Data warehousing Books

Book SynopsisDocumentation of our cultural heritage is experiencing an explosion of innovation. New tools have appeared in recent decades including laser scanning, rapid prototyping, high dynamic range spherical and infrared imagery, drone photography, augmented and virtual reality and computer rendering in multiple dimensions. These give us visualisations and data that are at once interesting, intriguing and yet sometimes deceptive. This text provides an objective and integrated approach to the subject, bringing together the techniques of conservation with management, photographic methods, various modelling techniques and the use of unmanned aerial systems. This interdisciplinary approach addresses the need for knowledge about deploying advanced digital technologies and the materials and methods for the assessment, conservation, rehabilitation and maintenance of the sustainability of existing structures and designated historic buildings. Furthermore, this book actively provides the knowhow to facilitate the creation of heritage inventories, assessing risk, and addressing the need for sustainability.In so doing it becomes more feasible to mitigate the threats from inherent and external causes, not only for the built heritage but also for moveable objects and intangible heritage that suffer abandonment and negligence as well as looting and illegal trafficking. The book is written by a team of international experts based upon their practical experience and expertise. It therefore creates a unique book that encapsulates the knowledge of this discipline required by anyone working in this field.Trade Review`...this new publication is a welcome addition, highlighting how these 3D techniques can be utilised... ...this well-illustrated volume represents a useful contribution for scholars wishing to gain a better understanding of the underpinnings of 3D recording and documentation’. Medieval Archaeology -------------------- `...I found this book very valuable. It can reach an eclectic audience in providing a broad spectrum of the subject. This book is of major importance for Cultural Heritage 3D recording and management and...an important resource handbook’. International Institute for Conservation of Historic and Artistic Works -------------------- '...this new, richly illustrated reference publication on recording and documenting cultural heritage. ... For anyone considering a digital camera for survey purposes ... this chapter [4] is essential reading, and is rightfully one of the best references currently available on the science behind imaging. ...manages to provide what is probably the most up-to-date reference book on 3D recording, documentation and management of cultural heritage. For any heritage professional, academic, student or interested individual considering applying, acquiring, undertaking or researching digital imaging, photogrammetry, Structure-from-Motion, laser scanning, GIS, BIM or RPAS/UAV within a conservation context, this book should be essential reading before embarking down any one of these rapidly developing technological routes'. Conservation and Management of Archaeological Sites -------------------- '...the images in this book, both in colour and high-resolution, play a critical role along with the text. This is a well produced book that is wonderful to read and view. ...I find this book exceptional for its publishing quality, content and production. It clearly includes cutting-edge knowledge, awareness and experience from many contributors involved in cultural heritage processes around the globe...would be very useful to anyone involved in cultural heritage, documentation of history and site preservation and conservation. It can readily serve as a course text in addition to being a reference text. ... I've nothing but positive things to say about this book - I think you will too'. 3D Visualization WorldTable of ContentsIntroduction - current trends in cultural heritage and documentation; Conservation techniques in cultural heritage; Cultural heritage management tools: The role of GIS and BIM; Basics of photography for cultural heritage imaging; Basics of image-based modelling techniques in cultural heritage 3D recording; Basics of range-based modelling techniques in cultural heritage 3D recording; Cultural heritage documentation with RPAS/UAV

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Book SynopsisThis book introduces a new approach to designing E-Librarian Services. With the help of this system, users will be able to retrieve multimedia resources from digital libraries more efficiently than they would by browsing through an index or by using a simple keyword search. E-Librarian Services combine recent advances in multimedia information retrieval with aspects of human-machine interfaces, such as the ability to ask questions in natural language; they simulate a human librarian by finding and delivering the most relevant documents that offer users potential answers to their queries. The premise is that more pertinent results can be retrieved if the search engine understands the meaning of the query; the returned results are therefore logical consequences of an inference rather than of keyword matches. Moreover, E-Librarian Services always provide users with a solution, even in situations where they are unable to offer a comprehensive answer.Trade ReviewFrom the reviews:“The subtitle gives a much better idea of what this book is really about. … it offers a demonstration of their applicability within a narrow computer science framework. … the primary audience is computer science researchers. … It is interesting as an illustration of where information retrieval is heading, an explanation of the relationship between the semantic web and natural language processing, and a glimpse of the potential power of these new ways of representing knowledge.” (Toby Burrows, Australian Library Journal, Vol. 61 (2), May, 2012)Table of ContentsPart I: Information Retrieval in Digital Libraries.- Introduction to Digital Libraries.- Search Engines.- Part II: Key Technologies of E-Librarian Services.- Semantic Web and Ontologies.- Description Logics and Reasoning.- Natural Language Processing.- Multimedia Information Retrieval.- Part III: Design and Utilization of E-Librarian Services.- Ontological Approach.- Design of the Natural Language Processing Module.- Designing the Multimedia Information Retrieval Module.- Implementation, Configuration, and Deployment.- Best Practices.- Part IV: Appendix.- A - XML SChema Primitive Datatypes.- B - Reasoning Algorithms.- C - Syntactic Difference.- D - Brown Tag Set.- E - Part-of-Speech-Taggers and Parsers.- References.

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Book SynopsisThis book constitutes the thoroughly refereed conference proceedings of the 5th International Workshop on Business Intelligence for the Real-Time Enterprise, BIRTE 2011, held in Seattle, WA, USA, in September 2011, in conjunction with VLDB 2011, the International Conference on Very Large Data Bases. The series of BIRTE workshops aims to provide a forum for researchers to discuss and advance the foundational science and engineering required to enable real-time business intelligence as well as novel applications and solutions based on these foundational techniques.The volume contains 6 research papers, which have been carefully reviewed and selected from 12 submissions, plus the 3 keynotes presented at the workshop. The topics cover all stages of the business intelligence cycle, including capturing of real-time data, handling of temporal or uncertain data, performance issues, event management, and the optimization of complex ETL workflows.The volume contains 6 research papers, which have been carefully reviewed and selected from 12 submissions, plus the 3 keynotes presented at the workshop. The topics cover all stages of the business intelligence cycle, including capturing of real-time data, handling of temporal or uncertain data, performance issues, event management, and the optimization of complex ETL workflows.Table of ContentsBlink: Not Your Father’s Database!.- MemcacheSQL – A Scale-Out SQL Cache Engine.- A Cost-Aware Strategy for Merging Differential Stores in Column-Oriented In-Memory DBMS.- Microsoft SQL Server Parallel Data Warehouse: Architecture Overview.- Relax and Let the Database Do the Partitioning Online.- Adaptive Processing of Multi-Criteria Decision Support Queries.- Scalable Social Graph Analytics Using the Vertical Analytic Platform.- A Near Real-Time Personalization for eCommerce Platform.

