Data warehousing

Collaborative Knowledge Acquisition from Semantically Disparate, Distributed Data Sources (Hardback - 1 Mar 2010)

Collaborative Knowledge Acquisition from Semantically Disparate, Distributed Data Sources
This is the first book to offer a cohesive treatment of the research problems in collaborative knowledge acquisition from semantically disparate information sources & approaches for addressing the problems. The book discusses the fundamental advances in this area covering a broad range & complexity of research issues. The approach taken incorporates a synergistic synthesis of insights, algorithms &...

By (author) Vasant Honavar; Doina Caragea

ISBN-13: 9781846288944 ; ISBN-10: 1846288940

Price: £59.95 £50.46 Not Available

Adaptive Multimedia Retrieval:User, Context, and Feedback (Paperback / softback - 30 Mar 2007)

Adaptive Multimedia Retrieval:User, Context, and Feedback
This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-proceedings of the 4th International Workshop on Adaptive Multimedia Retrieval, AMR 2006, held in Geneva, Switzerland in July 2006. The papers cover ontology-based retrieval and annotation, ranking and similarity measurements, music information retrieval, visual modeling, adaptive retrieval, structuring multimedia, as well as user integration and profiling. This...

Volume editor Stéphane Marchand-Maillet; Eric Bruno; Andreas Nürnberger; Marcin Detyniecki

ISBN-13: 9783540715443 ; ISBN-10: 3540715444

Price: £44.99 £41.49 UK delivery 4 to 7 days

   Add to cart    

Oracle 10g Developing Media Rich Applications (Paperback / softback - 16 Jan 2007)

Oracle 10g Developing Media Rich Applications
Oracle 10g Developing Media Rich Applications is focused squarely on database administrators and programmers as the foundation of multimedia database applications. With the release of Oracle8 Database in 1997, Oracle became the first commercial database with integrated multimedia technology for application developers. Since that time, Oracle has enhanced and extended these features to include native support for...

By (author) Lynne Dunckley; Larry Guros

ISBN-13: 9781555583316 ; ISBN-10: 1555583318

Price: £42.40 UK delivery 4 to 7 days

   Add to cart    

Information Extraction: Algorithms and Prospects in a Retrieval Context (Hardback - 28 Jul 2006)

Information Extraction: Algorithms and Prospects in a Retrieval Context
This book covers content recognition in text, elaborating on past and current most successful algorithms and their application in a variety of settings: news filtering, mining of biomedical text, intelligence gathering, competitive intelligence, legal information searching, and processing of informal text. Today, there is considerable interest in integrating the results of information extraction in retrieval...

By (author) Marie-Francine Moens

ISBN-13: 9781402049873 ; ISBN-10: 1402049870

Price: £104.62 UK delivery 3 to 5 days

   Add to cart    

Nearest Neighbor Search: (Hardback - 13 Apr 2005)

Nearest Neighbor Search:
This monograph explores efficient query processing techniques for nearest neighbor queries from a spatial database perspective. It provides basic concepts and an introduction to spatial databases and parallel processing research, then goes on to discuss numerous applications of nearest neighbor queries, such as query processing in a single-processor multi-disk system environment, and in systems composed of many...

By (author) Apostolos N. Papadopoulos

ISBN-13: 9780387229638 ; ISBN-10: 0387229639

Price: £77.00 £56.05 Not Available

Web Technologies Research and Development - APWeb 2005 (Paperback / softback - 22 Mar 2005)

Web Technologies Research and Development - APWeb 2005
This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 7th Asia-Pacific Web Conference, APWeb 2005, held in Shanghai, China in March/April 2005. The 71 revised full papers and 22 revised short papers presented together with 6 keynote papers and 22 invited demo papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 420 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on classification and clustering, topic and...

Volume editor Yanchun Zhang; Katsumi Tanaka; Jeffrey Xu Yu; Shan Wang; Minglu Li

ISBN-13: 9783540252078 ; ISBN-10: 354025207X

Price: £95.00 Not Available

Digital Libraries: Technology and Management of Indigenous Knowledge for Global Access (Paperback / softback - 24 Nov 2003)

Digital Libraries: Technology and Management of Indigenous Knowledge for Global Access
This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Asian Digital Libraries, ICADL 2003, held in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia in December 2003. The 68 revised full papers presented together with 15 poster abstracts and 3 invited papers were carefully reviewed from numerous submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on information retrieval techniques, multimedia digital...

