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Foundations and Novel Approaches in Data Mining
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 398

Foundations and Novel Approaches in Data Mining

Data-mining has become a popular research topic in recent years for the treatment of the "data rich and information poor" syndrome. Currently, application oriented engineers are only concerned with their immediate problems, which results in an ad hoc method of problem solving. Researchers, on the other hand, lack an understanding of the practical issues of data-mining for real-world problems and often concentrate on issues that are of no significance to the practitioners. In this volume, we hope to remedy problems by (1) presenting a theoretical foundation of data-mining, and (2) providing important new directions for data-mining research. A set of well respected data mining theoreticians were invited to present their views on the fundamental science of data mining. We have also called on researchers with practical data mining experiences to present new important data-mining topics.

Rough Sets and Intelligent Systems - Professor Zdzisław Pawlak in Memoriam
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 640

Rough Sets and Intelligent Systems - Professor Zdzisław Pawlak in Memoriam

This book is dedicated to the memory of Professor Zdzis{\l}aw Pawlak who passed away almost six year ago. He is the founder of the Polish school of Artificial Intelligence and one of the pioneers in Computer Engineering and Computer Science with worldwide influence. He was a truly great scientist, researcher, teacher and a human being. This book prepared in two volumes contains more than 50 chapters. This demonstrates that the scientific approaches discovered by of Professor Zdzis{\l}aw Pawlak, especially the rough set approach as a tool for dealing with imperfect knowledge, are vivid and intensively explored by many researchers in many places throughout the world. The submitted papers prove that interest in rough set research is growing and is possible to see many new excellent results both on theoretical foundations and applications of rough sets alone or in combination with other approaches. We are proud to offer the readers this book.

Advances in Music Information Retrieval
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 411

Advances in Music Information Retrieval

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2010-03-10
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  • Publisher: Springer

Sound waves propagate through various media, and allow communication or entertainment for us, humans. Music we hear or create can be perceived in such aspects as rhythm, melody, harmony, timbre, or mood. All these elements of music can be of interest for users of music information retrieval systems. Since vast music repositories are available for everyone in everyday use (both in private collections, and in the Internet), it is desirable and becomes necessary to browse music collections by contents. Therefore, music information retrieval can be potentially of interest for every user of computers and the Internet. There is a lot of research performed in music information retrieval domain, and the outcomes, as well as trends in this research, are certainly worth popularizing. This idea motivated us to prepare the book on Advances in Music Information Retrieval. It is divided into four sections: MIR Methods and Platforms, Harmony, Music Similarity, and Content Based Identification and Retrieval. Glossary of basic terms is given at the end of the book, to familiarize readers with vocabulary referring to music information retrieval.

Wireless Sensor Network Technologies for the Information Explosion Era
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 275

Wireless Sensor Network Technologies for the Information Explosion Era

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2010-07-14
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  • Publisher: Springer

Wireless Sensor Network Technologies for Information Explosion Era The amount and value of information available due to rapid spread of information technology is exploding. Typically, large enterprises have approximately a petabyte of operational data stored in hundreds of data repositories supporting thousands of applications. Data storage volumes grow in excess of 50% annually. This growth is expected to continue due to vast proliferation of existing infor- tion systems and the introduction of new data sources. Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) represent one of the most notable examples of such new data sources. In recent few years, various types of WSNs have been deployed and the amount of ...

European and Chinese Cognitive Styles and their Impact on Teaching Mathematics
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 277

European and Chinese Cognitive Styles and their Impact on Teaching Mathematics

The book provides strong evidence that research on the cognitive processes from arithmetic thought to algebraic thought should take into consideration the socio-cultural context. It is an important contribution to the literature on linguistic structure in comparative studies related to Chinese student mathematics learning. This book not only makes a great contribution to research in mathematics education, the findings of this study also addressed insightful approaches and thoughts of understanding the development of algebraic thinking in cultural contexts for classroom teachers. Using written Chinese language from different theoretical references provided wonderful approaches for understandi...

Intelligent Autonomous Systems
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 269

Intelligent Autonomous Systems

This research book contains a sample of most recent research in the area of intelligent autonomous systems. The contributions include: General aspects of intelligent autonomous systems Design of intelligent autonomous robots Biped robots Robot for stair-case navigation Ensemble learning for multi-source information fusion Intelligent autonomous systems in psychiatry Condition monitoring of internal combustion engine Security management of an enterprise network High dimensional neural nets and applications This book is directed to engineers, scientists, professor and the undergraduate/postgraduate students who wish to explore this field further.

Adaptive Representations for Reinforcement Learning
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 127

Adaptive Representations for Reinforcement Learning

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2010-07-10
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  • Publisher: Springer

This book presents new algorithms for reinforcement learning, a form of machine learning in which an autonomous agent seeks a control policy for a sequential decision task. Since current methods typically rely on manually designed solution representations, agents that automatically adapt their own representations have the potential to dramatically improve performance. This book introduces two novel approaches for automatically discovering high-performing representations. The first approach synthesizes temporal difference methods, the traditional approach to reinforcement learning, with evolutionary methods, which can learn representations for a broad class of optimization problems. This synt...

On Fuzziness
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 436

On Fuzziness

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2012-12-15
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  • Publisher: Springer

The notion of Fuzziness stands as one of the really new concepts that have recently enriched the world of Science. Science grows not only through technical and formal advances on one side and useful applications on the other side, but also as consequence of the introduction and assimilation of new concepts in its corpus. These, in turn, produce new developments and applications. And this is what Fuzziness, one of the few new concepts arisen in the XX Century, has been doing so far. This book aims at paying homage to Professor Lotfi A. Zadeh, the “father of fuzzy logic” and also at giving credit to his exceptional work and personality. In a way, this is reflected in the variety of contrib...

Data Warehousing and Mining: Concepts, Methodologies, Tools, and Applications
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 3791

Data Warehousing and Mining: Concepts, Methodologies, Tools, and Applications

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2008-05-31
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  • Publisher: IGI Global

In recent years, the science of managing and analyzing large datasets has emerged as a critical area of research. In the race to answer vital questions and make knowledgeable decisions, impressive amounts of data are now being generated at a rapid pace, increasing the opportunities and challenges associated with the ability to effectively analyze this data.

Applying Soft Computing in Defining Spatial Relations
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 215

Applying Soft Computing in Defining Spatial Relations

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2012-08-13
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  • Publisher: Physica

Geometric properties and relations play central roles in the description and processing of spatial data. The properties and relations studied by mathematicians usually have precise definitions, but verbal descriptions often involve imprecisely defined concepts such as elongatedness or proximity. The methods used in soft computing provide a framework for formulating and manipulating such concepts. This volume contains eight papers on the soft definition and manipulation of spatial relations and gives a comprehensive summary on the subject.