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Contents
3.3.5
Important Theorems
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3.3.6
Classifiers for Web Intelligence
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3.3.7
Incremental Proximal Support Vector Classifiers
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3.3.8
Our work on incremental PSVM classifiers
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II
Synopsis
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4
Results
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5
Evaluation
35
5.1
Research Questions
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5.2
Contributions
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5.3
Contextual Description
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5.4
Citations of Our Papers
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5.5
Lessons Learned
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6
Conclusions and Future Work
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6.1
Summary of Results and Contributions
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6.2
Directions for Future Work
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III
Papers
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A Mobile Commerce Agents in WAP-based Services
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B Peer-to-Peer based Recommendations for Mobile Commerce
73
C Scalable Agent-Based Simulation of Players in Massively Multi-
player Online Games
79
D Empirical Performance Evaluation of the Zereal Massively Mul-
tiplayer Online Game Simulator
91
E Game Usage Mining: Information Gathering for Knowledge Dis-
covery in Massive Multiplayer Games
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F Multicategory Incremental Proximal Support Vector Classifiers107
G Incremental and Decremental Proximal Support Vector Classi-
fication using Decay Coefficients
115
H Parallelization of the Incremental Proximal Support Vector Ma-
chine Classifier using a Heap-based Tree Topology
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Empirical Comparison of Accuracy and Performance for the
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