This book presents research on databases and software development in the area of business applications. Information systems development activities enable many organizations to effectively compete and innovate, as new database and information systems applications are constantly being developed.

Introduction -- Logical Foundations of Social Science Research -- Overview on Decision Tree Induction -- Using Decision Tree Induction for Theory Development -- A Hybrid Decision Tree-based Method for Exploring Cumulative Abnormal Returns -- An Ethnographic Decision Tree Modeling: An Exploration...

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...

"This book introduces the reader to recent research activities in the field of data mining, covering association mining, classification, mobile marketing, opinion mining, microarray data mining, internet mining and applications of data mining on biological data, telecommunication and distributed...