TY - BOOK T1 - Analyzing Social Media Networks with NodeXL Y1 - 2010 A1 - Hansen,Derek A1 - Shneiderman, Ben A1 - Smith,Marc A. KW - Business & Economics / Marketing / Research KW - Computers / Computer Science KW - Computers / Data Processing KW - Computers / Database Management / Data Mining KW - Computers / General KW - Computers / Information Theory KW - Computers / Interactive & Multimedia KW - Computers / Social Aspects / General KW - Computers / Social Aspects / Human-Computer Interaction KW - Computers / User Interfaces KW - data mining KW - Data mining - Computer programs KW - Data mining/ Computer programs KW - Information Visualization KW - Information visualization - Computer programs KW - Information visualization/ Computer programs KW - NodeXL KW - online social networks KW - Social Science / General KW - Social Science / Reference KW - Social Science / Sociology / General KW - Technology & Engineering / General KW - Technology & Engineering / Social Aspects KW - Webometrics KW - Webometrics - Computer programs KW - Webometrics/ Computer programs AB - "Analyzing Social Media Networks with NodeXL provides a much needed resource for the social media research community, as it describes network theory, provides compelling examples using data sources like Twitter and Flickr, and highlights how to use a free sophisticated tool for analysis. This is the perfect book for anyone trying to analyze the behavior of online social networks and beyond." ---Adam Perer, Research Scientist, IBM Research "This book provides a basic introduction to social network analysis, followed by practical instruction and examples on gathering data from online sources, importing into Excel, and then analyzing the data through Excel. The book will be important for promoting research in the area for those in information science, sociology, cultural studies, virtual community, and e-commerce."---Caroline Haythornthwaite, PhD, Professor, Graduate School of Library and Information Science, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Businesses, entrepreneurs, individuals, and government agencies alike are looking to social network analysis (SNA) tools for insight into trends, connections, and fluctuations in social media. Microsoft's NodeXL is a free, open-source SNA plug-in for use with Excel. It provides instant graphical representation of relationships of complex networked data. But it goes further than other SNA tools - NodeXL was developed by a multidisciplinary team of experts that bring together information studies, computer science, sociology, human-computer interaction, and over 20 years of visual analytic theory and information visualization into a simple tool anyone can use. This makes NodeXL of interest not only to end-users but also to researchers and students studying visual and network analytics and their application in the real world. PB - Morgan Kaufmann SN - 9780123822291 ER - TY - BOOK T1 - Analyzing Social Media Networks with NodeXL: Insights from a Connected World Y1 - 2010 A1 - Hansen,Derek A1 - Shneiderman, Ben A1 - Smith,Marc A. KW - Computers / Computer Science KW - Computers / General KW - Computers / Social Aspects / General KW - Computers / Social Aspects / Human-Computer Interaction KW - Computers / User Interfaces AB - Businesses, entrepreneurs, individuals, and government agencies alike are looking to social network analysis (SNA) tools for insight into trends, connections, and fluctuations in social media. Microsoft’s NodeXL is a free, open-source SNA plug-in for use with Excel. It provides instant graphical representation of relationships of complex networked data. But it goes further than other SNA tools -- NodeXL was developed by a multidisciplinary team of experts that bring together information studies, computer science, sociology, human-computer interaction, and over 20 years of visual analytic theory and information visualization into a simple tool anyone can use. This makes NodeXL of interest not only to end-users but also to researchers and students studying visual and network analytics and their application in the real world. In Analyzing Social Media Networks with NodeXL, members of the NodeXL development team up to provide readers with a thorough and practical guide for using the tool while also explaining the development behind each feature. Blending the theoretical with the practical, this book applies specific SNA instructions directly to NodeXL, but the theory behind the implementation can be applied to any SNA. To learn more about Analyzing Social Media Networks and NodeXL, visit the companion site at www.mkp.com/nodexl*Walks you through NodeXL, while explaining the theory and development behind each step, providing takeaways that can apply to any SNA *Demonstrates how visual analytics research can be applied to