Pulp properties are key factors to assessing the performance of a refining process, evaluating operational conditions, and optimizing the process of stock preparation. This paper presents a data-driven approach to estimate the beating degree and wet weight of pulp after refining using case-based reasoning (CBR). Historical data generated in a refining process at a paper mill was used to evaluat...

Case Based Reasoning (CBR) is the first choice in experience-based problems as diagnosis. However, building a case base for CBR is a challenging. Electronic Health Record (EHR) data can provide a starting point for building case base, but it needs a set of preprocessing steps. In this paper, we propose a case-base preparation framework for CBR systems. This framework consists of three main phas...

The post-experiment processing of X-ray Diffraction Microscopy data is often time-consuming and difficult. This is mostly due to the fact that even if a preliminary result has been reconstructed, there is no definitive answer as to whether or not a better result with more consistently retrieved phases can still be obtained. We show here that the first step in data analysis, the assembly of two-...

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Shrinking budgets, reduction in personnel and increasing performance expectations are facts of today's Government environment. The intelligence community has seen these trends stress its ability to collect, manage and disseminate information in an efficient, timely manner. The need to respond to rapidly changing statements of operational interest only exacerbates the problem. It is no longer su...

In Brazil, all legal professionals must demonstrate their knowledge of the law and its application by passing the OAB exams, the national bar exams. The OAB exams therefore provide an excellent benchmark for the performance of legal information systems since passing the exam would arguably signal that the system has acquired capacity of legal reasoning comparable to that of a human lawyer. This...

Classification is a widely used technique in data mining. Thereby achieving a reasonable classifier performance is an increasingly important goal. This paper aims to empirically show how classifier performance can be improved by knowledge-driven data preparation using business, data and methodological know-how. To point out the variety of knowledge-driven approaches, we firstly introduce an adv...

The World Wide Web (WWW) continues to grow at an astounding rate in both the sheer volume of traac and the size and complexity of Web sites. The complexity of tasks such as Web site design, Web server design, and of simply navigating through a Web site have increased along with this growth. An important input to these design tasks is the analysis of how a Web site is being used. Usage analysis ...