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Advances in Intelligent and Soft Computing: Applications of Soft Computing: Updating the State of the Art (Paperback)

Soft Computing is a complex of methodologies that includes artificial neural networks genetic algorithms fuzzy logic Bayesian networks and their hybrids. It admits approximate reasoning imprecision uncertainty and partial truth in order to mimic the... more

IFIP Advances in Information and Communication Technology: Computer and Computing Technologies in Agriculture II Volume 1: The Second Ifip International Conference on Computer and Computing Technolog

The papers in this volume comprise the refereed proceedings of the Second IFIP International Conference on Computer and Computing Technologies in Agriculture (CCTA2008) in Beijing China 2008. The conference on the Second IFIP International Conference... more

IFIP Advances in Information and Communication Technology: Computer and Computing Technologies in Agriculture II Volume 3: The Second Ifip International Conference on Computer and Computing Technolog

The papers in this volume comprise the refereed proceedings of the Second IFIP International Conference on Computer and Computing Technologies in Agriculture (CCTA2008) in Beijing China 2008. The conference on the Second IFIP International Conference... more

Studies in Computational Intelligence: New Directions in Intelligent Interactive Multimedia Systems and Services - 2 (Hardcover)

Cost-Efficient Development of Virtual Sales Assistants.- Cost-Efficient Development of Virtual Sales Assistants.- Security of Linguistic Threshold Schemes in Multimedia Systems.- Surveillance Camera Tracking of Geo positioned Objects.- Distributed... more

Studies in Computational Intelligence: New Challenges in Computational Collective Intelligence (Hardcover)

Collective intelligence has become one of major research issues studied by today s and future computer science. Computational collective intelligence is understood as this form of group intellectual activity that emerges from collaboration and compe-... more

Advances in Intelligent and Soft Computing: Advances in Intelligent Web Mastering - 2: Proceedings of the 6th Atlantic Web Intelligence Conference - Awic 2009 Prague Czech Republic September 2009

Invited Lectures.- Web Semantization - Design and Principles.- Next Generation SOA: Can SOA Survive Cloud Computing?.- A Dynamic Stochastic Model Applied to the Analysis of the Web User Behavior.- Regular Papers.- Using Wavelet and Multi-wavelet... more

Advances in Intelligent and Soft Computing: Distributed Computing and Artificial Intelligence: 7th International Symposium (Paperback)

The International Symposium on Distributed Computing and Artificial Intel- gence (DCAI´10) is an annual forum that brings together past experience current work and promising future trends associated with distributed computing artificial intelligence... more

Studies in Fuzziness and Soft Computing: Fuzzy Sets and Their Extensions: Representation Aggregation and Models: Intelligent Systems from Decision Making to Data Mining Web Intelligence and Computer

Fuzzy Sets and Their Extensions: Representation Aggregation and Models Intelligent Systems from Decision Making to Data Mining Web Intelligence and Computer Vision Fuzzy sets are now more than 40 years old and have come of age. However the development... more

Advances in Intelligent and Soft Computing: Advances on Practical Applications of Agents and Multiagent Systems: 9th International Conference on Practical Applications of Agents and Multiagent Systems

Advances on Practical Applications of Agents and Multiagent Systems: 9th International Conference on Practical Applications of Agents and Multiagent Systems more

Object-Oriented Software Engineering Using Uml Patterns and Java (Hardcover)

For courses in Software Engineering Software Development or Object-Oriented Design and Analysis at the Junior/Senior or Graduate level. This text can also be utilized in short technical courses or in short intensive management courses. Object-Oriented... more

Image Analysis and Recognition: 5th International Conference Iciar 2008 Póvoa de Varzim Portugal June 25-27 2008 Proceedings (Paperback)

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Image Analysis and Recognition ICIAR 2008 held in Póvoa do Varzim Portugal in June 2008. The 110 revised full papers presented together with 2 invited papers were... more

Studies in Computational Intelligence: Computational Intelligence in Biomedicine and Bioinformatics: Current Trends and Applications (Hardcover)

For the past decade or so Computational Intelligence (CI) has been an - tremely hot topic amongst researchers working in the ?elds of biomedicine and bioinformatics. There are many successful applications of CI in such areas ascomputationalgenomics... more

Transactions on Rough Sets IX (Paperback)

