Product Description: This text constitutes the proceedings of the Second SIAM International Conference on Data Mining. Topics covered within include mining large data sets; casualty rules and data learning; support vector machines and neural networks; and mining sequential and structured patterns. (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: For many applications, a randomized algorithm is either the simplest or the fastest algorithm available, and sometimes both. This book introduces the basic concepts in the design and analysis of randomized algorithms. The first part of the text presents basic tools such as probability theory and probabilistic analysis that are frequently used in algorithmic applications...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)