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Business Applications of Data Mining
-- Shyamal M Tanna
The process of data mining seeks to discover interesting patterns from the large volumes
of data. Motivation for data mining is: (1) abundance of business and industry data like
transactional, medical, time series data, text, documents, www, scientific/engineering, remote sensing
data etc., (2) competitive focusknowledge management (3) inexpensive, powerful computing
power (4) strong theoretical/mathematical foundations, machine learning, statistics,
database management systems and visualization. This research paper deals with the business
applications of data mining in the banking sector.
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2008 IUP . All Rights Reserved.
UML Modeling
of Static Arithmetic Pipeline Design
-- Vipin Saxena and Manish Shrivastava
Modeling is an important activity in any system design and complex designs can be
visually represented through modeling techniques. One such important modeling technique is
Unified Modeling Language (UML), which has been widely accepted as a standard for visual
representation of research problems. In computer architecture, pipelining is one of the architectural
methods for increasing processor performance by partitioning the process into simpler computational
steps that can be executed independently in different functional units like adders, multipliers,
shifters, and so on. Pipeline techniques can also be applied to speed up numerical arithmetic
computation. In the present paper, an attempt has been made to increase the performance of
arithmetic pipeline, especially for floating point computation after designing the complete model of
static arithmetic pipeline design through UML. In this paper, UML class, sequence and activity
diagrams are designed and performance of this model is evaluated through numerical computation of
data in the sum of floating points.
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2008 IUP. All Rights Reserved.
An Efficient Binarization Hardware Architecture for H.264
-- Logashanmugam E and Ramachandran R
Introduction of new techniques with high computerized standards have led to the image
and video coding standards crossing the limits of compression. The Advanced Video Coder
(AVC) (ITU-T H.264, AVC MPEG-4 Part 10) is the latest International standard, which introduces
new enhanced features that require high levels of performance. Among the new tools present in
AVC, the Context-Based Binary Arithmetic Coder (CABAC) offers significant compression advantage
over baseline entropy coders. The CABAC encoding operation consists of major steps of
binarization, context-based or bypass coding and renormalization. Binarization is a pre-processing
step intended to facilitate more efficient operation of the subsequent modeling stage through
alphabet reduction. In this paper, a new binarization hardware architecture for H.264 video
compression is presented. This new method reduces the required binarization interface
bandwidth significantly, as the previous core binarization commands are now replaced with high-level
`syntax element' binarization commands.
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2008 IUP . All Rights Reserved.
Information System
A Boon to Hospital Management in India and Iran
-- Abbas Yazdanpanah
The following article is based on the study of Information Technology and its levels of
application and operability in Medicare centers, as obtained in two cities, namely, Mysore, India and
Kerman, Iran. The study aims to throw light on the present situation and level of implementation of
IT in the two countries and thereafter make suggestions for improving healthcare delivery
systems. It should be obvious that healthcare management is an information intensive task and IT is
the buzzword of the present century. Therefore, the application of IT could benefit the
management of healthcare in a way that could not have been imagined earlier. The study throws up
some interesting observations based on the questionnaire and the data collected thereupon.
© 2009 Abbas Yazdanpanah. All Rights Reserved.
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