Emerging high-dimensional data mining applications needs to find interesting clusters embeded in arbitrarily aligned subspaces of lower dimensionality. It is difficult to cluster high-dimensional data objects, when they are sparse and skewed. Updations are quite common in dynamic databases and they are usually processed in batch mode. In very large dynamic databases, it is necessary to perform ...

At present most privacy preserving algorithms based on l-diversity model are limited only to static data release. It is low efficiency and vulnerable to inference attack if these anonymous algorithms are directly applied to dynamic data publishing. To address this issue, this paper analyzes various inference channels that possibly exist between multiple anonymized datasets and discusses how to ...

ports are the most important economic, political and military bottlenecks. this puts shoreline structures (port) in the class of important structures and they have a crucial role in the countries’ life. pile and deck wharf and their access bridges and offshore deck (jetties), are one of the parts which are supplier of coupling between the land and the waterfront. correct and exact estimation of...

The goal of this paper is to motivate and define a strictly incremental semantics for dynamic predicate logic (Groenendijk and Stokhof 1991). In particular, we will extend the incremental semantics for dynamic propositional logic introduced in Vermeulen (1994) to first-order predicate logic (borrowing central notions from Visser 2002). We call the resulting logical system Incremental Dynamic Pr...

Background: The present study aims to evaluate the cost-effectiveness of Dynamic Interspinous Spacer (Coflex®) and Static Spacer (X-STOP ®) compared to Laminectomy (LAMI) in patients with lumbar spinal stenosis.   Methods: A decision-analysis model was developed to estimate the cost-effectiveness. The effectiveness parameters were obtained from a systematic literature review in ...

In developing key documents such as national building codes, regional emergency response plans, and risk management strategies, it is critical to understand the causes and effects of structural collapse. This paper presents ongoing research activities to establish a robust procedure for accurate assessment of the collapse of steel frame structures. A cohesive zone method based strategy is being...

This paper presents the application of a radically novel approach, called the Microcanonical Multiscale Formalism (MMF) to speech analysis. MMF provides efficient means for studying local non-linear dynamics of complex signals. The formalism is based on precise estimation of local scaling parameters that describe the inter-scale correlations at each point in the signal domain. In this paper we ...