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Automated Data Analysis Using Excel (Paperback, 2nd edition): Brian D. Bissett Automated Data Analysis Using Excel (Paperback, 2nd edition)
Brian D. Bissett
R2,117 Discovery Miles 21 170 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

This new edition covers some of the key topics relating to the latest version of MS Office through Excel 2019, including the creation of custom ribbons by injecting XML code into Excel Workbooks and how to link Excel VBA macros to customize ribbon objects. It now also provides examples in using ADO, DAO, and SQL queries to retrieve data from databases for analysis. Operations such as fully automated linear and non-linear curve fitting, linear and non-linear mapping, charting, plotting, sorting, and filtering of data have been updated to leverage the newest Excel VBA object models. The text provides examples on automated data analysis and the preparation of custom reports suitable for legal archiving and dissemination. Functionality Demonstrated in This Edition Includes: Find and extract information raw data files Format data in color (conditional formatting) Perform non-linear and linear regressions on data Create custom functions for specific applications Generate datasets for regressions and functions Create custom reports for regulatory agencies Leverage email to send generated reports Return data to Excel using ADO, DAO, and SQL queries Create database files for processed data Create tables, records, and fields in databases Add data to databases in fields or records Leverage external computational engines Call functions in MATLAB (R) and Origin (R) from Excel

Transactions on Rough Sets XIII (Paperback, 2011 ed.): James F. Peters, Andrzej Skowron Transactions on Rough Sets XIII (Paperback, 2011 ed.)
James F. Peters, Andrzej Skowron; Edited by (ghost editors) Chien-Chung Chan, Jerzy W.Grzymala- Busse, Wojciech P. Ziarko
R1,517 Discovery Miles 15 170 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

The LNCS journal Transactions on Rough Sets is devoted to the entire spectrum of rough sets related issues, from logical and mathematical foundations, through all aspects of rough set theory and its applications, such as data mining, knowledge discovery, and intelligent information processing, to relations between rough sets and other approaches to uncertainty, vagueness, and incompleteness, such as fuzzy sets and theory of evidence. Volume XIII contains 14 papers which introduce a number of new advances in both the foundations and the applications of rough sets. These are mathematical structures of generalized rough sets in infinite universes, approximations of arbitrary binary relations, and attribute reduction in decision-theoretic rough sets. Methodological advances introduce rough set-based and hybrid methodologies for learning theory, attribution reduction, decision analysis, risk assessment, and data mining tasks such as classification and clustering. In addition, this volume contains regular articles on mining temporal software metrics data, iGAME discretization method, perceptual tolerance intersection as an example of a near set operation and compression of spatial data with quadtree structures.

SOFSEM 2011: Theory and Practice of Computer Science - 37th Conference on Current Trends in Theory and Practice of Computer... SOFSEM 2011: Theory and Practice of Computer Science - 37th Conference on Current Trends in Theory and Practice of Computer Science, Novy Smokovec, Slovakia, January 22-28, 2011. Proceedings (Paperback, 2011 ed.)
Ivana Cerna, Tibor Gyimothy, Juraj Hromkovic, Keith Jeffery, Rastislav Kralovic?, …
R1,608 Discovery Miles 16 080 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 37th Conference on Current Trends in Theory and Practice of Computer Science, SOFSEM 2011, held in Novy, Smokovec, Slovakia in January 2011. The 41 revised full papers, presented together with 5 invited contributions, were carefully reviewed and selected from 122 submissions. SOFSEM 2011 was organized around the following four tracks: foundations of computer science; software, systems, and services; processing large datasets; and cryptography, security, and trust.

Advanced Data Mining and Applications - 6th International Conference, ADMA 2010, Chongqing, China, November 19-21, 2010,... Advanced Data Mining and Applications - 6th International Conference, ADMA 2010, Chongqing, China, November 19-21, 2010, Proceedings, Part I (Paperback, 2010 ed.)
Longbing Cao, Yong Feng, Jiang Zhong
R2,993 Discovery Miles 29 930 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

With the ever-growing power of generating, transmitting, and collecting huge amounts of data, information overloadis nowan imminent problemto mankind. The overwhelming demand for information processing is not just about a better understanding of data, but also a better usage of data in a timely fashion. Data mining, or knowledge discovery from databases, is proposed to gain insight into aspects ofdata and to help peoplemakeinformed,sensible,and better decisions. At present, growing attention has been paid to the study, development, and application of data mining. As a result there is an urgent need for sophisticated techniques and toolsthat can handle new ?elds of data mining, e. g. , spatialdata mining, biomedical data mining, and mining on high-speed and time-variant data streams. The knowledge of data mining should also be expanded to new applications. The 6th International Conference on Advanced Data Mining and Appli- tions(ADMA2010)aimedtobringtogethertheexpertsondataminingthrou- out the world. It provided a leading international forum for the dissemination of original research results in advanced data mining techniques, applications, al- rithms, software and systems, and di?erent applied disciplines. The conference attracted 361 online submissions from 34 di?erent countries and areas. All full papers were peer reviewed by at least three members of the Program Comm- tee composed of international experts in data mining ?elds. A total number of 118 papers were accepted for the conference. Amongst them, 63 papers were selected as regular papers and 55 papers were selected as short papers.

