This unique compendium focuses on the acquisition and analysis of social media data. The approaches concern both the data-intensive characteristics and graphical structures of social media. The book addresses the critical problems in social media analysis, which representatively cover its lifecycle.The must-have volume is an excellent reference text for professionals, researchers, academics and graduate students in AI and databases.

Data analysis is of upmost importance in the mining of big data, where knowledge discovery and inference are the basis for intelligent systems to support the real world applications. However, the process involves knowledge acquisition, representation, inference and data, Bayesian network (BN) is the key technology plays a key role in knowledge representation, in order to pave way to cope with incomplete, fuzzy data to solve the real-life problems.This book presents Bayesian network as a te...

The bioprotectants market was estimated to be worth $5.5 billion in 2022, with this figure set to rise to over $11 billion by 2027. With more than 1000 products on the market, a greater understanding of how individual species/strains function as bioprotection agents is required.Advances in bioprotection of plants against diseases considers recent advances in techniques used to identify and develop fungal and bacterial bioprotection agents, including Cl...

The book focuses on several skew-normal mixed effects models, and systematically explores statistical inference theories, methods, and applications of parameters of interest. This book is of academic value as it helps to establish a series of statistical inference theories and methods for skew-normal mixed effects models. On the applications side, it provides efficient methods and tools for practical data analysis in various fields including economics, finance, biology and medical science....

This book systematically presents 40 pests, 7 natural pest enemies, and 20 diseases and weeds commonly encountered in sugarcane production, combining clear colour photos with detailed scientific descriptions. It covers a range of related topics, including morphological identification, habits and frequency of occurrence, prevention and control measures, symptom identification, characteristics of infections and epidemics, parasitic (predator) characteristics, ways of utilising natural pest e...

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 15th EAI International Conference on Bio-inspired Information and Communications Technologies, BICT 2024, held in Quzhou, China, during August 15–16, 2024.The 16 full papers included in this book were carefully reviewed and selected from 52 submissions. They were organized in topical sections as follows: Asia-Pacific Workshop on Molecular Communications; Bio-inspired ICT; and ICT-inspired Biomedicine.

This book constitutes the post-conference proceedings of the Second EAI International Conference on Smart Grid Inspired Future Technologies, SmartGIFT 2017, held in London, UK, in March 2017. The revised full papers are presented in four tracks: Track 1 - Communications, Networks and Architectures; Track 2 - Smart Control and Operation; Track 3 - Grid and Components; and Track 4 - Data Management and Grid Analytics. Aside from the technical paper presentations, the book also contains five ...