This book suits both graduate students and researchers with a focus on discovering knowledge from scientific data. The use of computational power for data analysis and knowledge discovery in scientific disciplines has found its roots with the revolution of high-performance computing systems. Computational science in physics,...

Over the last few decades, energy minimization methods have become an established paradigm to resolve a variety of challenges in the fields of computer vision and pattern recognition. While traditional approaches to computer vision were often based on a heuristic sequence of processing steps and merely allowed a very limited...

This volume collects the proceedings of two related international conferences on foundations and practical applications of mathematical methods of data analysis, of Formal Concept Analysis and of methods for information extraction from natural language texts. The first conference, named Knowledge - Ontology - Theory 2007 (KONT 2007),...

The evolution of Oracle has led to a revolution in design practices. For Oracle 10g, database physical structures have become more complex than ever before and database designers face multiple ways to implement their logical models. IS students studying database design and administration need to be able to implement management systems in a...

Oracle Corporation acquired GoldenGate in 2009 as part of future strategy to implement advanced replication technologies within the product suite of data warehousing and real-time transaction management. Before the advent of Oracle GoldenGate technology, data replication was performed using Oracle Streams and third-party replication...

GeoComputation (GC) is a follow-on revolution that is occurring after the introduction of geographical information systems (GIS). It is expected to gather speed and momentum in the first decade of the 21st century. The rationale behind this latest revolution is quite simple. When we have finished creating our GIS databases, set up our...

This volume was primarily intended to present selected papers from the workshop on Theory and Applications of Nested Relations and Complex Objects, held in Darmstadt, FRG, from April 6-8, 1987. Other papers were solicited in order to provide a picture of the field as general as possible. Research on nested relations and complex objects...

For half a century, computer scientists have been working on systems for discovering lawful patterns in letters, numbers, words and images. The research has expanded into the computational study of the process of scientific discovery, producing such well-known AI programs as BACON and DENDRAL. However, autonomous discovery systems...

SYSTEMS ANALYSIS AND DESIGN IN A CHANGING WORLD teaches the...

Many colleges and universities offer a course in discrete mathematics. Students taking these courses are from many disciplines, one of the largest being computer science. As a part of the Mathematics Across the Curriculum project at Dartmouth, supported by the National Science Foundation,1 we proposed to create a discrete mathematics...

In my first book on geometric algebra in 2007 the preface described how I had been completely surprised by the existence of geometric algebra, especially after having recently completed a book on vector analysis where it was not even mentioned! So why am I writing a second book on the same subject?Well it’s not because I have...

OpenGL, which has been bound in C, is a seasoned graphics library for scientists and engineers. As we know, Java is a rapidly growing language becoming the de facto standard of Computer Science learning and application development platform as many undergraduate computer science programs are adopting Java in place of C/C++. Released by...