Information retrieval Books

Flexible Query Answering Systems is an edited collection of contributed chapters. It focuses on developing computer systems capable of transforming a query into an answer with useful information. The emphasis is on problems...

Data compression is now indispensable to products and services of many industries including computers, communications, healthcare, publishing and entertainment. This invaluable resource introduces this area to information...

One of the main uses of computer systems is the management of large amounts of symbolic information representing the state of some application domain, such as information about all the people I communicate with in my...

Information security is receiving a great deal of attention as computers increasingly process more and more sensitive information. A multilevel secure database management system (MLS DBMS) is designed to store, retrieve and...

James A. Storer Computer Science Dept. Brandeis University Waltham, MA 02254 Data compression is the process of encoding a body of data to reduce stor­ age requirements. With Lossless compression, data can be decompressed to be...

Part 1 Web-based Support Systems for Specific Domains1. Context-Aware Adaptation in Web-based Groupware Systems2. Framework for Supporting Web-based Collaborative Applications3. Helplets: A Common Sense Based Collaborative Help Collection and Retrieval...

The present volume gathers together the talks presented at the second colloquim on the Future Professional Communication in Astronomy (FPCA II), held at Harvard University (Cambridge, MA) on 13-14 April 2010. This meeting provided a forum for editors,...

Preface.- Acknowledgments.- List of Contributors.- Rational Choice Theory: A Forum for Exchange of Ideas between the Hard and Social Sciences in Predictive Behavioral Modeling.- The SOMA Terror Organization Portal (STOP): Social network and analytic...

This volume presents high quality, state-of-the-art research ideas and results from theoretic, algorithmic and application viewpoints. It contains contributions by leading experts in the obsequious scientific and technological...

The systems used to process data streams and provide for the needs of stream-based applications are Data Stream Management Systems (DSMSs). This book presents a new paradigm to meet the needs of these applications, including a...

Grid Data Management.- Accessing Data in Grids Using OGSA-DAI.- Service Choreography for Data Integration on the Grid.- Accessing Web Databases Using OGSA-DAI in BDWorld.- Failure Recovery Alternatives in Grid-Based Distributed Query Processing: A Case...

This book outlines the core theory and practice of data mining and knowledge discovery (DM & KD) examining theoretical foundations for various methods, and presenting an array of examples, many drawn from real-life applications. Most theoretical...

This third edition handbook describes in detail the classical methods as well as extensions and novel approaches that were more recently introduced within this field. It consists of five parts: general recommendation techniques, special recommendation...

Libraries are currently confronted by the challenges of managing increasing amounts of electronic information. Print vs. Digital: The Future of Coexistence presents the expert perspectives of eight of America's leading library administrators on ways to...

A timely survey of the field from the point of view of some of the subject's most active researchers. Divided into several parts organized by theme, the book first covers the underlying methodology regarding active rules,...

Das Buch präsentiert in vergleichender Darstellung die wesentlichen Funktionen von Betriebssystemen: Prozeßverwaltung, Speicherverwaltung, Ein- und Ausgabe, Dateiverwaltung, Datenschutz und Benutzerschnittstellen. Praktische...

Die Absicht, ein Buch iiber Programmieren von Ziffernrechenanlagen zu schreiben, entstand auf Grund einer Vorlesung gleichen Titels, die ich seit nunmehr sieben Jahren an der Technischen Hochschule Wien halte. Ich hatte dabei...

While traditional databases excel at complex queries over historical data, they are inherently pull-based and therefore ill-equipped to push new information to clients. Systems for data stream management and processing, on the other hand, are natively...

Although backup and recovery seems as simple as copying bits from point to point, it is far more challenging to implement properly when considering the details involved. This book captures the decades of backup and storage experience that Gareth...

Discover the simple steps to implementing information security standards using ISO 27001, the most popular information security standard across the world. You'll see how it offers best practices to be followed, including the roles of all the stakeholders...

