Time series are recorded values of an interesting phenomenon such as stock prices,
household incomes, or patient heart rates over a period of time. Time series data mining …

The importance of network security has grown tremendously and a number of devices have
been introduced to improve the security of a network. Network intrusion detection systems …

Demand-side management technology is a key element of the proposed smart grid, which
will help utilities make more efficient use of their generation assets by reducing consumers' …

Finding useful patterns in large datasets has attracted considerable interest recently, and
one of the most widely studied problems in this area is the identification of clusters, or …

Forecasting the stock market price index is a challenging task. The exponential smoothing
model (ESM), autoregressive integrated moving average model (ARIMA), and the back …

Alzheimer's disease is characterized by the presence of abnormal protein bundles in the
brain tissue, but experts are not yet sure what is causing the condition. To find a cure or …

Content-based music genre classification is a fundamental component of music information
retrieval systems and has been gaining importance and enjoying a growing amount of …

The area of disaster management receives increasing attention from multiple disciplines of
research. A key role of computer scientists has been in devising ways to manage and …

Query optimization is an integral part of relational database management systems. One
important task in query optimization is selectivity estimation, that is, given a query P, we …

The sonar received signals may contain various artifacts such as noise, reverberation, and
clutter that affect the proper target recognition and classification capabilities of sonar …