Volume editor Tengku Mohd. T. Sembok; Halimah Badioze Zaman; Hsinchun Chen; Shalini Urs; Sung Hyon Myaeng

ISBN-13: 9783540206088 ; ISBN-10: 3540206086

Price: £71.00 £62.80 UK delivery 4 to 7 days

   Add to cart    

Image and Video Retrieval (Paperback / softback - 3 Jul 2002)

Image and Video Retrieval
This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the International Conference on Image and Video Retrieval, CIVR 2002, held in London, UK, in July 2002.The 30 revised full papers presented together with an introduction by the volume editors were carefully reviewed and selected from 82 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on image retrieval, modeling, feature-based retrieval, semantics and...

Edited by Michael S. Lew; Nicu Sebe; John P. Eakins

ISBN-13: 9783540438991 ; ISBN-10: 3540438998

Price: £49.99 £45.49 UK delivery 4 to 7 days

   Add to cart    

Storage Area Network Fundamentals (Hardback - 1 May 2002)

Storage Area Network Fundamentals
<p>Plan, implement, manage, and use Storage Area Networks to increase the efficiency of your network infrastructure</p></b> A guide to planning, implementing, managing, and using storage area networks to increase the efficiency of your network infrastructureGain in-depth coverage of SAN fundamentals, topologies, implementation and management techniques, and products Build and sharpen your...

By (author) Meeta Gupta; Niit

ISBN-13: 9781587050657 ; ISBN-10: 158705065X

Price: £38.99 £36.69 Not Available

Object-Oriented Defect Management of Software (Hardback - 22 Apr 2002)

Object-Oriented Defect Management of Software
This will be a book that discusses the principles, techniques and approaches to managing of defects in O-O software development environment and of OO software. The book will be unique in addressing the techniques of preventing defects. The book will be RUP and OPEN. This is the first systematic guide to defect identification, correction, and prevention in object-oriented software development projects. Houman...

By (author) Houman Younessi

ISBN-13: 9780130609281 ; ISBN-10: 0130609285

Price: £47.99 £43.89 Not Available

Topic Detection and Tracking (Hardback - 28 Feb 2002)

Topic Detection and Tracking
Topic Detection and Tracking: Event-based Information Organization brings together in one place state-of-the-art research in Topic Detection and Tracking (TDT). This collection of technical papers from leading researchers in the field not only provides several chapters devoted to the research program and its evaluation paradigm, but also presents the most current research results and describes some of the remaining...

Edited by James Allan

ISBN-13: 9780792376644 ; ISBN-10: 0792376641

Price: £130.50 £110.90 UK delivery 4 to 7 days

   Add to cart    

Essential Guide to Storage Area Networks, The (Paperback - 26 Nov 2001)

Essential Guide to Storage Area Networks, The
A major new entry in the essential series which aims at distinguishing the hype from the reality of SANs. SANs allow companies to manage accelerating amounts of data more effectively than ever before. But SANs are also extremely complex. Finally, there's a readable, start-to-finish overview that gives business and IT professionals all the guidance they need to make intelligent decisions about SAN technology:...

By (author) John R. Vacca

ISBN-13: 9780130935755 ; ISBN-10: 0130935751

Price: £31.99 £31.09 Not Available

Data Warehousing and E-Commerce (Paperback - 29 Jun 2001)

Data Warehousing and E-Commerce
There are many books on data warehousing, and even more on e-commerce, but few that describe the convergence of the two. This book will server as the guide to developers and IT managers on how to apply data warehousing architectural pinciples to the challenges that e-commerce brings. This book offers the first start-to-finish blueprint for leveraging the power of data warehousing in e-Business. Leading consultant...

By (author) William J. Lewis

ISBN-13: 9780130911544 ; ISBN-10: 0130911542

Price: £39.99 £37.49 Not Available

Essential Guide to Computer Data Storage, The: From Floppy to DVD (Paperback - 18 Jun 2001)

Essential Guide to Computer Data Storage, The
This book covers all data storage systems and latest technologies. It's a practical easy-to-use book on data storage. Extensive glossary of computer data storage-related terms. Aimed at a wide audience from beginner to advanced levels. Whether you're an IT professional, manager, or a home PC user, you've got more data than ever -- and choosing reliable, cost-effective data storage has never been more important. In...

