Data mining a heuristic approach /

• Corporate Author: IGI Global.
• Other Authors: Abbass, Hussein A., Sarker, Ruhul A., Newton, Charles S. 1942-
• Format: Electronic
• Language: English
• Published: Hershey, Pa. : IGI Global (701 E. Chocolate Avenue, Hershey, Pennsylvania, 17033, USA), c2002.
• Subjects: Data mining.; Database searching.; Heuristic programming.
• Online Access: View fulltext via EzAccess
• Physical Description: electronic texts (iv, 300 p. : ill.) : digital files.; Also available in print.
• Format: Mode of access: World Wide Web.
• Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• ISBN: 9781591400110 (ebook)
• Access: Restricted to subscribers or individual electronic text purchasers.

Real life problems are known to be messy, dynamic and multi-objective, and involve high levels of uncertainty and constraints. Because traditional problem-solving methods are no longer capable of handling this level of complexity, heuristic search methods have attracted increasing attention in recent years for solving such problems. Inspired by nature, biology, statistical mechanics, physics and neuroscience, heuristics techniques are used to solve many problems where traditional methods have failed. This book will be a repository for the applications of these techniques in the area of data mining.