This paper introduces the Patent Mining Task of the Seventh NTCIR Workshop and the test collections produced in this task. The task's goal was the classification of research ...
We live in the information age, where the amount of data readily available already overwhelms our capacity to analyze and absorb it without help from our machines. In particular, ...
High potential variation in prior knowledge, metacognitive skills, and motivation within learner populations can prompt design strategies that combine explicit structuring and scaf...
We present a performance study of the MAFIA algorithm for mining maximal frequent itemsets from a transactional database. In a thorough experimental analysis, we isolate the effec...
Douglas Burdick, Manuel Calimlim, Jason Flannick, ...
One crucial issue in genetic programming (GP) is how to acquire promising building blocks efficiently. In this paper, we propose a GP method (called GPTM, GP with Tree Mining) whi...