Data Mining in Public and Private Sectors: Organizational and Government Applications

Meant for those in government agencies, practicing managers, and academicians, this volume details how data mining can be used at various levels of management. Syvajarvi (administrative science, Lapland U., Finland) and Stenvall (U. of Tampere, Finland) bring together computer and information science, management, political science, and other specialists from Europe, Australia, the US, and China, who discuss the use of data mining in performance measurement, local governments, long-term care systems, and public service productivity in day care; issues like privacy and security, data retention, and validity; uses to prepare and forecast in different organizations; uses in business network research, evidence-based practice, project management, and knowledge discovery; and topics like fuzzy decision trees. Annotation c2010 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)