"Introduction to Data Mining is a complete introduction to data mining for students, researchers, and professionals. It provides a sound understanding of the foundations of data mining, in addition to covering many important advanced topics."--Jacket.
This title brings together acknowledged experts and researchers to discuss all aspects of image databases and the search engines used to retrieve image data from them. It covers architecture, indexing, retrieval, transmission and user interface issues.
"Active rules provide a new and important method for developing database applications, and the subject is seeing an increasing amount of attention from commercial database companies. This book provides a timely survey of the field from the point of view of some of the subject's …
Database system implementation
by Widom, Jennifer, Ullman, Jeffrey D., Garcia-Molina, Hector
Textbook on methodology for the systems design of management information systems and information systems - stresses the need for top management involvement in decision making relating to the computerization of business enterprises, and includes a glossary of terms. Bibliography …
Demonstrates the creation of dynamic Web applications while explaining how to use ColdFusion's tag-based language to process form data, query databases, share application data, create custom tags, and call external objects.
"If you or your company is heavily invested in a relational database system, someone somewhere has probably told you that you should consider going object-oriented - whatever that means. Although object orientation is well understood and accepted in application development, its …
"If you or your company is heavily invested in a relational database system, someone somewhere has probably told you that you should consider going object-oriented - whatever that means. Although object orientation is well understood and accepted in application development, its …
"With the increasing number of images available electronically, automatic retrieval systems are becoming essential. This book introduces an absolute prerequisite for any such system: a metric, called the Earth Mover's Distance (EMD), for comparing images in terms of their appear…
For the past several years, the U.S. Air Force has been using data from the Individual Contracting Action Report form, also known as the DD350, to analyze its goods and services expenditures. These analyses support Air Force efforts to develop new purchasing and supply managemen…
"This is the first comprehensive introduction to Support Vector Machines (SVMs), a new generation learning system based on recent advances in statistical learning theory. SVMs deliver state-of-the-art performance in real-world applications such as text categorisation, hand-writt…
"Focusing on a data-centric perspective, this book provides a complete overview of data mining: its uses, methods, current technologies, commercial products, and future challenges."--BOOK JACKET. "Is there a need for mining? Do you have the right tools? Do you have the people to…