Advances in Artificial Intelligence -- SBIA 2010 - 20th Brazilian Symposium on Artificial Intelligence, Sao Bernardo do Campo,... Advances in Artificial Intelligence -- SBIA 2010 - 20th Brazilian Symposium on Artificial Intelligence, Sao Bernardo do Campo, Brazil, October 23-28, 2010, Proceedings (Paperback, Edition.)
Antonio Carlos da Rocha Costa, Rosa Maria Vicari, Flavio Tonidandel
R1,531 Discovery Miles 15 310 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This book constitutes the proceedings of the 20th Brazilian Symposium on Artificial Intelligence, SBIA 2010, held in S o Bernardo do Campo, Brazil, in October 2010. The 31 papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 91 submissions. The topics covered are: ontologies, knowledge representation and reasoning; machine learning; autonomous agents and multiagent systems; natural language processing; planning and scheduling; constraints and search; and logics for AI.

Transactions on Large-Scale Data- and Knowledge-Centered Systems II (Paperback, Edition.): Abdelkader Hameurlain, Josef Kung,... Transactions on Large-Scale Data- and Knowledge-Centered Systems II (Paperback, Edition.)
Abdelkader Hameurlain, Josef Kung, Roland Wagner; Edited by (ghost editors) Torben Bach Pedersen, A. Min Tjoa
R1,478 Discovery Miles 14 780 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This special issue of TLDKS contains two kinds of papers. First, it contains a sel- th tion of the best papers from the 11 International Conference on Data Warehousing and Knowledge Discovery (DaWaK 2009), which was held from August 31 to S- tember 2, 2009 in Linz, Austria. Second, it contains a special section of papers on a particularly challenging domain in information retrieval, namely patent retrieval. Over the last decade, the International Conference on Data Warehousing and Knowledge Discovery (DaWaK) has established itself as one of the most important international scientific events within data warehousing and knowledge discovery. DaWaK brings together a wide range of researchers and practitioners working on these topics. The DaWaK conference series thus serves as a leading forum for discu- th ing novel research results and experiences within the field. The 11 International Conference on Data Warehousing and Knowledge Discovery (DaWaK 2009) cont- ued the tradition by disseminating and discussing innovative models, methods, al- rithms, and solutions to the challenges faced by data warehousing and knowledge discovery technologies.

Collaboration and Technology - 16th International Conference, CRIWG 2010, Maastricht, The Netherlands, September 20-23, 2010,... Collaboration and Technology - 16th International Conference, CRIWG 2010, Maastricht, The Netherlands, September 20-23, 2010, Proceedings (Paperback, Edition.)
Gwendolyn Kolfschoten, Thomas Herrmann, Stephan Lukosch
R1,545 Discovery Miles 15 450 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This book constitutes the proceedings of the 16th Collaboration Researchers' International Working Group Conference on Collaboration and Technology, held in Maastricht, The Netherlands, in September 2010. The 27 revised papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from numerous submissions. They are grouped into seven themes that represent current areas of interest in groupware research: knowledge elicitation, construction and structuring, collaboration and decision making, collaborative development, awareness, support for groupware design, social networking and mobile collaboration.

Scalable Uncertainty Management - 4th International Conference, SUM 2010, Toulouse, France, September 27-29, 2010, Proceedings... Scalable Uncertainty Management - 4th International Conference, SUM 2010, Toulouse, France, September 27-29, 2010, Proceedings (Paperback, Edition.)
Amol Deshpande, Anthony Hunter
R1,552 Discovery Miles 15 520 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Managing uncertainty and inconsistency has been extensively explored in - ti?cial Intelligence over a number of years. Now with the advent of massive amounts of data and knowledge from distributed heterogeneous,and potentially con?icting, sources, there is interest in developing and applying formalisms for uncertainty andinconsistency widelyin systems that need to better managethis data and knowledge. The annual International Conference on Scalable Uncertainty Management (SUM) has grown out of this wide-ranging interest in managing uncertainty and inconsistency in databases, the Web, the Semantic Web, and AI. It aims at bringing together all those interested in the management of large volumes of uncertainty and inconsistency, irrespective of whether they are in databases,the Web, the Semantic Web, or in AI, as well as in other areas such as information retrieval, risk analysis, and computer vision, where signi?cant computational - forts are needed. After a promising First International Conference on Scalable Uncertainty Management was held in Washington DC, USA in 2007, the c- ference series has been successfully held in Napoli, Italy, in 2008, and again in Washington DC, USA, in 2009.

