Metadata play a fundamental role in both DLs and SDIs. Commonly defined as "structured data about data" or "data which describe attributes of a resource" or, more simply, "information about data", it ...
The purpose of this book is to collect contributions that are at the intersection of multi-objective optimization, swarm intelligence (specifically, particle swarm optimization and ant colony optimiza...
Every mother's worst fear became Sharon Rocha's reality. On Christmas Eve 2002, she received a phone call from her son-in-law saying that her daughter, Laci, was missing. In the hours, days, and event...
The Emperor in Constantinople is hiring mercenaries to repel the infidel.Among them is the ruthless nobleman, Roussel de Balliol and his wife LadyMatilda. His obligations sit lightly upon him; his fir...
Are you a data mining analyst, who spends up to 80% of your time assuring data quality, then preparing that data for developing and deploying predictive models? And do you find lots of literature on d...
This book provides both a theoretical and practical understanding of the key methods of classification, prediction, reduction and exploration that are at the heart of data mining. In addition, it pres...
Broadening its scope to nonstatisticians, Bayesian Methods for Data Analysis, Third Edition provides an accessible introduction to the foundations and applications of Bayesian analysis. Along with a c...
Learn how to develop models for classification, prediction, and customer segmentation with the help of Data Mining for Business Intelligence In today's world, businesses are becoming more capable of a...
This comprehensive emphasizes new methods involved in the extraction of thematic information from remotely sensed images, including neural networks (especially artificial neural networks), fuzzy theor...
"This book should satisfy those who want a different perspective than the official Oracle documentation. It will cover all important aspects of a data warehouse while giving the necessary examples to ...
Data structures and tools from computational geometry help to solve problems in computer graphics. These methods have been widely adopted by the computer graphics community yielding elegant and effici...
In this book the most important techniques available for longitudinal data analysis are discussed. This discussion includes simple techniques such as the paired t-test and summary statistics, but also...
An essential textbook for any student or researcher in biology needing to design experiments, sampling programs or analyse the resulting data. The text begins with a revision of estimation and hypothe...
Statistical methods provide a logical, coherent framework in which data from experimental science can be analyzed. However, many researchers lack the statistical skills or resources that would allow t...
* Covers all aspects of the data acquisition system from design and specification to programming, installation and configuration * Gives both the novice and experienced user a solid understanding of i...
This book is aimed at the large number of people who need to use chemometrics but do not wish to understand complex mathematics, therefore it offers a comprehensive examination of the field of chemome...
Understanding and protecting our environment is a key component of environmental development, yet access to a wide range of high-quality information is currently based on very limited data due to lack...
While the current Web provides access to an enormous amount of information, it is currently only human-readable. In response to this problem, the Semantic Web allows for explicit representation of the...
Data Fusion is a very broad interdisciplinary technology domain. It provides techniques and methods for; integrating information from multiple sources and using the complementarities of these detectio...
Data mining can be defined as the process of selection, exploration and modelling of large databases, in order to discover models and patterns. The increasing availability of data in the current infor...
Susan Chiu and Domingo Tavella present a practical and highly informative perspective on the elements that are crucial to the success of a marketing campaign. Unlike books that are either too theoreti...
The Most Progressive and Complete Guide to DDO-Based Ciphers Developers have long recognized that ciphers based on Permutation Networks (PNs) and Controlled Substitution-Permutation Networks (CSPNs) a...
High-energy physics - the science of the fundamental particles nature - has become one of the most complex and demanding disciplines of natural science. The observation of particle interactions involv...
The insightful experiences and successful strategies of leading social researchers are presented in this resource for collecting data on sensitive issues. The methodological challenges of researching ...
The product of this research has extensive application to the drinking water and regulatory communities for assessing source waters, enriching the ability to assemble and evaluate all existing and rea...
Thanks to advances in electronic archiving of biodiversity data and the digitization of climate and other geophysical data, a new era in biogeography, functional ecology, and evolutionary ecology has ...
This is the first book to present the business case for MDDL adoption and implementation. It identifies the challenges and significance of the standard, examines the business and market drivers and pr...
The new international bestseller from the author of the world is flat. We all sense it: something big is going on. Life is speeding up, and it is dizzying. Here Thomas L. Friedman reveals the tectonic...