Morgan Claypool Publishers: 318 books
The Future of Personal Information Management, Part 1
Our Information, Always and Forever
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2012
We are well into a second age of digital information. Our information is moving from the desktop to the laptop to the "palmtop" and up into an amorphous cloud on the Web. How can one manage both the challenges and opportunities of this new world of digital information? What does the future...
by Ken Anjyo, Hiroyuki Ochiai, Brian A. Barsky
Language: English
Release Date: April 13, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: April 13, 2017
This synthesis lecture presents an intuitive introduction to the mathematics of motion and deformation in computer graphics. Starting with familiar concepts in graphics, such as Euler angles, quaternions, and affine transformations, we illustrate that a mathematical theory behind these concepts enables...
Digital Forensic Science
Issues, Methods, and Challenges
Language: English
Release Date: December 28, 2016
Digital forensic science, or digital forensics, is the application of scientific tools and methods to identify, collect, and analyze digital (data) artifacts in support of legal proceedings. From a more technical perspective, it is the process of reconstructing the relevant sequence of events that...
by Xiaofeng Chen
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2016
With the rapid development of cloud computing, the enterprises and individuals can outsource their sensitive data into the cloud server where they can enjoy high quality data storage and computing services in a ubiquitous manner. This is known as the outsourcing computation paradigm. Recently, the...
Natural Language Processing for Social Media
Second Edition
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2017
In recent years, online social networking has revolutionized interpersonal communication. The newer research on language analysis in social media has been increasingly focusing on the latter's impact on our daily lives, both on a personal and a professional level. Natural language processing (NLP)...
by Gloria Mark
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2015
In our digital age we can communicate, access, create, and share an abundance of information effortlessly, rapidly, and nearly ubiquitously. The consequence of having so many choices is that they compete for our attention: we continually switch our attention between different types of information...
Exploring Context in Information Behavior
Seeker, Situation, Surroundings, and Shared Identities
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2017
The field of human information behavior runs the gamut of processes from the realization of a need or gap in understanding, to the search for information from one or more sources to fill that gap, to the use of that information to complete a task at hand or to satisfy a curiosity, as well as other...
On the Efficient Determination of Most Near Neighbors
Horseshoes, Hand Grenades, Web Search and Other Situations When Close Is Close Enough, Second Edition
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2015
The time-worn aphorism "close only counts in horseshoes and hand grenades" is clearly inadequate. Close also counts in golf, shuffleboard, archery, darts, curling, and other games of accuracy in which hitting the precise center of the target isn't to be expected every time, or in which we...
Game Theory for Data Science
Eliciting Truthful Information
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2017
Intelligent systems often depend on data provided by information agents, for example, sensor data or crowdsourced human computation. Providing accurate and relevant data requires costly effort that agents may not always be willing to provide. Thus, it becomes important not only to verify the correctness...
Mining Heterogeneous Information Networks
Principles and Methodologies
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2012
Real world physical and abstract data objects are interconnected, forming gigantic, interconnected networks. By structuring these data objects and interactions between these objects into multiple types, such networks become semi-structured heterogeneous information networks. Most real world applications...
HCI Theory
Classical, Modern, and Contemporary
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2012
Theory is the bedrock of many sciences, providing a rigorous method to advance knowledge, through testing and falsifying hypotheses about observable phenomena. To begin with, the nascent field of HCI followed the scientific method borrowing theories from cognitive science to test theories about user...
Building a Better World with our Information
The Future of Personal Information Management, Part 3
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2015
Personal Information Management (PIM) is the art of getting things done in our lives through information. How do we - can we better - manage our information at home, at school, at work, at play and “@large” in a global community? How do we use information not only to know but also to represent,...
Web Indicators for Research Evaluation
A Practical Guide
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2016
In recent years there has been an increasing demand for research evaluation within universities and other research-based organisations. In parallel, there has been an increasing recognition that traditional citation-based indicators are not able to reflect the societal impacts of research and are...
by Bing Liu
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2012
Sentiment analysis and opinion mining is the field of study that analyzes people's opinions, sentiments, evaluations, attitudes, and emotions from written language. It is one of the most active research areas in natural language processing and is also widely studied in data mining, Web mining, and...