Abstract: A method and a system are described for assessing reliability of a sensor by evaluating the sensor's reliability.

Abstract: The present invention is directed to selecting an advertisement to be presented in an ad space of a webpage. A criterion (e.g., keyword, image, audio element, etc.) is selected to evoke the advertisement. In an embodiment, the criterion is selected based on a relevance of the criteria to a user, and not necessarily based solely on a relevance to the webpage. Whether a criterion should be used to evoke the advertisement might be based on various factors, such as the likelihood that the user will select a criterion-evoked advertisement, regardless of whether the criterion appears in among content of the webpage, and an expected gain of presenting the criterion-evoked advertisement.

Abstract: The present invention is directed to selecting an advertisement to be presented in an ad space of a webpage. A criterion (e.g., keyword, image, audio element, etc.) is selected to evoke the advertisement. In an embodiment, the criterion is selected based on a relevance of the criteria to a user, and not necessarily based solely on a relevance to the webpage. Whether a criterion should be used to evoke the advertisement might be based on various factors, such as the likelihood that the user will select a criterion-evoked advertisement, regardless of whether the criterion appears in among content of the webpage, and an expected gain of presenting the criterion-evoked advertisement.

Abstract: Data mining techniques are described. In an implementation, one or more segments are extracted from a multivariate distribution, each of the segments describing intra-dependencies of a set of input variables. A list is output in a user interface referencing each of the one or more segments and a respective score indicating how interesting the segment is with respect to variable dependencies. In another implementation, a change is made to an observed distribution of data and an effect is calculated of the change. The change with the most desirable effect is chosen, the process being repeated until no more significant changes can be made or the overall change exceeds a limit.

Abstract: Data mining techniques are described. In an implementation, one or more computer-readable media include instructions that are executable on a device to output a user interface describing a list of segments ranked according to a ranking function, the segments demonstrating distinct behavior in one or more attributes over a plurality of clients described in client data and the ranking function containing settings that are enterable via the user interface to specify a business agenda.