Text, Speech and Dialogue - 13th International Conference, TSD 2010, Brno, Czech Republic, September 6-10, 2010.Proceedings... Text, Speech and Dialogue - 13th International Conference, TSD 2010, Brno, Czech Republic, September 6-10, 2010.Proceedings (Paperback, Edition.)
Petr Sojka, Ales Horak, Ivan Kopecek, Karel Pala
R2,981 Discovery Miles 29 810 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

The annual Text, Speech and Dialogue Conference (TSD), which originatedin 1998,is now startingits second decade. So far more than 1,000 authors from 45 countries have contributed to the proceedings. TSD constitutes a recognizedplatform for the presen- tion and discussion of state-of-the-art technology and recent achievementsin the ?eld of natural language processing. It has become aninterdisciplinary forum,interwe- ing the themes of speech technology and language processing. The conference attracts researchers not only from Central and Eastern Europe but also from other parts of the world. Indeed, one ofitsgoals has always been to bring together NLP researchers with differentinterests from different parts of the world and to promote theirmutual co- eration. One of the ambitions of the conferenceis, asits title says, not only to deal with dialogue systems as such, but also to contribute toimproving dialogue between researchersin the two areas of NLP,i. e. , between text and speech people. In ourview, the TSD Conference was successfulinthis respect againin 2010. Thisvolume contains the proceedings of the 13th TSD Conference, heldin Brno, Czech Republicin September 2010. In the review process, 71 papers were accepted out of 144 submitted, an acceptance rate of 49. 3%. We would like to thank all the authors for the efforts they putinto theirsubmissions and the members ofProgram Comm- tee and reviewers who did a wonderfuljob helpingus to select the most appropriate papers. We are alsogratefultotheinvited speakers for their contributions. Theirtalks provideinsightintoimportant currentissues, applications and techniques related to the conference topics.

Knowledge-Based and Intelligent Information and Engineering Systems - 14th International Conference, KES 2010, Cardiff, UK,... Knowledge-Based and Intelligent Information and Engineering Systems - 14th International Conference, KES 2010, Cardiff, UK, september 8-10, 2010, Proceedings, Part III (Paperback, Edition.)
Rossitza Setchi, Ivan Jordanov
R3,008 Discovery Miles 30 080 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

th The 14 International Conference on Knowledge-Based and Intelligent Information and Engineering Systems was held during September 8-10, 2010 in Cardiff, UK. The conference was organized by the School of Engineering at Cardiff University, UK and KES International. KES2010 provided an international scientific forum for the presentation of the - sults of high-quality research on a broad range of intelligent systems topics. The c- ference attracted over 360 submissions from 42 countries and 6 continents: Argentina, Australia, Belgium, Brazil, Bulgaria, Canada, Chile, China, Croatia, Czech Republic, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hong Kong ROC, Hungary, India, Iran, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Japan, Korea, Malaysia, Mexico, The Netherlands, New Zealand, Pakistan, Poland, Romania, Singapore, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Syria, Taiwan, - nisia, Turkey, UK, USA and Vietnam. The conference consisted of 6 keynote talks, 11 general tracks and 29 invited s- sions and workshops, on the applications and theory of intelligent systems and related areas. The distinguished keynote speakers were Christopher Bishop, UK, Nikola - sabov, New Zealand, Saeid Nahavandi, Australia, Tetsuo Sawaragi, Japan, Yuzuru Tanaka, Japan and Roger Whitaker, UK. Over 240 oral and poster presentations provided excellent opportunities for the presentation of interesting new research results and discussion about them, leading to knowledge transfer and generation of new ideas. Extended versions of selected papers were considered for publication in the Int- national Journal of Knowledge-Based and Intelligent Engineering Systems, Engine- ing Applications of Artificial Intelligence, Journal of Intelligent Manufacturing, and Neural Computing and Applications.

Knowledge-Based and Intelligent Information and Engineering Systems - 14th International Conference, KES 2010, Cardiff, UK,... Knowledge-Based and Intelligent Information and Engineering Systems - 14th International Conference, KES 2010, Cardiff, UK, September 8-10, 2010, Proceedings, Part I (Paperback, Edition.)
Rossitza Setchi, Ivan Jordanov
R3,016 Discovery Miles 30 160 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

th The 14 International Conference on Knowledge-Based and Intelligent Information and Engineering Systems was held during September 8-10, 2010 in Cardiff, UK. The conference was organized by the School of Engineering at Cardiff University, UK and KES International. KES2010 provided an international scientific forum for the presentation of the - sults of high-quality research on a broad range of intelligent systems topics. The c- ference attracted over 360 submissions from 42 countries and 6 continents: Argentina, Australia, Belgium, Brazil, Bulgaria, Canada, Chile, China, Croatia, Czech Republic, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hong Kong ROC, Hungary, India, Iran, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Japan, Korea, Malaysia, Mexico, The Netherlands, New Zealand, Pakistan, Poland, Romania, Singapore, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Syria, Taiwan, - nisia, Turkey, UK, USA and Vietnam. The conference consisted of 6 keynote talks, 11 general tracks and 29 invited s- sions and workshops, on the applications and theory of intelligent systems and related areas. The distinguished keynote speakers were Christopher Bishop, UK, Nikola - sabov, New Zealand, Saeid Nahavandi, Australia, Tetsuo Sawaragi, Japan, Yuzuru Tanaka, Japan and Roger Whitaker, UK. Over 240 oral and poster presentations provided excellent opportunities for the presentation of interesting new research results and discussion about them, leading to knowledge transfer and generation of new ideas. Extended versions of selected papers were considered for publication in the Int- national Journal of Knowledge-Based and Intelligent Engineering Systems, Engine- ing Applications of Artificial Intelligence, Journal of Intelligent Manufacturing, and Neural Computing and Applications.

