Pattern Classification or Organizing Change

Pattern Classification: A Unified View of Statistical and Neural Approaches

Author: Jurgen Schurmann

PATTERN CLASSIFICATION

a unified view of statistical and neural approaches

The product of years of research and practical experience in pattern classification, this book offers a theory-based engineering perspective on neural networks and statistical pattern classification. Pattern Classification sheds new light on the relationship between seemingly unrelated approaches to pattern recognition, including statistical methods, polynomial regression, multilayer perceptron, and radial basis functions. Important topics such as feature selection, reject criteria, classifier performance measurement, and classifier combinations are fully covered, as well as material on techniques that, until now, would have required an extensive literature search to locate. A full program of illustrations, graphs, and examples helps make the operations and general properties of different classification approaches intuitively understandable.

Offering a lucid presentation of complex applications and their algorithms, Pattern Classification is an invaluable resource for researchers, engineers, and graduate students in this rapidly developing field.

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Offers a theory-based engineering perspective on neural networks and statistical pattern classification. On the way, sheds light on the relationship between apparently unrelated approaches to pattern recognition, including statistical methods, polynomial regression, multilayer perceptron, and radial basis functions. Also discusses such topics as feature selection, reject criteria, classifier performance measurement, and classifier combinations. Most of the examples and applications relate to character recognition. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

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Organizing Change: An Inclusive, Systemic Approach to Maintain Productivity and Achieve Results

Author: Karl J Krayer

Learn how to harness change and use it as a competitive advantage! Organizing Change shows you how to organize and activate a team process to accomplish a successful change initiative throughout your organization. Using the process outlined in this book, your organization will be able to respond quickly yet methodically to your organization's needs while your company maintains, and even increases, productivity and results throughout the change process.

"In Organizing Change Lee and Krayer have taken what most executives regard as consultant candy and transformed it into a science . . . a doable science."
--Joseph F. Carlisle, senior consultant, Training Consulting Softek, Denton, Texas

Written for organizational development consultants, human resources professionals, managers at all levels, and organizational change agents, this important resource is a valuable asset that contains a wealth of tools, ideas, as well as a wide variety of checklists, worksheets, templates, and forms that you can use to assist you in organizing change initiatives.

Table of Contents:

	List of Figures, Exhibits, and Tables
	Preface
	Introduction	1
1	Change and the Growth and Complexity of Organizations	15
2	Introduction to the Model	21
3	Change Agents	29
4	Choosing Committee Members	39
5	Analyzing and Improving Committee Interaction	45
6	Planning	59
7	Assessment	89
8	Analysis	107
9	Design	137
10	Development	159
11	Implementation	171
12	Evaluation	181
13	Gathering Information	203
14	Disseminating Information	225
	Conclusion	235
	References	241
	About the Authors	245
	Index	249
	How to Use the CD-ROM	255