SNA tools for the mass market *Includes case studies from researchers who use NodeXL on popular networks like email, Facebook, Twitter, and wikis PB - Morgan Kaufmann SN - 9780123822307 ER - TY - BOOK T1 - Human identification based on gait Y1 - 2006 A1 - Nixon,Mark S. A1 - Tan,Tieniu A1 - Chellapa, Rama KW - Biometric identification KW - Computers / Computer Graphics KW - Computers / Computer Science KW - Computers / Computer Vision & Pattern Recognition KW - Computers / General KW - Computers / Information Technology KW - Computers / Programming / Software Development KW - Computers / Software Development & Engineering / Systems Analysis & Design KW - Gait in humans KW - Medical / Physiology KW - Social Science / Anthropology / Physical AB - Biometrics now affect many people's lives, and is the focus of much academic research and commercial development. Gait is one of the most recent biometrics, with its own unique advantages. Gait recognizes people by the way they walk and run, analyzes movement, which in turn implies analyzing sequences of images. This professional book introduces developments from the laboratories of very distinguished researchers within this relatively new area of biometrics and clearly establishes human gait as a biometric. Human Identification Based on Gait provides a snapshot of all the biometric work in human identification by gait (all major centers for research are indicated in this book). To complete the picture, studies are included from medicine, psychology and other areas wherein we find not only justification for the use of gait as a biometric, but also pointers to techniques and to analysis. Human Identification Based on Gait is designed for a professional audience, composed of researchers and practitioners in industry. This book is also suitable as a secondary text for graduate-level students in computer science. PB - Springer Science & Business SN - 9780387244242 ER - TY - BOOK T1 - Unconstrained face recognition Y1 - 2006 A1 - Zhou,S. Kevin A1 - Chellapa, Rama A1 - Zhao,Wenyi KW - Computer science KW - Computer vision KW - Computers / Computer Graphics KW - Computers / Computer Science KW - Computers / Computer Vision & Pattern Recognition KW - Computers / General KW - Computers / Image Processing KW - Computers / Information Technology KW - Computers / Information Theory KW - Computers / Interactive & Multimedia KW - Computers / Security / Cryptography KW - Computers / User Interfaces KW - Data encryption (Computer science) KW - Data structures (Computer science) KW - Electronic books KW - Human face recognition (Computer science) KW - IMAGE PROCESSING KW - Image processing - Digital techniques KW - multimedia systems KW - Optical pattern recognition KW - Science / Life Sciences / Biology AB - Face recognition has been actively studied over the past decade and continues to be a big research challenge. Just recently, researchers have begun to investigate face recognition under unconstrained conditions. Unconstrained Face Recognition provides a comprehensive review of this biometric, especially face recognition from video, assembling a collection of novel approaches that are able to recognize human faces under various unconstrained situations. The underlying basis of these approaches is that, unlike conventional face recognition algorithms, they exploit the inherent characteristics of the unconstrained situation and thus improve the recognition performance when compared with conventional algorithms.Unconstrained Face Recognition is structured to meet the needs of a professional audience of researchers and practitioners in industry. This volume is also suitable for advanced-level students in computer science. PB - Springer Science & Business SN - 9780387264073 ER - TY - BOOK T1 - The craft of information visualization: readings and reflections Y1 - 2003 A1 - Bederson, Benjamin B. A1 - Shneiderman, Ben KW - Computers / Computer Graphics KW - Computers / Computer Science KW - Computers / Digital Media / Desktop Publishing KW - Computers / General KW - Computers / Social Aspects / Human-Computer Interaction KW - Computers / User Interfaces KW - Human-computer interaction KW - Information Visualization KW - Science / General KW - User-centered system design AB - Since the beginning of the computer age, researchers from many disciplines have sought to facilitate people's use of computers and to provide ways for scientists to make sense of the immense quantities of data coming out of them. One gainful result of these efforts has been the field of information visualization, whose technology is increasingly applied in scientific research, digital libraries, data mining, financial data analysis, market studies, manufacturing production control, and data discovery.This book collects 38 of the key papers on information visualization from a leading and prominent research lab, the University of Maryland's Human-Computer Interaction Lab (HCIL). Celebrating HCIL's 20th anniversary, this book presents a coherent body of work from a respected community that has had many success stories with its research and commercial spin-offs. Each chapter contains an introduction specifically written for this volume by two leading HCI researchers, to describe the connections among those papers and reveal HCIL's individual approach to developing innovations.