Expert Systems Books

Celebrity Branding You: A Revolutionary System for Entrepreneurs and Professionals to Become the Go-To-Expert, Dominate Your Field and Eliminate the Competition

J W Dicks, Nick Nanton

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Total reviews: 12 Average rating: 5.0 of 5

Celebrity Branding YOU is a GREAT book! 5 out of 5 stars.
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Celebrity Branding YOU by Dicks & Nanton is a fantastically simple book that helps you position yourself as "the Premier Expert" in your target market(s).

I read most of this book in one day. And, I started implementing a lot of the "celebrity branding" tactics immediately. My website is now more optimized. My articles are more optimized and positioned throughout the web. I am known in my circle of influence as "The [Former] Struggling Consultant."

The fact is, this book will help anyone who wants to position themselves as "the" expert. Dicks and Nanton are obviously the best at what they do. And, they share those skills and strategies with you in the book.

I highly recommend it.

Craig Valine
"The [Former] Struggling Consultant"
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Editorial Review:

Celebrity Branding You: A Revolutionary System for Entrepreneurs and Professionals to Become the Go-To Expert, Dominate Your Field, and Eliminate the Competition is a step by step practical guide for businesses and solo-preneurs to make their market Personality Driven. Personality Driven marketing allows you to leverage the one asset you have that no one else has - YOU! Follow Attorneys and Marketing Gurus JW Dicks, Esq. & Nick Nanton, Esq. through their proven formula for turning business people into Celebrities.

Email Marketing: An Hour a Day

Jeanniey Mullen, David Daniels

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If the idea of starting an email marketing campaign overwhelms you, the authors of Email Marketing: An Hour a Day will introduce you to email marketing basics, demonstrate how to manage details and describe how you can track and measure results.  Case studies, step-by-step guides, checklists, quizzes and hands-on tutorials will help you execute an email marketing campaign in just one hour a day.  When you feel comfortable with the basics, learn how to use video and audio enabled email, implement tools like mobile devices and leverage social networks.

Decision Support and Business Intelligence Systems (8th Edition)

Efraim Turban, Jay E. Aronson, Ting-Peng Liang, Ramesh Sharda

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Good coverage of tech terms 3 out of 5 stars.
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This is the book for the MBA course in Decision Support Systems. The coverage on DSS, BI, modeling, analysis, data warehousing, data visualization, web mining, data mining, AI expert system, knowledge management, system development and acquisition, is very thorough. Case studies at the end of the chapter make the connection between theory and real-world applications.

The book will be better if it has "hands-on" software in AI, BI, or DSS. Lack of the use of software makes this class highly theoretical.

Editorial Review:

Appropriate for all courses in Decision Support Systems (DSS), computerized decision making tools, and management support systems.

Decision Support and Business Intelligence Systems 8e provides the only comprehensive, up-to-date guide to today's revolutionary management support system technologies, and showcases how they can be used for better decision-making. This completely revised and re-titled edition incorporates the expanded coverage of Business Intelligence and reflects the emphasis that most decision support courses are now taking.

Decoding the Universe: How the New Science of Information Is Explaining Everything in the Cosmos, from Our Brains to Black Holes

Charles Seife

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Information theory, the third physics revolution of the XXth century 5 out of 5 stars.
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The author has a degree in probability theory and artificial intelligence, but he is a professor of journalism and has therefore written a book which is both very entertaining and not too difficult to understand. The subject is information, which Seife claims is the third XXth century revolution in physics started by Claude Shannon and which has relations with the other two: Relativity and Quantum Mechanics.

Of course, information is also related to thermodynamics and entropy, so the book contains a discussion of all these topics: thermodynamics, relativity and quantum mechanics. Famous conundrums such as Schroedinger's cat, entanglement, Maxwell's demon, etc. are analyzed from the point of view of information theory.

Here are some snippets of the book:

According to Seife, Einstein dictum "Nothing can travel faster than light" is really about information:" Information speed cannot exceed c". Another interesting fact is that what really causes computers to heat is the erasure of bits.

Seife describes recent achievements and experiments, proof that he is familiar with the latest results. One curious example is the solution of "the knight problem" in 2000 by using a DNA computer! Another one is that the entire human race has less genetic diversity than a few scores of chimps due to some kind of cataclysm about 500,000 years ago. A third one is the 1996 experiment demonstrating the existence of virtual particles (the so called Casimir effect).

In chapter 7, quantum computers are introduced and the possibility of the brain being one is briefly discussed. Unfortunately, it seems that Max Tegmark proved Roger Penrose wrong on this count. You begin to understand the power of quantum computation when the author describes Grover's algorithm to guess a number out of 16. Classically you need four yes/no answers to four questions. Grover manages the same task with two. Quantum computation reduces the complexity of some problems from n to square root of n.

I found also very interesting the reasons why the photoelectric effect cannot be explained by waves. On the other hand, interference cannot be explained by a corpuscular theory of light, so we are stuck with duality.

Towards the end, the author discusses black holes and the holographic principle: the quantity of information contained in a ball is not limited by its volume (surprisingly), but by its area. Since most cosmologists consider now the universe infinite (inflation seems to imply this) we are led, via the holographic bound, to the conclusion that the universe contains infinite copies of our own bubble universe. Seife admits that this is the most bizarre thing among the many ones described in his book.