Knowledge Science, Engineering and Management - 4th International Conference, KSEM 2010, Belfast, Northern Ireland, UK,... Knowledge Science, Engineering and Management - 4th International Conference, KSEM 2010, Belfast, Northern Ireland, UK, September 1-3, 2010, Proceedings (Paperback, Edition.)
Yaxin Bi, Mary-Anne Williams
R2,987 Discovery Miles 29 870 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

The proceedings contains the papers selected for the 4th International Conf- ence on Knowledge Science, Engineering and Management (KSEM). The c- lection of papers represent the wide range of research activities that have been carriedout,coveringknowledgerepresentationandreasoning,knowledgeextr- tion, knowledge integration, data mining and knowledge discovery, etc. Ad- tionally, two special sessions:"Theoryand Practiceof Ontologyfor the Semantic Web" and "Application of Data Mining to Seismic Data Analysis for Earthquake Study" have been included along with the main conference program. All of the papers havebeen peer reviewedby the members of the ProgramCommittee and external reviewers; 45 regular papers and 12 short papers were selected. They represent the state of the art of research in KSEM-related research areas. The International Conference on Knowledge Science, Engineering and M- agement in 2010 was the fourth event in the series of successful conferences, previously held in Guilin, China, Melbourne, Australia, and Vienna, Austria. It speci?cally focused on becoming a premier forum for prototype and deployed knowledge engineering and knowledge-based systems. KSEM o?ers an exc- tional opportunity for presenting original work, the latest scienti? c and te- nological advances on knowledge-related systems, and discussing and debating practical challenges and opportunities for the research community. A great many people contributed to making KSEM2010 a successful conf- ence. First of all, we would like to thank the KSEM2010 Organizing Committee and the School of Computing and Mathematics and the University of Ulster for providing crucial support throughout the organization of the conference.

New Frontiers in Applied Data Mining - PAKDD 2009 International Workshops, Bangkok, Thailand, April 27-30, 2010. Revised... New Frontiers in Applied Data Mining - PAKDD 2009 International Workshops, Bangkok, Thailand, April 27-30, 2010. Revised Selected Papers (Paperback, Edition.)
Thanaruk Theeramunkong, Cholwich Nattee, Paulo J L Adeodato, Nitesh Chawla, Peter Christen, …
R1,486 Discovery Miles 14 860 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Five high-quality workshops were held at the 13th Paci?c-Asia Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (PAKDD 2009) in Bangkok, Thailand during April 27-30, 2009. There were 17, 6, 9, 4 and 5 accepted papers to be presented at the Paci?c Asia Workshop on Intelligence and Security Informatics (PAISI 2009), the workshop on Advances and Issues in Biomedical Data Mining (AIBDM 2009), the workshop on Data Mining with Imbalanced Classes and Error Cost (ICEC 2009),the workshopon Open Source in Data Mining (OSDM 2009), and the workshop on Quality Issues, Measures of Interestingness and Evaluation of Data Mining Models (QIMIE 2009). One competition, PAKDD 2009 Data Mining Competition, and one local workshop, Thai Track Session, were arranged. From these workshops (except PAISI which published its works in separate LNCS proceedings), we selected two or three best papers for this LNCS publication. PAKDD is a major international conference in the areas of data mining (DM) and knowledge discovery in database (KDD). It provides an internationalforum for researchersand industry practitioners to share their new ideas, original research results and practical development experiences from all KDD-related areas including data mining, data warehousing, machine learning, databases, statistics, knowledge acquisition and automatic scienti?c discovery, data visualization, causal induction and knowledge-based systems. In general,we wish to thank our General WorkshopCo-chairs,Manabu O- mura and Bernhard Pfahringe, for selecting and coordinating the great wo- shops. WewouldliketothankJunbinGao(CharlesSturtUniversity),PaulKwan (UniversityofNewEngland,Australia),JosiahPoon(UniversityofSydney),and Simon Poon (University of Sydney), for their arrangement of AIBDM 2009.

New Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence - JSAI-isAI 2009 Workshops, LENLS, JURISIN, KCSD, LLLL, Tokyo, Japan, November 19-20,... New Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence - JSAI-isAI 2009 Workshops, LENLS, JURISIN, KCSD, LLLL, Tokyo, Japan, November 19-20, 2009, Revised Selected Papers (Paperback, Edition.)
Kumiyo Nakakoji, Yohei Murakami; Elin McCready
R1,548 Discovery Miles 15 480 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

