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Granular Nested Causal Complexes
Causal reasoning occupies a central position in human reasoning. In many ways, causality is granular. This is true for: perception, commonsense... -
Using an Adapted Classification Based on Associations Algorithm in an Activity-Based Transportation System
A lot of research has been carried out in the past by using association rules to build more accurate classifiers. The idea behind these integrated... -
The Evolution of the Concept of Fuzzy Measure
Most information discovery processes need to understand the reasons of the success of the inference methods or the usability of the new information,... -
Discovering the Factors Affecting the Location Selection of FDI in China*
Since the late 1970s, Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) has played an important role in the economic development of China. However, the growth of FDI... -
4. Stability of Nonlinear Switched and Impulsive Systems
In this chapter, we shall study the stability of nonlinear switched and impulsive systems of the form... -
Sequential Pattern Mining*
Sequential pattern discovery has emerged as an important research topic in knowledge discovery and data mining with broad applications. Previous... -
Uncertain Knowledge Association Through Information Gain
The problem of entity association is at the core of information mining techniques. In this work we propose an approach that links the similarity of... -
1. Examples and Modelling of Switched and Impulsive Systems
When you begin to read this book, you may ask: “what is a switched and impulsive system?” This is a question that may be best answered through... -
Integrated Clustering Modeling with Backpropagation Neural Network for Effcient Customer Relationship Management
The rapid progress in digital data acquisition and storage technology has lead to the fast growing tremendous and amount of data stored in databases,... -
9. Switched Scalable Video Coding Systems
Scalable video coding means that a video sequence is only encoded once and the coded bitstream has the capability of sending any sub-bitstream... -
A C + + Parser for VOTables
This paper provides a brief description of C + + Parser for VOTables. The parser is developed by Persistent Systems in association with IUCAA as part... -
Visualisation Tools for Very Large Amounts of Data
Can we perceive a billion stars? How would you go about classifying them? How quantitatively good would your analysis be? How reliable would your... -
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Building the Infrastructure for the National Virtual Observatory: An Information Technology Research Initiative of the National Science Foundation
The U.S. National Science Foundation is sponsoring the development of the infrastructure for the National Virtual Observatory via its Information... -
Federation and Fusion of Astronomical Information: Standards and Tools for the Virtual Observatories
We present a review of the current organization of astronomical archives and data centers in terms of data federation. We point the challenges faced,... -
Meeting the User Science Challenge for a Virtual Universe
The AstroGrid project, a core UK eScience programme, is rapidly implementing the UK’s contribution to the global drive towards the Virtual... -
Building Interoperable NASA Archives
Over the past decades NASA has developed an extensive set of archives for space astronomy data. These archives are organized along mission,... -
Using XML-Schema to Model Data from Present and Future Astronomical Databases
XML (eXtensible Markup Language) has now become an almost inescapable tool for the exchange of formatted data over the World Wide Web and is now... -
Power Spectrum for the Distribution of Galaxies on the Sphere
A method of Gorski of calculation of the power spectrum for CMB for incomplete COBE data set is applied to the distribution of galaxies on the... -
Wide-Field X-Ray Monitoring as a Data Source for the Virtual Observatory
We refer on novel X-ray telescopes with high sensitivity as well as large field of view of order of 1 000 square degrees or even more. The results...