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"This book provides the information on the machine learning techniques that can be in business problems in efficient way. It encourages the data Scientists to take a proactive attitude toward applying machine learning techniques in business. It increases evolutionary computation awareness in...

"This book explores node and edge centrality metrics and real-world network graphs, computationally-light vs. computationally-heavy centrality metrics, centrality-based connected dominating sets for complex network graphs, assortativity analysis based on centrality metrics, time-dependent...

"This book explores the emerging paradigm of Vehicular cloud computing. It presents novel ideas, models, system design and architecture, security and privacy, QoS issues, big data analysis and performance evaluation techniques. It explores several disciplines such as advances in wireless...

"This book identifies the likely trajectories of development of information technology and communication systems, process technologies and methods of Smart Grid Analytics for the Smart City. It explores the importance of understanding how process analysis in energy usage is manifested and how it...

"This book explores the applications of security, mobile, analytic and cloud (SMAC) technologies for effective information processing and management. It provides information on the topics of Big Data, Internet of Things, Mobile Technologies, Cloud Computing and Information Security"--

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