JSAI (The Japanese Society for Arti?cial Intelligence) is a premier academic society that focuses on arti?cial intelligence in Japan and was established in 1986.JSAIpublishesjournalsoftheJSAIandbimonthlytransactions,andhosts 19 special interest groups. The JSAI annual conference attracts several hundred attendees each year. JSAI-isAI (JSAI International Symposia on Arti?cial Intelligence) 2009 was the First International Symposium, which hosted three co-located international workshops and one satellite workshop that had been selected by the JSAI-isAI 2009OrganizingCommittee.Thisisinsuccessiontotheinternationalworkshops co-located with the JSAI annual conferences since 2001. JSAI-isAI 2009 was successfully held during November 19-20 in Tokyo, Japan; 158 people from 16 countries participated in JSAI-isAI 2009. Thisvolumeof"NewFrontiersinArti?cialIntelligence:JSAI-isAI2009Wo- shops" is the proceedings of JSAI-isAI 2009. The organizers of the four wo- shops, LENLS, JURISIN, KCSD, and LLLL, hosted by JSAI-isAI 2009,selected 24 papers out of 61 presentations. This has resulted in the excellent selection of papersthat arerepresentativeof someof the topics of AI researchboth in Japan and in other parts of the world.

Active Media Technology - 6th International Conference, AMT 2010, Toronto, Canada, August 28-30, 2010, Proceedings (Paperback,... Active Media Technology - 6th International Conference, AMT 2010, Toronto, Canada, August 28-30, 2010, Proceedings (Paperback, Edition.)
Aijun An, Sheila Petty, Runhe Huang
R1,600 Discovery Miles 16 000 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Active Media Technology, AMT 2010, held in Toronto, Canada, in August 2010. The 52 revised full papers and 2 invited talks were carefully reviewed and selected for inclusion of the book. They are grouped in topcial sections on active computer systems and intelligent interfaces; adaptive Web sysetms and information foraging agents; AMT for semantic Web and Web 2.0; data mining, ontology mining and Web reasoning; e-commerce and Web services; entertainment and social applications of active media; evaluation of active media and AMT based systems; intelligent information retrieval; machine learning and human-centered robotics; multi-agent systems; multi-modal processing, detection, recognition, and expression analysis; semantic computing for active media and AMT-based systems; smart digital media; Web-based social networks; and Web mining, wisdom Web and Web intelligence.

Diagrammatic Representation and Inference - 6th International Conference, Diagrams 2010, Portland, OR, USA, August 9-11, 2010,... Diagrammatic Representation and Inference - 6th International Conference, Diagrams 2010, Portland, OR, USA, August 9-11, 2010, Proceedings (Paperback, Edition.)
Ashok K. Goel, Mateja Jamnik, N.Hari Narayanan
R1,543 Discovery Miles 15 430 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

The 6th International Conference on the Theory and Application of Diagrams - Diagrams 2010 - was held in Portland, USA in August 2010. Diagrams is an international and interdisciplinary conference series, which continues to present the very best work in all aspects of research on the theory and application of diagrams. Some key questions that researchers are tackling concern gaining an insight into how diagrams are used, how they are rep- sented, which types are available and when it is appropriate to use them. The use of diagrammatic notations is studied for a variety of purposes including communication, cognition, creative thought, computation and problem-solving. Clearly, this must be pursued as an interdisciplinary endeavor, and Diagrams is the only conference series that provides such a united forum for all areas that are concerned with the study of diagrams: for example, architecture, arti?cial intelligence,cartography,cognitivescience,computer science,education,graphic design, history of science, human-computer interaction, linguistics, logic, ma- ematics, philosophy, psychology, and software modelling. The articles in this volume re?ect this variety and interdisciplinarity of the ?eld.

Knowledge Management and Acquisition for Smart Systems and Services - 11th International Workshop, PKAW 2010, Daegue, Korea,... Knowledge Management and Acquisition for Smart Systems and Services - 11th International Workshop, PKAW 2010, Daegue, Korea, August 30 - 31, 2010, Proceedings (Paperback, Edition.)
Debbie Richards, Byeong Ho Kang
R1,532 Discovery Miles 15 320 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

th The 11 International Workshop on Knowledge Management and Acquisition for Smart Systems and Services (PKAW 2010) has provided a forum for the past two decades for researchers and practitioners working in the area of machine intelligence. PKAW covers a spectrum of techniques and approaches to implement smartness in IT applications. As evidenced in the papers in this volume, machine intelligence solutions incorporate many areas of AI such as ontological engineering, agent-based techn- ogy, robotics, image recognition and the Semantic Web as well as many other fields of computing such as software engineering, security, databases, the Internet, information retrieval, language technology and game technology. PKAW has evolved to embrace and foster advances in theory, practice and te- nology not only in knowledge acquisition and capture but all aspects of knowledge management including reuse, sharing, maintenance, transfer, merging, reconciliation, creation and dissemination. As many nations strive to be knowledge economies and organizations seek to maximize their knowledge assets and usage, solutions to handle the complex task of knowledge management are more important than ever. This v- ume contributes towards this goal. This volume seeks to disseminate the latest solutions from the International Wo- shop on Knowledge Management and Acquisition for Smart Systems and Services (PKAW 2010) held in Daegu, Korea during August 30-31, 2010 in conjunction with the Pacific Rim International Conference on Artificial Intelligence (PRICAI 2010).

