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How to Solve
It: Modern
Heuristics

Z. Michalewicz,

D.B. Fogel

This book is the only source that provides comprehensive, current,

and correct information on problem solving using modern heuristics. It covers classic methods of optimization, including dynamic programming, the simplex method, and gradient techniques, as well as recent innovations such as simulated annealing, tabu search, and evolutionary computation. This second edition contains two new chapters, one on co evolutionary systems and one on multicriterial decision-making. Also some new puzzles are added and various subchapters are revised.

2nd ed. Revised and Extended. 2004. XVIII, 554 p.
174 illus. Hardcover
ISBN 978-3-540-22494-5 7 $59.95

Web Data
Mining

Exploring Hyperlinks, Contents, and Usage Data

B. Liu

This book provides a comprehensive text on

Web data mining. Key topics of structure mining, content mining, and usage mining are covered. The book brings together all the essential concepts and algorithms from related areas such as data mining, machine learning, and text processing to form an authoritative and coherent text. The book o ers a rich blend of theory and practice. It is suitable for students, researchers and practitioners interested in Web mining. Lecturers can readily use it for classes on data mining, Web mining, and Web search. Internet support with lecture slides and project problems is available online.

2007. XX, 532 p. 177 illus. (Data-Centric Systems
and Applications) Hardcover
ISBN 978-3-540-37881-5 7 $59.95

Fast Track to
MDX

M. Whitehorn,

R. Zare, M. Pasumansky

It was the clarity, precision and sheer readability of the first edition that made it a best-seller. With that

firmly in mind the authors have left the original 18 chapters intact (apart from minor updates); meaning that the second edition remains the best introduction to MDX for SQL Server 2000 that is available. What they have done is to add three brand new chapters. These introduce the topic of recursion in MDX, walk the reader through the process of creating recursive expressions and finally demonstrate how recursion can be used to e ectively solve a series of business problems

2nd ed. 2006. XXVI, 310 p. 199 illus.
With CD-ROM., Softcover
ISBN 978-1-84628-174-7 7 $54.95

Programming
Challenges

The Programming Contest Training Manual

S.S. Skiena, M.A. Revilla

This book uses international program-

ming competition-type problems to motivate the study of algorithms, programming, and other topics in computer science. It includes more than 100 programming challenges, as well as the theory and key concepts necessary for approaching them. Problems are organized by topic, and supplemented by complete tutorial material. Readers gain a concrete understanding of both algorithmic techniques and advanced coding topics.

2003. XIX, 359 p. 65 illus. ( Texts in Computer
Science) Softcover
ISBN 978-0-387-00163-0 7 $54.95

Information
Retrieval

Algorithms and Heuristics

D.A. Grossman, O. Frieder

This book is not yet another high level text.

Instead, algorithms are thoroughly described, making this book ideally suited for both computer science students and practitioners who work on search-related applications. This book provides a current, broad, and detailed overview of the field and is the only one that does so. Examples are used throughout to illustrate the algorithms. This edition is a major expansion of the one published in 1998. Besides updating the entire book with current techniques, it includes new sections on language models, cross-language information retrieval, peer-to-peer processing, XML search, mediators, and duplicate document detection.

2nd ed. 2004. XX, 332 p. ( The Information Retrieval
Series, Vol. 15) Softcover
ISBN 978-1-4020-3004-8 7 $59.95

Data
Compression

The Complete Reference

D. Salomon

Data compression is one of the most important tools in modern

computing, and there has been tremendous progress in all areas of the field. This fourth edition of Data Compression provides an all-inclusive, thoroughly updated, and user-friendly reference for the many di erent types and methods of compression (especially audio compression, an area in which many new topics covered in this revised edition appear).

4th ed. 2007. XXVIII, 1092 p. 428 illus. 6 in color.
Hardcover
ISBN 978-1-84628-602-5 7 $89.95

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