**Meet the editor**

Dr. Ciza Thomas is currently working as professor and head of Electronics and Communication Department of the College of Engineering, Trivandrum, India. Her area of expertise is network security with research interest in the fields of information security, data mining, sensor fusion, pattern recognition, information retrieval, digital signal processing, and image processing. She has pub-

lished more than 40 international journal articles and international conference proceedings and 50 national conference publications. She has edited five books and published six book chapters. She is a reviewer of more than 10 reputed international journals including IEEE transactions on Signal Processing, IEEE transactions on Neural Networks, International Journal of Network Security, International Journal of Network Management, and IEEE-John Wiley International Journal on Security and Communications Network. She is a recipient of an achievement award in 2010 and the e-learning IT award in 2014 from the Government of Kerala.

Contents

**Preface VII**

**Techniques 17** Sien Chen

**Patients 93**

**Successful Aging 107**

**in Health Care 125** Manaswini Pradhan

**Data Mining Methods 35**

Chapter 1 **Ensemble Methods in Environmental Data Mining 1** Goksu Tuysuzoglu, Derya Birant and Aysegul Pala

Chapter 2 **Estimating Customer Lifetime Value Using Machine Learning**

Chapter 3 **Determination and Classification of Crew Productivity with**

Chapter 5 **Performance-Aware High-Performance Computing for Remote**

**Laboratory Tests and Predictive Models in Critically Ill**

Vesa Salminen, Päivi Sanerma, Seppo Niittymäki and Patrick Eklund

Sven Van Poucke, Ana Kovacevic and Milan Vukicevic

Chapter 7 **Semantic Infrastructure for Service Environment Supporting**

Chapter 8 **Adaptive Neural Network Classifier-Based Analysis of Big Data**

Abdullah Emre Keleş and Mümine Kaya Keleş

Mustafa Kemal Pektürk and Muhammet Ünal

Chapter 6 **Early Prediction of Patient Mortality Based on Routine**

Chapter 4 **Mining HCI Data for Theory of Mind Induction 47** Oksana Arnold and Klaus P. Jantke

**Sensing Big Data Analytics 69**
