Machine Learning Books

New and Published Books

1. Automatic Defense Against Zero-day Polymorphic Worms in Communication Networks

   By Mohssen Mohammed, Al-Sakib Khan Pathan

   Able to propagate quickly and change their payload with each infection, polymorphic worms have been able to evade even the most advanced intrusion detection systems (IDS). And, because zero-day worms require only seconds to launch flooding attacks on your servers, using traditional methods ...

   Published May 20th 2013 by Auerbach Publications
2. Getting Started with Business Analytics

   Insightful Decision-Making

   By David Roi Hardoon, Galit Shmueli

   Assuming no prior knowledge or technical skills, Getting Started with Business Analytics: Insightful Decision-Making explores the contents, capabilities, and applications of business analytics. It bridges the worlds of business and statistics and describes business analytics from a non-commercial...

   Published March 25th 2013 by Chapman and Hall/CRC
3. Handbook of 3D Machine Vision

   Optical Metrology and Imaging

   Edited by Song Zhang

   Series: Series in Optics and Optoelectronics

   With the ongoing release of 3D movies and the emergence of 3D TVs, 3D imaging technologies have penetrated our daily lives. Yet choosing from the numerous 3D vision methods available can be frustrating for scientists and engineers, especially without a comprehensive resource to consult. Filling...

   Published March 14th 2013 by Taylor & Francis
4. Biometrics

   From Fiction to Practice

   Edited by Yingzi (Eliza) Du

   This book introduces readers to the basic concepts, classical approaches, and the newest design, development, and applications of biometrics. It also provides a glimpse of future designs and research directions in biometrics. In addition, it discusses some latest concerns and issues in this area....

   Published January 6th 2013 by Pan Stanford Publishing
5. Support Vector Machines

   Optimization Based Theory, Algorithms, and Extensions

   By Naiyang Deng, Yingjie Tian, Chunhua Zhang

   Series: Chapman & Hall/CRC Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery Series

   Support Vector Machines: Optimization Based Theory, Algorithms, and Extensions presents an accessible treatment of the two main components of support vector machines (SVMs)—classification problems and regression problems. The book emphasizes the close connection between optimization theory and SVMs...

   Published December 16th 2012 by Chapman and Hall/CRC
6. Internet-Scale Pattern Recognition

   New Techniques for Voluminous Data Sets and Data Clouds

   By Anang Muhamad Amin, Asad Khan, Benny Nasution

   For machine intelligence applications to work successfully, machines must perform reliably under variations of data and must be able to keep up with data streams. Internet-Scale Pattern Recognition: New Techniques for Voluminous Data Sets and Data Clouds unveils computational models that address...

   Published November 19th 2012 by Chapman and Hall/CRC
7. Paradoxes in Scientific Inference

   By Mark Chang

   Paradoxes are poems of science and philosophy that collectively allow us to address broad multidisciplinary issues within a microcosm. A true paradox is a source of creativity and a concise expression that delivers a profound idea and provokes a wild and endless imagination. The study of paradoxes...

   Published October 14th 2012 by Chapman and Hall/CRC
8. Service-Oriented Distributed Knowledge Discovery

   By Domenico Talia, Paolo Trunfio

   Series: Chapman & Hall/CRC Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery Series

   A new approach to distributed large-scale data mining, service-oriented knowledge discovery extracts useful knowledge from today’s often unmanageable volumes of data by exploiting data mining and machine learning distributed models and techniques in service-oriented infrastructures....

   Published October 4th 2012 by Chapman and Hall/CRC
9. Contemporary Artificial Intelligence

   By Richard E. Neapolitan, Xia Jiang

   The notion of artificial intelligence (AI) often sparks thoughts of characters from science fiction, such as the Terminator and HAL 9000. While these two artificial entities do not exist, the algorithms of AI have been able to address many real issues, from performing medical diagnoses to...

   Published August 24th 2012 by Chapman and Hall/CRC
10. Image Processing and Analysis with Graphs

    Theory and Practice

    Edited by Olivier Lezoray, Leo Grady

    Series: Digital Imaging and Computer Vision

    Covering the theoretical aspects of image processing and analysis through the use of graphs in the representation and analysis of objects, Image Processing and Analysis with Graphs: Theory and Practice also demonstrates how these concepts are indispensible for the design of cutting-edge solutions...

    Published July 2nd 2012 by CRC Press