1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910459935203321

Autore

Hlinka Michael

Titolo

Stalled : jump-starting the Canadian economy / / Michael Hlinka

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Toronto, Ontario : , : Dundurn, , 2015

©2015

ISBN

1-4597-2361-9

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (352 p.)

Disciplina

338.971

Soggetti

Stagnation (Economics)

Electronic books.

Canada Economic conditions 20th century

Canada Economic conditions 21st century

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Introduction; Part One; Part Two; Part Three; Part Four; Acknowledgements; Notes; Copyright

Sommario/riassunto

There are many things North Americans take for granted - including a robust economy. But the past fifteen years have seen persistent stagnation that threatens the results of fifty years of previous growth. Without letting rising consumer debt cloud the question, Michael Hlinka diagnoses Canada's economic woes and lays out a roadmap back to growth.



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910299840703321

Autore

Lampropoulos Aristomenis S

Titolo

Machine Learning Paradigms : Applications in Recommender Systems / / by Aristomenis S. Lampropoulos, George A. Tsihrintzis

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2015

ISBN

9783319191355

3319191357

Edizione

[1st ed. 2015.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (135 p.)

Collana

Intelligent Systems Reference Library, , 1868-4394 ; ; 92

Disciplina

006.3

006.6

620

Soggetti

Computational intelligence

Artificial intelligence

Optical data processing

Computational Intelligence

Artificial Intelligence

Computer Imaging, Vision, Pattern Recognition and Graphics

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction -- Review of Previous Work Related to Recommender Systems -- The Learning Problem.-Content Description of Multimedia Data -- Similarity Measures for Recommendations based on Objective Feature Subset Selection -- Cascade Recommendation Methods -- Evaluation of Cascade Recommendation Methods -- Conclusions and Future Work.

Sommario/riassunto

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 monograph at hand. Specifically, the books approach is based on one-class classification methodologies that have been appearing in



recent machine learning research. The blending of recommender systems and one-class classification provides a new very fertile field for research, innovation and development with potential applications in “big data” as well as “sparse data” problems. The book will be useful to researchers, practitioners and graduate students dealing with problems of extensive and complex data. It is intended for both the expert/researcher in the fields of Pattern Recognition, Machine Learning and Recommender Systems, as well as for the general reader in the fields of Applied and Computer Science who wishes to learn more about the emerging discipline of Recommender Systems and their applications. Finally, the book provides an extended list of bibliographic references which covers the relevant literature completely.  .