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Ada Page(s): 8 Title Number(s): 1 ~ 2
Agents, Multi-Agents Page(s): 8 ~ 24 Title Number(s): 3 ~ 37
AI & Abduction Page(s): 24 Title Number(s): 38
AI & Air Traffic Control Systems Page(s): 25 Title Number(s): 39
AI & Aircrafts Page(s): 25 Title Number(s): 40
AI & Agriculture Page(s): 25 ~ 26 Title Number(s): 41 ~ 42
AI Algorithm Page(s): 26 ~ 26 Title Number(s): 43 ~ 44
AI & Animation of Movies Page(s): 27 Title Number(s): 45
AI & Anthropology Page(s): 27 ~ 28 Title Number(s): 46 ~ 47
AI & Applications Page(s): 28 ~ 30 Title Number(s): 48 ~ 56
AI & Arms Control Page(s): 31 Title Number(s): 57
AI & Art Page(s): 31 Title Number(s): 58
AI & Automobiles Page(s): 32 ~ 32 Title Number(s): 59 ~ 60
AI & Behavior Page(s): 32 Title Number(s): 61
AI & Biology Page(s): 33 ~ 38 Title Number(s): 62 ~ 72
AI & Business Applications Page(s): 38 ~ 42 Title Number(s): 73 ~ 83
AI & Chaos Page(s): 43 Title Number(s): 84
AI & Chemistry Page(s): 43 ~ 45 Title Number(s): 85 ~ 89
AI & Common Sense Page(s): 45 ~ 46 Title Number(s): 90 ~ 93
AI & Complexity Page(s): 47 ~ 49 Title Number(s): 94 ~ 99
AI & Computer Science Page(s): 49 Title Number(s): 100
AI & Computing Page(s): 50 ~ 50 Title Number(s): 101 ~ 103
AI & Consciousness Page(s): 51 Title Number(s): 104
AI & Control Systems Page(s): 51 ~ 53 Title Number(s): 105 ~ 108
AI & Cooperation Page(s): 53 ~ 54 Title Number(s): 109 ~ 112
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AI & Cyber-Societies Page(s): 56 Title Number(s): 116
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AI in Diagnosis Page(s): 58 Title Number(s): 121
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AI Dictionary Page(s): 59 Title Number(s): 123
AI in Education Page(s): 59 ~ 62 Title Number(s): 124 ~ 132
AI & Emotions Page(s): 62 ~ 64 Title Number(s): 133 ~ 137
AI & Empirical Methods Page(s): 65 ~ 66 Title Number(s): 138 ~ 140
AI Encyclopedia Page(s): 66 Title Number(s): 141
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AI & Evolution Page(s): 74 ~ 81 Title Number(s): 162 ~ 179
AI Future Page(s): 82 ~ 85 Title Number(s): 180 ~ 187
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AI in Hazardous Settings Page(s): 101 Title Number(s): 223
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AI & Human Page(s): 109 ~ 130 Title Number(s): 242 ~ 292
AI & its Impact Page(s): 131 ~ 132 Title Number(s): 293 ~ 295
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AI Introduction Page(s): 135 ~ 144 Title Number(s): 304 ~ 329
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AI in Medical Field Page(s): 156 ~ 158 Title Number(s): 359 ~ 365
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AI Programming Page(s): 172 ~ 175 Title Number(s): 402 ~ 409
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AI as Second Language Page(s): 183 Title Number(s): 430
AI & Security Page(s): 184 ~ 186 Title Number(s): 431 ~ 438
AI & Self-Checking Page(s): 187 Title Number(s): 439
AI & Self-Replication Page(s): 187 ~ 188 Title Number(s): 440 ~ 441
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AI & Skins Page(s): 189 Title Number(s): 444
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AI & Theorem Proving Page(s): 193 Title Number(s): 456
AI & Thermal Systems Page(s): 194 Title Number(s): 457
AI Today Page(s): 194 ~ 197 Title Number(s): 458 ~ 466
AI & Transportation Page(s): 198 Title Number(s): 467
AI & Trust Page(s): 198 Title Number(s): 468
AI & Uncertainty Page(s): 199 ~ 202 Title Number(s): 469 ~ 476
AI & Visual Computing, Visual Motion Page(s): 202 ~ 204
Title Number(s): 477 ~ 480
AI & Water Treatment Plant Page(s): 204 Title Number(s): 481
AI & Web Page(s): 204 ~ 205 Title Number(s): 482 ~ 483
Ambient Intelligence Page(s): 205 ~ 205 Title Number(s): 484 ~ 485
Artificial Life Page(s): 206 ~ 208 Title Number(s): 486 ~ 492
Automatic Diatom Page(s): 209 Title Number(s): 493
Bayesian Networks Page(s): 209 ~ 212 Title Number(s): 494 ~ 499
Bioinformatics Page(s): 212 ~ 213 Title Number(s): 500 ~ 503
Blackboard Systems Page(s): 214 ~ 214 Title Number(s): 504 ~ 506
Causal Structure Page(s): 215 Title Number(s): 507
Cellular Automata Page(s): 215 ~ 216 Title Number(s): 508 ~ 511
Cognition Page(s): 217 ~ 227 Title Number(s): 512 ~ 534
Conceptual Modeling Page(s): 227 Title Number(s): 535
Constraints Processing Page(s): 228 ~ 230 Title Number(s): 536 ~ 541
Cybernetics Page(s): 230 ~ 232 Title Number(s): 542 ~ 546
Cyborgs Page(s): 232 ~ 234 Title Number(s): 547 ~ 551
Data Mining Page(s): 234 ~ 247 Title Number(s): 552 ~ 579
Distributed AI Page(s): 247 ~ 248 Title Number(s): 580 ~ 583
Emergence Page(s): 248 Title Number(s): 584
Estimation Page(s): 249 Title Number(s): 585
Expert Systems Page(s): 250 ~ 265 Title Number(s): 586 ~ 630
Face Recognition Page(s): 265 Title Number(s): 631
Finite Model Page(s): 265 Title Number(s): 632
Frames Page(s): 266 Title Number(s): 633
Freeware for AI Page(s): 266 Title Number(s): 634
Fuzzy Logic Page(s): 267 ~ 282 Title Number(s): 635 ~ 669
Genetic Algorithms Page(s): 282 ~ 290 Title Number(s): 670 ~ 687
Heuristics Page(s): 291 ~ 292 Title Number(s): 688 ~ 692
Hidden Markov Models Page(s): 292 ~ 293 Title Number(s): 693 ~ 694
Image Processing Page(s): 293 ~ 295 Title Number(s): 695 ~ 698
Informatics Page(s): 295 Title Number(s): 699
Information Visualization Page(s): 295 ~ 296 Title Number(s): 700 ~ 701
Knowledge Bases Page(s): 297 ~ 298 Title Number(s): 702 ~ 706
Knowledge Engineering Page(s): 298 Title Number(s): 707
Knowledge Management Page(s): 298 ~ 301 Title Number(s): 708 ~ 713
Knowledge Modeling Page(s): 301 Title Number(s): 714
Knowledge Representation Page(s): 302 ~ 306 Title Number(s): 715 ~ 724
Knowledge Reasoning Page(s): 306 Title Number(s): 725
Knowledge Systems Page(s): 306 Title Number(s): 726
Language Processing Page(s): 307 ~ 320 Title Number(s): 727 ~ 757
LISP Page(s): 321 ~ 324 Title Number(s): 758 ~ 767
Logic Page(s): 324 ~ 331 Title Number(s): 768 ~ 785
Machine Learning Page(s): 331 ~ 344 Title Number(s): 786 ~ 815
Membrane Computing Page(s): 344 Title Number(s): 816
Memetic Algorithms Page(s): 345 Title Number(s): 817
Message Passing Interface Page(s): 345 Title Number(s): 818
Molecular Computing Page(s): 346 Title Number(s): 819
Neural Networks Page(s): 346 ~ 366 Title Number(s): 820 ~ 867
Neuroscience Page(s): 366 ~ 367 Title Number(s): 868 ~ 869
Ontology Page(s): 367 ~ 368 Title Number(s): 870 ~ 873
Optical Character Recognition Page(s): 369 Title Number(s): 874
Parallel Virtual Machines Page(s): 369 Title Number(s): 875
Pattern Recognition Page(s): 370 ~ 371 Title Number(s): 876 ~ 880
Perceptrons Page(s): 372 Title Number(s): 881
Persuasive Technology Page(s): 372 Title Number(s): 882
Planning Page(s): 373 ~ 375 Title Number(s): 883 ~ 888
Probabilistic Reasoning Page(s): 376 Title Number(s): 889
Prolog Page(s): 376 ~ 380 Title Number(s): 890 ~ 902
Quantum Computing, Effects Page(s): 381 Title Number(s): 903 ~ 904
Robotics Page(s): 381 ~ 406 Title Number(s): 905 ~ 960
Searle's "Chinese Room" Page(s): 406 Title Number(s): 961
Semantics Web Page(s): 407 ~ 408 Title Number(s): 962 ~ 964
Signal Processing Page(s): 408 Title Number(s): 965
Speech Recognition Page(s): 409 ~ 411 Title Number(s): 966 ~ 971
Stochastic Optimization Page(s): 411 ~ 412 Title Number(s): 972 ~ 974
Support Vector Machines Page(s): 413 ~ 414 Title Number(s): 975 ~ 977
Swarm Intelligence Page(s): 414 ~ 414 Title Number(s): 978 ~ 979
Term Indexing Page(s): 415 Title Number(s): 980
Turing, Alan Page(s): 415 ~ 419 Title Number(s): 981 ~ 987
Tutoring Systems Page(s): 419 ~ 421 Title Number(s): 988 ~ 995
Vector Machine Page(s): 422 Title Number(s): 996
Virtual Reality Page(s): 422 ~ 423 Title Number(s): 997 ~ 1000
Weather Prediction Page(s): 424 Title Number(s): 1001
Method used to Compile this AI Book List Page(s): 424
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Title #1: Artificial Intelligence With Ada
Edition: First Edition
ISBN Number: 0070033501
Number of Pages: 361
Author(s): Louis Baker
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Companies
Date: May, 1989
Category: Artificial Intelligence With Ada
Abstract / Synopsis: Information Unavailable
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Title #2: Artificial intelligence in ADA: Pattern-directed processing
Edition: First Edition
ISBN Number: B00070V4EE
Number of Pages: Information Unavailable
Author(s): Larry H Reeker
Publisher: Tulane University
Date: 1985
Category: Artificial intelligence in ADA: Pattern-directed processing
Abstract / Synopsis: Information Unavailable
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Title #3: Constructing Intelligent Agents Using Java: Professional
Developer's Guide, 2nd Edition, Paperback
Edition: 2nd edition
ISBN Number: 047139601X
Number of Pages: 432
Author(s): Joseph P. Bigus
Publisher: Wiley
Date: March 13, 2001
Category: A state-of-the-art guide on how to build intelligent Web-based applications using Java and AI technologies such as fuzzy logic and genetic algorithms
Abstract / Synopsis: A state-of-the-art guide on how to build intelligent Web-based applications using Java. Joseph and Jennifer Bigus update and significantly expand their book on building intelligent Web-based applications using Java. Geared to network programmers or Web developers who have previously programmed agents in Smalltalk or C++, this practical book explains in detail how to construct agents capable of learning and competing, including both design principles and actual code for personal agents, network or Web agents, multi-agent systems and commercial agents. New and revised coverage includes agent tools, agent uses for Web applications (including personalization, cross-selling, and e-commerce), and additional AI technologies such as fuzzy logic and genetic algorithms.
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Title #4: Introduction to MultiAgent Systems, Paperback
Edition: First Edition
ISBN Number: 047149691X
Number of Pages: 256
Author(s): Michael Wooldridge
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Date: June 12, 2002
Category: Multi-agent systems
Abstract / Synopsis: This is the first textbook to be explicitly designed for use as a course text for an undergraduate/graduate course on multi-agent systems. Assuming only a basic understanding of computer science, this text provides an introduction to all the main issues in the theory and practice of intelligent agents and multi-agent systems.
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Title #5: Multiagent Systems: A Modern Approach to Distributed
Artificial Intelligence, Paperback
Edition: First Edition
ISBN Number: 0262731312
Number of Pages: 648
Author(s): Gerhard Weiss
Publisher: The MIT Press
Date: July 31, 2000
Category: Multiagent systems
Abstract / Synopsis: This is the first comprehensive introduction to multiagent systems and contemporary distributed artificial intelligence that is suitable as a textbook. The book provides detailed coverage of basic topics as well as several closely related ones. Unlike traditional textbooks, the book brings together many leading experts, guaranteeing a broad and diverse base of knowledge and expertise. It emphasizes aspects of both theory and application, and provides many illustrations and examples. Also included are thought-provoking exercises of varying degrees of difficulty and a twenty-page glossary of terms found in the study of agents, multiagent systems, and distributed artificial intelligence. The book can be used for teaching as well as self-study, and is designed to meet the needs of both researchers and practitioners. In view of the interdisciplinary nature of the field, it will be a useful reference not only for computer scientists and engineers, but for social scientists and management and organization scientists as well.
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Title #6: Artificial Intelligence : A New Synthesis
Edition: First Edition
ISBN Number: 1558604677
Number of Pages: 513
Author(s): Nils J. Nilsson
Publisher: Morgan Kaufmann
Date: April 1, 1998
Category: Intelligent agents
Abstract / Synopsis: Intelligent agents are employed as the central characters in this new introductory text. Beginning with elementary reactive agents, Nilsson gradually increases their cognitive horsepower to illustrate the most important and lasting ideas in AI. Neural networks, genetic programming, computer vision, heuristic search, knowledge representation and reasoning, Bayes networks, planning, and language understanding are each revealed through the growing capabilities of these agents. The book provides a refreshing and motivating new synthesis of the field by one of AI's master expositors and leading researchers. Artificial Intelligence: A New Synthesis takes the reader on a complete tour of this intriguing new world of AI.
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Title #7: Methodologies and Software Engineering for Agent Systems :
The Agent-Oriented Software Engineering Handbook
(Multiagent Systems, Artificial Societies, and Simulated
Organizations)
Edition: First Edition
ISBN Number: 1402080573
Number of Pages: 506
Author(s): Federico Bergenti
Publisher: Springer
Date: June 30, 2004
Category: Development of complex Multiagent Systems
Abstract / Synopsis: With increasing acceptance of agent-based computing, a great deal of new research related to the identification and definition of suitable models, and techniques to support the development of complex Multiagent Systems (MAS) has emerged. This research generally identified as Agent-Oriented Software Engineering (AOSE), continually proposes new metaphors, new formal modeling approaches and techniques, and new developement methodologies and tools. The contributions in Methodology and Software Engineering for Agent Systems, written by leading international researchers, bring together these diverse research results and proposals. The book is separated into six parts, providing the reader with introductory material, concepts and techniques that already provide results for practical use, and research that is still more investigative in nature.
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Title #8: Understanding Agent Systems (Springer Series on Agent
Technology)
Edition: First Edition
ISBN Number: 3540407006
Number of Pages: 240
Author(s): Mark d'Inverno, Michael Luck
Publisher: Springer
Date: December 5, 2003
Category: Diverse landscape of agent-based systems
Abstract / Synopsis: This book helps to organize the diverse landscape of agent-based systems by applying formal methods to provide a defining and encompassing agent framework. The Z specification language is used to provide an accessible and unified formal account of agent systems and inter-agent relationships. In particular, the framework precisely and unambiguously provides meanings for common concepts and terms for agent systems, enables alternative agent models and architectures to be described within it, and provides a foundation for subsequent development of increasingly more refined agent concepts. It describes agents, the relationships between them and the requisite capabilities for effective functioning in multi-agent systems, and is applied in different case studies. In the second edition the authors have revised and updated the existing chapters of the book to respond to advice from readers of the first edition, to add references to recent work in agent systems, and generally to bring the content up to date. They have extended the introduction and conclusions chapters to include a better review of the field and the current state-of-the-art. This new edition features chapters on agent interaction and norms, and outlines an implementation framework. The book will appeal equally to researchers, students and technologists interested in intelligent agents and multi-agent systems.
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Title #9: Computational Intelligence: A Logical Approach
Edition: First Edition
ISBN Number: 0195102703
Number of Pages: 558
Author(s): David Poole
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Date: January 1998
Category: Intelligent agent acting in its environment
Abstract / Synopsis: Computational Intelligence: A Logical Approach provides a unique and integrated introduction to artificial intelligence. It weaves a unifying theme--an intelligent agent acting in its environment-- through the core issues of AI, placing them into a coherent framework. Rather than giving a surface treatment of an overwhelming number of topics, it covers fundamental concepts in depth, providing a foundation on which students can build an understanding of modern AI. This logical approach clarifies and integrates representation and reasoning fundamentals, leading students from simple to complex ideas with clear motivation. The authors develop AI representation schemes and describe their uses for diverse applications, from autonomous robots to diagnostic assistants to infobots that find information in rich information sources. Ideal for upper-level undergraduate and introductory graduate courses in artificial intelligence, Computational Intelligence encourages students to explore, implement, and experiment with a series of progressively richer representations that capture the essential features of more and more demanding tasks and environments.
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Title #10: Developing Intelligent Agent Systems : A Practical Guide
(Wiley Series in Agent Technology)
Edition: First Edition
ISBN Number: 0470861207
Number of Pages: 240
Author(s): Lin Padgham, Michael Winikoff
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Date: August 1, 2004
Category: Methodology and tools for developing intelligent agent systems
Abstract / Synopsis: Intelligent agent technology is a tool of modern computer science that can be used to engineer complex computer programs that behave rationally in dynamic and changing environments. Applications range from small programs that intelligently search the Web buying and selling goods via electronic commerce, to autonomous space probes. This powerful technology is not widely used, however, as developing intelligent agent software requires high levels of training and skill. The authors of this book have developed and tested a methodology and tools for developing intelligent agent systems. With this methodology (Prometheus) developers can start agent-oriented designs and implementations easily from scratch saving valuable time and resources. Developing Intelligent Agent Systems not only answers the questions “what are agents?” and “why are they useful?” but also the crucial question: “how do I design and build intelligent agent systems?” The book covers everything a practitioner needs to know to begin to effectively use this technology - including an introduction to the notion of agents, a description of the concepts involved, and a software engineering methodology.
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Title #11: Reasoning about Rational Agents (Intelligent Robotics and
Autonomous Agents)
Edition: First Edition
ISBN Number: 0262232138
Number of Pages: 241
Author(s): Michael Wooldridge
Publisher: The MIT Press
Date: July 14, 2000
Category: Belief-desire-intention (BDI) model of rational agents
Abstract / Synopsis: One goal of modern computer science is to engineer computer programs that can act as autonomous, rational agents; software that can independently make good decisions about what actions to perform on our behalf and execute those actions. Applications range from small programs that intelligently search the Web buying and selling goods via electronic commerce, to autonomous space probes. This book focuses on the belief-desire-intention (BDI) model of rational agents, which recognizes the primacy of beliefs, desires, and intentions in rational action. The BDI model has three distinct strengths: an underlying philosophy based on practical reasoning in humans, a software architecture that is implementable in real systems, and a family of logics that support a formal theory of rational agency. The book introduces a BDI logic called LORA (Logic of Rational Agents). In addition to the BDI component, LORA contains a temporal component, which allows one to represent the dynamics of how agents and their environments change over time, and an action component, which allows one to represent the actions that agents perform and the effects of the actions. The book shows how LORA can be used to capture many components of a theory of rational agency, including such notions as communication and cooperation.
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Title #12: Software Agents, Paperback
Edition: First Edition
ISBN Number: 0262522349
Number of Pages: 480
Author(s): Jeffrey M. Bradshaw
Publisher: AAAI Press
Date: April 18, 1997
Category: Software agents
Abstract / Synopsis: Future software will not merely respond to requests for information, but will anticipate the user's needs and actively seek ways to support the user. These systems will also manage cooperation among distributed programs. To describe the many roles of such software, researchers use the term agent. The essays in Software Agents, by leading researchers and developers of agent-based systems, address both the state-of-the-art of agent technology and its likely evolution in the near future. The introductory chapters in Part I present the views of proponents and a critic of software agents. The chapters in Part II describe how agents are used to enhance learning and provide intelligent assistance to users in situations where traditional direct manipulation interfaces alone are insufficient. The chapters of Part III discuss agent-to-agent communication and the use of agents to provide intelligent interoperability in distributed systems and the Internet.
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Title #13: Multiagent Systems for Manufacturing Control
Edition: First Edition
ISBN Number: 3540209247
Number of Pages: 300
Author(s): Stefan Bussmann
Publisher: Springer
Date: July 16, 2004
Category: This book presents a novel approach to the design of manufacturing control systems, based around the idea of agents, semiautonomous decision makers that cooperate to process goods and meet orders.
Abstract / Synopsis: The ability of production companies to rapidly develop and deploy effective and efficient control systems is critical for success in the consumer-driven environment of contemporary manufacturing. This book presents a novel approach to the design of manufacturing control systems, based around the idea of agents, semiautonomous decision makers that cooperate to process goods and meet orders. This new methodology is DACS – Designing Agent-based Control Systems. Developed at DaimlerChrysler’s research labs in Berlin, DACS is the first methodology specifically produced for the design of agent-based control systems. Beginning with a detailed overview of agent technologies, manufacturing control, and design methodologies, the book explains the DACS methodology and illustrates it by way of detailed case studies. The book will be of interest to researchers and practitioners in agent systems, manufacturing control, and software methodologies.
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Title #14: Embodied Conversational Agents
Edition: First Edition
ISBN Number: 0262032783
Number of Pages: 438
Author(s): Justine Cassell
Publisher: The MIT Press
Date: April 3, 2000
Category: Book describes research in all aspects of the design, implementation, and evaluation of embodied conversational agents as well as details of specific working systems
Abstract / Synopsis: Embodied conversational agents are computer-generated cartoonlike characters that demonstrate many of the same properties as humans in face-to-face conversation, including the ability to produce and respond to verbal and nonverbal communication. They constitute a type of (a) multimodal interface where the modalities are those natural to human conversation: speech, facial displays, hand gestures, and body stance; (b) software agent, insofar as they represent the computer in an interaction with a human or represent their human users in a computational environment (as avatars, for example); and (c) dialogue system where both verbal and nonverbal devices advance and regulate the dialogue between the user and the computer. With an embodied conversational agent, the visual dimension of interacting with an animated character on a screen plays an intrinsic role. Not just pretty pictures, the graphics display visual features of conversation in the same way that the face and hands do in face-to-face conversation among humans. This book describes research in all aspects of the design, implementation, and evaluation of embodied conversational agents as well as details of specific working systems. Many of the chapters are written by multidisciplinary teams of psychologists, linguists, computer scientists, artists, and researchers in interface design.
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Title #15: Computational Theories of Interaction and Agency (Artificial
Intelligence), Paperback
Edition: First Edition
ISBN Number: 0262510901
Number of Pages: 650
Author(s): Philip E. Agre, Stanley J. Rosenschein
Publisher: The MIT Press
Date: June 12, 1996
Category: Book brings together fundamental work by the top researchers in artificial intelligence, neural networks, computer science, robotics, and cognitive science on the themes of interaction and agency
Abstract / Synopsis: Over time the field of artificial intelligence has developed an "agent perspective" expanding its focus from thought to action, from search spaces to physical environments, and from problem-solving to long-term activity. Originally published as a special double volume of the journal Artificial Intelligence, this book brings together fundamental work by the top researchers in artificial intelligence, neural networks, computer science, robotics, and cognitive science on the themes of interaction and agency. It identifies recurring themes and outlines a methodology of the concept of "agency." The seventeen contributions cover the construction of principled characterizations of interactions between agents and their environments, as well as the use of these characterizations to guide analysis of existing agents and the synthesis of artificial agents.
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Title #16: Agent-Oriented Programming : From Prolog to Guarded
Definite Clauses (Lecture Notes in Computer Science / Lecture
Notes in Artificial Intelligence), Paperback
Edition: First Edition
ISBN Number: 3540666834
Number of Pages: 386
Author(s): Matthew M. Huntbach, Graem A. Ringwood
Publisher: Springer
Date: December 10, 1999
Category: Systematic development of the concurrent object-oriented agent programming language Guarded Definite Clauses (GDC)
Abstract / Synopsis: The authors present a systematic development of the concurrent object-oriented agent programming language Guarded Definite Clauses (GDC). In contrast to other languages used in agent programming, like Java, Telescript, and Agent-TCL, this language is derived from the artificial intelligence programming tradition and emphasizes AI applications. The first part of the book is devoted to the principled evolution of the paradigm GDC; during the course of this evolution, the reader can also learn a lot about the history and the dramatically changing fortune, booms, and busts, of AI. In the second part, the paradigm is evaluated for application in various fields including parallel distributed search, distributed constraint solving, meta-interpretation, partial evaluation, and robotics and multi-agent systems. The book is written for students and professionals in agent programming or in AI programming in general.
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Title #17: Bots: The Origin of New Species
Edition: First Edition
ISBN Number: 1888869054
Number of Pages: 218
Author(s): Andrew Leonard
Publisher: Hardwired
Date: July 1997
Category: All kinds of bots
Abstract / Synopsis: They can be chatterbots, spellbots, mailbots, or gamebots, but most of all they're just plain bots, or software robots (like Spellcheck) that serve as benign tools to increase productivity. But there are bad, self-mutating bots, too, roaming the roads of virtual societies everywhere the fascinating (and scary) theme of this first book by Leonard, a writer for Wired magazine. Provocative musings abound: What happens when a competitor's bot becomes clever enough to raid your database? What does bot evolution say about our desire to attribute personalities to programs, our relentless need for companionship? Leonard doesn't have all the answers, but while his broad, artful look at humankind's mischievous electronic creation is laden with tech jargon, it is uncomfortably right on the money: Do we not, as the creators of bots, bear ultimate responsibility for the electronic-sociological mire we have wrought?
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Title #18: Multi-Agent Systems: An Introduction to Distributed Artificial
Intelligence, Paperback
Edition: First Edition
ISBN Number: 0201360489
Number of Pages: 528
Author(s): Jacques Ferber
Publisher: Addison-Wesley Professional
Date: February 25, 1999
Category: Recent developments in the field of multi-agent systems
Abstract / Synopsis: In this book, Jacques Ferber has brought together all the recent developments in the field of multi-agent systems - an area that has seen increasing interest and major developments over the last few years. The author draws on work carried out in various disciplines, including information technology, sociology and cognitive psychology, to provide a coherent and instructive picture of the current state-of-the-art. The book introduces and defines the fundamental concepts that need to be understood, clearly describes the work that has been done, and invites readers to reflect upon the possibilities of the future.
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Title #19: Multi-Agent-Based Simulation II : Third International
Workshop, MABS 2002, Bologna, Italy, July 15-16, 2002,
Revised Papers (Lecture Notes in Computer ... / Lecture Notes
in Artificial Intelligence), Paperback
Edition: First Edition
ISBN Number: 3540006079
Number of Pages: 195
Author(s): Jaime S. Sichman
Publisher: Springer
Date: April 10, 2003
Category: Book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-proceedings of the Third International Workshop on Multi-Agent-Based Simulation, MABS 2002
Abstract / Synopsis: This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-proceedings of the Third International Workshop on Multi-Agent-Based Simulation, MABS 2002, held as part of the AAMAS 2002 conference in Bologna, Italy, in July 2002. The 12 revised full papers presented together with an invited paper were carefully selected during two rounds of reviewing and improvement. The papers are organized in topical sections on emergence, alliances, and groups; MABS platforms and languages; and MABS applications.
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Title #20: Applications of Software Agent Technology in the Health Care
Domain (Whitestein Series in Software Agent Technologies),
Paperback
Edition: First Edition
ISBN Number: 376432662X
Number of Pages: 212
Author(s): Antonio Moreno, John L. Nealon
Publisher: Birkhauser
Date: January 12, 2004
Category: Collection of papers that provides a unique, novel and up-to-date overview of how software agents technology that is being applied in very diverse problems in health care
Abstract / Synopsis: This volume contains a collection of papers that provides a unique, novel and up-to-date overview of how software agents technology that is being applied in very diverse problems in health care, ranging from community care to management of organ transplants. It also provides an introductory survey that highlights the main issues to be taken into account when deploying agents in the health care area.
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Title #21: Agent Sourcebook: A Complete Guide to Desktop, Internet,
and Intranet Agents
Edition: First Edition
ISBN Number: 0471153273
Number of Pages: 349
Author(s): Alper Caglayan
Publisher: Wiley
Date: January 15, 1997
Category: Practical guide for implementing agent technology into business
applications
Abstract / Synopsis: A practical guide for implementing agent technology into business applications. This book shows businesses how they can develop and use agent technology to improve business efficiency and lower costs. It describes the different commercial agents currently in use, strategic benefits, and integrating agents into existing systems. The authors use real case studies to show how to successfully deploy agents for specific business purposes.
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Title #22: Agent Based Manufacturing
Edition: First Edition
ISBN Number: 3540440690
Number of Pages: 326
Author(s): S.M. Deen
Publisher: Springer
Date: April 15, 2003
Category: Concept of holons, which are the units of production and behave as autonomous and cooperative agents, providing flexibility, adaptability, agility, and dynamic reconfigurability
Abstract / Synopsis: Low-volume high-variety products like personalized cars or customized engines will be the key issues for manufacturing in the 21st century. The necessary control technology is based on the concept of holons, which are the units of production and behave as autonomous and cooperative agents, providing flexibility, adaptability, agility, and dynamic reconfigurability. This book presents the latest research results in agent-based manufacturing as carried out by researchers in academia and industry within the international "Holonic Manufacturing Systems" project. As this project was driven by industry, the results presented here are of vital interest not just to researchers in agent technologies or distributed artificial intelligence, but also to engineers and professionals in industry who have to respond to rapid changes and new demands in production.
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Title #23: Multi-Agent Systems for Concurrent Intelligent Design and
Manufacturing
Edition: First Edition
ISBN Number: 0748408827
Number of Pages: 386
Author(s): Weiming Shen
Publisher: CRC Press
Date: January 15, 2001
Category: Multi-agent systems
Abstract / Synopsis: Agent Technology, or Agent-Based Approaches, is a new paradigm for developing software applications. It has been hailed as 'the next significant breakthrough in software development', and 'the new revolution in software'
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Title #24: Intelligent Software Agents
Edition: First Edition
ISBN Number: 0130110213
Number of Pages: 300
Author(s): Richard Murch, Tony Johnson
Publisher: Prentice Hall PTR
Date: November 30, 1998
Category: Intelligent software agents
Abstract / Synopsis: Discover how agent technology is becoming increasingly adaptable, mobile, transparent, accountable, rugged, user-centered, and autonomous. Understand the challenges facing agent developers, including security, privacy, legal issues, control, and performance. Then, preview the future-including R&D on multi-agent systems, and on endowing agents with emotions, attitudes, culture, and multilingual expertise. Whether you're a business decision-maker or IT professional, Intelligent Software Agents is your guide to the future!
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Title #25: Agent Technology from a Formal Perspective (NASA
Monographs in Systems and Software Engineering)
Edition: First Edition
ISBN Number: 1852339470
Number of Pages: 360
Author(s): Mike Hinchey
Publisher: Springer
Date: September 7, 2005
Category: Agent technology
Abstract / Synopsis: The field of agent & multi-agent systems is experiencing tremendous growth whilst that of formal methods has also blossomed. The FAABS (Formal Approaches to Agent-Based Systems) workshops, merging the concerns of the two fields, were thus timely. This book has arisen from the overwhelming response to FAABS ’00, ’02 & ’04 and all chapters are updated or represent new research, & are designed to provide a more in-depth treatment of the topic. Examples of how others have applied formal methods to agent-based systems are included, plus formal method tools & techniques that readers can apply to their own systems. Agent Technology from a Formal Perspective provides an in-depth view of the key issues related to agent technology from a formal perspective. As this is a relatively new interdisciplinary field, there is enormous room for further growth and this book not only creates an initial foundation, but points to the gaps; indicating open problems to be addressed by future researchers, students & practitioners.
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Title #26: Adaptive Agents and Multi-Agent Systems II:
Adaptation and Multi-Agent Learning
Edition: First Edition
ISBN Number: 3540252606
Number of Pages: 313
Author(s): Daniel Kudenko, Dimitar Kazakov, Dduardo Alonso
Publisher: Springer
Date: April 2005
Category: Machine learning, adaptation, and evolution in Agents
Abstract / Synopsis: Adaptive agents and multi-agent systems is an emerging and exciting interdisciplinary area of research and development involving artificial intelligence, software engineering, and developmental biology, as well as cognitive and social science. This book presents 17 revised and carefully reviewed papers taken from two workshops on the topic as well as 2 invited papers by leading researchers in the area. The papers deal with various aspects of machine learning, adaptation, and evolution in the context of agent systems and autonomous agents.
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Title #27: Engineering Societies in the Agents World
Edition: First Edition
ISBN Number: 3540222316
Number of Pages: 409
Author(s): Andrea Omicini, Paolo Pettra, Jeremy Pitt
Publisher: Springer
Date: August 2004
Category: Engineering societies in the agents world
Abstract / Synopsis: This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-proceedings of the 4th International Workshop on Engineering Societies in the Agents World, ESAW 2004, held in London, UK in October 2004. The 23 revised full papers presented were carefully selected during two rounds of reviewing and improvement for inclusion in the book; also included are 2 invited papers by leading researchers in order to round of the coverage of the relevant topics. The papers are organized in the following topical sections: multidisciplinary for agent societies coordination, organization, and security of agent societies abstractions, methodologies, and tools for engineering agent societies applications of agent societies.
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Title #28: Balancing Reactivity and Social Deliberation in Multi-Agent
Systems: From RoboCup to Real-Works Applications
Edition: First Edition
ISBN Number: 3540423273
Number of Pages: 245
Author(s): Markus Hannebauer, Jan Wendler, Enrico Pagello
Publisher: Springer
Date: August 2001
Category: Multi-agent systems
Abstract / Synopsis: Information Unavailable
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Title #29: Agent Engineering
Edition: First Edition
ISBN Number: 9810245580
Number of Pages: 250
Author(s): Jiming Liu, Yuan Y. Tang, Ning Zhong, Patrick S. P. Wang
Publisher: World Scientific Publishing Company, Inc.
Date: June 2001
Category: Agents
Abstract / Synopsis: Information Unavailable
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Title #30: Objective Coordination in Multi-Agent System Engineering:
Design and Implementation
Edition: First Edition
ISBN Number: 3540419829
Number of Pages: 147
Author(s): Michael Schumacher
Publisher: Springer
Date: May 2001
Category: Multi-agent systems
Abstract / Synopsis: Information Unavailable
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Title #31: Agent-Mediated Electronic Commerce III:
Current Issues in Agent-Based Electronic Commerce Systems
Edition: First Edition
ISBN Number: 3540417494
Number of Pages: Information Unavailable
Author(s): Frank Dignum, Ulisis Cortes
Publisher: Springer
Date: March 2001
Category: Agent-mediated electronic commerce
Abstract / Synopsis: Information Unavailable
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Title #32: Matchmaking in Electronic Markets : An Agent-Based
Approach towards Matchmaking in Electronic Negotiations
Edition: First Edition
ISBN Number: 3540205004
Number of Pages: 180
Author(s): Daniel J. Veit
Publisher: Springer
Date: February 12, 2004
Category: Multiagent Systems
Abstract / Synopsis: Electronic negotiations concern transactions on the basis of electronic media, such as the Internet. Platforms have been developed to aid participants in electronic markets during the agreement phase. The key activity in this is the matching of offers and requests, for which we need a ranking of the alternatives. In this book the author defines a framework in which a ranking can be generated in order to acquire an optimal decision for a desired transaction - this process is called matchmaking. The author introduces a generic framework for multidimensional, multiattribute matchmaking, its implementation, and an analysis of it. The genericity of the author’s approach means that the implementation, realized as a multiagent system, can represent both offering and requesting agents, and the framework can be applied to a huge variety of applications. The use cases in the book are derived from the human resources domain, and thus involve quite complex matchmaking. The author’s presentation is thorough and self-contained. He provides definitions of the relevant business and computer science terms, and detailed explanations of the underlying mathematical tools and software implementations.
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Title #33: Knowledge Engineering and Agent Technology
Edition: First Edition
ISBN Number: 0967335582
Number of Pages: 300
Author(s): J. Cuena
Publisher: Ios Pr Inc
Date: January 1, 2000
Category: Knowledge Engineering and Agent Technology (KEAT) for
application development
Abstract / Synopsis: The use of Knowledge Engineering and Agent Technology (KEAT) for application development is now recognized as an alternative to conventional software techniques in many application domains. From the background of the IFIP IT&KNOWS conference held in late 1998, this rather unique volume aims to discuss the current role and the perspectives of domain models and corresponding reasoning processes in the different application fields under a common perspective to create conceptual bases and methods to develop and to improve the use of this type of approach in the context of information technology.
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Title #34: Issues in Agent Communication
Edition: First Edition
ISBN Number: 3540411445
Number of Pages: 351
Author(s): Frank Dignum, Mark Greaves
Publisher: Springer
Date: November 10, 2000
Category: Agent Communication Languages
Abstract / Synopsis: A first attempt to develop a standardized agent communication language (ACL) resulted in KQML, probably the most widely used such language. However, a lot of technical work remains to be done. Even worse, so far, there seems to be little consensus on the basics of agent communication and there is no clear understanding of the semantics of individual speech acts or even of the basic concepts that should be used to define the semantics. This book documents two workshops on communication in MAS held in 1999, one on Specifying and Implementing Conversation Policies (SICP) and the other in Agent Communication Languages and presents the current state of the art of research in the field. A detailed introductory overview by the volume editors highlights a number of issues that play an important role in agent communication.
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Title #35: Software Agents and Soft Computing: Toward Enhancing
Machine Intelligence : Concepts and Applications
Edition: First Edition
ISBN Number: 3540625607
Number of Pages: 298
Author(s): H. S. Nwana
Publisher: Springer-Verlag Telos
Date: June, 1997
Category: Conceptual issues surrounding intelligent agents and multi-agent
systems
Abstract / Synopsis: This carefully arranged book is mainly based on work done by the Intelligent Systems Research Group at BT Laboratories, essentially in cooperation with internationally leading scientists from outside BT. It opens with a detailed introduction surveying the area and putting the work presented in context. Conceptual issues surrounding intelligent agents and multi-agent systems are investigated and the practical and industrial applicability of this exciting new technology is demonstrated. One section is devoted to the rationale, philosophy, and techniques of the emerging area of soft computing. The final section outlines the broader context in dealing with machine intelligence in general and intelligent software systems in particular.
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Title #36: E-Commerce Agents : Marketplace Solutions, Security Issues,
and Supply and Demand
Edition: First Edition
ISBN Number: 3540419349
Number of Pages: 347
Author(s): Jimingx Liu, Yiming Ye
Publisher: Springer
Date: May 18, 2001
Category: E-Commerce Agents : Marketplace Solutions, Security Issues, and
Supply and Demand
Abstract / Synopsis: Information Unavailable
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Title #37: Soft Computing Agents: A New Perspective for Dynamic
Information Systems
Edition: First Edition
ISBN Number: 1586032836
Number of Pages: 274
Author(s): Vincenzo Loia
Publisher: Ios Pr Inc
Date: January, 2003
Category: Soft Computing Agents: A New Perspective for Dynamic
Information Systems
Abstract / Synopsis: Particular emphasis is devoted to advanced research projects involved with Web-related technologies.
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Title #38: Abductive Inference : Computation, Philosophy, Technology,
Paperback
Edition: New Ed edition
ISBN Number: 0521575451
Number of Pages: 316
Author(s): John R. Josephson, Susan G. Josephson
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Date: August 28, 1996
Category: Abductive system
Abstract / Synopsis: 'The book provides a good general introduction to the effort of building abductive systems ...' Hilan Bensusan, AISB Quarterly
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Title #39: Artificial Intelligence and the Air Traffic Control Systems
(Transportation Research Circular, No 310) [PHOTOCOPY],
Paperback
Edition: First Edition
ISBN Number: 9997027574
Number of Pages: 68
Author(s): Transportation Research Board
Publisher: Transportation Research Board
Date: December, 1986
Category: Artificial Intelligence and the Air Traffic Control Systems
Abstract / Synopsis: Information Unavailable
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Title #40: Artificial intelligence with applications for aircraft
Edition: First Edition
ISBN Number: B0006PB2Y2
Number of Pages: 179
Author(s): L Harrison
Publisher: National Technical Information Service
Date: 1994
Category: Artificial intelligence with applications for aircraft
Abstract / Synopsis: Information Unavailable
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Title #41: Artificial Intelligence in Agriculture 2001
Edition: First Edition
ISBN Number: 0080435637
Number of Pages: 132
Author(s): I. Farkas
Publisher: Pergamon
Date: October 30, 2001
Category: AI & Agriculture
Abstract / Synopsis: This Proceedings contains the papers presented at the AIA'2001 Workshop on "Artificial Intelligence in Agriculture", held at the Hotel Eben in Budapest and the Campus of the Szent István University Gödöllo, Hungary, on 6-8 June 2001. The papers demonstrate the aim of the workshop, which was to bring together leading researchers and practitioners from academy and industry in order to favour the emergence or consolidation of bridges between AI and its applications in Agriculture and domains connected to it (in particular, environmental sciences). This Proceedings concentrate on five main topic areas: Fundamentals, Decision tools; Neural networks; Quality and measurements; Fuzzy modelling and control and Modelling and control.
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Title #42: Artificial Intelligence in Agriculture 1998
Edition: First Edition
ISBN Number: 0080430309
Number of Pages: 212
Author(s): T. Kozai
Publisher: Pergamon
Date: August 1, 1998
Category: Four major global issues, namely, a shortage of food, a shortage of fuel energy/natural resources, environmental pollution and instability of various ecosystems, will become increasingly critical in the early 21st century when the world population is predicted to reach nearly 10 billion
Abstract / Synopsis: Four major global issues, namely, a shortage of food, a shortage of fuel energy/natural resources, environmental pollution and instability of various ecosystems, will become increasingly critical in the early 21st century when the world population is predicted to reach nearly 10 billion. It is hoped that the papers included in these proceedings will contribute to solving the above global issues, improving the quality of research and widening the application fields of artificial intelligence in agriculture.
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Title #43: Information and Randomness : An Algorithmic Perspective
(Texts in Theoretical Computer Science. An EATCS Series)
Edition: 2nd edition
ISBN Number: 3540434666
Number of Pages: 450
Author(s): Cristian S. Calude
Publisher: Springer
Date: November 11, 2002
Category: Fundamentals of algorithmic information theory and applications
Abstract / Synopsis: The book presents in a mathematical clear way the fundamentals of algorithmic information theory and a few selected applications. This 2nd edition presents new and important results obtained in recent years: the characterization of computable enumerable random reals, the construction of an Omega Number for which ZFC cannot determine any digits, and the first successful attempt to compute the exact values of 64 bits of a specific Omega Number. Finally, the book contains a discussion of some interesting philosophical questions related to randomness and mathematical knowledge.
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Title #44: Universal Artificial Intelligence: Sequential Decisions Based
On Algorithmic Probability
Edition: First Edition
ISBN Number: 3540221395
Number of Pages: 278
Author(s): Marcus Hutter
Publisher: Springer
Date: November 29, 2004
Category: Sequential decision theory
Abstract / Synopsis: This book presents sequential decision theory from a novel algorithmic information theory perspective. While the former is suited for active agents in known environments, the latter is suited for passive prediction in unknown environments. The book introduces these two different ideas and removes the limitations by unifying them to one parameter-free theory of an optimal reinforcement learning agent embedded in an unknown environment. Most AI problems can easily be formulated within this theory, reducing the conceptual problems to pure computational ones. Considered problem classes include sequence prediction, strategic games, function minimization, reinforcement and supervised learning. The discussion includes formal definitions of intelligence order relations, the horizon problem and relations to other approaches. One intention of this book is to excite a broader AI audience about abstract algorithmic information theory concepts, and conversely to inform theorists about exciting applications to AI.
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Title #45: Automatic Generation of Computer Animation:
Using AI for Movie Animation
Edition: First Edition
ISBN Number: 3540431144
Number of Pages: 391
Author(s): R. Lu, S. Zhang
Publisher: Springer
Date: June 2002
Category: AI in computer animation
Abstract / Synopsis: This book reports on the methodologies and the Implementation of a software prototype called SWAN automating the production process by using artificial intelligence techniques. It supports the full life cycle from a children's story in natural language text form to the final animated movie.
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Title #46: The Machine in Me: An Anthropologist Sits Among Computer
Engineers, Paperback
Edition: First Edition
ISBN Number: 0415920221
Number of Pages: 270
Author(s): Gary Lee Downey
Publisher: Routledge
Date: May 1998
Category: Investigates the body/machine interface
Abstract / Synopsis: Gary Lee Downey investigates the body/machine interface in his remarkable ethnography of computer engineers. Drawing on interviews, observations and personal interaction with engineers, he documents the everyday power of technology's dominant image in our society, a force widely regarded as monolithically progressive. The Machine in Me will lead the reader to understand how deeply connected we are to The Machine and how beneficial it would be for us to really understand ourselves and machines as partially configured of the other--we as part machine, machines as part human. In this way, we can begin to see both the power and limitations of technology.
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Title #47: Studying Those Who Study Us:
An Anthropologist in the World of Artificial Intelligence
Edition: First Edition
ISBN Number: 0-8047-4203-0
Number of Pages: 242
Author(s): Diana Forsythe
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Date: August 2001
Category: Future of human interactions with science and technology
Abstract / Synopsis: Studying Those who Study Us comprises Diana E. Forsythe's best-known essays and other major works that remained unpublished upon her death in 1997. The essays explore the future of human interactions with science and technology.
Diana E. Forsythe was an anthropologist who concentrated on the field of artificial intelligence. This volume contains 12 of her essays, some of which were unpublished at the time of her death in 1997. Topics addressed include gender roles in computer engineering, the emergence of amateur ethnography in the AI community, and ethical dilemmas in anthropological research. The volume is edited with an introduction by David J. Hess (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute).
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Title #48: Innovative Applications of Artificial Intelligence
Edition: First Edition
ISBN Number: 0929280466
Number of Pages: 200
Author(s): Phil Klahr, Elizabeth Byrnes
Publisher: AAAI Press
Date: July, 1993
Category: Innovative Applications of Artificial Intelligence
Abstract / Synopsis: Information Unavailable
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Title #49: Ai in Practice: Examples in Pop-11
Edition: First Edition
ISBN Number: 0470207701
Number of Pages: 316
Author(s): Allan Ramsay, Rosalind Barrett
Publisher: Halsted Pr
Date: January, 1987
Category: Ai in Practice: Examples in Pop-11
Abstract / Synopsis: Information Unavailable
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Title #50: Guide to Commercial Artificial Intelligence: Fundamentals
and Real-World Applications
Edition: First Edition
ISBN Number: 0133687708
Number of Pages: 523
Author(s): Wendy B. Rauch-Hindin
Publisher: Prentice Hall Ptr
Date: January, 1988
Category: Guide to Commercial Artificial Intelligence: Fundamentals and
Real-World Applications
Abstract / Synopsis: Information Unavailable
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Title #51: Artificial Intelligence and Automation
Edition: First Edition
ISBN Number: 9810226373
Number of Pages: 536
Author(s): Nikolaos G. Bourbakis, N. G. Bourbakis
Publisher: World Scientific Publishing Company
Date: April, 1998
Category: Artificial Intelligence and Automation
Abstract / Synopsis: Information Unavailable
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Title #52: Innovative Applications of Artificial Intelligence 2, Paperback
Edition: First Edition
ISBN Number: 0262680688
Number of Pages: 326
Author(s): Alain Rappaport, Reid Smith
Publisher: AAAI Press
Date: March 28, 1991
Category: Books report on the nature and range of real-world problems that
Al technology can address successfully today
Abstract / Synopsis: Books in the Innovative Applications of Artificial Intelligence (IAAI) series report on the nature and range of real-world problems that Al technology can address successfully today. The 22 applications described in this volume range from support for existing economic infrastructures such as monitoring foreign exchange transactions, assisting in recruiting industrial personnel, or screening news stories, to the creation of tomorrow's infrastructure elements such as software validation or planning for tunnel construction. Alain Rappaport is President of Neuron Data. Reid Smith is Director of the Schlumberger Laboratory for Computer Science.
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Title #53: Artificial Intelligence: Methods and Applications
Edition: First Edition
ISBN Number: 9810210574
Number of Pages: 705
Author(s): Nikolaos G. Bourbakis
Publisher: World Scientific Pub Co Inc
Date: September, 1993
Category: Artificial Intelligence: Methods and Applications
Abstract / Synopsis: Information Unavailable
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Title #54: Planning, Scheduling And Constraint Satisfaction: From
Theory To Practice
Edition: First Edition
ISBN Number: 1586034847
Number of Pages: 199
Author(s): Luis Castillo
Publisher: Jones & Bartlett Publishers
Date: March 30, 2005
Category: Planning, Scheduling And Constraint Satisfaction: From Theory
To Practice
Abstract / Synopsis: Information Unavailable
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Title #55: Artificial Intelligence and Its Applications
Edition: First Edition
ISBN Number: 0471911755
Number of Pages: 306
Author(s): A. G. Cohn
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Date: November, 1986
Category: Artificial Intelligence and Its Applications
Abstract / Synopsis: Information Unavailable
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Title #56: From Natural Language Processing to Logic for Expert
Systems: A Logic Based Approach to Artificial Intelligence
Edition: First Edition
ISBN Number: 0471924318
Number of Pages: 556
Author(s): Andre Thayse
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Inc
Date: July, 1991
Category: Book covers some of the most significant applications of artificial
intelligence
Abstract / Synopsis: Covers some of the most significant applications of artificial intelligence, namely: natural language processing, speech understanding, expert system design, requirement engineering, machine learning, truth maintenance systems, advanced concepts and methods of logic programming. Together with the previous two volumes edited by Thayse, this completes a comprehensive exposition of the subject of logics applied to AI.
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Title #57: Arms and Artificial Intelligence: Weapon and Arms Control
Applications of Advanced Computing
Edition: First Edition
ISBN Number: 0198291221
Number of Pages: 248
Author(s): Allan M. Din
Publisher: SIPRI Publication
Date: February, 1988
Category: Arms and Artificial Intelligence: Weapon and Arms Control
Applications of Advanced Computing
Abstract / Synopsis: Information Unavailable
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Title #58: Aaron's Code: Meta-Art, Artificial Intelligence and the Work
of Harold Cohen
Edition: Second Edition
ISBN Number: 0716721732
Number of Pages: 225
Author(s): Pamela McCorduck
Publisher: W H Freeman & Co
Date: October, 1990
Category: AI & Art
Abstract / Synopsis: This is a very good book. McCorduck is an excellent writer (I also recommend her "Machines Who Think") who tackles the fascinating area of AI art. Information about the art-generating program Aaron is hard to come by and this book is the best source I've encountered so far. The history of Harold Cohen is a fascinating read. I would have liked to have seen coverage of more AI art makers, but perhaps Aaron is the only one worth considering. For more on AI art in general, see Boden's "The Creative Mind."
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Title #59: Intelligent Vehicle Technologies (Automotive Engineering)
Edition: First Edition
ISBN Number: 0750650931
Number of Pages: 380
Author(s): Ljubo Vlacic
Publisher: Butterworth-Heinemann
Date: May 2001
Category: Provides in-depth information on a range of key IV elements such as intelligent sensors, vehicle control, navigation, and communications systems
Abstract / Synopsis: Written by the leading experts in the field - from both industry and academia - Intelligent Vehicle Technologies provides in-depth information on a range of key IV elements such as intelligent sensors, vehicle control, navigation, and communications systems. Packed with practical examples and applications, this book focuses not only on the driver assistance concept (assisting human beings in driving the vehicle), but also on the autonomous driving/intelligent vehicle concept, which enables a vehicle to drive independently with little or no assistance from humans.
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Title #60: Artificial Intelligence (S P (Society of Automotive Engineers)),
Paperback
Edition: First Edition
ISBN Number: 0898839351
Number of Pages: 57
Author(s): Information Unavailable
Publisher: Society of Automotive Engineers
Date: February, 1986
Category: Artificial Intelligence (S P (Society of Automotive Engineers))
Abstract / Synopsis: Information Unavailable
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Title #61: Understanding Intelligence (Bradford Books), Paperback
Edition: First Edition
ISBN Number: 026266125X
Number of Pages: 720
Author(s): Rolf Pfeifer, Christian Scheier
Publisher: The MIT Press
Date: September 1, 2001
Category: Study of behavior-based intelligence
Abstract / Synopsis: By the mid-1980s researchers from artificial intelligence, computer science, brain and cognitive science, and psychology realized that the idea of computers as intelligent machines was inappropriate. The brain does not run "programs"; it does something entirely different. But what? Evolutionary theory says that the brain has evolved not to do mathematical proofs but to control our behavior, to ensure our survival. Researchers now agree that intelligence always manifests itself in behavior--thus it is behavior that we must understand. An exciting new field has grown around the study of behavior-based intelligence, also known as embodied cognitive science, "new AI," and "behavior-based AI." This book provides a systematic introduction to this new way of thinking. After discussing concepts and approaches such as subsumption architecture, Braitenberg vehicles, evolutionary robotics, artificial life, self-organization, and learning, the authors derive a set of principles and a coherent framework for the study of naturally and artificially intelligent systems, or autonomous agents. This framework is based on a synthetic methodology whose goal is understanding by designing and building.
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Title #62: Kernel Methods in Computational Biology (Computational
Molecular Biology)
Edition: First Edition
ISBN Number: 0262195097
Number of Pages: 416
Author(s): Bernhard Schölkopf
Publisher: The MIT Press
Date: August 1, 2004
Category: Kernel methods in Computational Biology
Abstract / Synopsis: Modern machine learning techniques are proving to be extremely valuable for the analysis of data in computational biology problems. One branch of machine learning, kernel methods, lends itself particularly well to the difficult aspects of biological data, which include high dimensionality (as in microarray measurements), representation as discrete and structured data (as in DNA or amino acid sequences), and the need to combine heterogeneous sources of information. This book provides a detailed overview of current research in kernel methods and their applications to computational biology. Following three introductory chapters -- an introduction to molecular and computational biology, a short review of kernel methods that focuses on intuitive concepts rather than technical details, and a detailed survey of recent applications of kernel methods in computational biology -- the book is divided into three sections that reflect three general trends in current research. The first part presents different ideas for the design of kernel functions specifically adapted to various biological data; the second part covers different approaches to learning from heterogeneous data; and the third part offers examples of successful applications of support vector machine methods.
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Title #63: Artificial Life : A Report from the Frontier Where Computers
Meet Biology (Vintage), Paperback
Edition: Reprint edition
ISBN Number: 0679743898
Number of Pages: 400
Author(s): Steven Levy
Publisher: Vintage
Date: July 27, 1993
Category: Effort to create artificial life
Abstract / Synopsis: The effort to create artificial life is occurring primarily within computer science, although it brings together physicists, microbiologists, mathematicians, ethnologists, and others in addition to computer scientists. The computer's ability to simulate system development is being generalized to study evolution and reproduction. Neural networks, while also used for applications other than artificial life simulation, are the primary form considered. As in his earlier book on computer hackers ( Hackers , LJ 11/1/84), Levy paints vivid images of the people involved in this work and puts a lot of effort into explanation of technical details, but this book is not easy reading.
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Title #64: Immunocomputing: Principles and Applications
Edition: First Edition
ISBN Number: 038795533X
Number of Pages: 232
Author(s): Alexander O. Tarakanov
Publisher: Springer
Date: July 2003
Category: Introduces immunocomputing (IC) as a new computing approach replicating the principles of information processing by proteins and immune networks
Abstract / Synopsis: This book is an attempt to introduce immunocomputing (IC) as a new computing approach replicating the principles of information processing by proteins and immune networks. A rigorous mathematical basis of the IC, consistent with the recent findings of immunology, is established. Various applications of IC to specific computationally-intensive real-life problems are presented. The hardware implementation aspects of the IC concept in an immunocomputer as a new kind of computing media and its potential connections with modern biological microchips (biochips) and future biomolecular computers (biocomputers) are discussed. The book is intended for experts in computer science, artificial intelligence and biomolecular computing interested in adopting the principles of computing, honed to perfection by million-year evolution, immunologists seeking to further quantify their field of research, multidisciplinary researchers interested in mutual enhancement of computer science and immunology, and university students exploring their individual "entry points" to the world of science.
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Title #65: Machine Nature: The Coming Age of Bio-Inspired Computing
Edition: First Edition
ISBN Number: 0071387048
Number of Pages: 244
Author(s): Moshe Sipper
Publisher: McGraw-Hill
Date: July 24, 2002
Category: Look at how computer scientists have crossed the line between
machines and living organisms
Abstract / Synopsis: An enthralling look at how computer scientists have crossed the line between machines and living organisms. Sipper takes readers on a thrilling journey to the terra nova of computing, to provide a compelling look at cutting-edge computers, robots, and machines now and in the decades ahead.
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Title #66: Recent Developments In Biologically Inspired Computing,
Paperback
Edition: First Edition
ISBN Number: 1591403138
Number of Pages: 439
Author(s): Leandro Nunes de Castro, Fernando J. Von Zuben
Publisher: Idea Group Publishing
Date: August 2, 2004
Category: Book covers the most relevant areas in computational intelligence
Abstract / Synopsis: Recent Developments in Biologically Inspired Computing is necessary reading for undergraduate and graduate students, and researchers interested in knowing the most recent advances in problem solving techniques inspired by nature. This book covers the most relevant areas in computational intelligence, including evolutionary algorithms, artificial neural networks, artificial immune systems and swarm systems. It also brings together novel and philosophical trends in the exciting fields of artificial life and robotics. This book has the advantage of covering a large number of computational approaches, presenting the state-of-the-art before entering into the details of specific extensions and new developments. Pseudo codes, flow charts and examples of applications are provided so as to help newcomers and mature researchers to get the point of the new approaches presented.
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Title #67: Biological and Artificial Intelligence Environments
Edition: First Edition
ISBN Number: 1402034318
Number of Pages: 370
Author(s): Bruno Apolloni, Maria Marinaro, Roberto Tagliaferri
Publisher: Springer
Date: October 2005
Category: Neural networks
Abstract / Synopsis: The book reports the proceedings of the 15 th Italian workshop on neural networks issued by the Italian Society on Neural Networks SIREN. The longevity recipe of this conference stands in three main points that normally renders the reading of these proceedings so interesting as appealing. 1. The topics of the neural networks is considered an attraction pole for a set of researches centered on the inherent paradigm of the neural networks, rather than on a specific tool exclusively. Thus, the subsymbolic management of the data information content constitutes the key feature of papers in various fields such as Patter Recognition, Stochastic Optimization, Learning, Granular Computing, and so on, with a special bias toward bioinformatics operational applications. An excerpt of all these matters may be found in the book. 2. Though managed at domestic level, the conference attracts contributions from foreign researchers as well, so that in the book the reader may capture the flavor of the state of the art in the international community. 3. The conference is a meeting of friends as well. Thus the papers generally reflect a relaxed atmosphere where researchers meet to generously exchange their thought ed explain their actual results in view of a common cultural growing of the community.
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Title #68: Artificial Intelligence Methods and Tools for Systems
Edition: First Edition
ISBN Number: 1402028598
Number of Pages: 221
Author(s): Werner Dubitzky, Francisco Azuaje
Publisher: Kluwer Academic Publishers
Date: May 2005
Category: AI approaches to systems biology
Abstract / Synopsis: This book provides simultaneously a design blueprint, user guide, research agenda, and communication platform for current and future developments in artificial intelligence (AI) approaches to systems biology. It places an emphasis on the molecular dimension of life phenomena and in one chapter on anatomical and functional modeling of the brain. As design blueprint, the book is intended for scientists and other professionals tasked with developing and using AI technologies in the context of life sciences research. As a user guide, this volume addresses the requirements of researchers to gain a basic understanding of key AI methodologies for life sciences research. Its emphasis is not on an intricate mathematical treatment of the presented AI methodologies. Instead, it aims at providing the users with a clear understanding and practical know-how of the methods. As a research agenda, the book is intended for computer and life science students, teachers, researchers, and managers who want to understand the state of the art of the presented methodologies and the areas in which gaps in our knowledge demand further research and development. Our aim was to maintain the readability and accessibility of a textbook throughout the chapters, rather than compiling a mere reference manual. The book is also intended as a communication platform seeking to bride the cultural and technological gap among key systems biology disciplines. To support this function, contributors have adopted a terminology and approach that appeal to audiences from different backgrounds.
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Title #69: Artificial Intelligence Methods and Tools for Systems Biology
Edition: First Edition
ISBN Number: 1402029594
Number of Pages: 234
Author(s): Werner Dubitzky, Francisco Azuaie
Publisher: Lluwer Academic Publishers
Date: January 2005
Category: Current and future developments in AI approaches to
systems biology
Abstract / Synopsis: This book provides simultaneously a design blueprint, user guide, research agenda, and communication platform for current and future developments in artificial intelligence (AI) approaches to systems biology. It places an emphasis on the molecular dimension of life phenomena and in one chapter on anatomical and functional modeling of the brain. As design blueprint, the book is intended for scientists and other professionals tasked with developing and using AI technologies in the context of life sciences research. As a user guide, this volume addresses the requirements of researchers to gain a basic understanding of key AI methodologies for life sciences research. Its emphasis is not on an intricate mathematical treatment of the presented AI methodologies. Instead, it aims at providing the users with a clear understanding and practical know-how of the methods. As a research agenda, the book is intended for computer and life science students, teachers, researchers, and managers who want to understand the state of the art of the presented methodologies and the areas in which gaps in our knowledge demand further research and development. Our aim was to maintain the readability and accessibility of a textbook throughout the chapters, rather than compiling a mere reference manual. The book is also intended as a communication platform seeking to bride the cultural and technological gap among key systems biology disciplines. To support this function, contributors have adopted a terminology and approach that appeal to audiences from different backgrounds.
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Title #70: Artificial Immune Systems: A New Computational Intelligence
Approach, Paperback
Edition: First Edition
ISBN Number: 1852335947
Number of Pages: 364
Author(s): Leandro Nunes de Castro, Jonathan Timmis
Publisher: Springer
Date: November 4, 2002
Category: Artificial Immune Systems (AIS) are adaptive systems inspired by
the biological immune system and applied to problem solving
Abstract / Synopsis: Artificial Immune Systems (AIS) are adaptive systems inspired by the biological immune system and applied to problem solving. This book provides an accessible introduction that will be suitable for anyone who is beginning to study or work in this area. It gives a clear definition of an AIS, sets out the foundations of the topic (including basic algorithms), and analyses how the immune system relates to other biological systems and processes. No prior knowledge of immunology is needed - all the essential background information is covered in the introductory chapters.
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Title #71: Artificial Intelligence for Biology and Agriculture
Edition: First Edition
ISBN Number: 0792350987
Number of Pages: 268
Author(s): S. Panigrahi, K.C. Ting
Publisher: Springer
Date: June 30, 1998
Category: AI in biological & agricultural discipline
Abstract / Synopsis: Presents papers containing a variety of AI topics ranging from computer vision and robotics to intelligent modelling, neural networks & fuzzy logic. This text was developed to report on a sampling of selected state-of-the-art research directed towards solving different problems in the biological & agricultural discipline.
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Title #72: Biological and Artificial Intelligence Systems
Edition: First Edition
ISBN Number: 9072199022
Number of Pages: 608
Author(s): E. Clementi, S. Chin
Publisher: Springer
Date: December 31, 1999
Category: Biological and Artificial Intelligence Systems
Abstract / Synopsis: Information Unavailable
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Title #73: Assessing Competitive Intelligence Software: A Guide to
Evaluating Ci Technology
Edition: First Edition
ISBN Number: 1573871737
Number of Pages: 187
Author(s): France Bouthillier, Kathleen Shearer
Publisher: Information Today
Date: September 2003
Category: Competitive intelligence software
Abstract / Synopsis: Text demonstrates a practical, systematic method that businesses can use to evaluate CI software independently. Shows how to compare features, identify strengths and weaknesses, and invest in products that meet their unique needs.
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Title #74: Intelligent Software Systems Development: An IS Manager's
Guide, Paperback
Edition: First Edition
ISBN Number: 0471592447
Number of Pages: 512
Author(s): Paul Harmon, Curtis Hall
Publisher: Wiley
Date: September 1, 1993
Category: Offers different types of methodologies and tools available to Information Systems (IS) in order to build the best software with less effort
Abstract / Synopsis: Focuses on the software development trend that will help corporations remain competitive in the information age. Offers different types of methodologies and tools available to Information Systems (IS) in order to build the best software with less effort. Discusses four applications from real software developed at different types of Fortune 500 companies. Prepares developers and IS managers both for decision making and project initiation.
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Title #75: Putting Artificial Intelligence to Work: Evaluating &
Implementing Business Applications
Edition: First Edition
ISBN Number: 0471857041
Number of Pages: 282
Author(s): Seymour Schoen, Wendell G. Sykes
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Inc
Date: November, 1987
Category: AI in business applications
Abstract / Synopsis: Information Unavailable
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Title #76: Applications of Artificial Intelligence in Finance and
Economics
Edition: First Edition
ISBN Number: 0762311509
Number of Pages: 246
Author(s): J. M. Binner, G. Kendall, S. H. Chen
Publisher: Elsevier Science & Technology Books
Date: March 2005
Category: Applications of AI in Finance and Economics
Abstract / Synopsis: The papers collected in this volume give examples of the impact of the methodologies of artificial intelligence on the fields of economics and finance, and will be of interest to computer scientists, economists and practitioners in artificial intelligence. Artificial intelligence is a consortium of data-driven methodologies which includes artificial neural networks, genetic algorithms, fuzzy logic, probabilistic belief networks and machine learning as its components. We have witnessed a phenomenal impact of this data-driven consortium of methodologies in many areas of studies, the economic and financial fields being of no exception. In particular, this volume of collected works will give examples of its impact on the field of economics and finance. This volume is the result of the selection of high-quality papers presented at a special session entitled 'Applications of Artificial Intelligence in Economics and Finance' at the '2003 International Conference on Artificial Intelligence' (IC-AI '03) held at the Monte Carlo Resort, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA, June 23-26 2003. The special session, organised by Jane Binner, Graham Kendall and Shu-Heng Chen, was presented in order to draw attention to the tremendous diversity and richness of the applications of artificial intelligence to problems in Economics and Finance.
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Title #77: Artificial Intelligence Applications
Edition: First Edition
ISBN Number: 1402081502
Number of Pages: 350
Author(s): Max Bramer, Yladan Devedzic
Publisher: Kluwer Academic Publishers
Date: July 2004
Category: Profitable intelligent systems and technologies
Abstract / Synopsis: Artificial Intelligence and Innovations (AIAI) will interest researchers, IT professionals and consultants by examining technologies and applications of demonstrable value. The conference focused on profitable intelligent systems and technologies. AIAI focuses on real world applications; therefore authors should highlight the benefits of AI technology for industry and services. Novel approaches solving business and industrial problems, using AI, will emerge from this conference.
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Title #78: Applying Knowledge Management:
Techniques for Building Corporate Memories
Edition: First Edition
ISBN Number: 1558607609
Number of Pages: 250
Author(s): Ian Watson
Publisher: Elsevier Science & Technology Books
Date: December 2002
Category: AI and knowledge management
Abstract / Synopsis: In this text, Ian Watson examines why case based reasoning is so well suited for knowledge management. It gives readers clear insight into the development of commercial KM CBR applications by presenting several in-depth case-studies. The wholesale capture and distribution of knowledge over the last thirty years has created an unprecedented need for organizations to manage their knowledge assets. Knowledge Management (KM) addresses this need by helping an organization to leverage its information resources and knowledge assets by "remembering" and applying its experience. KM involves the acquisition, storage, retrieval, application, generation, and review of the knowledge assets of an organization in a controlled way. Today, organizations are applying KM throughout their systems, from information management to marketing to human resources. Applying Knowledge Management: Techniques for Building Corporate Memories examines why case-based reasoning (CBR) is so well suited for KM. CBR can be used to adapt solutions originally designed to solve problems in the past, to address new problems faced by the organization. This book clearly demonstrates how CBR can be successfully applied to KM problems by presenting several in-depth case-studies. Ian Watson, a well-known researcher in case-based reasoning and author of the introductory book, Applying CBR: Techniques for Enterprise Systems has written this book specifically for IT managers and knowledge management system developers. * Provides 7 real-world applications of knowledge management systems that use case-based reasoning techniques. * Presents the technical information needed to implement a knowledge management system. * Offers insights into the development of commercial KM CBR applications * Includes information on CBR software vendors, CBR consultants and value added resellers
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Title #79: The Artificial Intelligence Handbook: Business Applications
Edition: First Edition
ISBN Number: 0538726970
Number of Pages: 256
Author(s): Joel G. Siegel, Jae K. Shim
Publisher: South-Western
Date: November 2002
Category: AI for business professionals
Abstract / Synopsis: The purpose of this book is to help business professionals understand artificial intelligence software and how to make practical use of it. The authors provide a complete overview of expert systems and neural networks.
Applications in a variety of discipline are included such as: banking, insurance, investments, accounting, law, marketing, and manufacturing.
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Title #80: Artificial Intelligence Applications for Business Management, Paperback
Edition: 2nd Edition
ISBN Number: 0130489190
Number of Pages: Information Unavailable
Author(s): Richard K. Miller, Terri C. Walker
Publisher: Prentice Hall
Date: June, 1988
Category: Artificial Intelligence Applications for Business Management
Abstract / Synopsis: Information Unavailable
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Title #81: The Chameleon strategy: Change and grow rich trading using
artificial intelligence and the mathematical edge
Edition: First Edition
ISBN Number: B00073CEC2
Number of Pages: 116
Author(s): Harry L Edwards
Publisher: Cybernetic Co
Date: 1989
Category: The Chameleon strategy: Change and grow rich trading using
artificial intelligence and the mathematical edge
Abstract / Synopsis: Information Unavailable
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Title #82: Artificial Intelligence for Commercial Lenders: State of the
Art, Paperback
Edition: First Edition
ISBN Number: 0936742720
Number of Pages: 75
Author(s): Robert H. Long
Publisher: Risk Management Assoc
Date: April, 1990
Category: Artificial Intelligence for Commercial Lenders: State of the Art
Abstract / Synopsis: Information Unavailable
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Title #83: Foundation of Investment Systems Using Artificial Intelligence
and Web
Edition: First Edition
ISBN Number: 1883249708
Number of Pages: 260
Author(s): Robert R. Trippi
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Companies
Date: January 30, 2002
Category: Book thoroughly explains how artificial intelligence systems can
help to improve investment returns
Abstract / Synopsis: Artificial Intelligence is one of Wall Street's most promising new technologies. Used to assist investment decision-making, artificial intelligence systems can handle more information, react more quickly, and make more consistent decisions that a group of human experts. In this book the authors thoroughly can handle more information, react more quickly, and make more consistent decisions than a group of human experts. In this book the authors thoroughly explain how artificial intelligence systems can help to improve investment returns. Practical and filled with real-life examples, the book provides all the information financial professionals need to understand and evaluate an artificial intelligence system. For investors who want to stay on the cutting edge of technology, this book will be a must read. Highlights of Trippi & Lee's comprehensive gude include: overview of artificial intelligence in investment management; components of an artificial intelligence system; portfolio selection system issues; handling investment uncertainties; practice exercises with K-FOLIO, a typical artificial intelligence system.
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Title #84 Chaos and Society
Edition: First Edition
ISBN Number: 9051992149
Number of Pages: 404
Author(s): A. Albert
Publisher: IOS Press
Date: January 1, 1995
Category: Applications of chaos theory
Abstract / Synopsis: Are the applications of chaos theory to social sciences following the same path as the hard sciences, from the scientific philosophy level to the quantitative science level? Or to put it more bluntly, is the chaos paradigm useful at all for the study of society? These questions underlie the main themes of this book, which explores the interface between chaos theory and the social sciences. A broad variety of fields (including Sociology, Anthropology, Economics, Political Science, Management, Philosophy and Cognitive Sciences) is represented in the book. The leading themes are: Conceptual and Methodological Issues, Social Connectionism and the Connectionist Mind, Social Institutions and Public Policy, and Social Simulations. The book includes the following topics: the relevance of the complexity-chaos paradigm for analyzing social systems, the usefulness of nonlinear dynamics for studying the formation and sustainability of social groups, the comparison between spontaneous social orders and spontaneous biological/natural orders, the building of Artificial Societies, and the contribution of the chaos paradigm to a better understanding and formulation of public policies.
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Title #85: Applications of Artificial Intelligence in Chemistry (Oxford
Chemistry Primers, No 11), Paperback
Edition: First Edition
ISBN Number: 0198557361
Number of Pages: 92
Author(s): Hugh M. Cartwright
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Date: January 1994
Category: AI in chemistry applications
Abstract / Synopsis: Artificial intelligence is not just about making machines think; it is also a powerful problem-solving tool. Many scientific problems can be solved only with difficulty using conventional methods, yet these same problems may be ideally suited to attack using artificial intelligence. This book, for college-level students in any science discipline, introduces these intriguing and powerful techniques, and discusses their growing impact upon science.
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Title #86: Thermodynamic Cycles: Computer-Aided Design and
Optimization (Chemical Industries, V. 99)
Edition: First Edition
ISBN Number: 0824742982
Number of Pages: 424
Author(s): Chih Wu
Publisher: Marcel Dekker
Date: November 2003
Category: Thermodynamic Cycles
Abstract / Synopsis: Utilizes CyclePad software to simulate thermodynamic devices and cycles. Considers vapor cycles, gas closed system cycles, gas open system cycles, combined cycle and cogeneration, refrigeration and heat pump open system cycles, and finite time thermodynamics.
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Title #87: Artificial Intelligence in Chemical Engineering
Edition: First Edition
ISBN Number: 0125695500
Number of Pages: 593
Author(s): Thomas E. Quantrille, Y. A. Liu
Publisher: Academic Press
Date: January 22, 1992
Category: AI & Chemical Engineering
Abstract / Synopsis: "At long last, here is a comprehensive, yet very readable, exposition of the emerging science of artificial intelligence (AI) as it relates to the practice of chemical engineering...this book is a must reading for any serious student of AI in the chemical process industries. After working through the examples and exercises, an engineer will have the breadth and depth to develop typical knowledge-based systems. An excellent feature of this book is the final chapter on artificial neural networks (ANNs), which have received much attention recently as a powerful new tool for numerical, empirical modeling of processes. Even without any prior knowledge of ANNs, a reader should be able to understand their basic purpose and structure, and get a good sense of their capabilities as well as limitations. In essence, the book covers everything a reader should know about AI, but has long been afraid to ask. This book belongs to a class by itself in providing a thorough coverage of the fundamentals of AI, and illustrating their applications with concrete examples from the CPI. Above all, it is a pleasure to read, unlike, alas, most other books on this fascinating subject."
--CHEMICAL ENGINEERING
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Title #88: Artificial Intelligence Applications in Chemistry
Edition: First Edition
ISBN Number: 0841209669
Number of Pages: 395
Author(s): Thomas H. Pierce, Bruce A. Hohne
Publisher: Amer Chemical Society
Date: May, 1986
Category: Artificial Intelligence Applications in Chemistry
Abstract / Synopsis: Information Unavailable
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Title #89: Artificial Intelligence in Chemistry: Structure Elucidation and
Simulation of Organic Reactions
Edition: First Edition
ISBN Number: 0444987460
Number of Pages: 278
Author(s): Zdzislaw Hippe
Publisher: Elsevier Publishing Company
Date: June, 1991
Category: Artificial Intelligence in Chemistry: Structure Elucidation and
Simulation of Organic Reactions
Abstract / Synopsis: Information Unavailable
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Title #90: Building Large Knowledge-Based Systems: Representation
and Inference in the Cyc Project
Edition: Second Edition
ISBN Number: 0201517523
Number of Pages: 372
Author(s): Douglas B. Lenat, R. V. Guha
Publisher: Addison-Wesley Pub
Date: January, 1990
Category: Essence of writing a large software system with a practical bent
Abstract / Synopsis: This book, (written in 1989) captures the essence of writing a large software system which has a practical bent. The particular system developed here is the Cyc Knowledge Base. It outlines the criteria for inclusion of common sense knowledge in a computer system, with attention to the aspects which are necessary to transform raw facts into organized knowledge suitable for inference.
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Title #91: The Artificial Intelligence Debate: False Starts, Real
Foundations
Edition: First Edition
ISBN Number: 0262570742
Number of Pages: 317
Author(s): Stephen R. Graubard
Publisher: The MIT Press
Date: October 3, 1988
Category: AI & Common Sense
Abstract / Synopsis: If you want to understand the fundamental issues related to the issue of artificial intelligence, especially relating to the war between the formal systems advocates and the neural network folks, this book is invaluable. It is a collection of compelling essays by some of the brightest and/or most lauded researchers in the field.
One essay rips apart the seams of the phenomological challenges of making a generally intelligent system and explained why (in 1988) that the attempt was doomed to failure, at least for the foreseeable future. The sad fact is, there are still people like Steven Pinkert who continue to repeat the "Symbol System Hypothesis" with religious fervor. If you read and understand Hubert and Stuart Dreyfus's essay "Making a mind vs Modeling a Brain" you will come to understand why Artificial Intelligence has failed its promise for more than 30 years and why it is such an incredibly difficult problem to solve.
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Title #92: Formalizing Common Sense: Papers by John McCarthy
Edition: First Edition
ISBN Number: 0893915351
Number of Pages: 256
Author(s): John McCarthy
Publisher: Ablex Pub
Date: December, 1990
Category: Formalizing Common Sense: Papers by John McCarthy
Abstract / Synopsis: Information Unavailable
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Title #93: The Phenomenon of Commonsense Reasoning:
Nonmonotonicity, Action and Information
Edition: First Edition
ISBN Number: 0136636349
Number of Pages: 254
Author(s): Dimitrios Thanassas
Publisher: Ellis Horwood, Ltd.
Date: February, 1993
Category: The Phenomenon of Commonsense Reasoning: Nonmonotonicity,
Action and Information
Abstract / Synopsis: Information Unavailable
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Title #94: The Sciences of the Artificial - 3rd Edition, Paperback
Edition: 3rd Edition
ISBN Number: 0262691914
Number of Pages: 215
Author(s): Herbert A. Simon
Publisher: The MIT Press
Date: October 1, 1996
Category: AI in analyzing complexity and complex systems
Abstract / Synopsis: Continuing his exploration of the organization of complexity and the science of design, this new edition of Herbert Simon's classic work on artificial intelligence adds a chapter that sorts out the current themes and tools -- chaos, adaptive systems, genetic algorithms -- for analyzing complexity and complex systems. There are updates throughout the book as well. These take into account important advances in cognitive psychology and the science of design while confirming and extending the book's basic thesis: that a physical symbol system has the necessary and sufficient means for intelligent action. The chapter "Economic Reality" has also been revised to reflect a change in emphasis in Simon's thinking about the respective roles of organizations and markets in economic systems.
