With the rapid and ubiquitous acceptance of new technologies, algorithms will be used to
estimate new measures of mental state and behavior based on digital data. The algorithms …

Significant research challenges must be addressed in the cleaning, transformation,
integration, modeling, and analytics of Big Data sources for finance. This article surveys the …

With the rise of social media, writings by ordinary people are becoming increasingly
available for linguistic analysis. Such analyses offer great opportunities to identify individual …

Companies in various industries, including travel, hospitality, and retail, increasingly focus
on improving customer relationships and customer loyalty. In this paper, we propose a new …

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Achieving and Assuring High Availability K. Trivedi G. Ciardo B. Dasarathy M. Grottke A …

Social media is playing a growing role in providing consumer feedback to companies about
their products and services. To maximize the benefit of this feedback, companies want to …

With the success of Web 2.0, online users have become publishers and authors rather just
passive consumers. This released traditional media companies from their role as content …

Clinical sources of information are markedly increasing in both volume and variety. A
significant portion of the valuable data resides in the unstructured or semi-structured clinical …

Open Source Software (OSS) has become a strategic asset for a number of reasons, such as
its short time-to-market software service and product delivery, reduced development and …

While the resolution of term ambiguity is important for information extraction (IE) systems, the
cost of resolving each instance of an entity can be prohibitively expensive on large datasets …