Data uncertainty widely exists in many applications, and an uncertain data stream is a series of uncertain tuples that arrive rapidly. However, traditional techniques for deterministic data streams cannot be applied to deal with data uncertainty directly due to the exponential growth of possible solution space.This book provides a comprehensive overview of the authors' work on querying and mining uncertain data streams. Its contents include some important discoveries dealing with typical topics such as top-k query, ER-Topk query, rarity estimation, set similarity, and clustering.Querying and Mining Uncertain Data Streams is written for professionals, researchers, and graduate students in data mining and its various related fields.

Data uncertainty widely exists in many applications, and an uncertain data stream is a series of uncertain tuples that arrive rapidly. However, traditional techniques for deterministic data streams cannot be applied to deal with data uncertainty directly due to the exponential growth of possible solution space. This book provides a comprehensive overview of the authors' work on querying and mining uncertain data streams. Its contents include some important discoveries dealing with typical topics such as top-k query, ER-Topk query, rarity estimation, set similarity, and clustering. Querying and Mining Uncertain Data Streams is written for professionals, researchers, and graduate students in data mining and its various related fields.

Managing and Mining Uncertain Data, a survey with chapters by a variety of well known researchers in the data mining field, presents the most recent models, algorithms, and applications in the uncertain data mining field in a structured and concise way. This book is organized to make it more accessible to applications-driven practitioners for solving real problems. Also, given the lack of structurally organized information on this topic, Managing and Mining Uncertain Data provides insights which are not easily accessible elsewhere. Managing and Mining Uncertain Data is designed for a professional audience composed of researchers and practitioners in industry. This book is also suitable as a reference book for advanced-level students in computer science and engineering, as well as the ACM, IEEE, SIAM, INFORMS and AAAI Society groups.

This two volume set LNCS 8055 and LNCS 8056 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 24th International Conference on Database and Expert Systems Applications, DEXA 2013, held in Prague, Czech Republic, August 23-29, 2013. The 43 revised full papers presented together with 33 short papers, and 3 keynote talks, were carefully reviewed and selected from 174 submissions. These papers discuss a range of topics including: search queries; indexing; discovery of semantics; parallel processing; XML and RDF; enterprise models; query evaluation and optimization; semantic Web; sampling; industrial applications; communities; AI and databases; matching and searching; information extraction; queries, streams, and uncertainty, storage and compression; query processing; security; distributed data processing; metadata modeling and maintenance; pricing and recommending; and security and semantics.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 23rd International Conference on Scientific and Statistical Database Management, SSDBM 2011, held in Portland, OR, USA, in July 2011. The 26 long and 12 short papers presented together with 15 posters were carefully reviewed and selected from 80 submissions. The topics covered are ranked search; temporal data and queries; workflow and provenance; querying graphs; clustering and data mining; architectures and privacy; and applications and models.

As mobile devices continue becoming a larger part of our lives, the development of location acquisition technologies to track moving objects have focused the minds of researchers on issues ranging from longitude and latitude coordinates, speed, direction, and timestamping, as part of parameters needed to calculate the positional information and locations of objects, in terms of time and position in the form of trajectory streams. Recently, recent advances have facilitated various urban applications such as smart transportation and mobile delivery services.Unlike other books on spatial databases, mobile computing, data mining, or computing with spatial trajectories, this book is focused on smart transportation applications.This book is a good reference for advanced undergraduates, graduate students, researchers, and system developers working on transportation systems.

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed conference proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Rough Sets, Fuzzy Sets, Data Mining and Granular Computing, RSFDGrC 2013, held in Halifax, Canada in October 2013 as one of the co-located conference of the 2013 Joint Rough Set Symposium, JRS 2013. The 69 papers (including 44 regular and 25 short papers) included in the JRS proceedings (LNCS 8170 and LNCS 8171) were carefully reviewed and selected from 106 submissions. The papers in this volume cover topics such as inconsistency, incompleteness, non-determinism; fuzzy and rough hybridization; granular computing and covering-based rough sets; soft clustering; image and medical data analysis.