Frequent itemset mining plays an important part in college library data analysis. Because there are a lot of redundant data in library database, the mining process may generate intra-property frequent itemsets, and this hinders its efficiency significantly. To address this issue, we propose an improved FP-Growth algorithm we call RFP-Growth to avoid generating intra-property frequent itemsets, ...

In this paper we describe some recent developments that have taken place in context-based predictive coding, in response to the JPEG/JBIG committee's recent call for proposals for a new international standard on lossless compression of continuous-tone images. We describe the different prediction techniques that were proposed and give a performance comparison. We describe the notion of context-b...

The service-oriented architecture paradigm slowly matures towards some kind of “Web Service Internet” where basically everybody may use the services others provide. Though this evolution enables lots of opportunities for electronic business, it also induces many new security issues to consider. One important security threat to SOA consists in request floodings, which—being intentional or accide...

This paper explores a general model of economic exchange between heterogeneous agents representing firms, traders, or other socioeconomic entities, that self-organise into coalitions to fulfil specific tasks. In particular, the work addresses coalition formation problems in which many tasks are addressed to the same population over time in an iterative fashion. The purpose of the paper is to de...

Governmental organizations when formally seeking information on available technologies typically issue documents entitled variously: Request for Proposal (RFP), Request for Information (RFI), Request for Qualifications (RFQ), Request for Expression of Interest (RFEOI), and so forth. The RFP is intended to result in a contract. It may be preceded by one or more preliminary ‘Requests for Informat...

Outline of Expectations for Students: • Schedule a thesis committee meeting for the exam. Scheduling includes finding a date that works for each of your committee members and finding a room to hold the exam in. • Prepare an NIH/NSF style written grant proposal on your thesis project (just the science and bibliography parts – not any of the other forms). While the proposal should include some pr...

Proxy-cache deployment in the LANs has become a current practice aimed at increasing the availability of the data while also reducing client perceived latency, reduce the load on origin servers as well as the external network bandwidth consumption. As the load increases, due to an increase in client’s requests for both cached and non-cached data, it often happens that one single proxy-cache can...

This paper examines the gender politics of Cesarean sections (C-sections) in Taiwan, the country with the third highest Cesarean rates (C-rates) in the world. Public discourses attribute the high C-rates to the demands of women. According to my fieldwork, the Taiwanese medical system itself is responsible for high C-rates. Taiwanese hospitals enforce a significant amount of medical intervention...

Abstraction identification is named as a key problem in requirements analysis. Typically, the abstractions must be found among the large mass of natural language text collected from the clients and users. This paper motivates and describes a new approach, based on traditional signal processing methods, for finding abstractions in natural language text and offers a new tool, AbstFinder as an imp...

This project investigates supervised learning to predict grant proposal approval or rejection, using the Mimir project’s data on external grants applied for by Stanford faculty. Baseline features relating to the grant itself and faculty features are used, in particular the novel use of a faculty member’s network to extract features is investigated and its effects on grant prediction.