This book highlights technical advances in knowledge management and their applications across a diverse range of domains. It explores the applications of knowledge computing methodologies in image processing, pattern recognition, health care and industrial contexts. The chapters also examine the knowledge engineering process involved in information management.
Given its interdisciplinary nature, the book covers methods for identifying and acquiring valid, potentially useful knowledge sources. The ideas presented in the respective chapters illustrate how to effectively apply the perspectives of knowledge computing in specialized domains.
Part I. Knowledge Processing in Specific Domains.
Chapter
1.
Probabilistic Graphical Models for Medical Image Mining Challenges of New
Generation.
Chapter
2. Pipeline crack detection using Mathematical
Morphological Operator.
Chapter
3. Efficiency of Multi Instance Learning In
Educational Data Mining.
Chapter
4. Ontology driven Decision Support Systems
for Healthcare.
Chapter
5. Prediction of Land cover Changes in Vellore
district of Tamil Nadu by Using Satellite Image Processing.
Chapter
6. An
integrated approach for optimal feature selection and anatomic location
identification on paediatric foreign body aspired radiographic images.-
Chapter
7. A Comparative Analysis of Local Pattern Descriptors for Face
Recognition.- Part II. Knowledge Engineering Process in Information
Management.
Chapter
1. Agent based architecture for developing recommender
system in libraries.
Chapter
2. Knowledge Management using Recommender
Systems.
Chapter
3. Meta-search engine: A technology for Information
extraction in Knowledge Computing.
Chapter
4. A Coverage on Recommender
System.
Chapter
5. Recommender Frameworks Outline System Design and
Strategies: A Review.
Chapter
6. Ontology Design and use for Subjective
Evaluation of Computer Science Examinations.
Chapter
7. A survey on Feature
Selection and Extraction Techniques for High Dimensional Micro Array Data
sets.
Chapter
8. An Investigation on E-Learning Tools and Techniques towards
Knowledge Management.
Margret Anouncia S is a Professor at Vellore Institute of Technology (VIT) University in India. She received her Bachelors degree in Computer Science and Engineering from Bharathidasan University (1993), Tiruchirappalli, India and her Masters in Software Engineering from Anna University (2000), Chennai, India. She was awarded a doctorate in Computer Science and Engineering at VIT University (2008). Her main areas of interest include digital image processing, software engineering and knowledge engineering.
Uffe Kock Wiil received his M.Sc. (1990) and Ph.D. (1993) degrees from Aalborg University, Denmark. He has been a Professor of Software Engineering at the University of Southern Denmark since 2004. His primary research interests are health informatics (clinical decision support systems; patient empowerment) and security informatics (analysis and visualization of crime-related data).