*Presents key ideas, novel interfaces, and major applications of information visualization tools, embedded in inspirational prototypes.*Techniques can be widely applied in scientific research, digital libraries, data mining, financial data analysis, business market studies, manufacturing production control, drug discovery, and genomic studies.*Provides an "insider" view to the scientific process and evolution of innovation, as told by the researchers themselves.*This work comes from the prominent and high profile University of Maryland's Human Computer Interaction Lab PB - Morgan Kaufmann SN - 9781558609150 ER - TY - BOOK T1 - Algorithm Engineering and Experiments: 4th International Workshop, Alenex 2002, San Francisco, Ca, Usa, January 4-5. 2002 : Revised Papers Y1 - 2002 A1 - Mount, Dave A1 - Stein,Clifford KW - Architecture / General KW - Artificial intelligence KW - Computer algorithms KW - Computer algorithms/ Congresses KW - COMPUTERS KW - Computers / Computer Graphics KW - Computers / Computer Science KW - Computers / Data Modeling & Design KW - Computers / Data Processing KW - Computers / General KW - Computers / Programming / Algorithms KW - Electronic books KW - Mathematics / Discrete Mathematics KW - Medical / General AB - This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-proceedings of the 4th International Workshop on Algorithm Engineering and Experiments, ALENEX 2002, held in San Francisico, CA, USA in January 2002.The 15 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 34 submissions. Among the topics addressed are hewistics for algorithms, combinatorial optimization, searching, graph computation, network optimization, scheduling, computational geometry, sorting, and clustering algorithms. PB - Springer SN - 9783540439776 ER - TY - BOOK T1 - Readings in Information Visualization: Using Vision to Think Y1 - 1999 A1 - Card,Stuart K. A1 - Mackinlay,Jock D. A1 - Shneiderman, Ben KW - Computer Graphics KW - Computers / Computer Engineering KW - Computers / Computer Graphics KW - Computers / Computer Graphics / General KW - Computers / Computer Science KW - Computers / General KW - Computers / Information Technology KW - Computers / Information Theory KW - Computers / Intelligence (AI) & Semantics KW - Computers / Social Aspects / Human-Computer Interaction KW - IMAGE PROCESSING KW - Information display systems KW - Information Visualization KW - Psychology / General KW - Visualization AB - This groundbreaking book defines the emerging field of information visualization and offers the first-ever collection of the classic papers of the discipline, with introductions and analytical discussions of each topic and paper. The authors' intention is to present papers that focus on the use of visualization to discover relationships, using interactive graphics to amplify thought. This book is intended for research professionals in academia and industry; new graduate students and professors who want to begin work in this burgeoning field; professionals involved in financial data analysis, statistics, and information design; scientific data managers; and professionals involved in medical, bioinformatics, and other areas.* Full-color reproduction throughout* Author power team - an exciting and timely collaboration between the field's pioneering, most-respected names* The only book on Information Visualization with the depth necessary for use as a text or as a reference for the information professional* Text includes the classic source papers as well as a collection of cutting edge work PB - Morgan Kaufmann SN - 9781558605336 ER - TY - BOOK T1 - Software Specification: A Comparison of Formal Methods Y1 - 1994 A1 - Gannon,John D. A1 - Purtilo,James A1 - Zelkowitz, Marvin V KW - Computer software KW - Computer software/ Specifications KW - Computers / General KW - Computers / Programming / General KW - Formal methods (Computer science) KW - software engineering KW - specifications PB - Intellect Books SN - 9781567500332 ER - TY - BOOK T1 - Requirements For a Software Engineering Environment: Proceedings of the University of Maryland Workshop, May 5-8, 1986 Y1 - 1989 A1 - Zelkowitz, Marvin V KW - Computers / General KW - software engineering KW - Software engineering/ Congresses PB - Intellect Books SN - 9780893914479 ER -