With the ever increasing number of filed patent applications every year, the need for effective
and efficient systems for managing such tremendous amounts of data becomes inevitably …

Patent documents are important intellectual resources of protecting interests of individuals,
organizations and companies. Different from general web documents, patent documents …

A novel framework for mining temporal association rules by discovering itemsets with
frequent itemsets tree is introduced. In order to solve the problem of handling time series by …

Document search on PubMed, the pre-eminent database for biomedical literature, relies on
the annotation of its documents with relevant terms from the Medical Subject Headings …

Due to the interactions among adjacent roads in urban road networks, traffic congestion
gradually propagates to neigboring roads, resulting in regional congestion. To develop …

Innovation-driven development worldwide is driving scientific and technological (Sci-Tech)
progress. As an important form of Sci-Tech achievements, patents provide effective …

The novelty of a patent may be seen as those patterns that distinguishes it from other patents
and scientific literature. Its understanding may serve for many purposes, both in …

This paper introduces a new measure of patent value–Maintenance Renewal Score (MRSc)–
reflecting assignee valuing the patent by paying successive renewal fees. We generate …

Most of the existing studies in temporal data mining consider only lifespan of items to find
general temporal association rules. However, an infrequent item for the entire time may be …

Patents contain a wealth of information about technological progress and market trends.
Many existing techniques for patent assessment rely on citation analysis. Despite its …