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EPCC is a technology transfer centre within the University of Edinburgh in the United Kingdom. It has assisted a number of or- ganisations to extract extra business benefit from operational data. This paper outlines some of these data intensive, knowledge discovery projects undertaken by EPCC. It highlights issues common to these projects despite their diversity in solution methods, computational requirements and application area.
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Sloan, T.M., Graham, P.J., Smyllie, K., Lloyd, A.D. (2000). Extracting Business Benefit from Operational Data. In: Bubak, M., Afsarmanesh, H., Hertzberger, B., Williams, R. (eds) High Performance Computing and Networking. HPCN-Europe 2000. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 1823. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-45492-6_48
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