Learn how to transition from Excel-based business intelligence (BI) analysis to enterprise stacks of open-source BI tools. Select and implement the best free and freemium open-source BI tools for your company's needs and design, implement, and integrate...

Expert Oracle Exadata, 2nd Edition opens up the internals of Oracle's Exadata platform so that you can fully benefit from the most performant and scalable database hardware appliance capable of running Oracle Database. This edition is fully-updated to...

Cache And Interconnect Architectures In Multiprocessors Eilat, Israel May 25-261989 Michel Dubois UniversityofSouthernCalifornia Shreekant S. Thakkar SequentComputerSystems The aim of the workshop was to bring together...

As we stand at the precipice of the twenty first century the ability to capture and transmit copious amounts of information is clearly a defining feature of the human race. In order to increase the value of this vast supply of...

Ontologies and Databases brings together in one place important contributions and up-to-date research results in this fast moving area. Ontologies and Databases serves as an excellent reference, providing insight into some...

Memory Issues in Embedded Systems-On-Chip: Optimizations and Explorations is designed for different groups in the embedded systems-on-chip arena. First, it is designed for researchers and graduate students who wish to...

Intelligent Image Databases: Towards Advanced Image Retrieval addresses the image feature selection issue in developing content-based image retrieval systems. The book first discusses the four important issues in developing...

Library Technology Reports (vol. 49, no. 3)"E-book Platforms for Libraries" provides an overview of the various types of e-book platforms available to academic, research, public, and K-12 librarise in the United States (an beyond). The focus is on the...

India is showing incredibly strong appearance in Information Technology (IT) sector worldwide, but the benefits of IT revolution have not actually percolated into the everyday life of the common man, particularly in rural areas. National E Governance...

Information retrieval (IR) aims at defining systems able to provide a fast and effective content-based access to a large amount of stored information. The aim of an IR system is to estimate the relevance of documents to users'...

This handbook offers a state-of-the-art overview of quantitative science and technology research. It focuses on the development and application of indicators derived from data on scientific or scholarly publications and patents...

The advent of the digital era, the Internet, and the development of fast com­ puting devices that can access mass storage servers at high communication bandwidths have brought within our reach the world of ambient intelligent...

Modern algebra, which not long ago seemed to be a science divorced from real life, now has numerous applications. Many fine algebraic structures are endowed with meaningful contents. Now and then practice suggests new and...

This book is for both specialist and generalist. For Information Technology (IT) and Educational Management (EM) researchers, it brings together the latest information and analysis of ITEM projects in eleven countries. But the...

Digital memory and storage technologies occupy a dominant position in electronic data processing: They are intimately interwoven with almost all aspects of a data processing system, be it the control processing unit, the...

EinfUhrung in die konkreten Probleme In diesem Band sind drei Beriehte Uber Modellierungs­ projekte gesammelt. In allen. drei Fallen werden die Er­ gebnisse einer jeweils einsemestrigen Arbeit studentiseher Gruppen dargestellt...

Recent years have seen an explosive growth in the use of new database applications such as CAD/CAM systems, spatial information systems, and multimedia information systems. The needs of these applications are far more...

Object-oriented database management systems (OODBMS) are used to imple­ ment and maintain large object databases on persistent storage. Regardless whether the underlying database model follows the object-oriented, the rela­...

Multimedia Information Retrieval: Content-Based Information Retrieval from Large Text and Audio Databases addresses the future need for sophisticated search techniques that will be required to find relevant information in...

Motivation Modem enterprises rely on database management systems (DBMS) to collect, store and manage corporate data, which is considered a strategic corporate re­ source. Recently, with the proliferation of personal computers...

Great advances have been made in the database field. Relational and object- oriented databases, distributed and client/server databases, and large-scale data warehousing are among the more notable. However, none of these...

Searching Multimedia Databases by Content bridges the gap between the database and signal processing communities by providing the necessary background information for the reader and presenting it along with the intuition and...