Volume IX of the Transactions on Rough Sets (TRS) provides evidence of the continuing growth of a number of research streams that were either directly or indirectly begun by the seminal work on rough sets by Zdzis law Pawlak (1926- 1 2006)... more

IFIP Advances in Information and Communi Pervasive Collaborative Networks: Ifip Tc 5 Wg 5.5 Ninth Working Conference on Virtual Enterprises September 8-10 2008 Book 283 (Hardcover)

COLLABORATIVE NETWORKS Becoming a pervasive paradigm In recent years the area of collaborative networks is being consolidated as a new discipline (Camarinha-Matos Afsarmanesh 2005) that encompasses and gives more structured support to a large diversity... more

Communications in Computer and Information Science: Leveraging Applications of Formal Methods Verification and Validation: Third International Symposium Isola 2008 Porto Sani Greece October 13-15

This volume contains the conference proceedings of ISoLA 2008 the Third International Symposium on Leveraging Applications of Formal Methods Verification and Validation which was held in Porto Sani (Kassandra Chalkidiki) Greece during October 13-15... more

Advances in Database Systems Quantifiers in Action: Generalized Quantification in Query Logical and Natural Languages Book 37 (Hardcover)

The database industry is a multi-billion world-wide all-encompassing part of the software world. Quantifiers in Action: Generalized Quantification in Query Logical and Natural Languages introduces a query language called GQs--Generalized Quantification... more

Texts in Theoretical Computer Science. an Eatcs: Graphs and Algorithms in Communication Networks: Studies in Broadband Optical Wireless and AD Hoc Networks (Hardcover)

Algorithmic discrete mathematics plays a key role in the development of information and communication technologies and methods that arise in computer science mathematics and operations research - in particular in algorithms computational complexity... more

Studies in Computational Intelligence: Foundations of Computational Intelligence Volume 2: Approximate Reasoning (Hardcover)

Foundations of Computational Intelligence Volume 2: Approximation Reasoning: Theoretical Foundations and Applications Human reasoning usually is very approximate and involves various types of - certainties. Approximate reasoning is the computational... more

IFIP Advances in Information and Communication Technology: History of Nordic Computing 2: Second IFIP WG 9.7 Conference HiNC 2 Turku Finland August 21-23 2007 Revised Selected Papers (Hardcover)

The First Conference on the History of Nordic Computing (HiNC1) was organized in Trondheim in June 2003. The HiNC1 event focused on the early years of computing that is the years from the 1940s through the 1960s although it formally extended to year... more

Human-Computer Interaction--INTERACT 2009 (Paperback)

INTERACT 2009 was the 12th of a series of INTERACT international c- ferences supported by the IFIP Technical Committee 13 on Human-Computer Interaction. This year INTERACT washeld in Uppsala (Sweden) organizedby the Swedish Interdisciplinary Interest... more

Medical Image Computing and Computer-Assisted Intervention -- Miccai 2009: 12th International Conference London Uk September 20-24 2009 Proceedings Part I (Paperback)

The two-volume set LNCS 5761 and LNCS 5762 constitute the refereed proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Medical Image Computing and Computer-Assisted Intervention MICCAI 2009 held in London UK in September 2009. Based on rigorous peer... more

Visual Informatics: Bridging Research and Practice: First International Visual Informatics Conference IVIC 2009 Kuala Lumpur Malaysia November 11-13 2009 Proceedings (Paperback)

Visual informatics is a field of interest not just among the information technology and computer science community but also other related fields such as engineering me- cal and health informatics and education starting in the early 1990s. Recently the... more

Computational Collective Intelligence: Semantic Web Social Networks and Multiagent Systems: First International Conference ICCCI 2009 Wroclaw Poland October 5-7 2009 Proceedings (Paperback)

Computational collective intelligence (CCI) is most often understood as a subfield of artificial intelligence (AI) dealing with soft computing methods that enable group decisions to be made or knowledge to be processed among autonomous units acting in... more

IFIP Advances in Information and Communi Database Security XI: Status and Prospects (Hardcover)

This book aims to discuss in depth the current state of research and practice in database security. It documents progress and provides researchers and students with a broad perspective of recent developments in what is recognised as a key topic in... more

Smart Innovation Systems and Technologies: Intelligent Interactive Multimedia Systems and Services (Hardcover)

