Extensive research activities are recently directed towards the Semantic Web as a future form of the Web. Consequently, Web search as the key technology of the Web is evolving tow...
The ability to store vast quantities of data and the emergence of high speed networking have led to intense interest in distributed data mining. However, privacy concerns, as well ...
Nonnegative matrix factorization (NMF) has been shown to be an efficient clustering tool. However, NMF`s batch nature necessitates recomputation of whole basis set for new samples...
Background: The hierarchical clustering tree (HCT) with a dendrogram [1] and the singular value decomposition (SVD) with a dimension-reduced representative map [2] are popular met...
Federated text search provides a unified search interface for multiple search engines of distributed text information sources. Resource selection is an important component for fed...