Neighbourhood-based Collaborative Filtering (CF) has been applied in the industry for several decades, because of the easy implementation and high recommendation accuracy. As the core of neighbourhoodbased CF, the task of dynamically maintaining users’ similarity list is challenged by cold-start problem and scalability problem. Recently, several methods are presented on solving the two problems...

The purpose of this study is to reduce the uncertainty of early stage startups success prediction and filling the gap of previous studies in the field, by identifying and evaluating the success variables and developing a novel business success failure (S/F) data mining classification prediction model for Iranian start-ups. For this purpose, the paper is seeking to extend Bill Gross and Robert L...

patients and methods this retrospective cohort study included 405 renal transplant patients from kerman university of medical sciences hospital, kerman, iran from 2004 to 2010. kaplan-meier method was used to estimate survival rates of patients, and time-dependent cox regression was used to examine the effect of allograft failure on patient survival. results during 4.06 years (median) of follow...