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Of Mice and Men John Steinbeck · 1937 · ★ 3.9 · 194p · ≈ 6h · Challenging The second book in John Steinbeck’s labor trilogy, Of Mice and Men is a touching tale of two migrant laborers in search of work and eventual liberation from their social circumstances. Fiercely devoted to one another, George and Lennie plan to save up to finance their dream of someday owning a small piece of land. The pair seems unstoppable until tragedy strikes and their hopes come crashing… Shares: Community pick

Siddhartha Hermann Hesse · 1922 · ★ 4.1 · 124p · ≈ 4h · Challenging Hermann Hesse wrote Siddhartha after he traveled to India in the 1910s. It tells the story of a young boy who travels the country in a quest for spiritual enlightenment in the time of Guatama Buddha. It is a compact, lyrical work, which reads like an allegory about the finding of wisdom. Shares: Community pick

Smart Intelligent Computing and Applications Suresh Chandra Satapathy · 2018 · 768p · ≈ 25h · Moderate The proceedings covers advanced and multi-disciplinary research on design of smart computing and informatics. The theme of the book broadly focuses on various innovation paradigms in system knowledge, intelligence and sustainability that may be applied to provide realistic solution to varied problems in society, environment and industries. The volume publishes quality work pertaining to the scope… Shares: Data mining, Artificial Intelligence

Health Information Science Xiaoxia Yin · 2014 · 233p · ≈ 7h · Moderate This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Health Information Science, HIS 2016, held in Shanghai, China, in November 2016. The 13 full papers and 9 short papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from numerous submissions.  The scope of the papers includes medical/health/biomedicine information resources such as patient medical records,… Shares: Information science, Information retrieval, Data mining, Artificial Intelligence

Advances in Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining Dinh Phung · 2014 · 624p · ≈ 20h · Moderate This three-volume set, LNAI 10937, 10938, and 10939, constitutes the thoroughly refereed proceedings of the 22nd Pacific-Asia Conference on Advances in Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining, PAKDD 2018, held in Melbourne, VIC, Australia, in June 2018. The 164 full papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 592 submissions. The volumes present papers focusing on new ideas, original research… Shares: Information retrieval, Data mining, Artificial Intelligence

Advances in Information Retrieval Nicola Ferro · 2003 · 915p · ≈ 30h · Moderate This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 38th European Conference on IR Research, ECIR 2016, held in Padua, Italy, in March 2016.The 42 full papers and 28 poster papers presented together with 3 keynote talks and 6 demonstration papers, were carefully reviewed and selected from 284 submissions. The volume contains the outcome of 4 workshops as well as 4 tutorial papers in addition.… Shares: Information retrieval, Data mining, Artificial Intelligence

Advances in Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining Tru Cao · 2009 · 797p · ≈ 26h · Moderate The International Conference on Asian Digital Libraries (ICADL) is one of the leading international conferences in digital libraries research. The conference has come a long way since its inception in 1998 as the First Asia Digital Library Workshop held in Hong Kong. Since then, the conference has traveled across the Asian continent and has been hosted by Taiwan (ICADL 1999), Seoul, Korea (ICADL… Shares: Data mining, Artificial Intelligence

Mining the Social Web Matthew A. Russell · 2011 · ★ 4.5 · 440p · ≈ 14h · Moderate Millions of public Twitter streams harbor a wealth of data, and once you mine them, you can gain some valuable insights. This short and concise book offers a collection of recipes to help you extract nuggets of Twitter information using easy-to-learn Python tools. Each recipe offers a discussion of how and why the solution works, so you can quickly adapt it to fit your particular needs. The… Shares: Data mining, Artificial Intelligence

Database and Expert Systems Applications Hendrik Decker · 2013 · 501p · ≈ 16h · Moderate 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… Shares: Information retrieval, Data mining, Artificial Intelligence

