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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...

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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...

"This book provides insights into state-of-the-art modeling languages and methods used for reference modeling. A reference model provides a blueprint for information systems development and analysis. Well-established reference models for industrial, retail and other industries are...