During the last years a great number of Query Performance Prediction methods have been proposed. However, this explosion of prediction method proposals have not been paralleled by an in-depth study of suitable methods to evaluate these estimations. In this paper we analyse the current approaches to evaluate Query Performance Prediction methods, highlighting some limitations they present. We als...

We present an overview of current research in performance modeling, focusing on efforts underway in the Performance Evaluation Research Center (PERC). Using some new techniques, we are able to construct performance models that can be used to project the sustained performance of large-scale scientific programs on different systems, over a range of job and system sizes. Such models can be used by...

Performance prediction can play an important role in improving the efficiency of multicomputers in executing scalable parallel applications. An accurate model of program execution time must include detailed algorithmic and architectural characterizations. The exact values for critical model parameters such as message latency and cache miss penalty can often be dificult to determine. This resear...

With an easy access to share information and data nowadays, many investors worldwide are interested in predicting stock prices. The prediction of stock prices using data mining techniques applied to technical variables has been widely researched but not much research to date has been done in applying data mining techniques to both technical and fundamental information. This paper is based on a ...

The use of computational grids to provide an integrated computer platform, composed of differentiated and distributed systems, presents fundamental resource and workload management questions. Key services such as resource discovery, monitoring and scheduling are inherently more complicated in a grid environment where the resource pool is large, dynamic and architecturally diverse. In this resea...

two multivariate calibration methods are compared for the simultaneous chromatographic determination and separation of sulfamethoxazole (smx) and phthalazine (phz) by high performance liquid chromatography (hplc). multivariate calibration techniques such as classical least squares (cls) and inverse least squares (ils) were introduced into hplc to determine the quantification by using uv detecto...

As customers are the main asset of any organization, customer churn management is becoming a major task for organizations to retain their valuable customers. In the previous studies, the applicability and efficiency of hierarchical data mining techniques for churn prediction by combining two or more techniques have been proved to provide better performances than many single techniques over a nu...