Retailers’ efforts to monetize consumer location data remain dominated by inefficient protocols (e.g., geofencing) that customize marketing interactions based solely on app users’ current location. Although extant trajectory mining techniques can remedy these shortcomings, they require high-frequency data, which poses severe risks consumers’ privacy. The authors present a novel method extract v...

This paper presents a process dependency model for dynamically analyzing data dependencies among concurrently executing processes in an autonomous, distributed service composition environment. Data dependencies are derived from incremental data changes captured at each service execution site. Deltas are then used within a rule-based recovery model to specify how failure recovery of one process ...

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background: the high fertilization failure after ivf treatment cycles could be related to chromosomal abnormalities. this study was carried out to assess the frequency of chromosomal abnormality on human oocytes lacking signs of fertilization 18-20 h after insemination . materials and methods: on day one, 18-20 h after insemination (ivf), fertilization was confirmed when two pronuclei (normal i...

Web 2.0 is turning current Web into social platform for knowing people and sharing information. The Web is strongly socially linked than ever. This paper takes major social tagging systems as examples, namely delicious, flickr and youtube, to analyze the social phenomena in the Social Web in order to identify the way of mediating and linking social data. A simple Upper Tag Ontology (UTO) is pro...