Advances in Web-Age Information Management
Second International Conference, WAIM 2001 **’an, China, July 9–11, 2001 Proceedings
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The potentially adverse influence that teacher perceptions may have on student achievement and achievement motivation has been an increasing concern of educational researchers. This concern has heightened with...
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The construction of information integrating systems for virtual enterprises raises a set of issues concerned with coupling the systems of independent enterprises in a controlled, flexible and easily-understood...
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This paper shows how some of the TINA principles used in the development of Service Management techniques for the Broadband ISDN may be applied to the management of Internet Services. In the original B-ISDN co...
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A benchmark is used to measure and compare the performance of like systems. It is also used to estimate the scalability of a system in terms of the number of users and/or transactions that a system can support...
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Classification rule mining plays significant roles in practical applications. While how to mine classification rules from a database efficiently is an important issue, how to manage and apply the mined rules e...
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In the design of multimedia database system, one of the important issues is how to deal with kansei of human beings. A kansei-oriented image retrieval has been proposed in this paper. Human kansei includes two...
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Second International Conference, WAIM 2001 **’an, China, July 9–11, 2001 Proceedings
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In this paper, we present a three tier clustering method where data objects are described by a number of feature dimensions. Using the approach, similarity along each feature dimension of objects are first com...
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XML is rapidly emerging as the dominant standard for exchanging data on the WWW. Most of application data are stored in relational databases due to its popularity and rich development experiences over it. Ther...
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The development of the World Wide Web (WWW) makes a huge amount of information available on-line, and the amount of information continues to increase. As of March 2001 the Google search engine searches 1,346,9...
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With the ever increasing volume of information generation, selective dissemination of information becomes more and more important since it only brings users the necessary information. Traditional selective dis...
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It is both challenging and desirable to be able to retrieve sound files relevant to users’ interests by searching the Internet. Unlike the traditional way of using keywords as input to search for web pages wit...
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The World Wide Web is growing and changing at an astonishing rate. For the information in the web to be useful, web information systems such as search engines have to keep up with the growth and change of the ...
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With information proliferation on the Web, how to obtain high-quality information from the Web has been one of hot research topics in many fields like Database, IR as well as AI. Web search engine is the most ...
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This research deals with state-of-the-art novel ideas in high level visualization, understanding and interpretation of line-drawing images of 3D patterns, including articulated objects. A new structural approa...
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An efficient tunable high-dimensional indexing scheme called the iMinMax(θ) was proposed to map high-dimensional data points into single dimension value based on the minimum or maximum values among all dimensions...
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Third International Conference, WAIM 2002 Bei**g, China, August 11–13, 2002 Proceedings
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With the rapid development of Internet, distance learning applications over Internet become more and more popular. This paper introduces a personalized learning system for web-based distance learning and focus...
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Topic distillation is the process of finding representative pages relevant to a given query. Well-known topic distillation approaches such as the HITS algorithm have shown to be useful in identifying high qual...
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Mining the frequent pattern from data set is one of the key success stories of data mining research. Currently, most of the efforts are focused on the independent data such as the items in the marketing basket...