"This book investigates machine learning (ML), one of the most fruitful fields of current research, both in the proposal of new techniques and theoretic algorithms and in their application to real-life problems"--Provided by publisher.

This book highlights the development of robust and effective vision-based motion understanding systems, addressing a broad audience including practicing professionals working with specific vision applications such as surveillance, sport event analysis, healthcare, video conferencing, and motion...

Advances in Accounting Education: Teaching and Curriculum Innovations is a refereed, academic research annual that aims to meet the needs of faculty members interested in ways to improve their classroom instruction. It includes both non-empirical and empirical articles dealing with accounting...

"Automatic biometrics recognition techniques are becoming increasingly important in corporate and public security systems and have increased in methods due to rapid field development. This book discusses classic behavioral biometrics as well as the latest advances in techniques, theoretical...

In his discussion of early lexical development in children Barrett (1995) notes that utterances can be of the following types: an expression of an internal state, a response to a specific context, a social-pragmatic utterance and a referential utterance. A referential utterance can be thought of...

This paper examines the information content of the forward-looking statements in the Management Discussion and Analysis section (MD&A) of 10-K and 10-Q filings using a Naive Bayesian machine learning algorithm. I find that firms with better current performance, lower accruals, smaller size,...

Positionierungs- und Repositionierungsentscheidungen im Rahmen der Markenführung -- Theoretische Grundlagen und aktueller Stand der Forschung -- Konzeption und Anwendung des agentenbasierten Modells im Festnetztelefonmarkt -- Schlussbetrachtung.