The increasing awareness of data mining technology, along with the attendant increase in the capturing, warehousing, and utilization of historical data to support evidence-based decision making, is leading many organizations to recognize that the effective use of data is the key element in the...

In this paper, we develop a decision-theoretic frameworkfor evaluating data mining systems, which employ classification methods, in terms of their utility in decision-making. The decision-theoretic model provides an economic perspective on the value of â extracted knowledge,â in terms of its...

After conceptual clarification of "international business cycle" and a review of the literature, a new indicator is proposed. This indicator refers to two time series only and allows for an interna-tionally comparable quantification of a country's position in the business cycle. We then...

Extracting information from text is the task of obtaining structured, machineprocessable facts from information that is mentioned in an unstructured manner.It thus allows systems to automatically aggregate information for further analysis, efficient retrieval, automatic validation, or...

In der vorliegenden Dissertation werden zwei neue Data Mining Verfahren und Metho-den zur Extraktion von qualitätsrelevantem Wissen vorgestellt und mit Anwendungen aus der Automobilbranche evaluiert. Diese neuartigen Verfahren erlauben es, in Abhän-gigkeit der zugrunde liegenden Datentypen,...

Extracting information from text is the task of obtaining structured, machine-processable facts from information that is mentioned in an unstructured manner. It thus allows systems to automatically aggregate information for further analysis, efficient retrieval, automatic validation, or...

This thesis utilizes recommender systems to aid the user in contributing to the Social Semantic Web. In this work, we propose a framework that maps domain properties to recommendation technologies. Next, we develop novel recommendation algorithms for improving personalized tag recommendation and...

This paper proposes the use of an integrated information retrieval framework (IIRF) to facilitate the collection of critical information of a manufacturer’s supply network. It explores the requirements for a sustainable survival of manufacturers by aligning information among the entities...