Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Wisconsin--Madison, 1973. / Typescript. Vita. Description based on print version record. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 339-355).

Thesis (M. S.)--Washington State University.

Cameleon# is a web data extraction and management tool that provides information aggregation with advanced capabilities that are useful for developing value-added applications and services for electronic business and electronic commerce. To illustrate its features, we use an airfare aggregation example that collects data from eight online sites, including Travelocity, Orbitz, and Expedia. This paper covers the integration of Cameleon# with commercial database management systems, such as MS SQL Server, and XML query languages, such as XQuery.

El texto completo de este trabajo no está disponible en el Repositorio Académico UPC por restricciones de la casa editorial donde ha sido publicado. / The micro financial sector is a strategic element in the economy of developing countries since it facilitates the integration and development of all social classes and let the economic growth. In this point is the growth of data is high every day in sector like the micro financial, resulting from transactions and operations carried out with these companies on a daily basis. Appropriate management of the personal data privacy policies is therefore necessary because, otherwise, it will comply with personal data protection laws and regulations and let take quality information for decision-making and process improvement. The present study proposes a personal data protection maturity model based on international standards of privacy and information security, which also reveals personal data protection capabilities in organizations. Finally, the study proposes a diagnostic and tracing assessment tool that was carried out for five companies in the micro financial sector and the obtained results were analyzed to validate the model and to help in success of data protection initiatives. / Revisión por pares

El texto completo de este trabajo no está disponible en el Repositorio Académico UPC por restricciones de la casa editorial donde ha sido publicado. / The microfinance sector has a strategic role since they facilitate integration and development of all social classes to sustained economic growth. In this way the actual point is the exponential growth of data, resulting from transactions and operations carried out with these companies on a daily basis, becomes imminent. Appropriate management of this data is therefore necessary because, otherwise, it will result in a competitive disadvantage due to the lack of valuable and quality information for decision-making and process improvement. The Master Data Management (MDM) give a new way in the Data management, reducing the gap between the business perspectives versus the technology perspective In this regard, it is important that the organization have the ability to implement a data management model for Master Data Management. This paper proposes a Master Data management maturity model for microfinance sector, which frames a series of formal requirements and criteria providing an objective diagnosis with the aim of improving processes until entities reach desired maturity levels. This model was implemented based on the information of Peruvian microfinance organizations. Finally, after validation of the proposed model, it was evidenced that it serves as a means for identifying the maturity level to help in the successful of initiative for Master Data management projects. / Revisión por pares

In the analysis of spatio-temporal data, statistical inference based on the Gaussian assumption is ubiquitous due to its many attractive properties. However, data collected from different fields of science rarely meet the assumption of Gaussianity. One option is to apply a monotonic transformation to the data such that the transformed data have a distribution that is close to Gaussian. In this thesis, we focus on a flexible two-parameter family of transformations, the Tukey g-and-h (TGH) transformation. This family has the desirable properties that the two parameters g ∈ R and h ≥ 0 involved control skewness and tail-heaviness of the distribution, respectively. Applying the TGH transformation to a standard normal distribution results in the univariate TGH distribution. Extensions to the multivariate case and to a spatial process were developed recently. In this thesis, motivated by the need to exploit wind as renewable energy, we tackle the challenges of modeling big spatio-temporal data that are non-Gaussian by applying the TGH transformation to different types of Gaussian processes: spatial (random field), temporal (time series), spatio-temporal, and their multivariate extensions. We explore various aspects of spatio-temporal data modeling techniques using transformed Gaussian processes with the TGH transformation. First, we use the TGH transformation to generate non-Gaussian spatial data with the Matérn covariance function, and study the effect of non-Gaussianity on Gaussian likelihood inference for the parameters in the Matérn covariance via a sophisticatedly designed simulation study. Second, we build two autoregressive time series models using the TGH transformation. One model is applied to a dataset of observational wind speeds and shows advantaged in accurate forecasting; the other model is used to fit wind speed data from a climate model on gridded locations covering Saudi Arabia and to Gaussianize the data for each location. Third, we develop a parsimonious spatio-temporal model for time series data on a spatial grid and utilize the aforementioned Gaussianized climate model wind speed data to fit the latent Gaussian spatio-temporal process. Finally, we discuss issues under a unified framework of modeling multivariate trans-Gaussian processes and adopt one of the TGH autoregressive models to build a stochastic generator for global wind speed.