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Title #95: Artificial Intelligence : Structures and Strategies for Complex
Problem Solving (5th Edition)
Edition: Fifth Edition
ISBN Number: 0321263189
Number of Pages: 928
Author(s): George Luger
Publisher: Addison Wesley
Date: September 30, 2004
Category: Structures and Strategies for Complex Problem Solving
Abstract / Synopsis: The fifth edition of this book continues to provide a balanced perspective on the language schools, theories, and applications of artificial intelligence. These diverse branches are unified through detailed discussions of AI's theoretical foundations. The book is broken down into six parts to provide readers complete coverage of AI. It begins by introducing AI concepts, moves into a discussion on the research tools needs for AI problem solving, and then demonstrates representations for AI and knowledge-sensitive problem solving. The second half of the book offers an extensive presentation of issues in machine learning, continues presenting important AI application areas, and presents Lisp and Prolog to the reader. This book is appropriate for programmers both as an introduction to and a reference of the theoretical foundations of artificial intelligence.
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Title #96: Incomplete Information: Structure, Inference, Complexity
Edition: First Edition
ISBN Number: 3540419047
Number of Pages: 450
Author(s): Stephane P. Demri, Ewa S. Orlowska
Publisher: Springer
Date: August 17, 2002
Category: Book studies structures with incomplete information from the
logical, algebraic and computational perspective
Abstract / Synopsis: This monograph presents a systematic, exhaustive and up-to-date overview of formal methods and theories for data analysis and inference inspired by the concept of rough set. The book studies structures with incomplete information from the logical, algebraic and computational perspective. The formalisms developed are non-invasive in that only the actual information is needed in the process of analysis without external sources of information being required. The book is intended for researchers, lecturers and graduate students who wish to get acquainted with the rough set style approach to information systems with incomplete information.
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Title #97: Intelligent Transportation Systems: New Principles and
Architectures
Edition: Book & CD-Rom edition
ISBN Number: 0849300673
Number of Pages: 192
Author(s): Sumit Ghosh, Sumit Ghosh
Publisher: CRC Press
Date: January 27, 2000
Category: Computer modeling and simulation to help design and validate
complex, large-scale systems
Abstract / Synopsis: Focuses on highway and railway systems, stressing the need for computer modeling and simulation to help design and validate complex, large-scale systems, scientifically predict traffic demand patterns, and the design of new metrics to estimate the performance of these systems.
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Title #98: Collectives and the Design of Complex Systems
Edition: First Edition
ISBN Number: 0387401652
Number of Pages: 321
Author(s): Kagan Tumer, David Wolpert
Publisher: Springer
Date: May 17, 2004
Category: See Abstract / Synopsis
Abstract / Synopsis: Surveys the latest research on the dynamics of collectives and critical design issues. Presents key theoretical principles and applications in real-world scenarios.
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Title #99: Structural Complexity II (E a T C S Monographs on
Theoretical Computer Science)
Edition: First Edition, Second Volume
ISBN Number: 0387520791
Number of Pages: 283
Author(s): J. L. Balcazar
Publisher: Springer-Verlag
Date: June 1990
Category: Presents various areas of research in the field of structural
complexity
Abstract / Synopsis: This is the second volume of a systematic two-volume presentation of the various areas of research in the field of structural complexity. The mathematical theory of computation has developed into a broad and rich discipline within which the theory of algorithmic complexity can be approached from several points of view. This volume is addressed to graduate students and researchers and assumes knowledge of the topics treated in the first volume but is otherwise nearly self-contained. Topics covered include vector machines, parallel computation, alternation, uniform circuit complexity, isomorphism, biimmunity and complexity cores, relativization and positive relativization, the low and high hierarchies, Kolmogorov complexity and probability classes. Numerous exercises and references are given.
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Title #100: Artificial Intelligence and Computer Science
Edition: First Edition
ISBN Number: 1594544115
Number of Pages: Information Unavailable
Authors: Susan Shannon
Publisher: Nova Science Publishers, Inc.
Date: July 2005
Category: Artificial Intelligence and Computer Science
Abstract / Synopsis: Information unavailable
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Title #101: The Connection Machine (Mit Press Series in Artificial
Intelligence)
Edition: First Edition
ISBN Number: 0262081571
Number of Pages: 190
Author(s): W. Daniel Hillis
Publisher: MIT Press
Date: April, 1986
Category: Design and implementation of the Connection Machine (CM), a
massively parallel computer
Abstract / Synopsis: This book is essentially an edited version of Hillis's landmark thesis describing the design and implementation of the Connection Machine (CM), a massively parallel computer. The philosophy behind the CM's design is that the right kind of machine for many important computational tasks is a machine with vast numbers of simple processors doing the same thing on different data. This notion of one processor per important data element (one processor per pixel in image processing) is inspiring.
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Title #102: Soft Computing and Intelligent Systems : Theory and
Applications (Academic Press Series in Engineering)
Edition: First Edition
ISBN Number: 0126464901
Number of Pages: 639
Author(s): Madan M. Gupta, Naresh K. Sinha
Publisher: Academic Press
Date: October 15, 1999
Category: Book covers the fundamentals of soft computing
Abstract / Synopsis: The field of soft computing is emerging from the cutting edge research over the last ten years devoted to fuzzy engineering and genetic algorithms. The subject is being called soft computing and computational intelligence. With acceptance of the research fundamentals in these important areas, the field is expanding into direct applications through engineering and systems science. This book covers the fundamentals of this emerging filed, as well as direct applications and case studies. There is a need for practicing engineers, computer scientists, and system scientists to directly apply "fuzzy" engineering into a wide array of devices and systems.
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Title #103: Artificial Intelligence and Soft Computing: Behavioral and
Cognitive Modeling of the Human Brain
Edition: First Edition
ISBN Number: 0849313856
Number of Pages: 816
Author(s): Amit Konar
Publisher: CRC Press
Date: December 8, 1999
Category: AI & Soft Computing
Abstract / Synopsis: Until now, there has been no comprehensive resource accessible to a broad audience yet containing a depth and breadth of information that enables the reader to fully understand and readily apply AI and soft computing concepts. Artificial Intelligence and Soft Computing fills this gap. It presents both the traditional and the modern aspects of AI and soft computing in a clear, insightful, and highly comprehensive style. It provides an in-depth analysis of mathematical models and algorithms and demonstrates their applications in real world problems. Beginning with the behavioral perspective of "human cognition," the text covers the tools and techniques required for its intelligent realization on machines. The author addresses the classical aspects-search, symbolic logic, planning, and machine learning-in detail and includes the latest research in these areas.
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Title #104: Shadows of the Mind: A Search for the Missing Science of
Consciousness, Paperback
Edition: First Edition
ISBN Number: 0195106466
Number of Pages: 480
Author(s): Roger Penrose
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Date: May 1996
Category: Brain's conscious activity and possibilities of computation
Abstract / Synopsis: This book asserts that human consciousness is not necessarily intelligible in terms of computational models. The brain's conscious activity essentially transcends the forms or possibilities of computation. Penrose (mathematics, Oxford) illustrates his thesis via mathematical logic, including detailed discussions of Godel's proposition of incompleteness, Turing's machines and computabilities, quantum mechanics, and microbiology. Eventually, Penrose argues that artificial intelligence and computer-controlled expert systems are capable of assisting local human expertise but will not be able to replace such expertise. Expanding on some of the ideas and concepts proposed in his controversial book, The Emperor's New Mind (Oxford Univ. Pr., 1989), Penrose challenges others to reconsider traditional concepts. Some familiarity with mathematical logic or processes will facilitate one's appreciation of this book. Recommended for scholars, specialists, and informed lay readers.
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Title #105: Adaptive Control of Nonsmooth Dynamic Systems
ISBN Number: 1852333847
Number of Pages: 428
Author(s): Gang Tao (Editor), Frank L. Lewis
Publisher: Springer
Date: November 15, 2001
Category: A complete reference to adaptive control of systems with
nonsmooth industrial nonlinearities
Abstract / Synopsis: A complete reference to adaptive control of systems with nonsmooth industrial nonlinearities such as:- backlash- dead-zones- component failure- friction- hysteresis- saturation- time delays. These nonlinearities in industrial actuators cause severe problems in the motion control of industrial processes, particularly in view of modern requirements of speed and precision of movement such as occur in semiconductor manufacturing, precision machining, and elsewhere. Actuator nonlinearities are ubiquitous in engineering practice and limit control system performance. While standard feedback control alone cannot handle these nonsmooth nonlinearities effectively, this book, with unified and systematic adaptive design methods developed in 16 chapters, shows how such nonlinear characteristics can be effectively compensated for by using adaptive and intelligent control techniques. This allows desired system performance to be achieved in the presence of uncertain nonlinearities. With extensive surveys of literature and comprehensive summaries of various design methods, the authors of the book chapters, who are experts in their areas of interest, present new solutions to some important issues in adaptive control of systems with various sorts of nonsmooth nonlinearities.In addition to providing solutions, the book is also aimed at motivating more research activities in the important field of adaptive control of nonsmooth nonlinear industrial systems by formulating several challenging open problems in related areas.
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Title #106: Intelligent Control Systems Using Soft Computing
Methodologies
Edition: First Edition
ISBN Number: 0849318750
Number of Pages: 504
Author(s): Ali Zilouchian, Mohammad Jamshidi
Publisher: CRC Press
Date: March 27, 2001
Category: Intelligent control systems
Abstract / Synopsis: Explores intelligent control systems, specifically emphasizing the design and analysis of biological and industrial applications, using soft computing methodologies. Presents the fundamentals of neural networks, covering recent advances in intelligent control. Features numerous examples, references, and relevant problems.
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Title #107: Artificial Intelligence and Automatic Control
Edition: First Edition
ISBN Number: 1411623541
Number of Pages: 160
Author(s): Professor James Ron Leigh
Publisher:
Date: May 2005
Category: Evolution of autonomous control systems
Abstract / Synopsis: The book is based on papers that I presented to conferences on Intelligence and Cognitive Systems, Intelligent Control, and Intelligent Automatic Control Systems. The evolution of control systems is the main theme. Machines first took over from humans to replace muscle power, next to replace machine-minding and currently to replace human decision making. With the advent of intelligent machines, not only are tasks being performed by machines but, increasingly, machines are deciding what tasks should be performed. Systems that can learn are already with us and it is interesting to speculate about where this is leading Society. In considering where the ultimate boundaries between Man and Machine lie; it is useful to probe some of Nature’s workings, as well as Man’s deeper behaviors; therefore many diverse topics are involved. The book retains the slide plus text style of the original conference presentations, with the intention of maximizing readability.
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Title #108: Artificial Intelligence and Responsive Optimization, Paperback
Edition: First Edition
ISBN Number: 1931233705
Number of Pages: 77
Author(s): Mohammad Khoshnevisan
Publisher: Xiquan
Date: March 31, 2003
Category: Artificial Intelligence and Control Systems in modeling
Abstract / Synopsis: The purpose of this book is to apply the Artificial Intelligence and control systems to different real models. It has been designed for graduate students and researchers who are active in the applications of Artificial Intelligence and Control Systems in modeling. In our future research, we will address the unique aspects of Neutrosophic Logic in modeling and data analysis.
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Title #109: Computer-Supported Cooperative Work: A Book of Readings
Edition: First Edition
ISBN Number: 0934613575
Number of Pages: 739
Author(s): Irene Greif
Publisher: Morgan Kaufmann
Date: June 1, 1988
Category: Computer-supported cooperative work
Abstract / Synopsis: Computer-supported cooperative work is a field devoted to understanding group work processes and developing tools to enhance collaborative efforts. This book provides a comprehensive view of this dynamic area through a collection of articles from its diverse contributing fields, with introduction and analysis by the editor. Part 1 provides a concise history of the field, defining its early goals and seminal projects. In Part 2, current projects and their underlying technologies, including hypertext and database technologies for information sharing, are presented and evaluated. Finally, Part 3 outlines the theories and empirical studies guiding system design based on understanding human dynamics as well as system dynamics. Each section includes reprints, attractively re-typeset, of important papers from the seminal conferences and publications laying the foundations for the field.
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Title #110: Cooperative Systems Design: A Challenge of the Mobility Age
Edition: First Edition
ISBN Number: 1586032445
Number of Pages: 293
Author(s): Mireille Blay-Fornarino, Anne Marie Pinna-Dery,
Kjeld Schmidt, Pascale Zarate
Publisher: Ios Pr Inc
Date: May, 2002
Category: Cooperative Systems Design
Abstract / Synopsis: Information Unavailable
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Title #111: Cooperative Systems Design: Scenario-Based Design of
Collaborative Systems
Edition: First Edition
ISBN Number: 1586034227
Number of Pages: 259
Author(s): Francoise Darses, Rose Dieng, Carla Simone, Manuel Zacklad
Publisher: IOS Press
Date: June, 2004
Category: Cooperative Systems Design: Scenario-Based Design of
Collaborative Systems
Abstract / Synopsis: Information Unavailable
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Title #112: Cscw and Artificial Intelligence (Computer Supported
Cooperative Work)
Edition: First Edition
ISBN Number: 0387198164
Number of Pages: 192
Author(s): John H. Connolly, Ernest A. Edmonds
Publisher: Springer
Date: October, 1994
Category: AI to the design and implementation of computing systems in
which the principle of cooperation is of central significance
Abstract / Synopsis: This book is concerned with the application of concepts and techniques from AI to the design and implementation of computing systems in which the principle of cooperation is of central significance. Drawing upon important recent developments in AI, the authors deal with cooperative activity on the level of both software and user interaction. One of the key features of the book is its multidisciplinarity - technological, organizational, psychological, linguistic and semiotic perspectives are all represented. It covers both the theoretical and practical aspects of specific issues, as well as general topics such as frameworks, models, and architectures. CSCW and Artificial Intelligence presents extended treatments of many core topics in this important area. It provides a rich source of ideas for future work, and also highlights the enormous potential for growth within CSCW and AI.
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Title #113: Coordination Theory and Collaboration Technology (Volume
in the Computers, Cognition, and Work Series)
Edition: First Edition
ISBN Number: 0805834036
Number of Pages: 805
Author(s): Gary M. Olson
Publisher: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates
Date: May 1, 2001
Category: Coordination Theory and Collaboration Technology
Abstract / Synopsis: Information Unavailable
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Title #114: Digital Mantras: The Language of Abstract and Virtual
Worlds, Paperback
Edition: First Edition
ISBN Number: 0262581434
Number of Pages: 336
Author(s): Steven R. Holtzman
Publisher: The MIT Press
Date: August 4, 1995
Category: Integration of computers into the creative process
Abstract / Synopsis: A fascinating commentary on the integration of computers into the creative process. Drawing examples from the history of the use of structure in fields as diverse as the development of ancient languages, the philosophy of a Buddhist monk, the linguist Ferdinand de Saussure, the music of Arnold Schoenberg, and the grammar of Noam Chomsky, in conjunction with examples of the implementation of computers in recent creative work in language, music, art, and virtual reality, Holtzman presents a new philosophy of creativity in the digital age.
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Title #115: Technology and Creativity
Edition: First Edition
ISBN Number: 0195096886
Number of Pages: 233
Author(s): Subrata Dasgupta
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Date: March 1996
Category: Technology and Creativity
Abstract / Synopsis: Few things require a finer blend of practical knowledge and creative imagination than the invention of new technologies. Great innovators like Thomas Edison, Alexander Graham Bell, and Henry Ford possessed not only extensive mechanical knowledge, but also a profound ability to anticipate and fulfill the technological needs and desires of society. What thought processes underlie this unique union of mechanical prowess and social insight? Are inventors inspired by a divine muse--as artists through the ages have claimed to be--or is there a more down-to-earth explanation? In Technology and Creativity, Subrata Dasgupta brilliantly argues that such processes can be understood scientifically, and he offers a groundbreaking exploration of how cognitive psychology can shed light on the technological mind.
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Title #116: Trust in Cyber-Societies:
Integrating the Human and Artificial Perspectives
Edition: First Edition
ISBN Number: 3540430695
Number of Pages: 203
Author(s): R. Falcone, M. Singh, Y. H. Tan
Publisher: Springer
Date: January 2002
Category: Social Aspects of AI
Abstract / Synopsis: Information Unavailable
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Title #117: Intelligent Data Analysis
Edition: First Edition
ISBN Number: 3540430601
Number of Pages: 525
Author(s): Michael Berthold, David J. Hand
Publisher: Springer
Date: April 15, 2003
Category: Introductory intelligent data analysis methods
Abstract / Synopsis: This monograph is a detailed introductory presentation of the key classes of intelligent data analysis methods. The twelve coherently written chapters by leading experts provide complete coverage of the core issues. The first half of the book is devoted to the discussion of classical statistical issues, ranging from the basic concepts of probability, through general notions of inference, to advanced multivariate and time series methods, as well as a detailed discussion of the increasingly important Bayesian approaches and Support Vector Machines. The following chapters then concentrate on the area of machine learning and artificial intelligence and provide introductions into the topics of rule induction methods, neural networks, fuzzy logic, and stochastic search methods. The book concludes with a chapter on Visualization and a higher-level overview of the IDA processes, which illustrates the breadth of application of the presented ideas.
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Title #118: Readings in Artificial Intelligence and Databases
Edition: First Edition
ISBN Number: 0934613532
Number of Pages: 688
Author(s): John Mylopoulos, Michael L. Brodie
Publisher: Morgan Kaufmann
Date: September 1, 1988
Category: AI & Databases
Abstract / Synopsis: An in-depth introduction discusses basic research motivations, giving a survey of the history, concepts, and terminology of the interaction. Major themes, approaches and results, open issues and future directions are all discussed, including the results of a major survey conducted by the editors of current work in industry and research labs. Thirteen sections follow, each with a short introduction. Topics examined include semantic data models with emphasis on conceptual modeling techniques for databases and information systems and the integration of data model concepts in high-level data languages, definition and maintenance of integrity constraints in databases and knowledge bases, natural language front ends, object-oriented database management systems, implementation issues such as concurrency control and error recovery, and representation of time and knowledge incompleteness from the viewpoints of databases, logic programming, and AI.
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Title #119: Advances in Databases and Artificial Intelligence
Edition: First Edition
ISBN Number: 1559389117
Number of Pages: 330
Author(s): Delcamber
Publisher: JAI Press
Date: February, 1995
Category: Advances in Databases and Artificial Intelligence
Abstract / Synopsis: Information Unavailable
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Title #120: Artificial Intelligence in Databases and Information Systems
Edition: First Edition
ISBN Number: 0444886451
Number of Pages: 583
Author(s): Robert A. Meersman
Publisher: North-Holland
Date: May, 1990
Category: Artificial Intelligence in Databases and Information Systems
Abstract / Synopsis: Information Unavailable
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Title #121: Process-Oriented Consistency-Based Diagnosis - Theory,
Implementation and Applications
Edition: First Edition
ISBN Number: 1586032127
Number of Pages: 147
Author(s): U. Heller
Publisher: I O S Press, Inc.
Date: September 2001
Category: AI in diagnosis
Abstract / Synopsis: Information Unavailable
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Title #122: Thinking with Diagrams
Edition: First Edition
ISBN Number: 0792369440
Number of Pages: 160
Author(s): Alan F. Blackwell
Publisher: Springer
Date: April 30, 2001
Category: Book provides an introductory overview of the rapid growth in
interdisciplinary research into Thinking with Diagrams
Abstract / Synopsis: This book provides an introductory overview of the rapid growth in interdisciplinary research into Thinking with Diagrams. Diagrammatic representations are becoming more common in everyday human experience, yet they offer unique challenges to cognitive science research. Neither linguistic nor perceptual theories are sufficient to completely explain their advantages and applications. These research challenges may be part of the reason why so many diagrams are badly designed or badly used. This is ironic when the user interfaces of computer software and the worldwide web are becoming so completely dominated by graphical and diagrammatic representations. This book includes chapters commissioned from leading researchers in the major disciplines involved in diagrams research. They review the philosophical status of diagrams, the cognitive processes involved in their application, and a range of specialist fields in which diagrams are central, including education, architectural design and visual programming languages. The result is immediately relevant to researchers in cognitive science and artificial intelligence, as well as in applied technology areas such as human-computer interaction and information design.
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Title #123: Dictionary Of International Artificial Intelligence Terms
Edition: First Edition
ISBN Number: 0852976631
Number of Pages: 312
Author(s): William J. Raynor, John Clark
Publisher: Financial World Publishing
Date: October 2002
Category: Dictionary AI terms
Abstract / Synopsis: Information Unavailable
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Title #124: Artificial Intelligence in Education: Shaping the Future of
Learning Through Intelligent Technologies
Edition: First Edition
ISBN Number: 4274906000
Number of Pages: 451
Author(s): Ulrich Hoppe, Maria Feliza Verdejo, Judy Kay
Publisher: I O S Press, Inc.
Date: 2003
Category: AI and learning
Abstract / Synopsis: Information Unavailable
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Title #125: Artificial Intelligence in Education, Vol. 1
Edition: First Edition
ISBN Number: 1586031732
Number of Pages: 623
Author(s): Johanna D. Moore, Carol Luckhardt Redfield, W. Lewis Johnson
Publisher: I O S Press, Inc.
Date: May 2001
Category: AI in education
Abstract / Synopsis: Information Unavailable
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Title #126: Artificial Intelligence in Education
Edition: First Edition
ISBN Number: 1586035304
Number of Pages: 1040
Author(s): C. K. Looi, G. Mccalla, B. Bredeweg, J. Breuker
Publisher: IOS Press
Date: July 1, 2005
Category: Artificial Intelligence in Education
Abstract / Synopsis: The field of Artificial Intelligence in Education has continued to broaden and now includes research and researchers from many areas of technology and social science. This study opens opportunities for the cross-fertilization of information and ideas from researchers in the many fields that make up this interdisciplinary research area, including artificial intelligence, other areas of computer science, cognitive science, education, learning sciences, educational technology, psychology, philosophy, sociology, anthropology, linguistics, and the many domain-specific areas for which Artificial Intelligence in Education systems have been designed and built. An explicit goal is to appeal to those researchers who share the perspective that true progress in learning technology requires both deep insight into technology and also deep insight into learners, learning, and the context of learning. The theme reflects this basic duality.
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Title #127: Artificial Intelligence, Culture and Language: On Education
and Work
Edition: First Edition
ISBN Number: 0387195734
Number of Pages: 266
Author(s): Bo Goranzon, Magnus Florin
Publisher: Springer
Date: May, 1990
Category: The premise this book is that mathematical and engineering models are not in themselves sufficient to explain the effects of computers on the concept and exercise of knowledge
Abstract / Synopsis: The Stockholm conference, organised by the Swedish Arbetslivascentrum in 1988, on Culture, Language and Artificial Intelligence, brought together over three hundred and sixty people interested in the cultural impact of technology, particularly of AI. The premise behind the conference - and this book - is the conclusion of the Swedish Centre for Working Life: that mathematical and engineering models are not in themselves sufficient to explain the effects of computers on the concept and exercise of knowledge. The book contains 29 challenging papers under the headings - language and knowledge - tacit knowledge - the information society - education, training skills and work - expert systems.
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Title #128: Teaching and Learning in a Network World
Edition: First Edition
ISBN Number: 1586030523
Number of Pages: 186
Author(s): P. Hoffman
Publisher: Ios Pr Inc
Date: January 1, 2000
Category: Iinnovative solutions for key technology issues faced by
educational institutions from throughout the world
Abstract / Synopsis: TechEd2000 plays a vital role in equipping universities, colleges, and schools with a strong base technology awareness and the knowledge needed to tackle the increasing challenges of teaching and learning. We are pleased to report that TechEd2000 attracted more than 400 presentation submissions. The presentations accepted for TechEd2000 demonstrate innovative solutions for key technology issues faced by educational institutions from throughout the world.
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Title #129: Artificial Intelligence and Education
Edition: First Edition
ISBN Number: 0893916307
Number of Pages: Information Unavailable
Author(s): Robert Lawler
Publisher: Ablex Publishing Corporation
Date: September, 1991
Category: Artificial Intelligence and Education
Abstract / Synopsis: Information Unavailable
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Title #130: Advanced Research in Computers and Communications in
Education
Edition: First Edition
ISBN Number: 1586030272
Number of Pages: Information Unavailable
Author(s): Geoff Cumming
Publisher: Ios Pr Inc
Date: January 1, 2000
Category: Book discusses educational uses of technology in the service of
enhanced learning
Abstract / Synopsis: This book discusses educational uses of technology in the service of enhanced learning. Bringing together contributions of researchers, practitioners and policy-makers, it aims to improve communication and understanding in educational research and practice involving technology. Networking is specially emphasized, since increasingly education via technology is available world-wide. Furthermore, many issues of pedagogy, access, equity, culture and social effects are discussed, alongside questions of technology. Technology is a means to allow people to enhance their abilities. More important than technology itself are the educational processes and outcomes. A substantial part of this book discusses these two central issues.
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Title #131: Teaching and Learning in Logo-Based Environments
Edition: First Edition
ISBN Number: 9051990243
Number of Pages: 268
Author(s): M. Valcke, G Schuyten
Publisher: Ios Pr Inc
Date: January 1, 1990
Category: Teaching and Learning in Logo-Based Environments
Abstract / Synopsis: Information Unavailable
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Title #132: Robotics, artificial intelligence, computer simulation: Future
applications in special education
Edition: First Edition
ISBN Number: 0942570154
Number of Pages: 144
Author(s): Gwendolyn B Moore
Publisher: COSMOS Corporation
Date: 1985
Category: Robotics, artificial intelligence, computer simulation: Future
applications in special education
Abstract / Synopsis: Information Unavailable
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Title #133: Emotion (Very Short Introduction S.), Paperback
Edition: First Edition
ISBN Number: 0192804618
Number of Pages: 156
Author(s): Dylan Evans
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Date: February 13, 2003
Category: AI & Emotion
Abstract / Synopsis: Information unavailable
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Title #134: Affective Computing, Paperback
Edition: First Edition
ISBN Number: 0262661152
Number of Pages: 304
Author(s): Rosalind W. Picard
Publisher: The MIT Press
Date: July 31, 2000
Category: Emotions play an essential role in decision making, perception, learning, and more--that is, they influence the very mechanisms of rational thinking
Abstract / Synopsis: The latest scientific findings indicate that emotions play an essential role in decision making, perception, learning, and more--that is, they influence the very mechanisms of rational thinking. According to Rosalind Picard, if we want computers to be genuinely intelligent and to interact naturally with us, we must give computers the ability to recognize, understand, even to have and express emotions.
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Title #135: Who Needs Emotions?: The Brain Meets the Robot (Series in
Affective Science)
Edition: First Edition
ISBN Number: 0195166191
Number of Pages: 399
Author(s): Jean-Marc Fellous, Michael A. Arbib
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Date: March 30, 2005
Category: Book have assembled a panel of experts in neuroscience and artificial intelligence who have dared to tackle the issue of whether robots can have emotions from a purely scientific point of view
Abstract / Synopsis: The idea that some day robots may have emotions has captured the imagination of many and has been dramatized by robots and androids in such famous movies as 2001 Space Odyssey's HAL or Star Trek's Data. By contrast, the editors of this book have assembled a panel of experts in neuroscience and artificial intelligence who have dared to tackle the issue of whether robots can have emotions from a purely scientific point of view. The study of the brain now usefully informs study of the social, communicative, adaptive, regulatory, and experimental aspects of emotion and offers support for the idea that we exploit our own psychological responses in order to feel others' emotions. The contributors show the many ways in which the brain can be analyzed to shed light on emotions. Fear, reward, and punishment provide structuring concepts for a number of investigations. Neurochemistry reveals the ways in which different "neuromodulators" such as serotonin, dopamine, and opioids can affect the emotional valence of the brain. And studies of different regions such as the amygdala and orbitofrontal cortex provide a view of the brain as a network of interacting subsystems. Related studies in artificial intelligence and robotics are discussed and new multi-level architectures are proposed that make it possible for emotions to be implemented. It is now an accepted task in robotics to build robots that perceive human expressions of emotion and can "express" simulated emotions to ease interactions with humans. Looking towards future innovations, some scientists posit roles for emotion with our fellow humans. All of these issues are covered in this timely and stimulating book which is written for researchers and graduated students in neuroscience, cognitive science, psychology, robotics, and artificial intelligence.
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Title #136: Emotions in Humans and Artifacts
Edition: First Edition
ISBN Number: 0262201429
Number of Pages: 408
Author(s): Robert Trappl
Publisher: The MIT Press
Date: January 31, 2003
Category: Book presents recent work on emotions in neuroscience, cognitive science, philosophy, computer science, artificial intelligence, and software and game development
Abstract / Synopsis: Emotions have been much studied and discussed in recent years. Most books, however, treat only one aspect of emotions, such as emotions and the brain, emotions and well-being, or emotions and computer agents. This interdisciplinary book presents recent work on emotions in neuroscience, cognitive science, philosophy, computer science, artificial intelligence, and software and game development. The book discusses the components of human emotion and how they might be incorporated into machines, whether artificial agents should convey emotional responses to human users and how such responses could be made believable, and whether agents should accept and interpret the emotions of users without displaying emotions of their own. It also covers the evolution and brain architecture of emotions, offers vocabularies and classifications for defining emotions, and examines emotions in relation to machines, games, virtual worlds, and music.
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Title #137: Passionate Engines: What Emotions Reveal about the Mind
and Artificial Intelligence
Edition: First Edition
ISBN Number: 019517366X
Number of Pages: 254
Author(s): Craig DeLancey
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Inc.
Date: December 2004
Category: Emotion and AI
Abstract / Synopsis: In this unique contribution to philosophical debate, Craig DeLancey shows that our best understanding of emotion provides essential insight on key issues in philosophy of mind and artificial intelligence. In this unique contribution to philosophical debate, Craig DeLancey shows that our best understanding of emotion provides essential insight on key issues in philosophy of mind and artificial intelligence. DeLancey offers us a bold new approach to the study of the mind based on the latest scientific research, and provides an accessible overview of the science of emotion and explanation of the technical issues that arise, with minimal jargon.
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Title #138: Empirical Methods for Artificial Intelligence (Bradford Books)
Edition: First Edition
ISBN Number: 0262032252
Number of Pages: 560
Author(s): Paul R. Cohen
Publisher: The MIT Press
Date: August 3, 1995
Category: Empirical methods for studying complex computer programs
Abstract / Synopsis: Computer science and artificial intelligence in particular have no curriculum in research methods, as other sciences do. This book presents empirical methods for studying complex computer programs: exploratory tools to help find patterns in data, experiment designs and hypothesis-testing tools to help data speak convincingly, and modeling tools to help explain data. Although many of these techniques are statistical, the book discusses statistics in the context of the broader empirical enterprise. The first three chapters introduce empirical questions, exploratory data analysis, and experiment design. The blunt interrogation of statistical hypothesis testing is postponed until chapters 4 and 5, which present classical parametric methods and computer-intensive (Monte Carlo) re-sampling methods, respectively.
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Title #139: Independent Component Analysis : Principles and Practice
Edition: First Edition
ISBN Number: 0521792983
Number of Pages: 352
Author(s): Stephen Roberts, Richard Everson
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Date: March 1, 2001
Category: Independent Components Analysis (ICA) is an important tool for
modeling and understanding empirical data sets
Abstract / Synopsis: Independent Components Analysis (ICA) is an important tool for modeling and understanding empirical data sets. Belonging to the class of general linear models, it is a method of separating out independent sources from linearly mixed data. ICA provides a better decomposition than other well-known models such as principal component analysis. This self-contained book contains a structured series of edited papers by leading researchers in the field and includes an extensive introduction to ICA. It reviews the major theoretical bases from a modern perspective, surveys current developments, and describes many case studies of applications in detail. Applications include biomedical examples, signal and image denoising, and mobile communications. The book discusses ICA within the framework of general linear models, but it also compares it to other paradigms such as neural network and graphical modeling methods.
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Title #140: Empirical Evaluation Methods in Computer Vision
Edition: First Edition
ISBN Number: 9810249535
Number of Pages: 170
Author(s): H. I. Christensen
Publisher: World Scientific Publishing Company
Date: July 15, 2002
Category: Computer vision
Abstract / Synopsis: Provides comprehensive coverage of methods for the empirical evaluation of computer vision techniques.
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Title #141: Encyclopedia of Artificial Intelligence
Edition: First Edition
ISBN Number: 0471629731
Number of Pages: 1219
Author(s): Stuart C. Shapiro
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Inc
Date: December 31, 1987
Category: AI Encyclopedia
Abstract / Synopsis: Written by 350 experts in industry, government and academia, this award-winning book covers all fields encompassed by Artificial Intelligence. The Second Edition has been expanded and updated to include growth in the areas of fuzzy logic, vision, neural networks and languages. Contains over 50% new and revised articles, more than 5000 literary references and 450 illustrations. The excellent indexing and cross-referencing system will lead readers to almost every other article.
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Title #142: Artificial Mind System: Kernel Memory Approach
Edition: First Edition
ISBN Number: 3540260722
Number of Pages: 270
Author(s): Tetsuya Hoya
Publisher: Springer
Date: September 2005
Category: AI from engineer’s perspective
Abstract / Synopsis: This book was written from an engineer's perspective of the mind. So far, although quite a large amount of literature on the topic of the mind has appeared from various disciplines; in this research monograph, the author tried to draw a picture of the holistic model of an artificial mind system and its behavior, as concretely as possible, within a unified context, which could eventually lead to practical realization in terms of hardware or software. With a view that "the mind is a system always evolving" , ideas inspired / motivated from many branches of studies related to brain science are integrated within the text, i.e. artificial intelligence, cognitive science / psychology, connectionism, consciousness studies, general neuroscience, linguistics, pattern recognition / data clustering, robotics, and signal processing. The intention is then to expose the reader to a broad spectrum of interesting areas in general brain science / mind-oriented studies
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Title #143: An Artificial Intelligence Approach to VLSI Routing
Edition: First Edition
ISBN Number: 089838205X
Number of Pages: 192
Author(s): R. Joobbani
Publisher: Springer
Date: November 30, 1985
Category: AI & Engineering
Abstract / Synopsis: Information Unavailable
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Title #144: Artificial Intelligence in Engineering Design
Edition: First Edition
ISBN Number: 0126605637
Number of Pages: 388
Author(s): Christopher Tong, Duvvuru Sriram
Publisher: Academic Press
Date: January 15, 1992
Category: AI in Engineering Design
Abstract / Synopsis: Artificial Intelligence in Engineering Design is a three volume edited collection of key papers from the field of artificial intelligence and design, aimed at providing a state-of-the-art description of the field, and focusing on how ideas and methods from artifical intelligence can help engineers in the design of physical artifacts and processes. The book surveys a wide variety of applications in the areas of civil, mechanical, chemical, VLSI, electrical, and computer engineering. The contributors are from leading academic computer-aided design centers as well as from industry.
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Title #145: Applications of Artificial Intelligence in Engineering VII
Edition: First Edition
ISBN Number: 1562521020
Number of Pages: 1254
Author(s): Information Unavailable
Publisher: Computational Mechanics
Date: December, 1992
Category: Applications of Artificial Intelligence in Engineering VII
Abstract / Synopsis: Information Unavailable
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Title #146: Applications of Artificial Intelligence in Engineering XII
Edition: First Edition
ISBN Number: 1853124710
Number of Pages: 184
Author(s): R. A. Adey
Publisher: Computational Mechanics
Date: June, 1997
Category: Artificial Intelligence in Engineering
Abstract / Synopsis: This book and CD-ROM set contains the Proceedings of the Twelfth International Conference on Applications of Artificial Intelligence in Engineering (AIENG 97), which was held on the island of Capri, Italy, July 7-9, 1997. The annual conference series has always attracted leading researchers and its proceedings thus constitute an record of achievement in the field.
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Title #147: Artificial Intelligence in Process Engineering
Edition: First Edition
ISBN Number: 0124805752
Number of Pages: 367
Author(s): Michael L. Mavrovouniotis
Publisher: Academic Pr
Date: May, 1990
Category: Artificial Intelligence in Process Engineering
Abstract / Synopsis: Information Unavailable
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Title #148: What Every Engineer Should Know About Artificial
Intelligence
Edition: First Edition
ISBN Number: 0262200694
Number of Pages: 331
Author(s): William A. Taylor
Publisher: The MIT Press
Date: April 7, 1988
Category: AI expert and consultant William Taylor provides a practical explanation of the parts of AI research that are ready for use by anyone with an engineering degree
Abstract / Synopsis: Engineers can profit from the revolution in AI research that is changing the ground rules of the profession. AI expert and consultant William Taylor provides a practical explanation of the parts of AI research that are ready for use by anyone with an engineering degree and that can help engineers do their jobs better. Taylor tours the field of artificial intelligence in a highly readable and engaging manner, outlining in detail how engineers can work with AI. In separate chapters he discusses the three basic programming styles - function-based programming, object-oriented programming, and rule-based programming - as well as the use of Lisp and Prolog. He concludes by offering several suggestions for getting started in the field. As Taylor defines it, AI is a programming style that has much in common with engineering practice: programs operate on data according to rules in order to accomplish goals. While the term "artificial intelligence" is generally defined as meaning the design of computers to think the way people do, Taylor points out that for engineering purposes it is more accurately defined as a few software ideas that work well enough to be used. And as AI technology matures, computers will be able to provide actual design help. They will, in effect, serve as design apprentices, offering suggestions and handling actual parts of the design. William A. Taylor is an international consultant on the practical applications of artificial intelligence and has spent several years giving seminars on AI to senior engineers and engineering management.
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Title #149: Applications of Artificial Intelligence in Engineering Problems
Edition: First Edition
ISBN Number: 0387163492
Number of Pages: 1198
Author(s): R. A. Adey
Publisher: Springer
Date: July, 1986
Category: Applications of Artificial Intelligence in Engineering Problems
Abstract / Synopsis: Information Unavailable
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Title #150: Artificial Intelligence in Engineering: Design and Learning
Edition: First Edition
ISBN Number: 0931215994
Number of Pages: Information Unavailable
Author(s): J. S. Gero
Publisher: Computational Mechanics
Date: August, 1988
Category: Artificial Intelligence in Engineering: Design and Learning
Abstract / Synopsis: Information Unavailable
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Title #151: Artificial Intelligence in Industrial Decision Making, Control
and Automation
Edition: First Edition
ISBN Number: 0792333209
Number of Pages: 800
Author(s): S.G. Tzafestas, H.B. Verbruggen
Publisher: Springer
Date: December 31, 1989
Category: Involvement of AI in the design and operation of important industrial systems with built-in intelligence
Abstract / Synopsis: The field of artificial intelligence (AI) has expanded enormously during the last years, and solid theoretical and application results are now available. Researchers and practitioners are building AI-based systems that face real-world and industrial problems. Artificial Intelligence in Industrial Decision Making, Control and Automation provides a balanced state-of-the-art presentation of the involvement of AI in the design and operation of important industrial systems with built-in intelligence. Topics included are: integration of qualitative and quantitative models, timing problems, intelligent simulation and control, multiresolutional architectures for autonomous systems, DAI systems, artificial neural networks in modeling and control, system diagnostics, industrial robotic systems and cells, man-robot systems, flexible manufacturing systems, knowledge-based scheduling systems. Readers can save considerable time in searching the scattered literature in the field, and can find here a rich set of how-to-do issues and results which will improve their skills in analyzing and designing AI-based systems.
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Title #152: Applications of Artificial Intelligence in Engineering XIII
Edition: Book & CD Rom Edition
ISBN Number: 1853125962
Number of Pages: 200
Author(s): P. Nolan
Publisher: Wit Pr/Computational Mechanics
Date: June 9, 1998
Category: Applications of Artificial Intelligence in Engineering
Abstract / Synopsis: Contains the extended abstracts of the papers presented at the 13th International conference on the Applications of Artificial Intelligence in Engineering, held at the National University of Ireland, Galway (NUIG) in July 1998 presenting the work of AI researcher from around the world, covering all the main branches of engineering.
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Title #153: Artificial Intelligence in Design
Edition: First Edition
ISBN Number: 0387506349
Number of Pages: 499
Author(s): D. T. Pham
Publisher: Springer
Date: June, 1991
Category: Artificial Intelligence in Design
Abstract / Synopsis: Information Unavailable
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Title #154: Industrial and Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence
and Expert Systems
Edition: First Edition
ISBN Number: 2884491287
Number of Pages: 696
Author(s): Frank D. Anger
Publisher: Gordon & Breach Science Pub
Date: May, 1994
Category: Book is about the latest results of industrial, commercial, military,
and academic artificial intelligence exploration
Abstract / Synopsis: These proceedings record the latest results of industrial, commercial, military, and academic artificial intelligence exploration. Seventy-seven papers divided into twenty different areas document a significant slice of this broad and exciting field. Although dozens of themes are treated in the papers, the topical divisions of this volume comprise: The Software Engineering/AI Interface, Knowledge-Based Systems, Temporal Reasoning, Machine Learning, Robotics, Intelligent Databases, Planning, Expert Systems Applications, Search Techniques, Genetic and Evolutionary Methods, Design, Qualitative Reasoning, Neural Networks, Knowledge Representation, Application Paradigms, Fuzzy and Pattern Recognition, Reasoning about Physical Systems, Parallel and Distributed AI, and Diagnostic Systems.
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Title #155: Applications of Artificial Intelligence in Engineering V
Edition: First Edition
ISBN Number: 3540529209
Number of Pages: Information Unavailable
Author(s): Information Unavailable
Publisher: Springer Verlag
Date: January, 1991
Category: Applications of Artificial Intelligence in Engineering V
Abstract / Synopsis: Information Unavailable
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Title #156: Survey of research in progress on expert systems and artificial
intelligence in civil engineering
Edition: First Edition
ISBN Number: B0006OVSWE
Number of Pages: 46
Author(s): W. M. Kim Roddis
Publisher: University of Kansas Center for Research
Date: 1992
Category: Survey of research in progress on expert systems and artificial
intelligence in civil engineering
Abstract / Synopsis: Information Unavailable
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Title #157: Artificial Intelligence Applications in the Computer
Electronics Industry (Paperback
Edition: First Edition
ISBN Number: 0130480428
Number of Pages: Information Unavailable
Author(s): Richard Kendall Miller, Terri C. Walker
Publisher: Fairmont Pr
Date: August, 1988
Category: Artificial Intelligence Applications in the Computer Electronics
Industry
Abstract / Synopsis: Information Unavailable
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Title #158: Smart Environments : Technology, Protocols and Applications
(Wiley Series on Parallel and Distributed Computing)
Edition: First Edition
ISBN Number: 0471544485
Number of Pages: 432
Author(s): Diane Cook, Sajal Das
Publisher: Wiley-Interscience
Date: October 22, 2004
Category: Smart environments
Abstract / Synopsis: Smart Environments contains contributions from leading researchers, describing techniques and issues related to developing and living in intelligent environments. Reflecting the multidisciplinary nature of the design of smart environments, the topics covered include the latest research in smart environment philosophical and computational architecture considerations, network protocols for smart environments, intelligent sensor networks and power-line control of devices, and action prediction and identification.
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Title #159: Representation and Processing of Knowledge About Distances
in Environmental Space
Edition: First Edition
ISBN Number: 1586031104
Number of Pages: 260
Author(s): Bettina Berendt
Publisher: Ios Pr Inc
Date: February, 1999
Category: AI & its Environment
Abstract / Synopsis: Information Unavailable
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Title #160: Artificial Ethology, Paperback
Edition: First Edition
ISBN Number: 0198510578
Number of Pages: 261
Author(s): Owen Holland, David McFarland
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Date: May 2001
Category: How artificial ethology, the experimentation with animal-like robots, can add a new dimension to our understanding of behavioral questions
Abstract / Synopsis: Modeling and computer simulations combined with empirical research are the traditional tools for the study of animal behavior. This exciting new book sets out to show how artificial ethology, or experimentation with animal-like robots, can add a new dimension to our understanding of behavioral questions. Thematic chapters scrutinizing major areas of research in animal behavior follow introductory chapters to modeling and robotics. Each thematic exploration is illustrated with case studies written by leading researchers in the field. From robotic lobsters to robotic 'monkeys', each case study brings the text to life, and gives a detailed description of a problem, approach, and robot application. This is a comprehensive introduction to the application of robotics in animal behavior and physiology.
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Title #161: Turtles, Termites, and Traffic Jams: Explorations in Massively
Parallel Microworlds (Complex Adaptive Systems)
Edition: First Edition
ISBN Number: 0262181622
Number of Pages: 163
Author(s): Mitchel Resnick
Publisher: The MIT Press
Date: July, 1994
Category: Massively parallel microworlds
Abstract / Synopsis: How does a bird flock keep its movements so graceful and synchronized? Most people assume that the bird in front leads and the others follow. In fact, bird flocks don't have leaders: they are organized without an organizer, coordinated without a coordinator. And a surprising number of other systems, from termite colonies to traffic jams to economic systems, work the same decentralized way. Turtles, Termites, and Traffic Jams describes innovative new computational tools that can help people (even young children) explore the workings of such systems--and help them move beyond the centralized mindset.
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Title #162: Introduction to Evolutionary Computing (Natural Computing
Series)
Edition: First Edition
ISBN Number: 3540401849
Number of Pages: 299
Author(s): A.E. Eiben, J.E. Smith
Publisher: Springer
Date: November 5, 2003
Category: Evolutionary Computing
Abstract / Synopsis: Evolutionary Computing is the collective name for a range of problem-solving techniques based on principles of biological evolution, such as natural selection and genetic inheritance. These techniques are being increasingly widely applied to a variety of problems, ranging from practical applications in industry and commerce to leading-edge scientific research. This book presents the first complete overview of this exciting field aimed directly at lecturers and graduate and undergraduate students. It is also meant for those who wish to apply evolutionary computing to a particular problem or within a given application area. To this group the book is valuable because it presents EC as something to be used rather than just studied. Last, but not least, this book contains quick-reference information on the current state-of-the-art in a wide range of related topics, so it is of interest not just to evolutionary computing specialists but to researchers working in other fields.
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Title #163: Darwin Among the Machines: The Evolution of Global
Intelligence (Helix Books), Paperback
Edition: First Edition
ISBN Number: 0738200301
Number of Pages: 304
Author(s): George Dyson, George B. Dyson
Publisher: Perseus Books Group
Date: October 1998
Category: Evolution of machines and thoughts about machines
Abstract / Synopsis: Here's a mesmerizing account of the evolution of machines and thoughts about machines, woven into a story about the evolution of intelligence. Darwin Among the Machines is not so much about how today's intelligence came to be, but about how it may further develop as humanity and computer grow closer together. George Dyson tells the story largely through stories--both historical and legendary--from the lives of scientists and philosophers who paved the way for today's cybernetics revolution, starting with the 17th-century insights of Thomas Hobbes. This book challenges the assumption that nature and machine are opposing forces. Dyson believes them to be allies.
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Title #164: Evolutionary Computation : Toward a New Philosophy of
Machine Intelligence
Edition: Second Edition
ISBN Number: 078035379X
Number of Pages: 290
Author(s): David B. Fogel
Publisher: Wiley-IEEE Press
Date: August 18, 1999
Category: Simulated evolution in achieving machine intelligence
Abstract / Synopsis: Presents the latest advances in both the theory and practice of evolutionary computation to help you keep pace with developments in this fast changing field. Demonstrates how to use simulated evolution to achieve machine intelligence and provides current insights into the history of evolutionary computation and new research results. DLC: Computer simulation.
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Title #165: Evolutionary Algorithms for Solving Multi-Objective
Problems (Genetic Algorithms and Evolutionary Computation)
Edition: First Edition
ISBN Number: 0306467623
Number of Pages: 610
Author(s): Carlos A. Coello Coello
Publisher: Springer
Date: June 30, 2002
Category: Various features of multi-objective evolutionary algorithms
(MOEAs) are presented
Abstract / Synopsis: The solving of multi-objective problems (MOPs) has been a continuing effort by humans in many diverse areas, including computer science, engineering, economics, finance, industry, physics, chemistry, and ecology, among others. Many powerful and deterministic and stochastic techniques for solving these large dimensional optimization problems have risen out of operations research, decision science, engineering, computer science and other related disciplines. The explosion in computing power continues to arouse extraordinary interest in stochastic search algorithms that require high computational speed and very large memories. A generic stochastic approach is that of evolutionary algorithms (EA). Such algorithms have been demonstrated to be very powerful and generally applicable for solving different single objective problems. Their fundamental algorithmic structures can also be applied to solving many multi-objective problems. In this book, the various features of multi-objective evolutionary algorithms (MOEAs) are presented in an innovative and unique fashion, with detailed customized forms
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Title #166: Evolution of Information: Lineages in Gene, Culture and
Artifact
Edition: First Edition
ISBN Number: 0861878957
Number of Pages: 203
Author(s): Susantha Goonatilake
Publisher: Thomson Learning
Date: September, 1991
Category: Evolution of Information
Abstract / Synopsis: Information unavailable
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Title #167: Evolutionary Design by Computers
Edition: Book & CD Rom edition
ISBN Number: 155860605X
Number of Pages: 446
Author(s): Peter J. Bentley
Publisher: Morgan Kaufmann
Date: June 15, 1999
Category: Recent research into "evolutionary" computing
Abstract / Synopsis: Evolutionary Design by Computers is a collection of essays that describe recent research into "evolutionary" computing, where computers mimic the strategies of biological evolution to solve problems in architecture, engineering, art, and artificial life. Peter Bentley's excellent introduction to the current state of evolutionary design quickly orients readers to the field. Bentley shows that no matter how various practitioners identify themselves, they are united in applying the principals of Darwinism to computer algorithms.
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Title #168: Evolutionary Computation 1: Basic Algorithms and Operators
(Evolutionary Computation), Paperback
Edition: First Edition
ISBN Number: 0750306645
Number of Pages: 339
Author(s): Thomas Back
Publisher: Institute of Physics Publishing
Date: May 15, 2000
Category: Covers all the paradigms of evolutionary computation in detail
Abstract / Synopsis: Covers all the paradigms of evolutionary computation in detail, providing an overview of the rationale of evolutionary computation and its biological background. Offers an in-depth presentation of basic elements of evolutionary computation models according to the types of representations used for typical problem classes.
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Title #169: The Knowledge Evolution: Expanding Organizational
Intelligence (Business Briefcase), Paperback
Edition: First Edition
ISBN Number: 075069842X
Number of Pages: 224
Author(s): Verna Allee
Publisher: Butterworth-Heinemann
Date: April 23, 1997
Category: Practical guidebook for mastering "the knowledge era"
Abstract / Synopsis: The Knowledge Evolution offers a unique and powerful road map for understanding knowledge creation, learning, and performance in everyday work. Packed with the best practices from leading edge companies, essential guidelines, design principles, analogies, and conceptual frameworks, The Knowledge Evolution serves as a practical guidebook for mastering "the knowledge era". Highly recommended reading for anyone charged with managerial responsibilities and successfully competing in the business climates of the 21st century.
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Title #170: Information and Meaning: An Evolutionary Perspective,
Paperback
Edition: First Edition
ISBN Number: 354076139X
Number of Pages: 255
Author(s): Tom Stonier
Publisher: Springer-Verlag Telos
Date: June 1997
Category: Exploring the nature of information, intelligence and meaning
Abstract / Synopsis: Information and Meaning is the third book in a trilogy exploring the nature of information, intelligence and meaning. It begins by providing an overview of the first two works of the trilogy, then goes on to consider the meaning of meaning. This exploration leads to a theory of how the brain works. This book differs from others in the field, in that it is written from the perspective of a theoretical biologist looking at the evolution of information systems as a basis for studying the phenomena of information, intelligence and meaning. It describes how neurons create a brain which understands information inputs and then is able to operate on such information.
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Title #171: Illustrating Evolutionary Computation with Mathematica (The
Morgan Kaufmann Series in Artificial Intelligence)
Edition: First Edition
ISBN Number: 1558606378
Number of Pages: 578
Author(s): Christian Jacob
Publisher: Morgan Kaufmann
Date: February 1, 2001
Category: Thorough survey of evolutionary computation techniques, including genetic algorithms, genetic programming, evolutionary programming, and evolution strategies
Abstract / Synopsis: This book provides a thorough survey of evolutionary computation techniques, including genetic algorithms, genetic programming, evolutionary programming, and evolution strategies. The author uses mathematica to illustrate the examples. If you know mathematica, you'll find this unique angle to be invaluable, but even if you don't know mathematica, if you're familiar with any programming languages, or matlab, maple, etc., you should be able to make the connections. The figures in this book have to be the most illustrative examples offered in any evolutionary computation text to date.
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Title #172: Theory of Evolution Strategies
Edition: First Edition
ISBN Number: 3540672974
Number of Pages: 380
Author(s): Hans-Georg Beyer
Publisher: Springer
Date: February 15, 2001
Category: Emphasis is on understanding the functioning of these probabilistic optimization algorithms in real-valued search spaces by investigating the dynamical properties of some well-established ES algorithms
Abstract / Synopsis: Evolutionary Algorithms, in particular Evolution Strategies, Genetic Algorithms, or Evolutionary Programming, have found wide acceptance as robust optimization algorithms in the last ten years. Compared with the broad propagation and the resulting practical prosperity in different scientific fields, the theory has not progressed as much. This monograph provides the framework and the first steps toward the theoretical analysis of Evolution Strategies (ES). The main emphasis is on understanding the functioning of these probabilistic optimization algorithms in real-valued search spaces by investigating the dynamical properties of some well-established ES algorithms. The book introduces the basic concepts of this analysis, such as progress rate, quality gain, and self-adaptation response, and describes how to calculate these quantities. Based on the analysis, functioning principles are derived, aiming at a qualitative understanding of why and how ES algorithms work.
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Title #173: Evolutionary Computation : The Fossil Record
Edition: First Edition
ISBN Number: 0780334817
Number of Pages: 656
Author(s): David B. Fogel
Publisher: Wiley-IEEE Press
Date: May 1, 1998
Category: Collection of 30 landmark papers spans the entire history of evolutionary computation---from today's investigations back to its very origins more than 40 years ago
Abstract / Synopsis: "Featuring copious introductory material by distinguished scientist Dr. David B. Fogel. This formidable collection of 30 landmark papers spans the entire history of evolutionary computation---from today's investigations back to its very origins more than 40 years ago. Chapter by chapter, Fogel highlights how early ideas have developed into current thinking and how others have been lost and await rediscovery. The introductions to each chapter reflect Fogel's one-on-one conversations with the authors and their colleagues, conducted over a period of four years. Evolutionary Computation: The Fossil Record provides in-depth historical information and technical detail that is simply unmatched in the field. This volume is complete with an extensive bibliography of related literature.
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Title #174: Frontiers of Evolutionary Computation (Genetic Algorithms
and Evolutionary Computation)
Edition: First Edition
ISBN Number: 1402075243
Number of Pages: 272
Author(s): Anil Menon
Publisher: Springer
Date: February 29, 2004
Category: Genetic algorithms and evolutionary computation
Abstract / Synopsis: Frontiers of Evolutionary Computation brings together eleven contributions by international leading researchers discussing what significant issues still remain unresolved in the field of Evolutionary Computation (EC). They explore such topics as the role of building blocks, the balancing of exploration with exploitation, the modeling of EC algorithms, the connection with optimization theory and the role of EC as a meta-heuristic method, to name a few. The articles feature a mixture of informal discussion interspersed with formal statements, thus providing the reader an opportunity to observe a wide range of EC problems from the investigative perspective of world-renowned researchers.
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Title #175: Evolutionary Algorithms in Engineering Applications
Edition: First Edition
ISBN Number: 3540620214
Number of Pages: 554
Author(s): Dipankar Dasgupta, Zbigniew Michalewicz
Publisher: Springer
Date: February 28, 2001
Category: Applications of evolutionary algorithms and associated strategies
in engineering
Abstract / Synopsis: Evolutionary algorithms are general-purpose search procedures based on the mechanisms of natural selection and population genetics. They are appealing because they are simple, easy to interface, and easy to extend. This volume is concerned with applications of evolutionary algorithms and associated strategies in engineering. It will be useful for engineers, designers, developers, and researchers in any scientific discipline interested in the applications of evolutionary algorithms. The volume consists of five parts, each with four or five chapters. The topics are chosen to emphasize application areas in different fields of engineering. Each chapter can be used for self-study or as a reference by practitioners to help them apply evolutionary algorithms to problems in their engineering domains.
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Title #176: Differential Evolution : A Practical Approach to Global
Optimization (Natural Computing Series)
Edition: First Edition
ISBN Number: 3540209506
Number of Pages: 514
Author(s): Kenneth Price
Publisher: Springer
Date: December 2005
Category: Explores DE in both principle and practice
Abstract / Synopsis: Problems demanding globally optimal solutions are ubiquitous, yet many are intractable when they involve constrained functions having many local optima and interacting, mixed-type variables. The differential evolution (DE) algorithm is a practical approach to global numerical optimization which is easy to understand, simple to implement, reliable, and fast. Packed with illustrations, computer code, new insights, and practical advice, this volume explores DE in both principle and practice. It is a valuable resource for professionals needing a proven optimizer and for students wanting an evolutionary perspective on global numerical optimization. A companion CD includes DE-based optimization software in several programming languages.
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Title #177: Spatial Evolutionary Modeling (Spatial Information Series)
Edition: First Edition
ISBN Number: 0195135687
Number of Pages: 304
Author(s): Roman Krzanowski, Jonathan Raper
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Date: August 2001
Category: Spatial evolutionary modeling
Abstract / Synopsis: Demonstrates why evolutionary-based modeling should always be a part of a GIS analytical 'toolbox.' Presents basic concepts in the first two sections, and offers real-world applications and illustrations of how GIS works with spatial problems.
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Title #178: Evolving Knowledge Bases: Specification and Semantics
Edition: First Edition
ISBN Number: 158603278X
Number of Pages: 307
Author(s): J. A. Leite
Publisher: I O S Press, Inc.
Date: April 2003
Category: Frontiers in AI and Applications
Abstract / Synopsis: Information Unavailable
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Title #179: Creative Evolutionary Systems
Edition: First Edition
ISBN Number: 1558606734
Number of Pages: 576
Author(s): Peter J. Bentley, David W. Corne
Publisher: Elsevier Science & Technology Books
Date: July 2001
Category: Use of evolution for creative problem solving
Abstract / Synopsis: Written for computer scientists and students, and computer literate artists, designers and specialists in evolutionary computation, this text brings together the most advanced work in the use of evolutionary computation for creative results. The use of evolution for creative problem solving is one of the most exciting and potentially significant areas in computer science today. Evolutionary computation is a way of solving problems, or generating designs, using mechanisms derived from natural evolution. This book concentrates on applying important ideas in evolutionary computation to creative areas, such as art, music, architecture, and design. It shows how human interaction, new representations, and approaches such as open-ended evolution can extend the capabilities of evolutionary computation from optimization of existing solutions to innovation and the generation of entirely new and original solutions. This book takes a fresh look at creativity, exploring what it is and how the actions of evolution can resemble it. Examples of novel evolved solutions are presented in a variety of creative disciplines. The editors have compiled contributions by leading researchers in each discipline. If you are a savvy and curious computing professional, a computer-literate artist, musician or designer, or a specialist in evolutionary computation and its applications, you will find this a fascinating survey of the most interesting work being done in the area today. * Explores the use of evolutionary computation to generate novel creations including contemporary melodies, photo-realistic faces, jazz music in collaboration with a human composer, architectural designs, working electronic circuits, novel aircraft maneuvers, two- and three-dimensional art, and original proteins. * Presents resulting designs in black-and-white and color illustrations. * Includes a twin-format audio/CD-ROM with evolved music and hands-on activities for the reader, including evolved images, animations, and source-code related to the text. * Describes in full the methods used so that readers with sufficient skill and interest can replicate the work and extend it. * Is written for a general computer science audience, providing coherent and unified treatment across multiple disciplines.
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Title #180: Our Molecular Future: How Nanotechnology, Robotics,
Genetics and Artificial Intelligence Will Transform Our World
Edition: First Edition
ISBN Number: 1573929921
Number of Pages: 390
Author(s): Douglas Mulhall
Publisher: Prometheus Books
Date: July 2002
Category: Molecular future and AI
Abstract / Synopsis: When Mulhall sees the future, he pictures every home having a virtually cost-free desktop fabricator, not unlike an ink jet printer, that is able to create any three-dimensional object desired; he envisions being able to change the color of a car, or clothes, simply by speaking. Mulhall, who heads an environmental software consultancy, believes that nanotechnology, the ability to rearrange individual atoms, will lead to technological advances that will change every aspect of our world, including our own species. Mulhall' s exuberance, however, does not fully compensate for his repetitiveness and lack of specificity when he postulates that nanotechnology will lead to such leaps forward in computing power that we will soon create robots capable of independent thought, emotional response and reproduction. We will, he argues, soon be faced with a new species, Robo sapiens, and be forced to deal with the issue of "robot rights." Mulhall urges readers to foster this technology because he believes that it is the only way humans will be able to combat what he claims are the most pressing threats facing our species: massive earthquakes, immense tsunamis capable of inundating the entire east coast of North America and asteroid collisions of the sort that wiped out the dinosaurs. In the end, Mulhall's musings seem more science fiction than science; they are entertaining, but not particularly thought provoking.
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Title #181: The Age of Intelligent Machines
Edition: First Edition
ISBN Number: 0262111217
Number of Pages: 565
Author(s): Ray Kurzweil
Publisher: The MIT Press
Date: September, 1990
Category: Past, present, and future of AI
Abstract / Synopsis: In The Age of Intelligent Machines, inventor and visionary computer scientist Raymond Kurzweil probes the past, present, and future of artificial intelligence, from its earliest philosophical and mathematical roots to tantalizing glimpses of 21st-century machines with superior intelligence and truly prodigious speed and memory. Generously illustrated and easily accessible to the nonspecialist, this book provides the background needed for a full understanding of the enormous scientific potential represented by intelligent machines as well as their equally profound philosophic, economic, and social implications.
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Title #182: Mechanical Bodies, Computational Minds : Artificial
Intelligence from Automata to Cyborgs (Bradford Books),
Paperback
Edition: First Edition
ISBN Number: 0262562065
Number of Pages: 544
Author(s): Stefano Franchi, Güven Güzeldere
Publisher: The MIT Press
Date: January 1, 2005
Category: AI transcends the bounds of any one discipline . . .
Abstract / Synopsis: Believing that the enterprise of constructing "artificial intelligence" transcends the bounds of any one discipline, the editors of Mechanical Bodies, Computational Minds have brought together researchers in AI and scholars in the humanities to reexamine the fundamental assumptions of both areas. The AI community, for example, could benefit from explorations of human intelligence and creativity by philosophers, psychologists, anthropologists, literary critics, and others, while analysis of AI's theoretical struggles and technical advances could yield insights into such traditional humanist concerns as the nature of rationality and the mind-body dichotomy.
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Title #183: Out of Control: The Rise of Neo-Biological Civilization
Edition: First Edition
ISBN Number: 0201577933
Number of Pages: 521
Author(s): Kevin Kelly
Publisher: Addison Wesley Publishing Company
Date: May, 1994
Category: Exploration of the synergistic intersection of computer science, biology, systems theory, cybernetics and artificial intelligence
Abstract / Synopsis: In this mind-expanding exploration of the synergistic intersection of computer science, biology, systems theory, cybernetics and artificial intelligence, Kelly investigates what he calls "vivisystems"--lifelike, complex, engineered systems capable of growing in complexity. Among the objects and ideas that he scrutinizes are computer models that simulate ecosystems; the "group mind" of bee hives and ant colonies; virtual-reality worlds; robot prototypes; and Arizona's Biosphere 2. Former publisher and editor of Whole Earth Review , now executive editor of Wired , Kelly distills the unifying principles governing self-improving systems, which he labels "the nine laws of god." Leaping from Antonio Gaudi's futuristic buildings in Barcelona to computerized "smart" houses to computer simulations that challenge Darwinian evolutionary theory, this sprawling odyssey will provoke and reward readers across many disciplines.
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Title #184: Mind at Light Speed: A New Kind of Intelligence
Edition: First Edition
ISBN Number: 0743205014
Number of Pages: 320
Author(s): David D. Nolte
Publisher: Free Press
Date: November 2001
Category: See Abstract / Synopsis
Abstract / Synopsis: Technology is neat, but the Industrial Revolution didn't really take off until machines starting doing things humans couldn't possibly do. Purdue physicist David Nolte says the same thing will launch the real Information Revolution--when computers start performing functions we can't even understand, much less program. Mind at Light Speed is his outline of the future of computing, including all-optical components "reading" pictures as instruction sets millions of times faster than linear, language-based programs. This in itself will be a huge advance, giving rise to machines as incomprehensible as our next-door neighbors, and Nolte describes the technology and possible consequences with simple enthusiasm. He also discusses quantum computing at length, proposing an equally mind-boggling leapfrog over optical computing--if it can be made practical. Nolte's insights carry the reader farther into the domain of science fiction than most cyberprophets, but Mind at Light Speed makes a strong case for his world of the future.
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Title #185: Inventing the Future : Information Services for a New
Millennium (Contemporary Studies in Information
Management, Policy, and Services), Paperback
Edition: First Edition
ISBN Number: 1567504515
Number of Pages: 170
Author(s): Stan A. Hannah, Michael H. Harris
Publisher: Ablex Publishing
Date: January 6, 2000
Category: Book present a blueprint that will guide us in the re-visioning of library and information services
Abstract / Synopsis: Inventing the Future: Information services for a New Millenium is a sequel to Harris and Hannah's 1998 book Into the Future. In this book they move beyond the rhetorical contests about the future of the library and turn their attention to the more prosaic but vital task of managing our ever more complex and constantly changing libraries. The pages in this book present a blueprint that will guide us in the re-visioning of library and information services, allowing us to remain true to our inherited legacy while looking insistently for innovative and effective ways of "inventing" our future.
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Title #186: PRICAI 2002: Trends in Artificial Intelligence
Edition: First Edition
ISBN Number: 3540440380
Number of Pages: 623
Author(s): M. Ishizuka, A. Satter
Publisher: Springer
Date: October 2002
Category: Trends in AI
Abstract / Synopsis: Organized in topical sections on logic and AI foundations, representation and reasoning of actions, constraint satisfaction, foundations of agents, foundations of learning, reinforcement learning, knowledge acquisition and management, data mining and knowledge discovery, neural network learning, learning for robots, multi-agent applications, document analysis, Web intelligence, bioinformatics, intelligent learning environments, face recognition, and multimedia and emotion.
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Title #187: Exploring Artificial Intelligence in the New Millennium
Edition: First Edition
ISBN Number: 1558608117
Number of Pages: 404
Author(s): Gerhard Lakemeyer, Bernhard Nebel
Publisher: Elsevier Science & Technology books
Date: July 2002
Category: Entire spectrum of ongoing research in AI
Abstract / Synopsis: Exploring Artificial Intelligence in the New Millennium offers a unique presentation of the entire spectrum of ongoing research in Artificial Intelligence. Each self-contained chapter is based on a presentation given at IJCAI 2001. The speakers, all leading researchers in their fields, were chosen by the IJCAI Distinguished Paper Track Committee because of their outstanding work in robotics, vision, knowledge representation, machine learning, planning and other areas of AI research. The authors have broadened the scope of their original presentations and have updated and revised their talks especially for this publication. Individually, the lectures provide a significant exploration of a key area in AI research. Taken together they offer a rich survey of the field as a whole: its core issues, progress, and future directions. Exploring Artificial Intelligence in the New Millennium provides researchers and graduate students in AI with essential reading that fosters discussion across the sub-areas of AI.
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Title #188: Programming Game AI by Example
Edition: First Edition
ISBN Number: 1556220782
Number of Pages: 500
Author(s): Mat Buckland
Publisher: Wordware Publishing, Inc.
Date: November 2004
Category: AI in games
Abstract / Synopsis: This book describes in detail many of the AI techniques used in modern computer games, explicitly shows how to implement these practical techniques within the framework of several game developers with a practical foundation to game AI.
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Title #189: AI Game Programming Wisdom (with CD-ROM) (Game
Development Series)
Edition: First Edition
ISBN Number: 1584500778
Number of Pages: 672
Author(s): Steve Rabin
Publisher: Delmar Thomson Learning
Date: March 12, 2002
Category: AI in games
Abstract / Synopsis: AI is one of the most challenging tasks a programmer can undertake, and this unique collection of articles provides programmers with a much-needed resource for conquering the challenge. AI Game Programming Wisdom takes an inclusive view of AI that assumes game AI involves anything an AI programmer might have to program to make intelligent characters. So, everything from basic AI architectures and learning to pathfinding, scripting, and animation selection is covered. In addition, genre specific articles cover highly focused subjects within the FPS, RTS, RPG, Racing, and Sports genres. Written by AI experts, the articles serve as a road map to what has worked successfully for others and what might be possible in the future. They delve deep into AI game programming issues and provide insightful new ideas and techniques that can be easily integrated into your own games. This virtual toolbox includes a wide variety of tools for solving many common AI problems as well as solutions to genre specific issues you might encounter. The book is divided into eleven comprehensive sections covering: General Wisdom; Useful Techniques and Specialized Systems; Pathfinding with A*; Pathfinding and Movement; Tactical Issues and Intelligent Group Movement; Architecting a Game AI; Decision-Making Architecture, FPS, RTS, and RPG AI; Racing and Sport AI; Scripting; and Learning.
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Title #190: AI for Game Developers, Paperback
Edition: First Edition
ISBN Number: 0596005555
Number of Pages: 390
Author(s): David M. Bourg, Glenn Seemann
Publisher: O'Reilly Media, Inc.
Date: July 23, 2004
Category: AI for game developers
Abstract / Synopsis: Written for the novice AI programmer, AI for Game Developers introduces you to techniques such as finite state machines, fuzzy logic, neural networks, and many others, in straightforward, easy-to-understand language, supported with code samples throughout the entire book (written in C/C++). From basic techniques such as chasing and evading, pattern movement, and flocking to genetic algorithms, the book presents a mix of deterministic (traditional) and non-deterministic (newer) AI techniques aimed squarely at beginners AI developers.
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Title #191: AI Game Programming Wisdom 2 (Game Development Series)
Edition: First Edition
ISBN Number: 1584502894
Number of Pages: 732
Author(s): Steve Rabin
Publisher: Delmar Thomson Learning
Date: December 2003
Category: AI Game Programming
Abstract / Synopsis: AI Game Programming Wisdom 2, the second volume in this cutting-edge series, is packed with all new tricks, techniques, algorithms, architectures, and philosophies—all written by industry experts! The wealth of knowledge and expertise in this volume is sure to surpass your expectations. As with the first volume, this book is designed to provide practical advice for building state-of-the-art game AI for commercial games; however, it also strives to help you look forward to leading-edge techniques that will be critical in future explorations.
AI Game Programming Wisdom 2 provides advances, discoveries, and triumphs that will influence and drive game AI for the next decade. The breadth of experience and diverse backgrounds of the authors make this a truly global, cross-sectional resource for game AI. The book is divided into twelve comprehensive sections, including an all new speech recognition and dialogue section. There is also coverage of a wider variety of game genres and a cumulative index is included for easy cross referencing between volumes.
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Title #192: AI Techniques for Game Programming (The Premier Press
Game Development Series), Paperback
Edition: First Edition
ISBN Number: 193184108X
Number of Pages: 480
Author(s): Mat Buckland
Publisher: Course Technology PTR
Date: October 14, 2002
Category: Genetic algorithms for optimization, path-finding, and evolving
control sequences for your game agents
Abstract / Synopsis: "AI Techniques for Game Programming" takes the difficult topics of genetic algorithms and neural networks and explains them in plain English. Gone are the tortuous mathematic equations and abstract examples to be found in other books. Each chapter takes you through the theory a step at a time, explaining clearly how you can incorporate each technique into your own games. After a whirlwind tour of Windows programming, you will learn how to use genetic algorithms for optimization, path-finding, and evolving control sequences for your game agents. Coverage of neural network basics quickly advances to evolving neural motion controllers for your game agents and applying neural networks to obstacle avoidance and map exploration. Backpropagation and pattern recognition is also explained. By the time you?re done, you’ll know how to train a network to recognize mouse gestures and how to use state-of-the-art techniques for creating neural networks with dynamic topologies.
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Title #193: Blondie24: Playing at the Edge of AI (The Morgan Kaufmann
Series in Artificial Intelligence), Paperback
Edition: First Edition
ISBN Number: 1558607838
Number of Pages: 424
Author(s): David B. Fogel
Publisher: Morgan Kaufmann
Date: September 22, 2001
Category: AI in games
Abstract / Synopsis: What must it do to the human male ego to find out that the young woman who just handily won an online game of checkers is actually a sleek piece of software with no real understanding of the game's rules? Evolutionary programmers David B. Fogel and Kumar Chellapilla learned this and many other lessons in their quest to build a problem-solver divorced from human expertise. Fogel's book Blondie24: Playing at the Edge of AI captures their spirit of good-natured questioning of the received wisdom of traditional checkers playing and AI research.
The writing is surprisingly engaging, coming from a software researcher; even readers with little interest in checkers will follow Fogel's many game analyses with rising interest as his neural networks increase in prowess. Ever the scientist, he includes a laundry list of fairly harsh critiques of his work--with rebuttals--as an appendix. Devotees of cutting-edge AI, online psychology, or tournament-level checkers will find plenty of interest in the exploits of Blondie24.
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Title #194: Artificial Intelligence For Computer Games: An Introduction
Edition: First Edition
ISBN Number: 1568812086
Number of Pages: 160
Author(s): John David Funge
Publisher: Peters Corp
Date: July 29, 2004
Category: AI for computer games
Abstract / Synopsis: This book provides a comprehensive introduction to the use of artificial intelligence (AI) in computer games. The author concentrates on the techniques and strategies for developing efficient AI engines for gaming applications. Building on fundamental principles of artificial intelligence, the author explains how to create nonplayer characters (NPCs) with progressively more sophisticated capabilities.
Starting with the basic capability of acting in the game world, the book explains how to develop NPCs who can perceive, remember what they perceive, and then to continue in the game play to think about the effects of possible actions and finally to learn from their experience. The author considers the system architecture and explains how to implement potential behaviors (both reactive and deliberate) for intelligent and responsive NPCs allowing for games that are more fun and engaging.
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Title #195: Artificial Intelligence for Games
Edition: First Edition
ISBN Number: 0124977820
Number of Pages: 1000
Author(s): Ian Millington
Publisher: Morgan Kaufmann
Date: July 15, 2005
Category: Creating robust AI for game developers
Abstract / Synopsis: Creating robust artificial intelligence is one of the greatest challenges for game developers. AI is increasingly important to games, and a game's commercial success is often dependent on the quality of the AI. However, AI is still not well understood by many developers, and it is often tacked on late in the development process. There remains tremendous room to improve the quality of AI in games. In his new book, Ian Millington brings extensive professional experience to this problem. A game developer since 1987, he was founder of Mindlathe Ltd., at the time the largest specialist AI company in gaming. Ian shows how to think about AI concepts from the start as an integral part of the game play, describes numerous examples from real games, and explores these ideas in-depth through detailed case studies. Plentiful C++ source code examples are included on the CD-ROM to illustrate implementation. He goes further to introduce many techniques currently unknown to developers, and discusses types of AI specific to different genres of games, such as driving or sports games.
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Title #196: Hands-on AI with Java : Smart Gaming, Robots, and More,
Paperback
Edition: First Edition
ISBN Number: 0071424962
Number of Pages: 340
Author(s): Edwin Wise, Edwin Wise
Publisher: McGraw-Hill/TAB Electronics
Date: January 16, 2004
Category: AI techniques to work in a wide variety of useful and entertaining
ways
Abstract / Synopsis: Text shows how to put artificial intelligence techniques to work in a wide variety of useful and entertaining ways. For robot builders, hobbyists, game developers, automated-help-desk programmers, and manufacturing engineers; showing how to give a robot uncanny abilities, build programs that work intelligently with humans, add smarts to computer games, and more.
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Title #197: AI Game Development, Paperback
Edition: First Edition
ISBN Number: 1592730043
Number of Pages: 500
Author(s): Alex J. Champandard
Publisher: New Riders Games
Date: October 31, 2003
Category: AI game development using C++
Abstract / Synopsis: Neural networks, decision trees, genetic classifiers: If these are AI concepts you'd like to employ in your own games-and you know your way around C++-this is the book for you! In these pages, leading game AI developer Alex J. Champandard shows you how to create a slew of autonomous synthetic creatures-in the process exploring the techniques and theories central to AI game development. Complex concepts are made easily graspable, even fun, as you apply them to the step-by-step development of your own complete bot. The focus here is on designing individual creatures, each with unique abilities and skills. Each chapter tackles a specific problem, using demos and examples to drive the point home. Best of all, Alex draws on his own real-life experiences to provide tips and tricks to speed the process and resolve thorny issues. On the companion Web site, you'll find code examples and the samples of some of the games covered in the book.
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Title #198: Deep Blue
Edition: First Edition
ISBN Number: 0387954619
Number of Pages: 368
Author(s): Monty Newborn
Publisher: Springer
Date: December 6, 2002
Category: Chess-playing computer
Abstract / Synopsis: A technological milestone is not just a triumph, but a rare, pivotal watershed: Orville Wright's first flight, NASA's landing on the moon...the victory of a digital computer, Deep Blue, over world chess champion Garry Kasparov in 1997.
"Deep Blue: An Artificial Intelligence Milestone" details the historic endeavor to develop a chess-playing computer that would outplay the best human player on Earth. The story tells of the super-talented team of scientists and engineers involved, how one of America's mightiest corporations nurtured that team, and how the team's hard work produced a machine that played epic battles against human beings before eventually proving victorious. Deep Blue's success raises many questions about our future relationship with the digital computer.
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Title #199: Chess: A Psychiatrist Matches Wits with Fritz
Edition: First Edition
ISBN Number: 1929331045
Number of Pages: 416
Author(s): Ernest F., M.D. Pecci
Publisher: Pavior Publishing
Date: September 2001
Category: Strategy for beating today's best computer chess programs
Abstract / Synopsis: This compilation of over 125 games systematically illustrates a strategy that succeeds in beating today's best computer chess programs. With a detailed description of the steps that lay the groundwork for victory, this manual includes easy-to-follow diagramed chessboards to illustrate each move. It also contains a description of the conventional principles of chess as well as the strategic differences of computer chess.
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Title #200: Computational Intelligence in Games (Studies in Fuzziness and
Soft Computing)
Edition: First Edition
ISBN Number: 3790813486
Number of Pages: 174
Author(s): Norio Baba, Lakhmi C. Jain
Publisher: Physica-Verlag Heidelberg
Date: March 26, 2001
Category: Game theory involves the mathematical calculations and heuristics
to optimize the efficient lines of play
Abstract / Synopsis: The recent advances in computational intelligence paradigms have generated tremendous interest among researchers in the theory and implementation of games. Game theory involves the mathematical calculations and heuristics to optimize the efficient lines of play. This book presents the main constituents of computational intelligence paradigms including knowledge representation, probability-based approaches, fuzzy logic, neural networks, genetic algorithms, and rough sets. It includes a new approach of evolving a neural network to play checkers without human expertise. The book will be useful to researchers and practitioners who are interested in developing game techniques in computational intelligence environment.
