since vehicle collision coverage, unlike what it seems, is not very profitable for insurance companies and is moving towards making losses, this paper considered the adequacy of measures and rates used by insurance companies, and intended to optimize the methods by employing more scientific approaches. in order to do so, first, the factors affecting the risk of policy holders were identified an...

Although preprocessing is one of the key issues in data analysis, it is still common practice to address this task by manually entering SQL statements and using a variety of stand-alone tools. The results are not properly documented and hardly re-usable. The MiningMart system presented in this chapter focuses on setting up and re-using best practice cases of preprocessing data stored in very la...

Accurate and efficient online measurements of process variables which give information about final product quality are necessary for process control and optimization. However, these process variables cannot often be measured by a sensor or the measurements are too expensive and/or not reliable enough and therefore are not used. The value of these difficult-to-measure variables is usually determ...