<p>Due to the competitive Malaysian residential market with a large number of projects that offered almost similar features lead difficulties purchasing among homebuyers. These days, homebuyers are very selective, careful, and required more time in deciding due high numbers abundant, problem Malaysia. As result, unsold were reported. Therefore, understanding homebuyer criteria purchase is...

The Forest Monitoring Service Element of the Global Monitoring for Environmental and Security initiative aims to provide improved forest monitoring (based on space technologies) for the European and global environment. The Service Portfolio provided information on yearly carbon balance, forest disturbance data as well as information for practical forest and land use management operations for bo...

Model flattening often introduces many auxiliary variables. We provide a way to eliminate some of the auxiliary variables occurring in exactly two constraints by replacing those two constraints by a new equivalent constraint for which a propagator is automatically generated on the fly. Experiments show that, despite the overhead of the preprocessing and of using machine-generated propagators, e...

In this paper we analyze the relations between the latent factors with high variance description and affective parameters in an image recommender system. Using the matrix factorization approach we identify the main two factors in the user-item rating database. We exploit the affective metadata related to each item to identify relations between the main factors and the affective metadata. Result...

Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) have the potential to act as research dissemination channel that facilitates sustainable relationships with stakeholders beyond academia. The current research uses the Technology-Organisation-Environment (TOE) Framework to examine factors that potentially affect universities’ decision to adopt ICTs for research dissemination and community outrea...

In this paper, the general formulation of periodically time-varying state-feedback controllers with memory is considered for the first time. New analysis and synthesis conditions for robust stability are proposed. The flexibility of these new results allows the user to freely add degrees-of-freedom to the control law which appears to effectively reduce the conservatism of the synthesis conditio...

Finding latent factors of the data using matrix factorizations is a tried-and-tested approach in data mining. But finding shared factors over multiple matrices is more novel problem. Specifically, given two matrices, we want to find a set of factors shared by these two matrices and sets of factors specific for the matrices. Not only does such decomposition reveal what is common between the two ...