The papers in this volume represent the proceedings of the 7th Industrial Conference on Data Mining. They are organized into topical sections on aspects of classification and prediction, clustering, web mining, data mining in medicine, applications of data mining, time series and frequent pattern mining, and association rule mining. Readers...

After being shrouded in esoterica for a long time, Global Navigation Satellite Systems (GNSS) have become part of everyday life, especially the Global Positioning System (GPS). Having spent 40 years involved with the subject, it became clear to me that it would be useful to have a book about the business aspects of these systems. This...

The eXtensible Markup Language, or XML, is a simple technology that has taken the computer world by storm. Even before XML was formally adopted, Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates called XML a "breakthrough technology" because he saw the value of defining data transactions in an open, platform-independent way. Since then, many standards...