"This book explores the latest development of optimization techniques. It shows the application of optimization in new fields such as big data, artificial intelligence, etc. The application of hybrid optimization techniques and stochastic optimization are explored"--

"This book offers an outlook of the most recent works at the field of the Artificial Neural Networks (ANN), including theoretical developments and applications of systems using intelligent characteristics for adaptability"--Provided by publisher.

Forecasting is one of the most important activities that form the basis for strategic, tactical, and operational decisions in all business organizations. Recently, neural networks have emerged as an important tool for business forecasting. There are considerable interests and applications in...

Need for dynamicity in social networking sites: an overview from data mining perspective / Gurdeep S. Hura -- Data preprocessing for dynamic social network analysis / Preeti Gupta, Vishal Bhatnagar -- Emergent data mining tools for social network analysis / Dhiraj Murthy, Alexander Gross, Alex...

Collecting the latest research results from the leading researchers in the field of fuzzy object-oriented databases, Advances in Fuzzy Object-Oriented Databases: Modeling and Applications provide a single source for current research and practical applications in fuzzy object-oriented databases....

"This book includes an introduction to fuzzy logic, fuzzy databases and an overview of the state of the art in fuzzy modeling in databases. It proposes also a method to translate FuzzyEER model to a classical DBMS, and defines FSQL (Fuzzy SQL), an extension of the SQL language that allows users...

This handbook provides comprehensive coverage and definitions of the most important issues, concepts, trends, and technologies in fuzzy topics applied to databases, discussing current investigation into uncertainty and imprecision management by means of fuzzy sets and fuzzy logic in the field of...