Data Technologies and Applications: Volume 55 Issue 2

The relative decision-making algorithm for ranking data

Yin-Ju Chen, Jian-Ming Lo

Decision-making is always an issue that managers have to deal with. Keenly observing to different preferences of the targets provides useful information for decision-makers who do…

Data access as a big competitive advantage: evidence from China's car-hailing platforms

Lei Huang, Yandong Zhao, Guangxi He, Yangxu Lu, Juanjuan Zhang, Peiyi Wu

The online platform is one of the essential components of the platform economy that is constructed by a large scale of the personal data resource. However, accurate empirical test…

Gradient boosting learning for fraudulent publisher detection in online advertising

Deepti Sisodia, Dilip Singh Sisodia

Analysis of the publisher's behavior plays a vital role in identifying fraudulent publishers in the pay-per-click model of online advertising. However, the vast amount of raw user…

An efficient local search for large-scale set-union knapsack problem

Yupeng Zhou, Mengyu Zhao, Mingjie Fan, Yiyuan Wang, Jianan Wang

The set-union knapsack problem is one of the most significant generalizations of the Non-deterministic Polynomial (NP)-hard 0-1 knapsack problem in combinatorial optimization…

Bölen: software module clustering method using the combination of shuffled frog leaping and genetic algorithm

Bahman Arasteh, Razieh Sadegi, Keyvan Arasteh

Software module clustering is one of the reverse engineering techniques, which is considered to be an effective technique for presenting software architecture and structural…

Using photographs and metadata to estimate house prices in South Korea

Changro Lee, Key-Ho Park

Most prior attempts at real estate valuation have focused on the use of metadata such as size and property age, neglecting the fact that the building workmanship in the…

Measuring semantic distances using linked open data and its application on music recommender systems

Hsin-Chang Yang, Chung-Hong Lee, Wen-Sheng Liao

Measuring the similarity between two resources is considered difficult due to a lack of reliable information and a wide variety of available information regarding the resources…