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Title #201: Chess Skill in Man and Machine
Edition: First Edition
ISBN Number: 0387908153
Number of Pages: 329
Author(s): Peter W. Frey
Publisher: Springer-Verlag
Date: June, 1984
Category: Chess
Abstract / Synopsis: Information unavailable
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Title #202: Kasparov Versus Deep Blue: Computer Chess Comes of Age
Edition: First Edition
ISBN Number: 0387948201
Number of Pages: 322
Author(s): Monroe Newborn, Monty Newborn
Publisher: Springer -Verlag
Date: December 1996
Category: Kasparov Versus Deep Blue
Abstract / Synopsis: In February 1996, a chess-playing computer known as Deep Blue made history by defeating the reigning world chess champion, Gary Kasparov, in a game played under match conditions. Kasparov went on to win the six-game match 4-2 and at the end of the match announced that he believed that chess computing had come of age. This book provides an enthralling account of the match and of the story that lies behind it: the evolution of chess-playing computers and the development of Deep Blue. The story of chess-playing computers goes back a long way and the author provides a whistlestop tour of the highlights of this history. As the development comes to its culmination in Philadelphia, we meet the Deep Blue team, Garry Kasparov and each of the historic six games is provided in full with a detailed commentary. Chess grandmaster Yasser Seirawan provided a lively commentary throughout the match and here provides a Foreword about the significance of this event.
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Title #203: Chips Challenging Champions:
Games, Computers, and Artificial Intelligence
Edition: First Edition
ISBN Number: 0444509496
Number of Pages: 362
Author(s): Jonathan Schaeffer, Jaap van den Herik
Publisher: Elsevier
Date: April 2002
Category: AI in games
Abstract / Synopsis: This work contains contributions that have been solicited from researchers, programmers, and system designers who are involved in the world of developing game-playing programs for the classic board and card games. One of the earliest dreams of the fledgling field of artificial intelligence (AI) was to build computer programs that could play games as well as or better than the best human players. Despite early optimism in the field, the challenge proved to be surprisingly difficult. However, the 1990s saw amazing progress. Computers are now better than humans in checkers, Othello and Scrabble; are at least as good as the best humans in backgammon and chess; and are rapidly improving at hex, go, poker, and shogi. This book documents the progress made in computers playing games and puzzles. The book is the definitive source for material of high-performance game-playing programs.
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Title #204: The Expected-Outcome Model of Two-Player Games
Edition: First Edition
ISBN Number: 1558601449
Number of Pages: 100
Author(s): Bruce Abramson
Publisher: Morgan Kaufmann Pub
Date: November, 1990
Category: The Expected-Outcome Model of Two-Player Games
Abstract / Synopsis: Information Unavailable
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Title #205: Vision, Instruction, and Action
Edition: First Edition
ISBN Number: 0262031817
Number of Pages: 311
Author(s): David Chapman
Publisher: The MIT Press
Date: July 25, 1991
Category: David Chapman shows how discoveries in visual psychophysics can be incorporated into Al, how complex activity can result from participation rather than plan following, and how physical context can be used to interpret indexical instructions.
Abstract / Synopsis: Vision, Instruction, and Action clearly and cleverly describes a sophisticated integrated system called Sonja that takes instruction, can interpret its environment visually, and can play games (in this case the video game, Amazon) on its own. Sonja integrates advances in intermediate visual processing, interactive activity, and natural language pragmatics. In demonstrating that such systems, rare in artificial intelligence, are possible, David Chapman shows how discoveries in visual psychophysics can be incorporated into Al, how complex activity can result from participation rather than plan following, and how physical context can be used to interpret indexical instructions.
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Title #206: Chess and Machine Intuition
Edition: First Edition
ISBN Number: 0893919012
Number of Pages: 175
Author(s): George W. Atkinson
Publisher: Ablex Publishing Corporation
Date: February, 1993
Category: Chess and Machine Intuition
Abstract / Synopsis: Information Unavailable
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Title #207: Artificial Knowing: Gender and the Thinking Machine,
Paperback
Edition: First Edition
ISBN Number: 041512963X
Number of Pages: 216
Author(s): Alison Adam
Publisher: Routledge
Date: March 1998
Category: Feminist theory in relation to a comprehensive and critical review
of projects in artificial intelligence
Abstract / Synopsis: "A truly original contribution. For the first time we have a reading of recent feminist theory in relation to a comprehensive and critical review of projects in artificial intelligence, and of relevant developments in the sociology of knowledge and social studies of technology." --- Lucy Suchman, Xerox Palo Alto Research Center
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Title #208: Cyberfeminism and Artificial Life, (Paperback
Edition: First Edition
ISBN Number: 0415240271
Number of Pages: 240
Author(s): Sarah Kember
Publisher: Routledge
Date: November 2002
Category: Examines construction, manipulation and re-definition of life in
contemporary techno-scientific culture
Abstract / Synopsis: Cyberfeminism and Artificial Life examines construction, manipulation and re-definition of life in contemporary techno-scientific culture. It takes a critical political view of the concept of life as information, tracing this through the new biology and the changing discipline of artificial life and its manifestation in art, language, literature, commerce and entertainment. From cloning to computer games, and incorporating an analysis of hardware, software and 'wetware', Sarah Kember demonstrates how this relatively marginal field connects with, and connects up global networks of information systems. As well as offering suggestions for the evolution of [cyber]feminism in Alife environments, the author identifies the emergence of posthumanism; an ethics of the posthuman subject mobilized in the tension between cold war and post-cold war politics, psychological and biological machines, centralized and de-centralized control, top-down and bottom-up processing, autonomous and autopoietic organisms, cloning and transgenesis, species-self and other species. Ultimately, this book aims to re-focus concern on the ethics rather than on the 'nature' of life-as-it-could-be.
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Title #209: Artificial General Intelligence
Edition: First Edition
ISBN Number: 354023733X
Number of Pages: 450
Authors: Ben Goertzel, Cassio Pennachin
Publisher: Springer
Date: September 2005
Category: Artificial general intelligence
Abstract / Synopsis: This is the first book on current research on artificial general intelligence (AGI), work explicitly focused on engineering general intelligence - autonomous, self-reflective, self-improving, commonsensical intelligence. Each author explains a specific aspect of AGI in detail in each chapter, while also investigating the common themes in the work of diverse groups, and posing the big, open questions in this vital area. This book will be of interest to researchers and students who require a coherent treatment of AGI and the relationships between AI and related fields such as physics, philosophy, neuroscience, linguistics, psychology, biology, sociology, anthropology and engineering.
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Title #210: Representing and Acquiring Geographic Knowledge
Edition: First Edition
ISBN Number: 0934613222
Number of Pages: 223
Author(s): Ernest Davis
Publisher: Morgan Kaufmann Pub
Date: November, 1986
Category: Representing and Acquiring Geographic Knowledge
Abstract / Synopsis: Information Unavailable
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Title #211: Solid Shape (Artificial Intelligence)
Edition: First Edition
ISBN Number: 026211139X
Number of Pages: 715
Author(s): Jan J. Koenderink
Publisher: The MIT Press
Date: March 21, 1990
Category: Solid Shape gives engineers and applied scientists access to the
extensive mathematical literature on three dimensional shapes
Abstract / Synopsis: Solid Shape gives engineers and applied scientists access to the extensive mathematical literature on three dimensional shapes. Drawing on the author's deep and personal understanding of three-dimensional space, it adopts an intuitive visual approach designed to develop heuristic tools of real use in applied contexts. Increasing activity in such areas as computer aided design and robotics calls for sophisticated methods to characterize solid objects. A wealth of mathematical research exists that can greatly facilitate this work yet engineers have continued to "reinvent the wheel" as they grapple with problems in three dimensional geometry. Solid Shape bridges the gap that now exists between technical and modern geometry and shape theory or computer vision, offering engineers a new way to develop the intuitive feel for behavior of a system under varying situations without learning the mathematicians' formal proofs. Reliance on descriptive geometry rather than analysis and on representations most easily implemented on microcomputers reinforces this emphasis on transforming the theoretical to the practical.
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Title #212: Conceptual Spaces: The Geometry of Thought
Edition: First Edition
ISBN Number: 0262071991
Number of Pages: 317
Author(s): Peter Gärdenfors
Publisher: The MIT Press
Date: March 20, 2000
Category: Conceptual representations as a bridge between the symbolic and
connectionist approaches
Abstract / Synopsis: Within cognitive science, two approaches currently dominate the problem of modeling representations. The symbolic approach views cognition as computation involving symbolic manipulation. Connectionism, a special case of associationism, models associations using artificial neuron networks. Peter Gardenfors offers his theory of conceptual representations as a bridge between the symbolic and connectionist approaches. Symbolic representation is particularly weak at modeling concept learning, which is paramount for understanding many cognitive phenomena. Concept learning is closely tied to the notion of similarity, which is also poorly served by the symbolic approach. Gardenfors's theory of conceptual spaces presents a framework for representing information on the conceptual level. A conceptual space is built up from geometrical structures based on a number of quality dimensions. The main applications of the theory are on the constructive side of cognitive science: as a constructive model the theory can be applied to the development of artificial systems capable of solving cognitive tasks. Gardenfors also shows how conceptual spaces can serve as an explanatory framework for a number of empirical theories, in particular those concerning concept formation, induction, and semantics. His aim is to present a coherent research program that can be used as a basis for more detailed investigations.
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Title #213: Geometric Methods and Applications: For Computer Science
and Engineering
Edition: First Edition
ISBN Number: 0387950443
Number of Pages: 565
Author(s): Jean Gallier
Publisher: Springer
Date: January 15, 2000
Category: Introduction to fundamental geometric concepts and tools needed
for solving problems of a geometric nature using a computer
Abstract / Synopsis: As an introduction to fundamental geometric concepts and tools needed for solving problems of a geometric nature using a computer, this book attempts to fill the gap between standard geometry books, which are primarily theoretical, and applied books on computer graphics, computer vision, or robotics, which sometimes do not cover the underlying geometric concepts in detail. Gallier offers an introduction to affine geometry, projective geometry, Euclidean geometry, basics of differential geometry and Lie groups, and a glimpse of computational geometry (convex sets, Voronoi diagrams and Delaunay triangulations) and explores many of the practical applications of geometry. Some of these applications include computer vision (camera calibration) efficient communication, error correcting codes, cryptography, motion interpolation, and robot kinematics. This comprehensive text covers most of the geometric background needed for conducting research in computer graphics, geometric modeling, computer vision, and robotics and as such will be of interest to a wide audience including computer scientists, mathematicians, and engineers.
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Title #214: Geometric Data Analysis : An Empirical Approach to
Dimensionality Reduction and the Study of Patterns
Edition: First Edition
ISBN Number: 0471239291
Number of Pages: 325
Author(s): Michael Kirby
Publisher: Wiley-Interscience
Date: December 8, 2000
Category: Most efficient methods of pattern analysis using wavelet
decomposition
Abstract / Synopsis: This book addresses the most efficient methods of pattern analysis using wavelet decomposition. Readers will learn to analyze data in order to emphasize the differences between closely related patterns and then categorize them in a way that is useful to system users.
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Title #215: Geometric Partial Differential Equations and Image Analysis
Edition: First Edition
ISBN Number: 0521790751
Number of Pages: 385
Author(s): Guillermo Sapiro
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Date: January 15, 2001
Category: Book provides an introduction to the use of geometric partial
differential equations in image processing and computer vision
Abstract / Synopsis: This book provides an introduction to the use of geometric partial differential equations in image processing and computer vision. It brings a number of new concepts into the field, providing a very fundamental and formal approach to image processing. State-of-the-art practical results in a large number of real problems are achieved with the techniques described. Applications covered include image segmentation, shape analysis, image enhancement, and tracking. The volume provides information for people investigating new solutions to image processing problems as well as for people searching for existent advanced solutions.
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Title #216: Human Movement Understanding: From Computational
Geometry to Artificial Intelligence
Edition: First Edition
ISBN Number: 0444700323
Number of Pages: 382
Author(s): P. Morasso, V. Tagliasco
Publisher: Elsevier Science Ltd
Date: December, 1986
Category: Human Movement Understanding: From Computational Geometry
to Artificial Intelligence
Abstract / Synopsis: Information Unavailable
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Title #217: Geometric Invariance in Computer Vision
Edition: First Edition
ISBN Number: 0262132850
Number of Pages: 560
Author(s): Joseph L. Mundy, Andrew Zisserman
Publisher: The MIT Press
Date: May 27, 1992
Category: Book focuses on the most recent developments in the rapidly evolving field of geometric invariants and their application to computer vision
Abstract / Synopsis: These twenty-three contributions focus on the most recent developments in the rapidly evolving field of geometric invariants and their application to computer vision. The introduction summarizes the basics of invariant theory, discusses how invariants are related to problems in computer vision, and looks at the future possibilities, particularly the notion that invariant analysis might provide a solution to the elusive problem of recognizing general curved 3D objects from an arbitrary viewpoint.
The remaining chapters consist of original papers that present important developments as well as tutorial articles that provide useful background material. These chapters are grouped into categories covering algebraic invariants, nonalgebraic invariants, invariants of multiple views, and applications. An appendix provides an extensive introduction to projective geometry and its applications to basic problems in computer vision. Joseph Mundy is a Coolidge Fellow at GE Corporate Research & Development. Andrew Zisserman is a Research Fellow in the Robotics Research Group at Oxford University.
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Title #218: Riemannian Geometry
Edition: Second Edition
ISBN Number: 3540524010
Number of Pages: 284
Author(s): S. Gallot
Publisher: Springer
Date: December, 1990
Category: Book combines both the geometric parts of Riemannian geometry and the analytic aspects of the theory. Presents up-to-date research, including convergence and compactness of families of manifolds. Covers geodesic geometry, Bochner technique, holonomy abd symmetric spaces
Abstract / Synopsis: This book, based on a graduate course on Riemannian geometry and analysis on manifolds, given in Paris, covers the topics of differential manifolds, Riemannian metrics, connections, geodesics and curvature, with special emphasis on the intrinsic features on the subject. Classical results on the relations between curvature and topology are treated in detail. The book is quite self-contained, assuming of the reader only a knowledge of differential calculus in Euclidean space. It contains numerous exercises with full solutions and a series of detailed examples which are picked up again repeatedly to illustrate each new definition or property introduced. This book addresses both the graduate student wanting to learn Riemannian geometry, and also the professional mathematician from a neighboring field who needs information about ideas and techniques which are now pervading many parts of mathematics.
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Title #219: Artificial Intelligence and Dynamic Systems for
Geophysical Applications
Edition: First Edition
ISBN Number: 3540432582
Number of Pages: 362
Author(s): A. D. Gvishiani, J. O. Dubois
Publisher: Springer
Date: September 2002
Category: AI in geophysical applications
Abstract / Synopsis: For research scientists, tutors, graduate students, scientists in geophysics and engineers, this book presents new clustering schemes, dynamical systems and pattern recognition algorithms in geophysical, geodynamical and natural hazard applications.
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Title #220: Nonuniqueness in Geoscientific Inference
Edition: First Edition
ISBN Number: 0863802176
Number of Pages: 300
Author(s): P. S. Moharir
Publisher: Research Studies Press Limited
Date: November 2003
Category: See Abstract / Synopsis
Abstract / Synopsis: This text argues that truth is not manifest and that progress in science is not sequential but is achieved by tentative theorisation and systematic error elimination. Geoscientific examples are used to clarify the concepts involved.
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Title #221: Graph Drawing and Applications for Software and Knowledge
Engineers (Series on Software Engineering and Knowledge
Engineering, 11)
Edition: First Edition
ISBN Number: 9810248792
Number of Pages: 200
Author(s): Kozo Sugiyama
Publisher: World Scientific Publishing Company
Date: June 15, 2002
Category: Visualize graphs as representing structural knowledge in a variety
of fields
Abstract / Synopsis: This book is useful for readers who want to visualize graphs as representing structural knowledge in a variety of fields. It gives an outline of the whole field, describes in detail the representative methods for drawing graphs, explains extensions such as fisheye and dynamic drawing, presents many practical applications, and discusses ways of evaluation. It makes the intuitive understanding of these easier by using examples and diagrams, and provides a wealth of references for those readers who wish to know more.
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Title #222: Completeness, Confluence, and Related Properties of Clause
Graph Resolution (Research Notes in Artificial Intelligence)
Edition: First Edition
ISBN Number: 1558601953
Number of Pages: 181
Author(s): Norbert Eisinger
Publisher: Morgan Kaufmann Pub
Date: October, 1991
Category: Information Unavailable
Abstract / Synopsis: Information Unavailable
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Title #223: Safe and Sound: Artificial Intelligence in Hazardous
Applications
Edition: First Edition
ISBN Number: 0262062119
Number of Pages: 352
Author(s): John Fox, Subrata Das
Publisher: AAAI Press
Date: July 7, 2000
Category: Book describes, from both practical and theoretical perspectives, an AI technology for supporting sound clinical decision making and safe patient management
Abstract / Synopsis: Computer science and artificial intelligence are increasingly used in the hazardous and uncertain realms of medical decision making, where small faults or errors can spell human catastrophe. This book describes, from both practical and theoretical perspectives, an AI technology for supporting sound clinical decision making and safe patient management. The technology combines techniques from conventional software engineering with a systematic method for building intelligent agents. Although the focus is on medicine, many of the ideas can be applied to AI systems in other hazardous settings. The book also covers a number of general AI problems, including knowledge representation and expertise modeling, reasoning and decision making under uncertainty, planning and scheduling, and the design and implementation of intelligent agents. The book, written in an informal style, begins with the medical background and motivations, technical challenges, and proposed solutions. It then turns to a wide-ranging discussion of intelligent and autonomous agents, with particular reference to safety and hazard management. The final section provides a detailed discussion of the knowledge representation and other aspects of the agent model developed in the book, along with a formal logical semantics for the language.
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Title #224: Artificial Minds (Bradford Books), Paperback
Edition: First Edition
ISBN Number: 0262561093
Number of Pages: 464
Author(s): Stan Franklin
Publisher: The MIT Press
Date: March 1, 1997
Category: History of Artificial Intelligence
Abstract / Synopsis history: An encyclopedic but nonetheless compellingly readable overview of the of Artificial Intelligence. It doesn't require a computer background in artificial intelligence, but it doesn't insult your natural intelligence either. There may be better books on the subject, but I found this to be just the right mixture of history, theory, cognitive psychology, evolutionary epistemology, and computer science.
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Title #225: Artificial Intelligence: A Philosophical Introduction,
Paperback
Edition: First Edition
ISBN Number: 063118385X
Number of Pages: Information Unavailable
Author(s): Jack Copeland, B. Jack Copeland
Publisher: Blackwell Publishers
Date: November 1993
Category: Reviews the progress made in AI since 1956
Abstract / Synopsis: Presupposing no familiarity with the technical concepts of either philosophy or computing, this clear introduction reviews the progress made in AI since the inception of the field in 1956. Copeland goes on to analyze what those working in AI must achieve before they can claim to have built a thinking machine and appraises their prospects of succeeding. There are clear introductions to connectionism and to the language of thought hypothesis that weave together material from philosophy, artificial intelligence and neuroscience. John Searle's attacks on AI and cognitive science are countered and close attention is given to foundational issues, including the nature of computation, Turing Machines, the Church-Turing Thesis and the difference between classical symbol processing and parallel distributed processing. The book also explores the possibility of machines having free will and consciousness and concludes with a discussion of in what sense the human brain may be a computer.
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Title #226: Computer-Based Instruction: Methods and Development
Edition: Second Edition
ISBN Number: 0131685929
Number of Pages: 512
Author(s): Stephen M. Alessi, Stanley R. Trollip
Publisher: Prentice Hall College Div
Date: January 9, 1991
Category: Information unavailable
Abstract / Synopsis: Information unavailable
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Title #227: Computers and Thought, Paperback
Edition: 1st AAAI Press ed., 1995 edition
ISBN Number: 0262560925
Number of Pages: 550
Author(s): Edward A. Feigenbaum, Julian Feldman
Publisher: AAAI Press
Date: August 28, 1995
Category: Showcases the work of the scientists who not only defined the field of Artificial Intelligence, but who are responsible for having developed it into what it is today
Abstract / Synopsis: Computers and Thought showcases the work of the scientists who not only defined the field of Artificial Intelligence, but who are responsible for having developed it into what it is today. Originally published in 1963, this collection includes twenty classic papers by such pioneers as A. M. Turing and Marvin Minsky who were behind the pivotal advances in artificially simulating human thought processes with computers. Among the now hard-to-find articles are reports of computer programs that play chess and checkers, prove theorems in logic and geometry, solve problems in calculus, balance assembly lines, recognize visual temporal patterns, and communicate in natural language. The reports of simulation of cognitive processes include computer models of human behavior in logic problems, deciding on common stock portfolios, and carrying out social interaction. Models of verbal learning behavior, predictive behavior in two-choice experiments, and concept formation are also included.
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Title #228: Possible Worlds, Artificial Intelligence, and Narrative Theory
Edition: First Edition
ISBN Number: 0253350042
Number of Pages: 304
Author(s): Marie-Laure Ryan
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Date: February 1992
Category: Possible Worlds, Artificial Intelligence, and Narrative Theory
Abstract / Synopsis: Information Unavailable
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Title #229: Ai: The Tumultuous History of the Search for Artificial
Intelligence
Edition: Reissue edition
ISBN Number: 0465001041
Number of Pages: Information Unavailable
Author(s): Daniel Crevier
Publisher: Basic Books
Date: August, 1994
Category: Predicts that by 2020 or so, computers will have acquired the critical facility that has evaded all thinking machines to date: the ability to reason on a commonsensical level
Abstract / Synopsis: An engineering professor at the University of Quebec and an entrepreneur in the field of artificial intelligence, Crevier predicts that by 2020 or so, computers will have acquired the critical facility that has evaded all thinking machines to date: the ability to reason on a commonsensical level. Setting aside the commanding implications of that speculation, Crevier focusses on AI social history in this chronicle of the more than 30-year engineering saga of the AI movement, citing observations of such guiding lights in the field as Marvin Minsky, Herbert Simon and Allen Newell. In documenting the jolts and starts of this relatively new area of inquiry (with its overload of acronyms), Crevier diminishes the dislocating effect of confronting an evolution in intelligence greater than our own. Like a sermon preached to believers, this update on the AI movement will appeal mostly to its followers.
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Title #230: Bodies/Machines, Paperback
Edition: First Edition
ISBN Number: 1859736955
Number of Pages: 256
Author(s): Iwan Rhys Morus
Publisher: Berg Publishers
Date: December 1, 2002
Category: See Abstract / Synopsis
Abstract / Synopsis: It is hard to believe that the pursuit of artificial intelligence is not a phenomenon of the twentieth century. For over three hundred years, the boundaries between bodies and machines – the natural and the artificial, the animate and the inanimate – have been passionately explored. These explorations, beginning in the seventeenth and eighteenth and increasing during the nineteenth century, have been all but forgotten, lost beneath the commotion of the modern day world. This book retrieves these lost histories, giving voice to the hopes, dreams, and fears of philosophers, medical practitioners, engineers, craftsmen and artisans who have all been fascinated by the interface between bodies and machines. The journey back in time unfolds with the mysterious advent of mechanical philosophies, which conceptualized the body and the surrounding world largely in terms of mechanistic interactions. These theories develop in intriguing directions and fuel experiments in such areas as material production and social punishment, spiritualism and mental health. From reanimating dead bodies with electricity, which led to the introduction of the electric chair, through to the use of machines to render ‘hysterics’ and the insane fit for reintroduction into society, this book conveys the dark truths behind our relationship with machines.
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Title #231: Experiments in Artificial Intelligence for Microcomputers
Edition: First Edition
ISBN Number: 0672225018
Number of Pages: 176
Author(s): John Krutch
Publisher: Sams
Date: July 1986
Category: AI and microcomputers
Abstract / Synopsis: Information Unavailable
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Title #232: Models of a Man : Essays in Memory of Herbert A. Simon
Edition: First Edition
ISBN Number: 0262012081
Number of Pages: 592
Author(s): Mie Augier, James G. March
Publisher: The MIT Press
Date: April 1, 2004
Category: See Abstract / Synopsis
Abstract / Synopsis: Herbert Simon (1916-2001), in the course of a long and distinguished career in the social and behavioral sciences, made lasting contributions to many disciplines, including economics, psychology, computer science, and artificial intelligence. In 1978 he was awarded the Nobel Prize in economics for his research into the decision-making process within economic organizations. His well-known book The Sciences of the Artificial addresses the implications of the decision-making and problem-solving processes for the social sciences. This book (the title is a variation on the title of Simon's autobiography, Models of My Life) is a collection of short essays, all original, by colleagues from many fields who felt Simon's influence and mourn his loss. Mixing reminiscence and analysis, the book represents "a small acknowledgment of a large debt."
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Title #233: Strategic Computing: DARPA and the Quest for Machine
Intelligence, 1983-1993 (History of Computing)
Edition: First Edition
ISBN Number: 0262182262440
Number of Pages: 440
Author(s): Alex Roland, Philip Shiman
Publisher: The MIT Press
Date: June 1, 2002
Category: DARPA and the quest for machine intelligence
Abstract / Synopsis: Authors uncover the roles played in the SCI by technology, individuals, and social and political forces. They explore DARPA culture, especially the information processing culture within the agency, and they evaluate the SCI's accomplishments and set them in the context of overall computer development during the period of 1983-1993.
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Title #234: Machines Who Think: A Personal Inquiry into the History and
Prospects of Artificial Intelligence
Edition: First Edition
ISBN Number: 1568812051
Number of Pages: 576
Author(s): Pamela McCorduck
Publisher: A K Peters, Limited
Date: March 2004
Category: History and prospects of AI
Abstract / Synopsis: A history of artificial intelligence from its Greek and Judaic proto-history to its beginning realizations as a subfield of computer science in the 20th century, featuring candid interviews with the field's founders. The new after-word summarizes the field's history since the book's end, in the mid-1970s, to the present. The book's central argument is that artificial intelligence has preoccupied the human imagination for millennia and perceptions of AI as a science have been deeply colored by the uniquely psychological issues it arouses in nearly everyone, champions and antagonists alike.
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Title #235: Artificial Intelligence and Scientific Method
Edition: First Edition
ISBN Number: 0198751591
Number of Pages: 190
Author(s): Donald Gillies
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Date: August, 1996
Category: AI History
Abstract / Synopsis: Artificial Intelligence and Scientific Method examines the remarkable advances made in the field of AI over the past twenty years, discussing their profound implications for philosophy. Taking a clear, non-technical approach, Donald Gillies focuses on two key topics within AI: machine learning in the Turing tradition and the development of logic programming and its connection with non-monotonic logic. Demonstrating how current views on scientific method are challenged by this recent research, he goes on to suggest a new framework for the study of logic. He draws on work by such seminal thinkers as Bacon, Godel, Popper, Penrose, and Lucas to address the hotly contested question of whether computers might become intellectually superior to human beings. These topics will attract a wide readership from followers of advances in artificial intelligence, to students and scholars of the history and philosophy of science.
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Title #236: Mind Matters: Exploring the World of Artificial Intelligence
Edition: First Edition
ISBN Number: 0614282020
Number of Pages: Information Unavailable
Author(s): James Patrick Hogan
Publisher: Ballantine Books
Date: June, 1997
Category: Book explores the history and present state of the quest to create
machines in our image.
Abstract / Synopsis: Computers cannot feel compassion, anger, or fear, and they cannot see or hear well. But ever since machines demonstrated their ability to outclass human beings in mathematical calculations and other manipulations of rigidly defined systems (such as chess), people have been intrigued by the idea of intelligent computers. In Mind Matters: Exploring the World of Artificial Intelligence, James P. Hogan explores the history and present state of the quest to create machines in our image. First, Hogan explores the history of logic and other means of depicting and explaining thought. Hogan addresses Aristotle, Descartes, and other pioneers who studied the brain's analytical capabilities. He then explores clocks and navigation and number systems before delving into early computers--the first machines to simulate any part of the brain's function. But the author does not dwell on the past. The bulk of this book has to do with the problems artificial intelligence (AI) pioneers are trying to solve today, such as symbolic logic, natural language, and artificial vision. Hogan gives plenty of attention to the best-known AI engine of our day, IBM's Deep Blue chess machine.
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Title #237: Artificial intelligence: Progress report
Edition: First Edition
ISBN Number: B0006W38R4
Number of Pages: Information Unavailable
Author(s): Marvin Lee Minsky
Publisher: Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Date: 1972
Category: Artificial intelligence: Progress report
Abstract / Synopsis: Information Unavailable
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Title #238: Artificial intelligence: A summary of current research and
development
Edition: First Edition
ISBN Number: B0007FNXZ2
Number of Pages: Information Unavailable
Author(s): Peter A Lachenbruch
Publisher: American Institute for Research
Date: 1962
Category: Artificial intelligence: A summary of current research and
development
Abstract / Synopsis: Information Unavailable
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Title #239: The heuristic of George Polya and its relation to artificial
intelligence
Edition: First Edition
ISBN Number: B0006XVNRA
Number of Pages: 51
Author(s): Allen Newell
Publisher: Carnegie-Mellon University, Dept. of Computer Science
Date: 1981
Category: The heuristic of George Polya and its relation to artificial
intelligence
Abstract / Synopsis: Information Unavailable
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Title #240: On Machine Intelligence
Edition: First Edition
ISBN Number: 0136337775
Number of Pages: Information Unavailable
Author(s): Donald Michie
Publisher: Ellis Horwood Ltd; 2nd edition
Date: August, 1986
Category: On Machine Intelligence
Abstract / Synopsis: Information Unavailable
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Title #241: Computers & Artificial Intelligence: A Science Masters Series
Book, Paperback
Edition: First Edition
ISBN Number: 0465013511
Number of Pages: 176
Author(s): Marvin L. Minsky
Publisher: Basic Books
Date: Information Unavailable
Category: Computers & Artificial Intelligence:
Abstract / Synopsis: Information Unavailable
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Title #242: Are We Spiritual Machines?:
Ray Kurzweil vs. the Critics of Strong A.I.
Edition: First Edition
ISBN Number: 0963865439
Number of Pages: 228
Author(s): George F. Gilder, et al
Publisher: Discovery Institite
Date: June 2002
Category: AI and human
Abstract / Synopsis: Computers are becoming more powerful at an ever-increasing rate, but will they ever become conscious? Artificial intelligence guru Ray Kurzweil thinks so and explains how we will "download" our software (our minds) and "upgrade" our hardware (our bodies) to become immortal -- before the dawn of the 22nd century. In this debate with his critics, including several Discovery Institute Fellows, Kurzweil defends his views and sets the stage for the central question: "What does it mean to be human?"
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Title #243: Readings in Human-Computer Interaction: Toward the Year
2000 (The Morgan Kaufmann Series in Interactive
Technologies), Paperback
Edition: First Edition
ISBN Number: 1558602461
Number of Pages: 950
Author(s): Ronald M. Baecker
Publisher: Morgan Kaufmann
Date: January 15, 1995
Category: User-computer interface
Abstract / Synopsis: The effectiveness of the user-computer interface has become increasingly important as computer systems have become useful tools for persons not trained in computer science. In fact, the interface is often the most important factor in the success or failure of any computer system. Dealing with the numerous subtly interrelated issues and technical, behavioral, and aesthetic considerations consumes a large and increasing share of development time and a corresponding percentage of the total code for any given application. A revision of one of the most successful books on human-computer interaction, this compilation gives students, researchers, and practitioners an overview of the significant concepts and results in the field and a comprehensive guide to the research literature.
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Title #244: Metamagical Themas: Questing for the Essence of Mind and
Pattern, Paperback
Edition: First Edition
ISBN Number: 0465045669
Number of Pages: 880
Author(s): Douglas R. Hofstadter
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
Date: March 1996
Category: Collection of essays on the way people perceive and think
Abstract / Synopsis: A bestselling collection of brilliant and quirky essays, on subjects ranging from biology to grammar to artificial intelligence, that are unified by one primary concern: the way people perceive and think.
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Title #245: Building a Digital Human (Graphics Series) (Graphics Series),
Paperback
Edition: Book & CD-Rom edition
ISBN Number: 1584502851
Number of Pages: 380
Author(s): Ken Brilliant
Publisher: Delmar Thomson Learning
Date: April 30, 2003
Category: 3D digital humans
Abstract / Synopsis: Explores the entire modeling process from head to toe. Begins with the fundamentals of assembling reference material, such as photos and anatomy books, and continues with the details of texturing and refining the skin and hair. Details the texturing and modeling skills needed to create 3D digital humans or a variety of other 3D projects.
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Title #246: Virtual Humans: A Build-It-Yourself Kit, Complete With
Software and Step-By-Step Instructions, Paperback
Edition: Book & CD-Rom edition
ISBN Number: 0814472214
Number of Pages: 288
Author(s): Peter M. Plantec
Publisher: American Management Association
Date: November 2003
Category: Information Unavailable
Abstract / Synopsis: Steven H. Stahlberg, pioneer in virtual human design, and Animation Director/Corporate Director, Androidblues Virtual Talent Studio: "How to bring any character alive... give it a real and unique personality, (and) make it totally convincing...." Dr. Gregory Stock, NewYork Times best-selling author of The Book of Questions. "By far the best book on virtual humans. Plantec is a pioneer who knows his stuff."
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Title #247: Matter and Consciousness - Revised Edition: A Contemporary
Introduction to the Philosophy of Mind, Paperback
Edition: Reissue edition
ISBN Number: 0262530740
Number of Pages: 196
Author(s): Paul M. Churchland
Publisher: The MIT Press
Date: January 22, 1988
Category: Neuroscience, cognitive science, and AI and their expanding
relevance to philosophical issues
Abstract / Synopsis: In Matter and Consciousness, Paul Churchland clearly presents the advantages and disadvantages of such difficult issues in philosophy of mind as behaviorism, reductive materialism, functionalism, and eliminative materialism. This new edition incorporates the striking developments that have taken place in neuroscience, cognitive science, and artificial intelligence and notes their expanding relevance to philosophical issues. Churchland organizes and clarifies the new theoretical and experimental results of the natural sciences for a wider philosophical audience, observing that this research bears directly on questions concerning the basic elements of cognitive activity and their implementation in real physical systems. (How is it, he asks, that living creatures perform some cognitive tasks so swiftly and easily, where computers do them only badly or not at all?) Most significant for philosophy, Churchland asserts, is the support these results tend to give to the reductive and the eliminative versions of materialism.
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Title #248: The Large, the Small and the Human Mind, Paperback
Edition: Reprint edition
ISBN Number: 0521785723
Number of Pages: 201
Author(s): Roger Penrose
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Date: January 15, 2000
Category: Author says: AI is an impossibility
Abstract / Synopsis: Lectures by a renowned mathematician and physicist on the connections of relativity and quantum theory (the science of the very large and the very small), with an eye to understanding the nature of the mind. Penrose has been over this ground before (in The Emperor's New Mind, not reviewed, and Shadows of the Mind, 1994), and his contention that artificial intelligence is an impossibility has generated a good deal of controversy. Here he reiterates and extends his essential arguments and invites refutation from a trio of critics in related disciplines: Abner Shimony, Nancy Cartwright, and Stephen Hawking. One central point of debate has to do with the relation between mathematics and the ``real universe''--or, as Penrose puts it, between the physical and the platonic worlds. A popular view of how science works is that the scientist, looking to explain a series of observations, finds a mathematical relationship that accounts for the data. Penrose argues that this view has things backwards: The mathematical relationship is the reality, and the data merely an expression of it. Einstein conceived his equations before data were available to verify them; when data became available, his calculations checked out exactly. Penrose goes on to consider the paradoxes of quantum mechanics, but readers without sophisticated mathematics are likely to find this section tough going. Finally, Penrose attempts to apply these issues to the question of whether the activities of mind can ever be duplicated by a computational device, a possibility he denies. His three critics then point to what they feel are weaknesses in his arguments, and finally Penrose counters their rebuttals. Penrose pushes the available analytical tools to the limit, and the result is far from light reading, but those willing to think hard about fundamental questions of mind and matter will find this discussion provocative and rewarding.
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Title #249: The Artilect War: Cosmists Vs. Terrans: A Bitter Controversy
Concerning Whether Humanity Should Build Godlike
Massively Intelligent Machines, Paperback
Edition: First Edition
ISBN Number: 0882801546
Number of Pages: 254
Author(s): Hugo de Garis
Publisher: ETC Publications
Date: February 28, 2005
Category: A Bitter Controversy Concerning Whether Humanity Should Build
Godlike Massively Intelligent Machines
Abstract / Synopsis: Information Unavailable
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Title #250: The Computer and the Brain : Second Edition (Mrs. Hepsa Ely
Silliman Memorial Lectures), Paperback
Edition: 2nd edition
ISBN Number: 0300084730
Number of Pages: 112
Author(s): John von Neumann
Publisher: Yale University Press
Date: July 11, 2000
Category: Analogies between computing machines and the living human
brain
Abstract / Synopsis: This book represents the views of one of the greatest mathematicians of the twentieth century on the analogies between computing machines and the living human brain. John von Neumann concludes that the brain operates in part digitally, in part analogically, but uses a peculiar statistical language unlike that employed in the operation of man-made computers. This edition includes a new foreword by two eminent figures in the fields of philosophy, neuroscience, and consciousness.
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Title #251: Plans and Situated Actions : The Problem of Human-Machine
Communication (Learning in Doing: Social, Cognitive &
Computational Perspectives), Paperback
Edition: First Edition
ISBN Number: 0521337399
Number of Pages: 220
Author(s): Lucy A. Suchman
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Date: November 26, 1987
Category: Fresh characterization of human-computer interaction
Abstract / Synopsis: This lively and original book offers a provocative critique of the dominant assumptions regarding human action and communication which underlie recent research in machine intelligence. Lucy Suchman argues that the planning model of interaction favoured by the majority of AI researchers does not take sufficient account of the situatedness of most human social behaviour. The problems that can arise as a result are pertinently, and often amusingly, illustrated by the careful analysis of a recorded interaction between novice users and an intelligent machine, whose design has failed to accommodate essential resources of successful human communication. Plans and Situated Actions presents a compelling case for the re-examination of current models underlying interface design. Lucy Suchman's proposals for a fresh characterization of human-computer interaction which also incorporates recent insights from the social sciences provides a challenge that everyone interested in machine intelligence will seriously need to consider.
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Title #252: What Is Thought? (Bradford Books)
Edition: First Edition
ISBN Number: 0262025485
Number of Pages: 495
Author(s): Eric B. Baum
Publisher: The MIT Press
Date: January 1, 2004
Category: AI and human mind
Abstract / Synopsis: The main thesis of this book, asserted repetitively, is that the mind is a computer program
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Title #253: Tell Me a Story: A New Look at Real and Artificial Memory
Edition: First Edition
ISBN Number: 0684190494
Number of Pages: 253
Author(s): Roger C. Schank
Publisher: Atheneum
Date: January, 1991
Category: Human memory, intelligence and sense of self
Abstract / Synopsis: Artificial intelligence expert Schank and his team at Northwestern University are attempting to build machines that are "interesting to talk to" and also tell interesting stories. An outgrowth of his research, this often intriguing, if overstated probe reflects his belief that "we are the stories we like to tell." In his view, human memory, intelligence and sense of self depend to a large extent on the telling and understanding of stories, stories of many varieties: invented, experiential, secondhand, official or culturally common. Too often, Schank believes, we see our lives in terms of preestablished stories that obscure our actual situation. Getting beyond the "self-descriptive myths" we learn from parents, teachers, friends and family members is a key to growth. Sifting the stories told by divorcees, presidential candidates and Tawana Brawley, and in ordinary conversation, Schank offers a different perspective on intelligence and the search for personal identity.
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Title #254: Modeling Brain Function : The World of Attractor Neural
Networks, Paperback
Edition: Reprint edition
ISBN Number: 0521421241
Number of Pages: 522
Author(s): Daniel J. Amit
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Date: June 26, 1992
Category: Study of the principles and mechanisms underlying brain function
Abstract / Synopsis: Exploring one of the most exciting and potentially rewarding areas of scientific research, the study of the principles and mechanisms underlying brain function, this book introduces and explains the techniques brought from physics to the study of neural networks and the insights they have stimulated. Substantial progress in understanding memory, the learning process, and self-organization by studying the properties of models of neural networks have resulted in discoveries of important parallels between the properties of statistical, nonlinear cooperative systems in physics and neural networks. The author presents a coherent and clear, nontechnical view of all the basic ideas and results. More technical aspects are restricted to special sections and appendices in each chapter.
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Title #255: Brainchildren: Essays on Designing Minds (Representation
and Mind), Paperback
Edition: First Edition
ISBN Number: 0262540908
Number of Pages: 424
Author(s): Daniel C. Dennett
Publisher: The MIT Press
Date: February 6, 1998
Category: Collection of essays from 1984 to 1996
Abstract / Synopsis: The author of Darwin's Dangerous Idea and Consciousness Explained here collects essays from conference volumes and "specialized journals" that have appeared from 1984 to 1996, with the idea of making them available "for students and other readers." But any reader curious about the nuts and bolts of recent theories of mind and our attempts at modeling it will find even Dennett's technical side accessible enough, given a willingness to be occasionally thrown in medias res. The lead essay, "Can Machines Think?" is a clearly formulated reassessment of current contenders for passing the Turing test the criterion by which thinking machines are judged. "Speaking for Our Selves" evaluates claims for the legitimacy of multiple personality disorder, and extends the discussion into questioning the notion of selfhood. "Real Patterns," which Dennett calls "utterly central to my thinking," is tougher going, as Dennett seems to be addressing an ongoing dispute among philosophers about what it might mean for a belief to be "real," but the essay rewards repeated reading. A section on animal cognition and one on the philosophical possibility of zombies are further draws, but many of the other essays and reviews will hold interest only for the specialist. Throughout, however, Dennett's careful attention to word choice and definition helps the uninitiated along, and reveals one of our most celebrated and controversial philosophers of mind at work.
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Title #256: Philosophy and Computer Science (Explorations in
Philosophy), Paperback
Edition: First Edition
ISBN Number: 156324991X
Number of Pages: 224
Author(s): Timothy Colburn
Publisher: M.E. Sharpe
Date: December 1999
Category: Philosophy and Computer Science
Abstract / Synopsis: Information Unavailable
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Title #257: The Mind's Sky : Human Intelligence in a Cosmic Context,
Paperback
Edition: Reprint Edition
ISBN Number: 0553371339
Number of Pages: 300
Author(s): Timothy Ferris
Publisher: Bantam
Date: March 1, 1993
Category: About human intelligence
Abstract / Synopsis: Scientifically oriented minds will rejoice at having more high-quality thinking available on audio. Since the author is speaking, he uses the opportunity to bring home his points with personal emphasis. Being a professor at UCLA, editor of ROLLING STONE, and a frequent contributor to THE NEW YORKER gives the author/reader eclectic credentials. He has done his research well and synthesized the stodgy facts into a palatable and digestible format. Synthesizer music occasionally fades in and out to separate chapters, possibly a pernicious Rolling Stones melody. The presentation is pleasantly academic without alienating listeners who are not scientists.
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Title #258: Conceptual Structures: Information Processing in Mind and
Machine (Systems Programming Series)
Edition: First Edition
ISBN Number: 0201144727
Number of Pages: 481
Author(s): John F. Sowa
Publisher: Addison-Wesley
Date: July 1983
Category: Information Processing in Mind and Machine
Abstract / Synopsis: Information unavailable
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Title #259: Models of My Life
Edition: Reprint Edition
ISBN Number: 026269185X
Number of Pages: 416
Author(s): Herbert A. Simon
Publisher: The MIT Press
Date: October 8, 1996
Category: Simon observes himself as an object for scientific inquiry
Abstract / Synopsis: Simon observes himself as an object for scientific inquiry in this refreshingly innovative autobiography. Principal architect of the field of artificial intelligence, this polymath has applied the metaphor of a decision-making maze to human cognition, management science, economics and politics--winning a Nobel Prize in 1978. Instead of a dry, rationalist exercise, this traipse through the branching paths of his personal labyrinth turns out to be a quirky, soul-baring self-analysis. In early chapters on his introspective Milwaukee childhood, he refers to himself in the third person as "the boy." He is equally objective in discussing his 1930s flirtation with political radicalism, his half-century-long marriage and the politics of scientific infighting. This is a disarming self-portrait by a gifted writer who believes that the real self is an illusion and that one's life need not have a unifying thread.
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Title #260: How to Build a Mind
Edition: First Edition
ISBN Number: 0231120125
Number of Pages: 192
Author(s): Igor Aleksander
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Date: August 15, 2001
Category: Philosophical argument for why he thinks that a "conscious
machine" is feasible
Abstract / Synopsis: One of the earliest proponents of neural engineering to build artificially intelligent systems, Aleksander (Imperial Coll. of Science, Technology, and Medicine, London) has more than 30 years of artificial intelligence research under his belt. Though he covers a substantial amount of engineering as it applies to building machines with imagination, this work is actually more of a philosophical argument for why he has arrived at his current position. His discussion of why he thinks that a "conscious machine" is feasible is spelled out in a number of imaginary debates and dialogs between himself and various philosophers ranging from Aristotle to Wittgenstein. He also brings in Francis Crick and several arguments from prominent biological researchers. This far-ranging book should interest readers at varying levels, from engineers and computer scientists to science fiction and psychology buffs.
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Title #261: The Creative Mind: Myths and Mechanisms, Paperback
Edition: First Edition
ISBN Number: 0415314534
Number of Pages: 400
Author(s): Margaret A. Boden
Publisher: Routledge
Date: November 2003
Category: Myths and Mechanisms
Abstract / Synopsis: Information unavailable
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Title #262: The Mind, the Brain, and Complex Adaptive Systems:
Proceedings (Santa Fe Institute Studies in the Sciences of
Complexity Proceedings)
Edition: First Edition
ISBN Number: 0201409887
Number of Pages: 237
Author(s): Harold Morowitz, Jerome L. Singer
Publisher: Addison Wesley Publishing Company
Date: January, 1995
Category: See Abstract / Synopsis
Abstract / Synopsis: Volume of thoughtful essays by a group of scientific leaders from physics, cognitive psychology, cognitive science, the philosophy of science, artificial intelligence, and brain physiology.
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Title #263: Artificial Intelligence: The Very Idea, Paperback
Edition: First Edition
ISBN Number: 0262580950
Number of Pages: 299
Author(s): John Haugeland
Publisher: The MIT Press
Date: January 6, 1989
Category: Human thinking and machine computing are "radically the same"
Abstract / Synopsis: The idea that human thinking and machine computing are "radically the same" provides the central theme for this marvelously lucid and witty book on what artificial intelligence is all about. Although presented entirely in non-technical terms, it neither oversimplifies the science nor evades the central philosophical issues.
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Title #264: Where the Action Is: The Foundations of Embodied
Interaction
Edition: First Edition
ISBN Number: 0262041960
Number of Pages: 256
Author(s): Paul Dourish
Publisher: The MIT Press
Date: October 1, 2001
Category: Addresses the philosophical bases of human-computer interaction
Abstract / Synopsis: Computer science as an engineering discipline has been spectacularly successful. Yet it is also a philosophical enterprise in the way it represents the world and creates and manipulates models of reality, people, and action. In this book, Paul Dourish addresses the philosophical bases of human-computer interaction. He looks at how what he calls "embodied interaction" -- an approach to interacting with software systems that emphasizes skilled, engaged practice rather than disembodied rationality -- reflects the phenomenological approaches of Martin Heidegger, Ludwig Wittgenstein, and other twentieth-century philosophers. The phenomenological tradition emphasizes the primacy of natural practice over abstract cognition in everyday activity. Dourish shows how this perspective can shed light on the foundational underpinnings of current research on embodied interaction. He looks in particular at how tangible and social approaches to interaction are related, how they can be used to analyze and understand embodied interaction, and how they could affect the design of future interactive systems.
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Title #265: Are We Unique?: A Scientist Explores the Unparalleled
Intelligence of the Human Mind
Edition: First Edition
ISBN Number: 0471155365
Number of Pages: 242
Author(s): James Trefil
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Date: February, 1997
Category: Argues that the human brain is a highly complex adaptive system qualitatively different from those of other animal species and from even the most advanced computer systems
Abstract / Synopsis: Trefil, an acclaimed popular science writer and physicist, argues that the human brain is a highly complex adaptive system qualitatively different from those of other animal species and from even the most advanced computer systems. Incorporating recent theories on the evolution and function of the brain by such notables as Antonio Damasio and Francis Crick, Trefil presents an original, logical argument that examines both the structural and the functional aspects of neural systems. He is especially adept at demystifying complex scientific and mathematical concepts (quantum mechanics, Godel's theorem, etc.) for the general reader.
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Title #266: Human-Computer Interaction (2nd Edition)
Edition: Second Edition
ISBN Number: 0132398648
Number of Pages: 638
Author(s): Alan J. Dix
Publisher: Prentice Hall
Date: January 12, 1998
Category: Comprehensive examination of human-computer interaction
Abstract / Synopsis: Extensively revised and rewritten in light of recent advances, this best-selling book is a comprehensive examination of human-computer interaction. It provides a multi-disciplinary approach to the subject through a synthesis of computer science, cognitive science, psychology and sociology, and stresses a principled approach to interactive systems design that fits a software engineering environment.
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Title #267: In Our Own Image: Building an Artificial Person
Edition: First Edition
ISBN Number: 019507338X
Number of Pages: 251
Author(s): Maureen Caudill
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Date: September, 1992
Category: Surveys artificial life research, then reaches beyond it to grab for the hands of the androids she believes might be produced within 20 years
Abstract / Synopsis: Neural networks consultant Caudill (coauthor of Naturally Intelligent Systems) here surveys artificial life research, then reaches beyond it to grab for the hands of the androids she believes might be produced within 20 years. Sketching the likely design of these intelligent machines, she uses broad, heuristic (her favorite word) strokes, primarily dealing with software systems as she examines the technological gaps between current theory and the achievements necessary to make androids a practical possibility. These gaps have virtually disappeared in such areas as vision, speech recognition and mobility, and Caudill argues convincingly that they are closing in fast in all other areas, including the vital one of true intelligence. Although she sometimes goes far afield in positing largely stochastic ethical issues (Should it be legal to have a sexual relationship with an android? At what point do industrial androids become slaves?), she presents an intriguing vision of a future in which human and mechanical evolution will be intertwined.
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Title #268: In Defense of the Soul: What It Means to Be Human,
Paperback
Edition: First Edition
ISBN Number: 1587430290
Number of Pages: 204
Author(s): Ric Machuga
Publisher: Brazos Press
Date: April 2002
Category: What it means to be human
Abstract / Synopsis: The claims of evolution and, more recently, the proponents of artificial intelligence have brought into question what it means to be human. Denying the existence of the soul apart from the body, many contemporary scientists are devout materialists‹putting the traditional Aristotelian and Thomistic conception of the human being far out of fashion. However, Ric Machuga argues convincingly that our nature "is an essential unity of both the material and the immaterial," that we not only have a soul but that we are a soul. The body is a necessary‹but not sufficient‹condition for human existence. In Defense of the Soul is an accessible and timely treatment of a timeless topic: what it means to be human. Not only will it attract readers interested in artificial intelligence, evolution, and the intelligent design debate, it¹s ideal for introductory college and seminary courses in philosophy. It includes an appendix that specifically assesses intelligent design, as well as a thick bibliography that provides an excellent guide to other sources on the topic.
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Title #269: Enchanted Looms : Conscious Networks in Brains and
Computers
Edition: First Edition
ISBN Number: 0521624355
Number of Pages: 526
Author(s): Rodney Cotterill
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Date: November 12, 1998
Category: Bridges the gap between the bottom-up approach to understanding consciousness, anchored in the brain's biochemistry, anatomy and physiology, and the top-down strategy
Abstract / Synopsis: The title of this book was inspired by a passage in Charles Sherrington's Man on his Nature. When that famous physiologist died in 1952, the prospects for a scientific explanation of consciousness seemed remote. Enchanted Looms shows how the situation has changed dramatically over the past forty years, and provides what is probably the most wide-ranging account of the phenomenon ever written. Rodney Cotterill bridges the gap between the bottom-up approach to understanding consciousness, anchored in the brain's biochemistry, anatomy and physiology, and the top-down strategy, which concerns itself with behavior and the nervous system's interaction with the environment. He argues that an explanation of consciousness is now at hand, and extends the discussion to include intelligence and creativity, unlike other books on the subject. This beautifully written and illustrated book will be valued for its provocative approach to one of science's last great challenges. Enchanted Looms will change forever our view of consciousness and our concept of the human being.
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Title #270: Dynamic Memory : A Theory of Reminding and Learning in
Computers and People
Edition: First Edition
ISBN Number: 0521270294
Number of Pages: 272
Author(s): Roger C. Schank
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Date: January 28, 1983
Category: Dynamic memory
Abstract / Synopsis: Information Unavailable
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Title #271: Human-Computer Interaction in the New Millennium
Edition: First Edition
ISBN Number: 0201704471
Number of Pages: 752
Author(s): John M. Carroll
Publisher: Addison-Wesley Professional
Date: August 8, 2001
Category: Human-computer interaction
Abstract / Synopsis: A collection of selected writings presenting a view of the motivation that is creating innovation in human-computer interaction. Covers the influence of cognitive science on HCI, new interfaces and methodologies for collaboration, social and societal impacts, and other subjects.
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Title #272: Scientific Discovery Processes in Humans and Computers:
Theory and Research in Psychology and Artificial Intelligence
Edition: First Edition
ISBN Number: 0275966542
Number of Pages: 216
Author(s): Morton Wagman
Publisher: Praeger Publishers
Date: May 30, 2000
Category: Offers a critical analysis of current theory and research in the
psychological and computational sciences
Abstract / Synopsis: Wagman offers a critical analysis of current theory and research in the psychological and computational sciences, directed toward the elucidation of scientific discovery processes and structures. It discusses human scientific discovery processes, analyzes computer scientific discovery processes, and makes a comparative evaluation of the two. This work examines the scientific reasoning of the discoverers of the inhibition mechanism of gene control; scientific discovery heuristics used at different developmental levels; artificial intelligence and mathematical discovery; the ECHO system; the evolution of artificial intelligence discovery systems; the PAULI system; and the KEKADA system. It concludes with an examination of the extent to which computational discovery systems can emulate a set of 10 types of scientific problems.
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Title #273: Digital Soul: Intelligent Machines and Human Values
Edition: First Edition
ISBN Number: 0813340578
Number of Pages: 288
Author(s): T. M. Georges, Thomas M. Georges
Publisher: Westview Press
Date: March, 2003
Category: Machines and human values
Abstract / Synopsis: Can computers think? What does that question mean? What might the answer portend for human values? Georges treats these questions-long mainstays of discussions among mathematicians, computer scientists, cognitive psychologists, ethicists, science fiction writers and philosophers-thoroughly, if derivatively, using illustrations from Star Trek and other popular science fiction books, television shows and movies. The first half of the book examines the idea of machine intelligence, then moves on to consciousness, emotions, neurosis and moral awareness. The conversation draws heavily on popular accounts by computer pioneers Marvin Minsky and Alan Turing, mathematician Roger Penrose and cognitive scientist Douglas Hofstadter. The second half of the book explores the social implications of computer intelligence, including whether machines will take over the world. Georges, a former research scientist at the National Bureau of Standards and the Institute for Telecommunication Sciences, bases this part on popular works by astronomer Carl Sagan and biologist Richard Dawkins, and several magazine articles. Essentially a summary of generally believed notions regarding the power of machines, illustrated with pop culture references, the book's strength lies in its blend of comprehensive coverage with straightforward prose.
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Title #274: Precis of Thoughts on Thought, Paperback
Edition: Book & CD-Rom edition
ISBN Number: 0805802657
Number of Pages: 162
Author(s): Earl B. Hunt, Earl Hunt
Publisher: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates
Date: February, 2002
Category: Precis of Thoughts on Thought
Abstract / Synopsis: Information Unavailable
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Title #275: Scripts, Plans, Goals, and Understanding: An Inquiry into
Human Knowledge Structures, Paperback
Edition: First Edition
ISBN Number: 0898591384
Number of Pages: 256
Author(s): Roger Schank, Robert Abelson
Publisher: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates
Date: June, 1977
Category: See the Title
Abstract / Synopsis: Information Unavailable
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Title #276: The Boundaries of Humanity: Humans, Animals, Machines,
Paperback
Edition: First Edition
ISBN Number: 0520072073
Number of Pages: 274
Author(s): James J. Sheehan, Morton Sosna
Publisher: University of California Press
Date: April 1991
Category: The relatively new fields of sociobiology and artificial intelligence
bring new, if not necessarily compatible, insights
Abstract / Synopsis: To the age-old debate over what it means to be human, the relatively new fields of sociobiology and artificial intelligence bring new, if not necessarily compatible, insights. What have these two fields in common? Have they affected the way we define humanity? These and other timely questions are addressed with colorful individuality by the authors of The Boundaries of Humanity. Leading researchers in both sociobiology and artificial intelligence combine their reflections with those of philosophers, historians, and social scientists, while the editors explore the historical and contemporary contexts of the debate in their introductions. The implications of their individual arguments, and the often heated controversies generated by biological determinism or by mechanical models of mind, go to the heart of contemporary scientific, philosophical, and humanistic studies.
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Title #277: From Computer to Brain, Paperback
Edition: First Edition
ISBN Number: 0387955267
Number of Pages: 368
Author(s): William W. Lytton
Publisher: Springer
Date: October 1, 2002
Category: Teaching computational neuroscience as an integrated discipline requires that both groups be brought forward onto common ground. This book does this by making ancillary material available in an appendix and providing basic explanations without becoming bogged down in unnecessary details
Abstract / Synopsis: Biology undergraduates, medical students and life-science graduate students often have limited mathematical skills. Similarly, physics, math and engineering students have little patience for the detailed facts that make up much of biological knowledge. Teaching computational neuroscience as an integrated discipline requires that both groups be brought forward onto common ground. This book does this by making ancillary material available in an appendix and providing basic explanations without becoming bogged down in unnecessary details. The book will be suitable for undergraduates and beginning graduate students taking a computational neuroscience course and also to anyone with an interest in the uses of the computer in modeling the nervous system.
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Title #278: Engineering of Mind: An Introduction to the Science of
Intelligent Systems
Edition: First Edition
ISBN Number: 0471438545
Number of Pages: 424
Author(s): James S. Albus
Publisher: Wiley-Interscience
Date: September 7, 2001
Category: Presents the foundations for a computational theory of intelligence
Abstract / Synopsis: Presents a reference model architecture for the design of intelligent systems. Engineering of Mind presents the foundations for a computational theory of intelligence. It discusses the main streams of investigation that will eventually converge in a scientific theory of mind and proposes an avenue of research that might best lead to the development of truly intelligent systems. This book presents a model of the brain as a hierarchy of massive parallel computational modules and data structures interconnected by information pathways. Using this as the basic model on which intelligent systems should be based, the authors propose a reference model architecture that accommodates concepts from artificial intelligence, control theory, image understanding, signal processing, and decision theory. Algorithms, procedures, and data embedded within this architecture would enable the analysis of situations, the formulation of plans, the choice of behaviors, and the computation of uncertainties. The computational power to implement the model can be achieved in practical systems in the foreseeable future through hierarchical and parallel distribution of computational tasks.
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Title #279: Brain, Mind and Computers
Edition: Reprint edition
ISBN Number: 0895269074
Number of Pages: 316
Author(s): Stanley L. Jaki
Publisher: Regnery Pub
Date: December, 1989
Category: Brain, Mind and Computers
Abstract / Synopsis: Information Unavailable
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Title #280: Natural and Artificial Minds (Suny Series, Scientific Studies in
Natural and Artificial Intelligence), Paperback
Edition: First Edition
ISBN Number: 0791415082
Number of Pages: 245
Author(s): Robert G. Burton
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Date: August 1993
Category: Natural and Artificial Minds
Abstract / Synopsis: Information Unavailable
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Title #281: In Our Image: Artificial Intelligence and the Human Spirit
Edition: First Edition
ISBN Number: 0800634764
Number of Pages: 144
Author(s): Noreen L. Herzfeld
Publisher: Augsburg Fortress Publishers
Date: April 2002
Category: Modeling human intelligence in AI
Abstract / Synopsis: "In Our Image is the first extensive theological engagement with the field of Artificial Intelligence (AI). Herzfeld probes this new field, which seeks to replicate thinking in computers and more broadly to model human intelligence, for its theological depth. Offering a smart, accessible history and typology of research in AI, Herzfeld shows how its rival schools parallel competing options in the theological anthropologies. Herzfeld's exciting work further develops a relational model, in which she finds a needed corrective to the individualistic and narcissistic tendencies of much recent spirituality and the seeds of a human/computer ethic for the future."--BOOK JACKET. Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc.
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Title #282: Multimodal Interface for Human-Machine Communication
Edition: First Edition
ISBN Number: 9810245947
Number of Pages: 276
Author(s): P. C. Yuen, Y. Y. Tang, P. S. P. Wang
Publisher: World Scientific Publishing Company
Date: April 2002
Category: AI in human-computer interaction
Abstract / Synopsis: With the advance of speech, image and video technology, human-computer interaction (HCI) will reach a new phase.
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Title #283: On Intelligence
Edition: First Edition
ISBN Number: 0805074562
Number of Pages: 272
Author(s): Jeff Hawkins
Publisher: Times Books
Date: October 2004
Category: See Abstract / Synopsis
Abstract / Synopsis: Hawkins designed the technical innovations that make handheld computers like the Palm Pilot ubiquitous. But he also has a lifelong passion for the mysteries of the brain, and he's convinced that artificial intelligence theorists are misguided in focusing on the limits of computational power rather than on the nature of human thought. He "pops the hood" of the neocortex and carefully articulates a theory of consciousness and intelligence that offers radical options for future researchers. "[T]he ability to make predictions about the future... is the crux of intelligence," he argues. The predictions are based on accumulated memories, and Hawkins suggests that humanoid robotics, the attempt to build robots with humanlike bodies, will create machines that are more expensive and impractical than machines reproducing genuinely human-level processes such as complex-pattern analysis, which can be applied to speech recognition, weather analysis and smart cars. Hawkins presents his ideas, with help from New York Times science writer Blakeslee, in chatty, easy-to-grasp language that still respects the brain's technical complexity. He fully anticipates—even welcomes—the controversy he may provoke within the scientific community and admits that he might be wrong, even as he offers a checklist of potential discoveries that could prove him right. His engaging speculations are sure to win fans of authors like Steven Johnson and Daniel Dennett.
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Title #284: Godel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid
Edition: First Edition
ISBN Number: 0465026567
Number of Pages: 777
Author(s): Douglas R. Hofstadter
Publisher: Basic Books
Date: January 1999
Category: AI for mimicking human thought
Abstract / Synopsis: Twenty years after it topped the bestseller charts, Douglas R. Hofstadter's Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid is still something of a marvel. Besides being a profound and entertaining meditation on human thought and creativity, this book looks at the surprising points of contact between the music of Bach, the artwork of Escher, and the mathematics of Gödel. It also looks at the prospects for computers and artificial intelligence (AI) for mimicking human thought. For the general reader and the computer techie alike, this book still sets a standard for thinking about the future of computers and their relation to the way we think.
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Title #285: The Age of Spiritual Machines:
When Computers Exceed Human Intelligence
Edition: First Edition
ISBN Number: 0140282025
Number of Pages: 400
Author(s): Ray Kurzweil
Publisher: Penguin
Date: January 1, 2000
Category: AI and human intelligence
Abstract / Synopsis: How much do we humans enjoy our current status as the most intelligent beings on earth? Enough to try to stop our own inventions from surpassing us in smarts? If so, we'd better pull the plug right now, because if Ray Kurzweil is right we've only got until about 2020 before computers outpace the human brain in computational power. Kurzweil, artificial intelligence expert and author of The Age of Intelligent Machines, shows that technological evolution moves at an exponential pace. Further, he asserts, in a sort of swirling postulate, time speeds up as order increases, and vice versa. He calls this the "Law of Time and Chaos," and it means that although entropy is slowing the stream of time down for the universe overall, and thus vastly increasing the amount of time between major events, in the eddy of technological evolution the exact opposite is happening, and events will soon be coming faster and more furiously. This means that we'd better figure out how to deal with conscious machines as soon as possible--they'll soon not only be able to beat us at chess, but also likely demand civil rights, and might at last realize the very human dream of immortality.
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Title #286: Artificial Intelligence: Steps Towards Computerization of the
Brain
Edition: First Edition
ISBN Number: 1931768226
Number of Pages: 124
Author(s): Kashif Ibadullah Khan
Publisher: Protea Publishing Company
Date: June, 2002
Category: Steps Towards Computerization of the Brain
Abstract / Synopsis: Information Unavailable
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Title #287: The Convergence of Machine and Human Nature: A Critique
of the Computer Metaphor of Mind and Artificial Intelligence
Edition: First Edition
ISBN Number: 1856289974
Number of Pages: 147
Author(s): A. E. McClintock, Alexander McClintock
Publisher: Avebury
Date: March, 1995
Category: The Convergence of Machine and Human Nature: A Critique of
the Computer Metaphor of Mind and Artificial Intelligence
Abstract / Synopsis: Information Unavailable
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Title #288: Natural and Artificial Intelligence: Processor Systems
Compared to the Human Brain
Edition: First Edition
ISBN Number: 0444700498
Number of Pages: 500
Author(s): Armand M. De Callatay
Publisher: Elsevier Science Ltd
Date: September, 1986
Category: Natural and Artificial Intelligence: Processor Systems Compared
to the Human Brain
Abstract / Synopsis: Information Unavailable
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Title #289: Artificial Intelligence and Natural Man
Edition: First Edition
ISBN Number: 0262022591
Number of Pages: Information Unavailable
Author(s): Margaret A. Boden
Publisher: MIT Press
Date: March, 1987
Category: Artificial Intelligence and Natural Man
Abstract / Synopsis: Information Unavailable
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Title #290: Artificial Intelligence and Human Cognition
Edition: First Edition
ISBN Number: 0275936155
Number of Pages: 168
Author(s): Morton Wagman
Publisher: Praeger Publishers
Date: March 30, 1991
Category: Human thought and computer thought are compared in their
distinctiveness and commonality
Abstract / Synopsis: Wagman examines the emulation of human cognition by artificial intelligence systems. Human thought and computer thought are compared in their distinctiveness and commonality. The book provides detailed examples of artificial intelligence programs (such as the FERMI System and KEKADA program) accomplishing highly intellectual tasks. This, together with his coverage of general theoretical perspectives on the nature of cognition makes this volume both a valuable sourcebook and stimulus for students and professionals in cognitive science, psychology, philosophy, and artificial intelligence courses.
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Title #291: The Ultimate Objectives of Artificial Intelligence
Edition: First Edition
ISBN Number: 0275959104
Number of Pages: 272
Author(s): Morton Wagman
Publisher: Praeger Publishers
Date: April 30, 1998
Category: A critical examination of the advancing intellectual developments in artificial intelligence and evaluation of their salient philosophical and psychological implications
Abstract / Synopsis: A critical examination of the advancing intellectual developments in artificial intelligence and evaluation of their salient philosophical and psychological implications. This book contains a wealth of research and theory across major domains of cognition that support the broad intellectual artificial intelligence objective of developing a structured and detailed unified science of human and computational intelligence.
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Title #292: Technology transfer and artificial intelligence: User
considerations in the acceptance and use of AI decision aids
Edition: First Edition
ISBN Number: B00071GCD6
Number of Pages: 136
Author(s): Robert R Mackie
Publisher: Human Factors Research
Date: 1985
Category: Technology transfer and artificial intelligence: User considerations
in the acceptance and use of AI decision aids
Abstract / Synopsis: Information Unavailable
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Title #293: My Mother Was a Computer : Digital Subjects and Literary
Texts, Paperback
Edition: First Edition
ISBN Number: 0226321487
Number of Pages: 288
Author(s): N. Katherine Hayles
Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
Date: October 1, 2005
Category: Impact of code on everyday life
Abstract / Synopsis: My Mother Was a Computer explores how the impact of code on everyday life has become comparable to that of speech and writing: language and code have grown more entangled, the lines that once separated humans from machines, analog from digital, and old technologies from new ones have become blurred. My Mother Was a Computer gives us the tools necessary to make sense of these complex relationships. Hayles argues that we live in an age of intermediation that challenges our ideas about language, subjectivity, literary objects, and textuality. This process of intermediation takes place where digital media interact with cultural practices associated with older media, and here Hayles sharply portrays such interactions: how code differs from speech; how electronic text differs from print; the effects of digital media on the idea of the self; the effects of digitality on printed books; our conceptions of computers as living beings; the possibility that human consciousness itself might be computational; and the subjective cosmology wherein humans see the universe through the lens of their own digital age.
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Title #294: Artificial Intelligence: The Impact on Our Lives (21st Century
Debates)
Edition: First Edition
ISBN Number: 0739855042
Number of Pages: 64
Author(s): Alex Woolf
Publisher: Raintree
Date: February 2003
Category: AI for children
Abstract / Synopsis: Information Unavailable
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Title #295: Impacts of Artificial Intelligence: Scientific, Technological,
Military, Economic, Societal, Cultural, and Political
Edition: First Edition
ISBN Number: 0444875875
Number of Pages: 279
Author(s): R. Trappl
Publisher: Elsevier Science Ltd
Date: February, 1986
Category: Impacts of Artificial Intelligence: Scientific, Technological,
Military, Economic, Societal, Cultural, and Political
Abstract / Synopsis: Information Unavailable
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Title #296: Inductive Logic Programming: From Machine Learning to
Software Engineering (Logic Programming)
Edition: First Edition
ISBN Number: 0262023938
Number of Pages: 256
Author(s): Francesco Bergadano, Daniele Gunetti
Publisher: The MIT Press
Date: December 28, 1995
Category: Up-to-date survey of ILP
Abstract / Synopsis: Bergadano and Gunetti propose that most of the research in ILP has in fact come from machine learning, particularly in the evolution of inductive reasoning from pattern recognition, through initial approaches to symbolic machine learning, to recent techniques for learning relational concepts. In this book they provide an extended, up-to-date survey of ILP, emphasizing methods and systems suitable for software engineering applications, including inductive program development, testing, and maintenance.
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Title #297: Induction: Processes of Inference, Learning, and Discovery,
Paperback
Edition: Reprint Edition
ISBN Number: 0262580969
Number of Pages: 416
Author(s): John H. Holland
Publisher: The MIT Press
Date: March 2, 1989
Category: Framework for understanding processes of inductive reasoning and
learning in organisms and machines
Abstract / Synopsis: Two psychologists, a computer scientist, and a philosopher have collaborated to present a framework for understanding processes of inductive reasoning and learning in organisms and machines. Theirs is the first major effort to bring the ideas of several disciplines to bear on a subject that has been a topic of investigation since the time of Socrates. The result is an integrated account that treats problem solving and induction in terms of rule based mental models.
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Title #298: Inductive Synthesis of Functional Programs: Universal
Planning, Folding of Finite Programs, and Schema Abstraction
by Analogical Reasoning
Edition: First Edition
ISBN Number: 3540401741
Number of Pages: 398
Author(s): U. Schmid
Publisher: Springer
Date: October 2003
Category: Inductive Synthesis of Functional Programs
Abstract / Synopsis: Information Unavailable
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Title #299: Nonmonotonic and Inductive Logic
Edition: First Edition
ISBN Number: 3540545646
Number of Pages: 243
Author(s): J. Dix
Publisher: Springer
Date: January, 1991
Category: Nonmonotonic and Inductive Logic
Abstract / Synopsis: This proceedings volume contains revised and reviewed papers based on talks presented at the first International Workshop on Nonmonotonic and Inductive Logic held in Karlsruhe, December 1990. The workshop was supported by the Volkswagen-Stiftung, Hannover, and provided a forum for researchers from the two fields to communicate and find areas of cooperation. The papers are organized into sections on: - Nonmonotonicity in logic programs - Axiomatic approach to nonmonotonic reasoning - Inductive inference - Autoepistemic logic - Belief updates The bulk of the papers are devoted to nonmonotonic logic and provide an up-to-date view of the current state of research presented by leading experts in the field. A novelty in the contributions from the area of inductive logic is the analysis of nonmonotonicity in the theory of inductive learning.
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Title #300: Rule Induction in Knowledge Engineering Data Analysis and
Case
Edition: First Edition
ISBN Number: 0137831013
Number of Pages: Information Unavailable
Author(s): Akeel Al-Attar
Publisher: Ellis Horwood Ltd
Date: April, 1994
Category: Rule Induction in Knowledge Engineering Data Analysis and Case
Abstract / Synopsis: Information Unavailable
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Title #301: Logic of Induction
Edition: First Edition
ISBN Number: 0135395941
Number of Pages: Information Unavailable
Author(s): Halina Mortimer
Publisher: Ellis Horwood Ltd
Date: November, 1988
Category: Logic of Induction
Abstract / Synopsis: Information Unavailable
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Title #302: Rules of Encounter: Designing Conventions for Automated
Negotiation among Computers (Artificial Intelligence)
Edition: First Edition
ISBN Number: 0262181592
Number of Pages: 253
Author(s): Jeffrey S. Rosenschein, Gilad Zlotkin
Publisher: The MIT Press
Date: July 12, 1994
Category: Account of machine interaction at the level of the machine designers (the society of designers) and the level of the machine interaction itself (the resulting artificial society)
Abstract / Synopsis: Rules of Encounter provides a unified, coherent account of machine interaction at the level of the machine designers (the society of designers) and the level of the machine interaction itself (the resulting artificial society). Taking into account such attributes of the artificial society as efficiency, and the self-interest of each member in the society of designers, it analyzes what kinds of rules should be instituted to govern interaction among these autonomous agents. The authors point out that adjusting the rules of public behavior -- or the rules of the game -- by which the programs must interact can influence the private strategies that designers set up in their machines, shaping design choices and run-time behavior, as well as social behavior.
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Title #303: The Essence of Human-Computer Interaction
Edition: First Edition
ISBN Number: 0137519753
Number of Pages: 196
Author(s): Xristine Faulkner
Publisher: Prentice Hall PTR
Date: November 25, 1997
Category: A complete, practical guide to building computer systems that
interact well with human beings and serve their needs
Abstract / Synopsis: This is a complete, practical guide to building computer systems that interact well with human beings and serve their needs. This interdisciplinary guide to human-computer interaction covers all the topics system designers need to know about, including human psychology, cognitive science and artificial intelligence. It includes many examples from everyday life and contemporary computer systems, as well as a wide variety of real-world interfacing problems and solutions, and practical experiments. It also contains up-to-date coverage of ergonomics and other health, safety and social issues associated with computer use. All computing and "human factors" professionals.
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Title #304: Artificial Intelligence: A Modern Approach
Edition: 2nd Edition
ISBN Number: 0137903952
Number of Pages: Information Unavailable
Author(s): Stuart J. Russell, Peter Norvig
Publisher: Prentice Hall
Date: December 20, 2002
Category: AI textbook
Abstract / Synopsis: Artificial Intelligence: A Modern Approach introduces basic ideas in artificial intelligence from the perspective of building intelligent agents, which the authors define as "anything that can be viewed as perceiving its environment through sensors and acting upon the environment through effectors." This textbook is up-to-date and is organized using the latest principles of good textbook design. It includes historical notes at the end of every chapter, exercises, margin notes, a bibliography, and a competent index. Artificial Intelligence: A Modern Approach covers a wide array of material, including first-order logic, game playing, knowledge representation, planning, and reinforcement learning.
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Title #305: Introduction to Artificial Intelligence : Second, Enlarged
Edition, Paperback
Edition: 2nd Enlarged edition
ISBN Number: 048624864X
Number of Pages: 512
Author(s): Philip C. Jackson
Publisher: Dover Publications
Date: June 1, 1985
Category: How machines (computers) can be made to act intelligently
Abstract / Synopsis: This comprehensive, easy-to-read survey of how machines (computers) can be made to act intelligently explores problem-solving methods, representation and models, game playing, automated understanding of natural languages, heuristic scene analysis, specific artificial intelligence accomplishments and other related topics. With 132 illustrations.
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Title #306: The Essence of Artificial Intelligence, Paperback
Edition: First Edition
ISBN Number: 0135717795
Number of Pages: 190
Author(s): Alison Cawsey
Publisher: Prentice Hall PTR
Date: January 15, 1998
Category: Introduction to the state-of-the-art in artificial intelligence
Abstract / Synopsis: This is a practical, highly-accessible introduction to the state-of-the-art in artificial intelligence. This book demystifies artificial intelligence, making it concrete and transparent. It covers knowledge representation, inference, expert systems, natural language processing, machine learning, neural networks, agents, robots, and more. The book includes extensive self-test questions, case studies, figures, worked examples, sample algorithms and a complete glossary. For anyone interested in artificial intelligence; no prior background is required.
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Title #307: Artificial Intelligence (3rd Edition)
Edition: Third Edition
ISBN Number: 0201533774
Number of Pages: 691
Author(s): Winston
Publisher: Addison Wesley
Date: January 15, 1992
Category: Introductions to artificial intelligence
Abstract / Synopsis: This book is one of the oldest and most popular introductions to artificial intelligence. An accomplished artificial intelligence (AI) scientist, Winston heads MIT's Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, and his hands-on AI research experience lends authority to what he writes. Winston provides detailed pseudo-code for most of the algorithms discussed, so you will be able to implement and test the algorithms immediately. The book contains exercises to test your knowledge of the subject and helpful introductions and summaries to guide you through the material.
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Title #308: Artificial Intelligence : A Guide to Intelligent Systems (2nd
Edition)
Edition: 2nd Edition
ISBN Number: 0321204662
Number of Pages: 440
Author(s): Michael Negnevitsky
Publisher: Addison Wesley
Date: November 2, 2004
Category: Ideas behind intelligent systems are simple and straightforward
Abstract / Synopsis: Virtually all the literature on artificial intelligence is expressed in the jargon of commuter science, crowded with complex matrix algebra and differential equations. Unlike many other books on computer intelligence, this one demonstrates that most ideas behind intelligent systems are simple and straightforward. The book has evolved from lectures given to students with little knowledge of calculus, and the reader needs no prerequisites associated with knowledge of any programming language. The methods used in the book have been extensively tested through several courses given by the author.
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Title #309: Essentials of Artificial Intelligence
Edition: First Edition
ISBN Number: 1558602216
Number of Pages: 430
Author(s): Matthew L. Ginsberg, Matt Ginsberg
Publisher: Morgan Kaufmann Publishers
Date: March, 1993
Category: Integrated, cohesive introduction to AI
Abstract / Synopsis: Since its publication, Essentials of Artificial Intelligence has been adopted at numerous universities and colleges offering introductory AI courses at the graduate and undergraduate levels. Based on the author's course at Stanford University, the book is an integrated, cohesive introduction to the field. The author has a fresh, entertaining writing style that combines clear presentations with humor and AI anecdotes. At the same time, as an active AI researcher, he presents the material
authoritatively and with insight that reflects a contemporary, first hand understanding of the field. Pedagogically designed, this book offers a range of exercises and examples.
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Title #310: General Systems Theory, Paperback
Edition: First Edition
ISBN Number: 9810241763
Number of Pages: 459
Author(s): Lars Skyttner
Publisher: World Scientific Publishing Company
Date: November 15, 2001
Category: General Systems Theory
Abstract / Synopsis: The book is an easy introduction to systems science, supplemented with thought provoking commentaries by the author.
