MINING PHYSICS AND CHEMISTRY

By KENNETH ANDERSON

AN ADAPTIVE ALGORITHM FOR SPLITTING LARGE SETS OF STRINGS AND ITS APPLICATION TO E?CIENT EXTERNAL SORTING INCREMENTALLY MINING RECENTLY REPEATING PATTERNS OVER DATA STREAMS A GRAPH-BASED APPROACH FOR SENTIMENT SENTENCE EXTRACTION FUZZY WEIGHTED ASSOCIATION RULE MINING WITH WEIGHTED SUPPORT AND CON?DENCE FRAMEWORK A FRAMEWORK FOR MINING FUZZY ASSOCIATION RULES FROM COMPOSITE ITEMS MINING MUTUALLY DEPENDENT ORDERED SUBTREES IN TREE DATABASES A TREE DISTANCE FUNCTION BASED ON MULTI-SETS SIBLING DISTANCE FOR ROOTED LABELED TREES KERNEL FUNCTIONS BASED ON DERIVATION DYNAMIC BAYESIAN NETWORKS FOR ACQUISITION PATTERN ANALYSIS: A FINANCIAL-SERVICES CROSS-SELL APPLICATION AN AUTOMATA BASED AUTHORSHIP IDENTI?CATION SYSTEM DETECTION OF RISK FACTORS AS TEMPORAL DATA MINING TWO-PHASED ACTIVE SUPPORT KERNEL MACHINE LEARNING EXTRACTING TOPIC MAPS FROM WEB PAGES INTERACTIVE ABNORMAL CONDITION SIGN DISCOVERY FOR HYDROELECTRIC POWER PLANTS INTERACTIVE VISUALIZATION SYSTEM FOR DECISION MAKING SUPPORT IN ONLINE SHOPPING A METHOD TO RECOGNIZE AND COUNT LEAVES ON THE SURFACE OF A RIVER USING USER’S KNOWLEDGE ABOUT COLOR OF LEAVES