INTRODUCTION: An important quality of association rules is novelty. However, evaluating
rule novelty is AI-hard and has been a serious challenge for most data mining systems …

The introduction of domain-specific ontologies is revolutionizing the rapidly developing area
of Biomedical Informatics by improving semantic reasoning and knowledge discovery. Using …

Ontology has played a significant role in various domains for the organization of computer-
managed knowledge in recent years. Ontology is used to organize and classify objects in …

Introduction. This thesis focuses on the data mining outsourcing scenario whereby a data
owner publishes data to an application service provider who returns mining results. To …

Introduction. Good medical hypotheses are the key to most medical breakthroughs.
Association rules produced by medical data mining systems may lead to the formulation of …