Building the Snowflake Data Cloud - Monetizing and Democratizing Your Data (Paperback, 1st ed.): Andrew Carruthers Building the Snowflake Data Cloud - Monetizing and Democratizing Your Data (Paperback, 1st ed.)
Andrew Carruthers
R1,460 R1,166 Discovery Miles 11 660 Save R294 (20%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Implement the Snowflake Data Cloud using best practices and reap the benefits of scalability and low-cost from the industry-leading, cloud-based, data warehousing platform. This book provides a detailed how-to explanation, and assumes familiarity with Snowflake core concepts and principles. It is a project-oriented book with a hands-on approach to designing, developing, and implementing your Data Cloud with security at the center. As you work through the examples, you will develop the skill, knowledge, and expertise to expand your capability by incorporating additional Snowflake features, tools, and techniques. Your Snowflake Data Cloud will be fit for purpose, extensible, and at the forefront of both Direct Share, Data Exchange, and Snowflake Marketplace. Building the Snowflake Data Cloud helps you transform your organization into monetizing the value locked up within your data. As the digital economy takes hold, with data volume, velocity, and variety growing at exponential rates, you need tools and techniques to quickly categorize, collate, summarize, and aggregate data. You also need the means to seamlessly distribute to release value. This book shows how Snowflake provides all these things and how to use them to your advantage. The book helps you succeed by delivering faster than you can deliver with legacy products and techniques. You will learn how to leverage what you already know, and what you don't, all applied in a Snowflake Data Cloud context. After reading this book, you will discover and embrace the future where the Data Cloud is central. You will be able to position your organization to take advantage by identifying, adopting, and preparing your tooling for the coming wave of opportunity around sharing and monetizing valuable, corporate data. What You Will Learn Understand why Data Cloud is important to the success of your organization Up-skill and adopt Snowflake, leveraging the benefits of cloud platforms Articulate the Snowflake Marketplace and identify opportunities to monetize data Identify tools and techniques to accelerate integration with Data Cloud Manage data consumption by monitoring and controlling access to datasets Develop data load and transform capabilities for use in future projects Who This Book Is For Solution architects seeking implementation patterns to integrate with a Data Cloud; data warehouse developers looking for tips, tools, and techniques to rapidly deliver data pipelines; sales managers who want to monetize their datasets and understand the opportunities that Data Cloud presents; and anyone who wishes to unlock value contained within their data silos

Controlled Natural Language - Workshop on Controlled Natural Language, CNL 2009, Marettimo Island, Italy, June 8-10, 2009,... Controlled Natural Language - Workshop on Controlled Natural Language, CNL 2009, Marettimo Island, Italy, June 8-10, 2009, Revised Papers (Paperback, 2010 ed.)
Norbert E. Fuchs
R1,522 Discovery Miles 15 220 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Controlled natural languages (CNLs) are subsets of natural languages, obtained by - stricting the grammar and vocabulary in order to reduce or eliminate ambiguity and complexity. Traditionally, controlled languagesfall into two major types: those that - prove readability for human readers, and those that enable reliable automatic semantic analysis of the language. [. . . ] The second type of languages has a formal logical basis, i. e. they have a formal syntax and semantics, and can be mapped to an existing formal language, such as ?rst-order logic. Thus, those languages can be used as knowledge representation languages, and writing of those languages is supported by fully au- matic consistency and redundancy checks, query answering, etc. Wikipedia Variouscontrollednatural languagesof the second type have been developedby a n- ber of organizations, and have been used in many different application domains, most recently within the Semantic Web. The workshop CNL 2009 was dedicated to discussing the similarities and the d- ferences of existing controlled natural languages of the second type, possible impro- ments to these languages, relations to other knowledge representation languages, tool support, existing and future applications, and further topics of interest.

Advances in Data Mining: Applications and Theoretical Aspects - 10th Industrial Conference, ICDM 2010, Berlin, Germany, July... Advances in Data Mining: Applications and Theoretical Aspects - 10th Industrial Conference, ICDM 2010, Berlin, Germany, July 12-14, 2010. Proceedings (Paperback, 2010 ed.)
Petra Perner
R2,998 Discovery Miles 29 980 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

These are the proceedings of the tenth event of the Industrial Conference on Data Mining ICDM held in Berlin (www.data-mining-forum.de). For this edition the Program Committee received 175 submissions. After the pe- review process, we accepted 49 high-quality papers for oral presentation that are included in this book. The topics range from theoretical aspects of data mining to app- cations of data mining such as on multimedia data, in marketing, finance and telec- munication, in medicine and agriculture, and in process control, industry and society. Extended versions of selected papers will appear in the international journal Trans- tions on Machine Learning and Data Mining (www.ibai-publishing.org/journal/mldm). Ten papers were selected for poster presentations and are published in the ICDM Poster Proceeding Volume by ibai-publishing (www.ibai-publishing.org). In conjunction with ICDM four workshops were held on special hot applicati- oriented topics in data mining: Data Mining in Marketing DMM, Data Mining in LifeScience DMLS, the Workshop on Case-Based Reasoning for Multimedia Data CBR-MD, and the Workshop on Data Mining in Agriculture DMA. The Workshop on Data Mining in Agriculture ran for the first time this year. All workshop papers will be published in the workshop proceedings by ibai-publishing (www.ibai-publishing.org). Selected papers of CBR-MD will be published in a special issue of the international journal Transactions on Case-Based Reasoning (www.ibai-publishing.org/journal/cbr).

