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An analysis of the underrepresentation of procurement skills in senior managers in the construction and housebuilding industries (2025)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

This paper seeks to assess the level of skills and expertise in the construction sectors procurement function and examine the perception on the advantage of adopting these procurement skills in senior management positions

A Method for Web Information Extraction (2008)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

The Word Wide Web has become one of the most important information repositories. However, information in web pages is free from standards in presentation and lacks being organized in a good format. It is a challenging work to extract appropriate and... Read More about A Method for Web Information Extraction.

Threat Modeling Revisited: Improving Expressiveness of Attack (2008)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Threat modeling plays an important role in the deployment of optimal security controls and a number of threat modeling techniques have been proposed. However, most of the existing techniques lack adequate semantics and expressiveness. This paper revi... Read More about Threat Modeling Revisited: Improving Expressiveness of Attack.

A Weighted Utility Framework for Mining Association Rules (2008)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Association rule mining (ARM) identifies frequent itemsets from databases and generates association rules by assuming that all items have the same significance and frequency of occurrence in a record i.e. their weight and utility is the same (weight=... Read More about A Weighted Utility Framework for Mining Association Rules.

An algorithm to mine general association rules from tabular data (2009)
Journal Article

Most methods for mining association rules from tabular data mine simple rules which only use the equality operator “=” in their items. For quantitative attributes, approaches tend to discretize domain values by partitioning them into intervals. Limit... Read More about An algorithm to mine general association rules from tabular data.