Databases

This book investigates anomaly detection with novel deep and wide semantic and cognitive models using high performance computing and cloud-based platforms. It also provides deep learning models with extraordinary capabilities to extract multiple levels of representations with increasing abstraction...

Reflecting emerging concepts and new paradigms in intelligent machines, this is the first book to integrate genetic programming and machine learning techniques for solving a wide range of real-world tasks—including financial data prediction, day-trading rule development, and bio-marker selection. Wr..

Multiple Criteria Decision Making (MCDM) is a subfield of Operations Research, dealing with decision making problems. A decision-making problem is characterized by the need to choose one or a few among a number of alternatives. The field of MCDM assumes special importance in this era of Big Data and..

Aligning your business intelligence (BI) infrastructure with your strategy process can help to enhance your organization's responsiveness to changing environments and create added value for investments in BI infrastructure and development. This book explains how to use business intelligence to impro..

Nowadays, cloud computing is almost everywhere. However, one can hardly find a textbook that utilizes cloud computing for teaching database and application development. This cloud-based database development book teaches both the theory and practice with step-by-step instructions and examples. This b..

This new book aims to provide both beginners and experts with a completely algorithmic approach to data analysis and conceptual modeling, database design, implementation, and tuning, starting from vague and incomplete customer requests and ending with IBM DB/2, Oracle, MS SQL Server, or Access-based..

This book is about the application of analytics processes to organizations in Latin American and emerging economies. The selected cases illustrate the steps in the analytics knowledge process, including strategic and tactical actions. The book demonstrates that analytics is for organizations of any ..

Data has reshaped industries around the world, from finance and medicine to sports. Law has trailed behind other industries, but is quickly following suit. For many years, law firms made important decisions – including very large decisions – based on limited experience (at best), or hunches (at wors..

Written for organizations attempting to convert their transitional development practices to agile, this book is organized into chapters sequenced to match the typical progression. Drawing on his experience in transitioning a 1400 person organization to agile development, the author provides the info..

Written by leading industry experts, the Data Management Handbook is a comprehensive, single-volume guide to the most innovative ideas on how to plan, develop, and run a powerful data management function - as well as handle day-to-day operations. It outlines the fundamentals in designing multidimens..

This guide demonstrates how to secure sensitive data and comply with internal and external audit regulations using Oracle 10g and 11g. It provides the hands-on guidance required to understand the complex options provided by Oracle and the know-how to choose the best option for a particular case. The..

Despite the global shift toward delivering services online, there is little information available on how to electronically deliver documents and records. Implementing Electronic Document and Record Management Systems addresses this need, as well as the host of issues related to paperless enterprises..