One of the central problems in knowledge discovery is the development of good measures of interestingness of discovered patterns. With such measures, a user needs to manually examine only the more interesting rules, instead of each of a large number of mined rules. Previous proposals of such measures include rule templates, minimal rule cover, actionability, and unexpectedness in the statistica...

In the present computing environment, access control decisions are often based on contextual information like the location of users and objects as well as the time of making an access request. Several variants of Role based Access Control (RBAC) have recently been proposed that support spatio-temporal policy specifications. However, unlike the administrative models available for RBAC, there is ...

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The planning and scheduling of the inventory, production and distribution functions remains an open research area, since few studies have developed models allowing their integrated management. In this paper, we consider a three-stage supply chain, for which a sustainable inventory-production-distribution plan over a multi-period horizon is constructed. The associated program takes the form of a...

Covering based Rough Sets are an important generalization of Rough Set Theory. Basically, they replace the partition generated from an equivalence relation by a covering. In this context many approximation operators can be defined [16, 26, 27, 28, 34]. In this paper we want to discover relationships among approximation operators defined from neighborhoods. We use the concepts of duality, adjoin...

Government efforts to improve local economic conditions by encouraging private investment in targeted communities could affect the broader geographic distribution of employment in a region, especially to the extent that subsidized businesses face few constraints on whom they hire. This paper examines the labor market impacts of investment subsidized by the U.S. federal government’s New Markets ...

Villages, which are the most basic unit in Turkish administrative organization, have had to constantly cope with problems throughout history. In addition, legal entities of villages within metropolitan municipality were terminated Law No. 6360 and they transformed into neighborhoods. This transformation has financial, social, administrative, structural, political effects on villages. The financ...