Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 17, No. 167.
Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London
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Date: Tue, 29 Jul 2003 06:15:10 +0100
From: Willard McCarty <willard.mccarty@kcl.ac.uk>
Subject: new books
(1)ECSCW 2003
edited by
Kari Kuutti
University of Oulu, Finland
Eija Helena Karsten
University of Turku, Finland
Geraldine Fitzpatrick
Sapient Ltd., London & University of Sussex, Brighton, UK
Paul Dourish
University of California, Irvine, USA
Kjeld Schmidt
IT University of Copenhagen, Denmark
The emergence and widespread use of personal computers and network
technologies has seen the development of interest in the use of computers
to support cooperative work. This volume presents the proceedings of the
eighth European conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW).
This is a multidisciplinary area which embraces both the development of new
technologies and an understanding of the grounding of CSCW technologies in
real-world social practices.
These proceedings contain a collection of papers that encompass activities
in the field. These include papers addressing new interaction technologies
for CSCW systems, new models and architectures for groupware systems,
studies of communication and coordination among mobile actors, studies of
groupware systems in use in real-world settings, and theories and
techniques to support the development of cooperative applications. The
papers present emerging technologies alongside new methods and approaches
to the development of this important class of applications.
The work in this volume represents the best of the current research and
practice within CSCW. The collection of papers presented here will appeal
to both researchers and practitioners alike as they combine an
understanding of the nature of work with the possibilities offered by new
technologies.
Hardbound ISBN: 1-4020-1573-9 Date: August 2003 Pages: 401 pp.
EURO 125.00 / USD 138.00 / GBP 86.00
(2)
Data Mining and Decision Support
Integration and Collaboration
edited by
Dunja Mladeni!
Jozef Stefan Institute, Ljubljana, Slovenia
Nada Lavra
J. Stefan Institute, Ljubljana, Slovenia
Marko Bohanec
Jozef Stefan Institute, Ljubljana, Slovenia
Steve Moyle
Computing Laboratory, University of Oxford, UK
THE KLUWER INTERNATIONAL SERIES IN ENGINEERING AND COMPUTER SCIENCE -- 745
Data mining deals with finding patterns in data that are by
user-definition, interesting and valid. It is an interdisciplinary area
involving databases, machine learning, pattern recognition, statistics,
visualization and others.
Decision support focuses on developing systems to help decision-makers
solve problems. Decision support provides a selection of data analysis,
simulation, visualization and modeling techniques, and software tools such
as decision support systems, group decision support and mediation systems,
expert systems, databases and data warehouses.
Independently, data mining and decision support are well-developed research
areas, but until now there has been no systematic attempt to integrate
them. Data Mining And Decision Support: Integration andCollaboration,
written by leading researchers in the field, presents a conceptual
framework, plus the methods and tools for integrating the two disciplines
and for applying this technology to business problems in a collaborative
setting.
Hardbound ISBN: 1-4020-7388-7 Date: August 2003 Pages: 304 pp.
EURO 113.00 / USD 125.00 / GBP 78.00
Dr Willard McCarty | Senior Lecturer | Centre for Computing in the
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