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Book SynopsisThis volume constitutes the refereed proceedings of the international workshops, Confederated International Workshops: OTM Academy, OTM Industry Case Studies Program, ACM, EI2N, ISDE, META4eS, ORM, SeDeS, SINCOM, SMS and SOMOCO 2013, held as part of OTM 2013 in Graz, Austria, in September 2013. The 75 revised full papers presented together with 12 posters and 5 keynotes were carefully reviewed and selected from a total of 131 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on: On The Move Academy; Industry Case Studies Program; Adaptive Case Management and other non-workflow approaches to BPM; Enterprise Integration, Interoperability and Networking; Information Systems in Distributed Environment; Methods, Evaluation, Tools and Applications for the Creation and Consumption of Structured Data for the e-Society; Fact-Oriented Modeling; Semantics and Decision Making; Social Media Semantics; Social and Mobile Computing for collaborative environments; cooperative information systems; Ontologies, Data Bases and Applications of Semantics.Table of ContentsOn The Move Academy.- Industry Case Studies Program.- Adaptive Case Management and other non-workflow approaches to BPM.- Enterprise Integration, Interoperability and Networking.- Information Systems in Distributed Environment.- Methods, Evaluation, Tools and Applications for the Creation and Consumption of Structured Data for the e-Society.- Fact-Oriented Modeling.-Semantics and Decision Making.- Social Media Semantics.- Social and Mobile Computing for collaborative environments.- Cooperative information systems.- Ontologies, Data Bases and Applications of Semantics.

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"[A] penetrating study of missing (‘dark’) data and its impacts on decisions—skewing stats, enabling fraud, embedding inequity and triggering preventable catastrophes. Advocating ‘data science judo,’ Hand offers expert training, from recognizing when facts are being cherry-picked to designing randomized trials. A book illuminating shadowed corners in science, medicine and policy."---Barbara Kiser, Nature"A tour de force. . . . Hand is a good and able guide to take us through the many aspects of dark data that are potentially skewing our understanding of real world observations and potential scientific breakthroughs. He writes in an accessible and understandable way too."---Simon Cocking, Irish Tech News"Well-written and accessible."---Tim Harford, Undercover Economist"You need to read [Dark Data], and be convinced by David’s reasoning and his examples of cases in which unseen or unreported data play a critical and sometimes even a fatal role. You are likely to walk away with the feeling that the term dark data is indeed a very effective one to arouse both curiosity and suspicion, mixed with happiness that finally a great term was coined by a statistician—and sadness that the statistician is not you."---Xiao-Li Meng, IMS Bulletin"An exploration of a major problem in data analysis with an attempt of classification, analysing causes, mechanisms, and to some extent also suggest mitigations."---Adhemar Bultheel, European Mathematical Society"An excellent guide to the many reasons for caution in interpreting data."---Diane Coyle, Enlightened Economist

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"[A] penetrating study of missing (‘dark’) data and its impacts on decisions—skewing stats, enabling fraud, embedding inequity and triggering preventable catastrophes. Advocating ‘data science judo,’ Hand offers expert training, from recognizing when facts are being cherry-picked to designing randomized trials. A book illuminating shadowed corners in science, medicine and policy."---Barbara Kiser, Nature"A tour de force. . . . Hand is a good and able guide to take us through the many aspects of dark data that are potentially skewing our understanding of real world observations and potential scientific breakthroughs. He writes in an accessible and understandable way too."---Simon Cocking, Irish Tech News"Well-written and accessible."---Tim Harford, Undercover Economist"You need to read [Dark Data], and be convinced by David’s reasoning and his examples of cases in which unseen or unreported data play a critical and sometimes even a fatal role. You are likely to walk away with the feeling that the term dark data is indeed a very effective one to arouse both curiosity and suspicion, mixed with happiness that finally a great term was coined by a statistician—and sadness that the statistician is not you."---Xiao-Li Meng, IMS Bulletin"An exploration of a major problem in data analysis with an attempt of classification, analysing causes, mechanisms, and to some extent also suggest mitigations."---Adhemar Bultheel, European Mathematical Society"An excellent guide to the many reasons for caution in interpreting data."---Diane Coyle, Enlightened Economist

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Book SynopsisThis practical guide thoroughly examines this managed service and demonstrates how you can use it to extract value from your data immediately, rather than go through the heavy lifting required to run a typical data warehouse.

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Book SynopsisThis book explains in a clear and thoughtful voice why systems perform the way they do. It's for anybody who's curious about how computer programs and other processes use their time and about what you can do to improve them.