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Title #311: Computational Intelligence : An Introduction
Edition: First Edition
ISBN Number: 0470848707
Number of Pages: 310
Author(s): Andries P. Engelbrecht
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Date: December 27, 2002
Category: Computational Intelligence
Abstract / Synopsis: Information unavailable
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Title #312: Principles of Artificial Intelligence
Edition: Reprint Edition
ISBN Number: 0934613109
Number of Pages: 476
Author(s): Nils J. Nilsson
Publisher: Morgan Kaufmann Publishers
Date: 1986
Category: Introduction to AI to bridge the gap between theory and practice
Abstract / Synopsis: classic introduction to artificial intelligence intended to bridge the gap between theory and practice, Principles of Artificial Intelligence describes fundamental AI ideas that underlie applications such as natural language processing, automatic programming, robotics, machine vision, automatic theorem proving, and intelligent data retrieval. Rather than focusing on the subject matter of the applications, the book is organized around general computational concepts involving the kinds of data structures used, the types of operations performed on the data structures, and the properties of the control strategies used.
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Title #313: Introducing Artificial Intelligence (Introducing...(Totem)),
Paperback
Edition: First Edition
ISBN Number: 1840464631
Number of Pages: 176
Author(s): Henry Brighton
Publisher: Totem Books
Date: February 25, 2004
Category: Explains the advances made over the past half-century
Abstract / Synopsis: Explains the advances made over the past half-century, from Alan Turning's influential groundwork to cutting-edge robotics and the New AI.
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Title #314: Artificial Intelligence : A Beginner's Guide (Oneworld
Beginners' Guides), Paperback
Edition: First Edition
ISBN Number: 1851683224
Number of Pages: 160
Author(s): Blay Whitby
Publisher: Oneworld Publications
Date: December 2003
Category: AI for beginners
Abstract / Synopsis: This jargon-free guide introduces the futuristic world of Artificial Intelligence, the science of creating machines that can think for themselves.
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Title #315: Introduction to Artificial Intelligence, Paperback
Edition: First Edition
ISBN Number: 1857283996
Number of Pages: 276
Author(s): Janet Finlay, Alan Dix
Publisher: CRC Press
Date: October 1996
Category: Introduction to AI
Abstract / Synopsis: Examines the central computational techniques embraced by AI - knowledge representation, search, reasoning and learning - and the principal application domains - expert systems, natural language and cognitive modeling.
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Title #316: Artificial Intelligence:
A Beginner's Guide to Man-Made Minds, Paperback
Edition: First Edition
ISBN Number: 0789489201
Number of Pages: 72
Author(s): Jack Challoner, John Gribbin
Publisher: Dorling Kindersley Publishing, Inc.
Date: November 1, 2002
Category: AI for beginners
Abstract / Synopsis: The Essential Science series makes the difficult and fascinating world of cutting-edge science accessible to everyone with a stimulating mix of lively illustrations and jargon-free text. Important scientific theories are explained clearly in these authoritative guides that feature cross-references, glossaries, and thorough indexes.
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Title #317: Artificial Intelligence
Edition: First Edition
ISBN Number: 1590184378
Number of Pages: 111
Author(s): Peggy Thomas
Publisher: Gale Group
Date: February 2005
Category: AI for Children
Abstract / Synopsis: Information Unavailable
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Title #318: Artificial Intelligence: A Guide to Intelligent Systems
Edition: First Edition
ISBN Number: 0321204662
Number of Pages: 440
Author(s): Michael Negnevitsky
Publisher: Addison-Wesley Longman, Inc.
Date: November 2004
Category: A Guide to Intelligent Systems
Abstract / Synopsis: Keeping the math to a minimum, Negnevitsky explains the principles of AI, demonstrates how systems are built, what they are useful for and how to choose the right tool for the job. “Artificial Intelligence is often perceived as being a highly complicated, even frightening subject in Computer Science. This view is compounded by books in this area being crowded with complex matrix algebra and differential equations - until now. This book, evolving from lectures given to students with little knowledge of calculus, assumes no prior programming experience and demonstrates that most of the underlying ideas in intelligent systems are, in reality, simple and straightforward."--BOOK JACKET. Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc.
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Title #319: Artificial Intelligence Illuminated, Paperback
Edition: First Edition
ISBN Number: 0763732303
Number of Pages: Information Unavailable
Author(s): Ben Coppin
Publisher: Jones & Bartlett Publishers
Date: March 2004
Category: AI’s importance in today’s society and potential for the future
Abstract / Synopsis: Artificial Intelligence Illuminated presents an overview of the background and history of artificial intelligence, emphasizing its importance in today’s society and potential for the future. The book covers a range of AI techniques, algorithms, and methodologies, including game playing, intelligent agents, machine learning, genetic algorithms, and Artificial Life. Material is presented in a lively and accessible manner and the author focuses on explaining how AI techniques relate to and are derived from natural systems, such as the human brain and evolution, and explaining how the artificial equivalents are used in the real world. Each chapter includes student exercises and review questions, and a detailed glossary at the end of the book defines important terms and concepts highlighted throughout the text.
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Title #320: Artificial Intelligence
Edition: First Edition
ISBN Number: 0120883651
Number of Pages: Information Unavailable
Author(s): Nilsson
Publisher: Elsevier Science & Technology Books
Date: January 2004
Category: Artificial Intelligence
Abstract / Synopsis: Information Unavailable
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Title #321: Artificial Intelligence: A Beginner's Guide
Edition: First Edition
ISBN Number: 1851683224
Number of Pages: 160
Author(s): Blay Whitby
Publisher: Oneworld Publications
Date: November 2003
Category: AI for beginners
Abstract / Synopsis: Assuming no technical expertise, Blay Whitby steers a careful course through this futuristic world, revealing the pervasive impact of AI on our daily lives, as well as in a broader context. He addresses all the controversies, while providing an insight into the many and fascinating applications of AI. This engaging and accessible guide adopts a jargon-free approach to outline the history, development and the many different applications of Artificial Intelligence. Featuring examples from chess-playing computers to tiny robotic insects, it also discusses the social and ethical implications of AI and addresses the key controversies and debates in an unsensational manner. This jargon-free guide introduces the futuristic world of Artificial Intelligence, the science of creating machines that can think for themselves.
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Title #322: Artificial Intelligence
Edition: First Edition
ISBN Number: 156711783X
Number of Pages: 48
Author(s): Philip Margulies
Publisher: Gale Group
Date: April 2003
Category: AI for children
Abstract / Synopsis: Discusses the definition of artificial intelligence, the development of "thinking" machines, and what computers may be able to do in the future.
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Title #323: Artificial Intelligence
Edition: First Edition
ISBN Number: 1403403236
Number of Pages: 64
Author(s): Ian Graham
Publisher: Heinemann Library
Date: March 2003
Category: AI for children
Abstract / Synopsis: Explores the different types of artificial intelligence, how they are developed, how they are used now and how they may be used in the future, and controversies surrounding this new technology.
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Title #324: Artificial Intelligence
Edition: First Edition
ISBN Number: 0613922565
Number of Pages: Information Unavailable
Author(s): Alex Woolf
Publisher: Sagebrush Education Resources
Date: February 2003
Category: AI for beginners
Abstract / Synopsis: Information Unavailable
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Title #325: Artificial Intelligence : Theory and Practice, Paperback
Edition: First Edition
ISBN Number: 0805325476
Number of Pages: 650
Author(s): Thomas Dean
Publisher: Addison Wesley
Date: May 10, 2002
Category: See Abstract / Synopsis
Abstract / Synopsis: Examines both theory and its practical applications. Includes discussions of the practical problems involved in their implementation.
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Title #326: Understanding Artificial Intelligence (Science Made
Accessible), Paperback
Edition: First Edition
ISBN Number: 0446678759
Number of Pages: 160
Author(s): Scientific American
Publisher: Warner Books, Inc.
Date: March 1, 2002
Category: Collection of essays on AI
Abstract / Synopsis: This collection of essays discusses the wide spectrum of knowledge compiled on the pursuit of this elusive goal. It includes a fascinating overview of the subject by Douglas B. Lenat, the president of Cycorp, Inc., and a forward-thinking essay on "The Rise of Robots" by Hans Marvec, the principal research scientists at the robotics Institute at Carnegie Mellon University, which conservatively estimates that by 2050, robot brains based on computers will start rivaling human intelligence.
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Title #327: Artificial Intelligence
Edition: First Edition
ISBN Number: 0613556860
Number of Pages: Information Unavailable
Author(s): Jack Challoner
Publisher: Sagebrush Education Resources
Date: January 2002
Category: AI for beginners
Abstract / Synopsis: Important scientific theories are explained clearly in these authoritative guides that feature cross-references, glossaries, and thorough indexes.
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Title #328: Adaptation in Natural and Artificial Systems: An Introductory
Analysis with Applications to Biology, Control, and Artificial
Intelligence
Edition: Reprint edition
ISBN Number: 0262581116
Number of Pages: 211
Author(s): John H. Holland
Publisher: The MIT Press
Date: April 29, 1992
Category: AI Introduction
Abstract / Synopsis: One of the classics in the field of complex adaptive systems. Holland is known as the father of genetic algorithms and classifier systems and in this tome he describes the theory behind these algorithms. Drawing on ideas from the fields of biology and economics, he shows how computer programs can evolve. The book contains mathematical proofs that are accessible only to those with strong backgrounds in engineering or science.
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Title #329: The Artificial Intelligence Experience: An Introduction, Paperback
Edition: First Edition
ISBN Number: 0130480916
Number of Pages: 183
Author(s): Susan J. Scown
Publisher: Prentice Hall
Date: December, 1988
Category: The Artificial Intelligence Experience: An Introduction
Abstract / Synopsis: Information Unavailable
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Title #330: Solving Geometric Constraint Systems: A Case Study in
Kinematics
Edition: First Edition
ISBN Number: 0262111640
Number of Pages: 299
Author(s): Glenn A. Kramer
Publisher: The MIT Press
Date: April 22, 1992
Category: Solving Geometric Constraints records and explains the formal basis for graphical analysis techniques that have been used for decades in engineering disciplines.
Abstract / Synopsis: Solving Geometric Constraints records and explains the formal basis for graphical analysis techniques that have been used for decades in engineering disciplines. It describes a novel computer implementation of a 3D graphical analysis method - degrees of freedom analysis - for solving geometric constraint problems of the type encountered in the kinematic analysis of mechanical linkages, providing the best computational bounds yet achieved for this class of problems. The technique allows for the design of algorithms that provide significant speed increases and. will foster the development of interactive software tools for the simulation, optimization, and design of complex mechanical devices as well as provide leverage in other geometric domains. Kramer formalizes symbolic geometry, including explicit reasoning about degrees of freedom, as an alternative to symbolic algebraic or iterative numerical techniques for solving geometric constraint satisfaction problems. He discusses both the theoretical and practical advantages of degrees of freedom analysis, including a correctness proof of the procedure, and clearly defines its scope. He covers all nondegenerate cases and handles several classes of degeneracy, giving examples that are practical and of representative complexity.
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Title #331: Virtual Arguments : On the Design of Argument Assistants for
Lawyers and Other Arguers (Information Technology and
Law)
Edition: First Edition
ISBN Number: 9067041904
Number of Pages: 272
Author(s): Bart Verheij
Publisher: Asser Press
Date: March 7, 2005
Category: AI in law
Abstract / Synopsis: Provides an overview of research into design of argumentation software, focusing on defeasible argumentation as it occurs in the law.
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Title #332: Argumentation Methods for Artificial Intelligence and Law
Edition: First Edition
ISBN Number: 3540251871
Number of Pages: 270
Author(s): Douglas Walton
Publisher: Springer
Date: June 2005
Category: Argumentation-based methods in AI
Abstract / Synopsis: Use of argumentation methods applied to legal reasoning is a relatively new field of study. Many vitally important problems of legal reasoning can be profitably studied in light of these new methods, and even if they cannot all be solved in any single monograph. This book provides a survey of the leading problems, and outlines how future research using argumentation-based methods, show great promise of leading to useful solutions. The problems studied include not only this of argument evaluation and argument invention, but also analysis of specific kinds of evidence commonly used in law, like witness testimony, circumstantial evidence, forensic evidence and character evidence. New tools for analyzing these kinds of evidence are introduced, like argument diagramming, deductive reasoning, an analysis of conditional relevance and a new dialectical model of explanation.
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Title #333: Legal Knowledge and Information Systems
Edition: First Edition
ISBN Number: 1586032011
Number of Pages: 147
Author(s): B. Verheij, A. R. Lodder, R. P. Loui, A. Muntiewerff
Publisher: I O S Press, Inc.
Date: February 2002
Category: AI in law methodology
Abstract / Synopsis: Information Unavailable
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Title #334: Law and the Semantic Web : Legal Ontologies, Methodologies,
Legal Information Retrieval, and Applications
Edition: First Edition
ISBN Number: 3540250638
Number of Pages: 249
Author(s): Bran Selic, Richard Benjamins, Pompeu Casanovas,
Aldo Gangemi
Publisher: Springer
Date: April 19, 2005
Category: Legal Ontologies and Web-Based Legal Information Management
Abstract / Synopsis: The revised papers presented in this book are drawn from two meetings devoted to the Semantic Web and the legal domain: The International Workshop on Legal Ontologies and Web-Based Legal Information Management held in Edinburgh, UK in June 2003, and the International Seminar on Law and the Semantic Web, held in Barcelona, Spain in November 2003. This book presents 15 thoroughly refereed revised papers on topics relevant for law and the Semantic Web. The book is structured into three parts. Part I sets the scene by introducing the relevant concepts, describing some of the users (legal professionals), and putting into historical context how legal professionals think about the use and application of law. Part II presents theoretical aspects related to the construction of legal ontologies, both from a legal and a methodological point of view. Part III collects descriptions of various applications of Semantic Web technology to the legal domain.
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Title #335: Modeling Legal Arguments : Reasoning with Cases and
Hypotheticals
Edition: First Edition
ISBN Number: 026201114X
Number of Pages: 345
Author(s): Kevin D. Ashley
Publisher: The MIT Press
Date: February 21, 1991
Category: Case-based reasoning & Law
Abstract / Synopsis: Modeling Legal Argument provides a comprehensive treatment of case-based reasoning and a detailed description of a computer program called Hypo, that models the way attorneys argue with cases, real and hypothetical. The program offers significant advantages over "keyword" case retrieval systems in the legal field and demonstrates how to design expert systems that assist the user by presenting reasonable alternative answers on all sides of an issue and by citing case examples to explain their advice. Hypo analyzes problem situations dealing with trade secrets disputes, retrieves relevant legal cases from its database and fashions them into reasonable legal arguments about who should win. The arguments demonstrate the program's ability to reason symbolically with past cases, to draw factual analogies between cases, to cite them in arguments, to distinguish them, and to pose counter-examples and hypotheticals based on past cases.
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Title #336: Legal Knowledge Engineering, Modeling Approach
Edition: First Edition
ISBN Number: 9051992300
Number of Pages: 232
Author(s): A. Valente
Publisher: Ios Pr Inc
Date: January 1, 1995
Category: Artificial Intelligence and Law
Abstract / Synopsis: Although the field of Artificial Intelligence and Law has matured considerably in the last 10 years, there is still no comprehensive view on the field, its achievements, and no agenda or clear direction for research. Moreover, present approaches to the development of legal knowledge-based systems (LKBS) - such as the use of rule-based systems, case-based systems, or logics - have obtained somewhat limited theoretical and practical results. This book provides a critical overview of the field by describing present approaches and analyzing their problems in detail. A new ``modeling approach'' to legal knowledge engineering is proposed to address these problems and provide an agenda for research and development. This approach applies recent developments in knowledge modeling to the law domain.
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Title #337: The Pleadings Game : An Artificial Intelligence Model of
Procedural Justice
Edition: First Edition
ISBN Number: 0792336070
Number of Pages: 264
Author(s): T.F. Gordon
Publisher: Springer
Date: September 30, 1995
Category: Artificial intelligence and legal theory
Abstract / Synopsis: The Pleadings Game is a major contribution to artificial intelligence and legal theory. The book draws on jurisprudence and moral philosophy to develop a formal model of argumentation called the pleadings game. From a technical perspective, the work can be viewed as an extension of recent argumentation-based approaches to non-monotonic logic: (1) the game is dialogical rather than mono-logical; (2) the validity and priority of defeasible rules is subject to debate; and (3) resource limitations are acknowledged by rules for fairly dividing the burdens of representation and proof among the players. Gordon's work evaluates important jurisprudential theories of argumentation and reasoning in the context of the U.S. commercial law on secured transactions. Audience: It is not necessary to have a formal background in law to appreciate The Pleadings Game. It will be of equal interest to both the artificial intelligence community and legal theorists.
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Title #338: Computers, Artificial Intelligence and the Law
Edition: First Edition
ISBN Number: 013151721X
Number of Pages: 132
Author(s): Mervyn E. Bennun
Publisher: Ellis Horwood Ltd
Date: February, 1992
Category: Computers, Artificial Intelligence and the Law
Abstract / Synopsis: Information Unavailable
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Title #339: Law, Computer Science, and Artificial Intelligence
Edition: First Edition
ISBN Number: 0893915998
Number of Pages: 265
Author(s): Ajit Narayanan, Mervyn Bennun
Publisher: Ablex Publishing Corporation
Date: April, 1991
Category: Law, Computer Science, and Artificial Intelligence
Abstract / Synopsis: Information Unavailable
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Title #340: Computers Ltd: What They Really Can't Do
Edition: First Edition
ISBN Number: 0198505558
Number of Pages: 221
Author(s): David Harel
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Date: November, 2000
Category: Limits of computers
Abstract / Synopsis: The computer has been hailed as the greatest innovation of the 20th century, and there is no denying that these technological marvels have dramatically changed our everyday lives. They can fly airplanes and spaceships, route millions of phone calls simultaneously, and play chess with the world's greatest players. But how limitless is the future for the computer? Will computers one day be truly intelligent, make medical diagnoses, run companies, compose music, and fall in love? In Computers Ltd., David Harel, the best-selling author of Algorithmics, illuminates one of the most fundamental yet under-reported facets of computers--their inherent limitations. Looking only at the bad news that is proven, discussing limitations that no amounts of hardware, software, talent, or resources can overcome, the book presents a disturbing and provocative view of computing at the start of the 21st century. Harel takes us on a fascinating tour that touches on everything from tiling problems and monkey puzzles to Monte Carlo algorithms and quantum computing, showing just how far from perfect computers are, while shattering some of the many claims made for these machines. He concludes that though we may strive for bigger and better things in computing, we need to be realistic: computers are not omnipotent--far from it. Their limits are real and here to stay. Based on hard facts, mathematically proven and indisputable, Computers Ltd. offers a vividly written and often amusing look at the shape of the future.
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Title #341: What Computers Still Can't Do: A Critique of Artificial
Reason, Paperback
Edition: First Edition
ISBN Number: 0262540673
Number of Pages: 429
Author(s): Hubert L. Dreyfus
Publisher: The MIT Press
Date: October 30, 1992
Category: AI Critique
Abstract / Synopsis: When it was first published in 1972, Hubert Dreyfus's manifesto on the inherent inability of disembodied machines to mimic higher mental functions caused an uproar in the artificial intelligence community. The world has changed since then. Today it is clear that "good old-fashioned AI," based on the idea of using symbolic representations to produce general intelligence, is in decline (although several believers still pursue its pot of gold), and the focus of the Al community has shifted to more complex models of the mind. It has also become more common for AI researchers to seek out and study philosophy. For this edition of his now classic book, Dreyfus has added a lengthy new introduction outlining these changes and assessing the paradigms of connectionism and neural networks that have transformed the field. At a time when researchers were proposing grand plans for general problem solvers and automatic translation machines, Dreyfus predicted that they would fail because their conception of mental functioning was naive, and he suggested that they would do well to acquaint themselves with modern philosophical approaches to human beings. What Computers Can't Do was widely attacked but quietly studied. Dreyfus's arguments are still provocative and focus our attention once again on what it is that makes human beings unique.
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Title #342: The Cult of Information: A Neo-Luddite Treatise on High
Tech, Artificial Intelligence, and the True Art of Thinking,
Paperback
Edition: Reprint edition
ISBN Number: 0520085841
Number of Pages: 267
Author(s): Theodore Roszak
Publisher: University of California Press
Date: February 1994
Category: Digital computing and its many problems
Abstract / Synopsis: This book makes an eloquent case for a simple thesis: digital computing, far from being a panacea, has created as many problems as it solves. For Roszak, a fair measure of the fault lies with corporate hucksterism, a credulous educational establishment, and government's desire to control information. But the deeper worry is our own utopian techno-idealism--the belief that a scientific broom can sweep away our messy problems. The author challenges such computer messianism with a detailed, common-sense look at the history of what computing has actually brought us. The trends he sees--the conflation of data with knowledge, the erosion of human-centered values, and the rise of a digital oligarchy at just about everyone else's expense--are tough to deny.
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Title #343: Artificial Intelligence: The Case Against
Edition: First Edition
ISBN Number: 0312004397
Number of Pages: 220
Author(s): Rainer Born
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Date: February, 1987
Category: Artificial Intelligence: The Case Against
Abstract / Synopsis: Information Unavailable
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Title #344: Foundations Of Artificial Intelligence, Paperback
Edition: First Edition
ISBN Number: 0262610752
Number of Pages: 364
Author(s): David Kirsh
Publisher: The MIT Press
Date: November 14, 1991
Category: Foundations of Artificial Intelligence critically evaluates the
fundamental assumptions underpinning the dominant approaches to AI
Abstract / Synopsis: Have the classical methods and ideas of AI outlived their usefulness? Foundations of Artificial Intelligence critically evaluates the fundamental assumptions underpinning the dominant approaches to AI. In the 11 contributions, theorists historically associated with each position identify the basic tenets of their position. They discuss the underlying principles, describe the natural types of problems and tasks in which their approach succeeds, explain where its power comes from, and what its scope and limits are. Theorists generally skeptical of these positions evaluate the effectiveness of the method or approach and explain why it works - to the extent they believe it does - and why it eventually fails. David Kirsh is Assistant Professor in the Department of Cognitive Science at the University of California, San Diego.
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Title #345: Mind, Machines, and Human Consciousness: Are There Limits
to Artificial Intelligence? Paperback
Edition: Reprint Edition
ISBN Number: 0809239337
Number of Pages: 256
Author(s): Robert L. Nadeau
Publisher: NTC/Contemporary Publishing Company
Date: April, 1992
Category: Mind, Machines, and Human Consciousness: Are There Limits to
Artificial Intelligence?
Abstract / Synopsis: Information Unavailable
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Title #346: Artificial Intelligence: Opposing Viewpoints
Edition: First Edition
ISBN Number: 0899080855
Number of Pages: 96
Author(s): Erik Belgum
Publisher: Greenhaven Press
Date: October, 1990
Category: Artificial Intelligence: Opposing Viewpoints
Abstract / Synopsis: Information Unavailable
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Title #347: Artificial Intelligence in Maintenance
Edition: First Edition
ISBN Number: 081551042X
Number of Pages: 485
Author(s): J. Jeffrey Richardson
Publisher: Noyes Pubns
Date: December, 1985
Category: Artificial Intelligence in Maintenance
Abstract / Synopsis: Information Unavailable
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Title #348: Smart Manufacturing With Artificial Intelligence
Edition: First Edition
ISBN Number: 0872632709
Number of Pages: 258
Author(s): Jake Krakauer
Publisher: Society of Manufacturing
Date: May, 1987
Category: Smart Manufacturing With Artificial Intelligence
Abstract / Synopsis: Information Unavailable
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Title #349: Crossing the Border: The Social and Engineering Design of
Computer Integrated Manufacturing Systems
Edition: First Edition
ISBN Number: 0387196137
Number of Pages: 135
Author(s): J. Martin Corbett
Publisher: Springer
Date: April, 1991
Category: Crossing the Border: The Social and Engineering Design of
Computer Integrated Manufacturing Systems
Abstract / Synopsis: Information Unavailable
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Title #350: Artificial Intelligence Applications in Manufacturing, Paperback
Edition: First Edition
ISBN Number: 0262560666
Number of Pages: 475
Author(s): A. Fazel Famili
Publisher: AAAI Press
Date: July 16, 1992
Category: Book covers current Al applications that can prove beneficial in the design and planning stages of manufacturing, that can assist in solving scheduling and control problems, and that can be used in manufacturing integration
Abstract / Synopsis: The past decade has seen considerable advances in CAE tools that employ leading-edge artificial intelligence techniques and that can be used with CAD/CAM tools to reduce design costs. In three parts, this book covers current Al applications that can prove beneficial in the design and planning stages of manufacturing, that can assist in solving scheduling and control problems, and that can be used in manufacturing integration. A. F. Famili is Research Scientist at the Knowledge Systems Laboratory of the National Research Council of Canada. Steven H. Kim is Visiting Fellow at the Design Research Institute, Cornell University. Dana S. Nau an Associate Professor in the Computer Science Department at the University of Maryland.
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Title #351: Artificial Intelligence for Ironmaking and Steelmaking
Operations, Paperback
Edition: First Edition
ISBN Number: 1886362106
Number of Pages: 186
Author(s): Iron and Steel Society, Stavros A. Argyopoulos
Publisher: Iron & Steel Society
Date: October, 1996
Category: Artificial Intelligence for Ironmaking and Steelmaking Operations
Abstract / Synopsis: Information Unavailable
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Title #352: Automating the identification of perturbations within large
manufacturing processes: A structured approach to process
representation : FY1988 technical ... Institute for Artificial
Intelligence
Edition: First Edition
ISBN Number: B00073383Q
Number of Pages: 70
Author(s): Information Unavailable
Publisher: Colorado Institute for Artificial Intelligence
Date: 1989
Category: Automating the identification of perturbations within large manufacturing processes: A structured approach to process representation
Abstract / Synopsis: Information Unavailable
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Title #353: Artificial Intelligence Applications in Materials Science:
Proceedings
Edition: First Edition
ISBN Number: 0873390679
Number of Pages: 209
Author(s): Ralph J. Harrison, Lewis D. Roth
Publisher: Tms
Date: September, 1987
Category: Artificial Intelligence Applications in Materials Science
Abstract / Synopsis: Information Unavailable
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Title #354: Mathematical Methods in Artificial Intelligence
(Practitioners), Paperback
Edition: First Edition
ISBN Number: 0818672005
Number of Pages: 656
Author(s): Edward A. Bender
Publisher: Wiley-IEEE Computer Society Pr
Date: January 27, 1996
Category: Mathematical foundations and tools in AI
Abstract / Synopsis: Introduces the students to the important mathematical foundations and tools in AI and describes their application to the design of AI algorithms. The book presents an introductory AI course based on the most important mathematics applications, while focusing on important topics that are proven useful in AI and involve the most broadly applicable mathematics. The book explores AI from three different viewpoints: goals, methods or tools, and achievements and failures. Its goals of reasoning, planning, learning, or language understanding and use are centered around the expert system idea. The tools of AI are presented in terms of what can be incorporated in the data structures. The book examines the concepts and tools of limited structure, mathematical logic, logic-like representation, numerical information, and nonsymbolic structures. Many introductory texts give the impression that AI is just a collection of heuristic ideas, data structures, and clever hacks. Fortunately, AI researchers use mathematics and are developing new tools. Since much of the mathematics used in AI is not part of standard undergraduate curriculum, the student will be learning mathematics and seeing how it is used in AI at the same time. A diskette containing solutions to many of the exercises is available for instructors.
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Title #355: Knowledge Spaces, Paperback
Edition: First Edition
ISBN Number: 3540645012
Number of Pages: 333
Author(s): Jean-Paul Doignon, Jean-Claude Falmagne
Publisher: Springer
Date: November 25, 1998
Category: Knowledge spaces offer a rigorous mathematical foundation for
various practical systems of knowledge assessment
Abstract / Synopsis: Knowledge spaces offer a rigorous mathematical foundation for various practical systems of knowledge assessment. An example is offered by the ALEKS system (Assessment and Learning in Knowledge Spaces), a software for the assessment of mathematical knowledge. From a mathematical standpoint, knowledge spaces generalize partially ordered sets. They are investigated both from a combinatorial and a stochastic viewpoint. The results are applied to real and simulated data. The book gives a systematic presentation of research and extends the results to new situations. It is of interest to mathematically oriented readers in education, computer science and combinatorics at research and graduate levels. The text contains numerous examples and exercises and an extensive bibliography.
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Title #356: Formal Concept Analysis : Mathematical Foundations,
Paperback
Edition: First Edition
ISBN Number: 3540627715
Number of Pages: 284
Author(s): Bernhard Ganter
Publisher: Springer
Date: December 22, 1998
Category: First textbook on formal concept analysis
Abstract / Synopsis: This is the first textbook on formal concept analysis. It gives a systematic presentation of the mathematical foundations and their relations to applications in computer science, especially in data analysis and knowledge processing. Above all, it presents graphical methods for representing conceptual systems that have proved themselves in communicating knowledge. Theory and graphical representation are thus closely coupled together. The mathematical foundations are treated thoroughly and illuminated by means of numerous examples. Since computers are being used ever more widely for knowledge processing, formal methods for conceptual analysis are gaining in importance. This book makes the basic theory for such methods accessible in a compact form.
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Title #357: Turtle Geometry: The Computer as a Medium for Exploring
Mathematics
Edition: Reprint edition
ISBN Number: 0262510375
Number of Pages: 497
Author(s): Harold Abelson, Andrea diSessa
Publisher: The MIT Press
Date: July 9, 1986
Category: AI & Mathematics
Abstract / Synopsis: Turtle Geometry presents an innovative program of mathematical discovery that demonstrates how the effective use of personal computers can profoundly change the nature of a student's contact with mathematics. Using this book and a few simple computer programs, students can explore the properties of space by following an imaginary turtle across the screen. The concept of turtle geometry grew out of the Logo Group at MIT. Directed by Seymour Papert, author of Mindstorms, this group has done extensive work with preschool children, high school students and university undergraduates. Harold Abelson is an associate professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at MIT. Andrea diSessa is an associate professor in the Graduate School of Education, University of California, Berkeley.
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Title #358: Formal Concept Analysis : Foundations and Applications
Edition: First Edition
ISBN Number: 3540278915
Number of Pages: 349
Author(s): Bernhard Ganter, Gird Stumme, Rudolf Wille
Publisher: Springer
Date: August 23, 2005
Category: Formal Concept Analysis
Abstract / Synopsis: Formal concept analysis has been developed as a field of applied mathematics based on the mathematization of concept and concept hierarchy. It thereby allows us to mathematically represent, analyze, and construct conceptual structures. The formal concept analysis approach has been proven successful in a wide range of application fields. This book constitutes a comprehensive and systematic presentation of the state of the art of formal concept analysis and its applications. The first part of the book is devoted to foundational and methodological topics. The contributions in the second part demonstrate how formal concept analysis is successfully used outside of mathematics, in linguistics, text retrieval, association rule mining, data analysis, and economics. The third part presents applications in software engineering.
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Title #359: Artificial Intelligence Techniques In Breast Cancer Diagnosis
& Prognosis
Edition: First Edition
ISBN Number: 981024374X
Number of Pages: 348
Author(s): Jain Ashlesha
Publisher: National Academies Press
Date: August 21, 2000
Category: AI in diagnosis & prognosis of breast cancer
Abstract / Synopsis: Information Unavailable
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Title #360: Medical Image Understanding Technology : Artificial
Intelligence and Soft-Computing for Image Understanding
Edition: First Edition
ISBN Number: 3540219854
Number of Pages: 156
Author(s): Ryszard Tadeusiewicz, Marek R. Ogiela
Publisher: Springer
Date: June 24, 2004
Category: AI & Medical Field
Abstract / Synopsis: A detailed description of a new approach to perceptual analysis and processing of medical images is given. Instead of traditional pattern recognition a new method of image analysis is presented, based on a syntactic description of the shapes selected on the image and graph-grammar parsing algorithms. This method of "Image Understanding" can be found as a model of mans' cognitive image understanding processes. The usefulness for the automatic understanding of the merit of medical images is demonstrated as well as the ability for giving useful diagnostic descriptions of the illnesses. As an application, the production of a content-based, automatically generated index for arranging and for searching medical images in multimedia medical databases is presented.
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Title #361: Computer-based medical consultations, MYCIN
Edition: First Edition
ISBN Number: 0444001794
Number of Pages: 264
Author(s): Edward Hance Shortliffe
Publisher: Elsevier
Date: 1976
Category: AI & Medical Field
Abstract / Synopsis: Information Unavailable
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Title #362: Readings in Medical Artificial Intelligence: The First Decade
Edition: First Edition
ISBN Number: 0201108542
Number of Pages: 512
Author(s): William J. Clancey, Edward H. Shortliffe
Publisher: Addison-Wesley
Date: July, 1984
Category: Readings in Medical Artificial Intelligence: The First Decade
Abstract / Synopsis: Information Unavailable
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Title #363: Selected Topics in Medical Artificial Intelligence
Edition: First Edition
ISBN Number: 038796701X
Number of Pages: 236
Author(s): by Peter L. Miller
Publisher: Springer
Date: September, 1988
Category: Selected Topics in Medical Artificial Intelligence
Abstract / Synopsis: Information Unavailable
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Title #364: Artificial Intelligence in Medicine (AAAS selected symposium),
Paperback
Edition: First Edition with (Short Disc)
ISBN Number: 0891589007
Number of Pages: 226
Author(s): Peter Szolovits
Publisher: Westview Pr
Date: August, 1982
Category: Artificial Intelligence in Medicine
Abstract / Synopsis: Information Unavailable
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Title #365: Automatic Data Processing, Artificial Intelligence and
Computers: Medical Subject Analysis With Bibliography
Edition: First Edition
ISBN Number: 088164076X
Number of Pages: 150
Author(s): John C. Bartone
Publisher: Abbe Pub Assn of Washington Dc
Date: January, 1984
Category: Automatic Data Processing, Artificial Intelligence and Computers:
Medical Subject Analysis With Bibliography
Abstract / Synopsis: Information Unavailable
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Title #366: Metaphor and Artificial Intelligence
Edition: First Edition
ISBN Number: 0805897305
Number of Pages: 142
Author(s): John A. Barnden, Mark G. Lee
Publisher: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Inc.
Date: March 2001
Category: Metaphor and Artificial Intelligence
Abstract / Synopsis: Information Unavailable
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Title #367: Training applications of artificial intelligence (USAWC
Military Studies Program paper)
Edition: First Edition
ISBN Number: B00071TBM0
Number of Pages: Information Unavailable
Author(s): John F Keith
Publisher: U.S. Army War College
Date: 1987
Category: Training applications of artificial intelligence (USAWC Military
Studies Program paper)
Abstract / Synopsis: Information Unavailable
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Title #368: Artificial intelligence and robotics on the battlefields of 2020?
(USAWC strategy research project)
Edition: First Edition
ISBN Number: B0006RF3Q8
Number of Pages: 19
Author(s): Vincent J Van Joolen
Publisher: U.S. Army War College
Date: 2000
Category: Artificial intelligence and robotics on the battlefields of 2020?
(USAWC strategy research project)
Abstract / Synopsis: Information Unavailable
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Title #369: Concepts for Army use of robotic-artificial intelligence in the
21st century
Edition: First Edition
ISBN Number: B0006Y31EW
Number of Pages: 27
Author(s): Dennis V Crumley
Publisher: US Army War College, Strategic Studies Institute,
Futures/Long-Range Planning Group
Date: 1982
Category: Concepts for Army use of robotic-artificial intelligence in the 21st
century
Abstract / Synopsis: Information Unavailable
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Title #370: Artificial intelligence applied to the command, control,
communications, and intelligence of the U.S. Central
Command
Edition: First Edition
ISBN Number: B0007223IS
Number of Pages: 70
Author(s): James N Enyart
Publisher: U.S. Army War College
Date: 1983
Category: Artificial intelligence applied to the command, control,
communications, and intelligence of the U.S. Central Command
Abstract / Synopsis: Information Unavailable
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Title #371: An assessment of artificial intelligence and expert systems
technology for application to the management of cockpit
systems
Edition: First Edition
ISBN Number: B00071AOK8
Number of Pages: 122
Author(s): Wayne L Martin
Publisher: Harry G. Armstrong Aerospace Medical Research Laboratory,
Aerospace Medical Division, Air Force Systems Command
Date: 1986
Category: An assessment of artificial intelligence and expert systems
technology for application to the management of cockpit systems
Abstract / Synopsis: Information Unavailable
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Title #372: Artificial intelligence applications to information warfare
(USAWC strategy research project)
Edition: First Edition
ISBN Number: B0006QHBTG
Number of Pages: 32
Author(s): David C Kirk
Publisher: U.S. Army War College
Date: 1996
Category: Artificial intelligence applications to information warfare
Abstract / Synopsis: Information Unavailable
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Title #373: Artificial Intelligence & Robotics in Military & Paramilitary
Markets
Edition: First Edition
ISBN Number: 0886946379
Number of Pages: 252
Author(s): Artificial Intelligence & Robotics in Military
Publisher: International Resource Development
Date: December, 1985
Category: Artificial Intelligence & Robotics in Military & Paramilitary
Markets
Abstract / Synopsis: Information Unavailable
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Title #374: Qualitative Reasoning: Modeling and Simulation with
Incomplete Knowledge
Edition: First Edition
ISBN Number: 026211190X
Number of Pages: 452
Author(s): Benjamin Kuipers
Publisher: The MIT Press
Date: August 29, 1994
Category: AI & Modeling and Simulation
Abstract / Synopsis: This book presents, within a conceptually unified theoretical framework, a body of methods that have been developed over the past fifteen years for building and simulating qualitative models of physical systems - bathtubs, tea kettles, automobiles, the physiology of the body, chemical processing plants, control systems, electrical systems - where knowledge of that system is incomplete. The primary tool for this work is the author's QSIM algorithm, which is discussed in detail. Qualitative models are better able than traditional models to express states of incomplete knowledge about continuous mechanisms. Qualitative simulation guarantees to find all possible behaviors consistent with the knowledge in the model. This expressive power and coverage is important in problem solving for diagnosis, design, monitoring, explanation, and other applications of artificial intelligence.
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Title #375: Recent Advances in Qualitative Physics
Edition: First Edition
ISBN Number: 0262061422
Number of Pages: 465
Author(s):
Publisher: The MIT Press
Date: October 7, 1992
Category: Qualitative modeling techniques are an essential part of building
second generation knowledge-based systems
Abstract / Synopsis: These twenty-eight contributions report advances in one of the most active research areas in artificial intelligence. Qualitative modeling techniques are an essential part of building second generation knowledge-based systems. This book provides a timely overview of the field while also giving some indications about applications that appear to be feasible now or in the near future. Chapters are organized into sections covering modeling and simulation, ontologies, computational issues, and qualitative analysis. Modeling a physical system in order to simulate it or solve particular problems regarding the system is an important motivation of qualitative physics, involving formal procedures and concepts. The chapters in the section on modeling address the problem of how to set up and structure qualitative models, particularly for use in simulation. Ontology, or the science of being, is the basis for all modeling. Accordingly, chapters on ontologies discuss problems fundamental for finding representational formalism and inference mechanisms appropriate for different aspects of reasoning about physical systems.
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Title #376: Information Modeling and Knowledge Bases X
Edition: First Edition
ISBN Number: 9051994532
Number of Pages: 361
Author(s): Hannu Kangassalo
Publisher: Ios Pr Inc
Date: January 1, 1999
Category: This book is concerned with modeling of information in various
ways
Abstract / Synopsis: This book is concerned with modeling of information in various ways, and the development and use of models in information systems of different kinds. Interesting applications of modeling can also be found in fields other than in information systems, e.g. in conceptual modeling of narrative texts. The topics of the articles cover a wide variety of themes in the domain of information modeling, design and specification of information systems and knowledge bases, ranging from foundations and theories to systems construction and application studies. The contributions in this volume represent the following major themes: - models in intelligent activity - concept modeling and conceptual modeling - conceptual modeling and information requirements specification - collections of concepts, knowledge base design, and data base design - human-computer interaction and modeling - software engineering and modeling - applications
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Title #377: Morality and Machines, Paperback
Edition: 2nd edition
ISBN Number: 0763717673
Number of Pages: 522
Author(s): Stacey L. Edgar
Publisher: Jones & Bartlett Publishers
Date: September 2002
Category: Moral issues on the influence of computers and technology on
society
Abstract / Synopsis: Examines the moral issues that emerge from the influence of computers and technology on society today. An ideal resource for readers interested in philosophy, technological sciences, and computer ethics.
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Title #378: Readings in Music and Artificial Intelligence
Edition: First Edition
ISBN Number: 9057550946
Number of Pages: 308
Author(s): Eduardo Reck Miranda
Publisher: Harwood Academic Pub
Date: August 1, 2000
Category: AI & Music
Abstract / Synopsis: The interplay between emotional and intellectual elements feature heavily in the research of a variety of scientific fields, including neuroscience, the cognitive sciences and artificial intelligence (AI). This collection of key introductory texts by top researchers worldwide is the first study which introduces the subject of artificial intelligence and music to beginners. Eduardo Reck Miranda received a Ph.D. in music and artificial intelligence from the University of Edinburgh, Scotland. He has published several research papers in major international journals and his compositions have been performed worldwide.
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Title #379: An artificial intelligence approach to tonal music theory
(University of California, Irvine. Dept. of Information and
Computer Science. Technical report)
Edition: First Edition
ISBN Number: B0006X1BCC
Number of Pages: Information Unavailable
Author(s): James Richard Meehan
Publisher: Dept. of Information and Computer Science, University of
California
Date: 1978
Category: An artificial intelligence approach to tonal music theory
Abstract / Synopsis: Information Unavailable
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Title #380: Music and mind: An artificial intelligence perspective,
1971-1981
Edition: First Edition
ISBN Number: B0006Y7T8G
Number of Pages: 557
Author(s): Otto E Laske
Publisher: Computer Music Association
Date: 1981
Category: Music and mind: An artificial intelligence perspective, 1971-1981
Abstract / Synopsis: Information Unavailable
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Title #381: Music, Mind, and Machine: Studies in Computer Music, Music
Cognition, and Artificial Intelligence
Edition: First Edition
ISBN Number: 9051701497
Number of Pages: 330
Author(s): Peter Desain, Henkjan Honing
Publisher: Thesis Pub
Date: November, 1992
Category: Book finds its basis in the fields of musicology, psychology and
computer science
Abstract / Synopsis: The research presented in this book finds its basis in the fields of musicology, psychology and computer science. Currently each of these domains is linked to the other in various research disciplines. In computer music, ways to design machines to make music are explored. In music cognition, mental processes that perceive and apprehend music are investigated. In artificial intelligence the mind is approached as a machine - and machines are built to learn more about the mind. The articles collected in this volume focus on the perception and representation of musical time and temporal structure, commonly identified as a research area crucial to the understanding of the complex processes that enable us to enjoy and perform music. The book makes an original contribution to the study of music, mind and machine.
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Title #382: Building Intelligent .NET Applications : Agents, Data Mining,
Rule-Based Systems, and Speech Processing, Paperback
Edition: First Edition
ISBN Number: 0321246268
Number of Pages: 312
Author(s): Sara Morgan Rea
Publisher: Addison-Wesley Professional
Date: March 25, 2005
Category: Artificial Intelligence (AI) for .NET programmers
Abstract / Synopsis: Artificial intelligence (AI) has been in existence almost as long as computers. However, only recently have AI techniques been widely incorporated by companies to enhance traditional business applications. Building Intelligent .NET Applications is an introduction to the world of Artificial Intelligence (AI) for .NET programmers. It is the first book to show professional .NET developers how to incorporate AI into their daily programming. In this accessible guide, developers will learn how to enhance both new and existing .NET applications with intelligent agents, data mining, rule-based systems, and speech processing
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Title #383: Artificial Intelligence and Other Innovative Computer
Applications in the Nuclear Industry
Edition: First Edition
ISBN Number: 0306429020
Number of Pages: 910
Author(s): M. Catherine Majumdar
Publisher: Springer
Date: October 1, 1988
Category: Artificial Intelligence and Other Innovative Computer
Applications in the Nuclear Industry
Abstract / Synopsis: Information Unavailable
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Title #384: Operations Research and Artificial Intelligence, Paperback
Edition: First Edition
ISBN Number: 1567500366
Number of Pages: 208
Author(s): C. W. Holsapple, V. S. Jacob, A. B. Whinston
Publisher: Ablex Publishing Corporation
Date: December, 1994
Category: Operations Research and Artificial Intelligence
Abstract / Synopsis: Information Unavailable
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Title #385: Simulating Organizations: Computational Models of
Institutions and Groups, Paperback
Edition: First Edition
ISBN Number: 026266108X
Number of Pages: 350
Author(s): Michael Prietula
Publisher: AAAI Press
Date: April 3, 1998
Category: See Abstract / Synopsis
Abstract / Synopsis: Organizational researchers are using computational models to gain insights into organizational phenomena and to explore dynamic processes and configurations that are difficult or impossible to investigate with other methods.
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Title #386: A Taxonomy for Texture Description and Identification
(Springer Series in Perception Engineering)
Edition: First Edition
ISBN Number: 0387973028
Number of Pages: 198
Author(s): A. Ravishankar Rao
Publisher: Springer
Date: October 18, 1990
Category: Book presents a solution to the signal to symbol transformation
problem for texture
Abstract / Synopsis: A central issue in computer vision is the problem of signal to symbol transformation. In the case of texture, which is an important visual cue, this problem has hitherto received very little attention. This book presents a solution to the signal to symbol transformation problem for texture. The symbolic description scheme consists of a novel taxonomy for textures, and is based on appropriate mathematical models for different kinds of texture. The taxonomy classifies textures into the broad classes of disordered, strongly ordered, weakly ordered and compositional. Disordered textures are described by statistical measures, strongly ordered textures by the placement of primitives, and weakly ordered textures by an orientation field. Compositional textures are created from these three classes of texture by using certain rules of composition. The unifying theme of this book is to provide standardized symbolic descriptions that serve as a descriptive vocabulary for textures. The algorithms developed in the book have been applied to a wide variety of textured images arising in semiconductor wafer inspection, flow visualization and lumber processing. The taxonomy for texture can serve as a scheme for the identification and description of surface flaws and defects occurring in a wide range of practical applications.
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Title #387: Analogy-Making as Perception: A Computer Model
Edition: First Edition
ISBN Number: 0262132893
Number of Pages: 284
Author(s): Melanie Mitchell
Publisher: The MIT Press
Date: May 14, 1993
Category: Describes Copycat - a computer model of analogy making
Abstract / Synopsis: Analogy-Making as Perception is based on the premise that analogy-making is fundamentally a high-level perceptual process in which the interaction of perception and concepts gives rise to "conceptual slippages" which allow analogies to be made. It describes Copycat - a computer model of analogy making, developed by the author with Douglas Hofstadter, that models the complex, subconscious interaction between perception and concepts that underlies the creation of analogies.
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Title #388: Creating Personalities for Synthetic Actors:
Towards Autonomous Personality Agents
Edition: First Edition
ISBN Number: 3540627359
Number of Pages: 251
Author(s): Robert Trappl, Paolo Petta
Publisher: Springer-Verlag Telos
Date: April, 1997
Category: AI & Personality
Abstract / Synopsis: The last decade has seen not only the impressive developments from the first brief appearance of a computer-generated character in a film, over the first digital performer in a movie, all the way to the first fully computer-generated theatrical motion picture; synthetic actors have also conquered demanding real-time domains from the (co-)moderation of live television shows to the evaluation of complex real-world scenarios modeled in detail in advanced simulators. (First sentence of the book)
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Title #389: Philosophical Perspectives in Artificial Intelligence
Edition: First Edition
ISBN Number: 0391009192
Number of Pages: 244
Author(s): Ringle
Publisher: Humanities Pr
Date: March, 1980
Category: Philosophical Perspectives in Artificial Intelligence
Abstract / Synopsis: Information Unavailable
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Title #390: Knowledge and Belief in Philosophy and Artificial Intelligence
Edition: First Edition
ISBN Number: 3050027916
Number of Pages: 242
Author(s): Heinrich Wansing (Editor), Armin Laux
Publisher: Wiley-VCH
Date: September 14, 1995
Category: Knowledge and Belief in Philosophy and Artificial Intelligence
Abstract / Synopsis: Information Unavailable
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Title #391: Artificial Intelligence and International Politics
Edition: First Edition with Short Disc
ISBN Number: 0813309379
Number of Pages: 422
Author(s): Valerie M. Hudson
Publisher: Westview Pr
Date: March, 1991
Category: Artificial Intelligence and International Politics
Abstract / Synopsis: Information Unavailable
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Title #392: Power Plant Surveillance and Diagnostics:
Applied Research with Artificial Intelligence
Edition: First Edition
ISBN Number: 3540432477
Number of Pages: 380
Author(s): Da Ruan, Paolo F. Fantoni
Publisher: Springer
Date: June 2002
Category: AI in plant surveillance and diagnosis
Abstract / Synopsis: This book is directed to the discussion of the most recent developments and on-going research related to all areas pertaining to plant surveillance and diagnosis as well as to identify the successful applications of already well-settled methodological tools in the field. Discussing developments and research related to all areas of plant surveillance and diagnosis, this text also identifies the successful applications of older methodological tools in the field.
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Title #393: Advances in the Dempster-Shafer Theory of Evidence
Edition: First Edition
ISBN Number: 0471552488
Number of Pages: 608
Author(s): Ronald R. Yager
Publisher: Springer
Date: February 1994
Category: Book builds on classical probability theory and offers an extremely
workable solution to the many problems of artificial intelligence
Abstract / Synopsis: Builds on classical probability theory and offers an extremely workable solution to the many problems of artificial intelligence, concentrating on the rapidly growing areas of fuzzy reasoning and neural computing. Contains a collection of previously unpublished articles by leading researchers in the field.
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Title #394: Representing and Reasoning with Probabilistic Knowledge: A
Edition: First Edition
ISBN Number: 0262023172
Number of Pages: 256
Author(s): Fahiem Bacchus
Publisher: The MIT Press
Date: December 27, 1990
Category: Book explores logical formalisms for representing and reasoning
with probabilistic information
Abstract / Synopsis: Probabilistic information has many uses in an intelligent system. This book explores logical formalisms for representing and reasoning with probabilistic information that will be of particular value to researchers in nonmonotonic reasoning, applications of probabilities, and knowledge representation. It demonstrates that probabilities are not limited to particular applications, like expert systems; they have an important role to play in the formal design and specification of intelligent systems in general.
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Title #395: The Art of Causal Conjecture
Edition: First Edition
ISBN Number: 026219368X
Number of Pages: 552
Author(s): Glenn Shafer
Publisher: The MIT Press
Date: November 15, 1996
Category: Author lays out a new mathematical and philosophical foundation for probability and uses it to explain concepts of causality used in statistics, artificial intelligence, and philosophy
Abstract / Synopsis: In The Art of Causal Conjecture, Glenn Shafer lays out a new mathematical and philosophical foundation for probability and uses it to explain concepts of causality used in statistics, artificial intelligence, and philosophy. The various disciplines that use causal reasoning differ in the relative weight they put on security and precision of knowledge as opposed to timeliness of action. The natural and social sciences seek high levels of certainty in the identification of causes and high levels of precision in the measurement of their effects. The practical sciences--medicine, business, engineering, and artificial intelligence--must act on causal conjectures based on more limited knowledge. Shafer's understanding of causality contributes to both of these uses of causal reasoning. His language for causal explanation can guide statistical investigation in the natural and social sciences, and it can also be used to formulate assumptions of causal uniformity needed for decision making in the practical sciences.
Causal ideas permeate the use of probability and statistics in all branches of industry, commerce, government, and science. The Art of Causal Conjecture shows that causal ideas can be equally important in theory. It does not challenge the maxim that causation cannot be proven from statistics alone, but by bringing causal ideas into the foundations of probability, it allows causal conjectures to be more clearly quantified, debated, and confronted by statistical evidence.
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Title #396: Building Problem Solvers (Artificial Intelligence)
Edition: First Edition
ISBN Number: 0262061570
Number of Pages: 716
Author(s): Kenneth D. Forbus, Johan deKleer
Publisher: The MIT Press
Date: November 19, 1993
Category: Principles and practice of creating problem solvers
Abstract / Synopsis: For nearly two decades, Kenneth Forbus and Johan de Kleer have accumulated a substantial body of knowledge about the principles and practice of creating problem solvers. In some cases they are the inventors of the ideas or techniques described, and in others, participants in their development. Building Problem Solvers communicates this knowledge in a focused, cohesive manner. It is unique among standard artificial intelligence texts in combining science and engineering, theory and craft to describe the construction of AI reasoning systems, and it includes code illustrating the ideas. After working through Building Problem Solvers, readers should have a deep understanding of pattern directed inference systems, constraint languages, and truth maintenance systems. The diligent reader will have worked through several substantial examples, including systems that perform symbolic algebra, natural deduction, resolution, qualitative reasoning, planning, diagnosis, scene analysis, and temporal reasoning.
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Title #397: Problem-Solving Methods in Artificial Intelligence
Edition: First Edition
ISBN Number: 0070465738
Number of Pages: Information Unavailable
Author(s): Nils J. Nilsson
Publisher: McGraw-Hill
Date: June, 1971
Category: Problem-Solving Methods in Artificial Intelligence
Abstract / Synopsis: Information Unavailable
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Title #398: Artificial Intelligence and Intelligent Systems
Edition: First Edition
ISBN Number: 0195671546
Number of Pages: 632
Author(s): N. P. Padhy
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Inc.
Date: April 2005
Category: Solving real-world problems using the latest AI techniques
Abstract / Synopsis: Artificial Intelligence provides a comprehensive coverage of the fundamental concepts and techniques in AI. The focus of this text is to solve real-world problems using the latest AI techniques. Intelligent systems like expert systems, fuzzy systems, artificial neural networks, genetic algorithms and ant colony systems are discussed in detail with case studies to facilitate in- depth understanding. Since the ultimate goal of AI is the construction of programs to solve problems, an entire chapter has been devoted to the programming languages used in AI problem solving. The theory is well supported by a large number of illustrations and end-chapter exercises. With its comprehensive coverage of the subject in a clear and concise manner this text would be extremely useful not only for undergraduate students, but also to postgraduate students.
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Title #399: Problem-Solving Processes in Humans and Computers:
Theory and Research in Psychology and Artificial Intelligence
Edition: First Edition
ISBN Number: 0275970876
Number of Pages: 256
Author(s): Morton Wagman
Publisher: Greenwood Publishing Group, Inc.
Date: December 2001
Category: AI in problem-solving
Abstract / Synopsis: Beginning with an overview of the general nature of problem- solving, Wagman (emeritus, psychology, U. of Illinois, Urbana- Champaign) critically analyzes current theory and research in the cognitive and computational sciences on problem-solving processes and structures, ranging from everyday intuition to the "rediscovery" of scientific methods by artificial intelligence systems--some named after noted scientists (e.g., BACON.3, BOOLE2, and MENDEL). Following a discussion of the generality of scientific model-building, e.g., as a search in matrix spaces, tables match scientific problem types and computational discovery systems. Appended material on the n-factor problem involves conceptual advances exemplifying mathematics as a quasi-empirical science. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR ()
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Title #400: Artificial Intelligence:
Structures and Strategies for Complex Problem Solving
Edition: Fourth Edition
ISBN Number: 0201648660
Number of Pages: 880
Author(s): George F. Luger
Publisher: Addison-Wesley Longman, Inc.
Date: July 2001
Category: Potential and challenges facing AI and cognitive science
Abstract / Synopsis: The fourth edition of Artificial Intelligence explores the potential and challenges facing artificial intelligence and cognitive science. Many sections of the previous edition have been revised to accommodate agent-based problem solving methods. A textbook for a course of one or two semesters for students who have completed courses in discrete mathematics, including predicate calculus and introductory graph theory; and data structures, including trees, graphs, and recursion-based search, using stacks, queues, and priority queues. The first edition appeared in 1997; the forth acknowledges the growing importance of agent-based problem solving in artificial intelligence technology.
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Title #401: Theory and Applications of Problem Solving
Edition: First Edition
ISBN Number: 0444895655
Number of Pages: 233
Author(s): B. Zhang, L. Zhang
Publisher: North-Holland
Date: June, 1992
Category: Theory and Applications of Problem Solving
Abstract / Synopsis: Information Unavailable
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Title #402: Programming Spiders, Bots, and Aggregators in Java,
Paperback
Edition: Book & CD-Rom edition
ISBN Number: 0782140408
Number of Pages: 512
Author(s): Jeff Heaton, Jeff Heaton
Publisher: Sybex
Date: February 2002
Category: How to build and deploy a wide variety of agents
Abstract / Synopsis: From the Back Cover: The content and services available on the web continue to be accessed mostly through direct human control. But this is changing. Increasingly, users rely on automated agents that save them time and effort by programmatically retrieving content, performing complex interactions, and aggregating data from diverse sources. Programming Spiders, Bots, and Aggregators in Java teaches you how to build and deploy a wide variety of these agents–from single-purpose bots to exploratory spiders to aggregators that present a unified view of information from multiple user accounts. You will quickly build on your basic knowledge of Java to quickly master the techniques that are essential to this specialized world of programming, including parsing HTML, interpreting data, working with cookies, reading and writing XML, and managing high-volume workloads. You’ll also learn about the ethical issues associated with bot use--and the limitations imposed by some websites. This book offers two levels of instruction, both of which are focused on the library of routines provided on the companion CD. If your main concern is adding ready-made functionality to an application, you’ll achieve your goals quickly thanks to step-by-step instructions and sample programs that illustrate effective implementations. If you’re interested in the technologies underlying these routines, you’ll find in-depth explanations of how they work and the techniques required for customization.
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Title #403: AI Application Programming (Programming Series),
Paperback
Edition: 2nd Book & CD edition
ISBN Number: 1584504218
Number of Pages: 473
Author(s): M. Tim Jones
Publisher: Charles River Media
Date: June 3, 2005
Category: AI Application Programming
Abstract / Synopsis: The popularity of artificial intelligence continues to grow as more and more uses are found for the technology. AI Application Programming Second Edition is completely updated to supply both the conceptual background and the real-world examples needed to begin using AI in software projects. Each technology is illustrated with a model implementation and application, and complete source code for each example is provided on the companion CD-ROM. Selected applications cover data mining, genetic algorithms, game programming, embedded rules-based engines, and the World Wide Web.
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Title #404: Artificial Intelligence Programming
Edition: Second Edition
ISBN Number: 0898596092
Number of Pages: 552
Author(s): Christopher K Riesbeck
Publisher: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates
Date: July 1987
Category: AI programming
Abstract / Synopsis: Information unavailable
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Title #405: Advances in Object-Oriented Metalevel Architectures and
Reflection
Edition: First Edition
ISBN Number: 084932663X
Number of Pages: 343
Author(s): Christoph Zimmermann
Publisher: CRC-Press
Date: June 20, 1996
Category: Advances in Object-Oriented Metalevel Architectures and
Reflection
Abstract / Synopsis: The importance of object-oriented metalevel architectures, metaobjects, and reflection continues to grow in computer science. This applies to traditional fields such as artificial intelligence and object-oriented programming languages as well as to parallel processing and operating systems. Advances in Object-Oriented Metalevel Architectures and Reflection presents some of the standard-setting research in this field. The book is structured with and introductory chapter that lays the necessary foundation for readers new to the field. The next five parts discuss operating systems, artificial intelligence, languages, concurrent objects, and application support. Each part itself has a brief introduction that presents the basics for understanding the particular topic.
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Title #406: Artificial Intelligence Using C, Paperback
Edition: First Edition
ISBN Number: 0078812550
Number of Pages: 412
Author(s): Herbert Schildt
Publisher: Mcgraw-Hill Osborne Media
Date: April, 1987
Category: AI Programming
Abstract / Synopsis: Information Unavailable
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Title #407: Artificial Intelligence and Turbo C, Paperback
Edition: First Edition
ISBN Number: 1556231296
Number of Pages: 385
Author(s): Christopher F. Chabris
Publisher: Irwin Professional Pub
Date: March, 1989
Category: Artificial Intelligence and Turbo C
Abstract / Synopsis: Information Unavailable
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Title #408: Object Oriented Programming for Artificial Intelligence: A
Guide to Tools and System Design
Edition: First Edition
ISBN Number: 020109228X
Number of Pages: 335
Author(s): Ernest R. Tello
Publisher: Addison-Wesley
Date: August, 1989
Category: Object Oriented Programming for Artificial Intelligence: A Guide
to Tools and System Design
Abstract / Synopsis: Information Unavailable
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Title #409: Parallelism and Programming In Classifier, Paperback
Edition: First Edition
ISBN Number: 0273088254
Number of Pages: 240
Author(s): Stephanie Forrest
Publisher: Pitman Pub/financial Times
Date: August, 1990
Category: Parallelism and Programming In Classifier
Abstract / Synopsis: Information Unavailable
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Title #410: Artificial Intelligence and Psychiatry
Edition: First Edition
ISBN Number: 0521258715
Number of Pages: 272
Author(s): D. J. Hand
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Date: June 6, 1985
Category: Book will provide the psychiatrist with a basic knowledge of the
methods and concepts used in the sphere of artificial intelligence
Abstract / Synopsis: This book will provide the psychiatrist with a basic knowledge of the methods and concepts used in the sphere of artificial intelligence. The techniques not only involve building models of the mind (and hence aid hypothesis testing) but also incorporate programs to assist the everyday work of psychiatrists. Knowledge representation, natural language understanding, search and planning, computer-assisted diagnosis, simulation and teaching are-discussed. Enough basic theory is outlined to enable readers to understand and to carry out research in the area, and to take part in the major ethical debate which is beginning and which will affect the direction of future research in the area.
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Title #411: Mind Design II: Philosophy, Psychology, and Artificial
Intelligence, Paperback
Edition: Second Edition
ISBN Number: 0262581531
Number of Pages: 488
Author(s): John Haugeland
Publisher: The MIT Press
Date: March 1, 1997
Category: Psychology by reverse engineering.
Abstract / Synopsis: Mind design is the endeavor to understand mind (thinking, intellect) in terms of its design (how it is built, how it works). Unlike traditional empirical psychology, it is more oriented toward the "how" than the "what." An experiment in mind design is more likely to be an attempt to build something and make it work--as in artificial intelligence--than to observe or analyze what already exists. Mind design is psychology by reverse engineering. When Mind Design was first published in 1981, it became a classic in the then-nascent fields of cognitive science and AI. This second edition retains four landmark essays from the first, adding to them one earlier milestone (Turing's "Computing Machinery and Intelligence") and eleven more recent articles about connectionism, dynamical systems, and symbolic versus nonsymbolic models. The contributors are divided about evenly between philosophers and scientists. Yet all are "philosophical" in that they address fundamental issues and concepts; and all are "scientific" in that they are technically sophisticated and concerned with concrete empirical research.
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Title #412: Artificial Intelligence in Psychology: Interdisciplinary Essays
Edition: First Edition
ISBN Number: 0262521407
Number of Pages: 204
Author(s): Margaret A. Boden
Publisher: The MIT Press
Date: May 4, 1989
Category: Relevance of artificial intelligence to psychology
Abstract / Synopsis: This collection of Margaret Boden's essays written between 1982 and 1988 focuses on the relevance of artificial intelligence to psychology. With her usual clarity and eye for the key role that each discipline plays in the science of the mind, Boden ties the essays together in a thorough synoptic overview. She outlines the various approaches, from Babbage's contributions, through the work of Turing and von Neumann, to the latest theories of parallel processing, and the questions that researchers in AI and psychology must ask to ascertain if there might be a discipline termed computational psychology. Many theoretical psychologists today believe that the science of artificial intelligence can include all of the phenomena generated by the human mind. This functionalist approach views the mind as a representational system and psychology as the study of the various computational processes whereby mental representations are constructed, organized, and interpreted. Disagreements abound, however, about how various psychological phenomena can be explained in computational terms; there is disagreement, too, about which AI concepts and which of the computermodeling methodologies will prove most useful from the psychologist's point of view. All of these issues are raised and clearly investigated here.
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Title #413: The Sciences of Cognition: Theory and Research in Psychology
and Artificial Intelligence
Edition: First Edition
ISBN Number: 0275949486
Number of Pages: 184
Author(s): Morton Wagman
Publisher: Praeger Publishers
Date: March 30, 1995
Category: Book deals with psychology, artificial intelligence and cognitive
science
Abstract / Synopsis: Wagman presents a general, unified theory of artificial and human intelligence under which the nature of human reasoning, problem solving, analogical thinking, and scientific discovery is examined from theoretical, research and computational perspectives. The work analyzes foundational issues regarding the nature of intelligent systems and intelligence, and significant and current research in the area is discussed. This book will be of interest to scholars dealing with psychology, artificial intelligence and cognitive science.
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Title #414: Artificial Intelligence: An Introduction (Introductions to
Modern Psychology)
Edition: First Edition
ISBN Number: 0710214162
Number of Pages: Information Unavailable
Author(s): Alan Garnham
Publisher: Routledge & Kegan Paul Books Ltd
Date: April, 1988
Category: Artificial Intelligence: An Introduction (Introductions to Modern
Psychology)
Abstract / Synopsis: Information Unavailable
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Title #415: Cognitive Psychology and Artificial Intelligence: Theory and
Research in Cognitive Science
Edition: First Edition
ISBN Number: 027594302X
Number of Pages: 192
Author(s): Morton Wagman
Publisher: Praeger Publishers
Date: February 28, 1993
Category: Book presents a detailed interdisciplinary examination of significant commonalities and differences between human intelligence and intelligent systems
Abstract / Synopsis: The nature of cognition is examined by the methods of experimental cognitive psychology and the theoretical models of computational psychology. This work presents a detailed interdisciplinary examination of significant commonalities and differences between human intelligence and intelligent systems, consequently enriching our perspectives on the nature of cognition.
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Title #416: Flexible Query Answering Systems
Edition: First Edition
ISBN Number: 3540221603
Number of Pages: 510
Author(s): Henning Christiansen, Hohand-Said Hacid,
Troels Andreasen, Henrik Legind Larsen
Publisher: Springer
Date: January 2004
Category: Flexible query answering systems
Abstract / Synopsis: This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Flexible Query Answering Systems, FQAS 2004, held in Lyon, France in June 2004. The 35 revised full papers presented together with 3 invited papers were carefully reviewed and selected from more than 100 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on knowledge representation; knowledge discovery and data mining; domain modeling, ontologies, and human interaction; computational linguistics and natural language processing; Web services, databases; information retrieval; and logic and artificial intelligence.
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Title #417: Nonmonotonic Reasoning
Edition: First Edition
ISBN Number: 0262011573
Number of Pages: 275
Author(s): Grigoris Antoniou
Publisher: The MIT Press
Date: April 4, 1997
Category: Nonmonotonic reasoning
Abstract / Synopsis: Nonmonotonic reasoning provides formal methods that enable intelligent systems to operate adequately when faced with incomplete or changing information. In particular, it provides rigorous mechanisms for taking back conclusions that, in the presence of new information, turn out to be wrong and for deriving new, alternative conclusions instead. Nonmonotonic reasoning methods provide rigor similar to that of classical reasoning; they form a base for validation and verification and therefore increase confidence in intelligent systems that work with incomplete and changing information.
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Title #418: Case-Based Reasoning: Experiences, Lessons, and Future
Directions, Paperback
Edition: First Edition
ISBN Number: 026262110X
Number of Pages: 525
Author(s): David B. Leake
Publisher: AAAI Press
Date: August 13, 1996
Category: Future of case-based reasoning
Abstract / Synopsis: Presents a selection of recent progress, issues, and directions for the future of case-based reasoning. Also, presents lessons learned about how to design CBR systems and how to apply them to real-world problems.
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Title #419: Rough Sets : Theoretical Aspects of Reasoning about Data
(Theory and Decision Library D:)
Edition: First Edition
ISBN Number: 0792314727
Number of Pages: 252
Author(s): Z. Pawlak
Publisher: Springer
Date: October 31, 1991
Category: Theoretical Aspects of Reasoning about Data
Abstract / Synopsis: Information Unavailable
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Title #420: Handbook of Temporal Reasoning in Artificial Intelligence
(Foundations of Artificial Intelligence)
Edition: First Edition
ISBN Number: 0444514937
Number of Pages: 750
Author(s): Michael David Fisher, Dov Gabbay, Lluis Vila
Publisher: Elsevier Science & Technology Books
Date: March 25, 2005
Category: The primary reference work for researchers and students in the
area of Temporal Reasoning in Artificial Intelligence
Abstract / Synopsis: This collection represents the primary reference work for researchers and students in the area of Temporal Reasoning in Artificial Intelligence. Temporal reasoning has a vital role to play in many areas, particularly Artificial Intelligence. Yet, until now, there has been no single volume collecting together the breadth of work in this area. This collection brings together the leading researchers in a range of relevant areas and provides an coherent description of the breadth of activity concerning temporal reasoning in the filed of Artificial Intelligence.
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Title #421: Science and Reason
Edition: First Edition
ISBN Number: 0195062531
Number of Pages: 304
Author(s): Henry E. Kyburg
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Date: November, 1990
Category: Book consists of a presentation of Kyburg's notions of epistemic probability and its use in the scientific enterprise i.e., the effort to modify previously adopted beliefs in the light of experience
Abstract / Synopsis: In this work Henry Kyburg presents his views on a wide range of philosophical problems associated with the study and practice of science and mathematics. The main structure of the book consists of a presentation of Kyburg's notions of epistemic probability and its use in the scientific enterprise i.e., the effort to modify previously adopted beliefs in the light of experience. Intended for cognitive scientists and people in artificial intelligence as well as for technically oriented philosophers, the book also provides a general overview of the philosophy of science for the non-philosopher by one of the leading authorities in the field.
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Title #422: Reasoning Processes in Humans and Computers:
Theory and Research in Psychology and Artificial Intelligence
Edition: First Edition
ISBN Number: 0275975258
Number of Pages: 320
Author(s): Morton Wagman
Publisher: Greenwood Publishing Group, Inc.
Date: February 2003
Category: Relationship between AI and human reasoning
Abstract / Synopsis: Wagman (emeritus, psychology, U. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign) presents a critical overview of theory and research in human reasoning and computational models of reasoning. He identifies the probabilistic contrast model of causal reasoning as an advance in the development of a mathematical conceptualization of human reasoning. He also looks at logical reasoning, inductive reasoning, Bayesian reasoning, syllogistic reasoning, commonsense reasoning, temporal reasoning, and similarity-based reasoning. Annotation (c)2003 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR () This volume presents a critical analysis of current theory and research in psychological and computational sciences addressing reasoning processes. Distinguished from narrowly technical books on the one hand, and from general philosophical books on the other, this work gives a broad, structured, detailed, and critical account of advancing intellectual developments in theories on the nature of reasoning. The author concludes that artificial intelligence reasoning systems are deepening and broadening theories of human reasoning.
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Title #423: Geometric Reasoning
Edition: First Edition
ISBN Number: 0262610582
Number of Pages: 520
Author(s): Deepak Kapur, Joseph L. Mundy
Publisher: The MIT Press
Date: June 14, 1989
Category: Research in geometric reasoning and its applications
Abstract / Synopsis: Geometry is at the core of understanding and reasoning about the form of physical objects and spatial relations which are now recognized to be crucial to many applications in artificial intelligence. The 20 contributions in this book discuss research in geometric reasoning and its applications to robot path planning, vision, and solid modeling. During the 1950s when the field of artificial intelligence was emerging, there were significant attempts to develop computer programs to mechanically perform geometric reasoning. This research activity soon stagnated because the classical AI approaches of rule based inference and heuristic search failed to produce impressive geometric, reasoning ability. The extensive research reported in this book, along with supplementary review articles, reflects a renaissance of interest in recent developments in algebraic approaches to geometric reasoning that can be used to automatically prove many difficult plane geometry theorems in a few seconds on a computer.
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Title #424: Reasoning by Analogy and Causality: A Model and
Application
Edition: First Edition
ISBN Number: 0136901328
Number of Pages: 206
Author(s): Derek Long, Roberto Garigliano
Publisher: Ellis Horwood Ltd
Date: July, 1994
Category: Reasoning by Analogy and Causality: A Model and Application
Abstract / Synopsis: Deals with a technically difficult topic within artificial intelligence in a coherent and logical manner. Discusses executable code description and analysis.
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Title #425: Approximate Reasoning Models
Edition: First Edition
ISBN Number: 0130513431
Number of Pages: Information Unavailable
Author(s): Ramon Lopez De Mantaras
Publisher: Ellis Horwood Ltd
Date: January, 1990
Category: Approximate Reasoning Models
Abstract / Synopsis: Information Unavailable
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Title #426: Intelligent Scheduling, Paperback
Edition: First Edition
ISBN Number: 1558602607
Number of Pages: 754
Author(s): Monte Zweben, Mark Fox
Publisher: Morgan Kaufmann
Date: July 16, 1998
Category: Scheduling complex processes
Abstract / Synopsis: Scheduling complex processes, such as chemical manufacturing or space shuttle launches, is a focus of substantial effort throughout industry and government. In the past 20 years, the fields of operations research and operations management have tackled scheduling problems with considerable success. Recently, the artificial intelligence community has turned its attention to this class of problems, resulting in a fresh corpus of research and application that extends previous results. This book, comprising original contributions from experts in the field, highlights these new advances. These chapters present complete systems, stressing their unique characteristics, rather than presenting simple research results. Applications-oriented chapters are also included to inform researchers of state-of-the-art methodologies. Researchers and practitioners in industry and government will find this book valuable. It will also serve as an ideal text for a graduate course in knowledge-based scheduling.
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Title #427: Scheduling of Production Processes
Edition: First Edition
ISBN Number: 0130751367
Number of Pages: Information Unavailable
Author(s): Jurgen Dorn, Karl Froeschl
Publisher: Ellis Horwood, Ltd.
Date: June, 1993
Category: Scheduling of Production Processes
Abstract / Synopsis: Information Unavailable
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Title #428: Search Inference and Dependencies in Artificial Intelligence
Edition: First Edition
ISBN Number: 0137968892
Number of Pages: Information Unavailable
Author(s): Murray Shanahan, Richard Southwick
Publisher: Ellis Horwood Ltd
Date: January, 1990
Category: Search Inference and Dependencies in Artificial Intelligence
Abstract / Synopsis: Information Unavailable
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Title #429: Artificial Intelligence Through Search
Edition: First Edition
ISBN Number: 0792318684
Number of Pages: 384
Author(s): Chris Thornton, Benedict Du Boulay
Publisher: Springer
Date: November 30, 1992
Category: Book on artificial intelligence that uses the unifying thread of search to bring together most of the major techniques used in symbolic artificial intelligence
Abstract / Synopsis: This is an important textbook on artificial intelligence that uses the unifying thread of search to bring together most of the major techniques used in symbolic artificial intelligence. The authors, aware of the pitfalls of being too general or too academic, have taken a practical approach in that they include program code to illustrate their ideas. Furthermore, code is offered in both POP-11 and Prolog, thereby giving a dual perspective, highlighting the merits of these languages.
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Title #430: Artificial Intelligence in Second Language Learning:
Raising Error Awareness
Edition: First Edition
ISBN Number: 1853598291
Number of Pages: 312
Author(s): Marina Dodgovic
Publisher: Multilingual Matters Limited
Date: August 2005
Category: Intelligent computer assisted language learning
Abstract / Synopsis: This volume argues that English as a second language can be learnt by adult learners if typical errors are corrected regularly. The recommended means of correction and remediation is artificial intelligence and its application within Intelligent Computer Assisted Language Learning. It describes original research demonstrating the success of this approach.
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Title #431: Handbook of Fingerprint Recognition
Edition: First Edition
ISBN Number: 0387954317
Number of Pages: 348
Author(s): Davide Maltoni
Publisher: Springer
Date: March 10, 2005
Category: Fingerprint recognition
Abstract / Synopsis: Reference on automatic fingerprint recognition providing in-depth coverage of the most recent advances and practices; including sensing, feature extraction and matching, synthetic fingerprint image generation, indexing, and multimodal systems. For biometric security professionals, researchers, developers, and systems administrators.
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Title #432: Homeland Security Techniques and Technologies (Networking
Series), Paperback
Edition: Book & CD-Rom edition
ISBN Number: 1584503289
Number of Pages: 331
Author(s): Jesus Mena
Publisher: Delmar Thomson Learning
Date: May 2004
Category: Strategic use of network-centric software
Abstract / Synopsis: The strategic use of network-centric software for data aggregation, integration, collaboration, categorization, and pattern-recognition by homeland security personnel at the local, state, and federal level is essential in combating terrorism in the 21st century. With the use of an assortment of software components, self-adaptive intelligent systems can be created for real-time use by a network of analysts. Homeland Security Techniques and Technologies provides important tips and tools necessary for achieving security that is both proper and functional. The book illustrates several key topics required in successful combating terrorism e.g., data warehousing techniques for behavioral profiling and entity validation to prevent identity theft; artificial intelligence and the Internet for the creation of virtual databases of images, html files, and e-mails; aggregating, preparing, and mining data remotely over networks anywhere in the world; and the visual mapping of connecting and tracking individuals on a global scale. Homeland Security Techniques and Technologies is an essential guide to understanding the different forms of terrorism and knowing the techniques of combating and preventing attacks.
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Title #433: Net-Centric Approaches to Intelligence and National Security
(Kluwer International Series in Engineering and Computer
Science)
Edition: First Edition
ISBN Number: 0387242953
Number of Pages: 182
Author(s): Roy Ladner, Frederick E. Petry
Publisher: Springer
Date: October 2005
Category: Development of net-centric approaches for intelligence
Abstract / Synopsis: This volume considers the web architectures and recent developments that make net-centric approaches for intelligence and national security possible. The development of net-centric approaches for intelligence, national and homeland security applications has become a major concern in many areas such as defense intelligence and national and international law enforcement agencies, especially since the terrorist attacks of 9/11. Net-Centric Approaches to Intelligence and National Security presents developments in information integration and recent advances in web services including the concept of the semantic web. Discovery analysis and management of web-available data poses a number of interesting challenges for research in web-based management systems. Intelligent agents and data mining are among the techniques employed. A number of specific systems that are net-centric based in various areas of military applications, intelligence and law enforcement are presented utilizing one or more of such techniques.
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Title #434: Automatic Fingerprint Recognition Systems
Edition: First Edition
ISBN Number: 0387955933
Number of Pages: 458
Author(s): Nalini Ratha, Ruud Bolle
Publisher: Springer
Date: October 9, 2003
Category: Outlines the history of fingerprint recognition, and addresses large-
scale fingerprint identification system design and standards
Abstract / Synopsis: Text outlines the history of fingerprint recognition; and addresses large-scale fingerprint identification system design and standards. Covers new technologies for inkless sensors, fingerprint image analysis techniques, and other areas aimed at fully automatic operation. For researchers and practitioners.
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Title #435: Enhanced Methods in Computer Security, Biometric and
Artificial Intelligence Systems
Edition: First Edition
ISBN Number: 1402077769
Number of Pages: 396
Author(s): Jerzy Pejas, Andrzej Piegat
Publisher: Kluwer Academic Publishers
Date: November 2004
Category: Computer security, Biometric and AI systems
Abstract / Synopsis: Enhanced Methods in Computer Security, Biometric and Artificial Intelligence Systems contains over 30 contributions from leading European researchers showing the present state and future directions of computer science research. "Methods of Artificial Intelligence and Intelligent Agents" contains 13 contributions analyzing such areas of AI as fuzzy set theory, predicate logic, neural networks, clustering, data mining and others. It also presents applications of AI as possible solutions for problems like firm bankruptcy, soil erosion, flight control and others. "Information Technology Security" covers three important areas of security engineering in information systems: software security, public key infrastructure and the design of new cryptographic protocols and algorithms. "Biometric Systems" comprises 11 contributions dealing with face picture analysis and recognition systems. This chapter focuses on known methods of biometric problem solution as well as the design of new models.
