This bestselling book gives business leaders and executives a foundational education on how to leverage artificial intelligence and machine learning solutions to deliver ROI for your business.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 20th International Conference on Industrial and Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence and Expert Systems, IEA/AIE 2007, held in Kyoto, Japan. Coverage includes text processing, fuzzy system applications, real-world interaction, data mining, machine learning chance discovery and social networks, e-commerce, heuristic search application systems, and other applications.

This volume constitutes the thoroughly refereed conference proceedings of the 26th International Conference on Industrial Engineering and Other Applications of Applied Intelligence Systems, IEA/AIE 2013, held in Amsterdam, The Netherlands, in June 2013. The total of 71 papers selected for the proceedings were carefully reviewed and selected from 185 submissions. The papers focus on the following topics: auctions and negotiation, cognitive modeling, crowd behavior modeling, distributed systems and networks, evolutionary algorithms, knowledge representation and reasoning, pattern recognition, planning, problem solving, robotics, text mining, advances in recommender systems, business process intelligence, decision support for safety-related systems, innovations in intelligent computation and applications, intelligent image and signal processing, and machine learning methods applied to manufacturing processes and production systems.

Increasingly, business leaders and managers recognize that machine learning offers their companies immense opportunities for competitive advantage. But most discussions of machine learning are intensely technical or academic, and don't offer practical information leaders can use to identify, evaluate, plan, or manage projects. Deploying Machine Learning fills that gap, helping them clarify exactly how machine learning can help them, and collaborate with technologists to actually apply it successfully. You'll learn: What machine learning is, how it compares to "big data" and "artificial intelligence," and why it's suddenly so important What machine learning can do for you: solutions for computer vision, natural language processing, prediction, and more How to use machine learning to solve real business problems -- from reducing costs through improving decision-making and introducing new products Separating hype from reality: identifying pitfalls, limitations, and misconceptions upfront Knowing enough about the technology to work effectively with your technical team Getting the data right: sourcing, collection, governance, security, and culture Solving harder problems: exploring deep learning and other advanced techniques Understanding today's machine learning software and hardware ecosystem Evaluating potential projects, and addressing workforce concerns Staffing your project, acquiring the right tools, and building a workable project plan Interpreting results -- and building an organization that can increasingly learn from data Using machine learning responsibly and ethically Preparing for tomorrow's advances The authors conclude with five chapter-length case studies: image, text, and video analysis, chatbots, and prediction applications. For each, they don't just present results: they also illuminate the process the company undertook, and the pitfalls it overcame along the way.

This book aims to bring together leading academic scientists, researchers, and research scholars to exchange and share their experiences and research results on all aspects of Artificial Intelligence. The book provides a premier interdisciplinary platform to present practical challenges and adopted solutions. The book addresses the complete functional framework workflow in Artificial Intelligence technology. It explores the basic and high-level concepts and can serve as a manual for the industry for beginners and the more advanced. It covers intelligent and automated systems and its implications to the real-world, and offers data acquisition and case studies related to data-intensive technologies in AI-based applications. The book will be of interest to researchers, professionals, scientists, professors, students of computer science engineering, electronics and communications, as well as information technology.

"Buy the paperback version of this book and get the kindle book version for free"Do you want to learn about new technologies to bring your business into the business of the 21st century? Artificial intelligence is proceeding forward to become the predominant element in human lives, whether businesses like it or not. Multinational companies have been able to leverage machine learning to gain insights into customer behavior and the intricacies of their own businesses to stay competitive and carry their businesses into the future. Standing toe-to-toe with these large companies may seem impossible with their huge data and staff resources, but artificial intelligence poises business leaders to level the playing field. Applied Artificial Intelligence teaches business leaders and data scientists how they can use intelligent technology to solve their business problems, scale AI technology to their business, use AI technology to train staff and develop leadership qualities, and keep up on the latest trends in IoT and business intelligence. The days of simply peddling a product and expecting a return are passed. The world of the modern day is characterized by information exchange, and this information exists in the form of data that need to be curated and analyzed. Businesses use data not only to make their businesses more competitive but literally to stay alive. Multinational businesses like Microsoft, Google, and Amazon are not giants in their industries because they developed sophisticated technologies and then stopped. These companies use data to stay competitive, and smaller companies will have to do the same if they expect to survive. Applied artificial intelligence refers to leveraging intelligent technology to increase the productivity of a business. This term acknowledges that artificial intelligence can be something abstract that computer scientists and data scientists experiment with in order to get a glimpse of our collective technological future, but it can also be a technology that has real practical aspects to businesses. The purpose of this book is to help the reader approach artificial intelligence pragmatically. The reader will be provided with strategies that other businesses use to integrate their data with smart technology. They will also be informed of the latest trends in business intelligence as well as given numerous examples of the many ways that businesses of every type are using machine learning to leverage profits. The idea that artificial intelligence is something scary that big, multinational companies use to do mysterious things with data is a viewpoint that is not helpful to any business owner. Artificial intelligence is shaping the future, and it is up to business leaders to recognize this and stay abreast of the latest trends and strategies. Would you like to know more?Scroll to the top of the page and select the buy now button.