In this paper, we introduce an integration study which combines Data Mining (DM) and Agent Based Modeling and Simulation (ABMS). This study, as a new paradigm for DM/ABMS, is concerned with two approaches: (i) applying DM techniques in ABMS investigation, and inversely (ii) utilizing ABMS results in DM research. Detailed description of each approach is presented in this paper. A conclusion and ...

This tutorial provides an overview of the data mining process. The tutorial also provides a basic understanding of how to plan, evaluate and successfully refine a data mining project, particularly in terms of model building and model evaluation. Methodological considerations are discussed and illustrated. After explaining the nature of data mining and its importance in business, the tutorial de...

Degradation of dry matter (DM) and nitrogen (N) in fresh or frozen-thawed alfalfa and ryegrass was studied by using in situ technique. The forages were labeled with 15N during growth in a glasshouse, harvested at similar growth phase, and fresh (F) or frozen-thawed (FT) samples were incubated in the rumen of 3 sheep. There was no difference (P>0.05) between forage type (S) for the immediately s...

Dominic Beer was one of the pioneers in the reform of psychiatric intensive care units. In the mid-1990s he and his colleagues Carol Paton and myself realised that the quality of care in the locked wards that remained after the opening up of the mental hospitals in the 1950s was extremely variable and sometimes lamentably poor. We carried out a nationwide survey of existing psychiatric intensiv...

The Dulmage–Mendelsohn decomposition (or the DM-decomposition) gives a unique partition of the vertex set of a bipartite graph reflecting the structure of all the maximum matchings therein. A bipartite graph is said to be DM-irreducible if its DM-decomposition consists of a single component. For connected bipartite graphs, this is equivalent to the condition that every edge is contained in some...

We search for a spectral line produced by a dark matter (DM) particle with the mass in the range 40 keV < MDM < 14 MeV, decaying in the DM halo of the Milky Way, using a high-resolution spectrometer SPI on board of INTEGRAL satellite. To distinguish the DM decay line from numerous instrumental lines, found in the SPI background spectrum, we study the dependence of the intensity of the line sign...

The problem of the regulation of activity of intestinal disaccharidases, especially lactase, has attracted the attention of researchers for many years (6,8); there are still many unresolved questions. This chapter, which deals with the authors' recent experiments with rats, summarizes data concerning (a) the effect of variation of carbohydrate intake on the activity of sucrase and lactase, (b) ...