Case-Based Reasoning - 18th International Conference, ICCBR 2010, Alessandria, Italy, July 19-22, 2010 Proceedings (Paperback,... Case-Based Reasoning - 18th International Conference, ICCBR 2010, Alessandria, Italy, July 19-22, 2010 Proceedings (Paperback, 2010 ed.)
Isabelle Bichindaritz, Stefania Montani
R2,964 Discovery Miles 29 640 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

The International Conference on Case-Based Reasoning (ICCBR) is the preeminentinternationalmeetingoncase-basedreasoning(CBR). Through2009, ICCBR (http://www. iccbr. org) had been a biennial conference, held in alter- tion with its sister conference, the European Conference on Case-BasedReas- ing (http://www. eccbr. org), which was located in Europe. At the 2009 ICCBR,the ICCBR ProgramCommittee elected to extend ano?er of consoli- tion with ECCBR. The o?er was accepted by the ECCBR 2010 organizers and they have considered it approved by the ECCBR community, as the two conf- ences share a majority of Program Committee members. ICCBR and ECCBR havebeen theleading conferencesonCBR. From2010,ICCBRandECCBRwill be merged in a single conference series, called ICCBR. As there had been eight previous ICCBR events and nine previous ECCBR events, the combined series is considered the 18th ICCBR. ICCBR 2010 (http://www. iccbr. org/iccbr10) was therefore the 18th in this seriesof internationalconferenceshighlighting the mostsigni?cantcontributions tothe?eldofCBR. TheconferencetookplaceduringJuly19-22,2010inthecity of Alessandria,Italy, on the beautiful campus of the University of Piemonte O- entale "A. Avogadro. " Previous ICCBR conferences were held in Sesimbra, P- tugal(1995),Providence,RhodeIsland,USA(1997),SeeonMonastery,Germany (1999), Vancouver, BC, Canada (2001), Trondheim, Norway (2003), Chicago, Illinois, USA (2005), Belfast, Northern Ireland (2007), and Seattle, Washington, USA (2009). Day 1 of the conference hosted an Applications Track, the second Doctoral Consortium, and the third Computer Cooking Contest. The Applications Track featured ?elded applications and CBR systems demos in industrial and scienti?c settingswithanemphasis ondiscussionandnetworkingbetweenresearchersand industrials.

Conceptual Structures: From Information to Intelligence - 18th International Conference on Conceptual Structures, ICCS 2010,... Conceptual Structures: From Information to Intelligence - 18th International Conference on Conceptual Structures, ICCS 2010, Kuching, Sarawak, Malaysia, July 26-30, 2010, Proceedings (Paperback, 2010 ed.)
Madalina Croitoru, Sebastien Ferre, Dickson Lukose
R1,497 Discovery Miles 14 970 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

th The 18 International Conference on Conceptual Structures (ICCS 2010) was the latest in a series of annual conferences that have been held in Europe, A- tralia, and North America since 1993. The focus of the conference has been the representation and analysis of conceptual knowledge for research and practical application. ICCS brings together researchers and practitioners in information and computer sciences as well as social science to explore novel ways that c- ceptual structures can be deployed. Arising from the research on knowledge representation and reasoning with conceptual graphs, over the years ICCS has broadened its scope to include in- vations from a wider range of theories and related practices, among them other forms of graph-based reasoning systems like RDF or existential graphs, formal concept analysis, Semantic Web technologies, ontologies, concept mapping and more. Accordingly, ICCS represents a family of approaches related to conc- tualstructuresthatbuild onthesuccesseswithtechniquesderivedfromarti?cial intelligence, knowledge representation and reasoning, applied mathematics and lattice theory, computational linguistics, conceptual modeling and design, d- grammatic reasoning and logic, intelligent systems and knowledge management. The ICCS 2010 theme "From Information to Intelligence" hints at unve- ing the reasoning capabilities of conceptual structures. Indeed, improvements in storage capacity and performance of computing infrastructure have also - fected the nature of knowledge representation and reasoning (KRR) systems, shifting their focus toward representational power and execution performance. Therefore, KRR research is now faced with a challenge of developing knowledge representation and reasoning structures optimized for such reasonings.

