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...

"This book provides relevant theoretical foundations, and disseminates new research findings and expert views on the remaining challenges in ontology learning, discussing artificial intelligence, knowledge acquisition, knowledge representation and reasoning, text mining, information extraction,...

Whether you are brand new to data mining or working on your tenth predictive analytics project, Commercial Data Mining will be there for you as an accessible reference outlining the entire process and related themes. In this book, you'll learn that your organization does not need a huge volume...

"This book provides the most recent technical information related to the computational models of the text mining process, discussing techniques within the realms of classification, association analysis, information extraction, and clustering. Offering an innovative approach to the utilization of...

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...

Science of Information -- Part I Understanding Big Data -- Big Data Essentials -- Big Data Analytics -- Part II Understanding Big Data Systems -- Distributed File System -- MapReduce Programming Platform -- Part III Understanding Machine Learning -- Modeling and Algorithms -- Supervised Learning...

This book covers the fundamental concepts of data mining, to demonstrate the potential of gathering large sets of data, and analyzing these data sets to gain useful business understanding. The book is organized in three parts. Part I introduces concepts. Part II describes and demonstrates basic...