mining and metallurgical projects are among those that require the most sizeable invest-ments undertaken in iran. one target of the current development plan and the ministry of mines and industries has been to attract foreign investment in mining projects. a survey of world-class mining companies was conducted to determine their expectations and in order to recommend a frame work for iran aimed...

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An approach to defining actionability as a measure of interestingness of patterns is proposed. This approach is based on the concept of an action hierarchy which is defined as a tree of actions with patterns and pattern templates (data mining queries) assigned to its nodes. A method for discovering actionable patterns is presented and various techniques for optimizing the discovery process are ...

We describe a system that combines guided navigation with the computation of Pearson correlation coefficients to support the task of interactive data mining by creating dynamic previews of possible navigation states. Author

Sierra Leone is blessed with abundant natural resources but yet prone to environmental degradation due to the mining operations. Most often, the mining communities are faced with social tensions, as a result of the possible trade-off between the expected employment impact and the cost of mining operations to the environment. Over the past decades, the contribution of the mining sector to the de...

Taking into account current trends in the development of ergatic maritime transport systems, factors navigator’s influence on vessel control processes were determined. Within framework research hypothesis, to improve navigation safety, it is necessary apply predictive data mining models and automated control. The paper proposes a diagram system model for identifying navigator “human factor” dur...

We present a framework for characterizing spike (and spiketrain) synchrony in parallel neuronal spike trains that is based on identifying spikes with what we call influence maps: real-valued functions describing an influence region around the corresponding spike times within which possibly graded synchrony with other spikes is defined. We formalize two models of synchrony in this framework: the...

Although many different types of data mining tools have been developed for geographic analysis, the broader perspective of geographic knowledge discovery the stages required and their computational support have been largely overlooked. This paper describes the process of knowledge construction as a number of inter-related activities and the support of these activities in an integrated visual an...

Cameroon has a strong geological potential for a number of mineral resources that, if well managed, could support economic growth. The country contains potentially large deposits of iron ore, gold, bauxite, diamond, limestone, nickel, and gemstones, and indices of other numerous minerals and precious metals. Despite its geological wealth, mining has never played a major role in Cameroon’s econo...