This new edition features chapters on data integration, data management, and data cleansing and transformation. Case studies are be added, and there is an updated product-specific appendix. A CD-ROM is included that contains demo versions of various data warehousing tools. (view table of contents)

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Product Description: Intelligent decision support relies on techniques from a variety of disciplines, including artificial intelligence and database management systems. Most of the existing literature neglects the relationship between these disciplines...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: In bringing together this book, the editors have kept two goals in mind. Firstly, the goal of educating the reader by giving an insight into the wealth of computing and mathematical techniques now being used to build decision support systems...read more

CyberQuest is a multimedia software and hardware system created to assist such areas as problem solving, strategic planning, design and more general innovation support. It is intended to help individuals and groups in industry and government come up with ideas and ways to implement them. The book's goals are to describe the nature of this new concept of a problem solving and innovation support and to capture and generalize on many of the experiences that have assisted the author in this endeavor to create CyberQuest. (view table of contents)

Product Description: Identifies obstacles to effective DSS processing, demonstrating how database machines provide efficient and potent paths around these obstructions. Using Teradata as an example, it explains the benefit of database devices, how they support atomic level data, manage large amounts of data, expand economically as atomic data level grows and how they access such diverse systems as DB2 and LANs...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Theory and application of systems design to industrial and process industries are described in this book. Advanced research for industrial improvement is reported and optimization techniques of established processes and industries are extended to new fields.

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Product Description: This proceedings volume aims to consolidate current knowledge of research into the many fields of DSS, and to identify key issues which should be incorporated into the future research agenda. The main themes of this volume include: DSS for distributed decision processes, Embedding knowledge in DSS, and DSS and organizational change...read more

Product Description: Das Buch behandelt Moglichkeiten und Wege, Entscheidungstrager in Unternehmen auf allen Management-Ebenen computerbasiert zu unterstutzen. Dabei geht es weniger um die Rationalisierung bekannter Arbeitsablaufe, sondern vielmehr um die Nutzung moderner Informations- und Kommunikationstechnologien bei der Bewaltigung komplexer, wenig strukturierter Problemstellungen...read more

Product Description: Environmental Informatics (or Enviromatics) is a maturing subject with interdisciplinary roots in computer science, environmental planning, ecology, economics and other related areas. Its practitioners must be prepared to work with many diverse professional groups...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Brings together the results from prominent American, European and Japanese laboratories and projects. Contains in-depth explanations for underlying principles, accentuating concrete examples, actual problems and applications. Describes hands-on tools and techniques such as details of implementing software packages on PCs, networks, single processor machines and high-speed parallel and optical systems; the amount of processing required; simulation runs; results and performance measurements...read more

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Product Description: Great progresses have been made in the application of fuzzy set theory and fuzzy logic. Most remarkable area of application is 'fuzzy control', where fuzzy logic was first applied to plant control systems and its use is expanding to consumer products...read more

A guide to implementing and maximizing Microsoft OLAP Server explains the fundamentals of online analytical processing and multi-dimensional data analysis while describing how to plan, build, and deploy OLAP applications.

Product Description: As the most comprehensive reference work dealing with decision support systems (DSS), this book is essential for the library of every DSS practitioner, researcher, and educator. Written by an international array of DSS luminaries, it contains more than 70 chapters that approach decision support systems from a wide variety of perspectives...read more

Product Description: SQL Service is Microsoft's database management system (DBMS) and is a leading DBMS on Windows NT. As the NT market has grown, so too has the SQL Server audience. With release 7.0 of SQL Server, Microsoft has targeted the Data Warehouse market through an alliance with over 20 leading software vendors...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Demonstrates OLAP server technology while explaining its use in multi-dimensional data analysis.

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Product Description: Microsoft OLAP Unleashed offers professional-level expertise and an in-depth explanation of the latest in multidimensional database management. It contains an entire section on MDX, the programming language of OLAP. MS OLAP Unleashed details real-world uses, how to prepare data, and how to implement an OLAP system...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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Product Description: Microsoft?? SQL Server?(TM) OLAP Developer's Guide Your Complete How-To Guide * Understand the ROLAP, MOLAP, and HOLAP data storage structures * Populate a data warehouse using SQL Server 7 Data Transformation Services * Create data cubes with OLAP Manager Wizards * Use Decision Support Objects to build powerful OLAP applications for the enterprise * Retrieve and display OLAP data using ADO MD objects and PivotTable Services * Use MDX to write "what-if" and other sophisticated OLAP queries * Develop custom add-ins for OLAP Manager using Visual Basic * Build client-side applications to query OLAP data using Excel PivotTables * Construct a custom application that drills up and down through cell sets * Set up data descriptions in the English Query environment CD-ROM Includes: * Microsoft SQL Server 7...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: In this book, Georgios N. Yannopoulos appropriately relates the developing field of knowledge based systems in law with the basis in classic philosophy, explicating relations which too often are not properly understood. The decision model developed by the author is important, as it integrates and explains arguments which often have been seen as imcompatible...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)