Inductive Inference -- Information -- Strict Minimum Message Length (SMML) -- Approximations to SMML -- MML: Quadratic Approximations to SMML -- MML Details in Some Interesting Cases -- Structural Models -- The Feathers on the Arrow of Time -- MML as a Descriptive Theory -- Related Work.The Minimum Message Length (MML) Principle is an information-theoretic approach to induction, hypothesis test…
Geostatistics -- The genesis of geostatistics in gold and diamond industries -- Concepts and Methods of Geostatistics -- Prediction by conditional simulation: models and algorithms -- Flow in porous media: An attempt to outline Georges Matheron’s contributions -- Over Thirty Years of Petroleum Geostatistics -- The expansion of environmental geostatistics -- Random Sets -- Random Closed Sets -…
Discrimination and Clustering -- Probability Models and Statistical Methods -- Pattern Recognition and Computational Learning -- Time Series Analysis -- Marketing, Retailing, and Marketing Research -- Finance, Capital Markets, and Risk Management -- Production, Logistics, and Controlling -- Medicine and Health Services.
Data Analysis -- Optimization in Symbolic Data Analysis: Dissimilarities, Class Centers, and Clustering -- An Efficient Branch and Bound Procedure for Restricted Principal Components Analysis -- A Tree Structured Classifier for Symbolic Class Description -- A Diversity Measure for Tree-Based Classifier Ensembles -- Repeated Confidence Intervals in Self-Organizing Studies -- Fuzzy and Crisp Maha…
Biology in a Nutshell -- Words -- Word Distributions and Occurrences -- Physical Mapping of DNA -- Genome Rearrangements -- Sequence Alignment -- Rapid Alignment Methods: FASTA and BLAST -- DNA Sequence Assembly -- Signals in DNA -- Similarity, Distance, and Clustering -- Measuring Expression of Genome Information -- Inferring the Past: Phylogenetic Trees -- Genetic Variation in Populations -- …
Graphical User Interface -- A First Session -- A Second Session -- Graphics -- Trellis Graphics -- Exploring Data -- Statistical Modeling -- Programming -- Object-Oriented Programming -- Input and Output -- Tips and Tricks -- S-Plus Internals -- Information Sources on and Around S-Plus -- R.This book explains the basics of S-PLUS in a clear style at a level suitable for people with little compu…
Queues: The Art of Modelling -- Markov Chains and Queues in Discrete Time -- Homogeneous Markov Processes on Discrete State Spaces -- Markovian Queues in Continuous Time -- Markovian Queueing Networks -- Renewal Theory -- Markov Renewal Theory -- Semi-Markovian Queues -- Phase-Type Distributions -- Markovian Arrival Processes -- The GI/PH/1 Queue -- The BMAP/G/1 Queue -- Discrete Time Approache…
Basic Mathematics for QoS -- QoS Metrics -- IP QoS Generic Functional Requirements -- IP Integrated Services and Differentiated Services -- QoS in ATM Networks -- MPLS -- References.QoS is an important subject which occupies a central place in overall packet network technologies. A complex subject, its analysis involves such mathematical disciplines as probability, random variables, stochastic …
Medical Databases and Information Systems -- Application of Three-Level Handprinted Documents Recognition in Medical Information Systems -- Data Management and Visualization Issues in a Fully Digital Echocardiography Laboratory -- A Framework Based on Web Services and Grid Technologies for Medical Image Registration -- Biomedical Image Processing Integration Through INBIOMED: A Web Services-Bas…
The Telegraph and Telephone Modes -- Fundamentals -- Broadcasting -- Gossiping -- Systolic Communication -- Fault-Tolerance -- Distributed Networks -- Broadcast on Distributed Networks -- Leader Election in Asynchronous Distributed Networks -- Fault-Tolerant Broadcast in Distributed Networks.Preface Due to the development of hardware technologies (such as VLSI) in the early 1980s, the interest …