"This book addresses existing solutions for data mining, with particular emphasis on potential real-world applications. It captures defining research on topics such as fuzzy set theory, clustering algorithms, semi-supervised clustering, modeling and managing data mining patterns, and sequence...

"This book attempts to bring together a selection of the latest results of state-of-the art research in image and video segmentation, one of the most critical tasks of image and video analysis that has the objective of extracting information (represented by data) from an image or a sequence of...

"This book integrates the concept of financial intermediaries with Post-Keynesian macroeconomic modeling to discuss the relationship between financial markets and systems and macroeconomic development by discussing key macroeconomic variables such as investment, savings, and productivity...

"This book examines the nature of the process of technological change in different sectors of various countries, analyzing the impact of innovation as well as research and development activities on different outcomes in different fields and assessing the design and impact of policies aimed at...

Africa -- The perspectives of African history -- Africa in the global economy -- The rising and compelling imperatives to do business in Africa -- The African regional integration and trading blocs -- Doing business in Africa and African business opportunities -- A strategic model for entering...

"This book helps readers to better understand the importance of Latin America in today's global economy, discussing the developments of investments involving Latin American Multinational Corporations ("Multilatinas") within the region"--Provided by publisher.

"This book seeks to empirically explore the relationship between a number of variables, including consumer confidence, private-sector performance, and governmental regulation by categorizing and analyzing developing economies in a post-crisis global financial landscape in order to help shape...

"This book discusses the Semantic Web, as an extension of the current World Wide Web in which information is given well-defined, better enabling computers and people to work in cooperation"--Provided by publisher.

This book considers transformations within the context of computing science and information science, as they are essential in changing organizations. It not only considers transformations of structured models, rather, the transformation of instances (i.e. the actual contents of those structures)...

With the increasing popularity of the Internet, electronic commerce, and enterprise applications, this book has been developed to focus on Unified Modeling Language (UML), Unified Process (UP) and other information modeling methods and methodologies, and involves conceptual, theoretical,...