Memory-Based Reasoning and K-Nearest Neighbor Searching are frequently adopted data mining techniques. But, they suffer from scalability. Indexing is a promising solution. However, it is difficult to index categorical attributes, since there does not exist linear ordering property among categories in a nominal attribute. In this paper, we proposed heuristic algorithms to map categories to numbe...

The article is devoted to the comprehension of problem manifestation personal vitality and its manifestations in difficult life situations, presented works various researchers-psychologists. Vitality seen as ability cope with one’s own life, result positive adaptation despite adverse conditions / or dangerous circumstances. characterized by a combination social intrapsychic processes that allow...

In their research articles, scholars often use 2 × 2 tables or tree diagrams including natural frequencies in order to illustrate Bayesian reasoning situations to their peers. Interestingly, the effect of these visualizations on participants' performance has not been tested empirically so far (apart from explicit training studies). In the present article, we report on an empirical study (3 × 2 ...