With the emergence of the Internet as a global structure for communication and interaction,many “business to consumer” and “business to business” applications have migrated online,thus increasing the need for software agents that can act on behalf of people, institutions orcompanies with...

The success of industry-based projects (capstone projects) used in computing course depends on a number of factors. These are: i) characteristics of the information system and the client perception, ii) individual student and group characteristics, iii) development methodology used, and iv) the...

One desirable property of machine learning algorithms is the ability to balance the number of parameters in a model in accordance with the amount of available data.Incorporating nonparametric Bayesian priors into models is one approach of automatically adjusting model capacity to the amount of...

Statistical database security focuses on the protection of confidential individual values stored in so-called statistical databases and used for statistical purposes. Examples include patient records used by medical researchers, and detailed phone call records, statistically analyzed by phone...