Many text mining methods have used statistical information as text and language-independent procedures that are not deterministic. Text mining methods based on stochastic patterns and rules need many samples to train. On the other hand, deterministic and non-probabilistic methods are easy to...

List of Models -- 1. Consumer Behavior Models -- 2. Models of Advertising and Sales Promotion -- 3. Pricing Models -- 4. Product Models -- 5. Sales Forecasting Models -- 6. Facility Location Models -- 7. Sales Force Models -- 8. Marketing Mix Models -- 9. Miscellaneous Models.

The volume contains the proceedings of a workshop on "Parallel Algorithms and Transputers for Optimization" which was held at the University of Siegenon November 9, 1991 plus some invited papers covering topics related to this workshop. In contrast to many other publications on parallel...