Recent Advances in Intelligent Technologies and Information Systems

Recent Advances in Intelligent Technologies and Information Systems

Vijayan Sugumaran

Copyright: © 2015 |Pages: 309

ISBN13: 9781466666399|ISBN10: 1466666390|EISBN13: 9781466666405

DOI: 10.4018/978-1-4666-6639-9

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The amount of data used in the business world has been growing at a rapid and exponential rate. These large volumes of data have led not only to the rise of big data analytics, but to the need for improvements and advancements in the management of it.

Recent Advances in Intelligent Technologies and Information Systems brings together current practices and innovations in the management and processing of diverse big data sets through technological integration. Focusing on concepts such as semantic technologies, open source tools, and soft computing, this book is an integral reference source for professionals, researchers, and practitioners interested in the application of technological advancements.

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Front Materials

Title Page

Copyright Page

Advances in Computational Intelligence and Robotics (ACIR) Book Series

Preface

Acknowledgment

Chapters

Semantic Technologies and Applications

Chapter 1

Strategies and Methods for Ontology Alignment (pages 1-15)

Hayden Wimmer, Victoria Yoon, Roy Rada

The concept of ontologies has been around for millennia and spans many domains and disciplines. Ontologies are a powerful concept when applied to intelligent computing. Ontologies are the backbone of intelligent computing on the...

Chapter 2

A Novel E-Learning Management System for Appropriate Recommendations on the Learning Contents (pages 16-45)

Jegatha Deborah Lazarus, Baskaran Ramachandran, Kannan Arputharaj

Educational organizations are able to bridge organizational gaps due to the rapid advances in science and technology. Specifically, e-learning drastically reduces the learning time compared to the traditional classroom setting. The...

Chapter 3

Evaluation of Topic Models as a Preprocessing Engine for the Knowledge Discovery in Twitter Datasets (pages 46-62)

Stefan Sommer, Tom Miller, Andreas Hilbert

In the World Wide Web, users are an important information source for companies or institutions. People use the communication platforms of Web 2.0, for example Twitter, in order to express their sentiments of products, politics...

Chapter 4

Welcome to the Party: Modeling the Topic Evolution of Political Parties in Microblogs Using Dynamic Topic Models (pages 63-82)

Kai Heinrich

Modeling topic distributions over documents has become a recent method for coping with the problematic of huge amounts of unstructured data. Especially in the context of Web communities, topic models can capture the zeitgeist as a...

Chapter 5

Design Consideration of Sociomaterial Multi-Agent CSCW Systems (pages 83-103)

Tagelsir Mohamed Gasmelseid

The recent technological advancements have significantly redefined the context in which organizations do business processes including the processes used to acquire, process, and share information. The transformations that emerged...

Chapter 6

Segmentation of Renal Calculi in Ultrasound Kidney Images Using Modified Watershed Method (pages 104-121)

P. R. Tamilselvi

US images are a commonly used tool for renal calculi diagnosis, although they are time consuming and tedious for radiologists to manually detect and calculate the size of the renal calculi. It is very difficult to properly segment...

Soft Computing and Decision Support

Chapter 7

Influencing Actions-Related Decisions Using Soft Computing Approaches (pages 123-136)

Frederick E. Petry, Ronald R. Yager

This chapter describes soft computing approaches for human-agent communications in the context of influencing decision-making behavior for health-related actions. Several methods are illustrated including using a person's...

Chapter 8

A Smart and Dynamic Decision Support System for Nonlinear Environments (pages 137-161)

S. Uma, J. Suganthi

The design of a dynamic and efficient decision-making system for real-world systems is an essential but challenging task since they are nonlinear, chaotic, and high dimensional in nature. Hence, a Support Vector Machine (SVM)-based...

Chapter 9

Determinants for the Goodness of Performance Measurement Systems: The Visibility of Performance (pages 162-185)

Tim Pidun

The supply of adequate information is one of the main functions of Performance Measurement Systems (PMS), but also one of its drawbacks and reason for failure. Not only the collection of indicators is crucial, but also the...

Chapter 10

The Backbone of Key Successful Branding Strategies in the 21st Century: Innovation in Design Technology, Decision Making on Product Quality, and Collaborative Communications (pages 186-228)

Ho Cheong Lee, Ahmad Noraziah, Tutut Herawan

In the 21st century, the awareness of applying recent advanced intelligent technologies to promote a firm's brand image is the key to the success of expanding its business. Such implication demands efforts in strategic planning...

Chapter 11

Hybrid Privacy Preservation Technique Using Neural Networks (pages 229-246)

R. VidyaBanu, N. Nagaveni

A novel Artificial Neural Network (ANN) dimension expansion-based framework that addresses the demand for privacy preservation of low dimensional data in clustering analysis is discussed. A hybrid approach that combines ANN with...

Chapter 12

Risk Prediction Model for Osteoporosis Disease Based on a Reduced Set of Factors (pages 247-271)

Walid Moudani, Ahmad Shahin, Fadi Chakik, Dima Rajab

The health industry collects huge amounts of health data, which, unfortunately, are not mined to discover hidden information. Information technologies can provide alternative approaches to the diagnosis of the osteoporosis disease....

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