This chapter investigates subgroup discovery as a task of constraint-based mining of local patterns, aimed at describing groups of individuals with unusual distributional character...
The area under an ROC curve (AUC) is a criterion used in many applications to measure the quality of a classification algorithm. However, the objective function optimized in most...
In the area of image retrieval, post-retrieval processing is often used to refine the retrieval results to better satisfy users’ requirements. Previous methods mainly focus on p...
The paradigm of mobile agents reached its popularity and attraction from typical application scenarios, which are located in the area of electronic commerce. In these common appli...
Hartmut Vogler, Axel Spriestersbach, Marie-Luise M...