Data Mining: Practical Machine Learning Tools and Techniques offers a thorough grounding in machine learning concepts as well as practical advice on applying machine learning tools and techniques in real-world data mining situations. This highly anticipated third edition of the most acclaimed work on data mining and machine learning will teach you everything you need to know about preparing inputs, interpreting outputs, evaluating results, and the algorithmic methods at the heart of successful data mining. Thorough updates reflect the technical changes and modernizations that have taken place in the field since the last edition, including new material on Data Transformations, Ensemble Learning, Massive Data Sets, Multi-instance Learning, plus a new version of the popular Weka machine learning software developed by the authors. Witten, Frank, and Hall include both tried-and-true techniques of today as well as methods at the leading edge of contemporary research. *Provides a thorough grounding in machine learning concepts as well as practical advice on applying the tools and techniques to your data mining projects *Offers concrete tips and techniques for performance improvement that work by transforming the input or output in machine learning methods *Includes downloadable Weka software toolkit, a collection of machine learning algorithms for data mining tasks-in an updated, interactive interface. Algorithms in toolkit cover: data pre-processing, classification, regression, clustering, association rules, visualization

Data Mining: Practical Machine Learning Tools and Techniques

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Pattern Recognition with Fuzzy Objective Function Algorithms

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Written by the author of the best-selling HyperText & HyperMedia, this book provides an excellent guide to the methods of usability engineering. Special features: emphasizes cost-effective methods that will help developers improve their user interfaces immediately, shows you how to avoid the four most frequently listed reasons for delay in software projects, provides step-by-step information about which methods to use at various stages during the development life cycle, and offers information on the unique issues relating to informational usability. You do not need to have previous knowledge of usability to implement the methods provided, yet all of the latest research is covered.

Usability Engineering

Fuzzy Set Theory - And Its Applications, Third Edition is a textbook for courses in fuzzy set theory. It can also be used as an introduction to the subject. The character of a textbook is balanced with the dynamic nature of the research in the field by including many useful references to develop a deeper understanding among interested readers. The book updates the research agenda (which has witnessed profound and startling advances since its inception some 30 years ago) with chapters on possibility theory, fuzzy logic and approximate reasoning, expert systems, fuzzy control, fuzzy data analysis, decision making and fuzzy set models in operations research. All chapters have been updated. Exercises are included.

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Fuzzy Set Theory - and Its Applications

This paper describes an experiment on the “linguistic” synthesis of a controller for a model industrial plant (a steam engine). Fuzzy logic is used to convert heuristic control rules stated by a human operator into an automatic control strategy. The experiment was initiated to investigate the possibility of human interaction with a learning controller. However, the control strategy set up linguistically proved to be far better than expected in its own right, and the basic experiment of linguistic control synthesis in a non-learning controller is reported here.

An Experiment in Linguistic Synthesis with a Fuzzy Logic Controller

As digital journals come into use there arise new possibilities for the computer support of the group processes that are involved in developing, editing, reviewing, revising, annotating, and generally using a publication. There are now a number of products and research tools designed to support group‐writing teams that can be extended to support a wider range of interacting roles and activities. Most, however, require use of nonmainstream word‐processing systems, and usually assume that full information is continuously available through a network to mediate and avoid conflicts. In the context of digital journals, it is more realistic to suppose that they will be distributed through both on‐line and off‐line media, and that a requirement for continuous network access would severely limit their use. This article reports research on group‐writing tools that deviate as little as possible from conventional word processors and assume only intermittent network connection for document exchange and conflict resolu...

Supporting collaboration in digital journal production

The goal of knowledge engineering is to create an artificial system which reflects knowledge-like qualities. Current tools, techniques and procedures in knowledge engineering concentrate on the elicitation and representation of knowledge structures. This concentration of effort reflects the current emphasis on the epistemological and computational/representational characteristics of knowledge engineering. A different, yet complementary perspective is offered in this paper. Knowledge engineering is defined as a human activity system, characterized as a cognitive environment or network which deals with complex epistemological domains. Rather than viewing knowledge engineering as entirely concerned with knowledge content, those processes which produce the knowledge in the knowledge engineering environment are viewed as the focus of attention. Memory, judgment and choice, text comprehension, and social cognition and communication represent a selection of cognitive science domains which offer research findings of importance for knowledge engineering. Based on these research findings, the groundwork is laid for the development of cognition-support tools for knowledge engineering.

The Cognitive Basis of Knowledge Engineering

This paper reports an attempt to move computer-based techniques for supporting the analysis of group cognitive processes and decision-making from being specialist applications to becoming a routine organizational tool used as readily as electronic mail. The objective is to support the discourse processes of functional groups within an organization by enabling them to investigate, analyze and compare the conceptual frameworks of those playing roles within the group. In particular, the system developed shows when individuals are in conflict through using the same term for different concepts, or in tacit correspondence through using different terms for the same concept. It provides support for group knowledge and decision processes as an integrated extension to electronic mail requiring no particular expertise in use or supervision. The work reported is part of a larger study of knowledge support systems merging artificial intelligence and computer communication techniques.

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Extending electronic mail with conceptual modeling to provide group decision support

This article addresses Beziau’s (Sorites 12:5–32, 2001) vision that universal logic should be capable of helping other fields of knowledge to build the right logic for the right situation, and that for some disciplines mathematical abstract conceptualization is more appropriate than symbolic formalization. Hertz’s (Math. Ann. 87(3–4):246–269, 1922) diagrams of logical inference patterns are formalized and extended to present the universal logic conceptual framework as a comprehensible science of patterns. This facilitates those in other disciplines to develop, visualize and apply logical representation and inference structures that emerge from their problematique. A family of protologics is developed by resemantifying the sign for deduction, →, with inference patterns common to many logics, and specifying possible constraints on its use to represent the structural connectives and defeasible reasoning. Proof-theoretic, truth-theoretic, intensional and extensional protosemantics are derived that supervene on the inference patterns. Examples are given of applications problem areas in a range of other disciplines, including the representation of states of affairs, individuals and relations.

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Universal Logic as a Science of Patterns

Copyright© 2001, Australian Computer Society Inc. General permission to republish, but not for profit, all or part of this material is granted, provided that the JRPIT copyright notice is given and that reference is made to the publication, to its date of issue, and to the fact that reprinting privileges were granted by permission of the Australian Computer Society Inc. 1. INTRODUCTION Our research focus has long been the study and support of human-computer interaction, but it has gradually shifted from a focus on individuals and their cognitive processes to groups and their cognitive processes. Some groups that we have been supporting and studying have been professional communities defined only by their common interests for whom we, or others, provide services. Other have been major international projects with better defined membership related to an agenda of specific tasks. What we have come to realize is that the effective support of such communities depends on modeling not only the cognitive processes of individuals, but also those of the community as a whole. Many of the tools we have developed support community processes, and the most significant and challenging of these are those that model these processes dynamically so that the community can reflect upon its own operations. One may see some of the issues by contrasting two recent books: Nielsen's (2000) Designing Web Usability is a valuable application of classical HCI principles to the design of web sites; Kim's (2000) Community Building on the Web is also valuable in proposing well-grounded good practice for managing the human side of a web community. What is needed now is a wider concept of HCI

Brian R. Gaines

Papers

Supporting collaboration in digital journal production

The Cognitive Basis of Knowledge Engineering

Extending electronic mail with conceptual modeling to provide group decision support

Universal Logic as a Science of Patterns

Human-Computer Interaction in Online Communities.