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Book SynopsisTable of ContentsIntroduction xix 1 Everything You Ever Needed to Know About Spreadsheets but Were Too Afraid to Ask 1 Some Sample Data 2 Accessing Quick Descriptive Statistics 3 Excel Tables 4 Filtering and Sorting 5 Table Formatting 7 Structured References 7 Adding Table Columns 10 Lookup Formulas 11 VLOOKUP 11 INDEX/MATCH 13 XLOOKUP 15 PivotTables 16 Using Array Formulas 19 Solving Stuff with Solver 20 2 Set It and Forget It: An Introduction to Power Query 27 What Is Power Query? 27 Sample Data 28 Starting Power Query 29 Filtering Rows 32 Removing Columns 33 Find & Replace 34 Close & Load to Table 35 3 Naïve Bayes and the Incredible Lightness of Being an Idiot 39 The World's Fastest Intro to Probability Theory 39 Totaling Conditional Probabilities 40 Joint Probability, the Chain Rule, and Independence 40 What Happens in a Dependent Situation? 41 Bayes Rule 42 Separating the Signal and the Noise 43 Using the Bayes Rule to Create an AI Model 44 High-Level Class Probabilities Are Often Assumed to Be Equal 45 A Couple More Odds and Ends 46 Let's Get This Excel Party Started 47 Cleaning the Data with Power Query 48 Splitting on Spaces: Giving Each Word Its Due 50 Counting Tokens and Calculating Probabilities 55 We Have a Model! Let's Use It 58 4 Cluster Analysis Part 1: Using K-Means to Segment Your Customer Base 65 Dances at Summer Camp 65 Getting Real: K-Means Clustering Subscribers in Email Marketing 70 The Initial Dataset 71 Determining What to Measure 72 Start with Four Clusters 75 Euclidean Distance: Measuring Distances as the Crow Flies 76 Solving for the Cluster Centers 80 Making Sense of the Results 82 Getting the Top Deals by Cluster 83 The Silhouette: A Good Way to Let Different K Values Duke It Out 86 How About Five Clusters? 95 Solving for Five Clusters 96 Getting the Top Deals for All Five Clusters 96 Computing the Silhouette for 5-Means Clustering 99 K-Medians Clustering and Asymmetric Distance Measurements 100 Using K-Medians Clustering 100 Getting a More Appropriate Distance Metric 100 Putting It All in Excel 102 The Top Deals for the 5-Medians Clusters 104 5 Cluster Analysis Part II: Network Graphs and Community Detection 109 What Is a Network Graph? 110 Visualizing a Simple Graph 110 Beyond GiGraph and Adjacency Lists 115 Building a Graph from the Wholesale Wine Data 117 Creating a Cosine Similarity Matrix 118 Producing an R-Neighborhood Graph 121 Introduction to Gephi 123 Creating a Static Adjacency Matrix 124 Bringing in Your R-Neighborhood Adjacency Matrix into Gephi 124 Node Degree 128 Touching the Graph Data 130 How Much Is an Edge Worth? Points and Penalties in Graph Modularity 132 What's a Point, and What's a Penalty? 133 Setting Up the Score Sheet 136 Let's Get Clustering! 138 Split Number 1 138 Split 2: Electric Boogaloo 143 And. . .Split3: Split with a Vengeance 145 Encoding and Analyzing the Communities 146 There and Back Again: A Gephi Tale 151 6 Regression: The Granddaddy of Supervised Artificial Intelligence 157 Predicting Pregnant Customers at RetailMart Using Linear Regression 158 The Feature Set 159 Assembling the Training Data 161 Creating Dummy Variables 163 Let's Bake Our Own Linear Regression 165 Linear Regression Statistics: R-Squared, F-Tests, t-Tests 173 Making Predictions on Some New Data and Measuring Performance 182 Predicting Pregnant Customers at RetailMart Using Logistic Regression 192 First You Need a Link Function 192 Hooking Up the Logistic Function and Reoptimizing 193 Baking an Actual Logistic Regression 196 7 Ensemble Models: A Whole Lot of Bad Pizza 203 Getting Started Using the Data from Chapter 6 203 Bagging: Randomize, Train, Repeat 204 Decision Stump is Another Name for a Weak Learner 204 Doesn't Seem So Weak to Me! 204 You Need More Power! 207 Let's Train It 208 Evaluating the Bagged Model 220 Boosting: If You Get It Wrong, Just Boost and Try Again 223 Training the Model—Every Feature Gets a Shot 224 Evaluating the Boosted Model 231 8 Forecasting: Breathe Easy: You Can't Win 235 The Sword Trade Is Hopping 236 Getting Acquainted with Time-Series Data 236 Starting Slow with Simple Exponential Smoothing 238 Setting Up the Simple Exponential Smoothing Forecast 240 You Might Have a Trend 249 Holt's Trend-Corrected Exponential Smoothing 250 Setting Up Holt's Trend-Corrected Smoothing in a Spreadsheet 252 So Are You Done? Looking at Autocorrelations 258 Multiplicative Holt-Winters Exponential Smoothing 266 Setting the Initial Values for Level, Trend, and Seasonality 268 Getting Rolling on the Forecast 274 And. . .Optimize! 280 Putting a Prediction Interval Around the Forecast 283 Creating a Fan Chart for Effect 287 Forecast Sheets in Excel 289 9 Optimization Modeling: Because That "Fresh-Squeezed" Orange Juice Ain't Gonna Blend Itself 293 Wait Is This Data Science? 294 Starting with a Simple Trade-Off 295 Representing the Problem as a Polytope 296 Solving by Sliding the Level Set 297 The Simplex Method: Rooting Around the Corners 298 Working in Excel 300 Fresh from the Grove to Your Glass with a Pit Stop Through a Blending Model 305 Let's Start with Some Specs 307 Coming Back to Consistency 308 Putting the Data into Excel 309 Setting Up the Problem in Solver 311 Lowering Your Standards 314 Dead Squirrel Removal: the Minimax Formulation 317 If-Then and the "Big M" Constraint 320 Multiplying Variables: Cranking Up the Volume to 11,000 324 Modeling Risk 330 Normally Distributed Data 331 10 Outlier Detection: Just Because They're Odd Doesn't Mean They're Unimportant 339 Outliers Are (Bad?) People, Too 340 The Fascinating Case of Hadlum v Hadlum 340 Tukey's Fences 341 Applying Tukey's Fences in a Spreadsheet 342 The Limitations of This Simple Approach 345 Terrible at Nothing, Bad at Everything 346 Preparing Data for Graphing 347 Creating a Graph 350 Getting the k-Nearest Neighbors 351 Graph Outlier Detection Method 1: Just Use the Indegree 352 Graph Outlier Detection Method 2: Getting Nuanced with k-Distance 355 Graph Outlier Detection Method 3: Local Outlier Factors Are Where It's At 358 11 Moving on From Spreadsheets 363 Getting Up and Running with R 364 A Crash Course in R-ing 366 Show Me the Numbers! Vector Math and Factoring 367 The Best Data Type of Them All: the Dataframe 370 How to Ask for Help in R 371 It Gets Even Better Beyond Base R 372 Doing Some Actual Data Science 374 Reading Data into R 374 Spherical K-Means on Wine Data in Just a Few Lines 375 Building AI Models on the Pregnancy Data 381 Forecasting in R 389 Looking at Outlier Detection 393 12 Conclusion 397 Where Am I? What Just Happened? 397 Before You Go-Go 397 Get to Know the Problem 398 We Need More Translators 398 Beware the Three-Headed Geek-Monster: Tools, Performance, and Mathematical Perfection 399 You Are Not the Most Important Function of Your Organization 401 Get Creative and Keep in Touch! 402 Index 403

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Book SynopsisJan-Willem Middelburg is a Dutch entrepreneur and author with a passion for technology and innovation. He is the CEO and co-founder of Cybiant, a global technology that company that helps to create a more sustainable world through analytics, big data and automation. He is also President and Chief Examiner of the Enterprise Big Data Framework, an independent organization dedicated to upskilling individuals with expertise in Big Data. In partnership with APMG-International, the Enterprise Big Data Framework offers vendor-neutral certifications for individuals.Trade Review"The Enterprise Big Data Framework is relevant for everybody within an organisation engaged in driving maximum benefits from data. There is something for everybody; from the board considering governance and ethical behaviour to individuals within the organisation knowing where they fit and the value they can get from better use of their organisation's data. If you are considering a transformation project, this is an excellent guide for your project team." * Richard Pharro, CEO, The APM Group Limited *"If you are looking for a good guide to empower your knowledge on big data and to find a framework to help you on your big data journey, then this book is for you. From learning what big data is to defining a big data strategy, Jan-Willem has built a book to empower the learner on the topic of big data." * Jordan Morrow, Chief Strategy & Transformation Officer, DataPrime and Author of Be Data Literate *"This book is a master piece for those who are familiar and those who discover the world of data. It provides an "a la carte framework" starting with a (big) data strategy and the supporting aspects such as big data functions, architecture and algorithms. It covers in depth data platforms architectures, its management as well as data governance, data catalogue and all the required security considerations associated to the various data classifications. You will find details of data life cycle management, of various machine learning algorithms and an important chapter covering AI ethics when building and deploying sophisticated algorithms using data. The concepts covered in this book apply to on-premises and in the (public) cloud environments, making this book a must read." * Jean-Michel Coeur, APAC Technology Practice Lead, Data Analytics, Google Cloud *Table of Contents Section - ONE: Introduction to Big Data; Chapter - 01: Introduction to Big Data; Chapter - 02: The Big Data framework; Chapter - 03: Big Data strategy; Chapter - 04: Big Data architecture; Chapter - 05: Big Data algorithms; Chapter - 06: Big Data processes; Chapter - 07: Big Data functions; Chapter - 08: Artificial intelligence; Section - TWO: Enterprise Big Data analysis; Chapter - 09: Introduction to Big Data analysis; Chapter - 10: Defining the business objective; Chapter - 11: Data ingestion – importing and reading data sets; Chapter - 12: Data preparation – cleaning and wrangling data; Chapter - 13: Data analysis – model building; Chapter - 14: Data presentation; Section - THREE: Enterprise Big Data engineering; Chapter - 15: Introduction to Big Data engineering; Chapter - 16: Data modelling; Chapter - 17: Constructing the data lake; Chapter - 18: Building an enterprise Big Data warehouse; Chapter - 19: Design and structure of Big Data pipelines; Chapter - 20: Managing data pipelines; Chapter - 21: Cluster technology; Section - FOUR: enterprise Big Data algorithm design; Chapter - 22: Introduction to Big Data algorithm design; Chapter - 23: Algorithm design – fundamental concepts; Chapter - 24: Statistical machine learning algorithms; Chapter - 25: The data science roadmap; Chapter - 26: Programming languages 26 visualization and simple metrics; Chapter - 27: Advanced machine learning algorithms; Chapter - 28: Advanced machine learning classification algorithms; Chapter - 29: Technical communication and documentation; Section - FIVE: Enterprise Big Data architecture; Chapter - 30: Introduction to the Big Data architecture; Chapter - 31: Strength and resilience – the Big Data platform; Chapter - 32: Design principles for Big Data architecture; Chapter - 33: Big Data infrastructure; Chapter - 34: Big Data platforms; Chapter - 35: The Big Data application provider; Chapter - 36: System orchestration in Big Data