Dissertação (mestrado) - Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Centro Tecnológico. Programa de Pós-Graduação em Ciências da Computação. / Made available in DSpace on 2012-10-20T14:20:36Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 196929.pdf: 2201588 bytes, checksum: 8a9dcaea961966b35ec4ecd086e8e1c8 (MD5)

With the recent advent of Web 2.0, mobile computing, and pervasive sensing technologies, human activities can readily be logged, leaving digital traces of di.erent forms. For instance, human communication activities recorded in online social networks allow user interactions to be represented as “network” data. Also, human daily activities can be tracked in a smart house, where the log of sensor triggering events can be represented as “sequence” data. This thesis research aims to develop computational data mining algorithms using the generative modeling approach to extract salient patterns (motifs) embedded in such network and sequence data, and to apply them for human behavior analysis. Motifs are de.ned as the recurrent over-represented patterns embedded in the data, and have been known to be e.ective for characterizing complex networks. Many motif extraction methods found in the literature assume that a motif is either present or absent. In real practice, such salient patterns can appear partially due to their stochastic nature and/or the presence of noise. Thus, the probabilistic approach is adopted in this thesis to model motifs. For network data, we use a probability matrix to represent a network motif and propose a mixture model to extract network motifs. A component-wise EM algorithm is adopted where the optimal number of stochastic motifs is automatically determined with the help of a minimum message length criterion. Considering also the edge occurrence ordering within a motif, we model a motif as a mixture of .rst-order Markov chains for the extraction. Using a probabilistic approach similar to the one for network motif, an optimal set of stochastic temporal network motifs are extracted. We carried out rigorous experiments to evaluate the performance of the proposed motif extraction algorithms using both synthetic data sets and real-world social network data sets and mobile phone usage data sets, and obtained promising results. Also, we found that some of the results can be interpreted using the social balance and social status theories which are well-known in social network analysis. To evaluate the e.ectiveness of adopting stochastic temporal network motifs for not only characterizing human behaviors, we incorporate stochastic temporal network motifs as local structural features into a factor graph model for followee recommendation prediction (essentially a link prediction problem) in online social networks. The proposed motif-based factor graph model is found to outperform signi.cantly the existing state-of-the-art methods for the prediction task. For extract motifs from sequence data, the probabilistic framework proposed for the stochastic temporal network motif extraction is also applicable. One possible way is to make use of the edit distance in the probabilistic framework so that the subsequences with minor ordering variations can .rst be grouped to form the initial set of motif candidates. A mixture model can then be used to determine the optimal set of temporal motifs. We applied this approach to extract sequence motifs from a smart home data set which contains sensor triggering events corresponding to some activities performed by residents in the smart home. The unique behavior extracted for each resident based on the detected motifs is also discussed. Keywords: Stochastic network motifs, .nite mixture models, expectation maxi­mization algorithms, social networks, stochastic temporal network motifs, mixture of Markov chains, human behavior analysis, followee recommendation, signed social networks, activity of daily living, smart environments

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The problem with designing and simulating a race car entirely through CAD and other computer simulations, is that the real world behavior of the car will differ from the results outputted from CFD and FEA analysis. One way to learn more about how the car actually handles, is through telemetry and data logging of many different sensors on the car while it is running at racing speeds. This data can help the engineering team build new components, and tune the many different systems on the car in order to get the fastest time around a track as possible.