本书涵盖了五类重要的智能算法：搜索、推荐、聚类、分类和分类器组合，并结合具体的案例讨论了它们在Web应用中的角色及要注意的问题。除了第1章的概要性介绍以及第7章对所有技术的整合应用外，第2～6章以代码示例的形式分别对这五类算法进行了介绍。<br />本书面向的是广大普通读者，特别是对算法感兴趣的工程师与学生，所以对于读者的知识背景并没有过多的要求。本书中的例子和思想应用广泛，所以对于希望从业务角度更好地理解有关技术的技术经理、产品经理和管理层来说，本书也有一定的价值。

Haralambos (Babis) Marmanis 博士是一个把机器学习技术应用于工业界的先行者，也是供应管理的世界级专家。Dmitry Babenko曾经为银行、保险、供应链管理与商务智能公司设计过应用与基础架构。
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Dr. Haralambos (Babis) Marmanis is a pioneer in the adoption of machine learning techniques for industrial solutions, and also a world expert in supply management. He has about twenty years of experience in developing professional software. Currently, he is the director of R&D and chief architect, for expense management solutions, at Emptoris, Inc. Babis holds a Ph.D. in applied mathematics from Brown University, an M.S. degree in theoretical and applied mechanics from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and B.S. and M.S. degrees in civil engineering from the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki in Greece. He was the recipient of the Sigma Xi award for innovative research in 2000, and he is the author of numerous publications in peer-reviewed international scientific journals, conferences, and technical periodicals.
Dmitry Babenko is the lead for the data warehouse infrastructure at Emptoris, Inc. He is a software engineer and architect with 13 years of experience in the IT industry. He has designed and built a wide variety of applications and infrastructure frameworks for banking, insurance, supply-chain management, and business intelligence companies. He received a M.S. degree in computer science from Belarussian State University of Informatics and Radioelectronics.