Rule based systems for big data: a machine learning approach

摘要

This monograph, authored by researchers at the University of Portsmouth, deals with specific issues of their research on rule-based systems for big data. The preface of the book ingeniously opens with a quote from the legendary The art of war by Sun Tzu, which uses the metaphor of unshaped water to describe the non-constant conditions of war. The allegory is twofold here: on the one hand, there is the huge variability and complexity of big data flows, like water shapes; on the other hand, there are the efforts to discipline the data in order to learn from it, a task that is essentially a battle of knowledge against uncertainty and ignorance. Under this perspective, the choice of researchers to equip their arsenal with learning and rule-based methodologies is absolutely justified. And this is exactly the aim of the book: to review the advances of these methodologies, as a short manual of weapons and tactics against big data complexity.