Improved classification performance has practical real-world benefits ranging from improved effectiveness in detecting diseases to increased efficiency in identifying firms that are committing financial fraud. Multiclassifier combination (MCC) aims to improve classification performance by...

Distributed processing has been motivated by many objectives. Among these are a desire to share resources, reduce communications costs (as compared to a centralized processing scheme), increase performance and decrease response time by partitioning tasks and achieve higher system availability...

Mr. Jack Pendray is Executive in Residence and Visiting Professor of Management at George Mason University, Fairfax, Virginia. From 1993-96, Jack was President of the International Group of Cincinnati Bell Information Systems Inc., Cincinnati OH, where he was responsible for all non-North...

This document is a collection of 157 abstracts received during the National Seminar on "Integrated Rural Development and Management: Issues, Strategies and Policy Options" held at the IRDM Faculty Centre of Ramakrishna Mission Vivekananda University during 17-18 December, 2010