By (author) Andrei Khurshudov

ISBN-13: 9780130927392 ; ISBN-10: 0130927392

Price: £27.99 £27.89 Not Available

Integrated Region-Based Image Retrieval (Hardback - 31 May 2001)

Integrated Region-Based Image Retrieval
The need for efficient content-based image retrieval has increased tremendously in areas such as biomedicine, military, commerce, education, and Web image classification and searching. In the biomedical domain, content-based image retrieval can be used in patient digital libraries, clinical diagnosis, searching of 2-D electrophoresis gels, and pathology slides. Integrated Region-Based Image Retrieval...

By (author) James Z. Wang

ISBN-13: 9780792373506 ; ISBN-10: 0792373502

Price: £110.50 £94.90 UK delivery 4 to 7 days

   Add to cart    

Designing A Data Warehouse: Supporting Customer Relationship Management (Paperback - 17 Apr 2001)

Designing A Data Warehouse
PLEASE PROVIDE COURSE INFORMATIONPLEASE PROVIDE Today's next-generation data warehouses are being built with a clear goal: to maximize the power of Customer Relationship Management. To make CRM-focused data warehousing work, IT professionals need new techniques, and new methodologies. In this book, Dr. Chris Todman delivers the first start-to-finish methodology for defining, designing, and implementing CRM-focused...

By (author) Chris Todman

ISBN-13: 9780130897121 ; ISBN-10: 0130897124

Price: £41.75 UK delivery 3 to 5 days

   Add to cart    

Mathematical Foundations of Information Retrieval (Hardback - 31 Mar 2001)

Mathematical Foundations of Information Retrieval
This book offers a comprehensive and consistent mathematical approach to information retrieval (IR) without which no implementation is possible, and sheds an entirely new light upon the structure of IR models. It contains the descriptions of all IR models in a unified formal style and language, along with examples for each, thus offering a comprehensive overview of them. The book also creates mathematical ...

By (author) S. Dominich

ISBN-13: 9780792368618 ; ISBN-10: 0792368614

Price: £83.00 £72.90 UK delivery 4 to 7 days

   Add to cart    

Perspectives on Content-Based Multimedia Systems (Hardback - 30 Sep 2000)

Perspectives on Content-Based Multimedia Systems
Multimedia data comprising of images, audio and video is becoming increasingly common. The decreasing costs of consumer electronic devices such as digital cameras and digital camcorders, along with the ease of transportation facilitated by the Internet, has lead to a phenomenal rise in the amount of multimedia data generated and distributed. Given that this trend of increased use of multimedia data is likely...

By (author) Jian Kang Wu; Mohan S. Kankanhalli; Joo-Hwee Lim; Dezhong Hong

ISBN-13: 9780792379447 ; ISBN-10: 0792379446

Price: £153.00 £128.90 UK delivery 4 to 7 days

   Add to cart    

Information Storage and Retrieval Systems (Hardback - 30 Sep 2000)

Information Storage and Retrieval Systems
This book provides a theoretical and practical explanation of the latest advancements in information retrieval and their application to existing systems. It takes a system approach, discussing all aspects of an Information Retrieval System. The major difference between this book and the first edition is the addition to this text of descriptions of the automated indexing of multimedia documents, as items in...

By (author) Gerald J. Kowalski; Mark T. Maybury

ISBN-13: 9780792379249 ; ISBN-10: 0792379241

Price: £188.00 £156.90 UK delivery 4 to 7 days

   Add to cart    

Data Warehouse Project Management (Mixed media product - 26 Sep 2000)

Data Warehouse Project Management
The average data warehouse takes three years to build and costs $3-5 million -- yet many data warehouse project managers are thrown into the position with no clear idea of their roles, authority, or even objectives. It's no wonder that 85% of all data warehouse projects fall short of their objectives, and 40% fail completely. In Data Warehouse Project Management, two leading data warehouse project management...

By (author) Sid Adelman; Larissa T. Moss

ISBN-13: 9780201616354 ; ISBN-10: 0201616351

Price: £51.12 UK delivery 3 to 5 days

   Add to cart