urban area size. A regression model combining both time series and cross-sectional data is used to establish the …

. The output of this process is utilized by statistical classification procedures in order to derive the dependence of the …

in terms of the semiotic categories of syntax, semantics, and pragmatics. With this semiotic view of matter and symbols … this context. Finally, indirect encoding schemes for genetic algorithms are developed which follow the semiotic framework …

Recent work in classification indicates that significant improvements in accuracy can be obtained by growing an … training data (as in bagging or boosting) and running a conventional tree-building algorithm, or by randomizing the induction …

Recent work in classification indicates that significant improvements in accuracy can be obtained by growing an … training data (as in bagging or arcing) and running a conventional tree-building algorithm, or by randomizing the induction …

In this paper, we develop a decision-theoretic frameworkfor evaluating data mining systems, which employ classification … thatarise from this point of view. The relation between the quality of a data mining system and the amount of investment that … the decision maker is willing to make is formalized. We propose two ways by which independent data mining systems can be …

A data file on all separate actions taken by the responsible agencies in implementing the Geothermal Steam Act of 1970 … was developed. A computerized data base on the non-competitive leasing program is described here. The required data were …, Nevada, New Mexico, Oregon, Utah, Washington, and Wyoming. Subsequently, the data file was expanded to include: the …

the kinds of opportunities that are created in our understanding of organizations when the "black boxes" of technology and …Technology has been an important theme in the study of organizational form and function since the 1950s. However … information technologies have become pervasive in organizations and brought about significant changes in them. Organizing no …

When making marketing mix decisions, marketing managers of companies that offer a broad range of product categories … select one or a few focal categories out of all the possible ones offered. This interest is further fuelled by opportunities … requirements of direct marketers: they want to find out which specific products or categories need to be featured in promotional …

account the measurement errors in all of the data. Approaches which ignore the measurement errors in so-called independent …