Bücher der Reihe Intelligent Systems Reference Library

Special emphasis is given to intelligent tutoring systems as a particular class of e-learning systems, which support and improve the learning and teaching of domain-specific knowledge. A new approach to perform effective personalization based on Semantic web technologies achieved in a tutoring system is presented.

The book expresses the conviction that the art of creating tools - Greek techne - changes its character together with the change of civilization epochs and co-determines such changes.

This volume presents recent research in cyber security and reports how organizations can gain competitive advantages by applying the different security techniques in real-world scenarios.

When discussing classification, support vector machines are known to be a capable and efficient technique to learn and predict with high accuracy within a quick time frame.

This book explores reasoning with rough sets by developing a granularity-based framework. It begins with a brief description of the rough set theory, then examines selected relations between rough set theory and non-classical logics including modal logic.

This book offers the first comprehensive overview of artificial intelligence (AI) technologies in decision support systems for diagnosis based on medical images, presenting cutting-edge insights from thirteen leading research groups around the world.

Last, Chapter 7 presents simulation methodologies for modeling maritime traffic. The intended readership of the book spans both an academic audience and professionals in the areas of Operational Research, Transportation Science, and Maritime Science interested in applying IT methodologies in their areas of expertise.

This book presents neuromorphic cognitive systems from a learning and memory-centered perspective.

This book initially reviews the major feature representation and extraction methods and effective learning and recognition approaches, which have broad applications in the context of intelligent image search and video retrieval.

This book presents innovative theories, methodologies, and techniques in risk management and decision making. Covers multi-criteria decision making, healthcare modeling, supply chain optimisation and resource allocation, business and political risk management.

With applications to many areas in science and technology, the technique examined in this volume is a highly effective algorithmic problem-solving tool. Contributions from leading experts cover the latest research and provide detailed examples of its use.

A special emphasis is devoted to approximation and adaptivity issues as well as to the integration of heterogeneous data sources. The book will prove useful as a reference book for senior undergraduate or graduate courses on advanced data management issues, which have a special focus on query processing and data integration.

However, in compiling a volume titled "DATA MINING: Foundations and Intelligent Paradigms: Volume 3: Medical, Health, Social, Biological and other Applications" we wish to introduce some of the latest developments to a broad audience of both specialists and non-specialists in this field.

However, in compiling a volume titled "DATA MINING: Foundations and Intelligent Paradigms: Volume 2: Core Topics including Statistical, Time-Series and Bayesian Analysis" we wish to introduce some of the latest developments to a broad audience of both specialists and non-specialists in this field.

However, in compiling a volume titled "DATA MINING: Foundations and Intelligent Paradigms: Volume 1: Clustering, Association and Classification" we wish to introduce some of the latest developments to a broad audience of both specialists and non-specialists in this field.

The International Council on Systems Engineering (INCOSE) defines Systems Engineering as an interdisciplinary approach and means to enable the realization of successful systems. Researchers are using intelligence-based techniques to support the practices of systems engineering in an innovative way.

However, in compiling a volume titled "DATA MINING: Foundations and Intelligent Paradigms: Volume 2: Core Topics including Statistical, Time-Series and Bayesian Analysis" we wish to introduce some of the latest developments to a broad audience of both specialists and non-specialists in this field.

Presenting state-of-the-art research in mobile learning and advanced user interfaces, this book uses the well-known Object Oriented model to demonstrate for readers how to design software that reaches a high standard of adaptivity and user friendliness.

The book is a unique effort to represent a variety of techniques designed to represent, enhance, and empower multi-disciplinary and multi-institutional machine learning research in healthcare informatics.

Data preprocessing includes the data reduction techniques, which aim at reducing the complexity of the data, detecting or removing irrelevant and noisy elements from the data.This book is intended to review the tasks that fill the gap between the data acquisition from the source and the data mining process.

This book introduces opportunities and challenges that arise in the recommenders' area with the advent of Web 2.0. It presents the mains aspects in the Web 2.0 hype which have to be incorporated in traditional recommender systems.

The study of complex systems involves researchers in diverse fields, with some systems such as epidemiology possessing an emergency priority. This volume collates existing methods for creating decision-support systems and places them in a more coherent system.

Prescriptive Bayesian decision making has reached a high level of maturity and is well-supported algorithmically. Can we extend existing prescriptive theories for perfect decision makers to make them useful for imperfect ones?

However, in compiling a volume titled "DATA MINING: Foundations and Intelligent Paradigms: Volume 1: Clustering, Association and Classification" we wish to introduce some of the latest developments to a broad audience of both specialists and non-specialists in this field.

However, in compiling a volume titled "DATA MINING: Foundations and Intelligent Paradigms: Volume 3: Medical, Health, Social, Biological and other Applications" we wish to introduce some of the latest developments to a broad audience of both specialists and non-specialists in this field.

The International Council on Systems Engineering (INCOSE) defines Systems Engineering as an interdisciplinary approach and means to enable the realization of successful systems. Researchers are using intelligence-based techniques to support the practices of systems engineering in an innovative way.

This detailed survey of the ontology modelling application Knowledge Seeker demonstrates how it can improve the efficiency of traditional information systems, increase the accuracy of text classification, and enhance the capabilities of search engines.

This handbook presents some of the most recent topics in neural information processing, covering both theoretical concepts and practical applications. The contributions include: Deep architectures Recurrent, recursive, and graph neural networks Cellular neural networks Bayesian networks Approximation capabilities of neural networks Semi-supervised learning Statistical relational learning  Kernel methods for structured data  Multiple classifier systems  Self organisation and modal learning  Applications to content-based image retrieval, text mining in large document collections, and bioinformatics  This book is thought particularly for graduate students, researchers and practitioners, willing to deepen their knowledge on more advanced connectionist models and related learning paradigms.

This book is about the formulations, theoretical investigations, and practical applications of new stochastic models for fundamental concepts and operations of the discipline of risk management.