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Book SynopsisToday, big data is taken seriously, and data science is considered downright sexy. With this anthology of reports from award-winning journalist Mike Barlow, you'll appreciate how data science is fundamentally altering our world, for better and for worse.

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Book SynopsisWith this practical guide, author Sev Leonard provides a holistic approach to designing scalable data pipelines in the cloud. Intermediate data engineers, software developers, and architects will learn how to navigate cost/performance trade-offs and how to choose and configure compute and storage.

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Book SynopsisThis SpringerBrief provides the first systematic review of the existing works of cohesive subgraph search (CSS) over large heterogeneous information networks (HINs). It also covers the research breakthroughs of this area, including models, algorithms and comparison studies in recent years. This SpringerBrief offers a list of promising future research directions of performing CSS over large HINs.The authors first classify the existing works of CSS over HINs according to the classic cohesiveness metrics such as core, truss, clique, connectivity, density, etc., and then extensively review the specific models and their corresponding search solutions in each group. Note that since the bipartite network is a special case of HINs, all the models developed for general HINs can be directly applied to bipartite networks, but the models customized for bipartite networks may not be easily extended for other general HINs due to their restricted settings. The authors also analyze and compare these cohesive subgraph models (CSMs) and solutions systematically. Specifically, the authors compare different groups of CSMs and analyze both their similarities and differences, from multiple perspectives such as cohesiveness constraints, shared properties, and computational efficiency. Then, for the CSMs in each group, the authors further analyze and compare their model properties and high-level algorithm ideas.This SpringerBrief targets researchers, professors, engineers and graduate students, who are working in the areas of graph data management and graph mining. Undergraduate students who are majoring in computer science, databases, data and knowledge engineering, and data science will also want to read this SpringerBrief.Table of Contents1. Introduction2. Preliminaries3. CSS on Bipartite Networks4. CSS on Other General HINs5. Comparison Analysis6. Related Work on CSMs and solutions7. Future Work and Conclusion

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Book SynopsisThis book provides a principled data-driven framework that progressively constructs, enriches, and applies taxonomies without leveraging massive human annotated data. Traditionally, people construct domain-specific taxonomies by extensive manual curations, which is time-consuming and costly. In today’s information era, people are inundated with the vast amounts of text data. Despite their usefulness, people haven’t yet exploited the full power of taxonomies due to the heavy curation needed for creating and maintaining them. To bridge this gap, the authors discuss automated taxonomy discovery and exploration, with an emphasis on label-efficient machine learning methods and their real-world usages. Taxonomy organizes entities and concepts in a hierarchy way. It is ubiquitous in our daily life, ranging from product taxonomies used by online retailers, topic taxonomies deployed by news outlets and social media, as well as scientific taxonomies deployed by digital libraries across various domains. When properly analyzed, these taxonomies can play a vital role for science, engineering, business intelligence, policy design, e-commerce, and more. Intuitive examples are used throughout enabling readers to grasp concepts more easily.Table of ContentsIntroduction.- Concept Set Expansion.- Taxonomy Construction.- Taxonomy Enrichment.- Taxonomy-Guided Classification.- Conclusions.

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Book SynopsisThis book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 20th International Conference on Business Process Management, BPM 2022, which took place in Münster, Germany, in September 2022. The 22 papers included in this book were carefully reviewed and selected from 98 submissions. They were organized in topical sections as follows: task mining; design methods; process mining; process mining practice; analytics; and systems. The book also includes one keynote talk in full-paper length and 5 tutorial papers. Table of ContentsKeynote.- Advancing Business Process Science via the Co-Evolution of Substantive and Methodological Knowledge.- Tutorials.- BPM in Digital Transformation: New Tools and Productivity Challenges.- Multi-Dimensional Process Analysis.- Theory and Practice - What, With What and How Is Business Process Management Taught at German Universities.-How to Leverage Process Mining in Organizations - Towards Process Mining Capabilities.- Mastering Robotic Process Automation with Process Mining.- Task Mining.- A Reference Data Model for Process-Related User Interaction Logs.- Analysing Variable Human Actions for Robotic Process Automation.- The SWORD is Mightier than the Interview: A Framework for Semi-automatic WORkaround Detection.- Design Methods.- Back to the Roots – Investigating the Theoretical Foundations of Business Process Maturity Models.- Applying Process Mining in Small and Medium sized IT Enterprises – Challenges and Guidelines.- A Process Mining Success Factors Model.- Process Mining.- No Time to Dice: Learning Execution Contexts from Event Logs for Resource-Oriented Process Mining.- A Purpose-Guided Log Generation Framework.- Conformance Checking with Uncertainty via SMT.- Process Mining Practice.- The Dark Side of Process Mining. How Identifiable Are Users Despite Technologically Anonymized Data? A Case Study From the Health Sector.- Analyzing How Process Mining Reports Answer Time Performance Questions.- Process Mining of Knowledge-Intensive Processes: An Action Design Research Study in Manufacturing.- Process Mining Practices: Evidence from Interviews.- Analytics.- Measuring Inconsistency in Declarative Process Specifications.- Understanding and Decomposing Control-Flow Loops in Business Process Models.- Reasoning on Labelled Petri Nets and their Dynamics in a Stochastic Setting.- Incentive Alignment through Secure Computations.- Business Process Simulation with Differentiated Resources: Does it Make a Difference.- Uncovering Object-centric Data in Classical Event Logs for the Automated Transformation from XES to OCEL.- Systems.- Why Companies Use RPA: A Critical Reflection of Goals.- A trustworthy decentralized change propagation mechanism for declarative choreographies.- Architecture of decentralized Process Management Systems.

