Information fusion is becoming a major requirement in data mining and knowledge discovery in databases. This book presents some recent fusion techniques that are currently in use in data mining, as well as data mining applications that use information fusion. Special focus of the book is on information fusion in preprocessing, model building and information extraction with various applications.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the First International Conference on Modeling Decisions for Artificial Intelligence, MDAI 2004, held in Barcelona, Spain in August 2004.

The 26 revised full papers presented together with 4 invited papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 53 submissions. The papers are devoted to topics like models for information fusion, aggregation operators, model selection, fuzzy integrals, fuzzy sets, fuzzy multisets, neural learning, rule-based classification systems, fuzzy association rules, algorithmic learning, diagnosis, text...

This book provides an overview of the research work on data privacy and privacy enhancing technologies carried by the participants of the ARES project. ARES (Advanced Research in Privacy an Security, CSD2007-00004) has been one of the most important research projects funded by the Spanish Government in the fields of computer security and privacy. It is part of the now extinct CONSOLIDER INGENIO 2010 program, a highly competitive program which aimed to advance knowledge and open new research lines among top Spanish research groups. The project started in 2007 and will finish this 2014....

This book constitutes the proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Modeling Decisions for Artificial Intelligence, MDAI 2016, held in Sant Julia de Loria, Andorra, in September 2016.

The 22 revised full papers presented together with three invited talks were carefully reviewed and selected from 36 submissions. Providing a forum for researchers to discuss models for decision and information fusion (aggregation operators) and their applications to AI, the papers address topics such as decision making, information fusion, social networks, data mining, and related subjects....

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 11th International Workshop on Data Privacy Management, DPM 2016 and the 5th International Workshop on Quantitative Aspects in Security Assurance, QASA 2016, held in Heraklion, Crete, Greece, in September 2016. 9 full papers and 4 short papers out of 24 submissions are included in the DPM 2016 Workshop. They are organized around areas related to the management of privacy-sensitive informations, such as translation of high-level business goals into system-level privacy policies; administration of sensitive identifiers; data integration...

This book gives an introduction to the programming language Scala. It presents it from a functional programming perspective. The book explains with detail functional programming and recursivity, and includes chapters on lazy and eager evaluation, streams, higher-order functions (including map, fold, reduce, and aggregate), and algebraic data types. The book also describes the object-oriented aspects of Scala, as they are a fundamental part of the language. In addition, the book includes a chapter on parallelism in Scala, giving an overview of the actor model.