Editorial Review:

The author of Zero explains the scientific revolution that is transforming the way we understand our world

Previously the domain of philosophers and linguists, information theory has now moved beyond the province of code breakers to become the crucial science of our time. In Decoding the Universe, Charles Seife draws on his gift for making cutting-edge science accessible to explain how this new tool is deciphering everything from the purpose of our DNA to the parallel universes of our Byzantine cosmos. The result is an exhilarating adventure that deftly combines cryptology, physics, biology, and mathematics to cast light on the new understanding of the laws that govern life and the universe.

Practical Ruby for System Administration (Expert's Voice in Open Source)

André Ben Hamou

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Ruby has set the world on fire, proving itself a serious challenger to Perl and Python in all spheres. In particular, more and more people are discovering that Rubys flexibility, superb feature set, and gentle learning curve make it a natural choice for system administration tasks, from the humblest server to the largest enterprise deployment.

Within the pages of Practical Ruby for System Administration, youll learn the Ruby way to construct files, tap into clouds of data, build domain-specific languages, perform network traffic analysis, and more.

Based on author André Ben Hamous own experiences working as a system administrator, this book will help you pick up practical tips on Ruby coding style, learn how to analyze and improve script performance, and make use of no-nonsense advice on scripting workflow, including testing and documentation.

Above all, youll come to appreciate the sheer power of Ruby and the hundreds of benefits it offers for system administration.

• This book places equal emphasis on fundamental Ruby concepts as well as practical how-tos.
• It uses examples from other languages to ease the transition to Ruby.
• The book is concise, entertaining, and informativeunlike many books aimed at system administrators, which can be overly long and stodgy.

Clustering (IEEE Press Series on Computational Intelligence)

Rui Xu, Don Wunsch

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excellent comprehensive book 5 out of 5 stars.
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This is really excellent book as brings new methods compared to other ones on the same topic, which still presented the same information.

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Written by two of the best-known experts in the field, Clustering is the only thoroughly comprehensive text on the subject currently available. The book looks at the full range of clustering and provides enough detail to allow users to select the method that best fits their application. A generous use of examples and references make the subject matter clear for readers of different levels, including graduate students, computer scientists, and applied mathematicians.

Expert Systems: Principles and Programming, Fourth Edition

Joseph C. Giarratano, Gary D. Riley

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Total reviews: 5 Average rating: 4.5 of 5

Great book! Gives an overview of CLIPS main features. 4 out of 5 stars.
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The authors give a good cursory background on knowledge representation within AI. Chapters 7 - 12, present CLIPS syntax and usage. The information in these chapters helped me to develop a simulation involving four intelligent agents, colloborating via a blackboard. The book provides no details with respect to CLIPS object-oriented capabilities (COOL), but this is something that can be learned through CLIP's accompanying documentation. I highly recommend this book to anyone wanting to know more about expert systems or CLIPS.

Editorial Review:

This book combines coverage of expert systems theory with coverage of practical applications using CLIPS, an expert systems shell widely used in government, industry, and education. The first part of the book (Chapters 1-6) presents the underlying theory behind expert systems and how they fit into the scope of computer science; that is the logic, probability, data structures, AI, and other topics that form the theory of expert systems. Learning the advantages and disadvantages of expert systems, students will be able to make informed decisions regarding the appropriate use of expert system technology. The second half (Chapters 7-12) is an introduction to the CLIPS expert system tool which now also includes coverage of the procedural and object-oriented capabilities. This part is a practical introduction to expert system programming that serves to reinforce and clarify the theoretical concepts developed in the first part.

Red-Eared Sliders: From the Experts at Advanced Vivarium Systems

Philippe De Vosjoli

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Good, basic information 4 out of 5 stars.
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This is a good basic book about red-eared sliders. You will learn details about sex identification and varieties, environmental needs, diseases, feeding, and even breeding. The author does a good job of describing the types and sizes of enclosures needed, water filtration, basking and light needs, and temperature. The need to have an easy system of water cleaning is emphasized. There is some discussion about recognizing symtoms of sickness and how to solve the problem usually either through changes in the environment or diet. Even with a book such as this, caring for turtles would definitely be somewhat of a learn as you go endeavor. This book can get one started but careful observation and fine tuning is required.

Editorial Review:

When kept properly, red-eared sliders will delight their owners with their beauty, intelligence fascinating behaviors, and a lifespan of up to 25 years or longer. Learn how to simulate aspects of a pond or lake in your home vivarium, how to determine the sex of your turtle, how to breed red-eared sliders along with proven techniques for feeding, heating, filtering the water and the use of plants. You'll be amazed by what you didn't know! Color photos of different morphs and other popular freshwater turtles. 47p. color.

Developing Grading and Reporting Systems for Student Learning (Experts In Assessment Series)

Thomas R. Guskey, Jane M. Bailey

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This work brings organization and clarity to understanding and implementing best practices in grading and reporting systems.

DRG Expert 2008: A Comprehensive Guidebook to the DRG Classification System (Drg Expert) (Drg Expert)

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The DRG Expert has been a trusted and comprehensive reference to the DRG classification system for more than 20 years. The nation s DRG information experts bring you this annual book, organized by Major Diagnostic Category (MDC), for accurate assignment of DRGs and maintenance of the highest level of data quality. The convenient and innovative book layout follows the logical DRG decision process. This book is designed specifically for those who need a comprehensive resource to either accurately assign DRGs concurrently and retrospectively or verify DRG information.