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Book SynopsisThis book provides a new model to explore discoverability and enhance the meaning of information. The authors have coined the term epidata, which includes items and circumstances that impact the expression of the data in a document, but are not part of the ordinary process of retrieval systems. Epidata affords pathways and points to details that cast light on proximities that might otherwise go unknown. In addition, epidata are clues to mis-and dis-information discernment. There are many ways to find needed information; however, finding the most useable information is not an easy task. The book explores the uses of proximity and the concept of epidata that increases the probability of finding functional information. The authors sketch a constellation of proximities, present examples of attempts to accomplish proximity, and provoke a discussion of the role of proximity in the field. In addition, the authors suggest that proximity is a thread between retrieval constructs based on known topics, predictable relations, and types of information seeking that lie outside constructs such as browsing, stumbling, encountering, detective work, art making, and translation.Table of ContentsProximity and Clues.- More than Meets the Eye.- Epidata, Clues, Threads, and Webs.- Provocations and Invitations.

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Book SynopsisThe three-volume set LNCS 13980, 13981 and 13982 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 45th European Conference on IR Research, ECIR 2023, held in Dublin, Ireland, during April 2-6, 2023. The 65 full papers, 41 short papers, 19 demonstration papers, 12 reproducibility papers consortium papers, 7 tutorial papers, and 10 doctorial consortium papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 489 submissions. The book also contains, 8 workshop summaries and 13 CLEF Lab descriptions. The accepted papers cover the state of the art in information retrieval focusing on user aspects, system and foundational aspects, machine learning, applications, evaluation, new social and technical challenges, and other topics of direct or indirect relevance to search.Table of ContentsFull Papers.- Automatic Summarization of Financial Earnings Calls Transcript.- Parameter-Efficient Sparse Retrievers and Rerankers using Adapters.- Feature Differentiation and Fusion for Semantic Text Matching.- Multivariate Powered Dirichlet-Hawkes Process.- Fragmented Visual Attention in Web Browsing: Weibull Analysis of Item Visit Times.- Topic-Enhanced Personalized Retrieval-based Chatbot.- Improving the Generalizability of the Dense Passage Retriever Using Generated Datasets.- SegmentCodeList: Unsupervised Representation Learning for Human Skeleton Data Retrieval.- Knowing What and How: A Multi-modal Aspect-Based Framework for Complaint Detection.- What is your cause for concern? Towards Interpretable Complaint Cause Analysis.- DeCoDE: DEtection of COgnitive Distortion and Emotion cause extraction in clinical conversations.- Domain-aligned Data Augmentation for Low-resource and Imbalanced Text Classification.- Privacy-Preserving Fair Item Ranking.- Multimodal Geolocation Estimation of News Photos.- Topics in Contextualised Attention Embeddings.- New Metrics to Encourage Innovation and Diversity in Information Retrieval Approaches.- Probing BERT for Ranking Abilities.- Clustering of Bandit with Frequency-Dependent Information Sharing.- Contrastive Graph Learning with Positional Representation for Recommendation.- Domain Adaptation for Anomaly Detection on Heterogeneous Graphs in E-Commerce.- Short PapersImproving Neural Topic Models with Wasserstein Knowledge Distillation.- Towards Effective Paraphrasing for Information Disguise.- Generating Topic Pages for Scientific Concepts Using Scientific Publications.- Relevance Judgements for Fair Ranking.- A Study of Term-Topic Embeddings for Ranking.- Topic Refinement in Multi-Level Hate Speech Detection.- Is Cross-modal Information Retrieval Possible without Training?.- Adversarial Adaptation for French Named Entity Recognition.- Exploring Fake News Detection with Heterogeneous Social Media Context Graphs.- Justifying Multi-Label Text Classifications for Healthcare Applications.- Doc2Query–: When Less is More.- Towards Quantifying The Privacy Of Redacted Text. -Detecting Stance of Authorities towards Rumors in Arabic Tweets: A Preliminary Study.- Leveraging Comment Retrieval for Code Summarization.- CPR: Cross-domain Preference Ranking with User Transformation.- Colbert-FairPRF: Towards Fair Pseudo-Relevance Feedback in Dense Retrieval.- C2LIR: Continual Cross-lingual Transfer for Low-Resource Information Retrieval.- Joint Extraction and Classification of Danish Competences for Job Matching.- A Study on FGSM Adversarial Training for Neural Retrieval.- Dialogue-to-Video Retrieval.- Time-dependent next-basket recommendations.- Investigating the Impact of Query Representation on Medical Information Retrieval.- Where a Little Change Makes a Big Difference: A Preliminary Exploration of Children’s Queries.- Multi-document QA with GPT-3 and Neural Reranking .- Towards Detecting Interesting Ideas Expressed in Text.- Towards Linguistically Informed Multi-Objective Transformer Pre-Training for Natural Language Inference.- Dirichlet-Survival Process: Scalable Inference of Topic-Dependent Diffusion Networks.- Consumer Health Question Answering Using Off-the-shelf Components.- MOO-CMDS+NER: Named Entity Recognition-based Extractive Comment-oriented Multi-document Summarization.- Don’t Raise Your Voice, Improve Your Argument: Learning to Retrieve Convincing Arguments.- Learning Query-Space Document Representations for High-Recall Retrieval.- Investigating Conversational Search Behavior For Domain Exploration.- Evaluating Humorous Response Generation to Playful Shopping Requests.- Joint Span Segmentation and Rhetorical Role Labeling with Data Augmentation for Legal Documents.- Trigger or not Trigger: Dynamic Thresholding for Few Shot Event Detection.- The Impact of a Popularity Punishing Hyperparameter on ItemKNN Recommendation Performance.- Neural Ad hoc Retrieval Meets Information Extraction.- Augmenting Graph Convolutional Networks with Textual Data for Recommendations.- Utilising Twitter Metadata for Hate Classification.- Evolution of Filter Bubbles and Polarization in News Recommendation.- Capturing Cross-platform Interaction for Identifying Coordinated Accounts of Misinformation Campaigns.