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Title #436: Progress in Automatic Signature Verification
Edition: First Edition
ISBN Number: 9810218524
Number of Pages: 173
Author(s): Rejean Plamondon
Publisher: World Scientific Publishing Company
Date: October, 1994
Category: Automatic signature verification
Abstract / Synopsis: Highlights some of the multidisciplinary aspects of automatic signature verification by including work that is currently examining them.
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Title #437: Artificial Intelligence and National Security
Edition: First Edition
ISBN Number: 0669112194
Number of Pages: 223
Author(s): Stephen J. Cimbala
Publisher: Lexington Books
Date: January, 1987
Category: Artificial Intelligence and National Security
Abstract / Synopsis: Information Unavailable
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Title #438: Artificial Intelligence and National Defense: Opportunity and
Challenge
Edition: First Edition
ISBN Number: 0830632352
Number of Pages: 204
Author(s): Paul E. Lehner
Publisher: Petrocelli Books
Date: March, 1989
Category: Artificial Intelligence and National Defense: Opportunity and
Challenge
Abstract / Synopsis: Information Unavailable
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Title #439: Self-Checking and Fault-Tolerant Digital Design (The Morgan
Kaufmann Series in Computer Architecture and Design)
Edition: First Edition
ISBN Number: 0124343708
Number of Pages: 216
Author(s): Parag K. Lala
Publisher: Morgan Kaufmann
Date: January 15, 2001
Category: Self-checking design techniques
Abstract / Synopsis: Deals extensively with self-checking design techniques, emphasizing major techniques for hardware fault tolerance. Contains a balanced treatment of the concepts and theory underlying fault tolerance and practical techniques for creating fault-tolerant systems.
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Title #440: Kinematic Self-Replicating Machines
Edition: First Edition
ISBN Number: 1570596905
Number of Pages: 341
Author(s): Robert A., Jr. Freitas, Ralph C. Merkle
Publisher: Landes Bioscience
Date: October 30, 2004
Category: Machine self-replication
Abstract / Synopsis: Kinematic Self-Replicating Machines is an impressively thorough compendium of everything that's known, or has ever been done, in this field, including all theoretical and experimental efforts. The treatment is literally encyclopedic, with over 3000 literature references, hundreds of illustrations, and descriptions of several working systems which have already been built and operated in laboratory settings. KSRM is a surprising readable book that's an important resource for anyone interested in machine self-replication. If you want to learn about the history (all the way from Descartes) to this year's state of the art, especially self-replication of hardware as opposed to software, then this book is the one to get. Yes, it's a bit expensive, but it is truly a magnificent resource.
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Title #441: After the Internet : Alien Intelligence
Edition: First Edition
ISBN Number: 0895262800
Number of Pages: 479
Author(s): James Martin
Publisher: Capital Press
Date: November 2000
Category: Fascinating tour of the new frontiers of computer technology and
its self-replicating artificial intelligence
Abstract / Synopsis: James Martin takes the reader on a fascinating tour of the new frontiers of computer technology and its self-replicating artificial intelligence that will change the way we live and challenge our ability to comprehend our own computers.
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Title #442: Sequence Learning : Paradigms, Algorithms, and Applications
Edition: First Edition
ISBN Number: 3540415971
Number of Pages: 391
Author(s): Ron Sun, C.Lee Giles
Publisher: Springer
Date: March 1, 2001
Category: Sequence learning
Abstract / Synopsis: Sequential behavior is essential to intelligence in general and a fundamental part of human activities, ranging from reasoning to language, and from everyday skills to complex problem solving. Sequence learning is an important component of learning in many tasks and application fields: planning, reasoning, robotics natural language processing, speech recognition, adaptive control, time series prediction, financial engineering, DNA sequencing, and so on. This book presents coherently integrated chapters by leading authorities and assesses the state of the art in sequence learning by introducing essential models and algorithms and by examining a variety of applications. The book offers topical sections on sequence clustering and learning with Markov models, sequence prediction and recognition with neural networks, sequence discovery with symbolic methods, sequential decision making, biologically inspired sequence learning models.
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Title #443: Artificial Intelligence in Simulation
Edition: First Edition
ISBN Number: 0130482579
Number of Pages: Information Unavailable
Author(s): Ivan Futo, Tamas Gergely
Publisher: Prentice Hall
Date: August, 1990
Category: Artificial Intelligence in Simulation
Abstract / Synopsis: Information Unavailable
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Title #444: Intelligent Skins, Paperback
Edition: First Edition
ISBN Number: 0750648473
Number of Pages: 184
Author(s): Michael Wigginton, Jude Harris
Publisher: Architectural Press
Date: March 13, 2002
Category: Intelligent Skins
Abstract / Synopsis: Information Unavailable
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Title #445: Systems and Software Verification : Model-Checking
Techniques and Tools
Edition: First Edition
ISBN Number: 3540415238
Number of Pages: 196
Author(s): B. Berard
Publisher: Springer
Date: August 9, 2001
Category: Model checking
Abstract / Synopsis: Model checking is a powerful approach for the formal verification of software. When applicable, it automatically provides complete proofs of correctness, or explains, via counter-examples, why a system is not correct. This book provides a basic introduction to this new technique. The first part describes in simple terms the theoretical basis of model checking: transition systems as a formal model of systems, temporal logic as a formal language for behavioral properties, and model-checking algorithms. The second part explains how to write rich and structured temporal logic specifications in practice, while the third part surveys some of the major model checkers available.
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Title #446: Independent Component Analysis - Theory and Applications
Edition: First Edition
ISBN Number: 0792382617
Number of Pages: 248
Author(s): Te-Won Lee
Publisher: Springer
Date: October 31, 1998
Category: Theories & applications of ICA
Abstract / Synopsis: Presents theories & applications of ICA & includes invaluable examples of several real-world applications. Based on theories in probabilistic models, information theory & artificial neural networks, several unsupervised learning algorithms are presented that can perform ICA.
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Title #447: Software Computing Methods in Human Sciences
Edition: First Edition
ISBN Number: 3540004661
Number of Pages: 272
Author(s): Vesa A. Niskanen
Publisher: Springer
Date: October 16, 2003
Category: Book considers Soft Computing methods and their applications in
the human sciences, such as the social and the behavioral sciences
Abstract / Synopsis: This book considers Soft Computing methods and their applications in the human sciences, such as the social and the behavioral sciences. Soft Computing methods - including fuzzy systems, neural networks, evolutionary computing and probabilistic reasoning - are state-of-the-art methods in theory formation and model construction. The powerful application areas of these methods in the human sciences are demonstrated, including the replacement of statistical models by simpler numerical or linguistic Soft Computing models and the use of computer simulations with approximate and linguistic constituents. "Dr. Niskanens work opens new vistas in application of soft computing, fuzzy logic and fuzzy set theory to the human sciences. This book is likely to be viewed in retrospect as a landmark in its field" -- Lotfi A. Zadeh, Berkeley.
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Title #448: Computational Intelligence in Software Quality Assurance
Edition: First Edition
ISBN Number: 9812561722
Number of Pages: 250
Author(s): S. Dick, A. Dandel
Publisher: World Scientific Publishing Company, Inc.
Date: June 2005
Category: Software quality improvement using AI
Abstract / Synopsis: Software systems surround us. Software is a critical component in everything from the family car through electrical power systems to military equipment. As software plays an ever-increasing role in our lives and livelihoods, the quality of that software becomes more and more critical. However, our ability to deliver high-quality software has not kept up with those increasing demands. The economic fallout is enormous; the US economy alone is losing over US$50 billion per year due to software failures. This book presents new research into using advanced artificial intelligence techniques to guide software quality improvements. The techniques of chaos theory and data mining are brought to bear to provide new insights into the software development process. Written for researchers and practitioners in software engineering and computational intelligence, this book is a unique and important bridge between these two fields.
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Title #449: Artificial Intelligence in Software Testing
Edition: First Edition
ISBN Number: 9812388540
Number of Pages: 220
Author(s): Mark Last, A. Kandel
Publisher: World Scientific Publishing Company, Inc.
Date: June 2004
Category: AI for software testing
Abstract / Synopsis: An inadequate infrastructure for software testing is causing major losses to the world economy. The characteristics of software quality problems are quite similar to other tasks successfully tackled by artificial intelligence techniques. The aims of this book are to present state-of-the-art applications of artificial intelligence and data mining methods to quality assurance of complex software systems, and to encourage further research in this important and challenging area.
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Title #450: Artificial Intelligence and Software Engineering:
Understanding the Promise of the Future
Edition: First Edition
ISBN Number: 1579580629
Number of Pages: 375
Author(s): Derek Partridge
Publisher: Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers
Date: January, 2000
Category: AI & Software Development
Abstract / Synopsis: Managers, business owners, computer literate individuals, software developers, students, and researchers--all are looking for an understanding of artificial intelligence (AI) and what "might be" in the future. In this literate yet easy-to-read discussion, Derek Partridge explains what artificial intelligence can and cannot do, and what it holds for applications such as banking, financial services, and expert systems of all kinds. Topics include: the strengths and weaknesses of software development and engineering; machine learning and its promises and problems; expert systems and success stories; and practical software through artificial intelligence.
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Title #451: Readings in Artificial Intelligence and Software Engineering,
Paperback
Edition: First Edition
ISBN Number: 0934613125
Number of Pages: 602
Author(s): Charles Rich, Richard C. Waters
Publisher: Morgan Kaufmann Pub
Date: August, 1986
Category: Readings in Artificial Intelligence and Software Engineering Abstract / Synopsis: Information Unavailable
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Title #452: All of Nonparametric Statistics (Springer Texts in Statistics)
Edition: First Edition
ISBN Number: 0387251456
Number of Pages: 276
Author(s): Larry Wasserman
Publisher: Springer
Date: October 14, 2005
Category: The book is aimed at Master's level or Ph.D. level students in
statistics, computer science, and engineering
Abstract / Synopsis: The goal of this text is to provide the reader with a single book where they can find a brief account of many, modern topics in nonparametric inference. The book is aimed at Master's level or Ph.D. level students in statistics, computer science, and engineering. It is also suitable for researchers who want to get up to speed quickly on modern nonparametric methods. This text covers a wide range of topics including: the bootstrap, the nonparametric delta method, nonparametric regression, density estimation, orthogonal function methods, minimax estimation, nonparametric confidence sets, and wavelets. The book has a mixture of methods and theory.
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Title #453: Probabilistic Conditional Independence Structures
(Information Science and Statistics)
Edition: First Edition
ISBN Number: 1852338911
Number of Pages: 285
Author(s): Milan Studeny
Publisher: Springer
Date: November 24, 2004
Category: Probabilistic Conditional Independence Structures
Abstract / Synopsis: Conditional independence is a topic that lies between statistics and artificial intelligence. Probabilistic Conditional Independence Structures provides the mathematical description of probabilistic conditional independence structures; the author uses non-graphical methods of their description, and takes an algebraic approach. The monograph presents the methods of structural imsets and supermodular functions, and deals with independence implication and equivalence of structural imsets. Motivation, mathematical foundations and areas of application are included, and a rough overview of graphical methods is also given. In particular, the author has been careful to use suitable terminology, and presents the work so that it will be understood by both statisticians, and by researchers in artificial intelligence. The necessary elementary mathematical notions are recalled in an appendix. Probabilistic Conditional Independence Structures will be a valuable new addition to the literature, and will interest applied mathematicians, statisticians, informaticians, computer scientists and probabilists with an interest in artificial intelligence.
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Title #454: Artificial Intelligence Frontiers in Statistics:
Al and Statistics III
Edition: First Edition
ISBN Number: 0412407108
Number of Pages: 432
Author(s): D. J. Hand
Publisher: Chapman & Hall/CRC
Date: December 1, 1992
Category: AI & Statistics
Abstract / Synopsis: This book presents a summary of recent work on the interface between artificial intelligence and statistics. It does this through a series of papers by different authors working in different areas of this interface. These papers are a selected and referenced subset of papers presented at the 3rd Interntional Workshop on Artificial Intelligence and Statistics, Florida, January 1991.
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Title #455: Artificial Intelligence and Statistics
Edition: Second Edition
ISBN Number: 0201115697
Number of Pages: 418
Author(s): William A. Gale
Publisher: Addison-Wesley Pub
Date: March, 1986
Category: Artificial Intelligence and Statistics
Abstract / Synopsis: Information Unavailable
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Title #456: Automated Theorem Proving, Paperback
Edition: 2nd Revised Edition
ISBN Number: 3528185201
Number of Pages: Information Unavailable
Author(s): Wolfgang Bibel
Publisher: Friedrick Vieweg & Son
Date: August, 1987
Category: Automated Theorem Proving
Abstract / Synopsis: Information Unavailable
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Title #457: Artificial Intelligence in Thermal Systems Design: Concepts
and Applications
Edition: Book & Disk Edition
ISBN Number: 1560725990
Number of Pages: 201
Author(s): Enrico Sciubba, Roberto Melli
Publisher: Nova Science Publishers
Date: November, 1998
Category: Possible applications of AI in the area of the design and operation
of thermal power plants
Abstract / Synopsis: This book deals with the application of a powerful set of techniques, collectively denominated artificial intelligence ("AI" in the following), to general problems in the fields of the design, monitoring and control of thermal systems for energy conversion, with a heavier accent on design applications. Possible applications of AI in the area of the design and operation of thermal power plants are delineated
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Title #458: Artificial Intelligence
Edition: 2nd edition
ISBN Number: 0070522634
Number of Pages: 640
Author(s): Elaine Rich, Kevin Knight
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Science/Engineering/Math
Date: December 1, 1990
Category: The breadth of AI is explored and explained
Abstract / Synopsis: The breadth of A. I. is explored and explained in this best selling text. Assuming no prior knowledge, it covers topics like neural networks and robotics. This text explores the range of problems which have been and remain to be solved using A. I. tools and techniques. The second half of this text is an excellent reference.
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Title #459: Handbook of Intelligence, Paperback
Edition: First Edition
ISBN Number: 0521596483
Number of Pages: 692
Author(s): Robert J. Sternberg
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Date: March 13, 2000
Category: Comprehensive, broad and deeply thematic review of intelligence
Abstract / Synopsis: Not since the landmark publication of Handbook of Human Intelligence in 1982 has the field of intelligence been more alive than it is today. Spurred by the new developments in a rapidly expanding field, Robert Sternberg has brought together a stellar list of contributors to provide a comprehensive, broad and deeply thematic review of intelligence that will be accessible to both scholar and student. Handbook of Intelligence is greatly expanded to cover areas such as animal and artificial intelligence, as well as human intelligence, fully reflecting important theoretical progress made since the early 1980s.
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Title #460: Current Topics in Artificial Intelligence
Edition: First Edition
ISBN Number: 3540222189
Number of Pages: Information Unavailable
Author(s): Ricardo Coneio, Maite Urretavizcaya, Jose-Luis Perez-de-la-Cruz
Publisher: Springer
Date: January 2004
Category: Entire spectrum of artificial intelligence and advanced applications
in various fields
Abstract / Synopsis: This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed joint post-proceedings of the 10th Conference of the Spanish Association for Artificial Intelligence, CAEPIA 2003, and the 5th Conference on Technology Transfer, TTIA 2003, held in San Sebastian, Spain, in November 2003. The 66 revised full papers presented together with one invited paper were carefully selected during two rounds of reviewing and improvement from an initial total of 214 submissions. The papers span the entire spectrum of artificial intelligence and advanced applications in various fields.
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Title #461: Artificial Intelligence Research and Development
Edition: First Edition
ISBN Number: 4274906221
Number of Pages: 500
Author(s): Isabel Aguilo, Llorenc Valverde, M. Teresa Escrig
Publisher: I O S Press, Inc.
Date: 2003
Category: Artificial Intelligence Research and Development
Abstract / Synopsis: Information Unavailable
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Title #462: Current Trends in Artificial Intelligence Planning
Edition: First Edition
ISBN Number: 9051991533
Number of Pages: 315
Author(s): C. Backstrom, Erik Sandewall
Publisher: Ios Pr Inc
Date: January 1, 1994
Category: Current Trends in Artificial Intelligence Planning
Abstract / Synopsis: Information Unavailable
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Title #463: Advances in Artificial Intelligence, Paperback
Edition: First Edition
ISBN Number: 3540421440
Number of Pages: 366
Author(s): Eleni Stroulia, Stan Matwin
Publisher: Springer
Date: August 15, 2001
Category: Artificial Intelligence Conference sponsored by the Canadian Society for Computational Studies of Intelligence, AI 2001, held in Ottawa, Canada, in June 2001
Abstract / Synopsis: This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 14th Artificial Intelligence Conference sponsored by the Canadian Society for Computational Studies of Intelligence, AI 2001, held in Ottawa, Canada, in June 2001. The 24 revised full papers presented together with 14 posters were carefully reviewed and selected from around 70 submissions. Among the topics addressed are learning, data mining, searching, multi-agent systems, automated deduction, computational linguistics, constraint programming, agent learning, planning, classifier systems, heuristics, logic programming, and case-based reasoning.
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Title #464: Artificial Intelligence Research and Development, Paperback
Edition: First Edition
ISBN Number: 1586035606
Number of Pages: 452
Author(s): B. Lopez , J. Melendez, P. Radeva, J. Vitria
Publisher: IOS Press
Date: October 1, 2005
Category: This book provides a representative selection of papers promoting synergies in the research community and includes papers on: Neural Networks, Computer Vision, Applications, Machine Learning, Reasoning, Planning and Robotics, and Multi-Agent Systems
Abstract / Synopsis: Artificial Intelligence (AI) has started the evolution in computer science. It is in good health, as many companies qualify their novelties as ‘smart’ or ‘intelligent’. The term ‘society of knowledge’ draws society nearer to the future and is a symbol of breakthrough. From this perspective, AI has reached maturity and has exploded into an endless set of sub-areas, getting in touch with all other disciplines, such as; situation assessment, analysis and interpretation of music, management of environmental and biological systems, planning trains, routing of communication networks, assisting medical diagnosis or powering auctions. The wide variety of Artificial Intelligence application areas has meant that AI researchers often become scattered in different micro specialized fields. There are few occasions where the AI research community joins together, while computer scientists and engineers can find a lot of interesting ideas from the cross fertilization of results coming from all of these application areas. This book provides a representative selection of papers promoting synergies in the research community and includes papers on: Neural Networks, Computer Vision, Applications, Machine Learning, Reasoning, Planning and Robotics, and Multi-Agent Systems. All of the papers collected in this volume would be of interest to any computer scientist or engineer interested in AI.
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Title #465: Recent Advances In Artificial Intelligence Research And
Development
Edition: Second Edition
ISBN Number: 1586034669
Number of Pages: 464
Author(s): Jordi Vitria
Publisher: Ios Pr Inc
Date: November 30, 2004
Category: Recent Advances In Artificial Intelligence Research And
Development
Abstract / Synopsis: Information Unavailable
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Title #466: Consciousness and Emotion in Cognitive Science: Conceptual
and Empirical Issues
Edition: First Edition
ISBN Number: 0815327706
Number of Pages: 314
Author(s): Josefa Toribio, Andy Clark
Publisher: Garland Publishing
Date: September, 1998
Category: This collection is of interest in many disciplines including computer science, linguistics, biology, information science, psychology, neuroscience, iconography, and philosophy
Abstract / Synopsis: Gathering important papers by both philosophers and scientists, this collection illuminates the central themes that have arisen during the last two decades of work on the conceptual foundations of artificial intelligence and cognitive science. Each volume begins with a comprehensive introduction that places the coverage in a broader perspective and links it with material in the companion volumes. The collection is of interest in many disciplines including computer science, linguistics, biology, information science, psychology, neuroscience, iconography, and philosophy.
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Title #467: Wavelets in Intelligent Transportation Systems
Edition: First Edition
ISBN Number: 0470867426
Number of Pages: 248
Author(s): Hojjat Adeli, Asim Karim
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Date: November 18, 2005
Category: The book focuses on applications in intelligent transportation systems (ITS) where a number of very complicated pattern recognition problems have eluded researchers over the past few decades
Abstract / Synopsis: This book shows how wavelets can be used to enhance computational intelligence for chaotic and complex pattern recognition problems. By integrating wavelets with other soft computing techniques such as neurocomputing and fuzzy logic, complicated and noisy pattern recognition problems can be solved effectively. The book focuses on applications in intelligent transportation systems (ITS) where a number of very complicated pattern recognition problems have eluded researchers over the past few decades.
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Title #468: Trusting Agents for Trusting Electronic Societies : Theory and
Applications in HCI and E-Commerce
Edition: First Edition
ISBN Number: 354028012X
Number of Pages: 235
Author(s): Rino Falcone, Suzanne Barber, Jordi Sabater-Mir, Munindar Singh
Publisher: Springer
Date: September 1, 2005
Category: Book draws together carefully revised papers on trust, reputation,
and security in agent society
Abstract / Synopsis: Based on two international workshops on trust in agent societies, held at AAMAS 2003 and AAMAS 2004, this book draws together carefully revised papers on trust, reputation, and security in agent society. Besides workshop papers, several contributions from leading researchers in this interdisciplinary field were solicited to complete coverage of all relevant topics. The 13 papers presented take into account issues from multiagent systems, artificial intelligence, cognitive science, game theory, and social and organizational science. Theoretical topics are addressed as well as applications in human-computer interaction and e-commerce.
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Title #469: Reasoning about Uncertainty, Paperback
Edition: First Edition
ISBN Number: 0262582597
Number of Pages: 456
Author(s): Joseph Y. Halpern
Publisher: The MIT Press
Date: September 1, 2005
Category: Formal ways of representing uncertainty and various logics for
reasoning about it
Abstract / Synopsis: Uncertainty is a fundamental and unavoidable feature of daily life; in order to deal with uncertainty intelligently, we need to be able to represent it and reason about it. In this book, Joseph Halpern examines formal ways of representing uncertainty and considers various logics for reasoning about it. While the ideas presented are formalized in terms of definitions and theorems, the emphasis is on the philosophy of representing and reasoning about uncertainty; the material is accessible and relevant to researchers and students in many fields, including computer science, artificial intelligence, economics (particularly game theory), mathematics, philosophy, and statistics.
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Title #470: Uncertain Inference, Paperback
Edition: First Edition
ISBN Number: 0521001013
Number of Pages: 310
Author(s): Henry E. Kyburg, Jr., Choh Man Teng
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Date: August 6, 2001
Category: Uncertainty is a vital element in developing artificial intelligence
that will not be undermined by its own rigidities
Abstract / Synopsis: Coping with uncertainty is a necessary part of ordinary life and is crucial to an understanding of how the mind works. It is a vital element in developing artificial intelligence that will not be undermined by its own rigidities. There have been many approaches to the problem of uncertain inference, ranging from probability to inductive logic to nonmonotonic logic. This book seeks to provide a clear exposition of these approaches within a unified framework.
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Title #471: Qualitative Methods for Reasoning under Uncertainty
Edition: First Edition
ISBN Number: 0262161680
Number of Pages: Information Unavailable
Author(s): Simon Parsons
Publisher: MIT Press
Date: August 2001
Category: Qualitative Methods for Reasoning under Uncertainty
Abstract / Synopsis: "Uncertainty" represents a wide variety of types of imperfect information. When working with uncertainties the author argues in favor of creating qualitative versions of existing methods and choosing the one that fits best, using qualitative methods to deal with imperfect information. In this book Simon Parsons describes qualitative methods for reasoning under uncertainty, "uncertainty" being a catch-all term for various types of imperfect information. The advantage of qualitative methods is that they do not require precise numerical information. Instead, they work with abstractions such as interval values and information about how values change. The author does not invent completely new methods for reasoning under uncertainty but provides the means to create qualitative versions of existing methods. To illustrate this, he develops qualitative versions of probability theory, possibility theory, and the Dempster-Shafer theory of evidence. According to Parsons, these theories are best considered complementary rather than exclusive. Thus the book supports the contention that rather than search for the one best method to handle all imperfect information, one should use whichever method best fits the problem. This approach leads naturally to the use of several different methods in the solution of a single problem and to the complexity of integrating the results--a problem to which qualitative methods provide a solution.
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Title #472: Applications of Uncertainty Formalisms
Edition: First Edition
ISBN Number: 3540653120
Number of Pages: 474
Author(s): Anthony Hunter, Simon Parsons
Publisher: Springer
Date: November 25, 1998
Category: Introductory review of uncertainty formalisms
Abstract / Synopsis: An introductory review of uncertainty formalisms by the volume editors begins the volume. The first main part of the book introduces some of the general problems dealt with in research. The second part is devoted to case studies; each presentation in this category has a well-delineated application problem and an analyzed solution based on a uncertainty formalism. The final part reports on developments of uncertainty formalisms and supporting technology, such as automated reasoning systems, that are vital to making these formalisms applicable. The book ends with a useful subject index. There is considerable synergy between the papers presented. The representative collection of case studies and associated techniques make the volume a particularly coherent and valuable resource. It will be indispensable reading for researchers and professionals interested in the application of uncertainty formalisms as well as for newcomers to the topic.
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Title #473: Uncertainty and Vagueness in Knowledge Based Systems:
Numerical Methods
Edition: First Edition
ISBN Number: 0387541659
Number of Pages: 491
Author(s): Rudolf Kruse
Publisher: Springer
Date: September, 1991
Category: Representation and management of uncertainty and vagueness in
the field of artificial intelligence
Abstract / Synopsis: The primary aim of this monograph is to provide a formal framework for the representation and management of uncertainty and vagueness in the field of artificial intelligence. Particular emphasis is put on a thorough analysis of these phenomena and on the development of sound mathematical modeling approaches. The scope of the book also includes implementational aspects and a valuation of existing models and systems. The fundamental claim of the book is that vagueness and uncertainty can be handled adequately by using measure-theoretic methods. The presentation of applicable knowledge representation formalisms and reasoning algorithms shows that efficiency requirements do not necessarily require renunciation of an uncompromising mathematical modeling approach. The results are used to evaluate systems based on probabilistic methods as well as on non-standard concepts such as certainty factors, fuzzy sets, and belief functions. The book is self-contained and addresses researchers and practitioners in the field of knowledge-based systems and decision support systems. It is suitable as a textbook for graduate-level students in AI, operations research, and applied probability.
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Title #474: Decision Making Under Uncertainty: An Artificial Intelligence
Approach
Edition: First Edition
ISBN Number: 0916376001
Number of Pages: 134
Author(s): Jerry Felsen
Publisher: Exposition Pr of Florida
Date: April, 1976
Category: Decision Making Under Uncertainty: An Artificial Intelligence
Approach
Abstract / Synopsis: Information Unavailable
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Title #475: Uncertainty in Artificial Intelligence, 4, Paperback
Edition: First Edition
ISBN Number: 0444887377
Number of Pages: 422
Author(s): Ross D. Shachter
Publisher: North-Holland
Date: September, 1990
Category: Uncertainty in Artificial Intelligence, 4
Abstract / Synopsis: Information Unavailable
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Title #476: The Concept of Indeterminism and Its Applications :
Economics, Social Systems, Ethics, Artificial Intelligence, and
Aesthetics
Edition: First Edition
ISBN Number: 0275957888
Number of Pages: 240
Author(s): Aron Katsenelinboigen
Publisher: Praeger Publishers
Date: December 30, 1997
Category: Scholars in various fields are exploring similar ideas to combat indeterminism when conditions seem chaotic and prohibit the use of a rigid program approach, even with probabilities
Abstract / Synopsis: Scholars in various fields are exploring similar ideas to combat indeterminism when conditions seem chaotic and prohibit the use of a rigid program approach, even with probabilities. Many do not realize that they are dealing with the same issues that appear between chaos and full order (or stochastic processes) in a phase that lends itself to the same formal treatment. Examples are observed in the development of social systems, the evaluation of corporate performance or of a position in chess. Conceptualization of this treatment requires a better understanding of indeterminism. The author contends that the category of indeterminism has its own meaning dealing with unavoidability.
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Title #477: Visual Computing
Edition: First Edition
ISBN Number: 0716750597
Number of Pages: 141
Author(s): Richard Mark Friedhoff, Mark S. Peercy
Publisher: Scientific American Library
Date: July 12, 2000
Category: Helps readers understand the nature of visual computing by drawing on concepts from computer science, vision and cognitive science, and the visual arts
Abstract / Synopsis: An incredible revolution in technology, visual computing allows us to create three-dimensional worlds to explore phenomena that otherwise would be unfathomable. It is not merely a new way to make images--it is a new way to think.
Written by two leaders in the field, Visual Computing helps readers understand the nature of visual computing by drawing on concepts from computer science, vision and cognitive science, and the visual arts. From the history of computer graphics to the research that is shaping this new technology, Visual Computing tells the exciting story of how scientists are linking the tremendous visual powers of human beings to the tireless and unlimited computational power of the computer. The result has had an impact on nearly every area of science, engineering, medicine, design, and entertainment--as well as on the fantastic growth of the Internet.
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Title #478: Vision Interface: Real World Applications of Computer Vision
Edition: First Edition
ISBN Number: 9810241097
Number of Pages: 200
Author(s): Mohamed Cheriet, Yee Hong Yang
Publisher: World Scientific Publishing Company
Date: September, 1999
Category: Computer Vision
Abstract / Synopsis: Information Unavailable
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Title #479: Experiments in the Machine Interpretation of Visual Motion
Edition: First Edition
ISBN Number: 026213263X
Number of Pages: 262
Author(s): David W. Murray, Bernard F. Buxton
Publisher: The MIT Press
Date: September 27, 1990
Category: Algorithms to interpret visual motion
Abstract / Synopsis: If robots are to act intelligently in everyday environments, they must have a perception of motion and its consequences. This book describes experimental advances made in the interpretation of visual motion over the last few years that have moved researchers closer to emulating the way in which we recover information about the surrounding world. It describes algorithms that form a complete, implemented, and tested system developed by the authors to measure two-dimensional motion in an image sequence, then to compute three-dimensional structure and motion, and finally to recognize the moving objects. The authors develop algorithms to interpret visual motion around four principal constraints. The first and simplest allows the scene structure to be recovered on a pointwise basis. The second constrains the scene to a set of connected straight edges. The third makes the transition between edge and surface representations by demanding that the wireframe recovered is strictly polyhedral. And the final constraint assumes that the scene is comprised of planar surfaces, and recovers them directly.
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Title #480: Interpretation of Visual Motion: A Computational Study
Edition: First Edition
ISBN Number: 0934613729
Number of Pages: 139
Author(s): Muralidhara Subbarao
Publisher: Pitman Publishing
Date: May, 1988
Category: Interpretation of Visual Motion: A Computational Study
Abstract / Synopsis: Information Unavailable
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Title #481: Artificial Intelligence Systems for Water Treatment Plant
Optimization
Edition: First Edition
ISBN Number: 1583211403
Number of Pages: 141
Author(s): Christopher W. Baxter
Publisher: American Water Works Association
Date: October 2001
Category: AI for water treatment plant operations
Abstract / Synopsis: This study seeks to gauge the feasibility of developing artificial intelligence systems for use in water treatment plant operations. It reviews AI systems for possible applications to this task, develops AI models for use in water treatment, details procedures and protocols for AI system development, and judges the overall feasibility. In addition to looking at the processes in use at particular plants, chapters offer background information, evaluate model boundaries, discuss the integration of Ann models with process control systems, assess the feasibility of the general idea, and make recommendations.
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Title #482: The Intelligent Wireless Web, Paperback
Edition: First Edition
ISBN Number: 0201730634
Number of Pages: 416
Author(s): H. Peter Alesso, Craig F. Smith
Publisher: Addison-Wesley Professional
Date: December 4, 2001
Category: Details all the technologies, all the candidate protocols, and all the
challenges to be met along the way to build the intelligent wireless Web
Abstract / Synopsis: Details all the technologies, all the candidate protocols, and all the challenges to be met along the way to build the intelligent wireless Web. Presents a fascinating, insightful vision of the Web's near future, with an overview of the technologies that will make it possible.
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Title #483: Computational Web Intelligence:
Intelligent Technology for Web Applications
Edition: First Edition
ISBN Number: 9812388273
Number of Pages: 570
Author(s): Y. O. Zhang, Abraham Kandel, Tsau Young Lin, Yiyu Yao
Publisher: World Scientific Publishing Company, Inc.
Date: August 2004
Category: AI and the Web application
Abstract / Synopsis: This book introduces the novel intelligent Web theory called computational Web intelligence (CWI) based on computational intelligence (CI) and Web technology (WT). It takes an in-depth look at hybrid Web intelligence (HWI), which is based on artificial biological and computational intelligence with Web technology and is used to build hybrid intelligent Web systems that serve wired and wireless users more efficiently. The basic principles of CWI and various e-applications of CWI and HWI are discussed. For completeness, six major CWI techniques (fuzzy Web intelligence, neural Web intelligence, evolutionary Web intelligence, granular Web intelligence, rough Web Intelligence and probabilistic Web intelligence) are described. With the huge potential for intelligent e-business applications of CWI and HWI, these techniques represent the future of intelligent Web applications.
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Title #484: Ambient Intelligence: Impact on Embedded System Design
Edition: First Edition
ISBN Number: 1402076681
Number of Pages: 360
Author(s): Twan Basten
Publisher: Springer
Date: November 30, 2003
Category: Investigates the impact of Ambient Intelligence on embedded
system design
Abstract / Synopsis: The emerging Ambient Intelligence vision has the potential to fundamentally change our world. This volume is a preview into the next era of computing. It investigates the impact of Ambient Intelligence on embedded system design. Combining visionary contributions with papers on recent developments, it brings to light the challenges in system design towards fulfilling the Ambient Intelligence promise. Topics covered range from processor architectures and embedded software to cognitive robotics and sensor networks, and from quality-of-service and energy-efficient design to security and fault tolerance.
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Title #485: Ambient Intelligence for Scientific Discovery:
Foundations, Theories, and Systems
Edition: First Edition
ISBN Number: 3540244662
Number of Pages: 311
Author(s): Yang Cai
Publisher: Springer
Date: April 2005
Category: Interaction, vision, language, and biomedicine in AI
Abstract / Synopsis: Many difficult scientific discovery tasks can only be solved in interactive ways, by combining intelligent computing techniques with intuitive and adaptive user interfaces. It is inevitable to use human intelligence in scientific discovery systems: Human eyes can capture complex patterns and relationships, along with detecting the exceptional cases in a data set; the human brain can easily manipulate perceptions to make decisions. Ambient intelligence is about this kind of often ubiquitous and autonomous human interaction with information. Scientific discovery is a process of creative perception and communication, dealing with questions like: how do we significantly reduce information while maintaining meaning or how do we extract patterns from massive data and growing data resources. Originating from the SIGCHI Workshop on Ambient Intelligence for Scientific Discovery, this state-of-the-art survey is organized in three parts on new paradigms in scientific discovery, ambient cognition, and ambient intelligence systems. Many chapters share common features such as interaction, vision, language, and biomedicine.
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Title #486: Artificial Life Models in Software
Edition: First Edition
ISBN Number: 1852339454
Number of Pages: 348
Author(s): Andrew Adamatzky, Maciej Komosinski
Publisher: Springer
Date: July 22, 2005
Category: Overview and original analysis of major non-profit artificial life
software packages
Abstract / Synopsis: This book presents software tools, environments and realities dealing with creation, imitation and analysis of artificial, virtual, and living forms, written by those who personally design and produce software, hardware, and art installations in artificial life, simulated complex systems, and virtual worlds. This timely volume offers a nearly exhaustive overview and original analysis of major non-profit artificial life software packages. Topics include: - simulation of real and imaginary life forms and their evolution - self-organization - emergent behaviors - swarm intelligence - evolutionary robotics - agent-based simulations - adaptive, complex and biologically inspired ecosystems - creative computer art. There has long been a need within the academic and research community for an informal introduction and guidance to modern software tools for modeling and simulation of life-like phenomena – this book fills this gap and offers detailed reviews of contemporary software for artificial life for both professionals and amateurs.
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Title #487: Artificial Life: An Overview (Complex Adaptive Systems),
Paperback
Edition: First Edition
ISBN Number: 0262621126
Number of Pages: 336
Author(s): Christopher G. Langton
Publisher: The MIT Press
Date: January 22, 1997
Category: Artificial life
Abstract / Synopsis: Artificial life, a field that seeks to increase the role of synthesis in the study of biological phenomena, has great potential, both for unlocking the secrets of life and for raising a host of disturbing issues -- scientific and technical as well as philosophical and ethical. This book brings together a series of overview articles that appeared in the first three issues of the groundbreaking journal Artificial Life, along with a new introduction by Christopher Langton, Editor-in-Chief of Artificial Life, founder of the discipline, and Director of the Artificial Life Program at the Santa Fe Institute.
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Title #488: Introduction to Artificial Life
Edition: First Edition
ISBN Number: 0387946462
Number of Pages: 374
Author(s): Christoph Adami
Publisher: Springer
Date: December 19, 1997
Category: Artificial Life
Abstract / Synopsis: Adami's book is extraordinarily important. It represents a true landmark in the new field of Artificial Life, and will find a wide readership, ranging from university students to professional researchers.
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Title #489: The Artificial Life Route to Artificial Intelligence: Building
Embodied, Situated Agents
Edition: First Edition
ISBN Number: 080581518X
Number of Pages: 296
Author(s): Luc Steels, Rodney Brooks
Publisher: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates
Date: June 1995
Category: New biologically and behaviorally informed approach to AI
Abstract / Synopsis: A core collection of essays on the new biologically and behaviorally informed approach to artificial intelligence pioneered most visibly by Rodney Brooks. Also of great relevance to research on autonomous online agents.
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Title #490: Artificial Life Explorer's Kit/Book and Disk
Edition: Book & Disk edition
ISBN Number: 0672303019
Number of Pages: 207
Author(s): Ellen Thro
Publisher: Sams Publishers
Date: July, 1993
Category: Brings users to the forefront of the hot, new, fascinating field of
artificial life
Abstract / Synopsis: Brings users to the forefront of the hot, new, fascinating field of artificial life! "Presents topics in simple, direct style that allows users to browse and experiment. Covers the history, state of the art, and future directions of artificial life. Includes a disk with demo programs and artificial life simulations. Offers useful code t". Covers IBM & Compatibles.
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Title #491: Artificial Life Playhouse: Evolution at Your Fingertips/Book
and Disk
Edition: Book & Disk edition
ISBN Number: 1878739328
Number of Pages: 179
Author(s): Stephen Prata
Publisher: Waite Group Pr
Date: March, 1993
Category: Evolution at Your Fingertips
Abstract / Synopsis: Information Unavailable
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Title #492: Virtual Organisms : The Startling World of Artificial Life
Edition: First Edition
ISBN Number: 031226691X
Number of Pages: 320
Author(s): Mark Ward
Publisher: Thomas Dunne Books
Date: November 14, 2000
Category: Exciting field of artificial life
Abstract / Synopsis: Artificial intelligence research has tried to make machines that think; the newer and in many ways more exciting field of artificial life ("ALife") seeks computers and computer-driven machines that work likeAor arguably in some sense areAliving things. ALife "encompasses software simulations, robotics, protein electronics and even attempts to re-create the world's first living organisms." This compelling and easy-to-follow volume from the Daily Telegraph (U.K.) tech journalist Ward picks up where Steven Levy's Artificial Life (1992) left off, surveying recent and classic ALife work in all its subfields. Bell Labs researcher Andrew Pargellis's "computer simulation of a primordial soup" produces "working, replicating programs" analogous to the self-replicating molecules that colonized the early Earth. John Horton Conway's computerized "Game of Life" produces "Cellular Automata," self-perpetuating, evolving patterns that model biological evolution. Cambridge scientist William Walter's 1950s robots "Elmer" and "Elsie," he claims, chased each other like cats and learned tricks like dogs: inspired by them, MIT's Rodney Brooks makes robots that can explore the real world, "solving the same problems that animals face." Programs that replicate, mix with other programs and generate somewhat different successors mimic the sexual reproduction that has made possible much of our evolution: these programs, called "agents," may someday run telephone networks and other large electronic systems with catastrophic consequences if they evolve in ways that are bad for us. Though he includes some scary scenarios, Ward is largely upbeat about the scientific and practical future of ALife in all its manifestations.
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Title #493: Progress in Automatic Diatom Identification
Edition: First Edition
ISBN Number: 9810248865
Number of Pages: 300
Author(s): Hans Bu Buf, Macha Bayer
Publisher: World Scientific Publishing Company, Inc.
Date: July 2002
Category: Automatic Diatom identification
Abstract / Synopsis: Information Unavailable
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Title #494: Learning Bayesian Networks
Edition: First Edition
ISBN Number: 0130125342
Number of Pages: 674
Author(s): Richard E. Neapolitan
Publisher: Prentice Hall
Date: April 1, 2003
Category: Study and application of Bayesian networks
Abstract / Synopsis: Learning Bayesian Networks offers the first accessible and unified text on the study and application of Bayesian networks. This book serves as a key textbook or reference for anyone with an interest in probabilistic modeling in the fields of computer science, computer engineering, and electrical engineering. This text is also a valuable supplemental resource for courses on expert systems, machine learning, and artificial intelligence. Appropriate for classroom teaching or self-instruction, the text is organized to provide fundamental concepts in an accessible, practical format. Beginning with a basic theoretical introduction, the author then provides a comprehensive discussion of inference, methods of learning, and applications based on Bayesian networks and beyond.
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Title #495: Bayesian Networks and Decision Graphs (Information Science
and Statistics)
Edition: First Edition
ISBN Number: 0387952594
Number of Pages: 284
Author(s): Finn V. Jensen
Publisher: Springer
Date: July 6, 2001
Category: Bayesian networks and decision graphs
Abstract / Synopsis: Bayesian networks and decision graphs are formal graphical languages for representation and communication of decision scenarios requiring reasoning under uncertainty. Their strengths are two-sided. It is easy for humans to construct and to understand them, and when communicated to a computer, they can easily be compiled. Furthermore, handy algorithms are developed for analyses of the models and for providing responses to a wide range of requests such as belief updating, determining optimal strategies, conflict analyses of evidence, and most probable explanation. The book emphasizes both the human and the computer side. Part I gives a thorough introduction to Bayesian networks as well as decision trees and infulence diagrams, and through examples and exercises, the reader is instructed in building graphical models from domain knowledge. This part is self-contained and it does not require other background than standard secondary school mathematics. Part II is devoted to the presentation of algorithms and complexity issues. This part is also self-contained, but it requires that the reader is familiar with working with texts in the mathematical language.
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Title #496: Hierarchical Bayesian Optimization Algorithm : Toward a
New Generation of Evolutionary Algorithms (Studies in
Fuzziness and Soft Computing)
Edition: First Edition
ISBN Number: 3540237747
Number of Pages: 166
Author(s): Martin Pelikan
Publisher: Springer
Date: March 24, 2005
Category: Book provides a framework for the design of competent optimization techniques by combining advanced evolutionary algorithms with state-of-the-art machine learning techniques
Abstract / Synopsis: This book provides a framework for the design of competent optimization techniques by combining advanced evolutionary algorithms with state-of-the-art machine learning techniques. The primary focus of the book is on two algorithms that replace traditional variation operators of evolutionary algorithms, by learning and sampling Bayesian networks: the Bayesian optimization algorithm (BOA) and the hierarchical BOA (hBOA). They provide a scalable solution to a broad class of problems. The book provides an overview of evolutionary algorithms that use probabilistic models to guide their search, motivates and describes BOA and hBOA in a way accessible to a wide audience, and presents numerous results confirming that they are revolutionary approaches to black-box optimization.
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Title #497: Bayesian Nets And Causality: Philosophical And
Computational Foundations
Edition: First Edition
ISBN Number: 019853079X
Number of Pages: 239
Author(s): Jon Williamson
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Date: March 16, 2005
Category: Book develops a systematic account of causal reasoning and shows how Bayesian nets can be coherently employed to automate the reasoning processes of an artificial agent
Abstract / Synopsis: Bayesian nets are widely used in artificial intelligence as a calculus for casual reasoning, enabling machines to make predictions, perform diagnoses, take decisions and even to discover casual relationships. But many philosophers have criticized and ultimately rejected the central assumption on which such work is based-the causal Markov Condition. So should Bayesian nets be abandoned? What explains their success in artificial intelligence? This book argues that the Causal Markov Condition holds as a default rule: it often holds but may need to be repealed in the face of counter examples. Thus, Bayesian nets are the right tool to use by default but naively applying them can lead to problems. The book develops a systematic account of causal reasoning and shows how Bayesian nets can be coherently employed to automate the reasoning processes of an artificial agent. The resulting framework for causal reasoning involves not only new algorithms, but also new conceptual foundations. Probability and causality are treated as mental notions - part of an agent's belief state. Yet probability and causality are also objective - different agents with the same background knowledge ought to adopt the same or similar probabilistic and causal beliefs. This book, aimed at researchers and graduate students in computer science, mathematics and philosophy, provides a general introduction to these philosophical views as well as exposition of the computational techniques that they motivate.
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Title #498: Computation, Causation, and Discovery, Paperback
Edition: First Edition
ISBN Number: 0262571242
Number of Pages: 570
Author(s): Clark Glymour, Gregory F. Cooper
Publisher: AAAI Press
Date: June 18, 1999
Category: The contributors discuss recent research and applications using Bayes nets or directed graphic representations, including representations of feedback or "recursive" systems
Abstract / Synopsis: The contributors discuss recent research and applications using Bayes nets or directed graphic representations, including representations of feedback or "recursive" systems. The book contains a thorough discussion of foundational issues, algorithms, proof techniques, and applications to economics, physics, biology, educational research, and other areas.
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Title #499: Bayesian Artificial Intelligence
Edition: First Edition
ISBN Number: 1584883871
Number of Pages: 392
Author(s): Kevin B. Korb, Ann E. Nicholson
Publisher: Chapman & Hall/CRC
Date: September, 2003
Category: Bayesian Artificial Intelligence
Abstract / Synopsis: Text presents elements of Bayesian network technology, automated causal discovery, learning probabilities from data, and examples of using these technologies to develop probabilistic expert systems. For students and professionals of Bayesian statistical decision theory
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Title #500: Intelligent Bioinformatics : The Application of Artificial
Intelligence Techniques to Bioinformatics Problems
Edition: First Edition
ISBN Number: 0470021756
Number of Pages: 294
Author(s): Edward Keedwell, Ajit Narayanan
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Date: June 3, 2005
Category: Complex problems of bioinformatics and the innovative solutions
which make up ‘intelligent bioinformatics.
Abstract / Synopsis: Bioinformatics is contributing to some of the most important advances in medicine and biology. At the forefront of this exciting new subject are techniques known as artificial intelligence which are inspired by the way in which nature solves the problems it faces. This book provides a unique insight into the complex problems of bioinformatics and the innovative solutions which make up ‘intelligent bioinformatics’.
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Title #501: Evolutionary Computation in Bioinformatics (The Morgan
Kaufmann Series in Artificial Intelligence)
Edition: First Edition
ISBN Number: 1558607978
Number of Pages: 416
Author(s): Gary B. Fogel, David W. Corne
Publisher: Morgan Kaufmann
Date: September 16, 2002
Category: Discusses the applications of evolutionary computation techniques
Abstract / Synopsis: This is a fine book that clearly discusses the applications of evolutionary computation techniques to a variety of different areas. It covers most topics a bioinformatician will find interesting.
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Title #502: Artificial Intelligence and Heuristic Methods in Bioinformatics
Edition: First Edition
ISBN Number: 1586032941
Number of Pages: Information Unavailable
Author(s): P. Franscon
Publisher: Ios Pr Inc
Date: August, 2003
Category: Artificial Intelligence and Heuristic Methods in Bioinformatics
Abstract / Synopsis: Information Unavailable
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Title #503: Advances in Molecular Bioinformatics, Paperback
Edition: First Edition
ISBN Number: 905199172X
Number of Pages: 268
Author(s): S. Schulze Kremer, S. Schulze-Kremer
Publisher: Ios Pr Inc
Date: January 1, 1994
Category: Book illustrates the use of the wide and diverse range of
algorithmic techniques
Abstract / Synopsis: Molecular bioinformatics comprises the development and application of algorithms for the purpose of analysis, interpretation and the design of experiments in the biosciences. The heterogeneous collection of original research presented in this book illustrates the use of the wide and diverse range of algorithmic techniques. The application of algorithms from computer sciences, including artificial intelligence, machine learning, genetic programming, evolutionary algorithms and neural nets to molecular biology especially DNA and RNA sequence analysis and protein engineering is broadly examined. Both algorithmic and biological background problems are explained for an interdisciplinary audience.
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Title #504: Blackboard Systems (The Insight Series in Artificial
Intelligence)
Edition: Second Edition
ISBN Number: 0201174316
Number of Pages: 602
Author(s): Robert Engelmore, Tony Morgan
Publisher: Addison-Wesley Pub
Date: November 1988
Category: Blackboard systems
Abstract / Synopsis: Information Unavailable
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Title #505: Blackboard Architectures and Applications
Edition: First Edition
ISBN Number: 0123799406
Number of Pages: 524
Author(s): V. Jagannathan, Rajendra Dodhiawala, Lawrence S. Baum
Publisher: Academic Press
Date: September, 1989
Category: Blackboard Architectures and Applications
Abstract / Synopsis: Information Unavailable
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Title #506: Blackboard Systems
Edition: First Edition
ISBN Number: 0893915947
Number of Pages: 241
Author(s): Iain Craig
Publisher: Ablex Publishing Corporation
Date: February, 1995
Category: Blackboard Systems
Abstract / Synopsis: Information Unavailable
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Title #507: Discovering Causal Structure: Artificial Intelligence,
Philosophy of Science, and Statistical Modeling
Edition: First Edition
ISBN Number: 0122869613
Number of Pages: 368
Author(s): Clark Glymour
Publisher: Academic Press
Date: September 1987
Category: Discovering Causal Structure
Abstract / Synopsis: Information Unavailable
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Title #508: Cellular Automata Machines: A New Environment for
Modeling (Scientific Computation)
Edition: First Edition
ISBN Number: 0262200600
Number of Pages: 200
Author(s): Tommaso Toffoli, Norman Margolus
Publisher: The MIT Press
Date: April 22, 1987
Category: Cellular automata machines
Abstract / Synopsis: Recently, cellular automata machines with the size, speed, and flexibility for general experimentation at a moderate cost have become available to the scientific community. These machines provide a laboratory in which the ideas presented in this book can be tested and applied to the synthesis of a great variety of systems. Computer scientists and researchers interested in modeling and simulation as well as other scientists who do mathematical modeling will find this introduction to cellular automata and cellular automata machines (CAM) both useful and timely. Cellular automata are the computer scientist's counterpart to the physicist's concept of 'field' They provide natural models for many investigations in physics, combinatorial mathematics, and computer science that deal with systems extended in space and evolving in time according to local laws. A cellular automata machine is a computer optimized for the simulation of cellular automata. Its dedicated architecture allows it to run thousands of times faster than a general-purpose computer of comparable cost programmed to do the same task. In practical terms this permits intensive interactive experimentation and opens up new fields of research in distributed dynamics, including practical applications involving parallel computation and image processing.
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Title #509: C++ Simulations and Cellular Automata
Edition: Book & Disk edition
ISBN Number: 1558514473
Number of Pages: 400
Author(s): Scott Robert Ladd
Publisher: M & T Books
Date: October, 1995
Category: C++ Simulations and Cellular Automata
Abstract / Synopsis: Information Unavailable
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Title #510: Lattice-Gas Cellular Automata and Lattice Boltzmann Models:
An Introduction (Lecture Notes in Mathematics), Paperback
Edition: First Edition
ISBN Number: 3540669736
Number of Pages: 308
Author(s): Dieter A. Wolf-Gladrow
Publisher: Springer
Date: March 15, 2000
Category: Book provides an introduction for graduate students and researchers to Lattice-gas cellular automata (LGCA) and lattice Boltzmann models (LBM)
Abstract / Synopsis: Lattice-gas cellular automata (LGCA) and lattice Boltzmann models (LBM) are relatively new and promising methods for the numerical solution of nonlinear partial differential equations. The book provides an introduction for graduate students and researchers. Working knowledge of calculus is required and experience in PDEs and fluid dynamics is recommended. Some peculiarities of cellular automata are outlined in Chapter 2. The properties of various LGCA and special coding techniques are discussed in Chapter 3. Concepts from statistical mechanics (Chapter 4) provide the necessary theoretical background for LGCA and LBM.
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Title #511: Automata, Neural Networks and Parallel Machines: Some
Emerging Principles
Edition: First Edition
ISBN Number: 9810213654
Number of Pages: Information Unavailable
Author(s): K. Tahir Shah
Publisher: World Scientific Publishing Company
Date: November 2004
Category: Objective of this book is to discover common themes and analogous mechanisms in the nervous system and computing devices
Abstract / Synopsis: This book is more in the spirit of exploration of new and interdisciplinary ideas than a presentation of some specific technique or a set of techniques in a textbook form. The objective is to discover common themes and analogous mechanisms in the nervous system and computing devices. Nature uses optimality ubiquitously. Optimality, therefore, has been our guiding theme out of which emerged three principles: polymorphism in neural circuits and parallel machines, chaos and hyperbolicity in the collective behavior of neurons, and the task-to-processing elements map in parallel systems. The interdisciplinary nature of this book dictated its style. Each chapter is like a review paper with relevant digression and bibliography.
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Title #512: Understanding Computers and Cognition :
A New Foundation for Design (Paperback)
Edition: First Edition
ISBN Number: 0201112973
Number of Pages: Information Unavailable
Author(s): Terry Winograd, Fernando Flores
Publisher: Addison-Wesley Professional
Date: January 1, 1987
Category: AI and cognition
Abstract / Synopsis: A few years ago Byte Magazine named this one of the 10 most important books in the history of the computer industry. Flores was asked to keynote the 50th anniversary meeting of the ACM on the strength of the work he has done, some of which is shown here.
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Title #513: Social Cognition: Making Sense of People, Paperback
Edition: First Edition
ISBN Number: 0262611430
Number of Pages: 488
Author(s): Ziva Kunda
Publisher: The MIT Press
Date: June 25, 1999
Category: Social cognition of how we make sense of other people and of
ourselves
Abstract / Synopsis: How do we make sense of other people and of ourselves? What do we know about the people we encounter in our daily lives and about the situations in which we encounter them, and how do we use this knowledge in our attempt to understand, predict, or recall their behavior? Are our social judgments fully determined by our social knowledge, or are they also influenced by our feelings and desires? Social cognition researchers look at how we make sense of other people and of ourselves. In this book Ziva Kunda provides a comprehensive and accessible survey of research and theory about social cognition at a level appropriate for undergraduate and graduate students, as well as researchers in the field. The first part of the book reviews basic processes in social cognition, including the representation of social concepts, rules of inference, memory, "hot" cognition driven by motivation or affect, and automatic processing. The second part reviews three basic topics in social cognition: group stereotypes, knowledge of other individuals, and the self. A final chapter revisits many of these issues from a cross-cultural perspective.
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Title #514: The Mind's New Science: A History of the Cognitive
Revolution : With a New Epilogue, Cognitive Science After
1984, Paperback
Edition: First Edition
ISBN Number: 0465046355
Number of Pages: 448
Author(s): Howard Gardner
Publisher: Basic Books
Date: May 1987
Category: Cognitive science
Abstract / Synopsis: This is an ambitious attempt to define and summarize ``cognitive science,'' a new field of scientific inquiry and knowledge. The author, a leading authority and researcher in this area, writes in a clear, accessible manner; yet, his book conveys the tremendous scope and complexity of this burgeoning field. He convincingly links such seemingly disparate areas as linguistics, computer science, cognitive psychology, structural anthropology, and neuroscience, and attempts to integrate both their historical development and underlying approaches to cognition. Recommended for scholars as an introductory text and for informed laypersons who want a thorough and fascinating grounding in the study of the mind and how it works.
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Title #515: Handbook of Face Recognition
Edition: First Edition
ISBN Number: 038740595X
Number of Pages: 398
Author(s): Stan Z. Li, Anil K. Jain
Publisher: Springer
Date: March 15, 2005
Category: Face recognition
Abstract / Synopsis: Although the history of computer-aided face recognition stretches back to the 1960s, automatic face recognition remains an unsolved problem and still offers a great challenge to computer-vision and pattern recognition researchers. This handbook is a comprehensive account of face recognition research and technology, written by a group of leading international researchers. Twelve chapters cover all the sub-areas and major components for designing operational face recognition systems. Background, modern techniques, recent results, and challenges and future directions are considered. The book is aimed at practitioners and professionals planning to work in face recognition or wanting to become familiar with the state-of- the-art technology.
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Title #516: Introduction to Statistical Pattern Recognition (Computer
Science and Scientific Computing Series)
Edition: Second Edition
ISBN Number: 0122698517
Number of Pages: 592
Author(s): Keinosuke Fukunaga
Publisher: Academic Press
Date: September 28, 1990
Category: Statistical pattern recognition
Abstract / Synopsis: This completely revised second edition presents an introduction to statistical pattern recognition. Pattern recognition in general covers a wide range of problems: it is applied to engineering problems, such as character readers and wave form analysis as well as to brain modeling in biology and psychology. Statistical decision and estimation, which are the main subjects of this book, are regarded as fundamental to the study of pattern recognition. This book is appropriate as a text for introductory courses in pattern recognition and as a reference book for workers in the field. Each chapter contains computer projects as well as exercises.
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Title #517: Computation and Cognition: Toward a Foundation for
Cognitive Science, Paperback
Edition: Reprint Edition
ISBN Number: 026266058X
Number of Pages: 320
Author(s): Zenon W. Pylyshyn
Publisher: The MIT Press
Date: February 7, 1986
Category: Cognition is a form of computation
Abstract / Synopsis: This systematic investigation of computation and mental phenomena by a noted psychologist and computer scientist argues that cognition is a form of computation, that the semantic contents of mental states are encoded in the same general way as computer representations are encoded. It is a rich and sustained investigation of the assumptions underlying the directions cognitive science research is taking.
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Title #518: Cognitive Research
Edition: First Edition
ISBN Number: 354043058X
Number of Pages: 300
Author(s): Tamas Gergely, Oleg M. Anshakov, Victor K. Finn,
Sergei O. Kuznetsov
Publisher: Springer
Date: October 16, 2003
Category: Cognitive reasoning integrating three types of inference: context dependent induction, causal analogy and a new formalization of abduction
Abstract / Synopsis: This book is of high topicality, due to the widespread use of informatics in hardly formalized disciplines such as sociology, life sciences etc., in which problem solving requires special tools of formal inference and plausible reasoning. The book describes the theory, methodology and algorithmization of a new approach, and some of its applications realized in the form of intelligent systems, e.g. for sociology, life sciences, etc. The main subject developed in the book is cognitive reasoning integrating three types of inference: context dependent induction, causal analogy and a new formalization of abduction. Many valued logics in particular with constructive generation of truth values provide efficient tools to handle uncertainty similarly to fuzzy logic. A method of automatic iterative hypothesis generation is proposed by the use of cognitive reasoning.
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Title #519: MUSE IN THE MACHINE
Edition: First Edition
ISBN Number: 0029116023
Number of Pages: 211
Author(s): David Gelernter
Publisher: Free Press
Date: March 28, 1994
Category: Book about the theoretical underpinnings of AI
Abstract / Synopsis: Emotions, metaphors and analogies lie at the heart of human thought, asserts Yale computer scientist Gerlernter, a founder of parallel processing, in a brilliant and wholly accessible book about the theoretical underpinnings of artificial intelligence. His heretical new model of thought posits a "cognitive spectrum" extending from "high-focus" activities like reasoning, analysis and abstraction to "low-focus" thought whereby emotions make possible unexpected connections, leaps of awareness and creative juxtapositions. Gerlernter ambitiously applies this model to illuminate dreaming, sleep, hypnosis, spirituality and the emergence of the modern mind from an ancient, prelogical mindset that he likens to children's thought processes. He also describes a software program, developed by his research team at Yale, that he sees as a first step toward a working model of a truly "thinking machine" embodying the cognitive spectrum. But even so, Gerlernter finally concludes that it's the "observer illusion" that distinguishes the "mystery of consciousness"--and that "there is no reason to suppose . . . that adding emotion, or performing any other sophisticated programming trick, will ever endow a computer with the illusion of an observer-self."
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Title #520: The Foundations of Cognitive Science, Paperback
Edition: Reprint Edition
ISBN Number: 0262660865
Number of Pages: 904
Author(s): Michael I. Posner
Publisher: The MIT Press
Date: August 23, 1993
Category: Broad treatment of cognitive science at an advanced level
Abstract / Synopsis: What is cognitive science? Foundations of Cognitive Science answers this question in a way that gives a feeling for the excitement, ferment, and accomplishments of this new field. It is the first broad treatment of cognitive science at an advanced level. Complete and authoritative, Foundations of Cognitive Science covers the major architectures; provides background in philosophy, linguistics, cognitive psychology, and neuroscience; and deals with methods for studying both brain and mind. All of the chapters have been written especially for the book by the leading scholars in the field.
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Title #521: Life-Like Characters : Tools, Affective Functions, and
Applications (Cognitive Technologies)
Edition: First Edition
ISBN Number: 3540008675
Number of Pages: 477
Author(s): Helmut Prendinger, Mitsuru Ishizuka
Publisher: Springer
Date: January 22, 2004
Category: Book presents the first comprehensive collection of the latest developments in scripting and representation languages for life-like characters
Abstract / Synopsis: Life-like characters is one of the most exciting technologies for human-computer interface applications today. They convincingly take the roles of virtual presenters, synthetic actors and sales personas, teammates and tutors. A common characteristic underlying their life-likeness or believability as virtual conversational partners is computational models that provide them with affective functions such as synthetic emotions and personalities and implement human interactive behavior. The wide dissemination of life-like characters in multimedia systems, however, will greatly depend on the availability of control languages and tools that facilitate scripting of intelligent conversational behavior. This book presents the first comprehensive collection of the latest developments in scripting and representation languages for life-like characters, rounded off with an in-depth comparison and synopsis of the major approaches. Introducing toolkits for authoring animated characters further supports the ease of use of this new interface technology. Life-like characters being a vibrant research area, various applications have been designed and implemented. This book offers coverage of the most successful and promising applications, ranging from product presentation and student training to knowledge integration and interactive gaming. It also discusses the key challenges in the area and provides design guidelines for employing life-like characters.
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Title #522: Joint Cognitive Systems: Foundations of Cognitive Systems
Engineering
Edition: First Edition
ISBN Number: 0849328217
Number of Pages: 223
Author(s): Erik Hollnagel, David D. Woods
Publisher: CRC Press
Date: February 24, 2005
Category: Conceptual framework for analysis and concrete methods for the
design of man machine interfaces
Abstract / Synopsis: This book was written by pioneers in the field and offers a principled approach to studying human work with complex technology. It describes a conceptual framework for analysis and concrete methods for the design of man machine interfaces where the amount of information to be transferred between man and machine can be analyzed and structured for its best effect.
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Title #523: The Future of the Cognitive Revolution, Paperback
Edition: First Edition
ISBN Number: 0195103343
Number of Pages: 412
Author(s): David Martel Johnson
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Date: March 1997
Category: Cognition
Abstract / Synopsis: The basic idea of the particular way of understanding mental phenomena that has inspired the "cognitive revolution" is that, as a result of certain relatively recent intellectual and technological innovations, informed theorists now possess a more powerfully insightful comparison or model for mind than was available to any thinkers in the past. The model in question is that of software, or the list of rules for input, output, and internal transformations by which we determine and control the workings of a computing machine's hardware. Although this comparison and its many implications have dominated work in the philosophy, psychology, and neurobiology of mind since the end of the Second World War, it now shows increasing signs of losing its once virtually unquestioned preeminence. Thus we now face the question of whether it is possible to repair and save this model by means of relatively inessential "tinkering", or whether we must re-conceive it fundamentally and replace it with something different.
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Title #524: Synergetic Computers and Cognition: A Top-Down Approach
to Neural Nets (Springer Series in Synergetics)
Edition: First Edition
ISBN Number: 0387530304
Number of Pages: 225
Author(s): Hermann Haken
Publisher: Springer
Date: May, 1991
Category: Profound analogy between pattern recognition and pattern
formation in open systems far from equilibrium
Abstract / Synopsis: This book presents a novel approach to neural nets and thus offers a genuine alternative to the hitherto known neuro-computers. This approach is based on the author's discovery of the profound analogy between pattern recognition and pattern formation in open systems far from equilibrium. Thus the mathematical and conceptual tools of synergetic can be exploited, and the concept of the synergetic computer formulated. A complete and rigorous theory of pattern recognition and learning is presented. The resulting algorithm can be implemented on serial computers or realized by fully parallel nets whereby no spurious states occur. Explicit examples (e.g. recognition of faces and city maps) are provided. The recognition process is made invariant with respect to simultaneous translation, rotation, and scaling, and allows the recognition of complex scenes. Oscillations and hysteresis in the perception of ambiguous patterns are treated, as well as the recognition of movement patterns. A comparison between the recognition abilities of humans and the synergetic computer sheds new light on possible models of mental processes. The synergetic computer can also perform logical steps such as the XOR operation.
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Title #525: Cognitive Engineering : A Distributed Approach to Machine
Intelligence (Advanced Information and Knowledge
Processing)
Edition: First Edition
ISBN Number: 1852339756
Number of Pages: 358
Author(s): Amit Konar, Lakhmi C. Jain
Publisher: Springer
Date: December 31, 1899
Category: Explores the design issues of intelligent engineering systems
Abstract / Synopsis: This book explores the design issues of intelligent engineering systems. Beginning with the foundations of psychological modeling of the human mind, the main emphasis is given to parallel & distributed realization of intelligent models for application in reasoning, learning, planning & multi-agent co-ordination problems. Case studies on human-mood detection & control, & behavioral co-operation of mobile robots are provided. This is the 1st comprehensive text of its kind, bridging the gap between Cognitive Science & Cognitive Systems Engineering. Each chapter includes plenty of numerical examples & exercises with sufficient hints, so that readers can solve the exercises on their own. Computer simulations are included in most chapters to give a clear idea about the application of the algorithms undertaken. This book is unique in its theme & contents - written with graduates in mind, it would also be a valuable resource for researchers in the fields Cognitive Science, Computer Science & Cognitive Engineering.
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Title #526: Heidegger, Coping, and Cognitive Science: Essays in Honor of
Hubert L. Dreyfus, Vol. 2
Edition: First Edition
ISBN Number: 0262232081
Number of Pages: 395
Author(s): Mark Wrathall, Jeff Malpas
Publisher: The MIT Press
Date: September 11, 2000
Category: Essays in this volume reflect this desire to "make a difference"--not just in the world of academic philosophy, but in the broader world
Abstract / Synopsis: Hubert L. Dreyfus's engagement with other thinkers has always been driven by his desire to understand certain basic questions about ourselves and our world. The philosophers on whom his teaching and research have focused are those whose work seems to him to make a difference to the world. The essays in this volume reflect this desire to "make a difference"--not just in the world of academic philosophy, but in the broader world. Dreyfus has helped to create a culture of reflection--of questioning the deep premises that inform and shape work in artificial intelligence and cognitive science. He has also been the primary introducer and interpreter of Martin Heidegger's work to the world of information technology. The essays in this volume represent the fruitful application of deep philosophical analysis to the concerns of our modern technological world. The sections are Coping and Intentionality; Computers and Cognitive Science; and "Applied Heidegger." In addition to cognitive science and artificial intelligence, topics include everyday skills, religion, business practices, and medical care. The book concludes with Dreyfus's responses to the essays.
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Title #527: Historical Dictionary of Quotations in Cognitive Science: A
Treasury of Quotations in Psychology, Philosophy, and
Artificial Intelligence
Edition: First Edition
ISBN Number: 0313312842
Number of Pages: 288
Author(s): Morton Wagman
Publisher: Greenwood Press
Date: June 30, 2000
Category: Over 450 distinguished quotations, divided into 170 categories
Abstract / Synopsis: This scholarly treasury of over 450 distinguished quotations, divided into 170 categories, focuses on the best thinking in the disciplines of psychology, philosophy, and artificial intelligence, from the classical period of Greece to contemporary cognitive science. Quotations are arranged chronologically within categories. This work will be of interest to scholars and professionals in psychology, artificial intelligence, and cognitive science as well as undergraduate and graduate students in these disciplines.
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Title #528: Computers As Cognitive Tools: No More Walls : Theory
Change, Paradigm Shifts, and Their Influence on the Use of
Computers for Instructional Purposes, Paperback
Edition: Second Edition
ISBN Number: 0805829318
Number of Pages: 430
Author(s): Susanne Lajoie
Publisher: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates
Date: June 2000
Category: Computers As Cognitive Tools
Abstract / Synopsis: Information Unavailable
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Title #529: Situated Cognition : On Human Knowledge and Computer
Representations (Learning in Doing: Social, Cognitive &
Computational Perspectives), Paperback
Edition: First Edition
ISBN Number: 0521448719
Number of Pages: 426
Author(s): William J. Clancey
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Date: August 28, 1997
Category: Situated cognition
Abstract / Synopsis: This book examines recent changes in the design of intelligent machines which afford heightened interactivity with the environment.
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Title #530: Made-Up Minds: A Constructivist Approach to Artificial
Intelligence
Edition: First Edition
ISBN Number: 0262041200
Number of Pages: 236
Author(s): Gary L. Drescher
Publisher: The MIT Press
Date: July 15, 1991
Category: Constructivist approach to AI
Abstract / Synopsis: Made-Up Minds addresses fundamental questions of learning and concept invention by means of an innovative computer program that is based on the cognitive-developmental theory of psychologist Jean Piaget. Drescher uses Piaget's theory as a source of inspiration for the design of an artificial cognitive system called the schema mechanism, and then uses the system to elaborate and test Piaget's theory. The approach is original enough that readers need not have extensive knowledge of artificial intelligence, and a chapter summarizing Piaget assists readers who lack a background in developmental psychology. The schema mechanism learns from its experiences, expressing discoveries in its existing representational vocabulary, and extending that vocabulary with new concepts. A novel empirical learning technique, marginal attribution, can find results of an action that are obscure because each occurs rarely in general, although reliably under certain conditions. Drescher shows that several early milestones in the Piagetian infant's invention of the concept of persistent object can be replicated by the schema mechanism.
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Title #531: The Cognitive Approach to Conscious Machines
Edition: First Edition
ISBN Number: 0907845428
Number of Pages: 294
Author(s): Pentti O. Haikonen
Publisher: Imprint Academic
Date: February 21, 2003
Category: The Cognitive Approach to Conscious Machines
Abstract / Synopsis: Information Unavailable
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Title #532: Dictionary of Cognitive Sciences: Neuroscience, Psychology,
Artificial Intelligence, Linguistics, and Philosophy
Edition: First Edition
ISBN Number: 1579582516
Number of Pages: 416
Author(s): Olivier Houde, Daniel Kayser, Olivier Koenig, Joelle Proust, Francois Bastier
Publisher: Psychology Press (UK)
Date: November, 2003
Category: Dictionary of Cognitive Sciences
Abstract / Synopsis: A translation of the renowned French reference book, Vocabulaire de sciences cognitives, the Dictionary of Cognitive Science presents comprehensive definitions of more than 120 terms. The editor and advisory board of specialists have brought together 60 internationally recognized scholars to give the reader a comprehensive understanding of the most current and dynamic thinking in the cognitive sciences. Topics range from Abduction to Writing, and each entry covers its subject from as many perspectives as possible within the domains of psychology, artificial intelligence, neuroscience, philosophy, and linguistics. This multidisciplinary work is an invaluable resource for all collections.
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Title #533: Artificial Intelligence (Research Directions in Cognitive
Science: European Perspectives)
Edition: First Edition
ISBN Number: 0863771769
Number of Pages: 280
Author(s): D. Sleeman, N. O. Bernsen
Publisher: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates
Date: May, 1992
Category: Cognitive Science
Abstract / Synopsis: The underlying assumption of most of the current research in Artificial Intelligence is that intelligent systems can be constructed using explicit, declaratively represented, factual knowledge together with general reasoning mechanisms. (First sentence of the book)
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Title #534: Artificial Intelligence and Cognitive Science : Conceptual
Issues
Edition: First Edition
ISBN Number: 0815327676
Number of Pages: Information Unavailable
Author(s): Andy Clark, Josefa Toribio
Publisher: Routledge
Date: September, 1998
Category: Book illuminates the central themes that have arisen during the last two decades of work on the conceptual foundations of artificial intelligence and cognitive science
Abstract / Synopsis: Gathering important papers by both philosophers and scientists, this collection illuminates the central themes that have arisen during the last two decades of work on the conceptual foundations of artificial intelligence and cognitive science. Each volume begins with a comprehensive introduction that places the coverage in a broader perspective and links it with material in the companion volumes. The collection is of interest in many disciplines including computer science, linguistics, biology, information science, psychology, neuroscience, iconography, and philosophy.
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Title #535: On Conceptual Modeling: Perspectives from Artificial
Intelligence, Databases, and Programming Languages (Topics
in Information Systems)
Edition: First Edition
ISBN Number: 0387908420
Number of Pages: 510
Author(s): M. L. Brodie
Publisher: Springer
Date: April 1984
Category: Conceptual Modeling
Abstract / Synopsis: Information Unavailable
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Title #536: Constraint Processing (The Morgan Kaufmann Series in
Artificial Intelligence)
Edition: First Edition
ISBN Number: 1558608907
Number of Pages: 480
Author(s): Rina Dechter
Publisher: Morgan Kaufmann
Date: May 2003
Category: Constraint reasoning
Abstract / Synopsis: Constraint satisfaction is a simple but powerful tool. Constraints identify the impossible and reduce the realm of possibilities to effectively focus on the possible, allowing for a natural declarative formulation of what must be satisfied, without expressing how. The field of constraint reasoning has matured over the last three decades with contributions from a diverse community of researchers in artificial intelligence, databases and programming languages, operations research, management science, and applied mathematics. Today, constraint problems are used to model cognitive tasks in vision, language comprehension, default reasoning, diagnosis, scheduling, temporal and spatial reasoning. In Constraint Processing, Rina Dechter, synthesizes these contributions, along with her own significant work, to provide the first comprehensive examination of the theory that underlies constraint processing algorithms. Throughout, she focuses on fundamental tools and principles, emphasizing the representation and analysis of algorithms.
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Title #537: Theory of Constraints and Its Implications for Management
Accounting, Paperback
Edition: First Edition
ISBN Number: 0884271161
Number of Pages: 187
Author(s): Eric W. Noreen
Publisher: North River Press
Date: June 1995
Category: Implementation of the Theory of Constraints
Abstract / Synopsis: This book demonstrates how throughput accounting rather than traditional cost accounting is the measurement tool required for business decisions. This information is presented as an in-depth and impartial evaluation of the implementation of the Theory of Constraints at over 20 companies. Seven of the case studies are described in detail, including the original thinking process with diagrams as constructed by the companies' managers. Fascinating and enlightening reading!
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Title #538: The Constraints Management Handbook
Edition: First Edition
ISBN Number: 1574440608
Number of Pages: 352
Author(s): James F. Cox
Publisher: CRC Press
Date: September 24, 1997
Category: Constraints Management
Abstract / Synopsis: A new approach to improving the production of goods and services, Constraints Management (CM), recognizes the powerful role of the constraint (the limiting resource) in determining the output of the entire production system. By learning about and mastering CM concepts, managers can improve their companies' present output and plan for future growth as well.
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Title #539: Essentials of Constraint Programming
Edition: First Edition
ISBN Number: 3540676236
Number of Pages: 151
Author(s): Slim Abdennadher, Thom Frühwirth
Publisher: Springer
Date: March 18, 2003
Category: Constraint programming and reasoning
Abstract / Synopsis: The book is a short, concise and complete presentation of constraint programming and reasoning. The use of constraints had its scientific and commercial breakthrough in the 1990s. Programming with constraints makes it possible to model and solve problems with uncertain, incomplete information and combinatorial problems, as they are abundant in industry and commerce, such as scheduling, planning, transportation, resource allocation, layout, design and analysis. The theoretically well-founded presentation includes application examples from real life. It introduces the common classes of constraint programming languages and constraint systems in a uniform way. Constraint solving algorithms are specified and implemented in the constraint handling rules language (CHR). This book is ideally suited as a textbook for graduate students and as a resource for researchers and practitioners. The Internet support includes teaching material, software, latest news and online use and examples of the CHR language.
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Title #540: Constraint-Based Agents, Paperback
Edition: First Edition
ISBN Number: 3540422587
Number of Pages: 192
Author(s): Alexander Nareyek
Publisher: Springer
Date: August 9, 2001
Category: Book focuses on autonomous agents that can act in a goal directed
manner under real time constraints and incomplete knowledge
Abstract / Synopsis: Autonomous agents have become a vibrant research and development topic in recent years attracting activity and attention from various areas. The basic agent concept incorporates proactive autonomous units with goal-directed-behavior and communication capabilities. The book focuses on autonomous agents that can act in a goal directed manner under real time constraints and incomplete knowledge, being situated in a dynamic environment where resources may be restricted. To satisfy such complex requirements, the author improves, combines, and applies results from areas like planning, constraint programming, and local search. The formal framework developed is evaluated by application to the field of computer games, which fit the problem context very well since most of them are played in real time and provide a highly interactive environment where environmental situations are changing rapidly.
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Title #541: Distributed Constraint Problem Solving and Reasoning in
Multi-Agent Systems: Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence and
Applications
Edition: First Edition
ISBN Number: 1586034561
Number of Pages: 300
Author(s): W. Zhang, V. Sorge
Publisher: I O S Press, Inc.
Date: 2004
Category: Distributed processing; Intelligent agents
Abstract / Synopsis: Information Unavailable
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Title #542: Cybernetic Trading Strategies: Developing a Profitable
Trading System with State-of-the-Art Technologies
Edition: First Edition
ISBN Number: 0471149209
Number of Pages: 336
Author(s): Murray A. Ruggiero
Publisher: Wiley
Date: June 17, 1997
Category: Trading using neural networks, fuzzy logic, genetic algorithms,
chaos theory, and machine induction methods
Abstract / Synopsis: Provides specific instructions and applications on how to develop tradable market timing systems using neural networks, fuzzy logic, genetic algorithms, chaos theory, and machine induction methods.
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Title #543: Beyond Humanity: Cyberevolution and Future Minds,
Paperback
Edition: First Edition
ISBN Number: 1886801215
Number of Pages: 487
Author(s): Gregory S. Paul, Earl Cox
Publisher: Delmar Thomson Learning
Date: October 1996
Category: Replacement of human intelligence by cyber intelligence
Abstract / Synopsis: Information unavailable
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Title #544: Online Competitive Intelligence: Increase Your Profits Using
Cyber-Intelligence, Paperback
Edition: First Edition
ISBN Number: 188915041X
Number of Pages: 400
Author(s): Helen P. Burwell
Publisher: Facts on Demand Press
Date: September 2004
Category: Increase Your Profits Using Cyber-Intelligence
Abstract / Synopsis: Information unavailable
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Title #545: March of the Machines:
The Breakthrough in Artificial Intelligence
Edition: First Edition
ISBN Number: 0252072235
Number of Pages: 320
Author(s): Kevin Warwick
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Date: August 2004
Category: The Breakthrough in Artificial Intelligence
Abstract / Synopsis: Kevin Warwick is Professor of Cybernetics at the University of Reading.
