Learn IT - Books tags informatics

Markov Chains: Models, Algorithms and Applications (International Series in Operations Research & Management Science)

Springer, 2005

Markov chains are a particularly powerful and widely used tool for analyzing a variety of stochastic (probabilistic) systems over time. This monograph will present a series of Markov models, starting from the basic models and then building up to higher-order models. Included in the higher-order discussions are multivariate models, higher-order...

Semantic Web Technologies: Trends and Research in Ontology-based Systems

John Wiley & Sons, 2006

The Semantic Web combines the descriptive languages RDF (Resource Description Framework) and OWL (Web Ontology Language), with the data-centric, customizable XML (eXtensible Mark-up Language) to provide descriptions of the content of Web documents. These machine-interpretable descriptions allow more intelligent software systems to be written,...

Data Matching: Concepts and Techniques for Record Linkage, Entity Resolution, and Duplicate Detection (Data-Centric Systems and Applications)

Springer, 2012

Data matching (also known as record or data linkage, entity resolution, object identification, or field matching) is the task of identifying, matching and merging records that correspond to the same entities from several databases or even within one database. Based on research in various domains including applied statistics, health...

Applications of Data Mining in E-Business and Finance (Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence and Applications)

IOS Press, 2008

The application of Data Mining (DM) technologies has shown an explosive growth in an increasing number of different areas of business, government and science. Two of the most important business areas are finance, in particular in banks and insurance companies, and e-business, such as web portals, e-commerce and ad management services.In...

Algorithmic Adventures: From Knowledge to Magic

Springer, 2009

The public image of computer science does not reflect its true nature. The general public and especially high school students identify computer science with a computer driving license. They think that studying computer science is not a challenge, and that anybody can learn it. Computer science is not considered a scientific discipline but a...

Encyclopedia Of Human Computer Interaction

Idea Group Publishing, 2005

Human computer interaction (HCI) evolved as a recognized discipline that attracts innovation and creativity. For the last 25 years, it inspired new solutions, especially for the benefit of the user as a human being, making the user the focal point that technology should serve rather than the other way around. The advent of the Internet, combined...

Healthcare Informatics: Improving Efficiency and Productivity

CRC Press, 2010

Healthcare Informatics: Improving Efficiency and Productivity examines the complexities involved in managing resources in our healthcare system and explains how management theory and informatics applications can increase efficiencies in various functional areas of healthcare services. Delving into data and project management...

Electronic Health Record: Standards, Coding Systems, Frameworks, and Infrastructures

John Wiley & Sons, 2012

Discover How Electronic Health Records Are Built to Drive the Next Generation of Healthcare Delivery

The increased role of IT in the healthcare sector has led to the coining of a new phrase "health informatics," which deals with the use of IT for better healthcare services. Health informatics applications often...

Managing Trust in Cyberspace

CRC Press, 2013

In distributed, open systems like cyberspace, where the behavior of autonomous agents is uncertain and can affect other agents' welfare, trust management is used to allow agents to determine what to expect about the behavior of other agents. The role of trust management is to maximize trust between the parties and thereby provide a basis...

Genetic Programming Theory and Practice III

Springer, 2005

Genetic Programming Theory and Practice III provides both researchers and industry professionals with the most recent developments in GP theory and practice by exploring the emerging interaction between theory and practice in the cutting-edge, machine learning method of Genetic Programming (GP). The contributions developed from a third workshop at...

Human Computer Interaction Research in Web Design and Evaluation

IGI Global, 2006

Human Computer Interaction Research in Web Design and Evaluation presents research from academics and industry experts, covering various aspects of human computer interaction (HCI) Web design from theories to evaluation. This book highlights the use of methods from the HCI area in Web design, and how these methods can be used in a practical sense....

Infectious Disease Informatics

Springer, 2009

Infectious Diseases Informatics

Edited by

Vitali Sintchenko

The University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia

Preface.- List of contributors.- 1Informatics for Infectious Disease Research and Control.- 2 Bioinformatics of Microbial Sequences.- 3 Mining Databases for Microbial Gene Sequences.- 4 Comparative Genomics of...

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