In this paper we extend a previous definition of gradual dependence as a special kind of (crisp) association rule, in order to measure not only the existence of a tendency, but i...
Data mining allows the exploration of sequences of phenomena, whereas one usually tends to focus on isolated phenomena or on the relation between two phenomena. It offers invaluab...
Web data integration is an important preprocessing step for web mining. It is highly likely that several records on the web whose textual representations differ may represent the ...
Textual patterns have been used effectively to extract information from large text collections. However they rely heavily on textual redundancy in the sense that facts have to be m...
How to endow case-based reasoning systems with effective case adaptation capabilities is a classic problem. A significant impediment to developing automated adaptation procedures i...