Jiming Liu & Ning Zhong 
Intelligent Technologies for Information Analysis 

Intelligent Information Technology (ii T) encompasses the theories and ap- plications of artificial intelligence, statistical pattern recognition, learning theory, data warehousing, data mining and knowledge discovery, Grid com- puting, and autonomous agents and multi-agent systems in the context of today’s as well as future IT, such as Electronic Commerce (EC), Business Intelligence (BI), Social Intelligence (SI), Web Intelligence (WI), Knowledge Grid (KG), and Knowledge Community (KC), among others. The multi-author monograph presents the current state of the research and development in intelligent technologies for information analysis, in par- ticular, advances in agents, data mining, and learning theory, from both the- oretical and application aspects. It investigates the future of information technology (IT) from a new intelligent IT (ii T) perspective, and highlights major ii T-related topics by structuring an introductory chapter and 22 sur- vey/research chapters into 5 parts: (1) emerging data mining technology, (2) data mining for Web intelligence, (3) emerging agent technology, ( 4) emerging soft computing technology, and (5) statistical learning theory. Each chapter includes the original work of the author(s) as well as a comprehensive survey related to the chapter’s topic. This book will become a valuable source of reference for R&D profession- als active in advanced intelligent information technologies. Students as well as IT professionals and ambitious practitioners concerned with advanced in- telligent information technologies will appreciate the book as a useful text enhanced by numerous illustrations and examples.