertices on the facial model are geometrically assoc...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
An Improved Usage-Based Ranking
A good ranking is critical to gain a positive searching experience. With usage data collected from past searching activities, it could be improved from current approaches which are largely based on text or lin...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
A Q-Based Architecture for Semantic Information Interoperability on Semantic Web
Semantic Web supports a fire-new infrastructure for solving the problem of semantic information interoperability, and it promises to support an intelligent and automatic information-processing platform for mul...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Data Integrity Framework and Language Support for Active Web Intermediaries
With the maturity of content adaptation technologies (such as I-CAP and OPES) in web intermediaries and of content personalization in the network, data integrity has already become a key concern when such tech...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Automatic Keyword Extraction by Server Log Analysis
Traditionally, keywords are extracted from full texts of a document. While in the web environment, there are more sources we can use to provide a more complete view of a web page’s contents. In this paper, we ...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
A Task-Type Aware Transaction Scheduling Algorithm in J2EE
A large number of J2EE applications use entity beans as their application persistence mechanism, while current J2EE scheduling to entity beans is still a simple First-Come First-Served (FCFS) policy. Due to th...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
The Bahncard Problem with Interest Rate and Risk
This paper investigated a new framework for the competitive analysis of the Bahncard problem. In contrast to the earlier approach we introduce the interest rate i and the risk tolerance t into the model, in which...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Outsourcing Internet Security: Economic Analysis of Incentives for Managed Security Service Providers
Firms hesitate to outsource their network security to outside security providers (called Managed Security Service Providers or MSSPs) because an MSSP may shirk secretly to increase profits. In economics this s...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
An Enhanced Super-Peer Model for Digital Library Construction
Peer-to-Peer (P2P) overlay network has emerged as a major infrastructure for constructing future digital libraries. Among various P2P infrastructures, super-peer based P2P network receives extensive attention ...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
xDFT: An Extensible Dynamic Fault Tolerance Model for Cooperative System
According to the requirement of high-availability, real-time and high performance in cooperative system, an Extensible Dynamic Fault Tolerance model (xDFT) is proposed in the paper. xDFT model dynamically sets lo...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
A Recommender System with Interest-Drifting
Collaborative filtering and content-based recommendation methods are two major approaches used in recommender systems. These two methods have some drawbacks in dealing with situations such as sparse data and c...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
A Fair-Exchange and Customer-Anonymity Electronic Commerce Protocol for Digital Content Transactions
This paper devises a new e-commerce protocol that can ensure fair exchange and customer’s anonymity for digital content transactions. The proposed protocol considers the complete transaction process: negotiati...