John H. Williams – författare

Manufacturing systems availability is of fundamental importance to efficient operation. Current ideas on maintenance are quite different from the out-of-date traditional approach of fire-fighting breakdowns. "Condition-based Maintenance" offers the means of efficient operation and is an enabling vehicle for quality assurance. The book covers all aspects of the modern approach both technically and managerially. This book should be of interest to Condition-Monitoring practitioners, industrial engineers, Technical managers in Manufacturing and Maintenance, senior undergraduate/graduate students on Manufacturing/Industrial/Systems engineering courses.

Data mining is a technique used to discover and present data in useful form to support decision making. This work responds to the need for a multi-disciplinary research resource, offering various perspectives on the social construction of reality and how different people make sense of the same information at different times. For example, in the section addressing information retrieval, subject relevance - chosen based upon the user's construction or pertinence - is contrasted with objective relevance, a system-based relationship that is measured by aspects of the subject matter and its universe. Format, use, currency, relevance, reliability, and validity are all basic elements of information quality that are explored in the research presented. Other strands include information architecture, Text Retrieval Conferences (TREC), machine learning, biometric technologies, computer interfaces, the interoperability of networked retrieval systems, and other research topics related to information retrieval.