Category: Books

The Psychology of Waiting: The Business Impact of Diminishing Consumer Patience

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY People don’t just buy products or services, they buy experiences. Everything bought and sold in today’s digital world of instant access and same-day delivery requires an increasing amount of speed, relevancy and...

User-Centered Evaluation of Visual Analytics

Synthesis Lectures on Visualization October 2017, 71 pages, (https://doi.org/10.2200/S00797ED1V01Y201709VIS009) Jean Scholtz, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) Abstract Visual analytics has come a long way since its inception in 2005. The amount of data in the world...

Individual and Collective Graph Mining: Principles, Algorithms, and Applications

Synthesis Lectures on Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery October 2017, 206 pages, (https://doi.org/10.2200/S00796ED1V01Y201708DMK014) Danai Koutra, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor Christos Faloutsos, Carnegie Mellon University Abstract Graphs naturally represent information ranging from links between web pages, to communication...

Anomaly Detection as a Service: Challenges, Advances, and Opportunities

Synthesis Lectures on Information Security, Privacy, and Trust October 2017, 173 pages, (https://doi.org/10.2200/S00800ED1V01Y201709SPT022) Danfeng (Daphne) Yao, Virginia Tech Xiaokui Shu, IBM Research Long Cheng, Virginia Tech Salvatore J. Stolfo, Columbia University Abstract Anomaly detection has been a long-standing security approach with versatile...

Individual and Collective Graph Mining: Principles, Algorithms, and Applications

Synthesis Lectures on Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery October 2017,  206 pages, (https://doi.org/10.2200/S00796ED1V01Y201708DMK014) Danai Koutra University of Michigan, Ann Arbor  Christos Faloutsos Carnegie Mellon University  Abstract Graphs naturally represent information ranging from links between web pages,...