Explaining how to develop and evaluate decision support systems based on web data mining, computer scientists cover developing decision support systems, developing web mining systems, developing ef
Computer scientists from around the world report recent developments in data warehousing, focusing not on the static storage of data, but on how the data can be used to devise or refine business strat
This collection of fifteen articles on advanced data mining technologies provides an overview of current scholarship in this increasingly important field of information management. Divided into sectio
For academics, researchers, engineers, and data mining and other professionals, Koyuncugil and Ozgulbas (Baskent U., Turkey) compile 14 chapters on the use of surveillance systems, early warning syste
Meant for those in government agencies, practicing managers, and academicians, this volume details how data mining can be used at various levels of management. Syvajarvi (administrative science, Lapla
It's a research discipline in the throes of growth because of the quantity of data that can be assembled and the need to make sense of it. Effective mining of huge amounts of complex data requires a f
International contributors present new developments in the areas of data warehousing and data mining. An introduction gives an overview of data warehousing and its importance in providing support for
This introduction to basic methodology, current research, and advanced techniques of data mining will be useful as a handbook for researchers, practitioners, and technologists. It can also serve as te
Technical, business, and political fields are represented, as well as Europe, Asia, Africa, and the Americas, in discussions of how advanced computer management of information by governments impacts u
Technical, legal, social, and philosophical approaches are brought to bear on the tension between the need to collect data and information for disparate operational objectives, and the need to preserv
This work reviews practical and theoretical aspects of sensor network data management, for those working in database, data warehousing, data mining, and sensor network research. Chapters by internatio
Ultimately the large volumes of data that reside in or move through the electronic dimension of information must be presented for human consideration in some manner of simple visual form--chart, diagr
The 13 chapters in this collection survey current work in storing and analyzing data and using algorithms to search and discover new knowledge automatically from multidimensional data sets. Several co
Web usage mining is the application of data mining technologies to discover interesting usage patterns from web data in order to understand and better serve the needs of web-based applications. The bu
Massive amounts of textual data make up most organizations' stored information. Therefore, there is increasingly high demand for a comprehensive resource providing practical hands-on knowledge for rea
Ontologies and formal representations of knowledge are extremely powerful tools for modeling and managing large applications in several domains ranging from knowledge engineering, to data mining, to
The 22 papers in this collection explore simulation theory, Petri nets, Monte Carlo, visualization, real-time simulation, and applications to neural networks, data mining, wireless networks, banks, an
