Technologies for big data / Kapil Bakshi -- Applying the K-means algorithm in big raw data sets with Hadoop and MapReduce / Ilias K. Savvas, Georgia N. Sofianidou, M-Tahar Kechadi -- Synchronizing execution of big data in distributed and parallelized environments / Gueyoung Jung, Tridib...

Web mining is moving the World Wide Web toward a more useful environment in which users can quickly and easily find the information they need. Web mining uses document content, hyperlink structure, and usage statistics to assist users in meeting their needed information. This book provides a...

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Multimedia searching and management have become popular due to demanding applications and competition among companies. Despite the increase in interest, there is no existing book covering basic knowledge on state-of-the-art techniques within the field. This book provides an introduction to the...

There is a large increase in the amount of information available on World Wide Web and also in number of online databases. This information abundance increases the complexity of locating relevant information. Such a complexity drives the need for improved and intelligent systems for search and...

1. Data warehouse architectures : practices and trends / Xuegang Huang -- 2. Improving expressive power in modeling data warehouse and OLAP applications / Elzbieta Malinowski -- 3. From conventional to multiversion data warehouse : practical issues / Khurram Shahzad -- 4. Compression schemes of...

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