Data mining and data modeling are hot topics and are under fast development. Because of its wide applications and rich research contents, a lot of practitioners and academics are attracted to work on these areas. In the view of promoting the communications and collaborations among the practitioners and researchers in Hong Kong, a two-day...
D atabases have become an integral part of our modern day life. We are an information -
driven society. Database technology has a direct impact on our daily lives. Decisions are
routinely made by organizations based on the information collected and stored in databases.
A record company may decide to market certain albums in...
We were drawn to thinking and then ultimately writing
about geeks and geezers from very different starting points.
Coauthoring a book isn’t quite like synchronized swimming. It’s
more like gaining perspective and depth through incongruity.
Through writing and arguing in what seemed like endless and
percussive...
You’ve built a web page in HTML. You’ve even styled it with Cascading Style
Sheets (CSS) and written a little JavaScript to validate your custom-built web
forms. But that wasn’t enough, so you learned a lot more JavaScript, threw in
some jQuery, and constructed a whole lot of web pages. You’ve even moved your...
Google's Android operating system for phones is definitely a moving target. During the production of this book's first version, the latest Android version available on a cutting-edge phone jumped from 1.6 to 2.2. In that time, too, phones made by HTC and Motorola became exceedingly popular, and modified versions of the Android...
Let Mark Galer guide you through the most powerful photo editing tools and techniques that Elements has to offer! A unique cominbtion of step-by-step projects, movie tutorials and sample images will have you creating stunning images in no time at all. Whether you want to enhance your images for maximum...
In recent years, tremendous research has been devoted to the design of database systems for real-time applications, called real-time database systems (RTDBS), where transactions are associated with deadlines on their completion times, and some of the data objects in the database are associated with temporal constraints on their validity....
This is a book for business analysts about modeling. A model is a simplified
representation of a situation or problem, and modeling is the process of building,
refining, and analyzing that representation for greater insight and improved decision
making. Some models are so common that they are thought of as routine instruments
rather...
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...
The versatile capabilities and large set of add-on packages make R an excellent alternative to many existing and often expensive data mining tools. Exploring this area from the perspective of a practitioner, Data Mining with R: Learning with Case Studies uses practical examples to illustrate the power of R and data...
Looking ahead to retirement? Depending on your circumstances and your age, you may no longer have any margin for error. And your emotions and irrational behavior could be perpetuating a dangerous cycle of overspending and rising debt that may shatter whatever vision of retirement you still have. Welcome to the world of...
