The big challenge for many areas such as business, marketing, medical science etc. is management of information. The solution for this is provided by the data mining. The application of data mining is text mining, which provides methods such as classification, clustering etc. to extract the important information from unstructured data or text documents. The technique which is used for grouping ...

As the economy has tightened, retailers have been challenged in recent years to be be more strategic in their planning. They struggle to find answers to: • Who can I consider a loyal customer? • What kind of marketing strategy is most likely to increase sales? • What can customer-purchasing patterns reveal about improving inventory control? • What is the most effective way to manage customer re...

The review is an update from the review presented at the OMS-2005 (Chung, 2005). It includes discussions on the technical issues that have been already identified in the literature for manganese nodule production system design and on initial stages of crust mining concepts. It appears no new additional issues have yet been identified and solved. Recent discovery of the buried nodules would nece...

Living through the Information Revolution is becoming a diicult task-humans were not designed to process massive quantities of information. The computer rst found it's use in speeding our number crunching, performing a large number of calculations blindingly fast. We are now beginning to turn to computers to solve another human inadequacy, mining through our masses of information to nd items of...

Objective. To investigate the occurrence of, and risk factors for, pelvic inflammatory disease (PID) occurring during the post-partum year. Methods. Demographic and clinical data for women who delivered a term infant with 5-minute Apgar score 5 8 from 1992 through 1999 at a large urban hospital were extracted from an electronic medical record system. Results. During the study period, 15 206 del...

A brief observation of the developments in mining systems and technology in the past 2 to 4 years is presented. Discussions on the development of other deep-ocean resources that are somewhat similar to nodule production also include gas hydrates, Cobalt-rich manganese crusts, hydrothermal vents and deep-ocean water upwelling (DOW). Previous reviews of deep-ocean mining can be found in Chung (19...

(The views in this paper are solely those of the authors, and do not represent the views of the Department of the Navy or any of its components, DDL-OMNI, Inc., or Noesis, Inc. in addition, the authors acknowledge the contributions of Dr. Karen Swidder Lyons, Naval Research Laboratory, for categorizing the retrieved records for query development purposes, and Dr. Richard Carlin, Office of Naval...

The UPA (Underwriting Profitability Analysis) application embodies a new approach to mining Property & Casualty (P&C) insurance policy and claims data for the purpose of constructing predictive models for insurance risks. UPA utilizes the ProbE (Probabilistic Estimation) predictive modeling class library to discover risk characterization rules by analyzing large and noisy insurance data sets. E...