SAS® ODS provides programmers with the ability to extract selected information from a procedure and store it in datasets. Such datasets can then be combined to summarize the results from numerous procedures. The SAS Macro facility can be used to execute and extract information from repetitively called SAS procedures. “Macro Variable Arrays” can simplify the extraction of information from SAS pr...

Modern storage systems are often faced with complex trade-offs between the confidentiality, availability, and performance they offer their users. Secret sharing is a data encoding technique that provides information-theoretically provable guarantees on confidentiality unlike conventional encryption. Additionally, secret sharing provides quantifiable guarantees on the availability of the encoded...

RFID technology has been recently adopted in retail environments to track consumer in-store movements, bringing about new exciting opportunities for spatial data mining-enabled marketing. In this paper, we propose a Dynamic Bayesian Networks (DBN)-based model of customer in-store shopping trips and activities. This model infers a customer's product purchase interest given the observations of cu...

This paper proposes a ubiquitous environment store, which is composed of cameras, sensors and displays, for supporting decision concerning commodities based on each customer’s shopping interest. This store suggests that three analyzing views can be utilized to analyse relations between customers’ interests and their behaviours towards commodities. This store collects data on the behaviour of ea...

every 5 years by the US Department of Health and Human Services and the US Department of Agriculture, recommend increasing the consumption of fruits, vegetables , whole grains, and fat-free dairy products. 2 No fresh fruits or vegetables, whole wheat bread, or skim milk are sold in the city's grocery stores. Only " convenience food " items, such as whole milk, sodas, chips, and canned foods are...