Most induction algorithms for building predictive models take as input training data in the form of feature vectors. Acquiring the values of features may be costly, and simply acquiring all values may be wasteful or prohibitively expensive. Active feature-value acquisition (AFA) selects features...

To succeed in the context of a global and dynamic economic environment, the companies must use all the information they have, as efficiently as possible, in order to gain competitive advantages and to consolidate their position on the market. They have to respond quickly to the changes in the...

Administration is conducted through the control of events and management of problems in the territory. Economical growth and nowadays technologies lead to difficult problems related to environmental protection against pollution and to people safety against various direct threats from air soil,...

Data Mining is a broad term often used to describe the process of using database technology, modeling techniques, statistical analysis, and machine learning to analyze large amounts of data in an automated fashion to discover hidden patterns and predictive information in the data. By building...

Este trabajo es una exploración del impacto que tienen las Tecnologías de Información y Comunicaciones (TIC), especialmente Internet, no sólo como medio de transmisión de información, sino como fuente primaria de información estadística. A partir de ello, se propone la medición y...

As a result of today's competitive business environment, companies have been trying to improve the utilization of funds effectively in their budgets for information technology investments. These companies retrieve more information with the same set of resources by means of business intelligence...

MANAGING CUSTOMER BEHAVIOUR BY CRM AND BUSINESS INTELLIGENCE: BETWEEN HISTORY AND DATA. In this paper we introduce some definitions concerning Customer Relationship Management and Business Intelligence and we emphasize how they can improve business strategies and performances. We show how Data...

The article presents current status of IT implementation in Polish insurance companies. Afterwards the man issues connected with information management and proposal of dealing with these issues, due to the implementation of Business Intelligence system, is presented. Definition, structure and...

The introduction of smart meter technology is a great challenge for the German energy industry. It requires not only large investments in the communication and metering infrastructure, but also a redesign of traditional business processes. The newly incurring costs cannot be fully passed on to...

High utility itemsets mining identifies itemsets whose utility satisfies a given threshold. It allows users to quantify the usefulness or preferences of items using different values. Thus, it reflects the impact of different items. High utility itemsets mining is useful in decision-making...