In recent years, progresses in data mining and business analytics have fostered the advent of recommender systems, behavioral advertising, and other ways of using consumer data to personalize offers and products. We investigate the incentives for sellers to invest in systems that allow the...

This paper examines the combined use of predictive analytics, optimization, and overbooking to schedule outpatient appointments in the presence of no-shows. We tackle the problem of optimally overbooking appointments given no-show predictions that depend on the individual appointment...

Az üzleti intelligencia fogalmát nagyon sokan, sokféle módon értelmezik. Alapját a komoly matematikai alapokon és módszereken nyugvó adatbányászat adja, azonban az üzleti intelligencia megoldások már rég túlnyúlnak a statisztikus adatbányászaton. Az információs...

From its appearance until nowadays, the internet saw a spectacular growth not only in terms of websites number and information volume, but also in terms of the number of visitors. Therefore, the need of an overall analysis regarding both the web sites and the content provided by them was...

Nowadays, using data mining techniques to extract knowledge from web log files has became a necessity. The behavior of Internet users can be found in the log files stored on Internet servers. Analyzing data obtained from web server logs is rapidly becoming one of the most important activities...

Data collected from Web in the first stage of data mining are usually diverse and voluminous. These data must be assembled into a consistent, integrated and comprehensive view, in order to be used for pattern discovery. Like in most applications of data mining, data preprocessing involves...

Despite the consistent effort to reduce hunger and poverty, a sizeable proportion of the population in India is living below the poverty line (22% 2011-12) and 36% women and 34% men were underweight. Malnutrition and poverty form a vicious circle of poverty which needs to be removed through...

This paper aims to re-estimate the robustness of the relationship between export and economic growth in the Malaysian economy from 1959 to 2000. Combining both production function and international trade and development theories, a six variable (economic growth, exports, imports of consumption...

Germany is the second important coffee market in the world, just overshadowed by the United States. Coffee is the most famous beverage in Germany - even more popular than beer. On the supply side dominate few roasters. Market structure influences the market outcome and explains the processors'...

This paper tries to analyze changes in the allocation of time decided by mothers and how different characteristics of them, such us marital status, employment status, etc., influences that allocation across the period 1981-1997 in the United States. Data reveals that there exists an increase on...