Information Search, Integration, and Personalization Emanuel Grant · 2013 · 139p · ≈ 4h · Moderate This book constitutes the revised selected papers of the 10th International Workshop on Information Search, Integration and Personalization, ISIP 2015, held in Grand Forks, ND, USA, in October 2015.The 8 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 26 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on modeling, querying and updating of… Shares: Information retrieval, Data mining, Artificial Intelligence

Computational Science and Technology Rayner Alfred · 2018 · 749p · ≈ 24h · Moderate This book gathers the proceedings of the Fourth International Conference on Computational Science and Technology 2017 (ICCST2017), held in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, on 29–30 November 2017. These proceedings offer practitioners and researchers the opportunity to present exciting advances in computational techniques and solutions in this area. They also identify emerging issues, help to shape future… Shares: Data mining, Artificial Intelligence

Nexus Yuval Noah Harari · 2024 · ★ 4.3 · 536p · ≈ 17h · Moderate From the author of Sapiens comes the groundbreaking story of how information networks have made, and unmade, our world. For the last 100,000 years, we Sapiens have accumulated enormous power. But despite all our discoveries, inventions, and conquests, we now find ourselves in an existential crisis. The world is on the verge of ecological collapse. Misinformation abounds. And we are rushing… Shares: Information science, Artificial Intelligence

Knowledge Discovery, Knowledge Engineering and Knowledge Management Ana Fred · 2011 · 444p · ≈ 14h · Moderate This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-conference proceedings of the Third International Joint Conference on Knowledge Discovery, Knowledge Engineering, and Knowledge Management, IC3K 2011, held in Paris, France, in October 2011. This book includes revised and extended versions of a strict selection of the best papers presented at the conference; 39 revised full papers together with… Shares: Information retrieval, Data mining, Artificial Intelligence

Advances in Knowledge Discovery and Management Fabrice Guillet · 2011 · 222p · ≈ 7h · Moderate This book highlights novel research in Knowledge Discovery and Management (KDM), gathering the extended, peer-reviewed versions of outstanding papers presented at the annual conferences EGC’2017 & EGC’2018. The EGC conference cycle was founded by the International French-speaking EGC society (“Extraction et Gestion des Connaissances”) in 2003, and has since become a respected fixture among the… Shares: Data mining, Computers, Artificial Intelligence

Multimedia Communications, Services and Security Andrzej Dziech · 2011 · 211p · ≈ 7h · Moderate This volume constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Multimedia Communications, Services and Security, MCSS 2013, held in Krakow, Poland, in June 2013. The 27 full papers included in the volume were selected from numerous submissions. The papers cover various topics related to multimedia technology and its application to public safety problems. Shares: Information retrieval, Computers, Artificial Intelligence

Modeling Decisions for Artificial Intelligence Vicenç Torra · 2012 · 338p · ≈ 11h · Moderate This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Modeling Decisions for Artificial Intelligence, MDAI 2012, held in Girona, Catalonia, Spain, in November 2012. The 32 revised full papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 49 submissions and are presented with 4 plenary talks. The papers are organized in topical sections on aggregation operators,… Shares: Information retrieval, Data mining, Artificial Intelligence

Machine Learning Paradigms Aristomenis S. Lampropoulos · 2015 · 370p · ≈ 12h · Moderate This timely book presents Applications in Recommender Systems which are making recommendations using machine learning algorithms trained via examples of content the user likes or dislikes. Recommender systems built on the assumption of availability of both positive and negative examples do not perform well when negative examples are rare. It is exactly this problem that the authors address in the… Shares: Data mining, Artificial Intelligence

Natural Language Processing and Information Systems Elisabeth Métais · 2005 · 445p · ≈ 14h · Moderate This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 18th International Conference on Applications of Natural Language to Information Systems, held in Salford, UK, in June 2013. The 21 long papers, 15 short papers and 17 poster papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 80 submissions. The papers cover the following topics: requirements engineering, question… Shares: Information retrieval, Data mining, Artificial Intelligence

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