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Book SynopsisThe three-volume set LNCS 13980, 13981 and 13982 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 45th European Conference on IR Research, ECIR 2023, held in Dublin, Ireland, during April 2-6, 2023. The 65 full papers, 41 short papers, 19 demonstration papers, 12 reproducibility papers consortium papers, 7 tutorial papers, and 10 doctorial consortium papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 489 submissions. The book also contains, 8 workshop summaries and 13 CLEF Lab descriptions. The accepted papers cover the state of the art in information retrieval focusing on user aspects, system and foundational aspects, machine learning, applications, evaluation, new social and technical challenges, and other topics of direct or indirect relevance to search.Table of ContentsReproducibility Papers.- Knowledge is Power, Understanding is Impact: Utility and Beyond Goals, Explanation Quality, and Fairness in Path Reasoning Recommendation.- Stat-weight: Improving the Estimator of Interleaved Methods Outcomes with Statistical Hypothesis Testing.- A Reproducibility Study of Question Retrieval for Clarifying Questions.- The Impact of Cross-Lingual Adjustment of Contextual Word Representations on Zero-Shot Transfer.- Scene-centric vs. Object-centric Image-Text Cross-modal Retrieval: A Reproducibility Study.- Index-Based Batch Query Processing Revisited.- A Unified Framework for Learned Sparse Retrieval.- Entity Embeddings for Entity Ranking: A Replicability Study.- Do the Findings of Document and Passage Retrieval Generalize to the Retrieval of Responses for Dialogues?.- PyGaggle: A Gaggle of Resources for Open-Domain Question Answering.- Pre-Processing Matters! Improved Wikipedia Corpora for Open-Domain Question Answering.- From Baseline to Top Performer: A Reproducibility Study of Approaches at the TREC 2021 Conversational Assistance Track.- Demonstration Papers.- Exploring Tabular Data Through Networks.- InfEval: Application for Object Detection Analysis.- The System for Efficient Indexing and Search in the Large Archives of Scanned Historical Documents.- Public News Archive: A Searchable Sub-Archive to Portuguese Past News Articles.- TweetStream2Story: Narrative Extraction from Tweets in Real Time.- SimpleRad: patient-friendly Dutch radiology reports.- Automated Extraction of Fine-Grained Standardized Product Information from Unstructured Multilingual Web Data.- Continuous Integration for Reproducible Shared Tasks with TIRA.io.- Dynamic Exploratory Search for the Information Retrieval Anthology.- Text2Storyline: Generating Enriched Storylines From Text.- Uptrendz: API-Centric Real-Time Recommendations in Multi-Domain Settings.- Clustering Without Knowing How To: Application and Evaluation.- Enticing local governments to produce FAIR freedom of information act dossiers.- Which Country is this? Automatic Country Ranking of StreetView Images.- Automatic Videography Generation from Audio Tracks.- Ablesbarkeitsmesser: A System for Assessing the Readability of German Text.- FACADE: Fake Articles Classification And Decision Explanation.- PsyProf: A Platform for Assisted Screening of Depression in Social Media.- SOPalign: A Tool for Automatic Estimation of Compliance with Medical Guidelines.- Tutorials.- Understanding and Mitigating Gender Bias in Information Retrieval Systems.- Neuro-Symbolic Representations for Information Retrieval.- Legal IR and NLP: the History, Challenges, and State-of-the-Art.- Deep Learning Methods for Query Auto Completion.- Trends and Overview: The Potential of Conversational Agents in Digital Health.- Crowdsourcing for Information Retrieval.- Uncertainty Quantification for Text Classification.- Workshops.- Fourth International Workshop on Algorithmic Bias in Search and Recommendation (Bias 2023).- The 6th International Workshop on Narrative Extraction from Texts (Text2Story’23).- 2nd Workshop on Augmented Intelligence in Technology-Assisted Review Systems (ALTARS): Evaluation Metrics and Protocols for eDiscovery and Systematic Review Systems.- Workshop QPP++ 2023: Query Performance Prediction and Ist Evaluation in New Tasks.- Bibliometric-enhanced Information Retrieval: 13th International BIR Workshop (BIR˜2023).- Geographic information extraction from texts (GeoExT).- ROMCIR 2023: Overview of the 3rd Workshop on Reducing Online Misinformation through Credible Information Retrieval.- ECIR 2023 workshop proposal: Legal Information Retrieval.- Doctoral Consoritum.- Building Safe and Reliable AI systems for Safety Critical Tasks with Vision-Language Processing.- Text Information Retrieval in Tetun.- Identifying and Representing Knowledge Delta in Scientific Literature.- Investigation of Bias in Web Search Queries.- Monitoring online discussions and responses to support the identification of misinformation.- User Privacy in Recommender Systems.- Conversational Search for Multimedia Archives.- Disinformation Detection: Knowledge Infusion with Transfer Learning and Visualizations.- A Comprehensive Overview of Consumer Conflicts on Social Media.- Designing useful conversational interfaces for information retrieval in career decision-making support.- CLEF Lab Descriptions iDPP@CLEF 2023: The Intelligent Disease Progression Prediction Challenge.- LongEval: Longitudinal Evaluation of Model Performance at CLEF 2023.- The CLEF-2023 CheckThat! Lab: Checkworthiness, Subjectivity, Political Bias, Factuality, and Authority.- Overview of PAN 2023: Authorship Verification, Multi-Author Writing Style Analysis, Profiling Cryptocurrency Influencers, and Trigger Detection.- Overview of Touché 2023: Argument and Causal Retrieval.- CLEF 2023 SimpleText Track: What Happens if General Users Search Scientific Texts?.- Science for Fun: The CLEF 2023 JOKER Track on Automatic Wordplay Analysis.- ImageCLEF 2023 Highlight: Multimedia Retrieval in Medical, Social Media and Content Recommendation Applications.- LifeCLEF 2023 teaser: Species Identification and Prediction Challenges.- BioASQ at CLEF2023: The eleventh edition of the Large-scale biomedical semantic indexing and question answering challenge.- eRisk 2023: Depression, Pathological Gambling, and Eating Disorder Challenges.- Overview of EXIST 2023: sEXism Identification in Social neTworks.- DocILE 2023 Teaser: Document Information Localization and Extraction.

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Book SynopsisThis book explores the rich history of the keyword from its earliest manifestations (long before it appeared anywhere in Google Trends or library cataloging textbooks) in order to illustrate its implicit and explicit mediation of human cognition and communication processes. The author covers the concept of the keyword from its deictic origins in primate and proto-speech communities, through its development within oral traditions, to its initial appearances in numerous graphical forms and its workings over time within a variety of indexing traditions and technologies. The book follows the history all the way to its role in search engine optimization and social media strategies and its potential as an element in the slowly emerging semantic web, as well as in multiple voice search applications. The author synthesizes different perspectives on the significance of this often-invisible intermediary, both in and out of the library and information science context, helping readers to understand how it has come to be so embedded in our daily life.This book: Provides a thorough history of the keyword, from primate and proto-speech communities to current times Explains how the concept of the keyword relates to human cognition and communication processes Highlights the applications of the keyword, both in and out of the library and information science context Table of ContentsChapter 1 - Representation, Reference, Relevance, and Retention.- Chapter 2 - Signals, Semiotics.- Chapter 3 - Proto-Words, Proto-Signs.- Chapter 4 - Philologies, Philosophies, Pragmatics.- Chapter 5 - Rites, Religions.- Chapter 6 - Writing, Indexing.- Chapter 7 - Progress, Public.- Chapter 8 - Discovery, Retrieval.- Chapter 9 - Databases, Search Engines.