Natural Language Processing and Information Systems - 15th International Conference  on Applications of Natural Language to... Natural Language Processing and Information Systems - 15th International Conference on Applications of Natural Language to Information Systems, NLDB 2010, Cardiff, UK, June 23-25, 2010, Proceedings (Paperback, 2010 ed.)
Christina J. Hopfe, Yacine Rezgui, Elisabeth Metais, Alun Preece, Haijiang Li
R1,530 Discovery Miles 15 300 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

th The 15 International Conference on Applications of Natural Language to Information Systems (NLDB 2010) took place during June 23-25 in Cardiff (UK). Since the first edition in 1995, the NLDB conference has been aiming at bringing together resear- ers, people working in industry and potential users interested in various applications of natural language in the database and information system area. However, in order to reflect the growing importance of accessing information from a diverse collection of sources (Web, Databases, Sensors, Cloud) in an equally wide range of contexts (- cluding mobile and tethered), the theme of the 15th International Conference on - plications of Natural Language to Information Systems 2010 was "Communicating with Anything, Anywhere in Natural Language. " Natural languages and databases are core components in the development of inf- mation systems. Natural language processing (NLP) techniques may substantially enhance most phases of the information system lifecycle, starting with requirement analysis, specification and validation, and going up to conflict resolution, result pr- essing and presentation. Furthermore, natural language-based query languages and user interfaces facilitate the access to information for all and allow for new paradigms in the usage of computerized services. Hot topics such as information retrieval (IR), software engineering applications, hidden Markov models, natural language interfaces and semantic networks and graphs imply a complete fusion of databases, IR and NLP techniques.

Intelligence and Security Informatics - Pacific Asia Workshop, PAISI 2010, Hyderabad, India, June 21, 2010 Proceedings... Intelligence and Security Informatics - Pacific Asia Workshop, PAISI 2010, Hyderabad, India, June 21, 2010 Proceedings (Paperback, Edition.)
Hsinchun Chen, Michael Chau, Shu-Hsing Li, Shalini Urs, Srinath Srinivasa, …
R1,486 Discovery Miles 14 860 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Intelligence and security informatics (ISI) is concerned with the study of the devel- ment and use of advanced information technologies and systems for national, inter- tional, and societal security-related applications. The annual IEEE International Conference series on ISI (http://www. isiconference. org/) was started in 2003. In 2006, the Workshop on ISI (http://isi. se. cuhk. edu. hk/2006/) was held in Singapore in c- junction with the Pacific Asia Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (PAKDD 2006), with over 100 contributors and participants from all over the world. This would become the start of a new series of ISI meetings in the Pacific Asia region. PAISI 2007 (http://isi. se. cuhk. edu. hk/2007/) was then held in Chengdu, China. PAISI 2008 (http://isi. se. cuhk. edu. hk/2008/) was held in Taipei, Taiwan, in conjunction with IEEE ISI 2008. PAISI 2009 (http://www. business. hku. hk/paisi/2009/) was held in Bangkok, Thailand, in conjunction with PAKDD 2009. These past ISI conferences and workshops brought together academic researchers, law enforcement and intel- gence experts, information technology consultants and practitioners to discuss their research and practice related to various ISI topics. These topics include ISI data m- agement, data and text mining for ISI applications, terrorism informatics, deception and intent detection, terrorist and criminal social network analysis, public health and bio-security, crime analysis, cyber-infrastructure protection, transportation infrastr- ture security, policy studies and evaluation, information assurance, enterprise risk management, information systems security, among others.

Agent and Multi-Agent Systems: Technologies and Applications - 4th KES International Symposium, KES-AMSTA 2010, Gdynia, Poland,... Agent and Multi-Agent Systems: Technologies and Applications - 4th KES International Symposium, KES-AMSTA 2010, Gdynia, Poland, June 23-25, 2010. Proceedings, Part II (Paperback, 2010 ed.)
Piotr Jedrzejowicz, Ngoc Thanh Nguyen, Robert J. Howlett, Lakhmi C. Jain
R1,561 Discovery Miles 15 610 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Presented experiments show that usage ofevolutionary approach to feature - duction is justi?ed.Feature selection as well as construction gives goodresults. It is noticeable that attribute construction's best results assign higher classi?- tion accuracy than feature selection alone.That is why, carrying out selection before construction to decrease searchingspace isagoodsolution. Because of indeterministicbehavior of neuralnetworks,it was di?cultto - ducefeaturesetincaseofusingthemto evaluatecandidateresults.Forexample, aneuralnetworklearntverywellondatathatwasdescribedbyfullattributeset, but when thisset was decreased it had huge problems to do this duringrequired number ofepochs.That suggests that usingC4.5 ismuchmore preferred. Numerous experiments havebeen performed and observed.Analysis ofabove results allowsto put the hypothesisthat it is worth to use Construction module as the feature set reduction. But experiments show that Constructormodule does not work sowell whenitusesthe whole initial set offeatures - the search space istoo large.Soit is worth to use ?rstly Selectorand nextConstructor. The second important issue isthatConstructor destructs the semanticmeaning of the features.New constructed features are notunderstandableforusers.In some real-liveproblems measuring offeature values isquite expensive, forsuch problems selector seems to be more suitable because itdiminishes a number of realfeatures.To constructonefeaturesa number ofreal(measured)featurescan be required. Obtainedresults haveencouragedus to extendour system,especiallythe c- structormodule.Weplan to developenlarged set offunctionsFwhich allowsto use the system with data containingdi?erenttype offeatures,not only nume- cal. Such system will be veri?ed usingagreater number ofbenchmark data sets as well as real data. Acknowledgments. This work ispartially ?nanced fromthe Ministryof S- ence and Higher Education Republic of Polandresources in 2008-2010 years as a Poland-Singapore joint research project 65/N-SINGAPORE/2007/0.

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