abstract precipitation is an important variable which is used in definition of drought. based on precipitation amounts, some indices are devised for drought monitoring including, the standardized precipitation index (spi) and the standard index of annual precipitation (siap). each of these drought indices are classified into some classes so that each class descripts a given severity of drought....

drug addiction is a major social, economic, and hygienic challenge that impacts on all the community and needs serious threat. available treatments are successful only in short-term unless underlying reasons making individuals prone to the phenomenon are not investigated. nowadays, there are some treatment centers which have comprehensive information about addicted people. therefore, given the ...

Drug addiction is a major social, economic, and hygienic challenge that impacts on all the community and needs serious threat. Available treatments are successful only in short-term unless underlying reasons making individuals prone to the phenomenon are not investigated. Nowadays, there are some treatment centers which have comprehensive information about addicted people. Therefore, given the ...

association rules are among important techniques in data mining which are used for extracting hidden patterns and knowledge in large volumes of data. association rules help individuals and organizations take strategic decisions and improve their business processes. extracted association rules from a database contain important and confidential information that if published, the privacy of indivi...

Due to the rapid growth of data mining technology, obtaining private data on users through this technology becomes easier. Association Rules Mining is one of the data mining techniques to extract useful patterns in the form of association rules. One of the main problems in applying this technique on databases is the disclosure of sensitive data by endangering security and privacy. Hiding the as...

background: breast cancer is the most prevalent malignancy in women and there are many possible reasons for its occurrence. one important issue in different kinds of cancers is the spreading of cancerous cells to other tissues (metastasis). therefore, we have investigated the factors associated with the prediction of metastasis of breast cancer with data mining tools. methods: this study is a c...

In this paper, we want to improve association rules in order to be used in recommenders. Recommender systems present a method to create the personalized offers. One of the most important types of recommender systems is the collaborative filtering that deals with data mining in user information and offering them the appropriate item. Among the data mining methods, finding frequent item sets and ...