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Title #546: Artificial Intelligence and Applied Cybernetics
Edition: First Edition
ISBN Number: 8170031060
Number of Pages: 135
Author(s): A. Ghosal
Publisher: South Asia Books
Date: December, 1989
Category: Artificial Intelligence and Applied Cybernetics
Abstract / Synopsis: Information Unavailable
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Title #547: Natural-Born Cyborgs: Minds, Technologies, and the Future
of Human Intelligence, Paperback
Edition: First Edition
ISBN Number: 0195177517
Number of Pages: 229
Author(s): Andy Clark
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Date: December 9, 2004
Category: Cyborgs
Abstract / Synopsis: Cyborgs have long been a part of America's cinematic imagination (think Arnold Schwarzenegger's Terminator), but Clark says they're very much a reality. Not only that; pretty much everyone is a cyborg already, according to the author, who heads up Indiana University's cognitive science program. With our laptops, cell phones and PDAs, we're all wired to the hilt and becoming more so every day. As Clark points out, "the mind is just less and less in the head"; when we need information, we usually fire up our PC and access it elsewhere. Clark is at his best when he's writing for a wide audience, distilling arcane technological advances into their essential meaning. But sometimes his sheer enthusiasm for the subject takes over, and the book feels as if it's intended only for tech wonks who can appreciate the minutiae of various mind-machine experiments. Clark gives a passing nod to the negative consequences of an increasingly cyborg world-social alienation, information overload-but retains his essentially positive take on the "biotechnological merger" that is transforming so many people's lives.
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Title #548: Robo sapiens: Evolution of a New Species, Paperback
Edition: First Edition
ISBN Number: 0262632454
Number of Pages: 240
Author(s): Peter Menzel, Faith D'Aluisio
Publisher: The MIT Press
Date: October 1, 2001
Category: Robots and humans merging
Abstract / Synopsis: "Today's robots... are explorers, space laborers, surgeons, maids, actors, pets." What do they look like? How do they work? And what's next? Tech photographer Menzel and journalist D'Aluisio worked together on Material World and Man Eating Bugs. Their latest collaboration joins terrific photos of robots, 176 color pictures of them to short essays, sidebars and interviews explaining what each robot can do, how it works and what problems it was designed to solve. Several researchers tell D'Aluisio that true artificial intelligence (AI) is coming soon. A couple even believe that smart machines will someday wipe out humans. But this volume doesn't really add up to an argument about our mechanoid future: instead, it's an informative and handsome view of some current work in robotics, from out-there AI research to practical (and profitable) surgical technology. Menzel and D'Aluisio divide the machines they chronicle into six groups: the first two sets try to copy human abilities, while other sorts of 'bots function more like machines in industry or in science education. Many gizmos have special abilities of obvious, even lifesaving, practical use: "Ariel the crab-robot... walks pretty well underwater"; eventually, it will detect and clear mines. "Rosie," a remote boom crane robot, can help control damage from a reactor meltdown. Other constructions simulate human and animal actions, like running and walking. A field called "biomimicry." More impressive yet are robots designed to investigate psychology and cognition; some of these are learning and teaching their creators what it means to be human. MIT researcher Cynthia Breazel introduces us to Kismet, a Kermit-the-Frog-esque 'droid whose big-eyed, goofy "facial expressions" (in her words) "tune the human's behavior so that it is appropriate for the robot not too much, not too little, just right."
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Title #549: Creation : Life and How to Make It, Paperback
Edition: First Edition
ISBN Number: 0674011139
Number of Pages: 240
Author(s): Steve Grand
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Date: May 30, 2003
Category: Blending aspects of philosophy, computer science, artificial
intelligence, biology and computer gaming
Abstract / Synopsis: Blending aspects of philosophy, computer science, artificial intelligence, biology and computer gaming, Grand attempts to define life, discuss the nature of the human soul and demonstrate how it is possible to create entities that demand to be called both living and intelligent. A tall order indeed, and to wonderful effect, Grand draws heavily on his experience writing computer code (he developed the popular computer game Creatures, e in which cyberbeings "live," learn and reproduce). He is at his best describing the problems encountered and the solutions used to animate his virtual universe. While at first glance Grand's definitions of life ("patterns that persist by metabolizing and reproducing" or "high-order persistent phenomena, which endure through intelligent interaction with their environment") might be off-putting, he explains his terms clearly and carefully, guiding the reader comfortably through various levels of discussion. He argues persuasively that life, both real and artificial, is an emergent property, arising inevitably from the interactions of its component parts and, as such, is something much greater than and qualitatively different from the sum of its parts. This view leads Grand to assert that most scientists working in the field of artificial intelligence are taking the wrong tack when they attempt to program intelligence into machines.
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Title #550: Digital People: From Bionic Humans to Androids
Edition: First Edition
ISBN Number: 0309089875
Number of Pages: 238
Author(s): Sidney Perkowitz
Publisher: Joseph Henry Press
Date: April 2004
Category: History of human efforts to duplicate human functions
Abstract / Synopsis: Perkowitz, professor of physics at Emory University, takes the reader on an absorbing journey through the history of human efforts to duplicate human functions. Robots and artificial body parts represent the current level of achievement; the ultimate achievement may be artificial beings. Although "no one has yet made a completely autonomous being, or one that seems consistently and convincingly alive, or a bionic implant that improves human strength or wit ... there is no doubt that existing technology will carry us further along these paths." And eventually we must face some profound questions. "What is our purpose in making artificial or hybrid beings? What are our ethical responsibilities toward them and theirs toward us? Do we have anything to fear from intelligent and powerful nonhuman beings?"
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Title #551: Cyborg Citizen: Politics in the Posthuman Age
Edition: First Edition
ISBN Number: 0415919789
Number of Pages: 256
Author(s): Chris Hables Gray
Publisher: Brunner-Routledge
Date: February 2001
Category: Post-human politics
Abstract / Synopsis: The creator of the cult classic Cyborg Handbook, Chris Hables Gray, now offers the first guide to "posthuman" politics, framing the key issues that could threaten or brighten out technological future.
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Title #552: Data Mining:
Practical Machine Learning Tools and Techniques
Edition: Second Edition
ISBN Number: 0120884070
Number of Pages: 560
Author(s): Ian H. Witten, Eibe Frank
Publisher: Morgan Kaufmann
Date: June 8, 2005
Category: Data mining
Abstract / Synopsis: As with any burgeoning technology that enjoys commercial attention, the use of data mining is surrounded by a great deal of hype. Exaggerated reports tell of secrets that can be uncovered by setting algorithms loose on oceans of data. But there is no magic in machine learning, no hidden power, no alchemy. Instead there is an identifiable body of practical techniques that can extract useful information from raw data. This book describes these techniques and shows how they work. The book is a major revision of the first edition that appeared in 1999. While the basic core remains the same, it has been updated to reflect the changes that have taken place over five years, and now has nearly double the references. The highlights for the new edition include thirty new technique sections; an enhanced Weka machine learning workbench, which now features an interactive interface; comprehensive information on neural networks; a new section on Bayesian networks; plus much more.
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Title #553: Principles of Data Mining (Adaptive Computation and
Machine Learning)
Edition: First Edition
ISBN Number: 026208290X
Number of Pages: 425
Author(s): David J. Hand
Publisher: The MIT Press
Date: August 1, 2001
Category: Data mining
Abstract / Synopsis: The growing interest in data mining is motivated by a common problem across disciplines: how does one store, access, model, and ultimately describe and understand very large data sets? Historically, different aspects of data mining have been addressed independently by different disciplines. This is the first truly interdisciplinary text on data mining, blending the contributions of information science, computer science, and statistics. The book consists of three sections. The first, foundations, provides a tutorial overview of the principles underlying data mining algorithms and their application. The presentation emphasizes intuition rather than rigor. The second section, data mining algorithms, shows how algorithms are constructed to solve specific problems in a principled manner. The algorithms covered include trees and rules for classification and regression, association rules, belief networks, classical statistical models, nonlinear models such as neural networks, and local "memory-based" models. The third section shows how all of the preceding analysis fits together when applied to real-world data mining problems. Topics include the role of metadata, how to handle missing data, and data preprocessing.
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Title #554: Data Mining: Practical Machine Learning Tools and
Techniques with Java Implementations (The Morgan
Kaufmann Series in Data Management Systems), Paperback
Edition: First Edition
ISBN Number: 1558605525
Number of Pages: 416
Author(s): Ian H. Witten, Eibe Frank
Publisher: Morgan Kaufmann
Date: October 11, 1999
Category: Data mining algorithms and implementations in Java
Abstract / Synopsis: Data mining and machine learning basics, sample datasets and applications for data mining, machine learning vs. statistics, the ethics of data mining, generalization, concepts, attributes, missing values, decision tables and trees, classification rules, association rules, exceptions, numeric prediction, clustering, algorithms and implementations in Java, inferring rules, statistical modeling, covering algorithms, linear models, support vector machines, instance-based learning, credibility, cross-validation, probability, costs (lift charts and ROC curves), selecting attributes, data cleansing, combining multiple models (bagging, boosting, and stacking), Weka (reusable Java classes for machine learning), customizing Weka, visualizing machine learning, working with massive datasets, text mining, and e-mail and the Internet.
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Title #555: Survey of Text Mining : Clustering, Classification, and
Retrieval
Edition: First Edition
ISBN Number: 0387955631
Number of Pages: 244
Author(s): Michael W. Berry
Publisher: Springer
Date: September 9, 2003
Category: Text mining
Abstract / Synopsis: Extracting content from text continues to be an important research problem for information processing and management. Approaches to capture the semantics of text-based document collections may be based on Bayesian models, probability theory, vector space models, statistical models, or even graph theory. As the volume of digitized textual media continues to grow, so does the need for designing robust, scalable indexing and search strategies (software) to meet a variety of user needs. Knowledge extraction or creation from text requires systematic yet reliable processing that can be codified and adapted for changing needs and environments. This book will draw upon experts in both academia and industry to recommend practical approaches to the purification, indexing, and mining of textual information. It will address document identification, clustering and categorizing documents, cleaning text, and visualizing semantic models of text.
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Title #556: Graphical Models: Methods for Data Analysis and Mining
Edition: First Edition
ISBN Number: 0470843373
Number of Pages: 368
Author(s): Christian Borgelt, Rudolf Kruse
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Date: March 15, 2002
Category: Graphical models and data mining
Abstract / Synopsis: The book gives a good, very deep introduction to the topic of Graphical models and data mining. The main focus is on the data mining section, thus the reader should have a basic knowledge about the graphical model concept. It is certainly not a beginner's book or a tutorial on graphical models or Bayesian networks. Furthermore the book is very mathematical with quite a lot of definitions, lemmas and proofs. A good knowledge in set theory is mandatory. However, the theory is very well explained and illustrated with simple examples.
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Title #557: Mining Imperfect Data: Dealing With Contamination And
Incomplete Records, Paperback
Edition: First Edition
ISBN Number: 0898715822
Number of Pages: 305
Author(s): Ronald K. Pearson
Publisher: Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematic
Date: April 4, 2005
Category: Deals with a wide range of data anomalies
Abstract / Synopsis: Data mining is concerned with the analysis of databases large enough that various anomalies, including outliers, incomplete data records, and more subtle phenomena such as misalignment errors, are virtually certain to be present. Mining Imperfect Data: Dealing with Contamination and Incomplete Records describes in detail a number of these problems, as well as their sources, their consequences, their detection, and their treatment. Specific strategies for data pretreatment and analytical validation that are broadly applicable are described, making them useful in conjunction with most data mining analysis methods. Examples are presented to illustrate the performance of the pretreatment and validation methods in a variety of situations; these include simulation-based examples in which "correct" results are known unambiguously as well as real data examples that illustrate typical cases met in practice. Mining Imperfect Data, which deals with a wider range of data anomalies than are usually treated in one book, includes a discussion of detecting anomalies through generalized sensitivity analysis (GSA), a process of identifying inconsistencies using systematic and extensive comparisons of results obtained by analysis of exchangeable datasets or subsets. The book makes extensive use of real data, both in the form of a detailed analysis of a few real datasets and various published examples. Also included is a succinct introduction to functional equations that illustrates their utility in describing various forms of qualitative behavior for useful data characterizations.
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Title #558: Visual Data Mining: Techniques and Tools for Data
Visualization and Mining, Paperback
Edition: First Edition
ISBN Number: 0471149993
Number of Pages: 416
Author(s): Tom Soukup
Publisher: Wiley
Date: May 15, 2002
Category: Visual data mining tools
Abstract / Synopsis: Marketing analysts use data mining techniques to gain a reliable understanding of customer buying habits and then use that information to develop new marketing campaigns and products. Visual mining tools introduce a world of possibilities to a much broader and non-technical audience to help them solve common business problems.
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Title #559: Data Mining: Introductory and Advanced Topics
Edition: First Edition
ISBN Number: 0130888923
Number of Pages: 336
Author(s): Margaret H. Dunham
Publisher: Prentice Hall
Date: August 22, 2002
Category: Data mining
Abstract / Synopsis: Margaret Dunham offers the experienced data base professional or graduate level Computer Science student an introduction to the full spectrum of Data Mining concepts and algorithms. Using a database perspective throughout, Professor Dunham examines algorithms, data structures, data types, and complexity of algorithms and space. This text emphasizes the use of data mining concepts in real-world applications with large database components.
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Title #560: Advances in Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining,
Paperback
Edition: First Edition
ISBN Number: 0262560976
Number of Pages: 560
Author(s): Usama M. Fayyad
Publisher: The MIT Press
Date: February 1, 1996
Category: Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining
Abstract / Synopsis: Advances in Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining brings together the latest research -- in statistics, databases, machine learning, and artificial intelligence -- that are part of the exciting and rapidly growing field of Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining. Topics covered include fundamental issues, classification and clustering, trend and deviation analysis, dependency modeling, integrated discovery systems, next generation database systems, and application case studies. The contributors include leading researchers and practitioners from academia, government laboratories, and private industry. The last decade has seen an explosive growth in the generation and collection of data. Advances in data collection, widespread use of bar codes for most commercial products, and the computerization of many business and government transactions have flooded us with data and generated an urgent need for new techniques and tools that can intelligently and automatically assist in transforming this data into useful knowledge. This book is a timely and comprehensive overview of the new generation of techniques and tools for knowledge discovery in data.
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Title #561: Data Mining Using Grammar Based Genetic Programming
and (GENETIC PROGRAMMING Volume 3)
Edition: First Edition
ISBN Number: 079237746X
Number of Pages: 232
Author(s): Man Leung Wong, Kwong Sak Leung
Publisher: Springer
Date: January 1, 2000
Category: Data mining
Abstract / Synopsis: Describes a framework, called GGP (Generic Genetic Programming), that integrates GP and ILP based on a formalism of logic grammars. Accelerates the learning speed and/or improves the quality of the knowledge induced.
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Title #562: Data Mining: A Tutorial Based Primer, Paperback
Edition: Book & CD-Rom edition
ISBN Number: 0201741288
Number of Pages: 408
Author(s): Richard Roiger, Michael Geatz
Publisher: Addison Wesley
Date: September 26, 2002
Category: Data mining for beginner
Abstract / Synopsis: Primer on data mining provides an introduction to the principles and techniques for extracting information, from a business-minded executive. Data sets from the CD-ROM are used in examples and exercises.
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Title #563: Solving Data Mining Problems Through Pattern Recognition
(Bk/CD)
Edition: Book & CD Rom edition
ISBN Number: 0130950831
Number of Pages: 400
Author(s): Yuchun Lee
Publisher: Prentice Hall
Date: December 4, 1997
Category: Data mining and Pattern recognition
Abstract / Synopsis: Data mining is a term usually applied to techniques that can be used to find underlying structure and relationships in large amounts of data. These techniques are drawn primarily from the related fields of neural networks, statistics, pattern classification, and machine learning. They are becoming more important as computer automation spreads and as the processing and storage capabilities of computers increase. Widely available, low-cost computer technology now makes it possible to both collect historical data and also to institute on-line analysis and controls for newly arriving data.
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Title #564: The Handbook of Data Mining, Paperback
Edition: First Edition
ISBN Number: 0805855637
Number of Pages: 720
Author(s): Nong Ye
Publisher: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates
Date: November 30, 2004
Category: Data mining
Abstract / Synopsis: Information Unavailable
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Title #565: Data Mining: Multimedia, Soft Computing, and
Bioinformatics
Edition: First Edition
ISBN Number: 0471460540
Number of Pages: 424
Author(s): Sushmita Mitra, Tinku Acharya
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Date: September 12, 2003
Category: Data mining
Abstract / Synopsis: First title to ever present soft computing approaches and their application in data mining, along with the traditional hard-computing approaches. Addresses the principles of multimedia data compression techniques (for image, video, text) and their role in data mining. Discusses principles and classical algorithms on string matching and their role in data mining
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Title #566: Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery with Evolutionary
Algorithms
Edition: First Edition
ISBN Number: 3540433317
Number of Pages: 279
Author(s): Alex A. Freitas
Publisher: Springer
Date: October 3, 2002
Category: Data mining and knowledge discovery with evolutionary
algorighms
Abstract / Synopsis: This book integrates two areas of computer science, namely data mining and evolutionary algorithms. Both these areas have become increasingly popular in the last few years, and their integration is currently an area of active research. In general, data mining consists of extracting knowledge from data. In this book we particularly emphasize the importance of discovering comprehensible, interesting knowledge, which is potentially useful for the reader for intelligent decision making. In a nutshell, the motivation for applying evolutionary algorithms to data mining is that evolutionary algorithms are robust search methods which perform a global search in the space of candidate solutions. In contrast, most rule induction methods perform a local, greedy search in the space of candidate rules. Intuitively, the global search of evolutionary algorithms can discover interesting rules and patterns that would be missed by the greedy search.
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Title #567: Exploratory Data Mining and Data Cleaning
Edition: First Edition
ISBN Number: 0471268518
Number of Pages: 224
Author(s): Tamraparni Dasu
Publisher: Wiley-Interscience
Date: May 9, 2003
Category: Data mining and Data cleaning
Abstract / Synopsis: Information Unavailable
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Title #568: Relational Data Mining
Edition: First Edition
ISBN Number: 3540422897
Number of Pages: 398
Author(s): Saso Dzeroski, Nada Lavrac
Publisher: Springer
Date: October 2, 2001
Category: Devoted to relational data mining, this coherently written multi-author monograph provides a thorough introduction and systematic overview of the area
Abstract / Synopsis: As the first book devoted to relational data mining, this coherently written multi-author monograph provides a thorough introduction and systematic overview of the area. The first part introduces the reader to the basics and principles of classical knowledge discovery in databases and inductive logic programming; subsequent chapters by leading experts assess the techniques in relational data mining in a principled and comprehensive way; finally, three chapters deal with advanced applications in various fields and refer the reader to resources for relational data mining. This book will become a valuable source of reference for R&D professionals active in relational data mining. Students as well as IT professionals and ambitioned practitioners interested in learning about relational data mining will appreciate the book as a useful text and gentle introduction to this exciting new field.
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Title #569: Data Mining : Next Generation Challenges and Future
Directions, Paperback
Edition: First Edition
ISBN Number: 0262612038
Number of Pages: 528
Author(s): Hillol Kargupta
Publisher: AAAI Press
Date: October 1, 2004
Category: Collection surveys the most recent advances in the field and charts
directions for future research
Abstract / Synopsis: Data mining, or knowledge discovery, has become an indispensable technology for businesses and researchers in many fields. Drawing on work in such areas as statistics, machine learning, pattern recognition, databases, and high performance computing, data mining extracts useful information from the large data sets now available to industry and science. This collection surveys the most recent advances in the field and charts directions for future research. The first part looks at pervasive, distributed, and stream data mining, discussing topics that include distributed data mining algorithms for new application areas, several aspects of next-generation data mining systems and applications, and detection of recurrent patterns in digital media. The second part considers data mining, counter-terrorism, and privacy concerns, examining such topics as bio-surveillance, marshalling evidence through data mining, and link discovery. The third part looks at scientific data mining; topics include mining temporally-varying phenomena, data sets using graphs, and spatial data mining. The last part considers web, semantics, and data mining, examining advances in text mining algorithms and software, semantic webs, and other subjects.
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Title #570: Knowledge Discovery and Measures of Interest (Kluwer
International Series in Engineering and Computer Science)
Edition: First Edition
ISBN Number: 0792375076
Number of Pages: 184
Author(s): Robert J. Hilderman, Howard J. Hamilton
Publisher: Kluwer Academic Publishers
Date: September 15, 2001
Category: Knowledge discovery
Abstract / Synopsis: A reference book for knowledge discovery researchers, practitioners, and students. Introduces and evaluates a technique for ranking the interestingness of discovered patterns in data.
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Title #571: Evolutionary Computation in Data Mining (Studies in
Fuzziness and Soft Computing)
Edition: First Edition
ISBN Number: 3540223703
Number of Pages: 265
Author(s): Ashish Ghosh, Lakhmi C. Jain
Publisher: Springer
Date: November 23, 2004
Category: Provides a balanced mixture of theory, algorithms and applications in a cohesive manner, and demonstrates how the different tools of evolutionary computation can be used for solving real-life problems in data mining and bioinformatics
Abstract / Synopsis: This carefully edited book reflects and advances the state of the art in the area of Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery with Evolutionary Algorithms. It emphasizes the utility of different evolutionary computing tools to various facets of knowledge discovery from databases, ranging from theoretical analysis to real-life applications. Evolutionary Computation in Data Mining provides a balanced mixture of theory, algorithms and applications in a cohesive manner, and demonstrates how the different tools of evolutionary computation can be used for solving real-life problems in data mining and bioinformatics.
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Title #572: Web Data Mining and Applications in Business Intelligence
and Counter-Terrorism
Edition: First Edition
ISBN Number: 0849314607
Number of Pages: 544
Author(s): Bhavani Thuraisingham
Publisher: CRC Press
Date: June 26, 2003
Category: Presents a clear and comprehensive overview of Web mining
Abstract / Synopsis: The explosion of Web-based data has created a demand among executives and technologists for methods to identify, gather, analyze, and utilize data that may be of value to corporations and organizations. The emergence of data mining, and the larger field of Web mining, has businesses lost within a confusing maze of mechanisms and strategies for obtaining and managing crucial intelligence. Web Data Mining and Applications in Business Intelligence and Counter-Terrorism responds by presenting a clear and comprehensive overview of Web mining, with emphasis on CRM and, for the first time, security and counter-terrorism applications. The tools and methods of Web mining are revealed in an easy-to-understand style, emphasizing the importance of practical, hands-on experience in the creation of successful e-business solutions. The author, a program director for Data and Applications Security at the National Science Foundations, details how both opportunities and dangers on the Web can be identified and managed. Armed with the knowledge contained in this book, businesses can collect and analyze Web-based data to help develop customer relationships, increase sales, and identify existing and potential threats. Organizations can apply these same Web mining techniques to battle the real and present danger of terrorism, demonstrating Web mining's critical role in the intelligence arsenal.
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Title #573: Agent Intelligence Through Data Mining
Edition: First Edition
ISBN Number: 0387243526
Number of Pages: 200
Author(s): Andreas Symeonidis, Pericles Mitkas
Publisher: Springer
Date: July 2005
Category: Intelligent agents
Abstract / Synopsis: Agent Intelligence through Data Mining unifies and integrates methodology, and provides the ability to infuse knowledge extracted by the use of data mining techniques into agents & Multi-Agent Systems (MAS). This book includes the investigation and application of a great number of data mining methods on MAS application. Due to the nature of the technologies involved, the authors present a number of generic multi agent models, and a novel agent-oriented data mining algorithm to be applied to specific problems presented within this book. Agent Intelligence Through Data Mining is structured for a professional audience in industry, as well as graduate-level students in computer science. Knowledge, hidden in voluminous data repositories routinely created and maintained by today's applications, can be extracted by data mining. The next step is to transform this discovered knowledge into the inference mechanisms or simply the behavior of agents and multi-agent systems. AGENT INTELLIGENCE THROUGH DATA MINING addresses this issue, as well as the arguable challenge of generating intelligence from data while transferring it to a separate, possibly autonomous, software entity. This book contains a methodology, tools and techniques, and several examples of agent-based applications developed with this approach.nbsp;nbsp; This volume focuses mainly on the use of data mining for smarter, more efficient agents. AGENT INTELLIGENCE THROUGH DATA MINING is designed for a professional audience of researchers and practitioners in industry. This book is also suitable for graduate-level students in computer science. ‘Agent Intelligence Through Data Mining' unifies and integrates methodology, and provides the ability to infuse knowledge extracted by the use of data mining techniques into agents and multi-agent systems (MAS).
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Title #574: Graph-Theoretic Techniques for Web Content Mining
Edition: First Edition
ISBN Number: 9812563393
Number of Pages: 248
Author(s): Adam Schenker, Horst Bunke, Mark Last, Abraham Kandel
Publisher: World Scientific Publishing Company
Date: May, 2005
Category: Data Mining
Abstract / Synopsis: With the recent explosive growth of the amount of content on the Internet, it has become increasingly difficult for users to find and utilize information and for content providers to classify and catalog documents.
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Title #575: Decomposition Methodology For Knowledge Discovery And
Data Mining: Theory And Applications
Edition: First Edition
ISBN Number: 9812560793
Number of Pages: 323
Author(s): Oded Maimon, Lior Rokach
Publisher: World Scientific Publishing Company
Date: July 30, 2005
Category: Data Mining
Abstract / Synopsis: Data Mining is the science and technology of exploring data in order to discover previously unknown patterns. It is a part of the overall process of Knowledge Discovery in Databases (KDD). The accessibility and abundance of information today makes data mining a matter of considerable importance and necessity. This book provides an introduction to the field with an emphasis on advanced decomposition methods in general data mining tasks and for classification tasks in particular. The book presents a complete methodology for decomposing classification problems into smaller and more manageable sub-problems that are solvable by using existing tools. The various elements are then joined together to solve the initial problem.
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#Title #576: Data Mining In Time Series Databases
Edition: First Edition
ISBN Number: 9812382909
Number of Pages: 192
Author(s): Mark Last, Abraham Kandel, Horst Bunke
Publisher: World Scientific Pub Co Inc
Date: November, 2004
Category: Data Mining
Abstract / Synopsis: Adding the time dimension to real-world databases produces Time Series Databases (TSDB) and introduces new aspects and difficulties to data mining and knowledge discovery. This book covers the state-of-the-art methodology for mining time series databases. The novel data mining methods presented in the book include techniques for efficient segmentation, indexing, and classification of noisy and dynamic time series. A graph-based method for anomaly detection in time series is described and the book also studies the implications of a novel and potentially useful representation of time series as strings. The problem of detecting changes in data mining models that are induced from temporal databases is additionally discussed.
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Title #577: Large-Scale Parallel Data Mining
Edition: First Edition
ISBN Number: 3540671943
Number of Pages: 261
Author(s): Mohammed J. Zaki (Editor), Ching-Tien Ho
Publisher: Springer
Date: September 18, 2002
Category: Data Mining
Abstract / Synopsis: With the unprecedented growth-rate at which data is being collected and stored electronically today in almost all fields of human endeavor, the efficient extraction of useful information from the data available is becoming an increasing scientific challenge and a massive economic need. This book presents thoroughly reviewed and revised full versions of papers presented at a workshop on the topic held during KDD'99 in San Diego, California, USA in August 1999 complemented by several invited chapters and a detailed introductory survey in order to provide complete coverage of the relevant issues. The contributions presented cover all major tasks in data mining including parallel and distributed mining frameworks, associations, sequences, clustering, and classification. All in all, the volume presents the state of the art in the young and dynamic field of parallel and distributed data mining methods. It will be a valuable source of reference for researchers and professionals.
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Title #578: Active Mining
Edition: First Edition
ISBN Number: 158603264X
Number of Pages: 302
Author(s): Hiroshi Motoda
Publisher: IOS Press
Date: July, 2002
Category: Active Mining
Abstract / Synopsis: Information Unavailable
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Title #579: Autonomous Intelligent Systems: Agents and Data Mining :
International Workshop, AIS-ADM 2005, Paperback
Edition: First Edition
ISBN Number: 3540261648
Number of Pages: 303
Author(s): Vladimir Gorodetsky
Publisher: Springer
Date: July 21, 2005
Category: Agents and Data Mining
Abstract / Synopsis: Information Unavailable
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Title #580: Distributed Artificial Intelligence : Volume 2 (Research Notes
in Artificial Intelligence), Paperback
Edition: First Edition
ISBN Number: 1558600922
Number of Pages: 649
Author(s): Les Gasser, Michael Huhns
Publisher: Morgan Kaufmann
Date: January 1, 1998
Category: Distributed AI
Abstract / Synopsis: Information Unavailable
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Title #581: Designing Distributed Learning Environments With Intelligent
Software Agents, Paperback
Edition: First Edition
ISBN Number: 1591405017
Number of Pages: 311
Author(s): Fuhua Oscar Lin
Publisher: Information Science Publishing
Date: July 2004
Category: Offers new and interesting research issues surrounding the development of distributed learning environments in the Semantic Web age
Abstract / Synopsis: Designing Distributed Learning Environments with Intelligent Software Agents reports on the most recent advances in agent technologies for distributed learning. Chapters are devoted to the various aspects of intelligent software agents in distributed learning, including the methodological and technical issues on where and how intelligent agents can contribute to meeting distributed learning needs today and tomorrow. This book benefits the AI (artificial intelligence) and educational communities in their research and development, offering new and interesting research issues surrounding the development of distributed learning environments in the Semantic Web age. In addition, the ideas presented in the book are applicable to other domains such as Agent-Supported Web Services, distributed business process and resource integration, computer-supported collaborative work (CSCW) and e-Commerce.
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Title #582: Foundations of Distributed Artificial Intelligence (Sixth
Generation Computer Technologies)
Edition: First Edition
ISBN Number: 047100675
Number of Pages: 592
Author(s): G. M. P. O'Hare, N. R. Jennings
Publisher: Wiley-Interscience
Date: March, 1996
Category: Distributed Artificial Intelligence
Abstract / Synopsis: Distributed Artificial Intelligence (DAI) is a dynamic area of research and this book is the first comprehensive, truly integrated exposition of the discipline presenting influential contributions from leaders in the field. Commences with a solid introduction to the theoretical and practical issues of DAI, followed by a discussion of the core research topics--communication, coordination, planning--and how they are related to each other. The third section describes a number of DAI testbeds, illustrating particular strategies commissioned to provide software environments for building and experimenting with DAI systems. The final segment contains contributions which consider DAI from different perspectives.
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Title #583: Readings in Distributed Artificial Intelligence, Paperback
Edition: First Edition
ISBN Number: 093461363X
Number of Pages: 649
Author(s): Alan H. Bond, Les Gasser
Publisher: Morgan Kaufmann Pub
Date: August, 1988
Category: Readings in Distributed Artificial Intelligence
Abstract / Synopsis: Information Unavailable
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Title #584: Emergence: From Chaos to Order (Helix Books), Paperback
Edition: First Edition
ISBN Number: 0738201421
Number of Pages: 258
Author(s): John H. Holland
Publisher: Perseus Books Group
Date: April 1999
Category: Emergence = whole is more than the sum of its parts
Abstract / Synopsis: "Emergence" is the notion that the whole is more than the sum of its parts. John Holland, a MacArthur Fellow known as the "father of genetic algorithms," says this seemingly simple notion will be at the heart of the development of machines that can think for themselves. And while he claims that he'd rather do science than write about it, this is his second scientific philosophy book intended to increase public understanding of difficult concepts (his first was Hidden Order: How Adaptation Builds Complexity). One of the questions that Holland says emergence theory can help answer is: can we build systems from which more comes out than was put in? Think of the food replicators in the imaginary future of Star Trek--with some basic chemical building blocks and simple rules, those machines can produce everything from Klingon delicacies to Earl Grey tea. If scientists can understand and apply the knowledge they gather from studying emergent systems, we may soon witness the development of artificial intelligence, nanotech, biological machines, and other creations heretofore confined to science fiction. Using games, molecules, maps, and scientific theories as examples, Holland outlines how emergence works, emphasizing the interrelationships of simple rules and parts in generating a complex whole. Because of the theoretical depth, this book probably won't appeal to the casual reader of popular science, but those interested in delving a little deeper into the future of science and engineering will be fascinated. Holland's writing, while sometimes self-consciously precise, is clear, and he links his theoretical arguments to examples in the real world whenever possible. Emergence offers insight not just to scientific advancement, but across many areas of human endeavor--business, the arts, even the evolution of society and the generation of new ideas.
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Title #585: Estimation with Applications to Tracking and Navigation
Edition: First Edition
ISBN Number: 047141655X
Number of Pages: 584
Author(s): Yaakov Bar-Shalom
Publisher: Wiley-Interscience
Date: June 8, 2001
Category: Estimation of various quantities from inherently inaccurate remote
observations
Abstract / Synopsis: Expert coverage of the design and implementation of state estimation algorithms for tracking and navigation. Estimation with Applications to Tracking and Navigation treats the estimation of various quantities from inherently inaccurate remote observations. It explains state estimator design using a balanced combination of linear systems, probability, and statistics. The authors provide a review of the necessary background mathematical techniques and offer an overview of the basic concepts in estimation. They then provide detailed treatments of all the major issues in estimation with a focus on applying these techniques to real systems. Other features include:
* Problems that apply theoretical material to real-world applications
* In-depth coverage of the Interacting Multiple Model (IMM) estimator
* Companion DynaEst(TM) software for MATLAB(TM) implementation of Kalman
filters and IMM estimators
* Design guidelines for tracking filters
Suitable for graduate engineering students and engineers working in remote sensors and tracking, Estimation with Applications to Tracking and Navigation provides expert coverage of this important area.
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Title #586: Mind Over Machine, Paperback
Edition: First Edition
ISBN Number: 0743205510
Number of Pages: 252
Author(s): Stuart E. Dreyfus, Hubert L. Dreyfus
Publisher: Free Press
Date: March 1, 2000
Category: Difficulties inherent in programming intuitive skills into an expert
system
Abstract / Synopsis: Information Unavailable
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Title #587: Expert Systems: Principles and Programming
Edition: Third Edition
ISBN Number: 0534950531
Number of Pages: 624
Author(s): Joseph C. Giarratano, Gary D. Riley
Publisher: Course Technology
Date: February 9, 1998
Category: Programming with CLIPS
Abstract / Synopsis: This book combines coverage of expert systems theory with coverage of practical applications using CLIPS, an expert systems shell widely used in government, industry, and education. The result is a self-contained book and CD-ROM package for computer science, engineering, and CIS/MIS students and professionals that provides the conceptual background and programming tools needed to understand and implement expert systems.
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Title #588: Probabilistic Networks and Expert Systems (Information
Science and Statistics)
Edition: First Edition
ISBN Number: 0387987673
Number of Pages: 321
Author(s): Robert G. Cowell
Publisher: Springer
Date: May 20, 2003
Category: Probabilistic expert systems are graphical networks that support
the modeling of uncertainty and decisions in large complex domains
Abstract / Synopsis: Winner of the 2002 DeGroot Prize. Awarded by the International Society for Bayesian Analysis to a book judged to represent an important, timely, thorough, and notably original contribution to the statistics literature. Probabilistic expert systems are graphical networks that support the modeling of uncertainty and decisions in large complex domains, while retaining ease of calculation. Building on original research by the authors over a number of years, this book gives a thorough and rigorous mathematical treatment of the underlying ideas, structures, and algorithms, emphasizing those cases in which exact answers are obtainable. It covers both the updating of probabilistic uncertainty in the light of new evidence, and statistical inference, about unknown probabilities or unknown model structure, in the light of new data. The book will be of interest to researchers and graduate students in artificial intelligence who desire an understanding of the mathematical and statistical basis of probabilistic expert systems, and to students and research workers in statistics wanting an introduction to this fascinating and rapidly developing field.
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Title #589: Expertise in Context, Paperback
Edition: First Edition
ISBN Number: 0262561107
Number of Pages: 590
Author(s): Paul J. Feltovich
Publisher: AAAI Press
Date: April 25, 1997
Category: Essential nature of expert knowledge
Abstract / Synopsis: Computerized "expert systems" are among the best-known applications of artificial intelligence. But what is expertise? The nature of knowledge and expertise, and their relation to context, is the focus of active discussion and controversy among psychologists, philosophers, computer scientists, and other cognitive scientists. The questions reach to the very foundations of cognitive theory. The twenty-three original essay in this volume discuss the essential nature of expert knowledge, as well as such questions as how "expertise" differs from mere "knowledge," the relation between the individual and group processes involved in knowledge in general and expertise in particular, the social and other contexts of expertise, how expertise can be assessed, and the relation between human and computer expertise.
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Title #590: Expert Systems: Artificial Intelligence in Business
Edition: First Edition
ISBN Number: 0471815543
Number of Pages: 283
Author(s): Paul Harmon, David King
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Inc
Date: March, 1985
Category: Expert systems
Abstract / Synopsis: Information unavailable
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Title #591: Programming Expert Systems in Ops5: An Introduction to
Rule-Based Programming (The Addison-Wesley series in
artificial intelligence)
Edition: First Edition
ISBN Number: 0201106477
Number of Pages: 471
Author(s): Lee Brownston
Publisher: Addison-Wesley
Date: July, 1985
Category: Programming Expert Systems in Ops5
Abstract / Synopsis: Information unavailable
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Title #592: Expert Systems for Engineering Design
Edition: First Edition
ISBN Number: 0126051100
Number of Pages: 306
Author(s): Michael Rychener
Publisher: Academic Pr
Date: December, 1988
Category: Expert systems
Abstract / Synopsis: Information Unavailable
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Title #593: Expert Systems and Probabilistic Network Models
(Monographs in Computer Science)
Edition: First Edition
ISBN Number: 0387948589
Number of Pages: 605
Author(s): Enrique Castillo
Publisher: Springer
Date: December 13, 1996
Category: Expert systems
Abstract / Synopsis: Artificial intelligence and expert systems have seen a great deal of research in recent years, much of which has been devoted to methods for incorporating uncertainty into models. This book is devoted to providing a thorough and up-to-date survey of this field for researchers and students.
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Title #594: Introduction to Expert Systems (3rd Edition)
Edition: Third Edition
ISBN Number: 0201876868
Number of Pages: 560
Author(s): Peter Jackson
Publisher: Addison Wesley
Date: December 23, 1998
Category: Updates the technological base of expert systems research and embeds those results in the context of a wide variety of application areas
Abstract / Synopsis: The third edition of Peter Jackson's book, Introduction to Expert Systems, updates the technological base of expert systems research and embeds those results in the context of a wide variety of application areas. The earlier chapters take a more practical approach to the basic topics than the previous editions, while the later chapters introduce new topic areas, such as case-based reasoning, connectionist systems, and hybrid systems. Results in related areas, such as machine learning and reasoning with uncertainty are also accorded a thorough treatment.
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Title #595: Expert Systems
Edition: First Edition
ISBN Number: 0824799275
Number of Pages: 331
Author(s): Chris Nikolopoulos
Publisher: Marcel Dekker
Date: January 10, 1997
Category: Expert systems
Abstract / Synopsis: This hands-on reference/text offers a comprehensive, self-contained introduction to the field of expert/knowledge based systems--covering current and emerging trends as well as future research areas. Considers both the system shell and programming environment approaches to expert system development.
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Title #596: Rule Based Expert Systems: The Mycin Experiments of the
Stanford Heuristic Programming Project (The Addison-
Wesley series in artificial intelligence)
Edition: First Edition
ISBN Number: 0201101726
Number of Pages: 748
Author(s): Bruce G. Buchanan, Edward H. Shortliffe
Publisher: Addison-Wesley
Date: June, 1984
Category: Mycin experiments
Abstract / Synopsis: Information Unavailable
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Title #597: The Handbook of Applied Expert Systems
Edition: First Edition
ISBN Number: 0849331064
Number of Pages: 736
Author(s): Jay Liebowitz
Publisher: CRC-Press
Date: December 29, 1997
Category: This authoritative source covers the latest expert system
technologies, applications, methodologies, and practices
Abstract / Synopsis: The Handbook of Applied Expert Systems is a landmark work dedicated solely to this rapidly advancing area of study. Edited by Jay Liebowitz, a professor, author, and consultant known around the world for his work in the field, this authoritative source covers the latest expert system technologies, applications, methodologies, and practices. The book features contributions from more than 40 of the world's foremost expert systems authorities in industry, government, and academia. The Handbook is organized into two major sections. The first section explains expert systems technologies while the second section focuses on applied examples in a wide variety of industries. Key topics covered include fuzzy systems, genetic algorithm development, machine learning, knowledge representation, and much more.
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Title #598: Handbook on Artificial Intelligence and Expert Systems in
Law Enforcement
Edition: First Edition
ISBN Number: 0313264619
Number of Pages: 212
Author(s): Edward C. Ratledge, Joan E. Jacoby
Publisher: Greenwood Press
Date: September 26, 1989
Category: Explore the application of expert systems in law enforcement
activities
Abstract / Synopsis: This first book to explore the application of expert systems in law enforcement activities is both practical and conceptually clear as it explains the potential utility of expert systems and their impact on operations and management. Ratledge and Jacoby have geared their discussions to a wide audience which includes both practitioners and the academic community. This handbook offers systematic explanations of the applications of expert systems to law enforcement activites, discusses the impact of these systems on traditional ways of policing and crime solving, and details a set of practical guidelines for jurisdictions considering the implementation of expert systems.
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Title #599: Expert Systems Programming: Practical Techniques for
Rule-Based Systems
Edition: First Edition
ISBN Number: 0471600687
Number of Pages: 316
Author(s): Ken Pedersen
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Inc
Date: April, 1989
Category: Expert systems programming
Abstract / Synopsis: Information Unavailable
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Title #600: Knowledge-Based Systems for Industrial Control (I E E
Control Engineering Series)
Edition: First Edition
ISBN Number: 0863412211
Number of Pages: 356
Author(s): J. McGhee
Publisher: Institution of Electrical Engineers
Date: September 1990
Category: Knowledge-Based Systems for Industrial Control
Abstract / Synopsis: Information Unavailable
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Title #601: Developments in Applied Artificial Intelligence
Edition: First Edition
ISBN Number: 3540404554
Number of Pages: 817
Author(s): Ali Moonis, Paul Chung, Chris Hinde
Publisher: Springer
Date: August 2003
Category: Expert Systems and other applied AI systems
Abstract / Synopsis: Expert Systems and other applied AI systems
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Title #602: Industrial and Engineering Applications of Artificial
Intelligence and Expert Systems
Edition: First Edition
ISBN Number: 9056996150
Number of Pages: 512
Author(s): Moonis Ali, D. Potter, M. Matthews, M. Ali
Publisher: Gordon & Breach Science Publishers
Date: September 1, 1997
Category: AI in Industrial and Engineering Applications
Abstract / Synopsis: The field of artificial intelligence has been maturing for a number of years and has inspired many researchers to produce innovative intelligent systems to demonstrate the capability of intelligent machines and their success in solving human problems. Only recently, however, have intelligent systems shown progress in demonstrating success in real-life applications, particularly in industrial environments.
Many organizations have successfully used at least some limited aspects of intelligent research in their day-to-day operations. The objectives of this volume are to focus on these real-life applications and report a comprehensive view of the theoretical and applied aspects of intelligent systems technology. The most recent work in industrial, commercial, military, and academic environments is summarized, including 61 state-of-the-art reports on active research applied to real world problems.
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Title #603: Principles of Artificial Intelligence and Expert Systems
Development
Edition: First Edition
ISBN Number: 0070536147
Number of Pages: 257
Author(s): David W. Rolston
Publisher: Mcgraw-Hill
Date: January, 1988
Category: Principles of Artificial Intelligence and Expert Systems
Development
Abstract / Synopsis: Information Unavailable
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Title #604: Industrial and Engineering Applications of Artificial
Intelligence and Expert Systems, Paperback
Edition:
ISBN Number: 0897913728
Number of Pages: 1175
Author(s): Information Unavailable
Publisher: Routledge
Date: July, 1990
Category: Industrial and Engineering Applications of Artificial
Intelligence and Expert Systems
Abstract / Synopsis: Information Unavailable
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Title #605: Machine Learning Applications in Expert-Systems and
Information Retrieval
Edition: First Edition
ISBN Number: 0470203188
Number of Pages: 277
Author(s): Richard Frosyth
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Inc
Date: May, 1986
Category: Machine Learning Applications in Expert-Systems and
Information Retrieval
Abstract / Synopsis: Information Unavailable
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Title #606: Keyguide to Information Sources in Artificial Intelligence
Expert Systems
Edition: First Edition
ISBN Number: 0916313182
Number of Pages: 300
Author(s): Peter J. Hancox
Publisher: Ergosyst Assoc/the Report Stor
Date: March, 1990
Category: Keyguide to Information Sources in Artificial Intelligence Expert
Systems
Abstract / Synopsis: Information Unavailable
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Title #607: AI and Expert Systems: A Comprehensive Guide, C Language
Edition: 2nd Edition
ISBN Number: 0070375003
Number of Pages: 289
Author(s): Robert I. Levine, Diane E. Drang, Barry Edelson
Publisher: Computing Mcgraw-Hill
Date: July, 1990
Category: Ai and Expert Systems: A Comprehensive Guide, C Language
Abstract / Synopsis: Information Unavailable
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Title #608: Expert Systems and Applied Artificial Intelligence
Edition: First Edition
ISBN Number: 0024216658
Number of Pages: 804
Author(s): Efraim Turban, Louis E. Frenzel
Publisher: MacMillan Publishing Company
Date: January, 1992
Category: Expert Systems and Applied Artificial Intelligence
Abstract / Synopsis: A comprehensive approach to courses in expert systems and artificial intelligence, this exciting new text bridges theory and practice, balancing technical and managerial approaches to the topic. Very student-oriented, Expert Systems and Applied Artificial Intelligence will bring to your classroom the most complete, yet readable, approach to applied ES and AI available today.
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Title #609: Developments in Applied Artificial Intelligence, Paperback
Edition: First Edition
ISBN Number: 3540437819
Number of Pages: 846
Author(s): Tim Hendtlass, Moonis Ali
Publisher: Springer
Date: August 9, 2002
Category: Artificial Intelligence and Expert Systems
Abstract / Synopsis: This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 15th International Conference on Industrial and Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence and Expert Systems, IEA/AIE 2002, held in Cairns, Australia, in June 2002. The 79 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from more than 150 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on neural computation, image and speech processing, evolutionary and genetic algorithms, autonomous agents, Internet applications, expert systems, AI applications, knowledge processing, model-based reasoning, and adaptive systems.
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Title #610: Managing Artificial Intelligence and Expert Systems
Edition: First Edition
ISBN Number: 0135517893
Number of Pages: 212
Author(s): Daniel A. De Salvo
Publisher: Yourdon
Date: January, 1990
Category: Managing Artificial Intelligence and Expert Systems
Abstract / Synopsis: Information Unavailable
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Title #611: Knowledge Acquisition for Expert Systems
Edition: 2nd edition
ISBN Number: 0070269114
Number of Pages: 196
Author(s): Anna Hart
Publisher: Mcgraw-Hill (Tx)
Date: March, 1992
Category: Knowledge Acquisition for Expert Systems
Abstract / Synopsis: Information Unavailable
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Title #612: Expert systems and artificial intelligence: Applications and
management
Edition: First Edition
ISBN Number: 0672224712
Number of Pages: 307
Author(s): Thomas C. Bartee
Publisher: H.W. Sams
Date: 1988
Category: Expert systems and artificial intelligence: Applications and
management
Abstract / Synopsis: Information Unavailable
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Title #613: SAVORY: ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE & EXPERT
SYSTEMS
Edition: First Edition
ISBN Number: 0745801471
Number of Pages: Information Unavailable
Author(s): Information Unavailable
Publisher: Prentice Hall Europe (a Pearson Education company)
Date: April 6, 1988
Category: SAVORY: AI & EXPERT SYSTEMS
Abstract / Synopsis: Information Unavailable
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Title #614: Expert Systems and Artificial Intelligence: An Information
Manager's Guide
Edition: 2nd Edition
ISBN Number: 0853659095
Number of Pages: 277
Author(s): Nigel Ford
Publisher: Library Assn Pub Ltd
Date: December, 1991
Category: Expert Systems and Artificial Intelligence: An Information
Manager's Guide
Abstract / Synopsis: Information Unavailable
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Title #615: Artificial intelligence and expert systems: Case studies in the
knowledge domain of archaeology
Edition: First Edition
ISBN Number: 0470212209
Number of Pages: 232
Author(s): Jean Claude Gardin
Publisher: Halsted Press
Date: 1988
Category: Artificial intelligence and expert systems: Case studies in the
knowledge domain of archaeology
Abstract / Synopsis: Information Unavailable
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Title #616: Expert Systems : Human Issues
Edition: First Edition
ISBN Number: 0262023075
Number of Pages: 263
Author(s): Dianne Berry, Anna Hart
Publisher: The MIT Press
Date: July 27, 1990
Category: Book describes case studies - designing a usable medical expert
system
Abstract / Synopsis: In four parts, the book describes case studies (DISPLAN - designing a usable medical expert system, user acceptance of a knowledge-based system for the management of child abuse cases, and examples of knowledge engineering in a difficult domain), methods for system development (the application of Kads methodology in the ICL Kidsgrove Bonding Shop, issues in the design of expert systems for business, and general methods for the development and application of knowledge based systems), effective interfaces (connection diagrams, multimodal communication graph implementation), and consequences for individuals and organizations. Dianne Berry is a Research Fellow in the Department of Experimental Psychology at Oxford University. Anna Hart is a Lecturer in Computer Studies at Lancashire Polytechnic. Expert Systems: Human Issues is included in the Artificial Intelligence Series, edited by Michael Brady, Daniel Bobrow, and Randall Davis.
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Title #617: Expert Systems: Commercial Exploration of Artificial
Intelligence
Edition: First Edition
ISBN Number: 038753041X
Number of Pages: 179
Author(s): Jack Hollingum
Publisher: IFS, Ltd.
Date: January, 1991
Category: Expert Systems: Commercial Exploration of Artificial Intelligence
Abstract / Synopsis: Information Unavailable
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Title #618: Artificial Intelligence and Expert Systems: Will They Change
the Library?
Edition: First Edition
ISBN Number: 087845084X
Number of Pages: 291
Author(s): F. W. Lancaster
Publisher: Univ of Illinois Graduate School of
Date: February, 1992
Category: Artificial Intelligence and Expert Systems: Will They Change the
Library?
Abstract / Synopsis: Information Unavailable
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Title #619: Artificial Intelligence and Expert Systems for Engineers
Edition: Book & Disk Edition
ISBN Number: 0849391253
Number of Pages: 320
Author(s): C. S. Krishnamoorthy, S. Rajeev
Publisher: CRC Press
Date: September 20, 1996
Category: Artificial Intelligence and Expert Systems for Engineers details the AI-based methodologies known as: Knowledge-Based Expert Systems (KBES); Design Synthesis; Design Critiquing; and Case-Based Reasoning
Abstract / Synopsis: This book provides a comprehensive presentation of artificial intelligence (AI) methodologies and tools valuable for solving a wide spectrum of engineering problems. What's more, it offers these AI tools on an accompanying disk with easy-to-use software. Artificial Intelligence and Expert Systems for Engineers details the AI-based methodologies known as: Knowledge-Based Expert Systems (KBES); Design Synthesis; Design Critiquing; and Case-Based Reasoning. KBES are the most popular AI-based tools and have been successfully applied to planning, diagnosis, classification, monitoring, and design problems. Case studies are provided with problems in engineering design for better understanding of the problem-solving models using the four methodologies in an integrated software environment. Throughout the book, examples are given so that students and engineers can acquire skills in the use of AI-based methodologies for application to practical problems ranging from diagnosis to planning, design, and construction and manufacturing in various disciplines of engineering. Artificial Intelligence and Expert Systems for Engineers is a must-have reference for students, teachers, research scholars, and professionals working in the area of civil engineering design in particular and engineering design in general.
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Title #620: Expert Systems and Artificial Intelligence in Decision Support
Systems
Edition: First Edition
ISBN Number: 9027724377
Number of Pages: 344
Author(s): Henk G. Sol
Publisher: Springer
Date: March 31, 1987
Category: Expert Systems and Artificial Intelligence in Decision Support
Systems
Abstract / Synopsis: Information Unavailable
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Title #621: Artificial Intelligence: An Applications-Oriented Approach
Edition: First Edition
ISBN Number: 0442280343
Number of Pages: 294
Author(s): Daniel Schutzer
Publisher: Van Nostrand Reinhold
Date: January, 1987
Category: Basic definitions of expert systems and the superstructure of
knowledge engineering are explained
Abstract / Synopsis: This text is a good introduction to the area of artificial intelligence. It is written for the layperson. Basic definitions of expert systems and the superstructure of knowledge engineering are explained in a very readable format. The
work is perfect for students being introduced into artificial intelligence for the first time.
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Title #622: Expert Systems in Engineering
Edition: First Edition
ISBN Number: 0387192298
Number of Pages: 500
Author(s): D. T. Pham
Publisher: Springer
Date: June, 1988
Category: Expert Systems in Engineering
Abstract / Synopsis: Information Unavailable
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Title #623: Expert Systems and Artificial Intelligence, Paperback
Edition: First Edition
ISBN Number: 093886291X
Number of Pages: 350
Author(s): Nathan Goldenthal
Publisher: Weber Systems
Date: July, 1987
Category: Expert Systems and Artificial Intelligence
Abstract / Synopsis: Information Unavailable
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Title #624: Expert Systems and Artificial Intelligence in Internal Auditing
Edition: First Edition
ISBN Number: 1558760865
Number of Pages: 174
Author(s): Daniel E. O'Leary, Paul R. Watkins
Publisher: M. Wiener Pub.
Date: August, 1995
Category: Expert Systems and Artificial Intelligence in Internal Auditing
Abstract / Synopsis: Information Unavailable
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Title #625: Artificial Intelligence and Expert Systems, Paperback
Edition: First Edition
ISBN Number: 0070374996
Number of Pages: 256
Author(s): Robert Levine
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Education
Date: Information Unavailable
Category: Artificial Intelligence and Expert Systems
Abstract / Synopsis: Information Unavailable
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Title #626: Artificial Intelligence and Expert Systems in Manufacturing
Edition: First Edition
ISBN Number: 038751855X
Number of Pages: Information Unavailable
Author(s): Andrew Kusiak
Publisher: Springer-Verlag
Date: January, 1992
Category: Artificial Intelligence and Expert Systems in Manufacturing
Abstract / Synopsis: Information Unavailable
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Title #627: Artificial Intelligence and Expert Systems, Paperback
Edition: First Edition
ISBN Number: 0434909017
Number of Pages: 256
Author(s): Mike James, Kay Ewbank
Publisher: Butterworth-Heinemann
Date: March, 1989
Category: Artificial Intelligence and Expert Systems
Abstract / Synopsis: Information Unavailable
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Title #628: Artificial Intelligence in Medicine: Expert Systems
Edition: First Edition
ISBN Number: 0442312156
Number of Pages: Information Unavailable
Author(s): M. Fieschi, D. Cramp
Publisher: Chapman & Hall
Date: August, 1990
Category: Artificial Intelligence in Medicine: Expert Systems
Abstract / Synopsis: Information Unavailable
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Title #629: Artificial Intelligence in Accounting and Auditing: Using
Expert Systems
Edition: First Edition
ISBN Number: 1558760555
Number of Pages: 296
Author(s): Miklos A. Vasarhelyi
Publisher: Markus Wiener Publishers
Date: February, 1995
Category: Artificial Intelligence in Accounting and Auditing: Using Expert
Systems
Abstract / Synopsis: Information Unavailable
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Title #630: C/C + + for Expert Systems: "Unleashes the Power of Artificial
Intelligence," Paperback
Edition: First Edition
ISBN Number: 0943518865
Number of Pages: 565
Author(s): David Hu
Publisher: Mis Pr
Date: January, 1989
Category: C/C + + for Expert Systems: "Unleashes the Power of Artificial
Intelligence."
Abstract / Synopsis: Information Unavailable
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Title #631: Face Recognition: From Theory to Applications (Nato a S I
Series Series III, Computer and Systems Sciences)
Edition: First Edition
ISBN Number: 3540644105
Number of Pages: 636
Author(s): North Atlantic Treaty Organization Scientific Affairs Division
(Corporate Author)
Publisher: Springer-Verlag Telos
Date: November 15, 1998
Category: First book on automatic face recognition
Abstract / Synopsis: This is the first book on automatic face recognition. Face recognition is a complex and difficult problem that is important for surveillance and security, telecommunications, digital libraries, and human-computer intelligent interactions. The book is based on a NATO Advanced Study Institute held in 1997 at which leading researchers provided a broad overview on face recognition and identified trends for future developments and the means for implementing robust systems. The methods presented are synergetic efforts from the fields signal and image processing, pattern recognition, machine learning, neural networks, psychophysics, and system engineering. The emphasis is on tested methods such as principal component analysis, dynamic link architecture, support vector machines, and video processing.
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Title #632: Elements of Finite Model Theory (Texts in Theoretical
Computer Science. An EATCS Series)
Edition: First Edition
ISBN Number: 3540212027
Number of Pages: 315
Author(s): Leonid Libkin
Publisher: Springer
Date: August 17, 2004
Category: Introduction to finite model theory
Abstract / Synopsis: This book is an introduction to finite model theory which stresses the computer science origins of the area. In addition to presenting the main techniques for analyzing logics over finite models, the book deals extensively with applications in databases, complexity theory, and formal languages, as well as other branches of computer science. It covers Ehrenfeucht-Fraïssé games, locality-based techniques, complexity analysis of logics, including the basics of descriptive complexity, second-order logic and its fragments, connections with finite automata, fixed point logics, finite variable logics, zero-one laws, and embedded finite models, and gives a brief tour of recently discovered applications of finite model theory. This book can be used both as an introduction to the subject, suitable for a one- or two-semester graduate course, or as reference for researchers who apply techniques from logic in computer science.
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Title #633: Relational Frame Theory: A Post-Skinnerian Account of
Human Language and Cognition
Edition: First Edition
ISBN Number: 0306466007
Number of Pages: 285
Author(s): Steven C. Hayes
Publisher: Springer
Date: December 2001
Category: Relational frame theory
Abstract / Synopsis: Human language and our use of it to communicate or to understand the world requires deriving relations among events: for example, if A=B and A=C, then B=C. Relational frame theory argues that such performances are at the heart of any meaningful psychology of language and cognition. From a very early age, human beings learn relations of similarity, difference, comparison, time, and so on, and modify what they do in a given situation based on its derived relation to others situations and what is known about them. This volume goes beyond theory and gives the empirical and conceptual tools to conduct an experimental analysis of virtually every substantive topic in human language and cognition, both basic and applied. As the term `post-Skinnerian' suggests, this volume challenges behavioral psychology to abandon many of the specific theoretical formulations of its most prominent historical leader in the domain of complex human behavior, especially in human language and cognition, and approach the field from a new direction. The need for a pragmatically useful analysis of language and cognition is as enormous and varied as its extensions and applications. This volume will be of interest not only to behavior theorists but also to cognitive psychologists, therapists, educators, and anyone studying the human condition.
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Title #634: Prime Time Freeware for AI (Selected materials from the
Carnegie Mellon University Artificial Intelligence Repository,
Issue 1-1, Paperback
Edition: First Edition
ISBN Number: 188195711X
Number of Pages: Information Unavailable
Author(s): Mark Kantrowitz
Publisher: Prime Time Freeware
Date: 1994
Category: This is a collection of AI-related freeware
Abstract / Synopsis: This is a collection of AI-related freeware with 5000 megabytes of free source code and documentation, stored as compressed archives on two ISO9660 CD-ROMS. Included is an entire CD-ROM full of interpreters and compilers.
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Title #635: Fuzzy Thinking : The New Science of Fuzzy Logic
Edition: Reprint edition
ISBN Number: 078688021X
Number of Pages: Information Unavailable
Author(s): Bart Kosko
Publisher: Hyperion
Date: June 1, 1994
Category: Fuzzy logic
Abstract / Synopsis: Kosko , an engineering professor at the University of Southern California, makes a provocative new scientific paradigm intelligible to the general reader. Fuzzy logic posits a world in which absolutes, such as those implied in the words "true" and "false , " are less important and interesting than the matters of degree between them. "Fuzziness is grayness," and "the truth lies in the middle," according to Kosko, one of the pioneers of fuzzy logic theory, which he persuasively presents as a world view rooted more in Buddhist and Taoist assumptions than in the dichotomous Aristotelian tradition. He proposes FATs (Fuzzy Approximation Theorems) for the existence (and non-existence, as fuzziness demands) of God and as models of the abortion debate. In consumer terms, fuzzy logic is behind such "smart" machines as air conditioners and microwave ovens that gauge their operation to the conditions and demands of a given moment's task. Writing with style and risk, Kosko challenges assumptions, not about the existence of scientific authority, but about its nature.
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Title #636: FUZZY LOGIC: THE REVOLUTIONARY COMPUTER
TECHNOLOGY THAT IS CHANGING OUR WORLD,
Paperback
Edition: Reprint edition
ISBN Number: 0671875353
Number of Pages: 320
Author(s): Daniel Mcneill
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Date: April 14, 1994
Category: Fuzzy logic
Abstract / Synopsis: Information Unavailable
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Title #637: A First Course in Fuzzy Logic, Second Edition
Edition: Second Edition
ISBN Number: 0849316596
Number of Pages: 392
Author(s): Hung T. Nguyen, Elbert A. Walker
Publisher: CRC Press
Date: July 21, 1999
Category: Introduction to the theory and applications of fuzzy logic
Abstract / Synopsis: The second edition of the popular A First Course in Fuzzy Logic will continue to provide the ideal introduction to the theory and applications of fuzzy logic. The authors provide a firm mathematical basis for the calculus of fuzzy concepts-necessary to design intelligent systems-and give the student a solid background for further studies and real-world applications. This new edition provides many new exercises designed to enhance the reader's understanding of the concepts. The authors have expanded on the algebra background needed for the more advanced topics, and include significant new material on basic connectives and the algebraic properties of fuzzy logic, rough sets, conditional events, distributions of random sets, and derivatives of fuzzy measures. With its comprehensive updates, A First Course in Fuzzy Logic, Second Edition presents all the background necessary for students to begin using fuzzy logic in its many-and rapidly growing-applications.
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Title #638: Neuro-Fuzzy and Soft Computing: A Computational
Approach to Learning and Machine Intelligence, Paperback
Edition: First Edition
ISBN Number: 0132610663
Number of Pages: 614
Author(s): Jyh-Shing Roger Jang
Publisher: Pearson Education
Date: September 26, 1996
Category: Neuro-fuzzy methodologies that are likely to be of practical use
Abstract / Synopsis: Neuro-Fuzzy Modeling and Soft Computing places particular emphasis on the theoretical aspects of covered methodologies, as well as empirical observations and verifications of various applications in practice. Neuro-Fuzzy Modeling and Soft Computing is oriented toward methodologies that are likely to be of practical use. It includes exercises, some of which involve MATLAB programming tasks to provide readers with hands-on programming experiences for practical problem-solving. Each chapter also includes a reference list to the research literature so that readers may pursue topics in greater depth. This book is suitable as a self-study guide by researchers who want to learn basic and advanced neuro-fuzzy and soft computing within the framework of computational intelligence.
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Title #639: An Introduction to Fuzzy Logic for Practical Applications,
Paperback
Edition: First Edition
ISBN Number: 0387948074
Number of Pages: 148
Author(s): Kazuo Tanaka, T. Niimura
Publisher: Springer
Date: November 15, 1996
Category: Succinct guide to the basic ideas of fuzzy logic, fuzzy sets, fuzzy
relations, and fuzzy reasoning, and how they may be applied
Abstract / Synopsis: Fuzzy logic has become an important tool for a number of different applications ranging from the control of engineering systems to artificial intelligence. In this concise introduction, the author presents a succinct guide to the basic ideas of fuzzy logic, fuzzy sets, fuzzy relations, and fuzzy reasoning, and shows how they may be applied. The book culminates in a chapter which describes fuzzy logic control: the design of intelligent control systems using fuzzy if-then rules which make use of human knowledge and experience to behave in a manner similar to a human controller. Throughout, the level of mathematical knowledge required is kept basic and the concepts are illustrated with numerous diagrams to aid in comprehension. As a result, all those curious to know more about fuzzy concepts and their real-world application will find this a good place to start.
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Title #640: Fuzzy Logic: Intelligence, Control, and Information
Edition: First Edition
ISBN Number: 0135258170
Number of Pages: 548
Author(s): John Yen, Reza Langari
Publisher: Prentice Hall
Date: November 23, 1998
Category: Fuzzy logic
Abstract / Synopsis: Providing equal emphasis on theoretical foundations and practical issues, this book features fuzzy logic concepts and techniques in intelligent systems, control, and information technology.
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Title #641: Uncertain Rule-Based Fuzzy Logic Systems: Introduction and
New Directions
Edition: First Edition
ISBN Number: 0130409693
Number of Pages: 576
Author(s): Jerry M. Mendel
Publisher: Prentice Hall PTR
Date: December 22, 2000
Category: Fuzzy logic
Abstract / Synopsis: Uncertainty is the fabric that makes life interesting. For millennia human beings have developed strategies to cope with a plethora of uncertainties, never absolutely sure what the consequences would be, but hopeful that the deleterious effects of those uncertainties could be minimized. This book presents a complete methodology for accomplishing this within the framework of fuzzy logic (FL). This is not the original FL, but is an expanded and richer FL, one that contains the original FL within it.
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Title #642: Fuzzy Logic for Business and Industry (Dos Windows),
Paperback
Edition: Book & Disk edition
ISBN Number: 1886801010
Number of Pages: 602
Author(s): Earl Cox
Publisher: Delmar Thomson Learning
Date: October 1995
Category: Fuzzy Logic for Business and Industry
Abstract / Synopsis: This book compliments The Fuzzy Systems Handbook very well. The practical examples in Fuzzy Logic for Business and Industry, provide users with tools to implement Fuzzy Logic in real world applications. If you want a book explaining Fuzzy Logic principles, this is not the book for you. If you want to get insight into the application of Fuzzy Logic in business scenarios, this is a very worthwhile starting point.
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Title #643: Fuzzy Modeling and Genetic Algorithms for Data Mining and
Exploration (The Morgan Kaufmann Series in Data
Management Systems)
Edition: First Edition
ISBN Number: 0121942759
Number of Pages: 540
Author(s): Earl Cox
Publisher: Morgan Kaufmann
Date: January 18, 2005
Category: Fuzzy Modeling and Genetic Algorithms for Data Mining and
Exploration
Abstract / Synopsis: Fuzzy Modeling and Genetic Algorithms for Data Mining and Exploration is a handbook for analysts, engineers, and managers involved in developing data mining models in business and government. As you’ll discover, fuzzy systems are extraordinarily valuable tools for representing and manipulating all kinds of data, and genetic algorithms and evolutionary programming techniques drawn from biology provide the most effective means for designing and tuning these systems.
You don’t need a background in fuzzy modeling or genetic algorithms to benefit, for this book provides it, along with detailed instruction in methods that you can immediately put to work in your own projects. The author provides many diverse examples and also an extended example in which evolutionary strategies are used to create a complex scheduling system.
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Title #644: Fuzzy Sets and Fuzzy Logic: Theory and Applications
[FACSIMILE], Paperback
Edition: First Edition
ISBN Number: 0131011715
Number of Pages: 592
Author(s): George J. Klir, Bo Yuan
Publisher: Prentice Hall PTR
Date: May 11, 1995
Category: Fuzzy set theory and fuzzy logic from 1988 to the present
Abstract / Synopsis: Reflecting the tremendous advances that have taken place in the study of fuzzy set theory and fuzzy logic from 1988 to the present, this book not only details the theoretical advances in these areas, but considers a broad variety of applications of fuzzy sets and fuzzy logic as well. Theoretical aspects of fuzzy set theory and fuzzy logic are covered in Part I of the text, including: basic types of fuzzy sets; connections between fuzzy sets and crisp sets; the various aggregation operations of fuzzy sets; fuzzy numbers and arithmetic operations on fuzzy numbers; fuzzy relations and the study of fuzzy relation equations. Part II is devoted to applications of fuzzy set theory and fuzzy logic, including: various methods for constructing membership functions of fuzzy sets; the use of fuzzy logic for approximate reasoning in expert systems; fuzzy systems and controllers; fuzzy databases; fuzzy decision making; and engineering applications. For everyone interested in an introduction to fuzzy set theory and fuzzy logic.
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Title #645: An Introduction to Fuzzy Sets: Analysis and Design (Complex
Adaptive Systems)
Edition: First Edition
ISBN Number: 0262161710
Number of Pages: 465
Author(s): Witold Pedrycz, Fernando Gomide
Publisher: The MIT Press
Date: April 10, 1998
Category: Fuzzy sets can provide solutions to a broad range of problems of control, pattern classification, reasoning, planning, and computer vision.
Abstract / Synopsis: The concept of fuzzy sets is one of the most fundamental and influential tools in computational intelligence. Fuzzy sets can provide solutions to a broad range of problems of control, pattern classification, reasoning, planning, and computer vision. This book bridges the gap that has developed between theory and practice. The authors explain what fuzzy sets are, why they work, when they should be used (and when they shouldn't), and how to design systems using them. The authors take an unusual top-down approach to the design of detailed algorithms. They begin with illustrative examples, explain the fundamental theory and design methodologies, and then present more advanced case studies dealing with practical tasks. While they use mathematics to introduce concepts, they ground them in examples of real-world problems that can be solved through fuzzy set technology. The only mathematics prerequisites are a basic knowledge of introductory calculus and linear algebra.
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Title #646: Fuzzy Logic for Beginners, Paperback
Edition: First Edition
ISBN Number: 9810245343
Number of Pages: 105
Author(s): Masao Mukaidono, Hiroaki Kikuchi
Publisher: World Scientific Publishing Company
Date: February 28, 2001
Category: Introductory text in fuzzy logic
Abstract / Synopsis: Introductory text in fuzzy logic, for those who have no previous experience with the topic. Aims to demonstrate to the reader how one can apply fuzzy theory to real problems, explaining the basics of the theory itself, and fundamental applications of the theory in modern life.
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Title #647: Fuzzy Logic and Neuro Fuzzy Applications Explained
(Book/Disk)
Edition: First Edition
ISBN Number: 0133684652
Number of Pages: 368
Author(s): Constantin Von Altrock
Publisher: Prentice Hall
Date: April 17, 1995
Category: Book explains all the elements of fuzzy logic system design
Abstract / Synopsis: In 1994, Japan exported millions of dollars of products that use fuzzy logic or NeuroFuzzy -- most of them unnoticed by the U.S. public until recently. This book explains all the elements of fuzzy logic system design using case studies of real-world applications. Covers development tools for fuzzy systems; NeuroFuzzy technologies; case studies of industrial applications; a fuzzy logic rule base; and simulation software. For electrical engineers and computer scientists.
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Title #648: Fuzzy Model Identification for Control
Edition: First Edition
ISBN Number: 0817642382
Number of Pages: 288
Author(s): Janos Abonyi
Publisher: Birkhauser
Date: February 21, 2003
Category: New approaches to the construction of fuzzy models for model-
based control
Abstract / Synopsis: This book presents new approaches to the construction of fuzzy models for model-based control. New model structures and identification algorithms are described for the effective use of heterogeneous information in the form of numerical data, qualitative knowledge, and first principle models. The main methods and techniques are illustrated through several simulated examples and real-world applications from chemical and process engineering practice. Key features: * detailed review of algorithms and approaches developed for modeling and identification for control * numerous illustrations to facilitate the understanding of ideas and methods presented *extensive references give a good overview of the current state of identification and control of dynamic systems and fuzzy modeling, and suggest further reading for additional research * supporting MATLAB and Simulink files, available at the website fmt.vein.hu/softcomp, create a computational platform for exploration and illustration of many concepts and algorithms presented in the book. The book is aimed primarily at researchers, practitioners, and professionals in process control and identification, but it is also accessible to graduate students in electrical, chemical, and process engineering.
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Title #649: Fuzzy Engineering
Edition: First Edition
ISBN Number: 0131249916
Number of Pages: 549
Author(s): Bart Kosko
Publisher: Prentice Hall
Date: October 7, 1996
Category: Fuzzy Engineering
Abstract / Synopsis: The author of Fuzzy Engineering is a world leader in this rapidly emerging field. This text recasts and extends fuzzy systems in the language of function approximation. It applies these "smart" systems to a wide range of novel applications in engineering and knowledge processing. The text is broader in scope than the author's acclaimed text Neural Networks and Fuzzy Systems and is a must-read for anyone doing research or applications.
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Title #650: Soft Computing: Integrating Evolutionary, Neural, and Fuzzy
Systems
Edition: First Edition
ISBN Number: 3540422048
Number of Pages: 327
Author(s): Andrea Tettamanzi
Publisher: Springer
Date: October 16, 2001
Category: Book presents a well-balanced integration of fuzzy logic,
evolutionary computing, and neural information processing
Abstract / Synopsis: Soft computing encompasses various computational methodologies, which, unlike conventional algorithms, are tolerant of imprecision, uncertainty, and partial truth. Soft computing technologies offer adaptability as a characteristic feature and thus permit the tracking of a problem through a changing environment. Besides some recent developments in areas like rough sets and probabilistic networks, fuzzy logic, evolutionary algorithms, and artificial neural networks are core ingredients of soft computing, which are all bio-inspired and can easily be combined synergistically. This. The three constituents are introduced to the reader systematically and brought together in differentiated combinations step by step.
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Title #651: Electric Power Applications of Fuzzy Systems (IEEE Press
Series on Power Engineering)
Edition: First Edition
ISBN Number: 0780311973
Number of Pages: 372
Author(s): Mohamed E. El-Hawary
Publisher: Wiley-IEEE Press
Date: June 1, 1998
Category: Up-to-date coverage of the applications of fuzzy systems
Abstract / Synopsis: Assembles a distinguished panel of highly regarded experts to bring you original, up-to-date coverage of the applications of fuzzy systems. This volume presents theoretical background material from a practical point of view & then explores a number of applications of fuzzy systems.
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Title #652: An Introduction to Fuzzy Control
Edition: Second Edition
ISBN Number: 3540606912
Number of Pages: 316
Author(s): L. Ljung
Publisher: Springer
Date: March 21, 1996
Category: Fuzzy controllers
Abstract / Synopsis: Fuzzy controllers are a class of knowledge based controllers using artificial intelligence techniques with origins in fuzzy logic. They can be found either as stand-alone control elements or as integral parts of a wide range of industrial process control systems and consumer products. Applications of fuzzy controllers are an established practice for Japanese manufacturers, and are spreading in Europe and America. The main aim of this book is to show that fuzzy control is not totally ad hoc, that there exist formal techniques for the analysis of a fuzzy controller, and that fuzzy control can be implemented even when no expert knowledge is available. The book is mainly oriented to control engineers and theorists, although parts can be read without any knowledge of control theory and may interest AI people. This 2nd, revised edition incorporates suggestions from numerous reviewers and updates and reorganizes some of the material.
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Title #653: Genetic Fuzzy Systems: Evolutionary Tuning and Learning of
Fuzzy Knowledge Bases, Paperback
Edition: First Edition
ISBN Number: 9810240171
Number of Pages: 488
Author(s): Oscar Cordon
Publisher: World Scientific Publishing Company
Date: February 15, 2002
Category: General concepts, foundations and design principles of genetic fuzzy systems and the topic of genetic tuning of fuzzy systems
Abstract / Synopsis: Introduces the general concepts, foundations and design principles of genetic fuzzy systems and covers the topic of genetic tuning of fuzzy systems. A valuable compendium for scientists and engineers concerned with research and applications in the domain of fuzzy systems and genetic algorithms.
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Title #654: Design of Analog Fuzzy Logic Controllers in CMOS
Technologies : Implementation, Test and Application
Edition: First Edition
ISBN Number: 1402073593
Number of Pages: 196
Author(s): Carlos Dualibe
Publisher: Springer
Date: February 28, 2003
Category: Programmable and reconfigurable Analog Fuzzy Logic Controllers
in standard CMOS technologies
Abstract / Synopsis: Text covers the implementation, test and application of programmable and reconfigurable Analog Fuzzy Logic Controllers in standard CMOS technologies. Addresses the analysis and design of basic analog building blocks, and undertakes a real-time application of Fuzzy Logic. Material is taken from the author's first Ph.D thesis, and is addressed to researchers and students.
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Title #655: First Course on Fuzzy Theory and Applications (Advances in
Soft Computing), Paperback
Edition: First Edition
ISBN Number: 3540229884
Number of Pages: 335
Author(s): Kwang H. Lee
Publisher: Springer
Date: November 23, 2004
Category: Introduction to fuzzy theory and its applications
Abstract / Synopsis: This basic textbook gives an easily accessible introduction to fuzzy theory and its applications. It provides basic and concrete concepts of the field in a self-contained, condensed and understandable style. This First Course on Fuzzy Theory and Applications includes numerous examples, descriptive illustrations and figures of the basic concepts, as well as exercises at the end of each chapter. The author has long time experience in teaching on fuzzy theory and its applications and continuously developed and summarized his didactic lecture notes into this book. This book can be used in introductory graduate and undergraduate courses in fuzziness and soft computing and is recommendable to students, scientists, engineers, or professionals in the field for self-study.
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Title #656: Fuzzy Models and Algorithms for Pattern Recognition and
Image Processing (The Handbooks of Fuzzy Sets), Paperback
Edition: First Edition
ISBN Number: 0387245154
Number of Pages: 776
Author(s): James C. Bezdek
Publisher: Springer
Date: March 25, 2005
Category: Comprehensive introduction of the use of fuzzy models in pattern recognition and selected topics in image processing and computer vision
Abstract / Synopsis: Fuzzy Models and Algorithms for Pattern Recognition and Image Processing presents a comprehensive introduction of the use of fuzzy models in pattern recognition and selected topics in image processing and computer vision. Unique to this volume in the Kluwer Handbooks of Fuzzy Sets Series is the fact that this book was written in its entirety by its four authors. A single notation, presentation style, and purpose are used throughout. The result is an extensive unified treatment of many fuzzy models for pattern recognition. The main topics are clustering and classifier design, with extensive material on feature analysis relational clustering, image processing and computer vision. Also included are numerous figures, images and numerical examples that illustrate the use of various models involving applications in medicine, character and word recognition, remote sensing, military image analysis, and industrial engineering.
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Title #657: Fuzzy, Holographic, and Parallel Intelligence: The Sixth-
Generation Breakthrough (Sixth-Generation Computer
Technology Series), Paperback
Edition: First Edition
ISBN Number: 0471547727
Number of Pages: 368
Author(s): Branko Soucek, Iris Group
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Date: April 1992
Category: Latest breakthroughs made regarding computer performance at or near the human judgment level with the end result, quality of performance and robustness in perception at super-human speeds and tolerances
Abstract / Synopsis: Provides the latest breakthroughs made regarding computer performance at or near the human judgment level with the end result, quality of performance and robustness in perception at super-human speeds and tolerances. Each chapter details the underlying principles in processes and systems and presents concrete results, applications and speed-up factors. Major topics covered include: breakthroughs in machine cognition, industrial applications of machine vision that involve translation, rotation and scale invariant processing, newly developed high speed intelligent systems, and fundamental breakthroughs in generalization, learning and parallel processing.
