The complex interaction of cells with biomaterials (ie, materiobiology) plays an increasingly
pivotal role in the development of novel implants, biomedical devices, and tissue …

Data Mining: Concepts and Techniques, Fourth Edition introduces concepts, principles, and
methods for mining patterns, knowledge, and models from various kinds of data for diverse …

Many of the industrial and research databases are plagued by the problem of missing
values. Some evident examples include databases associated with instrument maintenance …

Our capabilities of both generating and collecting data have been increasing rapidly in the
last several decades. Contributing factors include the widespread use of bar codes for most …

Worldwide, there has been a rapid growth in interest in rough set theory and its applications
in recent years. Evidence of this can be found in the increasing number of high-quality …

We present a survey of the fundamentals and the applications of sparse grids, with a focus
on the solution of partial differential equations (PDEs). The sparse grid approach, introduced …

This chapter attempts a concise introduction to data mining and knowledge discovery. First,
we introduce the necessary nomenclature and definitions, discuss the background of the …

This article addresses the special features of data mining with medical data. Researchers in
other fields may not be aware of the particular constraints and difficulties of the privacy …

The present article provides a survey of the available literature on data mining using soft
computing. A categorization has been provided based on the different soft computing tools …

Predicting student academic performance has long been an important research topic in
many academic disciplines. The present study is the first study that develops and compares …