Since multimedia systems are required to store and manipulate a variety of media types -- including text, graphics, images, sound, audio, and video among many others -- applications such as video-on-demand systems, interactive television, and video conferencing are becoming widely available at...

Multi-objective optimization (MO) is a fast-developing field in computational intelligence research. Giving decision makers more options to choose from using some post-analysis preference information, there are a number of competitive MO techniques with an increasingly large number of MO...

Digital signal processing is an area of science and engineering that has been developed rapidly over the past years. This rapid development is the result of the significant advances in digital computer technology and integrated circuits fabrication. Many of the signal processing tasks...

This book aims to be an introductory reference book for professionals, students and academics interested in applying neural networks to a variety of business applications. It introduces the three most common neural network models and how they work, followed by a wide range of business...

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...

Preface -- 1. Supporting Collaborative Project Teams Using Computer-Based Technologies -- 2. Computer-Mediated Progressive Inquiry in Higher Education -- 3. Moderating Learner-Centered E-Learning: Problems and Solutions, Benefits and Implications -- 4. Supporting Distributed Problem-Based...

Section I. Background -- 1. Google: Technological Convenience vs. Technological Intrusion -- 2. A Taxonomic View of Consumer Online Privacy Legal Issues, Legislation, and Litigation -- 3. Online Privacy, Vulnerabilities, and Threats: A Manager's Perspective --

"This book covers the use, effects, potentials and limitations of new technology for information and communication in social settings and aims to develop an understanding of different perspectives of sustainable development"--Provided by publisher.

Section II. Identifying Interesting Rules -- 2. From Change Mining to Relevance Feedback: A Unified View on Assessing Rule Interestingness -- 3. Combining Data-Driven and User-Driven Evaluation Measures to Identify Interesting Rules -- 4. Semantics-Based Classification of Rule Interestingness...