Pentaho Data Integration (PDI, also called Kettle), one of the data integration tools leaders, is broadly used for all kind of data manipulation, such as migrating data between applications or databases, exporting data from databases to flat files, data cleansing, and much more. Do you need quick solutions to the problems you face while...

This book suits both graduate students and researchers with a focus on discovering knowledge from scientific data. The use of computational power for data analysis and knowledge discovery in scientific disciplines has found its roots with the revolution of high-performance computing systems. Computational science in physics,...

Don’t be fooled: Just because the Droid 2 is a smartphone doesn’t mean that it’s harboring some form of insidious intelligence. There’s no alien brain in the device. It isn’t going to take over the world, though it can intimidate you — that is, until you understand and accept that it’s your...

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Numerical analysis is the branch of mathematics that is used to find approximations to difficult problems such as finding the roots of non-linear equations, integration involving complex expressions and solving differential equations for which analytical solutions do not exist. It is applied to a wide variety of disciplines such as...

When we rst started working on the problem of making the kernel machine approach applicable to the classication of graphs a couple of years ago, our eorts were mainly driven by the fact that kernel methods had led to impressive performance results on many data sets. It didn't take us long to appreciate the sheer elegance of how...

The area of aggregation operations is one of the most promising off-springs of fuzzy sets theory. Before Zadeh introduced fuzzy set connectives in 1965, there was a wide gap between logic and decision sciences. On the one hand, multiplevalued logics proposed many-valued extensions of the conjunctions and disjunctions for which the...

Preparing for the CCNP^® exam? Working as a network professional? Here are all the CCNP-level commands for the Implementing Cisco^® Switched Networks (SWITCH) exam you need in one handy resource. The CCNP SWITCH Portable Command Guide is filled with valuable, easy-to-access information and is...

Welcome to the Solr cookbook. You will be taken on a tour through the most common problems when dealing with Apache Solr. You will learn how to deal with the problems with Solr configuration and setup, how to handle common querying problems, how to fine-tune Solr instances, how to write Solr extensions, and many more things. Every recipe is...

Firstly, discrete-time linear models such as AR, MA and ARMA models, their properties and their limitations are introduced. In addition, sinusoidal models are...

When I started playing with the first-generation iPhone back in 2008, I was amazed by the simplicity and versatility of the smart phone. With the iPhone in hand, I could take pictures, navigate with GPS, tell time, and of course, play games—especially when I was bored while waiting in line at the DMV for my license plate....

Boring, boring, boring. Isn’t this what immediately comes to mind when one sees books on foundational concepts of information security? Monotonous coverage of theory, dry details of history, brief yet inadequate coverage of every topic known to man, even though you know that you’ll never be hired by the NSA as a...