Knowledge discovery: dedicated to Jan M. Żytkow

PEER SCHEEPERS , JAN LAM M ERS and JAN PETERS

EUROPEAN CLASSICAL MUSIC IN TODAY ’ S WORLD Dedicated to Robert Freeman Jan

The end of each century, and especially the end of a millennium, is characterized by a " fermentation " of thoughts and the asking of alarming questions aimed at the past history and future. Thus the ghost of decline of " European Classical Music " affected western countries. Even Central Europe will not be able to avoid similar considerations despite the fact that the situation here after the ...

Science Contribute to Knowledge Discovery ?

Knowledge discovery, that is, to analyze a given massive data set and derive or discover some knowledge from it, has been becoming a quite important subject in several fields including computer science. Good softwares have been demanded for various knowledge discovery tasks. For such softwares, we often need to develop efficient algorithms for handling huge data sets. Random sampling is one of ...

Robert M. Ball: a life dedicated to social security.

67 With the death of Robert Myers Ball at age 93 on January 29, 2008, the Social Security program lost one of its most committed supporters. Social Security Commissioner Michael J. Astrue (2008) stated, “Bob Ball left an indelible mark on the Social Security program and the Agency in that he played a critical role in the establishment of Medicare. His commitment to Social Security was unequaled...

Universal Knowledge Discovery from Big Data: Towards a Paradigm Shift from 'Knowledge Discovery' to 'Wisdom Discovery'

* " Universal knowledge " also can be named as " pervasive knowledge / information " or " ubiquitous knowledge / information ". Abstract: To overcome the shortcomings of knowledge discovered by traditional data mining methods, I argue that we should follow the paradigm shift from " traditional data mining " to " wisdom mining " in the era of big data, and propose Universal Knowledge Discovery f...