Data Mining: Concepts and Techniques, Fourth Edition introduces concepts, principles, and
methods for mining patterns, knowledge, and models from various kinds of data for diverse …

Database Management Systems provides comprehensive and up-to-date coverage of the
fundamentals of database systems. Coherent explanations and practical examples have …

The widespread distribution and availability of small-scale sensors, actuators, and
embedded processors is transforming the physical world into a computing platform. One …

Moving Objects Databases is the first uniform treatment of moving objects databases, the
technology that supports GPS and RFID. It focuses on the modeling and design of data from …

Data warehouses are databases of a specific kind that periodically collect information about
the activities being performed by an organization. This information is then accumulated over …

Hardware for sensor nodes that combine physical sensors, actuators, embedded
processors, and communication components has advanced significantly over the last …

There is great interest in exploiting the opportunity provided by cloud computing platforms
for large-scale analytics. Among these platforms, Apache Spark is growing in popularity for …

Temporal databases deal with time-varying tables containing certain kinds of DATE
columns. Effectively designing, querying, and modifying time-varying tables requires a …

With the increase in the size of data sets, data mining has recently become an important
research topic and is receiving substantial interest from both academia and industry. At the …

Information is a valuable resource to an organization. Computer software provides an
efficient means of processing information, and database systems are becoming an …