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2002

Oliveira, Stanley, Zaiane, Osmar

Technical report TR02-13. Discovering hidden patterns from large amounts of data plays an important role in marketing, business, medical analysis, and other applications where these patterns are paramount for strategic decision making. However, recent research has shown that some discovered...

1996

Schone, Manuela

Technical report TR96-14. This Technical Report is based upon an M.Sc. thesis in the Department of Computing Science at the University of Alberta. It describes the design of a generic multimedia database system that supports a wide class of documents. The design is characterized by an...

2015-04-28

Szostak, Rick

Any classification system should be evaluated with respect to a variety of philosophical and practical concerns. This paper explores several distinct issues: the nature of a work, the value of a statement, the contribution of information science to philosophy, the nature of hierarchy, ethical...

Fall 2015

Touna, Vaia

This study is about a series of operational acts of identification, such as interpretations, categorizations, representations, classifications, through which past materials have acquired their meaning and therefore identity. Furthermore, this meaning-making will be demonstrated always to be...

Fall 2014

Komeili, Amin

The radiation dose and the associated lifetime risk of developing cancer is a problem justifying the use of surface topography (ST) as an alternative to radiographs for monitoring scoliosis. The current ST methods mainly rely on marker placement and fail to describe the 3D aspect of the scoliosis...

2009

Malhotra, Baljeet, Nikolaidis, Ioanis, Nascimento, Mario

Technical report TR09-14. We consider the problem of aggregation convergecast scheduling in wireless sensor networks. Aggregation convergecast differs from regular convergecast in that it accommodates transmission dependencies that allow in-network aggregation to be performed. We formulate the...

Spring 2018

Ghaneei, Maliheh

While the common method for diagnosing and monitoring adolescents with idiopathic scoliosis (AIS) is X-ray radiographs from which a Cobb angle is measured, studies have shown that high radiation exposure is linked to high risk of cancer, particularly, for children and women. This thesis describes...

Spring 2013

Sinkov, Nikolai

Each individual chromatogram is typically very sparse, especially when coupled with a technique such as mass spectrometry. Only a small portion of the recorded data actually contains potentially useful information. Since the inclusion of irrelevant information will have detrimental effects upon...

2003

Oliveira, Stanley, Zaiane, Osmar

Technical report TR03-15. In this paper, we address the problem of protecting some sensitive knowledge in transactional databases. The challenge is on protecting actionable knowledge for strategic decisions, but at the same time not losing the great benefit of association rule mining. To...

1994

Goralwalla, Iqbal, Ozsu, M. Tamer, Tansel, Abdullah

Technical report TR94-15. In this paper we describe an implementation of a temporal relational database management system based on attribute timestamping. For this purpose we modify an existing software which supports set-valued attributes. The algebraic language of the system includes...