If you’re like me, you use Google every day to find things—news, technical support,
events, tips, research documents, and more. Were you to master Google’s powerful
search refinement operators and lesser-known features, over a year’s time you could
save days scouring over irrelevant results.
Although the basic purposes of finance, and the nature of the core instruments used in
attaining them, are relatively constant, recent years have seen an explosion in complexity of
both products and techniques.
A number of forces are driving this explosion. The first is internationalization encompassing
a dramatic growth in...
Recognizing patterns is at the core of man's attempts to understand the universe that we inhabit. Through the development of sensors and instruments, we have extended our ability to gather data far beyond the range and scale of man's natural senses. As a result we are now able to gather data on phenomena occurring in the far reaches...
Don’t be fooled: Just because the Droid 2 is a smartphone doesn’t mean
that it’s harboring some form of insidious intelligence. There’s no alien
brain in the device. It isn’t going to take over the world, though it can intimidate
you — that is, until you understand and accept that it’s your...
When we rst started working on the problem of making the kernel machine
approach applicable to the classi cation of graphs a couple of years ago,
our e orts were mainly driven by the fact that kernel methods had led to
impressive performance results on many data sets. It didn't take us long to
appreciate the sheer elegance of how...
The book addresses the problem known in the literature as Open and Distance
Learning (ODL). ODL describes new concepts of the process of learning-teaching
organization. ODL is becoming very popular at universities that offer education
via online and/or distance learning, both in synchronous or asynchronous modes.
More precisely, the...
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 10th International Conference on Intelligent Tutoring Systems, ITS 2010, continued
the bi-annual series of top-flight international conferences on the use of advanced
educational technologies that are adaptive to users or groups of users. These highly
interdisciplinary conferences bring together researchers in the learning sciences,...
It is not customary to start a foreword with an admission that the writer of the foreword has only recently come to personally know the author of the book. I started hearing about Adatis, the company for which Jeremy works, a few years ago. The context was always around Business Intelligence implementations in the United Kingdom, always made...
With the unprecedented rate at which data is being collected today in almost all
elds of human endeavor, there is an emerging economic and scienti c need to
extract useful information from it. For example, many companies already have
data-warehouses in the terabyte range (e.g., FedEx, Walmart). The World Wide
Web has an estimated 800...
The 10th International Conference on Intelligent Tutoring Systems, ITS 2010, continued
the bi-annual series of top-flight international conferences on the use of advanced
educational technologies that are adaptive to users or groups of users. These highly
interdisciplinary conferences bring together researchers in the learning sciences,...
This book contains the papers of the 7th Computer and Games Conference
(CG 2010) held in Kanazawa, Japan. The conference took place during
September 24–26, 2010 in conjunction with the 15th Computer Olympiad and
the 17th World Computer Chess Championship.
The Computer and Games conference series is a major international...
