Our article introduces the Journal of Educational Data Mining’s Special Issue on Educational Data Mining on Motivation, Metacognition, and Self-Regulated Learning. We outline general research challenges for data mining researchers who conduct investigations in these areas, the potential of EDM to advance research in this area, and issues in validating findings generated by EDM.

classifying customers using data mining algorithms, enables banks to keep old customers loyality while attracting new ones. using decision tree as a data mining technique, we can optimize customer classification provided that the appropriate decision tree is selected. in this article we have presented an appropriate model to classify customers who use internet banking service. the model is deve...

beside developing strategies, success of organizations depends on alignment of strategies. one of the important functional areas in which companies develop strategies is operation. alignment of operation strategies is called horizontal alignment. the aim of this article is to present a model for alignment of operation strategies. to this end, an original algorithm has been presented by which ho...

this paper presents a data envelopment analysis (dea) model combined with bootstrapping to assess performance of one of the data mining algorithms. we applied a two-step process for performance productivity analysis of insurance branches within a case study. first, using a dea model, the study analyzes the productivity of eighteen decision-making units (dmus). using a malmquist index, dea deter...

Abstract With the vigorous development of e-commerce, people pay more and attention to data mining technology. This research mainly discusses application technology in business analysis. study uses clustering algorithm buyers’ purchasing behavior as an example illustrate definition VMML analysis behavior. In this piece XML, through integration data, e-commerce warehouse is constructed, which al...

Prolactin is mainly secreted by the anterior pituitary and is able to stimulate mammary gland development and lactation in mammalians. Although prolactins share a common ancestral gene encoding, they show species specific characteristics and their efficiency may be different in various mammals. The importance of protein structures of all sequences of this hormone have been studied by various bi...