Jair Merlo, Accenture, Sao Paulo, Brazil Excerpts from full review posted Oct 12 2012 to Computing Reviews [Review #: CR140595 (1302-0087)] ...In spite of the spectrum of subjects and diversity of authors, the book's editors have been extremely successful in providing coherent and integrated content... After a thorough depiction of the theoretical state of the art in behavior modeling, chapter 4 offers a gold mine for practitioners: a semi-Markovian algorithm for user behavior analysis that is very easy to grasp, even for novices, and implemented in ActiveX... Part 4 continues to explore applications of behavior computing with a plethora of diverse cases that illustrate the importance of this novice discipline. The book provides valuable knowledge for both academia and industry.