The Second Hidden Peak Symposium on Computer-Enhanced Analytical
Spectroscopy, held in June, 1988, at the Snowbird Resort (Salt Lake
City, Utah), centered around twelve keynote lectures delivered by some
of the foremost experts and pioneers in this rapidly expanding field.
The editor is highly indebted to each of these colleagues for
contributing a chapter to the second volume of Computer-Enhanced
Analytical Spec- troscopy. The primary objective of this volume is to
present a repre- sentative cross-section of current activities in the
field while balancing out the lighter coverage of some topics and areas
in Volume 1. An exciting new topic, remote IR sensing, is covered in
Chapters 4 and 5. Deconvolution and signal-processing methods have now
been extended to UV/VIS (Chapter 1) and GC/MS (Chapter 3) applications.
Furthermore, the development and testing of novel factor analysis
techniques in the areas of UV /VIS and IR spectroscopy are discussed in
Chapters 2 and 12, respectively. Fundamental aspects of library search
techniques are presented in Chapters 7 (MS) and 9 (NMR). Chapters 6, 10,
and 11 cover selected uses of expert systems in NMR, IR, and MS,
respectively. Finally, an integrated expert system approach to the
interpretation of GC/IR/MS data is outlined in Chapter 8. In an attempt
to facilitate access to the various topics for the newcomer to the
field, the twelve chapters have been organized into two main parts:
Unsupervised Methods: Spectral Enhancement, Deconvolu- tion, and Data
Reduction, and Supervised Methods: Expert Systems, Modeling, and
Quantitation.
