Rough sets and current trends in computing

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Takashi Washio ... [et al.] (eds

"This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 12th Pacific-Asia Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining, PAKDD 2008, held in Osaka, Japan, in May 2008." "The 37 revised long papers, 40 revised full papers, and 36 revised short papers presented together with 1 keynote talk and 4 invited lectures were carefully reviewed and selected from 312 submissions. The papers present new ideas, original research results, and practical development experiences from all KDD-related areas including data mining, data warehousing, machine learning, databases, statistics, knowledge acquisition, automatic scientific discovery, data visualization, causal induction, and knowledge-based systems."--Jacket.

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Johanna Niemi, Iain Ramsay and William C. Whitford

After a long period of prosperity and steady economic growth, the world's leading economies are now in crisis, and although there will be debate about its origins, the scale and seriousness of the crisis is in no doubt. There is also no doubt that excessive amounts of consumer credit, allied to a weak understanding of how globalised credit markets might react to a crisis, have played a significant part. This book, which is primarily about credit, debt and the trouble they have led to, is written by authors who have specialised in researching into over-indebtedness, that is, situations in which an individual's debt burden has become overwhelming. For these authors the plight of individuals is a primary concern, but the wider issue is how credit is used and how it changes societies. The essays in this volume, addressing topics which are fundamental to our understanding of the current crisis, range widely across the whole sector of consumer finance, including mortgages, 'credit-binges', the regulation of consumer lending, insolvency, repayment plans, debt counselling and much more besides. The conclusions drawn from the book are equally wide-ranging, but above all the lesson learned from these essays is that the financialisation of contemporary life ensures that issues of the appropriate role of credit remain of critical importance in society

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Ravi Kalakota, Andrew B. Whinston

Electronic commerce offers functionality and new ways of doing business that cannot be ignored. Readings in Electronic Commerce is a collection of research papers addressing issues facing academia and industry in the age of electronic commerce. Experts in the field come together with the goal of helping companies better understand the shape, structure, and operation of electronic business in the coming millennium. Investments in electronic commerce introduces far-reaching organizational and technological issues. Each of the five parts covers important aspects of the role electronic commerce is playing in the strategy of business. Here is a collection of some of the best thinking from researchers who specialize in the various facets of electronic markets - namely economics, finance, marketing, production, and operations management - as well as technology experts in the industry who are creating and specializing in the electronic commerce infrastructure.

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C.K. Chui, G. Chen

This book presents a thorough discussion of the mathematical theory of Kalman filtering. The filtering equations are derived in a series of elementary steps enabling the optimality of the process to be understood. It provides a comprehensive treatment of various major topics in Kalman-filtering theory, including uncorrelated and correlated noise, colored noise, steady-state theory, nonlinear systems, systems identification, numerical algorithms, and real-time applications. A series of problems for the student, together with a complete set of solutions, are also included. The style of the book is informal, and the mathematics elementary but rigorous, making it accessible to all those with a minimal knowledge of linear algebra and systems theory. In this second edition, in addition to some minor corrections and up-dating, the section on real-time system identification has been expanded and a brief introduction to wavelet analysis included.