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Title #658: A First Course in Fuzzy and Neural Control
Edition: First Edition
ISBN Number: 1584882441
Number of Pages: 320
Author(s): Hung T. Nguyen
Publisher: Chapman & Hall/CRC
Date: November 26, 2002
Category: Concepts involved in fuzzy set theory
Abstract / Synopsis: Carefully defines new mathematical concepts involved in fuzzy set theory and provides detailed examples of fuzzy control. Covers fuzzy, neural, and hybrid fuzzy-neural approaches to control along with an extensive overview of standard control theory. Includes real-world examples, exercises, and ideas for student projects reinforce the concepts.
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Title #659: Integration of Fuzzy Logic and Chaos Theory (Studies in
Fuzziness and Soft Computing)
Edition: First Edition
ISBN Number: 3540268995
Number of Pages: 250
Author(s): Zhong Li
Publisher: Springer
Date: November 2005
Category: Presents some current research progress and results on the
interplay of fuzzy logic and chaos theory
Abstract / Synopsis: This book attempts to present some current research progress and results on the interplay of fuzzy logic and chaos theory. More specifically, this book includes collections of some state-of-the-art surveys, tutorials, and application examples written by some experts working in the interdisciplinary fields overlapping fuzzy logic and chaos theory. The content of the book covers fuzzy definition of chaos, fuzzy modeling and control of chaotic systems using both Mamdani and Takagi-Sugeno models, fuzzy model identification using genetic algorithms and neural network schemes, bifurcation phenomena and self-referencing in fuzzy systems, complex fuzzy systems and their collective behaviors, as well as some applications of combining fuzzy logic and chaotic dynamics, such as fuzzy-chaos hybrid controllers for nonlinear dynamic systems, and fuzzy-model-based chaotic cryptosystems. This book can serve as a handy reference for researchers working in the interdisciplines related, among others, to both fuzzy logic and chaos theory.
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Title #660: Soft Computing: Fuzzy Logic, Neural Networks, and
Distributed Artificial Intelligence (Prentice Hall Series on
Environmental and Intelligent Manufac)
Edition: First Edition
ISBN Number: 0131462342
Number of Pages: 301
Author(s): Fred Aminzadeh, Mohammad Jamshidi
Publisher: Prentice Hall
Date: June, 1994
Category: Articles on state-of-the-art soft computing and AI applications that
cover broad domains and many disciplines
Abstract / Synopsis: Combined with the advances in computer hardware, many new mathematical methods and concepts have helped the quantum leap in practical applications of intelligent systems and controllers -- resulting in the development of "soft computing" -- a combination of fuzzy logic, neural networks, and distributed artificial intelligence. Individuals specializing in any one of these areas need to be aware of the cross-disciplinary fertilization of ideas, approaches, and possibilities in the other fields. This volume fills that gap by presenting a collection of articles on state-of-the-art soft computing and AI applications that cover broad domains and many disciplines.
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Title #661: Fuzzy Logic for the Management of Uncertainty
Edition: First Edition
ISBN Number: 0471547999
Number of Pages: 676
Author(s): Lotfi Zadeh, Janusz Kacprzyk
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Inc
Date: July, 1992
Category: One of the most complete and up-to-date compilations of articles
in fuzzy logic research
Abstract / Synopsis: This is one of the most complete and up-to-date compilations of articles in fuzzy logic research. The so-called ``fuzzy systems'' are mathematically based systems which enable computers to handle ambiguous or contradictory information.
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Title #662: Aggregation Operators : New Trends and Applications
(Studies in Fuzziness and Soft Computing)
Edition: First Edition
ISBN Number: 3790814687
Number of Pages: 352
Author(s): Tomasa Calvo
Publisher: Physica-Verlag Heidelberg
Date: May 28, 2002
Category: Book describes the current status of major parts of the theory of aggregation operators and examines potential areas for its applications
Abstract / Synopsis: This book describes the current status of major parts of the theory of aggregation operators and examines potential areas for its applications. The authors have gathered self-contained papers and present essential material on selected topics in a comprehensive manner. In doing so they avoid tedious proofs and unnecessary details - this is not the case for several contributions containing new results and ideas which show the latest streaming of aggregation theory and potential application areas. The book is divided in four parts. The first part contains an overview of aggregation operators, including construction methods and different classes of aggregation operators. The second part is devoted to the theoretical aspects of aggregation and the third part looks at the field of applications. The final part offers an alternative look at the aggregation of verbal variables as fuzzy quantities.
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Title #663: The Importance of Being Fuzzy
Edition: First Edition
ISBN Number: 0691001448
Number of Pages: 208
Author(s): Arturo Sangalli
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Date: November 2, 1998
Category: Three main branches of soft computing, namely fuzzy logic, neural
networks and genetic algorithms
Abstract / Synopsis: The author has written this book "with a large public in mind, ranging from the layperson to the expert, and assuming only knowledge of elementary mathematical concepts." He has succeeded. With a minimum of mathematical formalisms, one gets a maximum of information on the three main branches of soft computing, namely fuzzy logic, neural networks and genetic algorithms. These three viewpoints provide complementary features for a novel approach to machine intelligence."
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Title #664: Fuzzy Logic : Implementation and Applications, Paperback
Edition: First Edition
ISBN Number: 0471950599
Number of Pages: 346
Author(s): M. J. Patyra, D. J. Mlynek
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Date: June 1996
Category: This is the first book on hardware aspects of fuzzy systems which offers a mixture of classical work and the authors' new perspective.
Abstract / Synopsis: Offering a new perspective on a growing field, the text explores the many hardware implications of fuzzy logic based circuits. As use of AI increases, so the VLSI area of circuits is becoming a growth subject. The text surveys fuzzy set theory before moving on to cover a range of nonstandard solutions for fuzzy logic VLSI circuits. An overview of future trends is included plus practical examples from the authors' research which will enhance the reader's understanding of the topic. This is the first book on hardware aspects of fuzzy systems which offers a mixture of classical work and the authors' new perspective.
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Title #665: Fuzzy Probabilities
Edition: First Edition
ISBN Number: 379081542X
Number of Pages: 177
Author(s): James J. Buckley
Publisher: Physica-Verlag
Date: January 31, 2003
Category: Fuzzy probabilities
Abstract / Synopsis: In probability and statistics we often have to estimate probabilities and parameters in probability distributions using a random sample. Instead of using a point estimate calculated from the data we propose using fuzzy numbers which are constructed from a set of confidence intervals. In probability calculations we apply constrained fuzzy arithmetic because probabilities must add to one. Fuzzy random variables have fuzzy distributions. A fuzzy normal random variable has the normal distribution with fuzzy number mean and variance. Applications are to queuing theory, Markov chains, inventory control, decision theory and reliability theory.
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Title #666: Fuzzy and Neuro-Fuzzy Systems in Medicine
Edition: First Edition
ISBN Number: 0849398061
Number of Pages: 432
Author(s): Horia-Nicolai Teodorescu
Publisher: CRC Press
Date: September 30, 1998
Category: Fuzzy and Neuro-Fuzzy Systems in Medicine
Abstract / Synopsis: Fuzzy and Neuro-Fuzzy Systems in Medicine provides a thorough review of state-of-the-art techniques and practices, defines and explains relevant problems, as well as provides solutions to these problems. After an introduction, the book progresses from one topic to another - with a linear development from fundamentals to applications.
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Title #667: Applied Fuzzy Systems
Edition: First Edition
ISBN Number: 0126852421
Number of Pages: 302
Author(s): Kiyoji Asai
Publisher: Morgan Kaufmann Pub
Date: September, 1994
Category: Exposition of fuzzy set theory
Abstract / Synopsis: Applied Fuzzy Systems is an exposition of fuzzy set theory, fuzzy computational logic, and a series of detailed case studies of actual heavyweight industrial applications of fuzzy logic. Over 20 authors have contributed to this scholarly and informative work, some of the senior contributors aged in their 70s. Applied Fuzzy Systems is not Fuzzy Logic for Dummies. It is not a feel-good book. It's a know-well book. It's a bunch of people who are proud of their field, informing you as accurately and concisely as humanly possible about what you must learn to understand the domain of endeavor.
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Title #668: Fuzzy Sets and Fuzzy Decisionmaking
Edition: First Edition
ISBN Number: 0849389313
Number of Pages: 270
Author(s): Hong-Xing Li, Vincent C. Yen
Publisher: CRC Press
Date: July 3, 1995
Category: Introduction to fuzzy set theory and lays the foundation of fuzzy
mathematics and its applications to decision-making
Abstract / Synopsis: The increasing number of applications of fuzzy mathematics has generated interest in widely ranging fields, from engineering and medicine to the humanities and management sciences. Fuzzy Sets and Fuzzy Decision-Making provides an introduction to fuzzy set theory and lays the foundation of fuzzy mathematics and its applications to decision-making. New concepts are simplified with the use of figures and diagrams, and methods are discussed in terms of their direct applications in obtaining solutions to real problems, particularly to decision-related problems. The first chapter presents the current state of knowledge of fuzzy set theory, using pan-Venn-diagrams to illustrate mathematical concepts. The second chapter clearly describes the theory of factor spaces, on which fuzzy decision-making is based. The remainder of the book is devoted to the methods, applications, techniques, and examples of this fuzzy decision-making, and includes methods for determining membership functions and for treating multifactorial and variable weights analyses.
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Title #669: Fril: Fuzzy and Evidential Reasoning in Artificial Intelligence
Edition: Book&Disk edition
ISBN Number: 047195523X
Number of Pages: 388
Author(s): J. F. Baldwin
Publisher: Research Studies Pr
Date: January, 1995
Category: Fril: Fuzzy and Evidential Reasoning in Artificial Intelligence
Abstract / Synopsis: Information Unavailable
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Title #670: An Introduction to Genetic Algorithms (Complex Adaptive
Systems), Paperback
Edition: First Edition
ISBN Number: 0262631857
Number of Pages: 224
Author(s): Melanie Mitchell
Publisher: The MIT Press
Date: February 6, 1998
Category: Genetic algorithms
Abstract / Synopsis: Genetic algorithms have been used in science and engineering as adaptive algorithms for solving practical problems and as computational models of natural evolutionary systems. This brief, accessible introduction describes some of the most interesting research in the field and also enables readers to implement and experiment with genetic algorithms on their own. It focuses in depth on a small set of important and interesting topics--particularly in machine learning, scientific modeling, and artificial life--and reviews a broad span of research, including the work of Mitchell and her colleagues. The descriptions of applications and modeling projects stretch beyond the strict boundaries of computer science to include dynamical systems theory, game theory, molecular biology, ecology, evolutionary biology, and population genetics.
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Title #671: Genetic Algorithms in Search, Optimization, and Machine
Learning
Edition: First Edition
ISBN Number: 0201157675
Number of Pages: 432
Author(s): David E. Goldberg
Publisher: Addison-Wesley Professional
Date: January 1, 1989
Category: Genetic Algorithms
Abstract / Synopsis: David Goldberg's Genetic Algorithms in Search, Optimization and Machine Learning is by far the bestselling introduction to genetic algorithms. Goldberg is one of the preeminent researchers in the field--he has published over 100 research articles on genetic algorithms and is a student of John Holland, the father of genetic algorithms--and his deep understanding of the material shines through. The book contains a complete listing of a simple genetic algorithm in Pascal, which C programmers can easily understand. The book covers all of the important topics in the field, including crossover, mutation, classifier systems, and fitness scaling, giving a novice with a computer science background enough information to implement a genetic algorithm and describe genetic algorithms to a friend.
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Title #672: Foundations of Genetic Programming
Edition: First Edition
ISBN Number: 3540424512
Number of Pages: 260
Author(s): William B. Langdon, Riccardo Poli
Publisher: Springer
Date: March 22, 2002
Category: Genetic programming
Abstract / Synopsis: Genetic programming (GP), one of the most advanced forms of evolutionary computation, has been highly successful as a technique for getting computers to automatically solve problems without having to tell them explicitly how. Since its inceptions more than ten years ago, GP has been used to solve practical problems in a variety of application fields. Along with this ad-hoc engineering approaches interest increased in how and why GP works. This book provides a coherent consolidation of recent work on the theoretical foundations of GP. A concise introduction to GP and genetic algorithms (GA) is followed by a discussion of fitness landscapes and other theoretical approaches to natural and artificial evolution. Having surveyed early approaches to GP theory it presents new exact schema analysis, showing that it applies to GP as well as to the simpler GAs. New results on the potentially infinite number of possible programs are followed by two chapters applying these new techniques.
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Title #673: Genetic Programming : An Introduction : On the Automatic
Evolution of Computer Programs and Its Applications
Edition: First Edition
ISBN Number: 155860510X
Number of Pages: 450
Author(s): Wolfgang Banzhaf
Publisher: Morgan Kaufmann Publishers
Date: November 30, 1997
Category: Genetic Programming
Abstract / Synopsis: "[The authors] have performed a remarkable double service with this excellent book on genetic programming. First, they give an up-to-date view of the rapidly growing field of automatic creation of computer programs by means of evolution and, second, they bring together their own innovative and formidable work on evolution of assembly language machine code and linear genomes." —John R. Koza
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Title #674: An Introduction to Genetic Algorithms for Scientists and
Engineers
Edition: Book & Disk edition
ISBN Number: 9810236026
Number of Pages: 227
Author(s): David A. Coley
Publisher: World Scientific Publishing Company
Date: November, 1997
Category: Genetic Algorithms as a way to help solve a range of difficult
modeling problems
Abstract / Synopsis: Designed for those who are using GA as a way to help solve a range of difficult modeling problems. Designed for most practicing scientists and engineers, whatever their field and however rusty their mathematics and programming might be.
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Title #675: Genetic Algorithms and Engineering Design
Edition: First Edition
ISBN Number: 0471127418
Number of Pages: 432
Author(s): Mitsuo Gen, Runwei Cheng
Publisher: Wiley-Interscience
Date: January 7, 1997
Category: Genetic algorithms to address challenging optimization problems
Abstract / Synopsis: The last few years have seen important advances in the use of genetic algorithms to address challenging optimization problems in industrial engineering. Genetic Algorithms and Engineering Design is the only book to cover the most recent technologies and their application to manufacturing, presenting a comprehensive and fully up-to-date treatment of genetic algorithms in industrial engineering and operations research. Beginning with a tutorial on genetic algorithm fundamentals and their use in solving constrained and combinatorial optimization problems, the book applies these techniques to problems in specific areas—sequencing, scheduling and production plans, transportation and vehicle routing, facility layout, location-allocation, and more. Each topic features a clearly written problem description, mathematical model, and summary of conventional heuristic algorithms. All algorithms are explained in intuitive, rather than highly-technical, language and are reinforced with illustrative figures and numerical examples.
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Title #676: Advances in Genetic Programming, Vol. 2 (Complex Adaptive
Systems)
Edition: First Edition
ISBN Number: 0262011581
Number of Pages: 538
Author(s): Peter J. Angeline, Kenneth E. Kinnear
Publisher: The MIT Press
Date: October 29, 1996
Category: Genetic programming, a form of genetic algorithm that evolves
programs and program-like executable structures
Abstract / Synopsis: Genetic programming, a form of genetic algorithm that evolves programs and program-like executable structures, is a new paradigm for developing reliable, time- and cost-effective applications. The second volume of Advances in Genetic Programming highlights many of the most recent technical advances in this increasingly popular field. The twenty-three contributions are divided into four parts: Variations on the Genetic Programming Theme; Hierarchical, Recursive, and Pruning Genetic Programs; Analysis and Implementation Issues; and New Environments for Genetic Programming.
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Title #677: Genetic Programming: On the Programming of Computers by
Means of Natural Selection (Complex Adaptive Systems)
Edition: First Edition
ISBN Number: 0262111705
Number of Pages: 840
Author(s): John R. Koza
Publisher: The MIT Press
Date: December 11, 1992
Category: Programming of computer by means of natural selection
Abstract / Synopsis: Genetic programming may be more powerful than neural networks and other machine learning techniques, able to solve problems in a wider range of disciplines. In this ground-breaking book, John Koza shows how this remarkable paradigm works and provides substantial empirical evidence that solutions to a great variety of problems from many different fields can be found by genetically breeding populations of computer programs. Genetic Programming contains a great many worked examples and includes a sample computer code that will allow readers to run their own programs. In getting computers to solve problems without being explicitly programmed, Koza stresses two points: that seemingly different problems from a variety of fields can be reformulated as problems of program induction, and that the recently developed genetic programming paradigm provides a way to search the space of possible computer programs for a highly fit individual computer program to solve the problems of program induction. Good programs are found by evolving them in a computer against a fitness measure instead of by sitting down and writing them.
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Title #678: Genetic Algorithms + Data Structures = Evolution Programs
Edition: Third Edition
ISBN Number: 3540606769
Number of Pages: 387
Author(s): Zbigniew Michalewicz
Publisher: Springer
Date: November 26, 1998
Category: Evolution programming techniques, based on genetic algorithms
Abstract / Synopsis: Genetic algorithms are founded upon the principle of evolution, i.e., survival of the fittest. Hence evolution programming techniques, based on genetic algorithms, are applicable to many hard optimization problems, such as optimization of functions with linear and nonlinear constraints, the traveling salesman problem, and problems of scheduling, partitioning, and control. The importance of these techniques is still growing, since evolution programs are parallel in nature, and parallelism is one of the most promising directions in computer science. The book is self-contained and the only prerequisite is basic undergraduate mathematics. This third edition has been substantially revised and extended by three new chapters and by additional appendices containing working material to cover recent developments and a change in the perception of evolutionary computation.
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Title #679: The Simple Genetic Algorithm: Foundations and Theory
(Complex Adaptive Systems)
Edition: First Edition
ISBN Number: 026222058X
Number of Pages: 220
Author(s): Michael D. Vose
Publisher: The MIT Press
Date: August 27, 1999
Category: Simple Genetic Algorithm is a classical form of genetic search
Abstract / Synopsis: The Simple Genetic Algorithm (SGA) is a classical form of genetic search. Viewing the SGA as a mathematical object, Michael D. Vose provides an introduction to what is known (i.e., proven) about the theory of the SGA. He also makes available algorithms for the computation of mathematical objects related to the SGA. Although he describes the SGA in terms of heuristic search, the book is not about search or optimization per se. Rather, the focus is on the SGA as an evolutionary system. The author intends the book also to serve as an outline for exploring topics in mathematics and computer science in a goal-oriented way.
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Title #680: Practical Handbook of Genetic Algorithms: Complex Coding
Systems, Volume III
Edition: First Edition
ISBN Number: 0849325390
Number of Pages: 592
Author(s): Lance D. Chambers, Lance Chambers
Publisher: CRC Press
Date: December 23, 1998
Category: Complex Coding Systems
Abstract / Synopsis: Practical Handbook of Genetic Algorithms, Volume 3: Complex Coding Systems contains computer-code examples for the development of genetic algorithm systems - compiling them from an array of practitioners in the field.
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Title #681: Genetic Algorithms and Grouping Problems
Edition: First Edition
ISBN Number: 0471971502
Number of Pages: 238
Author(s): Emanuel Falkenauer
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Date: April 9, 1998
Category: Genetic Algorithms and Grouping Problems
Abstract / Synopsis: Genetic Algorithms and Grouping Problems is truly innovative in presenting new techniques for applying genetic algorithms (GAs). It achieves a greater insight into GA design by placing its use in context, offering the big picture in an easy-to-digest form. This book contains discussions of problems for which genetic algorithms are not well suited, as well as those for which they are. One such problem — and the one that receives most attention in this book — is the area of grouping problems. Genetic Algorithms and Grouping Problems is written for those designing or creating real-world genetic algorithms, whether practitioner or researcher. In addition, the very nature of this authors discourse will inspire anyone wishing to understand both the benefits and the limitations of GAs.
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Title #682: Foundations of Genetic Algorithms 1997 (FOGA 4)
Edition: First Edition
ISBN Number: 155860460X
Number of Pages: 472
Author(s): Richard Belew, Michael D. Vose
Publisher: Morgan Kaufmann
Date: March 1, 1997
Category: Genetic Algorithms
Abstract / Synopsis: Information Unavailable
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Title #683: Advances in Genetic Programming, Vol. 3 (Complex Adaptive
Systems)
Edition: First Edition
ISBN Number: 0262194236
Number of Pages: 488
Author(s): Lee Spector
Publisher: The MIT Press
Date: July 16, 1999
Category: Highlights many of the recent technical advances in genetic
programming
Abstract / Synopsis: Genetic programming is a form of evolutionary computation that evolves programs and program-like executable structures for developing reliable time- and cost-effective applications. It does this by breeding programs over many generations, using the principles of natural selection, sexual recombination, and mutation. This third volume of Advances in Genetic Programming highlights many of the recent technical advances in this increasingly popular field.
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Title #684: The Design of Innovation (Genetic Algorithms and
Evolutionary Computation)
Edition: First Edition
ISBN Number: 1402070985
Number of Pages: 272
Author(s): David E. Goldberg
Publisher: Springer
Date: June 30, 2002
Category: Book combines over two decades of hard-won research results in a single volume to provide a comprehensive step-by-step guide to designing genetic algorithms that scale well with problem size and difficulty
Abstract / Synopsis: The Design of Innovation illustrates how to design and implement competent genetic algorithms-genetic algorithms that solve hard problems quickly, reliably, and accurately-and how the invention of competent genetic algorithms amounts to the creation of an effective computational theory of human innovation. For the specialist in genetic algorithms and evolutionary computation, this book combines over two decades of hard-won research results in a single volume to provide a comprehensive step-by-step guide to designing genetic algorithms that scale well with problem size and difficulty. For the innovation researcher - whether from the social and behavioral sciences, the natural sciences, the humanities, or the arts - this unique book gives a consistent and valuable mathematical and computational viewpoint for understanding certain aspects of human innovation. For all readers, The Design of Innovation provides an entrée into the world of competent genetic algorithms and innovation through a methodology of invention borrowed from the Wright brothers. Combining careful decomposition, cost-effective, little analytical models, and careful design, the road to competence is paved with easily understood examples, simulations, and results from the literature.
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Title #685: Genetic Programming Theory and Practice II
Edition: First Edition
ISBN Number: 0387232532
Number of Pages: 320
Author(s): Una-May O'Reilly
Publisher: Springer
Date: October 26, 2004
Category: Explores the emerging interaction between theory and practice in the cutting-edge, machine learning method of Genetic Programming
Abstract / Synopsis: This volume explores the emerging interaction between theory and practice in the cutting-edge, machine learning method of Genetic Programming (GP). The contributions developed from a second workshop at the University of Michigan's Center for the Study of Complex Systems where leading international genetic programming theorists from major universities and active practitioners from leading industries and businesses met to examine how GP theory informs practice and how GP practice impacts GP theory. Chapters include such topics as financial trading rules, industrial statistical model building, population sizing, the roles of structure in problem solving by computer, stock picking, automated design of industrial-strength analog circuits, topological synthesis of robust systems, algorithmic chemistry, supply chain reordering policies, post docking filtering, an evolved antenna for a NASA mission and incident detection on highways.
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Title #686: Robust Range Image Registration Using Genetic Algorithms
and the Surface Interpenetration Measure
Edition: First Edition
ISBN Number: 9812561080
Number of Pages: 200
Author(s): Luciano Sliva, Olga R. P. Bellon, Kim L. Boyer
Publisher: Would Scientific Publishing Company, Inc.
Date: March 2005
Category: See Abstract / Synopsis
Abstract / Synopsis: This book addresses the range image registration problem for automatic 3D model construction. The focus is on obtaining highly precise alignments between different view pairs of the same object to avoid 3D model distortions; in contrast to most prior work, the view pairs may exhibit relatively little overlap and need not be prealigned. To this end, a novel effective evaluation metric for registration, the Surface Interpenetration Measure (SIM) is defined. This measure quantifies the interleaving of two surfaces as their alignment is refined, putting the qualitative evaluation of "splotchiness," often used in reference to renderings of the aligned surfaces, onto a solid mathematical footing. The SIM is shown to be superior to mean squared error (i.e. more sensitive to fine scale changes) in controlling the final stages of the alignment process. The authors go on to combine the SIM with Genetic Algorithms (GAs) to develop a robust approach for range image registration. The results confirm that this technique achieves precise surface registration with no need for prealignment, as opposed to methods based on the Iterative Closest Point (ICP) algorithm, the most popular to date. Thorough experimental results including an extensive comparative study are presented and enhanced GA-based approaches to improve the registration still further are proposed. The authors also develop a global multiview registration technique using the GA-based approach. The results show considerable promise in terms of accuracy for 3D modeling.
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Title #687: Genetic Algorithms in Optimisation, Simulation and
Modeling, Paperback
Edition: First Edition
ISBN Number: 9051991800
Number of Pages: 270
Author(s): J. Stender
Publisher: IOS Press
Date: January 1, 1994
Category: Book examines the implementation and applications of genetic
algorithms (GA) to the domain of AI
Abstract / Synopsis: This book examines the implementation and applications of genetic algorithms (GA) to the domain of AI. In recent years the trend towards, real world applications is gaining ground especially in GA. The general purpose nature of GA is examined from an inter-disciplinary point of view. Despite the differences that may exist in between representations across domain problems the commonality of in the design of GA is upheld. This work provides an overview of the current developments in Europe a section is devoted to the programming of Parallel Genetic Algorithms (including GAME) and a section on Optimization and Complex Modeling. Readers: researchers in AI, mathematics and computing.
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Title #688: Simple Heuristics That Make Us Smart, Paperback
Edition: New Ed edition
ISBN Number: 0195143817
Number of Pages: 416
Author(s): Gerd Gigerenzer
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Date: September 2000
Category: Heuristics
Abstract / Synopsis: From the Back Cover
"How do people cope in the real, complex world of confusing and overwhelming information and rapidly approaching deadlines? This important book starts a new quest for answers. Here, Gigerenzer, Todd, and their lively research group show that simple heuristics are powerful tools that do surprisingly well. The field of decision making will never be the same again." --Donald A. Norman, Nielsen Norman Group, Professor Emeritus, University of California, San Diego, and author of "Things that Make Us Smart" and "The Invisible Computer"
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Title #689: Heuristics: Intelligent Search Strategies for Computer
Problem Solving
Edition: Second Edition
ISBN Number: 0201055945
Number of Pages: 382
Author(s): Judea Pearl
Publisher: Addison-Wesley Pub
Date: April, 1984
Category: Heuristics for searching
Abstract / Synopsis: Information Unavailable
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Title #690: Heuristic and Optimization for Knowledge Discovery
Edition: First Edition
ISBN Number: 1930708262
Number of Pages: 296
Author(s): Ruhul Sarker
Publisher: Idea Group Publishing
Date: February 7, 2002
Category: Heuristic and Optimization for Knowledge Discovery
Abstract / Synopsis: With the large amount of data stored by many organizations, capitalists have observed that this information is an intangible asset. Unfortunately, handling large databases is a very complex process and traditional learning techniques are expensive to use. Heuristic techniques provide much help in this arena, although little is known about heuristic techniques. Heuristic and Optimization for Knowledge Discovery addresses the foundation of this topic, as well as its practical uses, and aims to fill in the gap that exists in current literature.
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Title #691: Continuous Heuristics
Edition: First Edition
ISBN Number: 0131711091
Number of Pages: Information Unavailable
Author(s): A. M. Andrew
Publisher: Ellis Horwood Ltd
Date: January, 1990
Category: Continuous Heuristics
Abstract / Synopsis: Information Unavailable
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Title #692: Heuristic Reasoning About Uncertainty: An Artificial
Intelligence Approach
Edition: First Edition
ISBN Number: 0273086677
Number of Pages: 224
Author(s): Paul R. Cohen
Publisher: Hyperion Books
Date: June, 1985
Category: Heuristic Reasoning About Uncertainty: An Artificial Intelligence
Approach
Abstract / Synopsis: Information Unavailable
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Title #693: Hidden Markov Models of Bioinformatics (Computational
Biology), Paperback
Edition: First Edition
ISBN Number: 1402001363
Number of Pages: 416
Author(s): T. Koski
Publisher: Springer
Date: May 1, 2002
Category: Introduction to probabilistic modeling in bioinformatics
Abstract / Synopsis: The purpose of this book is to give a thorough and systematic introduction to probabilistic modeling in bioinformatics. The book contains a mathematically strict and extensive presentation of the kind of probabilistic models that have turned out to be useful in genome analysis. Questions of parametric inference, selection between model families, and various architectures are treated. Several examples are given of known architectures (e.g., profile HMM) used in genome analysis. Audience: This book will be of interest to advanced undergraduate and graduate students with a fairly limited background in probability theory, but otherwise well trained in mathematics and already familiar with at least some of the techniques of algorithmic sequence analysis.
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Title #694: Hidden Markov Models in Vision
Edition: First Edition
ISBN Number: 9810245645
Number of Pages: 250
Author(s): Horst Bunke, Terry Caelli
Publisher: World Scientific Publishing Company, Inc.
Date: June 2001
Category: Hidden Markov models in vision
Abstract / Synopsis: Information Unavailable
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Title #695: Soft Computing for Image Processing
Edition: First Edition
ISBN Number: 3790812684
Number of Pages: 587
Author(s): Sankar K. Pal
Publisher: Springer-Verlag Telos
Date: April 15, 2000
Category: Merits and significance of performing different image
processing/analysis tasks in soft computing paradigm
Abstract / Synopsis: The volume provides a collection of 21 articles containing new material and describing, in a unified way with extensive real life applications, the merits and significance of performing different image processing/analysis tasks in soft computing paradigm. The articles, written by leading experts all over the world, demonstrate the various ways the fuzzy logic, artificial neural networks, genetic algorithms and fractals can be used independently and in integrated manner to provide efficient and flexible information processing capabilities in a stronger computational paradigm for handling the tasks like filtering, edge detection, segmentation, compression , classification, motion estimation, character recognition and target identification. Application domain includes, among others, data mining, computer vision, pattern recognition and machine learning, information technology, remote sensing, forensic investigation, video abstraction and knowledge based systems.
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Title #696: Intelligent Image Processing
Edition: First Edition
ISBN Number: 0471406376
Number of Pages: 240
Author(s): Steve Mann, Steve Mann
Publisher: Wiley-IEEE Press
Date: November 19, 2001
Category: Describes the EyeTap technology that allows non-invasive tapping
into the human eye through devices built into eyeglass frames
Abstract / Synopsis: Intelligent Image Processing describes the EyeTap technology that allows non-invasive tapping into the human eye through devices built into eyeglass frames. This isn't merely about a computer screen inside eyeglasses, but rather the ability to have a shared telepathic experience among viewers. Written by the developer of the EyeTap principle, this work explores the practical application and far-reaching implications this new technology has for human telecommunications.
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Title #697: Front-End Vision and Multi-Scale Image Analysis : Multi-scale
Computer Vision Theory and Applications, written in
Mathematica (Computational Imaging and Vision)
Edition: First Edition
ISBN Number: 1402015038
Number of Pages: 484
Author(s): B.M. Ter Haar Romeny
Publisher: Springer
Date: September 30, 2003
Category: Tutorial in multi-scale methods for computer vision and image
processing
Abstract / Synopsis: Front-End Vision and Multi-Scale Image Analysis is a tutorial in multi-scale methods for computer vision and image processing. It builds on the cross fertilization between human visual perception and multi-scale computer vision (`scale-space') theory and applications. The multi-scale strategies recognized in the first stages of the human visual system are carefully examined, and taken as inspiration for the many geometric methods discussed. All chapters are written in Mathematica, a spectacular high-level language for symbolic and numerical manipulations. The book presents a new and effective approach to quickly mastering the mathematics of computer vision and image analysis. The typically short code is given for every topic discussed, and invites the reader to spend many fascinating hours `playing' with computer vision. Front-End Vision and Multi-Scale Image Analysis is intended for undergraduate and graduate students, and all with an interest in computer vision, medical imaging, and human visual perception.
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Title #698: Image Processing for the Food Industry
Edition: First Edition
ISBN Number: 9810240228
Number of Pages: 289
Author(s): E. R. Davies
Publisher: World Scientific Publishing Company
Date: June, 2000
Category: Image Processing
Abstract / Synopsis: Provides information on the image processing problems encountered in the food industry when automatic control and inspection systems are being designed and installed. A case study approach is used to give relevance to the work.
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Title #699: Ecological Informatics
Edition: First Edition
ISBN Number: 3540434550
Number of Pages: 425
Author(s): Friedrich Recknagel
Publisher: Springer
Date: February 12, 2003
Category: Illustrates numerous applications of Ecological Informatics for stream systems, river systems, freshwater lakes and marine systems as well as image recognition at micro and macro scale
Abstract / Synopsis: Ecological Informatics is defined as the design and application of computational techniques for ecological analysis, synthesis, forecasting and management. The book provides an introduction to the scope, concepts and techniques of this newly emerging discipline. It illustrates numerous applications of Ecological Informatics for stream systems, river systems, freshwater lakes and marine systems as well as image recognition at micro and macro scale. Case studies focus on applications of artificial neural networks, genetic algorithms, fuzzy logic and adaptive agents to current ecological management issues such as toxic algal blooms, eutrophication, habitat degradation, conservation of biodiversity and sustainable fishery
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Title #700: Readings in Information Visualization : Using Vision to Think
(The Morgan Kaufmann Series in Interactive Technologies),
Paperback
Edition: First Edition
ISBN Number: 1558605339
Number of Pages: 712
Author(s): Stuart K. Card
Publisher: Morgan Kaufmann
Date: January 25, 1999
Category: Information visualization
Abstract / Synopsis: This groundbreaking book defines the emerging field of information visualization and offers the first-ever collection of the classic papers of the discipline, with introductions and analytical discussions of each topic and paper. The authors' intention is to present papers that focus on the use of visualization to discover relationships, using interactive graphics to amplify thought. This book is intended for research professionals in academia and industry; new graduate students and professors who want to begin work in this burgeoning field; professionals involved in financial data analysis, statistics, and information design; scientific data managers; and professionals involved in medical, bioinformatics, and other areas.
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Title #701: Information Visualization: Perception for Design (Morgan
Kaufmann Interactive Technologies Series)
Edition: First Edition
ISBN Number: 1558605118
Number of Pages: 384
Author(s): Colin Ware
Publisher: Morgan Kaufmann Publishers
Date: January, 2000
Category: Book is intended to make the data from the science and study of
visualization available to the non-specialist
Abstract / Synopsis: Most designers know that yellow text presented against a blue background reads clearly and easily, but how many can explain why? Information Visualization: Perception for Design explores the art and science of why we see objects the way we do. Although more technical than most graphic design books, the book is intended to make the data from the science and study of visualization available to the non-specialist. Each chapter focuses on a different facet of human vision, like "Lightness, Brightness, Contrast, and Constancy" in chapter 3, or "Static and Moving Patterns" in chapter 4. Although the author tries to put a great deal of scientific research data into pedestrian terms, the nature of the subject matter and the papers from which he culls his information make this task an uphill battle from the start. As a result, the book is full of valuable information, but it may not necessarily be right for the average graphic designer looking for a new inspirational spin. Serious interface designers, presentation designers, data analyzers, or any artist tasked with presenting ideas in a visual format, though, should come away from Information Visualization with a clearer understanding of the inner workings of perception. At the very least, they'll be able to explain why yellow text against blue is a good combination.
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Title #702: The Logic of Knowledge Bases
Edition: First Edition
ISBN Number: 0262122324
Number of Pages: 282
Author(s): Hector J. Levesque, Gerhard Lakemeyer
Publisher: The MIT Press
Date: February 19, 2001
Category: Knowledge bases
Abstract / Synopsis: A text describing the relationship between symbolic representations of knowledge and abstract states of knowledge, exploring foundations of knowledge, knowledge bases, and other aspects of the logic of knowledge bases. Presents a style of semantic argument and formal analysis incompatible in any other context.
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Title #703: Knowledge-Based Clustering : From Data to Information
Granules
Edition: First Edition
ISBN Number: 0471469661
Number of Pages: 336
Author(s): Witold Pedrycz
Publisher: Wiley-Interscience
Date: January 14, 2005
Category: Knowledge based clustering
Abstract / Synopsis: Information Unavailable
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Title #704: Information Modeling and Knowledge Bases, Vol. 1
Edition: First Edition
ISBN Number: 1586031635
Number of Pages: 421
Author(s): Hannu Jaakkola, Hannu Kangassalo, Eiji Kawaguchi
Publisher: I O S Press, Inc.
Date: August 2001
Category: Information Modeling and Knowledge Bases
Abstract / Synopsis: Information Unavailable
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Title #705: Information Modelling and Knowledge Bases V
Edition: First Edition
ISBN Number: 9051991436
Number of Pages: 447
Author(s): Hannu Kangassalo, Hannu Jaakkola, Tadahiro Kitahashi
Publisher: Ios Pr Inc
Date: January 1, 1994
Category: Information Modelling and Knowledge Bases
Abstract / Synopsis: Information Unavailable
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Title #706: Artificial Intelligence: A Knowledge-Based Approach
Edition: First Edition
ISBN Number: 0878353259
Number of Pages: 740
Author(s): Morris W. Firebaugh
Publisher: Boyd & Fraser Pub Co
Date: December, 1988
Category: Artificial Intelligence: A Knowledge-Based Approach
Abstract / Synopsis: Information Unavailable
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Title #707: Knowledge Engineering : Unifying Knowledge Base and
Database Design
Edition: First Edition
ISBN Number: 3540637656
Number of Pages: 466
Author(s): John Debenham
Publisher: Springer
Date: December 7, 2001
Category: Design Methodology for Knowledge-based Systems
Abstract / Synopsis: This systematic and detailed monograph describes a design methodology for knowledge-based systems. Such systems contain knowledge as well as information and data. The information and data can be modeled and implemented as a database. The knowledge can be implemented either in a programming language or in an expert systems shell. The methodology has two special features: It is unified, i.e., it represents the data, information, and knowledge in a homogeneous manner, as well as the relationships between them. Also, it builds a maintenance mechanism into the design. A special benefit of the book is its thorough treatment of constraints for knowledge and for knowledge-based systems. Presenting the material in both a formal and a practical way, it is intended for practitioners as well as researchers and advanced students.
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Title #708: Unlocking Knowledge Assets
Edition: First Edition
ISBN Number: 0735614636
Number of Pages: 256
Author(s): Char Sligar, Susan Conway
Publisher: Microsoft Press
Date: February 27, 2002
Category: Knowledge management
Abstract / Synopsis: In an information-based economy, organizations need to create an environment and a culture that support the reuse of knowledge across the company. This book illustrates what knowledge management is and how it can benefit an organization, as well as how to reduce knowledge isolation and stop the constant seeping of valuable knowledge from an organization. After presenting an overview of the subject, the book drills down into the processes, best practices, and technologies for unlocking an organization's knowledge assets.
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Title #709: Knowledge Management Toolkit, The: Practical Techniques
for Building a Knowledge Management System
Edition: Book & CD-Rom edition
ISBN Number: 0130128538
Number of Pages: 640
Author(s): Amrit Tiwana
Publisher: Pearson Education
Date: December 7, 1999
Category: Tools for making Knowledge Management
Abstract / Synopsis: Delivers hands-on techniques and tools for making Knowledge Management happen at your company. Presents KM case studies from leading companies worldwide, from Nortel to Rolls Royce.
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Title #710: Knowledge Engineering and Management: The
CommonKADS Methodology
Edition: First Edition
ISBN Number: 0262193000
Number of Pages: 471
Author(s): Guus Schreiber
Publisher: The MIT Press
Date: December 17, 1999
Category: Knowledge management and engineering
Abstract / Synopsis: The book covers in an integrated fashion the complete route from corporate knowledge management, through knowledge analysis and engineering, to the design and implementation of knowledge-intensive information systems. The CommonKADS methodology, developed over the last decade by an industry-university consortium led by the authors, is used throughout the book. CommonKADS makes as much use as possible of the new UML notation standard. Beyond information systems applications, all software engineering and computer systems projects in which knowledge plays an important role stand to benefit from the CommonKADS methodology.
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Title #711: Knowledge Management: Classic and Contemporary Works,
Paperback
Edition: First Edition
ISBN Number: 0262632616
Number of Pages: 451
Author(s): Daryl Morey
Publisher: The MIT Press
Date: August 7, 2002
Category: Introduction to the field of knowledge management
Abstract / Synopsis: This book provides an introduction to the field of knowledge management. Taking a learning-centric rather than information-centric approach, it emphasizes the continuous acquisition and application of knowledge. The book is organized into three sections, each opening with a classic work from a leader in the field. The first section, Strategy, discusses the motivation for knowledge management and how to structure a knowledge management program. The second section, Process, discusses the use of knowledge management to make existing practices more effective, the speeding up of organizational learning, and effective methods for implementing knowledge management. The third section, Metrics, discusses how to measure the impact of knowledge management on an organization. In addition to the classic essays, each section contains unpublished works that further develop the foundational concepts and strategies.
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Title #712: Relationships in the Organization of Knowledge (Information
Science and Knowledge Management)
Edition: First Edition
ISBN Number: 0792368134
Number of Pages: 248
Author(s): A. Bean, R. Green
Publisher: Springer
Date: March 31, 2001
Category: Presents the current state of the art in examining the expression of relationships in some of the best thesauri and classification schemes in use throughout the world
Abstract / Synopsis: With a goal of improving retrieval in bibliographic environments, this volume takes stock of what we know about relationships in the overall bibliographic domain, with particular emphasis on relationships between subjects, relationships among bibliographic entities, and relationships between subject content and user needs. The volume presents the current state of the art in examining the expression of relationships in some of the best thesauri and classification schemes in use throughout the world. It also looks to the future by providing guidance for relational tasks now taking on greater significance, as retrieval systems increasingly operate in automated modes and as retrieval systems cross linguistic, cultural, and disciplinary boundaries. By bringing together in one place the perspectives of some of the most prominent persons working in this arena, this volume should be of interest to researchers from library and information science, as well as computer science (artificial intelligence, knowledge representation, information retrieval, natural language processing), and to many practitioners, including: developers of thesauri and classification schemes; developers of Web search engines and search directories; indexers and subject cataloguers; and professional searchers.
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Title #713: Managing Knowledge with Artificial Intelligence:
An Introduction with Guidelines for Nonspecialists
Edition: First Edition
ISBN Number: 1567204910
Number of Pages: 272
Author(s): Kevin C. Desouza
Publisher: Greenwood Publishing Group, Inc.
Date: July 2002
Category: Knowledge management with AI
Abstract / Synopsis: In examining the concepts of managing knowledge and the generation of business intelligence through the use of artificial intelligence-based computing, Desouza (Center for Research in Information Management, U. of Illinois at Chicago) blends concepts from the disciplines of management and engineering. He provides an overview of emerging technologies that can be used to generate, capture, distribute, and utilize business knowledge, leading to a business intelligence that will increase an organization's competitiveness. For business executives, students, and engineers. In clear, readable language, consultant and researcher Kevin Desouza accomplishes an unlikely feat: explaining artificial intelligence to nonspecialists in a way that experts will recognize and accept as correct and immediately applicable.
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Title #714: Reusable Components for Knowledge Modeling
Edition: First Edition
ISBN Number: 1586030035
Number of Pages: 272
Author(s): E. Motta
Publisher: IOS Press
Date: January, 1999
Category: Book provides an in-depth analysis of knowledge modeling
technology
Abstract / Synopsis: Knowledge modeling technologies, such as ontologies and problem solving methods, are gaining popularity as they enable the development of cost-effective and robust knowledge systems through a reuse-centered process model. In addition, there is also much interest in modeling technology as a means to support the acquisition, organization, formalization and distribution of the knowledge assets of a company. This book provides an in-depth analysis of knowledge modeling technology, illustrating the main tenets of this paradigm, surveying the state-of-the-art and then presenting in detail the application of this technology to parametric design problems. This book will be of interest to readers who wish to learn about the state-of-the-art in knowledge technologies. More specifically, the book offers a theoretical perspective and practical solutions to students, researchers and practitioners working in the areas of knowledge-based systems, knowledge management and design.
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Title #715: Knowledge Representation and Reasoning (The Morgan
Kaufmann Series in Artificial Intelligence)
Edition: First Edition
ISBN Number: 1558609326
Number of Pages: 381
Author(s): Ronald Brachman, Hector Levesque
Publisher: Morgan Kaufmann
Date: May 19, 2004
Category: Knowledge representation
Abstract / Synopsis: Knowledge representation is at the very core of a radical idea for understanding intelligence. Instead of trying to understand or build brains from the bottom up, its goal is to understand and build intelligent behavior from the top down, putting the focus on what an agent needs to know in order to behave intelligently, how this knowledge can be represented symbolically, and how automated reasoning procedures can make this knowledge available as needed. This landmark text takes the central concepts of knowledge representation developed over the last 50 years and illustrates them in a lucid and compelling way. Each of the various styles of representation is presented in a simple and intuitive form, and the basics of reasoning with that representation are explained in detail. This approach gives readers a solid foundation for understanding the more advanced work found in the research literature. The presentation is clear enough to be accessible to a broad audience, including researchers and practitioners in database management, information retrieval, and object-oriented systems as well as artificial intelligence. This book provides the foundation in knowledge representation and reasoning that every AI practitioner needs.
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Title #716: Knowledge Representation: Logical, Philosophical, and
Computational Foundations
Edition: First Edition
ISBN Number: 0534949657
Number of Pages: 512
Author(s): John F. Sowa
Publisher: Course Technology
Date: August 17, 1999
Category: Study of knowledge and its various models and implementations
Abstract / Synopsis: Sowa integrates logic, philosophy, linguistics, and computer science into this study of knowledge and its various models and implementations. His definitive new book shows how techniques of artificial intelligence, database design, and object-oriented programming help make knowledge explicit in a form that computer systems can use.
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Title #717: Principles of Knowledge Representation (Center for the Study
of Language and Information - Lecture Notes), Paperback
Edition: First Edition
ISBN Number: 1575860562
Number of Pages: 318
Author(s): Gerhard Brewka
Publisher: Center for the Study of Language and Inf
Date: June 21, 2002
Category: Foundations of knowledge representation and reasoning
Abstract / Synopsis: The book contains a collection of eight survey papers written by some of the best researchers in foundations of knowledge representation and reasoning. It covers topics like theories of uncertainty, nonmonotonic and causal reasoning, logic programming, abduction, inductive logic programming, description logics, complexity in Artificial Intelligence, and model-based diagnosis. It thus provides an up-to-date coverage of recent approaches to some of the most challenging problems underlying knowledge representation and Artificial Intelligence in general.
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Title #718: Knowledge in Action: Logical Foundations for Specifying and
Implementing Dynamical Systems
Edition: First Edition
ISBN Number: 0262182181
Number of Pages: 448
Author(s): Raymond Reiter
Publisher: The MIT Press
Date: September 1, 2001
Category: Modeling and implementing dynamical systems
Abstract / Synopsis: Modeling and implementing dynamical systems is a central problem in artificial intelligence, robotics, software agents, simulation, decision and control theory, and many other disciplines. In recent years, a new approach to representing such systems, grounded in mathematical logic, has been developed within the AI knowledge-representation community. This book presents a comprehensive treatment of these ideas, basing its theoretical and implementation foundations on the situation calculus, a dialect of first-order logic. Within this framework, it develops many features of dynamical systems modeling, including time, processes, concurrency, exogenous events, reactivity, sensing and knowledge, probabilistic uncertainty, and decision theory. It also describes and implements a new family of high-level programming languages suitable for writing control programs for dynamical systems. Finally, it includes situation calculus specifications for a wide range of examples drawn from cognitive robotics, planning, simulation, databases, and decision theory, together with all the implementation code for these examples.
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Title #719: Readings in Knowledge Representation
Edition: First Edition
ISBN Number: 093461301X
Number of Pages: 571
Author(s): Ronald J. Brachman, Hector J. Levesque
Publisher: Morgan Kaufmann Pub
Date: August, 1985
Category: Knowledge Representation
Abstract / Synopsis: Information Unabailable
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Title #720: Knowledge Representation, Reasoning and Declarative
Problem Solving
Edition: First Edition
ISBN Number: 0521818028
Number of Pages: 544
Author(s): Chitta Baral
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Date: January 9, 2003
Category: How to write programs that behave intelligently by giving them the
ability to express knowledge and reason about it
Abstract / Synopsis: Knowledge management and knowledge-based intelligence are areas of importance in today's economy and society, and their exploitation requires representation via the development of a declarative interface whose input language is based on logic. Chitta Baral demonstrates how to write programs that behave intelligently by giving them the ability to express knowledge and reason about it. He presents a language, AnsProlog*, for both knowledge representation and reasoning, and declarative problem solving. Many of the results have never appeared before in book form but are organized here for those wishing to learn more about the subject, either in courses or through self-study.
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Title #721: Knowledge Representation (Special Issues of Artificial
Intelligence)
Edition: 1st MIT Press ed edition
ISBN Number: 0262521687
Number of Pages: 414
Author(s): Ronald J. Brachman
Publisher: Springer
Date: February 18, 1992
Category: Knowledge Representation
Abstract / Synopsis: Growing interest in symbolic representation and reasoning has pushed this backstage activity into the spotlight as a clearly identifiable and technically rich subfield in artificial intelligence. This collection of extended versions of 12 papers from the First International Conference on Principles of Knowledge Representation and Reasoning provides a snapshot of the best current work in AI on formal methods and principles of representation and reasoning. The topics range from temporal reasoning to default reasoning to representations for natural language.
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Title #722: Structural Knowledge: Techniques for Representing,
Conveying, and Acquiring Structural Knowledge
Edition: First Edition
ISBN Number: 0805810099
Number of Pages: 280
Author(s): David H. Jonassen
Publisher: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates
Date: May 1993
Category: Book discusses 23 methodologies for working with what they call
structural knowledge
Abstract / Synopsis: Drawing heavily from the academic literature in cognitive science, this book discusses 23 methodologies for working with what they call structural knowledge. They view structural knowledge as the intermediary between declarative knowledge (know that) and procedural knowledge (know how). Methods that they discuss include: concept maps, frames, semantic features analysis, pattern notes, graphic organizers, and many other approaches
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Title #723: Knowledge Representation: An Approach to Artificial
Intelligence
Edition: First Edition
ISBN Number: 0120864401
Number of Pages: Information Unavailable
Author(s): T. J. M. Bench-Capon
Publisher: Academic Pr
Date: December, 1990
Category: Knowledge Representation
Abstract / Synopsis: Information Unavailable
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Title #724: Knowledge Representation and Language in AI
Edition: First Edition
ISBN Number: 0135151236
Number of Pages: 230
Author(s): J. P. E. Hodgson
Publisher: Ellis Horwood Ltd
Date: July, 1991
Category: Knowledge Representation and Language in AI
Abstract / Synopsis: Information Unavailable
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Title #725: Reasoning About Knowledge, Paperback
Edition: First Edition
ISBN Number: 0262562006
Number of Pages: 491
Author(s): Ronald Fagin
Publisher: The MIT Press
Date: December 1, 2003
Category: Reasoning about knowledge and its applications
Abstract / Synopsis: Reasoning about knowledge -- particularly the knowledge of agents who reason about the world and each other's knowledge -- was once the exclusive province of philosophers and puzzle solvers. More recently, this type of reasoning has been shown to play a key role in a surprising number of contexts, from understanding conversations to the analysis of distributed computer algorithms. Reasoning About Knowledge is the first book to provide a general discussion of approaches to reasoning about knowledge and its applications to distributed systems, artificial intelligence, and game theory. It brings eight years of work by the authors into a cohesive framework for understanding and analyzing reasoning about knowledge that is intuitive, mathematically well founded, useful in practice, and widely applicable. The book is almost completely self-contained and should be accessible to readers in a variety of disciplines, including computer science, artificial intelligence, linguistics, philosophy, cognitive science, and game theory. Each chapter includes exercises and bibliographic notes.
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Title #726: Introduction to Knowledge Systems
Edition: First Edition
ISBN Number: 155860166X
Number of Pages: 896
Author(s): Mark Stefik
Publisher: Morgan Kaufmann
Date: June 1, 1995
Category: Principles of building and using knowledge systems from the
conceptual standpoint as well as the practical
Abstract / Synopsis: Focusing on fundamental scientific and engineering issues, this book communicates the principles of building and using knowledge systems from the conceptual standpoint as well as the practical. Previous treatments of knowledge systems have focused on applications within a particular field, or on symbol-level representations, such as the use of frame and rule representations. Introduction to Knowledge Systems presents fundamentals of symbol-level representations including
representations for time, space, uncertainty, and vagueness. It also compares the knowledge-level organizations for three common knowledge-intensive tasks: classification, configuration, and diagnosis.
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Title #727: Speech and Language Processing: An Introduction to Natural
Language Processing, Computational Linguistics and Speech
Recognition
Edition: First Edition
ISBN Number: 0130950696
Number of Pages: 960
Author(s): Daniel Jurafsky, James H. Martin
Publisher: Prentice Hall
Date: January 26, 2000
Category: Speech and language processing
Abstract / Synopsis: This book is an absolute necessity for instructors at all levels, as well as an indispensable reference for researchers. Introducing NLP, computational linguistics, and speech recognition comprehensively in a single book is an ambitious enterprise. The authors have managed it admirably, paying careful attention to traditional foundations, relating recent developments and trends to those foundations, and tying it all together with insight and humor.
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Title #728: Spoken Language Processing: A Guide to Theory, Algorithm
and System Development, Paperback
Edition: First Edition
ISBN Number: 0130226165
Number of Pages: 1008
Author(s): Xuedong Huang
Publisher: Prentice Hall PTR
Date: April 25, 2001)
Category: Spoken language processing in computer science
Abstract / Synopsis: Offers coverage of new advances in spoken language processing in computer science, drawing on the most recent discoveries in computer science, electrical engineering, mathematics, and other fields. Covers speech recognition, speech processing, spoken language understanding, speech synthesis, and speech interface design. DLC: Natural language processing (Computer science).
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Title #729: Natural Language Understanding (2nd Edition), Paperback
Edition: 2nd Edition
ISBN Number: 0805303340
Number of Pages: 654
Author(s): James Allen
Publisher: Addison Wesley
Date: August 3, 1994
Category: Syntactic and semantic processing
Abstract / Synopsis: Reflecting the latest research developments, this second edition offers a uniform framework based on feature-based context-free grammars and chart parsers that are used for syntactic and semantic processing. DLC: Programming languages (Electronic computers) - Semantics.
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Title #730: Statistical Language Learning (Language, Speech, and
Communication), Paperback
Edition: First Edition
ISBN Number: 0262531410
Number of Pages: 192
Author(s): Eugene Charniak
Publisher: The MIT Press
Date: September 1, 1996
Category: Statistical language processing from an AI point of view
Abstract / Synopsis: Eugene Charniak breaks new ground in artificial intelligence research by presenting statistical language processing from an artificial intelligence point of view in a text for researchers and scientists with a traditional computer science background. New, exacting empirical methods are needed to break the deadlock in such areas of artificial intelligence as robotics, knowledge representation, machine learning, machine translation, and natural language processing (NLP). It is time, Charniak observes, to switch paradigms. This text introduces statistical language processing techniques -- word tagging, parsing with probabilistic context free grammars, grammar induction, syntactic disambiguation, semantic word classes, word-sense disambiguation -- along with the underlying mathematics and chapter exercises.
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Title #731: Natural Language Processing and Knowledge Representation:
Language for Knowledge and Knowledge for Language,
Paperback
Edition: First Edition
ISBN Number: 0262590212
Number of Pages: 350
Author(s): Lucja M. Iwanska, Stuart C. Shapiro (Editor)
Publisher: AAAI Press
Date: July 7, 2000
Category: Natural Language Processing and Knowledge Representation
Abstract / Synopsis: Natural language (NL) refers to human language--complex, irregular, diverse, with all its philosophical problems of meaning and context. Setting a new direction in AI research, this book explores the development of knowledge representation and reasoning (KRR) systems that simulate the role of NL in human information and knowledge processing. Traditionally, KRR systems have incorporated NL as an interface to an expert system or knowledge base that performed tasks separate from NL processing. As this book shows, however, the computational nature of representation and inference in NL makes it the ideal level for all tasks in an intelligent computer system. NL processing combines the qualitative characteristics of human knowledge processing with a computer¹s quantitative advantages, allowing for in-depth, systematic processing of vast amounts of information. The essays in this interdisciplinary book cover a range of implementations and designs, from formal computational models to large-scale NL processing systems.
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Title #732: Current and New Directions in Discourse and Dialogue (Text,
Speech and Language Technology), Paperback
Edition: First Edition
ISBN Number: 1402016158
Number of Pages: 400
Author(s): J.C.J Van Kuppevelt, R.W. Smith
Publisher: Springer
Date: December 31, 1899
Category: Text, speech and language technology
Abstract / Synopsis: This volume is unique in its breadth of coverage on key topics in the field from a variety of leading researchers. In one volume, readers gain exposure to several perspectives in the areas of corpus annotation and analysis, dialogue system construction; as well as theoretical perspectives on communicative intention, context-based generation, and modeling of discourse structure. In this book you will find high quality articles representing current and new directions in discourse and dialogue with an emphasis on Dialogue Systems; Corpora and Corpus Tools; and Semantic and Pragmatic Modeling of Discourse and Dialogue. The majority of the articles included come from the most outstanding papers presented at the 2nd SIGdial workshop on Discourse and Dialogue held in conjunction with Eurospeech 2001. The contents are supplemented with four invited papers from internationally recognized researchers in discourse and dialogue.
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Title #733: Text Generation : Using Discourse Strategies and Focus
Constraints to Generate Natural Language Text (Studies in
Natural Language Processing), Paperback
Edition: Reprint edition
ISBN Number: 0521438020
Number of Pages: 256
Author(s): Kathleen R. McKeown
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Date: June 26, 1992
Category: Natural language processing
Abstract / Synopsis: '... important reading for anyone either working in or just trying to keep up with natural language processing.' Computational Linguistics
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Title #734: Recent Advances in Example-Based Machine Translation
(Text, Speech and Language Technology), Paperback
Edition: First Edition
ISBN Number: 1402014015
Number of Pages: 520
Author(s): M. Carl, Andy Way
Publisher: Springer
Date: June 30, 2003
Category: Example-Based Machine Translation
Abstract / Synopsis: Recent Advances in Example-Based Machine Translation is of relevance to researchers and program developers in the field of Machine Translation and especially Example-Based Machine Translation, bilingual text processing and cross-linguistic information retrieval. It is also of interest to translation technologists and localisation professionals. Recent Advances in Example-Based Machine Translation fills a void, because it is the first book to tackle the issue of EBMT in depth. It gives a state-of-the-art overview of EBMT techniques and provides a coherent structure in which all aspects of EBMT are embedded. Its contributions are written by long-standing researchers in the field of MT in general, and EBMT in particular. This book can be used in graduate-level courses in machine translation and statistical NLP.
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Title #735: Thoughts and Utterances: The Pragmatics of Explicit
Communication, Paperback
Edition: First Edition
ISBN Number: 0631214887
Number of Pages: 504
Author(s): Robyn Carston
Publisher: Blackwell Publishers
Date: September 2002
Category: Utterance understanding: the semantics/pragmatics distinction and
the distinction between what is explicitly and what is implicitly communicated.
Abstract / Synopsis: Thoughts and Utterances is the first sustained investigation of two distinctions that are fundamental to all theories of utterance understanding: the semantics/pragmatics distinction and the distinction between what is explicitly and what is implicitly communicated.
The central claim of this book is that the linguistically encoded meaning of an utterance underdetermines the propositions explicitly communicated by the utterance. The arguments and analyses are developed within the relevance-theoretic framework of Dan Sperber and Deirdre Wilson, so the approach is resolutely cognitive, focusing on the representational levels and mental processes involved in utterance interpretation. However, extensive comparison is made throughout with other pragmatic frameworks, including those of Paul Grice, François Recanati and Kent Bach, which are more philosophically based, and that of Stephen Levinson, which has a more linguistic and computational orientation. Finally, this volume assesses and attempts to reconcile the different perspectives of theories of human semantic competence and accounts of the pragmatic processes involved in communication and interpretation.
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Title #736: Foundations of Computational Linguistics : Human-Computer
Communication in Natural Language
Edition: Second Edition
ISBN Number: 3540424172
Number of Pages: 578
Author(s): Roland Hausser
Publisher: Springer
Date: October 16, 2001
Category: Development of cognitive machines which humans can freely talk
with in their respective natural language
Abstract / Synopsis: The central task of a future-oriented computational linguistics is the development of cognitive machines which humans can freely talk with in their respective natural language. In the long run, this task will ensure the development of a functional theory of language, an objective method of verification, and a wide range of practical applications. Natural communication requires not only verbal processing, but also non-verbal perception and action. Therefore the content of this textbook is organized as a theory of language for the construction of talking robots. The main topic is the mechanism of natural language communication in both the speaker and the hearer. The book contains more than 700 exercises for reviewing key ideas and important problems. In the 2nd edition, Chapters 22-24 have been completely rewritten. They present a declarative outline for programming the semantic and pragmatic interpretation of natural language communication.
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Title #737: Computing Attitude and Affect in Text: Theory and
Applications (The Information Retrieval Series)
Edition: First Edition
ISBN Number: 1402040261
Number of Pages: 357
Author(s): James G. Shanahan
Publisher: Springer
Date: October 2005
Category: Book address attitude, affect, and subjective opinion
Abstract / Synopsis: Human Language Technology (HLT) and Natural Language Processing (NLP) systems have typically focused on the "factual" aspect of content analysis. Other aspects, including pragmatics, opinion, and style, have received much less attention. However, to achieve an adequate understanding of a text, these aspects cannot be ignored. The chapters in this book address attitude, affect, and subjective opinion. Various conceptual models and computational methods are presented, including distinguishing attitudes from simple factual assertions; distinguishing between the author’s reports from reports of other people’s opinions; and distinguishing between explicitly and implicitly stated attitudes. In addition, many applications are described that promise to benefit from the ability to understand attitudes and affect, such as indexing and retrieval of documents by opinion; automatic question answering about opinions; analysis of sentiment in the media and in discussion groups; analyzing client discourse in therapy and counseling; determining relations between scientific texts; generating more appropriate texts; and creating writers’ aids.
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Title #738: Systemic Text Generation as Problem Solving (Studies in
Natural Language Processing)
Edition: First Edition
ISBN Number: 052135076X
Number of Pages: 230
Author(s): Terry Patten
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Date: March 17, 1988
Category: Systemic grammar can be easily and automatically translated into current AI-knowledge representations and efficiently processed by the same knowledge-based techniques currently exploited by expert systems
Abstract / Synopsis: An exploration of a new approach to text generation that interprets systemic grammar as a computational representation. Patten demonstrates that systemic grammar can be easily and automatically translated into current AI-knowledge representations and efficiently processed by the same knowledge-based techniques currently exploited by expert systems. Thus, the fundamental methodological problem of interfacing specialized computational representations with equally specialized linguistic representations can be resolved. The study provides a detailed discussion of the formal model proposed and of a substantial implementation including a relatively large systemic grammar. It represents a fundamental and productive contribution to the literature of text generation.
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Title #739: From Discourse to Logic : Introduction to Model-theoretic
Semantics of Natural Language, Formal Logic and Discourse
Representation Theory (Studies in Linguistics and Philosophy),
Paperback
Edition: First Edition
ISBN Number: 0792310284
Number of Pages: 740
Author(s): H. Kamp, U. Reyle
Publisher: Springer
Date: July 31, 1993
Category: First textbook that approaches natural language semantics and
logic from the perspective of Discourse Representation Theory
Abstract / Synopsis: This is the first textbook that approaches natural language semantics and logic from the perspective of Discourse Representation Theory, an approach which emphasizes the dynamic and incremental aspects of meaning and inference. The book has been carefully designed for the classroom. It is aimed at students with varying degrees of preparation, including those without prior exposure to semantics or formal logic. Moreover, it should make DRT easily accessible to those who want to learn about the theory on their own. Exercises are available to test understanding as well as to encourage independent theoretical thought. The book serves a double purpose. Besides a textbook, it is also the first comprehensive and fully explicit statement of DRT available in the form of a book. The first part of the book develops the basic principles of DRT for a small fragment of English (but which has nevertheless the power of standard predicate logic). The second part extends this fragment by adding plurals; it discusses a wide variety of problems connected with plural nouns and verbs. The third part applies the theory to the analysis of tense and aspect. Many of the problems raised in Parts Two and Three are novel, as are the solutions proposed. For undergraduate and graduate students interested in linguistics, theoretical linguistics, computational linguistics, artificial intelligence and cognitive science. Suitable for students with no previous exposure to formal semantics or logic.
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Title #740: Evaluating Natural Language Processing Systems: An Analysis
and Review (Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence),
Paperback
Edition: First Edition
ISBN Number: 3540613099
Number of Pages: 228
Author(s): Karen Sparck Jones, Julia R. Galliers
Publisher: Springer
Date: June 1996
Category: Evaluating NLP systems
Abstract / Synopsis: This comprehensive state-of-the-art book is the first devoted to the important and timely issue of evaluating NLP systems. It addresses the whole area of NLP system evaluation, including aims and scope, problems and methodology. The authors provide a wide-ranging and careful analysis of evaluation concepts, reinforced with extensive illustrations; they relate systems to their environments and develop a framework for proper evaluation. The discussion of principles is completed by a detailed review of practice and strategies in the field, covering both systems for specific tasks, like translation, and core language processors. The methodology lessons drawn from the analysis and review are applied in a series of example cases. A comprehensive bibliography, a subject index, and term glossary are included.
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Title #741: Machine Translation: A View from the Lexicon (Artificial
Intelligence)
Edition: First Edition
ISBN Number: 0262041383
Number of Pages: 456
Author(s): Bonnie Jean Dorr
Publisher: The MIT Press
Date: June 29, 1993
Category: Machine Translation
Abstract / Synopsis: This book describes a novel, cross-linguistic approach to machine translation that solves certain classes of syntactic and lexical divergences by means of a lexical conceptual structure that can be composed and decomposed in language-specific ways. This approach allows the translator to operate uniformly across many languages, while still accounting for knowledge that is specific to each language.
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Title #742: Subsymbolic Natural Language Processing: An Integrated
Model of Scripts, Lexicon, and Memory (Neural Network
Modeling and Connectionism)
Edition: First Edition
ISBN Number: 0262132907
Number of Pages: 403
Author(s): Risto Miikkulainen
Publisher: The MIT Press
Date: May 20, 1993
Category: Describes a general approach to building high-level cognitive
models from distributed neural networks
Abstract / Synopsis: Risto Miikkulainen draws on recent connectionist work in language comprehension to create a model that can understand natural language. Using the DISCERN system as an example, he describes a general approach to building high-level cognitive models from distributed neural networks and shows how the special properties of such networks are useful in modeling human performance. In this approach connectionist networks are not only plausible models of isolated cognitive phenomena, but also sufficient constituents for complete artificial intelligence systems.
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Title #743: Computational Phonology : A Constraint-Based Approach
(Studies in Natural Language Processing)
Edition: First Edition
ISBN Number: 0521474965
Number of Pages: 219
Author(s): Steven Bird
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Date: February 23, 1995
Category: Computational phonology
Abstract / Synopsis: Computational phonology is one of the newest areas of computational linguistics, and is experiencing rapid growth as its practitioners apply the wealth of theories, technologies and methodologies of computational linguistics to phonology. This book is the first to survey these developments, and it does so in a way that is accessible to computational linguists, phonologists and computer scientists alike. The interests of these diverse groups overlap in the subject area of constraints. The goal of this book is to explore the use of constraints in modern non-linear phonology and then - drawing on insights from constraint-based grammar and constraint logic programming - to formalize and implement a constraint-based phonology.
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Title #744: In-Depth Understanding : A Computer Model of Integrated
Processing for Narrative Comprehension (Artificial
Intelligence)
Edition: First Edition
ISBN Number: 0262040735
Number of Pages: 480
Author(s): Michael G. Dyer
Publisher: The MIT Press
Date: August 25, 1983
Category: Book describes a theory of memory representation, organization,
and processing for understanding complex narrative texts
Abstract / Synopsis: This book describes a theory of memory representation, organization, and processing for understanding complex narrative texts. The theory is implemented as a computer program called BORIS which reads and answers questions about divorce, legal disputes, personal favors, and the like. The system is unique in attempting to understand stories involving emotions and in being able to deduce adages and morals, in addition to answering fact and event based questions about the narratives it has read. BORIS also manages the interaction of many different knowledge sources such as goals, plans, scripts, physical objects, settings, interpersonal relationships, social roles, emotional reactions, and empathetic responses.
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Title #745: A Connectionist Language Generator (Ablex Series in
Artificial Intelligence)
Edition: First Edition
ISBN Number: 1567500382
Number of Pages: Information Unavailable
Author(s): Nigel Ward
Publisher: Ablex Pub
Date: March, 1994
Category: A Connectionist Language Generator
Abstract / Synopsis: Information Unavailable
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Title #746: Readings in Machine Translation
Edition: First Edition
ISBN Number: 0262140748
Number of Pages: 429
Author(s): Sergei Nirenburg
Publisher: The MIT Press
Date: June 7, 2002
Category: Machine translation
Abstract / Synopsis: The field of machine translation (MT) -- the automation of translation between human languages -- has existed for more than fifty years. MT helped to usher in the field of computational linguistics and has influenced methods and applications in knowledge representation, information theory, and mathematical statistics.
This valuable resource offers the most historically significant English-language articles on MT. The book is organized in three sections. The historical section contains articles from MT's beginnings through the late 1960s. The second section, on theoretical and methodological issues, covers sublanguage and controlled input, the role of humans in machine-aided translation, the impact of certain linguistic approaches, the transfer versus interlingua question, and the representation of meaning and knowledge. The third section, on system design, covers knowledge-based, statistical, and example-based approaches to multilevel analysis and representation, as well as computational issues.
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Title #747: New Directions in Question Answering
Edition: First Edition
ISBN Number: 0262633043
Number of Pages: 320
Author(s): Mark T. Maybury
Publisher: AAAI Press
Date: November 1, 2004
Category: Question answering systems
Abstract / Synopsis: Question answering systems, which provide natural language responses to natural language queries, are the subject of rapidly advancing research encompassing both academic study and commercial applications, the most well-known of which is the search engine Ask Jeeves. Question answering draws on different fields and technologies, including natural language processing, information retrieval, explanation generation, and human computer interaction. Question answering creates an important new method of information access and can be seen as the natural step beyond such standard Web search methods as keyword query and document retrieval. This collection charts significant new directions in the field, including temporal, spatial, definitional, biographical, multimedia, and multilingual question answering.
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Title #748: The Acquisition of Syntactic Knowledge (Artificial
Intelligence)
Edition: First Edition
ISBN Number: 0262022265
Number of Pages: 350
Author(s): Robert Berwick
Publisher: The MIT Press
Date: August 14, 1985
Category: Investigates the central questions of human and machine cognition
Abstract / Synopsis: This landmark work in computational linguistics is of great importance both theoretically and practically because it shows that much of English grammar can be learned by a simple program. The Acquisition of Syntactic Knowledge investigates the central questions of human and machine cognition: How do people learn language? How can we get a machine to learn language? It first presents an explicit computational model of language acquisition which can actually learn rules of English syntax given a sequence of grammatical, but otherwise unprepared, sentences. It shows that natural languages are designed to be easily learned and easily processed-an exciting breakthrough from the point of view of artificial intelligence and the design of expert systems because it shows how extensive knowledge might be acquired automatically, without outside intervention. Computationally, the book demonstrates how constraints that may be reasonably assumed to aid sentence processing also aid language acquisition.
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Title #749: Artificial Intelligence and Literary Creativity: Inside the Mind
of Brutus, a Storytelling Machine, Paperback
Edition: First Edition
ISBN Number: 0805819878
Number of Pages: 230
Author(s): Selmer Bringsjord, David A. Ferrucci
Publisher: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates
Date: September, 1999
Category: Language Processing
Abstract / Synopsis: Machines that can summarize documents are commonplace, as well as machines that can extract words and lines from paragraphs and rearrange them to possibly form something useful or interesting. But can a machine write a short story, or even a full-fledged novel with complex characters and themes? That such ability is not only possible for machines but is actually present in some of them is the subject of this book, and if one ignores the philosophical rhetoric on the "strong AI" problem, the authors give a fine overview of their project to create a "story-telling machine", which they have designated as BRUTUS.
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Title #750: The Fifth Generation Fallacy: Why Japan Is Betting Its Future
on Artificial Intelligence
Edition: Second Edition
ISBN Number: 019504939X
Number of Pages: 230
Author(s): J. Marshall Unger
Publisher: Oxford Univ Pr
Date: September, 1987
Category: Language Processing
Abstract / Synopsis: For several years a great deal of attention has been focused on Japan's highly publicized Fifth Generation Project, a research program aimed at the development of "intelligent" computers that can think like human beings. It has been claimed that such machines are the technology of the future, and that whoever gets them first will emerge as the new leader of the world economy. In this fascinating new book, J. Marshall Unger reveals that the West has completely misunderstood Japan's interest in Artificial Intelligence. Contrary to the common view of Japan's unassailable superiority in technology and business, perpetuated recently by popular books like Japan as Number One, Unger shows that Japanese researchers are less concerned with economic coups than with solving a fundamental problem concerning their notoriously difficult written language and the challenges it poses for computer technology. The complex mixture of Chinese and phonetic characters that make up the script can only laboriously be typewritten and so are resistant to one of the most basic of computer functions -- entering data into the machine's memory banks.
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Title #751: The Language Complexity Game
Edition: First Edition
ISBN Number: 0262181479
Number of Pages: 148
Author(s): Eric Sven Ristad
Publisher: The MIT Press
Date: March 17, 1993
Category: Language Processing
Abstract / Synopsis: This work elucidates the structure and complexity of human language in terms of the mathematics of information and computation. It strengthens Chomsky's early work on the mathematics of language, with the advantages of a better understanding of language and a more precise theory of structural complexity. Ristad argues that language is the process of constructing linguistic representations from the forms produced by other cognitive modules and that this process is NP-complete. This NP-completeness is defended with a phalanx of elegant and revealing proofs that rely only on the empirical facts of linguistic knowledge and on the uncontroverted assumption that these facts generalize in a reasonable manner. For this reason, these complexity results apply to all adequate linguistic theories and are the first to do so. Eric Sven Ristad is Assistant Professor of Computer Science at Princeton University. He is the coauthor of Computational Complexity and Natural Language.
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Title #752: Natural Language Processing
Edition: First Edition
ISBN Number: 026266092X
Number of Pages: 537
Author(s): Fernando C. N. Pereira, Barbara J. Grosz
Publisher: The MIT Press
Date: April 7, 1994
Category: Natural Language Processing
Abstract / Synopsis: These ten contributions describe the major technical ideas underlying many of the significant advances in natural-language processing over the last decade, focusing in particular on the challenges in areas such as knowledge representation, reasoning, planning, and integration of multiple knowledge sources, where NLP and AI research intersect. Included are chapters that deal with all the main aspects of natural-language processing, from analysis to interpretation to generation. Fruitful new relations between language research and AI such as the use of statistical decision techniques in speech and language processing are also discussed.
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Title #753: Applied Natural Language Processing
Edition: First Edition
ISBN Number: 0894332600
Number of Pages: 293
Author(s): Steven P. Shwartz, Roger Schank
Publisher: Petrocelli Books
Date: August, 1987
Category: Applied Natural Language Processing
Abstract / Synopsis: Information Unavailable
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Title #754: A Connectionist Language Generator
Edition: First Edition
ISBN Number: 0893919748
Number of Pages: 298
Author(s): Nigel Ward
Publisher: Ablex Publishing Corporation
Date: August, 1994
Category: A Connectionist Language Generator
Abstract / Synopsis: Information Unavailable
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Title #755: Natural Language Communication With Pictorial Information
Systems
Edition: First Edition
ISBN Number: 0387134786
Number of Pages: 327
Author(s): Leonard Bolc
Publisher: Springer
Date: May, 1984
Category: Natural Language Communication With Pictorial Information
Systems
Abstract / Synopsis: Information Unavailable
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Title #756: Philosophy, Language, and Artificial Intelligence : Resources
for Processing Natural Language
Edition: First Edition
ISBN Number: 1556080735
Number of Pages: 440
Author(s): J. Kulas
Publisher: Springer
Date: December 31, 1999
Category: Philosophy, Language, and Artificial Intelligence: Resources for
Processing Natural Language
Abstract / Synopsis: Information Unavailable
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Title #757: Expressibility and the Problem of Efficient Text Planning
Edition: First Edition
ISBN Number: 1855670224
Number of Pages: 188
Author(s): Marie W. Meteer
Publisher: Pinter Pub Ltd
Date: September, 1992
Category: Expressibility and the Problem of Efficient Text Planning
Abstract / Synopsis: Information Unavailable
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Title #758: Paradigms of Artificial Intelligence Programming :
Case Studies in Common Lisp, Paperback
Edition: First Edition
ISBN Number: 1558601910
Number of Pages: 946
Author(s): Peter Norvig
Publisher: Morgan Kaufmann
Date: October 1, 1991
Category: AI programming
Abstract / Synopsis: Paradigms of AI Programming teaches advanced Common Lisp techniques in the context of building major AI systems. By reconstructing authentic, complex AI programs using state-of-the-art Common Lisp, the book teaches students and professionals how to build and debug robust practical programs, while demonstrating superior programming style and important AI concepts. The author strongly emphasizes the practical, performance issues of writing real working programs of significant size, including chapters on troubleshooting and efficiency. A discussion of the fundamentals of object-oriented programming and a description of the main CLOS functions are included. This volume is an excellent text for a course on AI programming, a useful supplement for general AI courses and an indispensable reference for the professional programmer.
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Title #759: Common Lisp Modules: Artificial Intelligence in the Era of
Neural Networks and Chaos Theory, Paperback
Edition: First Edition
ISBN Number: 0387976140
Number of Pages: 207
Author(s): Mark Watson
Publisher: Springer -Verlag
Date: August 1991
Category: Provides reusable software modules for specific applications, as well as the methodology and spirit required to master problems for which there is no obvious solution
Abstract / Synopsis: This entertaining book is designed for the reader who enjoys thinking about new technologies and how to use them in solving practical problems. It provides reusable software modules for specific applications, as well as the methodology and spirit required to master problems for which there is no obvious solution. This book is for AI novices who want to learn new technologies and increase their capabilities and for AI professionals who want reusable application-oriented software modules to use in building their own systems. Each chapter contains background information and theory, a discussion of sample programs, program listings and output, additional information on the sample programs, and suggested exercises. Chapters use engaging real-world examples such as speech and handwriting recognition using neural networks, natural language processing with an example database interface, expert system shells, computer chess game, chaos theory, and fractal generation programs. The text assumes a reading knowledge of LISP and the implementation ability of a set of graphics primitives used for simple graphics operations. While all examples are implemented in Common LISP, the examples are also portable to other LISP dialects. The neural network and fractal examples are also portable to other languages such as C and Pascal.
