Chapter Twelve Data Mining for Environmental Systems

Developments in Integrated Environmental Assessment

Volumn 3, Issue , 2008, Pages 205-228

  Gibert, K ^a   Spate, J ^b   Sanchez Marre M ^a   Athanasiadis, Ioannis N ^c   Comas, J ^d  

^a UNIVERSITAT POLITÈCNICA DE CATALUNYA   (Spain)

^b AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^c DALLE MOLLE INSTITUTE FOR ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE IDSIA   (Switzerland)

^d UNIVERSITY OF GIRONA   (Spain)

Author keywords

data mining; environmental systems; knowledge discovery of data; multidisciplinarity

Indexed keywords

EID: 51449090803     PISSN: 1574101X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1016/S1574-101X(08)00612-1     Document Type: Review

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