Interactions of single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) are assumed to be responsible for complex diseases such as sporadic breast cancer. Important goals of studies concerned with such genetic data are thus to identify combinations of SNPs that lead to a higher risk of developing a disease and...

Really simple syndication (RSS) is becoming a ubiquitous technology for notifying users of new content in frequently updated web sites, such as blogs and news portals. This paper describes a feature-based, local clustering approach for generating overview timelines for major events, such as the...

This paper describes a new algorithm for finding and tracking different subjects within an ongoing debate. The algorithm finds blocks of co-occurring terms, representing subjects, including blocks for which the term co-occurrence pattern forms a ring topology. We used short online debate forum...

The evolutionary design of time series forecasters is a field that has been explored for several years now. In this paper, a complete design and training of ARMA (Auto-Regressive Moving Average) and ANN (Artificial Neural Networks) models through the use of Evolutionary Computation is presented....

We propose a support vector machine (SVM)-based structural model to forecast the collapse of banking institutions in the USA using publicly disclosed information from their financial statements on a four-year rolling window. In our approach, the optimum input variable set is defined from a large...

Feature selection is an essential pre-processing technique in data mining that eliminates redundant or unrepresentative attributes and improves the performance of classifiers. However, a classifier with different feature selection approaches results in diverse outcomes. Thus, determining how to...

In this paper we analyze the prediction problem and focus on building a multinomial logit model (MNL) to predict accurately, the market shares of new cars in the Swedish car fleet in the short-term future. Also, we investigate whether or not different prediction questions lead to different...

This work studies the theoretical rules of feature selection in linear discriminant analysis (LDA), and a new feature selection method is proposed for sparse linear discriminant analysis. An l1 minimization method is used to select the important features from which the LDA will be constructed....

Feature selection is an important step when building a classifier on high dimensional data. As the number of observations is small, the feature selection tends to be unstable. It is common that two feature subsets, obtained from different datasets but dealing with the same classification...

We propose a Support Vector Machine (SVM) based structural model in order to forecast the collapse of banking institutions in the U.S. using publicly disclosed information from their financial statements on a four-year rolling window. In our approach, the optimum input variable set is defined...