Data mining methods and applications

With today’s information explosion, many organizations are now able to access a wealth of valuable data. Unfortunately, most of these organizations find they are ill-equipped to organize this information, let alone put it to work for them. Thsi book helps reader; employ data mining in research and forecasting, build models with data management tools and methodology optimization, gain sophisticated breakdowns and complex analysis through multivariate, evolutionary, and neural net methods and learn how to classify data and maintain quality.

Data mining methods and applications supplies organizations with the data management tools that will allow them to harness the critical facts and figures needed to improve their bottom line. Drawing from finance, marketing, economics, science, and healthcare, this book demonstrates how the transformation of data into business intelligence is an essential aspect of strategic decision-making, emphasizes the use of data mining concepts in real-world scenarios with large database component and focuses on data mining and forecasting methods in conducting market research.

Call number: QA 76.9 .D343 D38 2008

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Technology Strategy for Managers and Entrepreneurs

This book emphasizes how the future manager can use strategic management of innovation and technology to enhance firm performance. This book covers the evolution of technology, meeting consumer needs, capturing values generated from investments, development of technology strategy, and implementation of the strategy. It is also designed to teach professionals in business, engineering, and science how to use the strategic management of innovation to enhance firm performance.

Call Number: HD45.S53 2009

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WiMAX Network Planning and Optimization

This book offers a comprehensive explanation on how to dimension, plan, and optimize WiMAX networks. The first part of the text introduces WiMAX networks architecture, physical layer, standard, protocols, security mechanisms, and highly related radio access technologies. It covers system framework, topology, capacity, mobility management, handoff management, congestion control, medium access control (MAC), scheduling, Quality of Service (QoS), and WiMAX mesh networks and security. Enabling easy understanding of key concepts and technologies, the second part presents practical examples and illustrative figures to explain planning techniques and optimization algorithms. The author provides both theoretical and practical information to ensure in-depth, realistic results.

Call Number: TK5103.W67 2009

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The Joy of Work: Jobs, Happiness and You

Are you happy at work? Or do you just grin and bear it? We spend an average of 25% of our lives at work, so it’s important to make the best of it.

The Joy of Work? looks at happiness and unhappiness from a fresh perspective. It draws on up-to-date research from around the world to present the causes and consequences of low job satisfaction and gives helpful suggestions and strategies for how to get more enjoyment from work. The book includes many interesting case studies about individual work situations, and features simple self-completion questionnaires and procedures to help increase your happiness. Practical suggestions cover how to improve a job without moving out of it, advice about changing jobs, as well as how to alter typical styles of thinking which affect your attitudes.

This book is unique. The subject is of major significance to virtually all adults – people in jobs and those who are hoping to get one. It is particularly distinctive in combining two areas that are usually looked at separately – self-help approaches to making yourself happy and issues within organizations that affect well-being.

The Joy of Work? has been written in a relaxed and readable style by an exceptional combination of authors: a highly-acclaimed professor of psychology and a widely published business journalist. Bringing together research from business and psychology – including positive psychology – this practical book will make a big difference to your happiness at work – and therefore to your whole life.

Call Number: HF5549.5.J63 W37 2010

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Data Warehouse Design: Modern Principles and Methodologies

Overview

Set up a reliable, secure decision-support infrastructure using the cutting edge techniques contained in this comprehensive volume. Data Warehouse Design: Modern Principles and Methodologies by Matteo Golfarelli presents a practical design approach based on solid software engineering principles. Find out how to interview end users, construct expressive conceptual schemata and translate them into relational schemata, and design state-of-the-art ETL procedures. You will also learn how to integrate heterogeneous data sources, implement star and snowflake schemata, manage dynamic and irregular hierarchies, and fine-tune performance by materializing and fragmenting views.

Call Number: QA76.9.D37G65 2009

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Handbook of petroleum refining process: Third Edition

Overview

Handbook of Petroleum Refining Processes: Third Edition written by  Robert  A. Meyers delivers comprehensive coverage of how major players like UOP, KBR, STRATCO, Belco, Stone & Webster, Foster Wheeler, Chevron Lummus Global, ConocoPhillips, ChevronTexaco, and Shell, are taking these processes to new heights through technology.

Thoroughly revised and expanded this new edition of the Handbook of Petroleum Processes features new chapters that focus on the technological, pollution-control, and economic aspects of 61 petroleum refining processes as created by a host of industry powerhouses.

Call Number: Ref TP690.H36 2004

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Introduction to Probability and Statistics for Science, Engineering, and Finance

DESCRIPTION

Integrating interesting and widely used concepts of financial engineering into traditional statistics courses, Introduction to Probability and Statistics for Science, Engineering, and Finance illustrates the role and scope of statistics and probability in various fields.

The text first introduces the basics needed to understand and create tables and graphs produced by standard statistical software packages, such as Minitab, SAS, and JMP. It then takes students through the traditional topics of a first course in statistics. Novel features include:

Applications of standard statistical concepts and methods to the analysis and interpretation of financial data, such as risks and returns

Cox–Ross–Rubinstein (CRR) model, also called the binomial lattice model, of stock price fluctuations

An application of the central limit theorem to the CRR model that yields the lognormal distribution for stock prices and the famous Black–Scholes option pricing formula

An introduction to modern portfolio theory

Mean-standard deviation diagram of a collection of portfolios

Computing a stock’s betavia simple linear regression

As soon as he develops the statistical concepts, the author presents applications to engineering, such as queuing theory, reliability theory, and acceptance sampling; computer science; public health; and finance. Using both statistical software packages and scientific calculators, he reinforces fundamental concepts with numerous examples.

Call Number: QA 273 .R67 2009

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