Algorithms of the Intelligent Web

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作者：Haralambos Marmanis, Dmitry Babenko
出版日期：June 28, 2009
出版社：Manning Publications
页数：368
ISBN：ISBN-10: 1933988665 ISBN-13: 978-1933988665
文件格式：PDF



Web 2.0 applications provide a rich user experience, but the partsyou can’t see are just as important-and impressive. They use powerfultechniques to process information intelligently and offer featuresbased on patterns and relationships in data. Algorithms of theIntelligent Web shows readers how to use the same techniques employedby household names like Google Ad Sense, Netflix, and Amazon totransform raw data into actionable information.
Algorithms of the Intelligent Web is an example-driven blueprint forcreating applications that collect, analyze, and act on the massivequantities of data users leave in their wake as they use the web.Readers learn to build Netflix-style recommendation engines, and how toapply the same techniques to social-networking sites. See howclick-trace analysis can result in smarter ad rotations. All theexamples are designed both to be reused and to illustrate a generaltechnique- an algorithm-that applies to a broad range of scenarios.
As they work through the book’s many examples, readers learn aboutrecommendation systems, search and ranking, automatic grouping ofsimilar objects, classification of objects, forecasting models, andautonomous agents. They also become familiar with a large number ofopen-source libraries and SDKs, and freely available APIs from thehottest sites on the internet, such as Facebook, Google, eBay, andYahoo.
About the Author
Dr. Haralambos (Babis) Marmanis is a pioneer in the adoption of machinelearning techniques for industrial solutions, and also a world expertin supply management. He has about twenty years of experience indeveloping professional software. Currently, he is the director ofR&D and chief architect, for expense management solutions, atEmptoris, Inc. Babis holds a Ph.D. in applied mathematics from BrownUniversity, an M.S. degree in theoretical and applied mechanics fromthe University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and B.S. and M.S.degrees in civil engineering from the Aristotle University ofThessaloniki in Greece. He was the recipient of the Sigma Xi award forinnovative research in 2000, and he is the author of numerouspublications in peer-reviewed international scientific journals,conferences, and technical periodicals.
Dmitry Babenko is the lead for the data warehouse infrastructure atEmptoris, Inc. He is a software engineer and architect with 13 years ofexperience in the IT industry. He has designed and built a wide varietyof applications and infrastructure frameworks for banking, insurance,supply-chain management, and business intelligence companies. Hereceived a M.S. degree in computer science from Belarussian StateUniversity of Informatics and Radioelectronics.