Data storage design, and awareness of how data needs to be utilized within an organization, is of prime importance in ensuring that company data systems work efficiently. If you need to know how to capture the information needs of a business system in a relational database model, but don’t know where to start, then this is the book for...

The book never loses sight of practical details. The book pays particularly...

This book provides a framework for the design of competent optimization techniques by combining advanced evolutionary algorithms with state-of-the-art machine learning techniques. The primary focus of the book is on two algorithms that replace traditional variation operators of evolutionary algorithms, by learning and sampling Bayesian networks:...

The 74 revised full papers presented together with 2 invited keynote papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 170 submissions;...