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Book SynopsisThis book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 20th International Conference onThe Semantic Web, ESWC 2023, held in Hersonissos, Crete, Greece, during May 28–June 1, 2023.The 41 full papers included in this book were carefully reviewed and selected from 167 submissions. They are organized in topical sections as follows: research, resource and in-use.Table of ContentsResearch.- Explainable Phenotype-Centric Drug Repurposing via Deep Reinforcement Learning.- A Comparative Study of Stream Reasoning Engines.- Join Ordering of SPARQL Property Path Queries.- Rening Large Integrated Identity Graphs using the Unique NameAssumption.- Structural Bias in Knowledge Graphs for the Entity Alignment Task.- A Framework to Include and Exploit Probabilistic Information in SHACL Validation Reports.- Transformer based Semantic Relation Typing for Knowledge Graph Integration.- Entity Linking for KGQA Using AMR Graphs.- REGNUM: Generating Logical Rules with Numerical Predicates in Knowledge Graphs.- Classifying sequences by combining context-free grammars and OWL ontologies.- NASTyLinker: NIL-Aware Scalable Transformer-based Entity Linker.- iSummary: Workload-based, Personalized summaries for Knowledge Graphs.- Neural Class Expression Synthesis.- Evaluating Language Models for Knowledge Base Completion.- Subsumption Prediction on E-Commerce Taxonomies.- Two-view Graph Neural Networks for Knowledge Graph Completion.- GETT-QA: Graph Embedding based T2T Transformer for Knowledge Graph Question Answering.- Repairing EL ontologies using weakening and completing.- Activity Recommendation for Business Process Modeling with Sequence-to-Sequence Models.- Resource.- RELD: A Knowledge Graph of Relation Extraction Datasets.- The Internet Meme Knowledge Graph.- Describing and Organizing Semantic Web and Machine Learning Systems in the SWeMLS-KG.- A Concise Ontology to Support Research on Complex, Multimodal Clinical Reasoning.- LauNuts: A Knowledge Graph to identify and compare geographic regions in the European Union.- HHT : an approach for representing temporally-evolving historical territories.- An Upper Ontology for Modern Science Branches and Related Entities.- K-Hub: a modular ontology to support document retrieval and knowledge extraction in Industry 5.0.- pyRDF2Vec: A Python Implementation and Extension of RDF2Vec.- Boosting Knowledge Graph Generation from Tabular Data with RML Views.- A knowledge graph of contentious terminology for inclusive representation of cultural heritage.- LegalHTML: a Representation Language for Legal Acts.- Whyis 2: An Open Source Framework for Knowledge Graph Development and Research.- In-Use.- Prototyping an End-User User Interface for the Solid Application Interoperability Specication under GDPR.- SemReasoner - A high-performance Knowledge Graph Store and rule-based Reasoner.- LIS: A Knowledge Graph-based Line Information System.- Combining Semantic Web and Machine Learning for Auditable Legal Key Element Extraction.- Understanding Customer Requirements - an Enterprise Knowledge Graph Approach.- Investigating Ontology-based data access with GitHub.- Enabling Live SPARQL Queries Over ConceptNet Using Triple Pattern Fragments.- Evaluation of a Representative Selection of SPARQL Query Enginesusing Wikidata.- MOSAIK: An Agent-Based Decentralized Control System withStigmergy For A Transportation Scenario.

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Book SynopsisThis book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 14th International Joint Conference on Knowledge Discovery, Knowledge Engineering and Knowledge Management, IC3K 2022, held in Valletta, Malta, during October 24–26, 2022.The 14 full papers included in this book were carefully reviewed and selected from 127 submissions. They were organized in topical sections as follows: Knowledge Discovery and Information Retrieval; Knowledge Engineering and Ontology Development; and Knowledge Management and Information SystemsTable of Contents​Knowledge Discovery and Information Retrieval.- Electrocardiogram Two-Dimensional Motifs: A Study Directed at Cardio Vascular Disease Classification.- Degree Centrality Definition, and Its Computation for Homogeneous Multilayer Networks Using Heuristics-Based Algorithms.- A Dual-Stage Noise Training Scheme for Breast Ultrasound Image Classification.- A General-Purpose Multi-Stage Multi-Group Machine Learning Framework for Knowledge Discovery and Decision Support.- Comparative Assessment of Deep end-to-end, Deep Hybrid and Deep Ensemble Learning Architectures for Breast Cancer Histological Classification.- Knowledge Engineering and Ontology Development.- CIE: A Cloud-Based Information Extraction System for Named Entity Recognition in AWS, Azure, and Medical Domain.- From Natural Language Texts to RDF Triples: A Novel Approach to Generating e-Commerce Knowledge Graphs.- Situational Question Answering over Commonsense Knowledge Using Memory Nets.- Archives Metadata Text Information Extraction into CIDOC-CRM.- Evolution of Computational Ontologies: Assessing Development Processes Using Metrics.- System to Correct Toxic Expression with BERT and to Determine the Effect of the Attention Value.- Knowledge Management and Information Systems.- Machine Learning Decision Support for Production Planning and Control Based on Simulation-Generated Data..- FAIRification of CRIS: A Review.- Measuring Augmented Reality and Virtual Reality Trajectory in the Training Environment.- DroNit Project: Improving Drone Usage for Civil Defense Applications.- Innovation Processes and Information Technologies: A Study of Boutique Hotels in Valletta, Malta.

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Book SynopsisQuestions of privacy, borders, and nationhood are increasingly shaping the way we think about all things digital. Data Centers brings together essays and photographic documentation that analyze recent and ongoing developments. Taking Switzerland as an example, the book takes a look at the country's data centers, law firms, corporations, and government institutions that are involved in the creation, maintenance, and regulation of digital infrastructures. Beneath the official storyline— Switzerland’s moderate climate, political stability, and relatively clean energy mix—the book uncovers a much more varied and sometimes contradictory set of narratives.

