This book mainly focuses on the widely distributed nature of computational tools, models, and methods, ultimately related to the current importance of computati

The book gives up-to-date, multi-aspect exposition of the philosophy and methodology of information, and related areas within the nascent field of the study of

This volume explores abductive cognition, an important but, at least until the third quarter of the last century, neglected topic in cognition. It aims at incre

This book states that data users often suffer from the difficulty of acquiring knowledge for decision-making, and others are unsure how existing data are useful

Big data and machine learning are driving the Fourth Industrial Revolution. With the age of big data upon us, we risk drowning in a flood of digital data. Big d