Effective Statistical Learning Methods for Actuaries II: Tree-Based Methods and Extensions (Springer Actuarial)

Hybrid Intelligent Systems for Pattern Recognition Using Soft Computing: An Evolutionary Approach for Neural Networks and Fuzzy Systems

Springer, 2005

We describe in this book, new methods for intelligent pattern recognition using soft computing techniques. Soft Computing (SC) consists of several computing paradigms, including fuzzy logic, neural networks, and genetic algorithms, which can be used to produce powerful hybrid intelligent systems for pattern recognition. Hybrid intelligent systems...

Automating the Design of Data Mining Algorithms: An Evolutionary Computation Approach (Natural Computing Series)

Springer, 2009

Traditionally, evolutionary computing techniques have been applied in the area of data mining either to optimize the parameters of data mining algorithms or to discover knowledge or patterns in the data, i.e., to directly solve the target data mining problem. This book proposes a different goal for evolutionary algorithms in data mining: to...

Speed Reading For Dummies

For Dummies, 2009

No matter how quickly or slowly you read now, you can read much more rapidly by adopting the speed-reading techniques described In this book. You can also comprehend, retain, and recall what you read much more successlully. You can become an efficient and effective reader, one who reads with confidence and greater understanding. You can read...

Laparoscopic Urologic Surgery in Malignancies

Springer, 2005

The era of endo-oncology has arrived. Endo-oncology is now firmly en- trenched in the diagnosis and management of urologic cancers. From its early days with transurethral resection of bladder tumors, to the more recent de- cades with establishment of techniques for percutaneous resection of transi- tional cell carcinoma,...

Spring in Action

Manning Publications, 2011

Wow! As I write this, it’s been almost seven years since Spring 1.0 was released and Ryan Breidenbach and I started work on the first edition of Spring in Action. Back then, who would have guessed that Spring would transform Java development as much as it has?

In that first edition, Ryan and I tried to cover every corner of...

Exceptional C++ Style : 40 New Engineering Puzzles, Programming Problems, and Solutions (C++ in Depth Series)

Addison Wesley, 2004

This book is about all aspects of C++. I don't mean to say that it touches on every detail of C++?that would require many more pages?but rather that it draws from the wide palette of the C++ language and library features to show how apparently unrelated items can be used together to synthesize novel solutions to common...