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Data mining
This interesting and comprehensive introduction to data mining emphasizes the interest in multidimensional data mining--the integration of online analytical processing (OLAP) and data mining. Some chapters cover basic methods, and others focus on advanced techniques. The structure, along with the didactic presentation... more
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Multiple-view multiple-learner semi-supervised learning: Neural Processing Letters

In semi-supervised learning, a small amount of labeled data is combined with a large set of unlabeled data, which can lead to significant improvements in learning accuracy. One technique to achieve... more

Connectionism & Neural Nets (I.2.6...) | Feb 9 12

Smartening the crowds: computational techniques for improving human verification to fight phishing scams: SOUPS 11

A good phishing site should resemble the target site as much as possible, and it should hide the differences with the target site, at least to the unsuspecting user. This paper leverages... more

Security & Protection (D.4.6) | Feb 9 12

How bad are selfish investments in network security?: IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking

Issues in network security can be addressed using the framework provided by game theory. In this paper, the authors start from the study of effects of non-cooperation and propose a weighted... more

Security & Protection (K.6.5) | Feb 9 12

Challenges of evolvable hardware: past, present and the path to a promising future: Genetic Programming and Evolvable Machines

This paper presents a critical review and discussion of previous works in evolvable hardware (EH) and the research directions in this field. According to the authors, they “highlight some of... more

Artificial Intelligence (I.2) | Feb 9 12

Log-based middleware server recovery with transaction support: The VLDB Journal

Web-based applications are commonly hosted over multiple systems, which are often not provided by the same service organization. This architecture--from the client, to middleware servers, to back-end... more

Web-Based Services (H.3.5...) | Feb 8 12

Secure collaborative social networks: IEEE Trans. on Systems, Man & Cybernetics, Part C: Applications & Reviews

Distributed collaborative information systems allow multiple organizations to share resources. Information sharing or transferring among different organizations is achieved... more

Social Networking (H.3.4...) | Feb 8 12

A quasi-optimal non-overlapping domain decomposition algorithm for the Helmholtz equation: Journal of Computational Physics

The numerical solution of partial differential equations is one of the prime tasks in scientific computing. The two most important challenges in this area... more

Domain Decomposition Methods (G.1.8...) | Feb 8 12

Investigating and implementing mobility: SIGUCCS 11

This paper examines the use of mobile technology on a campus-wide wireless environment, in a variety of academic disciplines. The University of Maryland, College Park introduced mobile devices to the... more

Computer Uses in Education (K.3.1) | Feb 8 12

Factors that affect software systems development project outcomes: a survey of research: ACM Computing Surveys

McLeod and MacDonell present a survey of relatively current research (from 1996 to 2006) about the factors that affect project outcomes in software... more

Software Development (K.6.3...) | Feb 7 12

Dynamic constraints for record matching: The VLDB Journal

This research paper addresses the problem of matching records from different unreliable data sources. It introduces new concepts of matching dependencies (MDs) and... more

Information Storage (H.3.2) | Feb 7 12

Books
Quantum computation and quantum information: 10th anniversary edition

Computing, generally speaking, relies on physical processes executed by machines that are, in turn, bound by certain physical laws. In a more specific sense, the underlying principles of the classic theory of... more
Physics (J.2...) | Feb 9 12

Computer architecture (5th ed.)

Moore’s law states that the number of transistors that can be placed on an integrated circuit (IC) doubles approximately every two years. This exponential growth in IC technology has led to advancements in everything digital, from central processing... more
General (C.1.0) | Feb 9 12

Mining software specifications: methodologies and applications

Lo and others have edited a nice volume of papers that brings the worlds of software specifications and data mining and knowledge discovery together in the interest of reducing bugs and enhancing reliability and security while reducing the cost of software... more
Requirements/Specifications (D.2.1) | Feb 9 12

Operating system design: the Xinu approach, Linksys version

This is the latest book in a series of OS texts based on Xinu, a Unix-like OS designed by Douglas Comer, at Purdue University, for instructional purposes. The Xinu approach focuses on making OS development approachable by... more
Organization & Design (D.4.7) | Feb 8 12

Graph algorithms

The first edition, printed in 1979, was a classic, widely read algorithms book; however, it eventually went out of print in the 1990s. Even, the author, began making revisions to it before he died; his son, Guy... more
Graph Theory (G.2.2) | Feb 8 12

Reversibility and stochastic networks

First published in 1979, this book immediately attracted the attention of specialists in applied probability and stochastic processes. Today, it is a classic in reversibility of stochastic processes... more
Stochastic Processes (G.3...) | Feb 7 12

EMBOSS user’s guide: practical bioinformatics

The European Molecular Biology Open Software Suite (EMBOSS) is one of the best-known tools for molecular biology. It supports many of the common tasks that need to be performed in bioinformatics: sequence retrievals and comparisons, identifying... more
Biology & Genetics (J.3...) | Feb 7 12

Programming Python

This is an advanced tutorial on Python programming, covering only Python 3.X. Beyond Python, this book emphasizes systems programming, graphical user interface (GUI) programming, and Internet... more
Python (D.3.2...) | Feb 7 12

Proofs and algorithms: an introduction to logic and computability

Mathematical logic is a challenging subject for many students. While its results are of critical importance to computer scientists, its experts often struggle to convey its main ideas to a lay audience.... more
General (F.1.0) | Feb 6 12

The secret war between downloading and uploading: tales of the computer as culture machine

Once in a while, a book comes along that you think might provide enough material to make one truly question the direction that technology is taking. I began reading this book with such an... more
General (K.8.0) | Feb 6 12


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