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Book SynopsisThis book offers a comprehensive guide to the world of metadata, from its origins in the ancient cities of the Middle East, to the Semantic Web of today. The author takes us on a journey through the centuries-old history of metadata up to the modern world of crowdsourcing and Google, showing how metadata works and what it is made of. The author explores how it has been used ideologically and how it can never be objective. He argues how central it is to human cultures and the way they develop. Metadata: Shaping Knowledge from Antiquity to the Semantic Web is for all readers with an interest in how we humans organize our knowledge and why this is important. It is suitable for those new to the subject as well as those know its basics. It also makes an excellent introduction for students of information science and librarianship. Trade Review“In Metadata: Shaping Knowledge from Antiquity to the Semantic Web, Gartner, the digital librarian at the Warburg Institute at the University of London, thoroughly covers not only the history of metadata, but how it affects and forms knowledge and culture. … The author concludes the work with recent advances in metadata creation—metadata produced via Web 2.0, crowdsourcing, and folksonomies. This is a meticulous overview of metadata and its history and application. Summing Up: Recommended. Graduate students, faculty, and professionals.” (A. Hollister, Choice, Vol. 54 (9), May, 2017)“The book presents an enjoyable bird’s-eye view of metadata and related concepts, with outstanding examples accessible to non-experts. … I highly recommend the book.” (H. I. Kilov, Computing Reviews, May, 2017)“The book covers continuous evolution of metadata from the history of cataloguing to the modern forms … . This book will attract readers interested in metadata, the semantic web, metadata ontologies, digital libraries, and semantic retrieval. So, it is highly recommended to information professionals, digital librarians and students. The book is well structured and motivating. The results of Gartner’s effort are very much worth reading due to his librarianship perspective on metadata.” (Elaheh Hossseini, Information Research, informationr.net, Vol. 22 (1), March, 2017)“All of the usual elements of a book on metadata are present and correct … I would urge you to read this book if you are new to cataloguing or if you are old in cataloguing and world-weary about our professional mission. It’s a book to provoke your own thoughts, and quite possibly to give to your manager if you suspect they are unsure why metadata, why cataloguing and, therefore, why you and your team matter.” (Anne Welsh, Catalogue and Index, cilip.org.uk, Issue 186, March, 2017) “The book provides an overview of existing metadata approaches and standards such as MARC, Dublin Core, MIX and EAD. This book also offers a succinct history of metadata and discusses emerging metadata approaches. … This book can be read by both technical and non-technical people as it uses a rather accessible language. Metadata makes information finding easier. This is an excellent read and I highly recommend it to my colleagues and friends.” (Getaneh Alemu, Linkedin.com, January, 2017)“This slim volume aims to provide the reader with an overview of the history and development of metadata from the earliest times to the present day, and it offers a straightforward and readable account of metadata for the novice or the non-professional. … There is plenty here to intrigue and entertain for those wanting a lightweight introduction to the subject, at a very attractive price … .” (Vanda Broughton, Library & Information History, Vol. 33 (2), 2017)Table of ContentsWhat Metadata is and why it Matters.- Clay, Goats and Trees: Metadata before the Byte.- Metadata Becomes Digital.- Metadata as Ideology.- The Ontology of Metadata.- The Taxonomic Urge.- From Hierarchies to Networks.- Breaking the Silos.- Democratizing Metadata.- Knowledge and Uncertainty.

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Book SynopsisThis is the second edition of Wil van der Aalst’s seminal book on process mining, which now discusses the field also in the broader context of data science and big data approaches. It includes several additions and updates, e.g. on inductive mining techniques, the notion of alignments, a considerably expanded section on software tools and a completely new chapter of process mining in the large. It is self-contained, while at the same time covering the entire process-mining spectrum from process discovery to predictive analytics. After a general introduction to data science and process mining in Part I, Part II provides the basics of business process modeling and data mining necessary to understand the remainder of the book. Next, Part III focuses on process discovery as the most important process mining task, while Part IV moves beyond discovering the control flow of processes, highlighting conformance checking, and organizational and time perspectives. Part V offers a guide to successfully applying process mining in practice, including an introduction to the widely used open-source tool ProM and several commercial products. Lastly, Part VI takes a step back, reflecting on the material presented and the key open challenges. Overall, this book provides a comprehensive overview of the state of the art in process mining. It is intended for business process analysts, business consultants, process managers, graduate students, and BPM researchers.Trade Review“The author of the book, Wil van der Aalst, is very knowledgeable in the area. … His research interests are workflow management, process mining, Petri nets, business process management, process modeling, and process analysis. … I enjoyed reading the book and learned about process mining. It will be helpful to researchers and industry professionals working on fields related to business processes such as business intelligence and workflow management.” (Gulustan Dogan, Computing Reviews, March, 2017)Table of ContentsIntroduction.- Preliminaries.- From Event Logs to Process Models.- Beyond Process Discovery.- Putting Process Mining to Work.- Reflection.- Epilogue.

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Book SynopsisThis book gathers a collection of high-quality peer-reviewed research papers presented at International Conference on Cyber Intelligence and Information Retrieval (CIIR 2021), held at Institute of Engineering & Management, Kolkata, India during 20–21 May 2021. The book covers research papers in the field of privacy and security in the cloud, data loss prevention and recovery, high-performance networks, network security and cryptography, image and signal processing, artificial immune systems, information and network security, data science techniques and applications, data warehousing and data mining, data mining in dynamic environment, higher-order neural computing, rough set and fuzzy set theory, and nature-inspired computing techniques. Table of ContentsDTNMA: Identifying Routing Attacks in Delay-Tolerant Network.- Classification Framework for Fraud Detection Using Hidden Markov Model.- Analysis of the Beaufort Cipher Expansion Technique and Its Usage in Providing Data Security in Cloud.- Virtual Keyboard Using Image Processing & Computer Vision.- Next Step to the Future of Restaurants Through Artificial Intelligence and Facial Recognition.- A Comparative Study into Stock Market Prediction Through Various Sentiment Analysis Algorithms.- Bangla Document Categorization Using Deep RNN Model with Attention Mechanism.- Bangla Handwritten Digit Recognition.- A Comparative Study on Sentiment Analysis Influencing Word Embedding Using SVM and KNN.- COVID-19 Pandemic Diagnosis and Analysis Using Clinical Decision Support Systems.- Predictive Analysis of the Recovery Rate from Corona Virus(Covid-19).- Deep Learning Approaches for Spatio-Temporal Clues Modelling.- The Practical Enactment of Robotics and Artificial Intelligence Technologies in E-COMMERCE.- Comparative Analysis of Brain Tumor Segmentation with Fuzzy C-Means Using Multi-Core CPU and CUDA on GPU.- Multiregional Segmentation of High-Grade Glioma Using Modified Deep UNET Model with Edge-detected Multimodal MRI Images.

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Book SynopsisHow do you model and design your database application in consideration of new technology or new business needs? This title is loaded with design rules and case studies that are applicable to any SQL, UML, or XML-based system. It is useful to those tasked with the creation of data models for the integration of large-scale enterprise data.Trade Review"Database Modeling and Design is one of the best books that I have seen for explaining how to build database applications. The book is informative, well-written, and concise." --Michael Blaha, DSc., Consultant, Modelsoft Consulting Corp"This book book is by far the best book available on classic database design. Topics like normalization and many-to-many and n-ary association semantics are without peer in teaching you how to model real-world complexities. This latest edition extends the classic material with extensive discussion of modern tools and other aspects of logical database design. Every database architect should have this book at hand." --Bob Muller, Data Analyst, Poesys Associates“The book is not only good for beginners, but it also provides greater insight for experienced learners. Perhaps this is why it has evolved into its fifth edition. The book is generally well organized. It starts with the first step in the database life cycle, and progresses in a chronological order to more advanced concepts such as object relational design, Extensible Markup Language (XML), and Web databases. The writing style of the book is simple and straightforward, and the use of database terminology is very concise…In my opinion, the book could be used as a course text, with some help from other sources to cover SQL query-related concepts. However, I would have liked a chapter on SQL that covered simple and complex query design, as well as optimization." --Computing ReviewsTable of Contents1. Introduction2. The Entity-Relationship Model3. Unified Modeling Language (UML)4. Requirements Analysis and Conceptual Modeling5. Transforming the Conceptual Data Model to SQL6. Normalization7. An Example of Logical Database Design8. Object Relational Design9. XML and Web Databases10. Business Intelligence11. CASE ToolsAppendix: The Basics of SQL

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