Author: Usama
Speakers announced for the 2016 Data Forum
Nicholas Skytland, program manager for NASA’s Open Innovation Program, has trained astronauts for space walks in a pool the size of a football field
“Data Mining Techniques” U. Fayyad, Advances in Computers, 50-page invited survey of field, Academic Press by Elsevier Science Publishers. in preparation – (2004)
“Knowledge Discovery in Databases: An Overview” U. Fayyad, in Relational Data Mining, S. Dzeroski and N. Lavrac (eds), pp. 28-47, Berlin: Springer-Verlag, (2001)
6,263,337 Scalable system for expectation maximization clustering of large databases
A data mining system for use in finding clusters of data items in a database or any other data storage medium. The clusters are
Retrofitting recommender systems for achieving predetermined performance requirements
Abstract Retrofitting recommender systems, so that they can scale to large data, is disclosed. The principal notion is to reduce data requirements of existing
6633852 Preference-based catalog browser that utilizes a belief network
Abstract An electronic shopping aid is provided that assists a user in selecting a product from an electronic catalog of products based on their
6735589 Method of reducing dimensionality of a set of attributes used to characterize a sparse data set
A software facility for analyzing each of a plurality of groups of items is described. The facility retrieves information identifying, for each of a
7051029 Identifying and reporting on frequent sequences of events in usage data
A facility for identifying groups of items that co-occur in more than a threshold number of instances is described. Each such group of items
Usama Fayyad in Johannesburg, SA on July 4, 2016
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