KES International (KES) is a worldwide organisation that provides a professional community and association for researchers originally in the discipline of Kno- edge Based and Intelligent Engineering Systems but now extending into other related areas.... more

Communications in Computer and Information Science: Networked Digital Technologies Part II: Second International Conference Ndt 2010 Prague Czech Republic July 7-9 2010 Proceedings (Paperback)

On behalf of the NDT 2010 conference the Program Committee and Charles University in Prague Czech Republic we welcome you to the proceedings of the Second International Conference on Networked Digital Technologies (NDT 2010). The NDT 2010 conference... more

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Handbook of Natural Language Processing and Machine Translation: Darpa Global Autonomous Language Exploitation (Hardcover)

This comprehensive handbook written by leading experts in the field details the groundbreaking research conducted under the breakthrough GALE program--The Global Autonomous Language Exploitation within the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency... more

Studies in Computational Intelligence: Technology-Enhanced Systems and Tools for Collaborative Learning Scaffolding (Hardcover)

Technology-enhanced systems and computer-aided tools that support scaffolding in collaborative learning are key goals in the education research sector. This book covers a number of approaches to fostering functional collaborative learning and working... more

Intelligent Systems Reference Library: Data Mining: Concepts Models and Techniques (Hardcover)

Offering a self-contained introduction to data mining this book presents the concepts models and techniques for data mining in a well organized style. Both theoretical concepts and especially practical techniques of this exciting field are provided. more

Advances in Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition: Statistical Learning and Pattern Analysis for Image and Video Processing (Hardcover)

Why are We Writing This Book? Visual data (graphical image video and visualized data) affect every aspect of modern society. The cheap collection storage and transmission of vast amounts of visual data have revolutionized the practice of science... more

Knowledge-Based Intelligent Information and Engineering Systems: 12th International Conference KES 2008 Zagreb Croatia September 3-5 2008 Proceedings Part III (Paperback)

The three volume set LNAI 5177 LNAI 5178 and LNAI 5179 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Knowledge-Based Intelligent Information and Engineering Systems KES 2008 held in Zagreb Croatia in September 2008. The... more

Grid and Services Evolution: Proceedings of the 3rd CoreGRID Workshop on Grid Middleware June 5-6 2008 Barcelona Spa (Hardcover)

Grids are a crucial enabling technology for scientific and industrial development. Grid and Services Evolution the 11th edited volume of the CoreGRID series was based on The CoreGRID Middleware Workshop held in Barcelona Spain June 5-6 2008. Grid and... more

Advances in Computers Advances in Computers: Social Net Working and the Web Volume 76 Book 76 (Hardcover)

This is volume 76 of the Advances in Computers. Since 1960 annual volumes are produced containing chapters by some of the leading experts in the field of computers today. For almost 50 years these volumes present ideas and developments that are... more

Studies in Computational Intelligence: Foundations of Computational Intelligence: Volume 6: Data Mining (Hardcover)

Foundations of Computational Intelligence Volume 6: Data Mining: Theoretical Foundations and Applications Finding information hidden in data is as theoretically difficult as it is practically important. With the objective of discovering unknown... more

Advances in Data Analysis Data Handling and Business Intelligence: Proceedings of the 32nd Annual Conference of the Gesellschaft fr Klassifikation e

Advances in Data Analysis Data Handling and Business Intelligence: Proceedings of the 32nd Annual Conference of the Gesellschaft Für Klassifikation E.V. Joint Conference with the British Classification Society (Bcs) and the Dutch/Flemish... more

Human-Computer Interaction - INTERACT 2009: 12th IFIP TC 13 International Conference Uppsala Sweden August 24-28 2009 Proceedings Part II (Paperback)

INTERACT 2009 was the 12th of a series of INTERACT international c- ferences supported by the IFIP Technical Committee 13 on Human-Computer Interaction. This year INTERACT washeld in Uppsala (Sweden) organizedby the Swedish Interdisciplinary Interest... more

Advances in Computers Advances in Computers: Improving the Web Volume 78 Book 78 (Hardcover)

This is volume 78 of Advances in Computers. This series which began publication in 1960 is the oldest continuously published anthology that chronicles the ever- changing information technology field. In these volumes we publish from 5 to 7 chapters... more