Metadata standards in today’s ICT sector are proliferating at unprecedented levels, while automated information management systems collect and process exponentially increasing quantities of data. With interoperability and knowledge exchange identified as a core challenge in the sector, this book examines the role ontology engineering...

Activity Learning: Discovering, Recognizing and Predicting Human Behavior from Sensor Data provides an in-depth look at computational approaches to activity learning from sensor data. Each...

Intensity-modulated radiation therapy (IMRT), one of the most important developments in radiation oncology in the past 25 years, involves technology to deliver radiation to tumors in the right location, quantity and time. Unavoidable irradiation of surrounding normal tissues is distributed so as to preserve their function. The...

• Solve your data analytics problems with the Elastic Stack
• Improve your user search experience with Elasticsearch and develop your own Elasticsearch plugins
• Design your index, configure it, and distribute it ― you'll...

• Learn to apply the nuances of the Go language, and get to know the open source community that surrounds it to implement a wide range of start-up quality projects
• Write interesting, and clever but simple code, and learn skills and techniques that are directly transferrable to your own...

• Break text down into its component parts for spelling correction, feature extraction, and phrase transformation
• Learn how to do custom sentiment analysis and named entity...

• Create R programs that exploit the computational capability of your cloud platforms and computers to the fullest
• Become an expert in writing the most efficient and highest...

Parallel trade in pharmaceuticals within the EU involves the legal repacking and reselling of genuine medicines and dates back to the 1970s when a number of pharmacists realized that drug prices varied significantly between member states. By 2002, the UK market for parallel-distributed pharmaceuticals represented £1,300 million. It is...