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Title #760: The Elements of Artificial Intelligence Using Common Lisp
Edition: 2nd edition
ISBN Number: 0716782693
Number of Pages: 823
Author(s): Steven L. Tanimoto
Publisher: W.H. Freeman & Company
Date: April 1995
Category: AI using Lisp
Abstract / Synopsis: Tanimoto provides a very broad treatment of AI techniques. As such discussions are often brief. There is an outstanding section on Computer vision. Knowledge representation is also well covered. The author presents highly idiomatic examples of Lisp code. This book would be ideal for anyone not familiar with AI techniques who wants to do AI research and/or development.
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Title #761: Lisp: the Language of Artificial Intelligence, Paperback
Edition: First Edition
ISBN Number: 0003831302
Number of Pages: Information Unavailable
Author(s): Information Unavailable
Publisher: Blackwell Science Ltd
Date: April 25, 1985
Category: Lisp: the Language of Artificial Intelligence
Abstract / Synopsis: Information Unavailable
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Title #762: Common Lisp and Artificial Intelligence, Paperback
Edition: First Edition
ISBN Number: 0131552430
Number of Pages: 244
Author(s): Patrick R. Harrison
Publisher: Prentice Hall
Date: May, 1990
Category: Common Lisp and Artificial Intelligence
Abstract / Synopsis: Information Unavailable
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Title #763: Common Lisp Programming for Artificial Intelligence
Edition: Second Edition
ISBN Number: 0201175797
Number of Pages: 444
Author(s): Tony Hasemer, John Domingue
Publisher: Addison-Wesley Pub
Date: August, 1989
Category: Common Lisp Programming for Artificial Intelligence
Abstract / Synopsis: Information Unavailable
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Title #764: Lisp: The Language of Artificial Intelligence
Edition: First Edition
ISBN Number: 0442209746
Number of Pages: 160
Author(s): A. A. Berk
Publisher: Van Nostrand Reinhold
Date: January, 1986
Category: Lisp: The Language of Artificial Intelligence
Abstract / Synopsis: Information Unavailable
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Title #765: Fundamentals of Artificial Intelligence - Lisp
Edition: First Edition
ISBN Number: 0669194735
Number of Pages: 542
Author(s): James L. Noyes
Publisher: Jones & Bartlett Publishers
Date: January 1, 1992
Category: Fundamentals of Artificial Intelligence - Lisp
Abstract / Synopsis: Information Unavailable
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Title #766: Starting Lisp for Ai
Edition: First Edition
ISBN Number: 0632016973
Number of Pages: 168
Author(s): Peter Coxhead
Publisher: Alfred Waller Ltd
Date: January, 1987
Category: Starting Lisp for Ai
Abstract / Synopsis: Information Unavailable
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Title #767: Programming Paradigms in Lisp, Paperback
Edition: First Edition
ISBN Number: 0070546665
Number of Pages: 292
Author(s): Rajeev Sangal
Publisher: Mcgraw-Hill College
Date: February, 1991
Category: Programming Paradigms in Lisp
Abstract / Synopsis: Information Unavailable
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Title #768: The Description Logic Handbook : Theory, Implementation
and Applications
Edition: First Edition
ISBN Number: 0521781760
Number of Pages: 574
Author(s): Franz Baader
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Date: January 9, 2003
Category: Description logic
Abstract / Synopsis: Until now, it has been difficult to locate a single text that covers enough of this field to serve as a thorough introduction to it. This handbook is an attempt to fill this gap, and it does so admirably ... The book would serve well as a foundation text for a graduate course in description logic, when supplemented with selected research papers. The Production qualities are excellent; this book will be easy to read and refer to ... a needed and well-executed reference work ... an excellent book.
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Title #769 Logical Foundations of Artificial Intelligence
Edition: First Edition
ISBN Number: 0934613311
Number of Pages: 405
Author(s): Michael R. Genesereth, Nils J. Nislsson
Publisher: Morgan Kaufmann Publishers
Date: August, 1987
Category: Fundamentals of artificial intelligence from the standpoint of logic
Abstract / Synopsis: Intended both as a text for advanced undergraduates and graduate students, and as a key reference work for AI researchers and developers, Logical Foundations of Artificial Intelligence is a lucid, rigorous, and comprehensive account of the fundamentals of artificial intelligence from the standpoint of logic.
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Title #770: Logic Primer - 2nd Edition, Paperback
Edition: First Edition
ISBN Number: 0262511266
Number of Pages: 216
Author(s): Colin Allen, Michael Hand
Publisher: The MIT Press
Date: February 5, 2001
Category: Introduction to natural deduction systems of sentential and first-
order logic
Abstract / Synopsis: Logic Primer presents a rigorous introduction to natural deduction systems of sentential and first-order logic. The text is designed to foster the student-instructor relationship. The key concepts are laid out in concise definitions and comments, with the expectation that the instructor will elaborate upon them. New to the second edition is the addition of material on the logic of identity in chapters 3 and 4. An innovative interactive Web site, consisting of a "Logic Daemon" and a "Quizmaster," encourages students to formulate their own proofs and links them to appropriate explanations in the book.
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Title #771: Handbook of Logic in Artificial Intelligence and Logic
Programming: Epistemic and Temporal Reasoning (Handbook
of Logic in Artificial Intelligence and Logic Programming)
Edition: First Edition
ISBN Number: 0198537913
Number of Pages: 628
Author(s): C. J. Hogger
Publisher: Clarendon Pr
Date: May, 1995
Category: Epistemic and Temporal Reasoning
Abstract / Synopsis: The dramatic increase in research in recent years shows that logic is now widely recognized as one of the foundational disciplines of computing and has found applications in virtually all aspects of the subject, from software engineering and hardware to programming languages and artificial intelligence. The Handbook of Logic in Artificial Intelligence and Logic Programming was created in response to the growing need for an in-depth survey of these applications, and as a result is a unique and invaluable reference source. The Handbook comprises five volumes, each an in-depth overview of one of the major topics in this area. It is the result of years of cooperative effort by internationally renowned researchers in the field, and will no doubt be the standard reference work in AI for years to come. Volume IV covers, among other subjects, epistemic reasoning, time and change for AI, and temporal nonmonotonic reasoning.
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Title #772: Logics for Artificial Intelligence (Ellis Horwood Series in
Artificial Intelligence )
Edition: First Edition
ISBN Number: 0135355435
Number of Pages: Information Unavailable
Author(s): Raymond Turner
Publisher: Ellis Horwood Ltd
Date: December, 1984
Category: Logics for AI
Abstract / Synopsis: Information Unavailable
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Title #773: Optimization and Computational Logic
Edition: First Edition
ISBN Number: 0471115339
Number of Pages: 560
Author(s): Kenneth McAloon
Publisher: Wiley-Interscience
Date: August 31, 1996
Category: This book/software package uniquely integrates logic and
operations research
Abstract / Synopsis: This book/software package uniquely integrates logic and operations research. Its broad coverage provides concepts, templates, and the tools for the task of attacking difficult problems which are repeatedly encountered in decision making. The first part deals with linear programming and the second with search techniques for combinatorially hard problems. The applications discussed include product mix problems, pattern recognition, classical and probabilistic logic, financial planning, and expert systems.
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Title #774: Logic and Learning
Edition: First Edition
ISBN Number: 3540420274
Number of Pages: 292
Author(s): J. W. Lloyd
Publisher: Springer
Date: June 15, 2003
Category: Book is concerned with the rich and fruitful interplay between the
fields of computational logic and machine learning
Abstract / Synopsis: This book is concerned with the rich and fruitful interplay between the fields of computational logic and machine learning. The intended audience is senior undergraduates, graduate students, and researchers in either of those fields. For those in computational logic, no previous knowledge of machine learning is assumed, and for those in machine learning no previous knowledge of computational logic is assumed. The logic used throughout the book is a higher-order one, since higher-order functions can have other functions as arguments and this capability can be exploited to provide abstractions for knowledge representation, methods for constructing predicates, and a foundation for logic-based computation. The book should be of interest to researchers in machine learning, especially those who study learning methods for structured data. Throughout, great emphasis is placed on learning comprehensible theories. The book serves as an introduction for computational logicians to machine learning, a particularly interesting and important application area of logic, and also provides a foundation for functional logic programming languages.
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Title #775: Logical Processes in Humans and Computers: Theory and
Research in Psychology and Artificial Intelligence
Edition: First Edition
ISBN Number: 0275978605
Number of Pages: Information Unavailable
Author(s): Morton Wagman
Publisher: Greenwood Publishing Group, Inc.
Date: August 2003
Category: See Abstract / Synopsis
Abstract / Synopsis: Describes advancing research in artificial intelligence that is creating logical reasoning systems that increasingly emulate or surpass the power of human reasoning.
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Title #776: Computational Logic, Pt. I: Logic Programming and Beyond:
Essays in Honor of Robert A. Kowalski
Edition: First Edition
ISBN Number: 3540439595
Number of Pages: 678
Author(s): Robert Kowalski, Antonis C. Kakas, Fariba Sadri
Publisher: Springer
Date: September 2002
Category: Essays in honor of Robert A. Kowalski
Abstract / Synopsis: Information Unavailable
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Title #777: The Logic Programming Paradigm: A 25-Year Perspective
Edition: First Edition
ISBN Number: 3540654631
Number of Pages: 456
Author(s): Krzysztof R. Apt, Victor W. Marek, Mirek Truszczynski, David S.
Warren
Publisher: Springer
Date: June, 1999
Category: Logic Programming
Abstract / Synopsis: Logic Programming was founded 25 years ago. This exciting new text reveals both the evolution of this programming paradigm since its inception and the impressively broad scope of current research in Logic Programming. The contributions to the book deal with both theoretical and practical issues. They address such diverse topics as: computational molecular biology, machine learning, mobile computing, multi-agent systems, planning, numerical computing and dynamical systems, database systems, an alternative to the "formulas as types" approach, program semantics and analysis, and natural language processing. The contributors are all leading world experts in Logic Programming and their contributions were all invited and refereed.
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Title #778: Logic, Action, and Information: Essays on Logic in Philosophy
and Artificial Intelligence
Edition: First Edition
ISBN Number: 3110139944
Number of Pages: 476
Author(s): A. Fuhrmann, Hans Rott, Andre Fuhrmann
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter
Date: October, 1995
Category: Logic, Action, and Information: Essays on Logic in Philosophy
and Artificial Intelligence
Abstract / Synopsis: Information Unavailable
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Title #779: Learning Language in Logic
Edition: First Edition
ISBN Number: 3540411453
Number of Pages: 301
Author(s): James Cussens, Saso Dzeroski
Publisher: Springer
Date: November 27, 2000
Category: Introduction to Learning Language in Logic (LLL)
Abstract / Synopsis: This book provides a self-contained introduction to Learning Language in Logic (LLL) and, at the same time, competently surveys the current state of the art of research in the area. The book has its origin in the first LLL workshop which took place in Bled, Slovenia in June 1999. Beyond revised workshop papers, a number of additional chapters were solicited from leading researchers in order to achieve complete coverage of all current aspects and to introduce the new area to a broader audience. As the first book devoted to LLL, this thoroughly cross-reviewed state-of-the-art survey will become a valuable source of reference for researchers active in the area. Newcomers or professionals interested in advanced LLL applications will find this book an ideal guide to an exciting new field.
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Title #780: Handbook of Logic in Artificial Intelligence and Logic
Programming: Logical Foundations
Edition: First Edition
ISBN Number: 019853745X
Number of Pages: 536
Author(s): C. J. Hogger
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Date: June, 1993
Category: Handbook of Logic in Artificial Intelligence and Logic
Programming
Abstract / Synopsis: Logic is now widely recognized to be one of the foundational disciplines of computing with applications in virtually all aspects of the subject, from software engineering and hardware development to programming languages and artificial intelligence. There is a growing need for an in-depth survey of the applications of logic in AI and computer science. The Handbook of Logic in Artificial Intelligence and Logic Programming and its companion, Handbook of Logic in Computer Science, have been created in response to this need. This book is a combination of authoritative exposition, comprehensive survey, and fundamental research that explores underlying unifying themes in the various subject areas. Chapters have been written by an internationally renowned team of researchers and are coordinated in terms of the theories discussed and the examples offered. This book will be of interest to graduate students and researchers in all areas of artificial intelligence, computer science, and logic, as well as to logicians and mathematicians.
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Title #781: Logic Grammars
Edition: First Edition
ISBN Number: 0387969616
Number of Pages: 234
Author(s): Harvey Abramson, Veronica Dahl
Publisher: Springer
Date: March 20, 1989
Category: Book introduces the main concepts involving natural and formal
language processing in logic programming
Abstract / Synopsis: Logic grammars have found wide application both in natural language processing and in formal applications such as compiler writing. This book introduces the main concepts involving natural and formal language processing in logic programming, and discusses typical problems which the reader may encounter, proposing various methods for solving them. The basic material is presented in depth; advanced material, involving new logic grammar formalisms and applications, is presented with a view towards breadth. Major sections of the book include: grammars for formal language and linguistic research, writing a simple logic grammar, different types of logic grammars, applications, and logic grammars and concurrency. This book is intended for those interested in logic programming, artificial intelligence, computational linguistics, Fifth Generation computing, formal languages and compiling techniques. It may be read profitably by upper-level undergraduates, post-graduate students, and active researchers on the above-named areas. Some familiarity with Prolog and logic programming would be helpful; the authors, however, briefly describe Prolog and its relation to logic grammars. After reading Logic Grammars, the reader will be able to cope with the ever-increasing literature of this new and exciting field.
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Title #782: Formal Methods in Artificial Intelligence
Edition: First Edition
ISBN Number: 0521352363
Number of Pages: 296
Author(s): Allan M. Ramsay
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Date: November 10, 1988
Category: Book covers the background of classical logic, including the major meta-theorems, and the state of the art in theorem proving including Bibel's connection method
Abstract / Synopsis: Artificial intelligence has recently turned to formal logic in the search for powerful yet well-behaved knowledge representation languages. This book covers the background of classical logic, including the major meta-theorems, and the state of the art in theorem proving including Bibel's connection method. Also covered are the advanced adaptations of classical logic now being used in artificial intelligence - temporal and modal logics, reason maintenance and intentional logic. The book covers a wider range of topics than the currently available books in this area, and is more directly aimed at workers in artificial intelligence.
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Title #783: From Standard Logic to Logic Programming: Introducing a
Logic Based Approach to Artificial Intelligence, Paperback
Edition: First Edition
ISBN Number: 0471918385
Number of Pages: 360
Author(s): Andre Thayse
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Inc
Date: August, 1988
Category: From Standard Logic to Logic Programming: Introducing a Logic
Based Approach to Artificial Intelligence
Abstract / Synopsis: Information Unavailable
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Title #784: Logic Programming and Its Applications
Edition: First Edition
ISBN Number: 0893912328
Number of Pages: 318
Author(s): Michel Van Caneghem, David Warren
Publisher: Ablex Pub
Date: February, 1986
Category: Logic Programming and Its Applications
Abstract / Synopsis: Information Unavailable
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Title #785: Logic Programming (Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence),
Paperback
Edition: First Edition
ISBN Number: 0387554602
Number of Pages: 514
Author(s): A. Voronkov
Publisher: Springer
Date: May, 1992
Category: Logic Programming
Abstract / Synopsis: Information Unavailable
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Title #786: Machine Learning
Edition: First Edition
ISBN Number: 0070428077
Number of Pages: 432
Author(s): Tom M. Mitchell
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Science
Date: March 1, 1997
Category: Machine learning
Abstract / Synopsis: This book covers the field of machine learning, which is the study of algorithms that allow computer programs to automatically improve through experience. The book is intended to support upper level undergraduate and introductory level graduate courses in machine learning.
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Title #787: Reinforcement Learning: An Introduction (Adaptive
Computation and Machine Learning)
Edition: First Edition
ISBN Number: 0262193981
Number of Pages: 322
Author(s): Richard S. Sutton, Andrew G. Barto
Publisher: The MIT Press
Date: March 1, 1998
Category: Reinforcement learning
Abstract / Synopsis: Reinforcement learning, one of the most active research areas in artificial intelligence, is a computational approach to learning whereby an agent tries to maximize the total amount of reward it receives when interacting with a complex, uncertain environment. In Reinforcement Learning, Richard Sutton and Andrew Barto provide a clear and simple account of the key ideas and algorithms of reinforcement learning. Their discussion ranges from the history of the field's intellectual foundations to the most recent developments and applications. The only necessary mathematical background is familiarity with elementary concepts of probability. The book is divided into three parts. Part I defines the reinforcement learning problem in terms of Markov decision processes. Part II provides basic solution methods: dynamic programming, Monte Carlo methods, and temporal-difference learning. Part III presents a unified view of the solution methods and incorporates artificial neural networks, eligibility traces, and planning; the two final chapters present case studies and consider the future of reinforcement learning.
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Title #788: An Introduction to Computational Learning Theory
Edition: First Edition
ISBN Number: 0262111934
Number of Pages: 221
Author(s): Michael J. Kearns, Umesh V. Vazirani
Publisher: The MIT Press
Date: August 15, 1994
Category: Computational learning theory
Abstract / Synopsis: Authors introduce a number of central topics in computational learning theory for researchers and students in artificial intelligence, neural networks, theoretical computer science, and statistics. DLC: Machine learning.
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Title #789: Learning in Graphical Models (Adaptive Computation and
Machine Learning), Paperback
Edition: First Edition
ISBN Number: 0262600323
Number of Pages: 648
Author(s): Michael I. Jordan
Publisher: The MIT Press
Date: November 27, 1998
Category: Exploration of issues related to learning within the graphical model
formalism
Abstract / Synopsis: Graphical models, a marriage between probability theory and graph theory, provide a natural tool for dealing with two problems that occur throughout applied mathematics and engineering--uncertainty and complexity. In particular, they play an increasingly important role in the design and analysis of machine learning algorithms. Fundamental to the idea of a graphical model is the notion of modularity: a complex system is built by combining simpler parts. Probability theory serves as the glue whereby the parts are combined, ensuring that the system as a whole is consistent and providing ways to interface models to data. Graph theory provides both an intuitively appealing interface by which humans can model highly interacting sets of variables and a data structure that lends itself naturally to the design of efficient general-purpose algorithms. This book presents an in-depth exploration of issues related to learning within the graphical model formalism.
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Title #790: Fluid Concepts & Creative Analogies: Computer Models of the
Fundamental Mechanisms of Thought
Edition: First Edition
ISBN Number: 0465024750
Number of Pages: 532
Author(s): Douglas Hofstadter
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
Date: March, 1996
Category: AI and machine learning
Abstract / Synopsis: Douglas Hofstadter tackles the subject of artificial intelligence and machine learning in his thought-provoking work Fluid Concepts and Creative Analogies, written in conjunction with the Fluid Analogies Research Group at the University of Michigan. Driven to discover whether computers can be made to "think" like humans, Hofstadter and his colleagues created a variety of computer programs that extrapolate sequences, apply pattern-matching strategies, make analogies, and even act "creative." As always, Hofstadter's work requires devotion on the part of the reader, but rewards him with fascinating insights into the nature of both human and machine intelligence.
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Title #791: Learning Kernel Classifiers: Theory and Algorithms (Adaptive
Computation and Machine Learning)
Edition: First Edition
ISBN Number: 026208306X
Number of Pages: 384
Author(s): Ralf Herbrich
Publisher: The MIT Press
Date: December 15, 2001
Category: Theory and algorithms of kernel classifiers
Abstract / Synopsis: Linear classifiers in kernel spaces have emerged as a major topic within the field of machine learning. The kernel technique takes the linear classifier--a limited, but well-established and comprehensively studied model--and extends its applicability to a wide range of nonlinear pattern-recognition tasks such as natural language processing, machine vision, and biological sequence analysis. This book provides the first comprehensive overview of both the theory and algorithms of kernel classifiers, including the most recent developments.
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Title #792: Statistical Learning Theory
Edition: First Edition
ISBN Number: 0471030031
Number of Pages: 736
Author(s): Vladimir N. Vapnik
Publisher: Wiley-Interscience
Date: September 16, 1998
Category: Learning and generalization theory
Abstract / Synopsis: A comprehensive look at learning and generalization theory. The statistical theory of learning and generalization concerns the problem of choosing desired functions on the basis of empirical data. Highly applicable to a variety of computer science and robotics fields, this book offers lucid coverage of the theory as a whole. Presenting a method for determining the necessary and sufficient conditions for consistency of learning process, the author covers function estimates from small data pools, applying these estimations to real-life problems, and much more.
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Title #793: C4.5: Programs for Machine Learning (Morgan Kaufmann
Series in Machine Learning), Paperback
Edition: First Edition
ISBN Number: 1558602380
Number of Pages: 302
Author(s): J. Ross Quinlan
Publisher: Morgan Kaufmann
Date: January 15, 1993
Category: C4.5: Programs for Machine Learning
Abstract / Synopsis: Classifier systems play a major role in machine learning and knowledge-based systems, and Ross Quinlan's work on ID3 and C4.5 is widely acknowledged to have made some of the most significant contributions to their development. This book is a complete guide to the C4.5 system as implemented in C for the UNIX environment. It contains a comprehensive guide to the system's use , the source code (about 8,800 lines), and implementation notes. The source code and sample datasets are also available for download (see below).
C4.5 starts with large sets of cases belonging to known classes. The cases, described by any mixture of nominal and numeric properties, are scrutinized for patterns that allow the classes to be reliably discriminated. These patterns are then expressed as models, in the form of decision trees or sets of if-then rules, that can be used to classify new cases, with emphasis on making the models understandable as well as accurate. The system has been applied successfully to tasks involving tens of thousands of cases described by hundreds of properties. The book starts from simple core learning methods and shows how they can be elaborated and extended to deal with typical problems such as missing data and over hitting. Advantages and disadvantages of the C4.5 approach are discussed and illustrated with several case studies.
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Title #794: Algorithmic Learning in a Random World
Edition: First Edition
ISBN Number: 0387001522
Number of Pages: 324
Author(s): Vladimir Vovk
Publisher: Springer
Date: March 22, 2005
Category: Theoretical and experimental developments in building
computable approximations to Kolmogorov's algorithmic notion of randomness
Abstract / Synopsis: Algorithmic Learning in a Random World describes recent theoretical and experimental developments in building computable approximations to Kolmogorov's algorithmic notion of randomness. Based on these approximations, a new set of machine learning algorithms have been developed that can be used to make predictions and to estimate their confidence and credibility in high-dimensional spaces under the usual assumption that the data are independent and identically distributed (assumption of randomness). Another aim of this unique monograph is to outline some limits of predictions: The approach based on algorithmic theory of randomness allows for the proof of impossibility of prediction in certain situations. The book describes how several important machine learning problems, such as density estimation in high-dimensional spaces, cannot be solved if the only assumption is randomness.
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Title #795: Learning and Soft Computing: Support Vector Machines,
Neural Networks, and Fuzzy Logic Models (Complex Adaptive
Systems)
Edition: First Edition
ISBN Number: 0262112558
Number of Pages: 608
Author(s): Vojislav Kecman
Publisher: The MIT Press
Date: March 19, 2001
Category: Introduction to the field of learning from experimental data and
soft computing.
Abstract / Synopsis: This textbook provides a thorough introduction to the field of learning from experimental data and soft computing. Support vector machines (SVM) and neural networks (NN) are the mathematical structures, or models, that underlie learning, while fuzzy logic systems (FLS) enable us to embed structured human knowledge into workable algorithms. The book assumes that it is not only useful, but necessary, to treat SVM, NN, and FLS as parts of a connected whole. Throughout, the theory and algorithms are illustrated by practical examples, as well as by problem sets and simulated experiments. This approach enables the reader to develop SVM, NN, and FLS in addition to understanding them. The book also presents three case studies: on NN-based control, financial time series analysis, and computer graphics. A solutions manual and all of the MATLAB programs needed for the simulated experiments are available.
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Title #796: Systems That Learn - 2nd Edition: An Introduction to
Learning Theory (Learning, Development, and Conceptual
Change)
Edition: Second Edition
ISBN Number: 0262100770
Number of Pages: 317
Author(s): Sanjay Jain
Publisher: The MIT Press
Date: February 12, 1999
Category: Learning theory
Abstract / Synopsis: Formal learning theory is one of several mathematical approaches to the study of intelligent adaptation to the environment. The analysis developed in this book is based on a number theoretical approach to learning and uses the tools of recursive-function theory to understand how learners come to an accurate view of reality. This revised and expanded edition of a successful text provides a comprehensive, self-contained introduction to the concepts and techniques of the theory. Exercises throughout the text provide experience in the use of computational arguments to prove facts about learning.
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Title #797: Computation and Human Experience (Learning in Doing:
Social, Cognitive & Computational Perspectives), Paperback
Edition: First Edition
ISBN Number: 0521386039
Number of Pages: 389
Author(s): Philip E. Agre
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Date: July 28, 1997
Category: AI research
Abstract / Synopsis: This book offers a critical reconstruction of the fundamental ideas and methods of artificial intelligence research.
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Title #798: Machine Learning : Discriminative and Generative (The
International Series in Engineering and Computer Science)
Edition: First Edition
ISBN Number: 1402076479
Number of Pages: 224
Author(s): Tony Jebara
Publisher: Springer
Date: December 31, 2003
Category: Machine Learning
Abstract / Synopsis: Machine Learning: Discriminative and Generative covers the main contemporary themes and tools in machine learning ranging from Bayesian probabilistic models to discriminative support-vector machines. However, unlike previous books that only discuss these rather different approaches in isolation, it bridges the two schools of thought together within a common framework, elegantly connecting their various theories and making one common big-picture. Also, this bridge brings forth new hybrid discriminative-generative tools that combine the strengths of both camps. This book serves multiple purposes as well. The framework acts as a scientific breakthrough, fusing the areas of generative and discriminative learning and will be of interest to many researchers. However, as a conceptual breakthrough, this common framework unifies many previously unrelated tools and techniques and makes them understandable to a larger portion of the public. This gives the more practical-minded engineer, student and the industrial public an easy-access and more sensible road map into the world of machine learning. Machine Learning: Discriminative and Generative is designed for an audience composed of researchers & practitioners in industry and academia. The book is also suitable as a secondary text for graduate-level students in computer science and engineering.
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Title #799: Truth from Trash: How Learning Makes Sense (Complex
Adaptive Systems)
Edition: First Edition
ISBN Number: 0262201275
Number of Pages: 126
Author(s): Chris Thornton
Publisher: The MIT Press
Date: March 24, 2000
Category: Learning is not a passive discovery operation but an active process
involving creativity on the part of the learner
Abstract / Synopsis: Offers a bracing intellectual adventure, making the compelling claim that learning is not a passive discovery operation but an active process involving creativity on the part of the learner.
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Title #800: Machine Learning Methods for Planning (The Morgan
Kaufmann Series in Machine Learning)
Edition: First Edition
ISBN Number: 1558602488
Number of Pages: 540
Author(s): Steven Minton
Publisher: Morgan Kaufmann Publisher
Date: June, 1993
Category: Machine Learning Methods for Planning
Abstract / Synopsis: Research on planning systems has shown that domain knowledge is crucial for effectively coping with complex, changing environments. Unfortunately, acquiring and incorporating the necessary domain knowledge can be a significant problem when building a practical planning system. The knowledge engineering process is typically time-consuming and expensive. Furthermore, if a human expert is not available it may be extremely difficult to obtain the necessary knowledge. One solution is for a system to automatically acquire domain-specific knowledge through learning. The idea of a planning system that can improve its performance with experience is very attractive. Furthermore, advances in machine learning have provided a deeper understanding of learning mechanisms relevant to acquiring such knowledge. For this reason, there is a great deal of interest in this area of artificial intelligence. This book brings together, in one volume, a set of chapters from the primary researchers in the field, presenting a picture of its current state and its likely areas for application. The chapters describe a variety of learning methods-including analogical, case-based, explanation-based, decision-tree, and reinforcement techniques-and a wide range of planning architectures-running gamut from STRIPS-like systems to problem-reduction architectures to reactive agents. It will draw the interest of AI researchers and system developers, especially those in machine learning, planning, and scheduling, as well as researchers from other fields, such as operations research, that focus on automated planning.
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Title #801: Foundations of Knowledge Acquisition: Machine Learning
(The Kluwer International Series in Engineering and
Computer Science)
Edition: First Edition
ISBN Number: 0792392787
Number of Pages: 352
Author(s): Alan L. Meyrowitz, Susan Chipman
Publisher: Springer
Date: January 31, 1993
Category: Knowledge acquisition
Abstract / Synopsis: Information Unavailable
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Title #802: Statistical Mechanics of Learning, Paperback
Edition: First Edition
ISBN Number: 0521774799
Number of Pages: 250
Author(s): Andreas Engel, Christian P. L. Van den Broeck
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Date: March 29, 2001
Category: Statistical Mechanics of Learning
Abstract / Synopsis: The effort to build machines that are able to learn and undertake tasks such as data mining, image processing and pattern recognition has led to the development of artificial neural networks in which learning from examples may be described and understood. The contribution to this subject made over the past decade by researchers applying the techniques of statistical mechanics is the subject of this book. The authors provide a coherent account of various important concepts and techniques that are currently only found scattered in papers, supplement this with background material in mathematics and physics, and include many examples and exercises.
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Title #803: Automated Knowledge Acquisition, Paperback
Edition: First Edition
ISBN Number: 0133011364
Number of Pages: 378
Author(s): Sabrina Sestito, Tharam S. Dillon
Publisher: Prentice Hall PTR
Date: August 18, 1994
Category: This tutorial provides clear explanations of techniques for
automated knowledge acquisition
Abstract / Synopsis: This tutorial provides clear explanations of techniques for automated knowledge acquisition. Covers topics such as induction algorithms using decision trees; induction algorithms using progressive rule generation; sub-symbolic learning methods, artificial neural networks; other machine learning paradigms; theoretical considerations; the extraction of rules and concepts using a single-layered Hebbian neural network; BRAINNE - automated knowledge acquisition using multi-layered neural network; and BRAINNE in the real world. For computer professionals who wish to gain a good understanding of automated knowledge acquisition techniques.
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Title #804: Learning from Data : Concepts, Theory, and Methods
(Adaptive and Learning Systems for Signal Processing,
Communications and Control Series)
Edition: First Edition
ISBN Number: 0471154938
Number of Pages: 464
Author(s): Vladimir Cherkassky, Filip Mulier
Publisher: Wiley-Interscience
Date: March 20, 1998
Category: Book contains considerable information on the concept of
statistical learning theory
Abstract / Synopsis: Information Unavailable
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Title #805: Elements of Machine Learning (Morgan Kaufmann Series in
Machine Learning), Paperback
Edition: First Edition
ISBN Number: 1558603018
Number of Pages: 419
Author(s): Pat Langley
Publisher: Morgan Kaufmann
Date: September 1, 1995
Category: Book illustrates a variety of basic algorithms for inducing simple concepts from experience, presents alternatives for organizing learned concepts into large-scale structures, and discusses adaptations of the learning methods to more complex problem-solving tasks
Abstract / Synopsis: Recent years have seen an explosion of work on machine learning, the computational study of algorithms that improve performance based on experience. Research on rule induction, neural networks, genetic algorithms, case-based reasoning, and probabilistic inference has produced a variety of robust methods for inducing knowledge from training data. This book covers the main induction algorithms explored in the literature and presents them within a coherent theoretical framework that moves beyond traditional paradigm boundaries. Elements of Machine Learning provides a comprehensive introduction to the fundamental concepts and problems in the field. The book illustrates a variety of basic algorithms for inducing simple concepts from experience, presents alternatives for organizing learned concepts into large-scale structures, and discusses adaptations of the learning methods to more complex problem-solving tasks. The chapters describe these computational techniques in detail and give examples of their operation, along with exercises and references to the literature.
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Title #806: Readings in Machine Learning (The Morgan Kaufmann Series
in Machine Learning), Paperback
Edition: First Edition
ISBN Number: 1558601430
Number of Pages: 853
Author(s): Jude Shavlik, Thomas Dietterich
Publisher: Morgan Kaufmann
Date: June 1, 1990
Category: Collection of the best of the published machine learning literature, including papers that address a wide range of learning tasks, and that introduce a variety of techniques for giving machines the ability to learn
Abstract / Synopsis: The ability to learn is a fundamental characteristic of intelligent behavior. Consequently, machine learning has been a focus of artificial intelligence since the beginnings of AI in the 1950s. The 1980s saw tremendous growth in the field, and this growth promises to continue with valuable contributions to science, engineering, and business. Readings in Machine Learning collects the best of the published machine learning literature, including papers that address a wide range of learning tasks, and that introduce a variety of techniques for giving machines the ability to learn. The editors, in cooperation with a group of expert referees, have chosen important papers that empirically study, theoretically analyze, or psychologically justify machine learning algorithms. The papers are grouped into a dozen categories, each of which is introduced by the editors.
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Title #807: Programming in Scheme: Learn Scheme Through Artificial
Intelligence Programs, Paperback
Edition: Book & Disk edition
ISBN Number: 0387946810
Number of Pages: 238
Author(s): Mark Watson
Publisher: Springer-Verlag Telos
Date: August 1996
Category: Book provides readers with an introduction to programming in
Scheme
Abstract / Synopsis: Scheme provides a flexible and powerful language for programming embodying many of the best features of logical and functional programming. This enjoyable book provides readers with an introduction to programming in Scheme by constructing a series of interesting and re-usable programs. The book includes two diskettes containing MIT Scheme to run on Windows PCs
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Title #808: Inferred Functions of Performance and Learning
Edition: First Edition
ISBN Number: 0805845402
Number of Pages: 523
Author(s): Siegfried Engelmann, Donald Steely
Publisher: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates
Date: June 2003
Category: Inferred Functions of Performance and Learning
Abstract / Synopsis: Information Unavailable
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Title #809: Machine Learning : An Artificial Intelligence Approach
(Volume I)
Edition: First Edition
ISBN Number: 0934613095
Number of Pages: 572
Author(s): Ryszard S. Michalski, Jaime G. Carbonell, Tom M. Mitchel
Publisher: Morgan Kaufmann
Date: 1983
Category: Machine Learning
Abstract / Synopsis: Multistrategy learning is one of the newest and most promising research directions in the development of machine learning systems. The objectives of research in this area are to study trade-offs between different learning strategies and to develop learning systems that employ multiple types of inference or computational paradigms in a learning process. Multistrategy systems offer significant advantages over monostrategy systems. They are more flexible in the type of input they can learn from and the type of knowledge they can acquire. As a consequence, multistrategy systems have the potential to be applicable to a wide range of practical problems. This volume is the first book in this fast growing field. It contains a selection of contributions by leading researchers specializing in this area.
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Title #810: Associative Learning: For a Robot Intelligence
Edition: First Edition
ISBN Number: 186094132X
Number of Pages: 348
Author(s): John H. Andreae
Publisher: World Scientific Publishing Company
Date: October, 1998
Category: Associative Learning
Abstract / Synopsis: The explanation of brain functioning in terms of the association of ideas has been popular since the 17th century. Recently, however, the process of association has been dismissed as computationally inadequate by prominent cognitive scientists. In this book, a sharper definition of the term "association" is used to revive the process by showing that associative learning can indeed be computationally powerful. Within an appropriate organization, associative learning can be embodied in a robot to realize a human-like intelligence, which sets its own goals, exhibits unique unformalizable behavior and has no hidden homunculi.
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Title #811: A Compendium of Machine Learning
Edition: First Edition
ISBN Number: 1567501796
Number of Pages: Information Unavailable
Author(s): Terry Caelli, Garry Briscoe
Publisher: Ablex Publishing Corporation
Date: March, 1996
Category: A Compendium of Machine Learning
Abstract / Synopsis: Information Unavailable
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Title #812: Machine Learning: An Integrated Framework and Its
Applications
Edition: First Edition
ISBN Number: 013541749X
Number of Pages: Information Unavailable
Author(s): Francesco Bergadano
Publisher: Ellis Horwood Ltd
Date: August, 1991
Category: Machine Learning: An Integrated Framework and Its Applications
Abstract / Synopsis: Information Unavailable
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Title #813: Machine Learning and Perception
Edition: First Edition
ISBN Number: 981022642X
Number of Pages: 205
Author(s): Guido Tascini
Publisher: World Scientific Pub Co Inc
Date: June, 1996
Category: Book highlights the relation between perception and learning and describes the influence of the learning in the interaction with the environment
Abstract / Synopsis: As perception stands for the acquisition of a real world representation by interaction with an environment, learning is the modification of this internal representation. This book highlights the relation between perception and learning and describes the influence of the learning in the interaction with the environment. Besides, this volume contains a series of applications of both machine learning and perception, where the former is often embedded in the latter and vice-versa. Among the topics covered, there are visual perception for autonomous robots, model generation of visual patterns, attentional reasoning, genetic approaches and various categories of neural networks.
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Title #814: Machine Learning : Paradigms and Methods, Paperback
Edition: First Edition
ISBN Number: 0262530880
Number of Pages: 400
Author(s): Jaime Carbonell
Publisher: The MIT Press
Date: February 23, 1990
Category: Book unifies the field by bringing together and clearly explaining the major successful paradigms for machine learning: inductive approaches, explanation-based learning, genetic algorithms, and connectionist learning methods
Abstract / Synopsis: Having played a central role at the inception of artificial intelligence research, machine learning has recently reemerged as a major area of study at the very core of the subject. Solid theoretical foundations are being constructed. Machine learning methods are being integrated with powerful performance systems, and practical applications; based on established techniques are emerging. Machine Learning unifies the field by bringing together and clearly explaining the major successful paradigms for machine learning: inductive approaches, explanation-based learning, genetic algorithms, and connectionist learning methods. Each paradigm is presented in depth, providing historical perspective but focusing on current research and potential applications.
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Title #815: Generalized Nets in Artificial Intelligence: Generalized Nets
and Machine Learning, Paperback
Edition: First Edition
ISBN Number: 9544307729
Number of Pages: 158
Author(s): K. T. Atanassov, H. Aladjov
Publisher: Akademicno Izdatelstvo
Date: December, 2000
Category: Generalized Nets in Artificial Intelligence: Generalized Nets and
Machine Learning
Abstract / Synopsis: Information Unavailable
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Title #816: Membrane Computing
Edition: First Edition
ISBN Number: 3540436014
Number of Pages: 430
Author(s): Gheorghe Paun
Publisher: Springer
Date: September 17, 2002
Category: This book is the first monograph surveying the field of membrane
computing in a systematic and coherent way
Abstract / Synopsis: Like quantum computing or DNA computing, membrane computing is an unconventional model of computation associated with a new computing paradigm. The field of membrane computing was initiated in 1998 by the author of this book; it is a branch of natural computing inspired by the structure and functioning of the living cell and devises distributed parallel computing models in the form of membrane systems, also called P systems. This book is the first monograph surveying the new field in a systematic and coherent way. It presents the central notions and results: the main classes of P systems, the main results about their computational power and efficiency, a complete bibliography, and a series of open problems and research topics. Thus, the book is indispensable reading for anybody interested in molecular computing.
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Title #817: Recent Advances in Memetic Algorithms (Studies in Fuzziness
and Soft Computing)
Edition: First Edition
ISBN Number: 3540229043
Number of Pages: 408
Author(s): William E. Hart
Publisher: Springer
Date: November 23, 2004
Category: Presents a rich state-of-the-art gallery of works on memetic
algorithms
Abstract / Synopsis: Memetic algorithms are evolutionary algorithms that apply a local search process to refine solutions to hard problems. Memetic algorithms are the subject of intense scientific research and have been successfully applied to a multitude of real-world problems ranging from the construction of optimal university exam timetables, to the prediction of protein structures and the optimal design of space-craft trajectories. This monograph presents a rich state-of-the-art gallery of works on memetic algorithms. Recent Advances in Memetic Algorithms is the first book that focuses on this technology as the central topical matter. This book gives a coherent, integrated view on both good practice examples and new trends including a concise and self-contained introduction to memetic algorithms. It is a necessary read for postgraduate students and researchers interested in recent advances in search and optimization technologies based on memetic algorithms, but can also be used as complement to undergraduate textbooks on artificial intelligence.
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Title #818: Using MPI - 2nd Edition: Portable Parallel Programming with
the Message Passing Interface (Scientific and Engineering
Computation), Paperback
Edition: 2nd edition
ISBN Number: 0262571323
Number of Pages: 350
Author(s): William Gropp
Publisher: The MIT Press
Date: November 26, 1999
Category: Message Passing Interface (MPI)
Abstract / Synopsis: The Message Passing Interface (MPI) specification is widely used for solving significant scientific and engineering problems on parallel computers. There exist more than a dozen implementations on computer platforms ranging from IBM SP-2 supercomputers to clusters of PCs running Windows NT or Linux ("Beowulf" machines). The initial MPI Standard document, MPI-1, was recently updated by the MPI Forum. The new version, MPI-2, contains both significant enhancements to the existing MPI core and new features. Using MPI is a completely up-to-date version of the authors' 1994 introduction to the core functions of MPI. It adds material on the new C++ and Fortran 90 bindings for MPI throughout the book. It contains greater discussion of datatype extents, the most frequently misunderstood feature of MPI-1, as well as material on the new extensions to basic MPI functionality added by the MPI-2 Forum in the area of MPI datatypes and collective operations. Using MPI-2 covers the new extensions to basic MPI. These include parallel I/O, remote memory access operations, and dynamic process management. The volume also includes material on tuning MPI applications for high performance on modern MPI implementations.
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Title #819: Molecular Computing
Edition: First Edition
ISBN Number: 0262194872
Number of Pages: 280
Author(s): Tanya Sienko
Publisher: The MIT Press
Date: September 14, 2003
Category: Book moves from abstract principles of molecular computing to
the building of actual systems
Abstract / Synopsis: The next great change in computer science and information technology will come from mimicking the techniques by which biological organisms process information. To do this computer scientists must draw on expertise in subjects not usually associated with their field, including organic chemistry, molecular biology, bioengineering, and smart materials. This book provides an introduction to the interdisciplinary field of molecular computing. The book moves from abstract principles of molecular computing to the building of actual systems. The topics include the use of proteins and other molecules for information-processing, molecular recognition, computation in nonlinear media, computers based on physical reaction-diffusion systems found in chemical media, DNA computing, bioelectronics and protein-based optical computing, and biosensors.
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Title #820: Fundamentals of Neural Networks
Edition: First Edition
ISBN Number: 0133341860
Number of Pages: 461
Author(s): Laurene V. Fausett
Publisher: Prentice Hall
Date: January 15, 1994
Category: Neural networks
Abstract / Synopsis: Providing detailed examples of simple applications, this new book introduces the use of neural networks. It covers simple neural nets for pattern classification; pattern association; neural networks based on competition; adaptive-resonance theory; and more. For professionals working with neural networks.
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Title #821: Introduction to the Theory of Neural Computation (Santa Fe
Institute Studies in the Sciences of Complexity), Paperback
Edition: First Edition
ISBN Number: 0201515601
Number of Pages: 352
Author(s): John Hertz
Publisher: Perseus Books Group
Date: January 1991
Category: Introduction to the neural network models
Abstract / Synopsis: Comprehensive introduction to the neural network models currently under intensive study for computational applications. It also provides coverage of neural network applications in a variety of problems of both theoretical and practical interest. DLC: 1. Neural computers.
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Title #822: Practical Neural Network Recipies in C++, Paperback
Edition: Book & Disk edition
ISBN Number: 0124790402
Number of Pages: 493
Author(s): Masters
Publisher: Morgan Kaufmann
Date: March 31, 1993
Category: Cookbook for neural network solutions to practical problems using
C++
Abstract / Synopsis: This text serves as a cookbook for neural network solutions to practical problems using C++. It will enable those with moderate programming experience to select a neural network model appropriate to solving a particular problem, and to produce a working program implementing that network. The book provides guidance along the entire problem-solving path, including designing the training set, preprocessing variables, training and validating the network, and evaluating its performance. Though the book is not intended as a general course in neural networks, no background in neural works is assumed and all models are presented from the ground up. The principle focus of the book is the three layer feedforward network, for more than a decade as the workhorse of professional arsenals. Other network models with strong performance records are also included. Bound in the book is an IBM diskette that includes the source code for all programs in the book. Much of this code can be easily adapted to C compilers. In addition, the operation of all programs is thoroughly discussed both in the text and in the comments within the code to facilitate translation to other languages.
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Title #823: Biomimetic Neural Learning for Intelligent Robots : Intelligent
Systems, Cognitive Robotics, and Neuroscience (Lecture Notes
in Computer Science / Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence),
Paperback
Edition: First Edition
ISBN Number: 3540274405
Number of Pages: 383
Author(s): Stefan Wermter
Publisher: Springer
Date: August 22, 2005
Category: Biologically inspired neural models
Abstract / Synopsis: This state-of-the-art survey contains selected papers contributed by researchers in intelligent systems, cognitive robotics, and neuroscience including contributions from the MirrorBot project and from the NeuroBotics Workshop 2004. The research work presented demonstrates significant novel developments in biologically inspired neural models for use in intelligent robot environments and biomimetic cognitive behavior.
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Title #824: Self-Organizing Maps, Paperback
Edition: First Edition
ISBN Number: 3540679219
Number of Pages: 521
Author(s): Teuvo Kohonen
Publisher: Springer
Date: December 28, 2000
Category: Artificial neural network algorithm in the unsupervised learning
Abstract / Synopsis: The Self-Organizing Map (SOM), with its variants, is the most popular artificial neural network algorithm in the unsupervised learning category. Many fields of science have adopted the SOM as a standard analytical tool: in statistics,signal processing, control theory, financial analyses, experimental physics, chemistry and medicine. A new area is organization of very large document collections. The SOM is also one of the most realistic models of the biological brain functions. This new edition includes a survey of over 2000 contemporary studies to cover the newest results; the case examples were provided with detailed formulae, illustrations and tables; a new chapter on software tools for SOM was written, other chapters were extended or reorganized.
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Title #825: NETLAB
Edition: First Edition
ISBN Number: 1852334401
Number of Pages: 438
Author(s): Ian T. Nabney
Publisher: Springer
Date: November 28, 2001
Category: Neural networks and related data modeling techniques to solve
pattern recognition problems
Abstract / Synopsis: This volume provides students, researchers and application developers with the knowledge and tools to get the most out of using neural networks and related data modeling techniques to solve pattern recognition problems. Each chapter covers a group of related pattern recognition techniques and includes a range of examples to show how these techniques can be applied to solve practical problems. Features of particular interest include: - A NETLAB toolbox which is freely available- Worked examples, demonstration programs and over 100 graded exercises- Cutting edge research made accessible for the first time in a highly usable form- Comprehensive coverage of visualization methods, Bayesian techniques for neural networks and Gaussian Processes. Although primarily a textbook for teaching undergraduate and postgraduate courses in pattern recognition and neural networks, this book will also be of interest to practitioners and researchers who can use the toolbox to develop application solutions and new models.
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Title #826: Neural Networks and the Financial Markets : Predicting,
Combining and Portfolio Optimization (Perspectives in Neural
Computing), Paperback
Edition: First Edition
ISBN Number: 1852335319
Number of Pages: 273
Author(s): Jimmy Shadbolt, John G. Taylor
Publisher: Springer
Date: September 17, 2002
Category: Predicting, Combining and Portfolio Optimization using Neural
Computing
Abstract / Synopsis: This volume looks at financial prediction from a broad range of perspectives. It covers: - the economic arguments - the practicalities of the markets - how predictions are used - how predictions are made - how predictions are turned into something usable (asset locations). It combines a discussion of standard theory with state-of-the-art material on a wide range of information processing techniques as applied to cutting-edge financial problems. All the techniques are demonstrated with real examples using actual market data, and show that it is possible to extract information from very noisy, sparse data sets. Aimed primarily at researchers in financial prediction, time series analysis and information processing, this book will also be of interest to quantitative fund managers and other professionals involved in financial prediction.
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Title #827: Neural Networks (Quantitative Applications in the Social
Sciences), Paperback
Edition: First Edition
ISBN Number: 0761914404
Number of Pages: 96
Author(s): Herve Abdi
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: December 9, 1998
Category: Neural networks in the social sciences
Abstract / Synopsis: Neural Networks have influenced many areas of research but have only just started to be utilized in social science research. Neural Networks provides the first accessible introduction to this analysis as a powerful method for social scientists. It provides numerous studies and examples that illustrate the advantages of neural network analysis over other quantitative and modeling methods in wide spread use among social scientists. The author presents the methods in an accessible style for the reader who does not have a background in computer science. Features include an introduction to the vocabulary and framework of neural networks, a concise history of neural network methods, a substantial review of the literature, detailed neural network applications in the social sciences, coverage of the most common alternative neural network models, methodological considerations in applying neural networks, examples using the two leading software packages for neural network analysis, and numerous illustrations and diagrams. This introductory guide to using neural networks in the social sciences will enable students, researchers, and professionals to utilize these important new methods in their research and analysis.
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Title #828: Neural Smithing: Supervised Learning in Feedforward Artificial Neural Networks
Edition: Second Edition
ISBN Number: 0262181908
Number of Pages: 352
Author(s): Russell D. Reed, Robert J. Marks II
Publisher: The MIT Press
Date: March 26, 1999
Category: Feedforward artificial neural networks called multilayer
perceptrons
Abstract / Synopsis: Artificial neural networks are nonlinear mapping systems whose structure is loosely based on principles observed in the nervous systems of humans and animals. The basic idea is that massive systems of simple units linked together in appropriate ways can generate many complex and interesting behaviors. This book focuses on the subset of feedforward artificial neural networks called multilayer perceptrons (MLP). These are the mostly widely used neural networks, with applications as diverse as finance (forecasting), manufacturing (process control), and science (speech and image recognition). This book presents an extensive and practical overview of almost every aspect of MLP methodology, progressing from an initial discussion of what MLPs are and how they might be used to an in-depth examination of technical factors affecting performance. The book can be used as a tool kit by readers interested in applying networks to specific problems, yet it also presents theory and references outlining the last ten years of MLP research.
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Title #829: Neural Networks : A Systematic Introduction, Paperback
Edition: First Edition
ISBN Number: 3540605053
Number of Pages: 502
Author(s): J. Feldman (Foreword), Raul Rojas
Publisher: Springer
Date: July 12, 1996
Category: General theory of artificial neural nets
Abstract / Synopsis: Neural networks are a computing paradigm that is finding increasing attention among computer scientists. In this book, theoretical laws and models previously scattered in the literature are brought together into a general theory of artificial neural nets. Always with a view to biology and starting with the simplest nets, it is shown how the properties of models change when more general computing elements and net topologies are introduced. Each chapter contains examples, numerous illustrations, and a bibliography. The book is aimed at readers who seek an overview of the field or who wish to deepen their knowledge. It is suitable as a basis for university courses in neurocomputing.
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Title #830: Neural Networks: Algorithms, Applications, and Programming
Techniques (Computation and Neural Systems Series)
Edition: Second Edition
ISBN Number: 0201513765
Number of Pages: 401
Author(s): James A. Freeman, David M. Skapura
Publisher: Addison-Wesley Pub
Date: June, 1991
Category: Neural networks
Abstract / Synopsis: The book explains and deduces mathematically the working principle of many architectures, and presents commented examples in structured English
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Title #831: Elements of Artificial Neural Networks (Complex Adaptive
Systems)
Edition: First Edition
ISBN Number: 0262133288
Number of Pages: 344
Author(s): Kishan Mehrotra
Publisher: The MIT Press
Date: October 11, 1996
Category: For students and others who want to use neural networks rather
than simply study them
Abstract / Synopsis: Elements of Artificial Neural Networks provides a clearly organized general introduction, focusing on a broad range of algorithms, for students and others who want to use neural networks rather than simply study them. The authors, who have been developing and team teaching the material in a one-semester course over the past six years, describe most of the basic neural network models (with several detailed solved examples) and discuss the rationale and advantages of the models, as well as their limitations. The approach is practical and open-minded and requires very little mathematical or technical background. Written from a computer science and statistics point of view, the text stresses links to contiguous fields and can easily serve as a first course for students in economics and management.
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Title #832: An Introduction to Neural Networks
Edition: First Edition
ISBN Number: 0262011441
Number of Pages: 672
Author(s): James A. Anderson
Publisher: The MIT Press
Date: March 16, 1995
Category: Cognitive science and neuroscience
Abstract / Synopsis: An Introduction to Neural Networks falls into a new ecological niche for texts. Based on notes that have been class-tested for more than a decade, it is aimed at cognitive science and neuroscience students who need to understand brain function in terms of computational modeling, and at engineers who want to go beyond formal algorithms to applications and computing strategies. It is the only current text to approach networks from a broad neuroscience and cognitive science perspective, with an emphasis on the biology and psychology behind the assumptions of the models, as well as on what the models might be used for. It describes the mathematical and computational tools needed and provides an account of the author's own ideas.
Students learn how to teach arithmetic to a neural network and get a short course on linear associative memory and adaptive maps. They are introduced to the author's brain-state-in-a-box (BSB) model and are provided with some of the neurobiological background necessary for a firm grasp of the general subject.
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Title #833: The Handbook of Brain Theory and Neural Networks,
Paperback
Edition: First Edition
ISBN Number: 0262511029
Number of Pages: 1136
Author(s): Michael A. Arbib
Publisher: The MIT Press
Date: July 31, 1998
Category: Covers the entire sweep of topics--from detailed models of single neurons, analyses of a wide variety of biological neural networks, and connectionist studies of psychology and language, to mathematical analyses of a variety of abstract neural networks, and technological applications of adaptive, artificial neural networks.
Abstract / Synopsis: In hundreds of articles by experts from around the world, and in overviews and "road maps" prepared by the editor, The Handbook of Brain Theory and Neural Networks charts the immense progress made in recent years in many specific areas related to great questions: How does the brain work? How can we build intelligent machines? While many books discuss limited aspects of one subfield or another of brain theory and neural networks, the Handbook covers the entire sweep of topics--from detailed models of single neurons, analyses of a wide variety of biological neural networks, and connectionist studies of psychology and language, to mathematical analyses of a variety of abstract neural networks, and technological applications of adaptive, artificial neural networks. Expository material makes the book accessible to readers with varied backgrounds while still offering a clear view of the recent, specialized research on specific topics.
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Title #834: Neural Networks (Progress in Theoretical Computer Science)
Edition: First Edition
ISBN Number: 0817639497
Number of Pages: 181
Author(s): Hava T. Siegelman
Publisher: Birkhauser
Date: December 1, 1998
Category: Neural networks
Abstract / Synopsis: Information unavailable
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Title #835: Neural Networks and Intellect: Using Model-Based Concepts
Edition: First Edition
ISBN Number: 0195111621
Number of Pages: 469
Author(s): Leonid I. Perlovsky
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Date: September 2000
Category: Neural Networks and Intellect reviews most of the mathematical concepts and engineering approaches to the development of intelligent systems discussed since 1940
Abstract / Synopsis: Intended for a broad audience, Neural Networks and Intellect reviews most of the mathematical concepts and engineering approaches to the development of intelligent systems discussed since 1940. It presents a new mathematical concept of modeling field theory and its applications to a variety of problems along with relationships between mathematics, computational concepts in neural networks, and concepts of mind in psychology and philosophy. The origin of the Aristotelian mathematics of mind is traced in Grossberg's ART neural network: and its essential components turns out to be fuzzy logic. Among the discussed topics are hierarchical and heterarchical organization of intelligent systems, statistical learning theory, genetic algorithms, complex adaptive systems, mathematical semiotics, dynamical nature of symbols, Godel theorems of intelligence, emotions and thinking, the mathematics of emotional intellect, and consicousness.
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Title #836: The Neural Simulation Language: A System for Brain
Modeling, Paperback
Edition: First Edition
ISBN Number: 0262731495
Number of Pages: 459
Author(s): Alfredo Weitzenfeld
Publisher: The MIT Press
Date: July 1, 2002
Category: Neural Simulation Language
Abstract / Synopsis: The Neural Simulation Language (NSL), developed by Alfredo Weitzenfeld, Michael Arbib, and Amanda Alexander, provides a simulation environment for modular brain modeling. NSL is an object-oriented language offering object-oriented protocols applicable to all levels of neural simulation. One of NSL's main strengths is that it allows for realistic modeling of the anatomy of macroscopic brain structures. The book is divided into two parts. The first part presents an overview of neural network and schema modeling, a brief history of NSL, and a detailed discussion of the new version, NSL 3.0. It includes tutorials on several basic schema and neural network models. The second part presents models built in NSL by researchers from around the world, including those for conditional learning, face recognition, associative search networks, and visuomotor coordination. Each chapter provides an explanation of a model, an overview of the NSL 3.0 code, and a representative set of simulation results.
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Title #837: Foundations of Neural Networks (Addison-Wesley Series in
New Horizons in Technology)
Edition: First Edition
ISBN Number: 0201500361
Number of Pages: 196
Author(s): Tarun Khanna
Publisher: Addison-Wesley
Date: January, 1990
Category: Neural networks
Abstract / Synopsis: Information unavailable
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Title #838: Learning and Generalization: With Applications to Neural
Networks
Edition: Second Edition
ISBN Number: 1852333731
Number of Pages: 488
Author(s): Mathukumalli Vidyasagar
Publisher: Springer
Date: November 4, 2002
Category: Learning and Generalization
Abstract / Synopsis: Learning and Generalization provides a formal mathematical theory for addressing intuitive questions of the type: * How does a machine learn a new concept on the basis of examples? * How can a neural network, after sufficient training, correctly predict the outcome of a previously unseen input? * How much training is required to achieve a specified level of accuracy in the prediction? * How can one identify the dynamical behavior of a nonlinear control system by observing its input-output behavior over a finite interval of time? The first edition, A Theory of Learning and Generalization, was the first book to treat the problem of machine learning in conjunction with the theory of empirical process, the latter being a well-established branch of probability theory. The treatment of both topics side-by-side leads to new insights, as well as new results in both topics. The second edition extends and improves upon this material, covering new areas including: * Support vector machines (SVM's) * Fat-shattering dimensions and applications to neural network learning * Learning with dependent samples generated by a beta-mixing process * Connections between system identification and learning theory * Probabilistic solution of 'intractable problems' in robust control and matrix theory using randomized algorithms. It also contains solutions to some of the open problems posed in the first edition, while adding new open problems. This book is essential reading for control and system theorists, neural network researchers, theoretical computer scientists and probabilists The Communications and Control Engineering series reflects the major technological advances which have a great impact in the fields of communication and control. It reports on the research in industrial and academic institutions around the world to exploit the new possibilities which are becoming available
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Title #839: Understanding 99% of Artificial Neural Networks:
Introduction & Tricks, Paperback
Edition: First Edition
ISBN Number: 0595219969
Number of Pages: 145
Author(s): Marcelo Bosque
Publisher: Writers Club Press
Date: March 2002
Category: Neural Networks are an attempt to reproduce the synaptic
connections of our brain in a computer
Abstract / Synopsis: There is a deep desire in men, in order to reproduce intelligence and place it in a machine. Neural Networks are an attempt to reproduce the synaptic connections of our brain in a computer. Duplicating the way we use our neurons to think in a machine, it is expected to have a device that could be able to do intelligent tasks, the ones reserved just to humans some time ago. Neural Network is a reality now, not a fantasy, and they have been made in order to recognize patterns (a face, a photograph or a song, are patterns) and forecast trends. I have seen many books about this subject in my life. All of them are hard to read, and tedious to learn, so I decided to make my own one. For beginner readers, I have tried to use a simple language, in order to be understood by anyone who wants to know about nets. An easy to read, practical and concise work. If you are interested in the brain functions and how can we simulate it in a computer, you’ll get here a differently to penetrate into their secrets. For advanced readers who want to make their own nets, I have included a methodology for building neural networks and complete sample computer source-code with tricks that will save you a lot of time while designing it.
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Title #840: Recurrent Neural Networks for Prediction: Learning
Algorithms, Architectures and Stability
Edition: First Edition
ISBN Number: 0471495174
Number of Pages: 304
Author(s): Danilo Mandic
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Date: August 7, 2001
Category: Authors demonstrate how real-time recurrent neural networks (RNNs) can be implemented to expand the range of traditional signal processing techniques and to help combat the problem of prediction
Abstract / Synopsis: New technologies in engineering, physics and biomedicine are demanding increasingly complex methods of digital signal processing. By presenting the latest research work the authors demonstrate how real-time recurrent neural networks (RNNs) can be implemented to expand the range of traditional signal processing techniques and to help combat the problem of prediction. Within this text neural networks are considered as massively interconnected nonlinear adaptive filters.
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Title #841: Cellular Neural Networks: Theory And Applications
Edition: First Edition
ISBN Number: 1594540403
Number of Pages: 183
Author(s): Angela Slavova, Valeri Mladenov
Publisher: Nova Science Publishers
Date: September, 2004
Category: Cellular Neural Networks
Abstract / Synopsis: Information Unavailable
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Title #842: Neural Networks
Edition: First Edition
ISBN Number: 3540229809
Number of Pages: 386
Author(s): Gérard Dreyfus
Publisher: Springer
Date: March 2005
Category: Neural networks
Abstract / Synopsis: Neural networks represent a powerful data processing technique that has reached maturity and broad application. When clearly understood and appropriately used, they are a mandatory component in the toolbox of any engineer who wants make the best use of the available data, in order to build models, make predictions, mine data, recognize shapes or signals, etc. Ranging from theoretical foundations to real-life applications, this book is intended to provide engineers and researchers with clear methodologies for taking advantage of neural networks in industrial, financial or banking applications, many instances of which are presented in the book. For the benefit of readers wishing to gain deeper knowledge of the topics, the book features appendices that provide theoretical details for greater insight, and algorithmic details for efficient programming and implementation. The chapters have been written by experts and edited to present a coherent and comprehensive, yet not redundant, practically oriented introduction.
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Title #843: In the Image of the Brain: Breaking the Barrier Between the
Human Mind and Intelligent Machines (In the Image of the
Brain)
Edition: First Edition
ISBN Number: 0316475556
Number of Pages: 348
Author(s): Jim Jubak
Publisher: Little Brown & Co
Date: May, 1992
Category: Reviews some fascinating projects doing cutting-edge
development in neural networks
Abstract / Synopsis: Although the barrier between the human mind and any intelligent machine isn't close to being broken, this book reviews some fascinating projects doing cutting-edge development in neural networks. Neural networks are attempts to have computers operate by mimicking human evolution instead of traditional programming rules and logic. The projects using this approach are many and varied--from Cal Tech to MIT to Bellcore to Silicon Valley. There is a great deal of disagreement within the field probably due both to the variety of scientific disciplines involved (from mathematics to neurobiology to psychology) as well as the idiosyncratic personalities of these scientists.
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Title #844: Fundamentals of Artificial Neural Networks
Edition: First Edition
ISBN Number: 026208239X
Number of Pages: 511
Author(s): Mohamad H. Hassoun
Publisher: The MIT Press
Date: March 27, 1995
Category: Provides the first systematic account of artificial neural network
paradigms
Abstract / Synopsis: As book review editor of the IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks, Mohamad Hassoun has had the opportunity to assess the multitude of books on artificial neural networks that have appeared in recent years. Now, in Fundamentals of Artificial Neural Networks, he provides the first systematic account of artificial neural network paradigms by identifying clearly the fundamental concepts and major methodologies underlying most of the current theory and practice employed by neural network researchers.
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Title #845: Cellular Neural Networks : Chaos, Complexity and VLSI
Processing (Springer Series in Advanced Microelectronics)
Edition: First Edition
ISBN Number: 3540652027
Number of Pages: 351
Author(s): Gabriele Manganaro
Publisher: Springer
Date: May 15, 1999
Category: Book is about new applications of cellular neural networks
Abstract / Synopsis: The book is about new applications of cellular neural networks (CNNs), new theoretical results and implementation issues. This topic involves several scientific disciplines including circuit theory, microelectronics, dynamic systems theory and applied mathematics, information processing, biology, neurophysiology, and robotics, to cite but a few. Significant attention is paid to small-size CNNs for generating chaotic dynamics and also to their application in the area of nonlinear circuit synchronization and secure communication. Complex spatio-temporal phenomena in simple CNN models are investigated. A CMOS discrete-time switched-current implementation of a CNN is presented in detail. The reader will find thorough discussion on the subject, ranging from the highest-level aspects treated in a rigorous and analytic way, to the technological challenges and the circuit design aspects.
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Title #846: Smart Engineering Systems: Neural Networks, Fuzzy Logic,
Evolutionary Programming, Data Mining and Rough Sets :
Proceedings of the Artificial Neural Networks ... on Intelligent
Engineering Systems Through)
Edition: First Edition
ISBN Number: 0791800822
Number of Pages: 910
Author(s): Cihan H. Dagli
Publisher: American Society of Mechanical Engineers
Date: January 1998
Category: Start engineering systems
Abstract / Synopsis: Information Unavailable
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Title #847: Neural Computing: Theory and Practice
Edition: Second Edition
ISBN Number: 0442207433
Number of Pages: 230
Author(s): Philip D. Wasserman
Publisher: Coriolis Group
Date: June, 1989
Category: Neural networks
Abstract / Synopsis: Information Unavailable
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Title #848: Mathematical Methods for Neural Network Analysis and
Design (Bradford Books)
Edition: First Edition
ISBN Number: 0262071746
Number of Pages: 432
Author(s): Richard M. Golden
Publisher: The MIT Press
Date: December 1, 1996
Category: How to use a small number of powerful mathematical tools for analyzing and designing a wide variety of artificial neural network systems
Abstract / Synopsis: This text teaches students how to use a small number of powerful mathematical tools for analyzing and designing a wide variety of artificial neural network systems, including their own customized neural networks.
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Title #849: Neural Networks and Fuzzy Systems: A Dynamical Systems
Approach to Machine Intelligence/Book and Disk
Edition: Book & Disk edition
ISBN Number: 0136114350
Number of Pages: 449
Author(s): Bart Kosko
Publisher: Prentice Hall
Date: June, 1991
Category: Neural Networks and Fuzzy Systems
Abstract / Synopsis: Information Unavailable
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Title #850: Stable Adaptive Control and Estimation for Nonlinear
Systems: Neural and Fuzzy Approximator Techniques
Edition: First Edition
ISBN Number: 0471415464
Number of Pages: 550
Author(s): Jeffrey T. Spooner
Publisher: Wiley-Interscience
Date: November 15, 2001
Category: Neural and Fuzzy Approximator Techniques
Abstract / Synopsis: Includes a solution manual for problems. Provides MATLAB code for examples and solutions, and deals with robust systems in both theory and practice.
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Title #851: Neural Networks: Algorithms and Applications
Edition: First Edition
ISBN Number: 1842651315
Number of Pages: 239
Author(s): M. A. Rao
Publisher: Alpha Science International
Date: July 1, 2003
Category: Beginning with an overview of different neural network topologies in the first two parts, functioning of human brain is also explained as an analogy with artificial models.
Abstract / Synopsis: This volume provides a comprehensive introduction to the use of neural networks in mechanical engineering applications. Beginning with an overview of different neural network topologies in the first two parts, functioning of human brain is also explained as an analogy with artificial models. Unsupervised models like Hopfield, Bi-directional Associative Memory, fuzzy Associative Memory, Adaptive Resonance Theory, as well as supervised architectures like Multi-Layer Perceptron, Counter Propagation networks and Radial Basis Function Networks are presented.
The third part deals with applications of artificial neural networks for solving of design optimization problems, forward and inverse dynamic analysis applications and system identification and monitoring, as well as motion and vibration control in robotics and structural engineering.
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Title #852: Self-Evolving Neural Networks for Classification
Edition: First Edition
ISBN Number: 0471354392
Number of Pages: 250
Author(s): Saman K. Halgamuge, Sama K. Halgamuge
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Date: June 15, 2002
Category: First book to address the problem of self-evolving neural networks
Abstract / Synopsis: A self-evolving neural net automatically generates network architectures to best perform the task at hand. The first book to address the problem of self-evolving neural networks, Self-Evolving Neural Networks for Classification examines a new generation of neural networks for pattern classification.
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Title #853: Artificial Neural Nets and Genetic Algorithms, Paperback
Edition: First Edition
ISBN Number: 3211836519
Number of Pages: 530
Author(s): Vera Kurkova
Publisher: Springer
Date: July 15, 2001
Category: Presents theoretical insights and reports on successful applications
of artificial neural networks and genetic algorithms
Abstract / Synopsis: The papers in this volume present theoretical insights and reports on successful applications of artificial neural networks and genetic algorithms. A dual affinity with biology is shown as several papers deal with cognition, neurocontrol, and biologically inspired brain models and others describe successful applications of computational methods to biology and environmental science. Theoretical contributions cover a variety of topics including nonlinear approximation by feedforward networks, representation of spiking perceptrons by classical ones, recursive networks and associative memories, learning and generalization, population attractors, and proposal and analysis of new genetic operators or measures. These theoretical studies are augmented by a wide selection of application-oriented papers on topics ranging from signal processing, control, pattern recognition and times series prediction to routing tasks. To keep track of the rapid development of the field of computational intelligence, the scope of the conference has been extended to hybrid methods and tools for which neural networks and evolutionary algorithms are combined with methods of soft computing, fuzzy logic, probabilistic computing, and symbolic artificial intelligence, to computer-intensive methods in control and data processing, and to data mining in meteorology and air pollution.
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Title #854: Neural Networks in Chemical and Physical Systems
Edition: First Edition
ISBN Number: 9810240708
Number of Pages: 200
Author(s): Jerry A. Darsey
Publisher: World Scientific Publishing Company
Date: September 30, 2005
Category: Neural networks in chemical and physical systems
Abstract / Synopsis: Information Unavailable
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Title #855: Artificial Neural Networks for Intelligent Manufacturing
(Intelligent Manufacturing, No 3)
Edition: First Edition
ISBN Number: 0412480506
Number of Pages: 496
Author(s): C.H. Dagli
Publisher: Springer
Date: December 31, 1999
Category: artificial neural networks
Abstract / Synopsis: Introduces the newly-emerging technology of artificial neural networks (ANNs) and demonstrates its use, with examples, in intelligent manufacturing systems. Neural networks
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Title #856: C++ Neural Networks and Fuzzy Logic/Book and Disk
Edition: Book & Disk edition
ISBN Number: 155828298X
Number of Pages: 408
Author(s): Valluru B. Rao, Hayagriva V. Rao
Publisher: Mis Pr
Date: November, 1993
Category: C++ Neural Networks and Fuzzy Logic
Abstract / Synopsis: Topics include: fuzzy logic introduction, constructing a neural network, C++ and object orientation, models and Adaptive Resonance Theory (ART), learning, self organization & resonance, backpropogation and non-linear optimization, Bidirectional Associative Memory (BAM), Fuzzy Associative Memory (FAM), and applications for financial modelling.
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Title #857: Circuits of the Mind
Edition: Reprint edition
ISBN Number: 0195126688
Number of Pages: 256
Author(s): Leslie G. Valiant
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Date: June, 2000
Category: Circuits of the Mind
Abstract / Synopsis: Information Unavailable
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Title #858: Neural Systems: Analysis and Modeling
Edition: First Edition
ISBN Number: 0792392582
Number of Pages: 480
Author(s): Frank H. Eeckman
Publisher: Springer
Date: September 30, 1992
Category: Neural Systems: Analysis and Modeling
Abstract / Synopsis: In recent years there has been tremendous activity in computational neuroscience resulting from two parallel developments. On the one hand, our knowledge of real nervous systems has increased dramatically over the years; on the other, there is now enough computing power available to perform realistic simulations of actual neural circuits. This is leading to a revolution in quantitative neuroscience, which is attracting a growing number of scientists from non-biological disciplines. These scientists bring with them expertise in signal processing, information theory, and dynamical systems theory that has helped transform our ways of approaching neural systems. New developments in experimental techniques have enabled biologists to gather the data necessary to test these new theories. While we do not yet understand how the brain sees, hears or smells, we do have testable models of specific components of visual, auditory, and olfactory processing.
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Title #859: Hybrid Neural Systems
Edition: First Edition
ISBN Number: 3540673059
Number of Pages: 420
Author(s): Stefan Wermter, Ron Sun
Publisher: Springer
Date: May 11, 2000
Category: Hybrid Neural Systems
Abstract / Synopsis: Hybrid neural systems are computational systems which are based mainly on artificial neural networks and allow for symbolic interpretation or interaction with symbolic components. This book is derived from a workshop held during the NIPS'98 in Denver, Colorado, USA, and competently reflects the state of the art of research and development in hybrid neural systems. The 26 revised full papers presented together with an introductory overview by the volume editors have been through a twofold process of careful reviewing and revision. The papers are organized in the following topical sections: structured connectionism and rule representation; distributed neural architectures and language processing; transformation and explanation; robotics, vision, and cognitive approaches.
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Title #860: Neural Network Models in Artificial Intelligence
Edition: First Edition
ISBN Number: 0136121853
Number of Pages: 268
Author(s): Matthew Zeidenberg
Publisher: Ellis Horwood Ltd
Date: May, 1990
Category: Neural Network Models in Artificial Intelligence
Abstract / Synopsis: Information Unavailable
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Title #861: Natural and Artificial Intelligence: Misconceptions About
Brains and Neural Networks
Edition: New & Exp edition
ISBN Number: 0444890815
Number of Pages: 560
Author(s): Armand M. Decallatay
Publisher: North-Holland
Date: June, 1992
Category: Natural and Artificial Intelligence: Misconceptions About Brains
and Neural Networks
Abstract / Synopsis: Information Unavailable
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Title #862: Symbols versus Neurons?
Edition: First Edition
ISBN Number: 9051990391
Number of Pages: 258
Author(s): Tom Addis, Joachim Stender
Publisher: Ios Pr Inc
Date: January 1, 1990
Category: Symbols versus Neurons?
Abstract / Synopsis: Information Unavailable
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Title #863: Neural Networks & A New Artificial Intelligence
Edition: First Edition
ISBN Number: 1850321728
Number of Pages: 323
Author(s): G. Dorfner
Publisher: Intl Thomson Computer Pr (T)
Date: November, 1996
Category: Neural Networks & A New Artificial Intelligence
Abstract / Synopsis: Information Unavailable
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Title #864: VLSI for Artificial Intelligence and Neural Networks
Edition: First Edition
ISBN Number: 0306440296
Number of Pages: 432
Author(s): Jose G. Delgado-Frias, W.R. Moore
Publisher: Springer
Date: January 31, 1992
Category: VLSI for Artificial Intelligence and Neural Networks
Abstract / Synopsis: Information Unavailable
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Title #865: Artificial Intelligence Applications and Neural Networks,
Paperback
Edition: First Edition
ISBN Number: 0889861528
Number of Pages: 317
Author(s): M. H. Hamza
Publisher: Information Unavailable
Date: June, 1990
Category: Artificial Intelligence Applications and Neural Networks
Abstract / Synopsis: Information Unavailable
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Title #866: Neural Networks and a New Artificial Intelligence
Edition: First Edition
ISBN Number: 041255870X
Number of Pages: Information Unavailable
Author(s): Georg Dorffner
Publisher: Kluwer Academic Publishers
Date: December, 1999
Category: Neural Networks and a New Artificial Intelligence
Abstract / Synopsis: Information Unavailable
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Title #867: Neural Networks: The Second Ai Generation, Paperback
Edition: First Edition
ISBN Number: 0070374864
Number of Pages: 288
Author(s): Robert Levine
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Companies
Date: June, 1991
Category: Neural Networks: The Second Ai Generation
Abstract / Synopsis: Information Unavailable
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Title #868: Models of Working Memory : Mechanisms of Active
Maintenance and Executive Control, Paperback
Edition: First Edition
ISBN Number: 0521587212
Number of Pages: 526
Author(s): Akira Miyake, Priti Shah
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Date: April 13, 1999
Category: Advanced conceptualization of brain functioning
Abstract / Synopsis: 'The theories are highly diverse in content and terminology ... The book is recommended for anyone who strives to remain current in the neurosciences ... provides an innovative strategy for comparing theory that can be emulated in other areas ... it will stimulate advanced conceptualization of brain functioning. ' Journal of the International Neuropsychological Society
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Title #869: Intelligence As Adaptive Behavior: An Experiment in
Computational Neuroethology (Perspectives in Artificial
Intelligence)
Edition: First Edition
ISBN Number: 0120847302
Number of Pages: 213
Author(s): Randall D. Beer
Publisher: Academic Pr
Date: July, 1990
Category: Book proposes an alternative methodology for designing
intelligent systems based on a model of intelligence as adaptive behavior
Abstract / Synopsis: The "intelligence" of traditional artificial intelligence systems is notoriously narrow and inflexible--incapable of adapting to the constantly changing circumstances of the real world. Although traditional artificial intelligence systems can be successful in narrowly prescribed domains, they are inappropriate for dynamic, complex domains, such as autonomous robot navigation. This book proposes an alternative methodology for designing intelligent systems based on a model of intelligence as adaptive behavior. The author describes an experiment in computational neuroethology--the computer modeling of neuronal control of behavior--in which the nervous system for an artificial insect is modeled. The experiment demonstrates that simple, complete intelligent agents are able to cope with complex, dynamic environments--suggesting that adaptive models of intelligence, based on biological bases of adaptive behavior, may prove to be very useful in the design of intelligent, autonomous systems.
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Title #870: Ontological Engineering : with examples from the areas of
Knowledge Management, e-Commerce and the Semantic Web
(Advanced Information and Knowledge Processing)
Edition: First Edition
ISBN Number: 1852335513
Number of Pages: 415
Author(s): Asuncion Gomez-Perez
Publisher: Springer
Date: July 22, 2004
Category: Ontological engineering
Abstract / Synopsis: Ontologies provide a common vocabulary of an area and define, with different levels of formality, the meaning of the terms and the relationships between them. Ontological engineering refers to the set of activities concerning the ontology development process, the ontology life cycle, the methods and methodologies for building ontologies, and the tool suites and languages that support them. During the last decade, increasing attention has been focused on ontologies. Ontologies are now widely used in knowledge engineering, artificial intelligence and computer science; in applications related to areas such as knowledge management, natural language processing, e-commerce, intelligent information integration, bio-informatics, education; and in new emerging fields like the semantic web. The book presents the major issues of ontological engineering and describes the most outstanding ontologies currently available. It covers the practical aspects of selecting and applying methodologies, languages, and tools for building ontologies. Ontological Engineering will be of great value to students and researchers, and to developers who want to integrate ontologies in their information systems.
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Title #871: Ontologies: A Silver Bullet for Knowledge Management and
Electronic Commerce
Edition: First Edition
ISBN Number: 3540003029
Number of Pages: 162
Author(s): M.L. Brodie (Foreword), Dieter Fensel
Publisher: Springer
Date: December 5, 2003
Category: Ontologies
Abstract / Synopsis: Text introduces the notion of ontologies and demonstrates in detail how to apply this conceptual framework for improved intranet retrieval of corporate information and knowledge and for enhanced Internet-based electronic commerce. Covers recent developments relating to the Semantic Web and emerging web-based standard languages.
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Title #872: Layered Declarative Approach to Ontology Translation with
Knowledge Preservation
Edition: First Edition
ISBN Number: 1586034774
Number of Pages: 168
Author(s): O. Corcho
Publisher: IOS Press, Inc.
Date: 2005
Category: Ontology in AI
Abstract / Synopsis: Information Unavailable
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Title #873: Ontology Learning from Text: Methods, Evaluation and
Applications
Edition: First Edition
ISBN Number: 1586035231
Number of Pages: 180
Author(s): Paul Buitelaar, Philipp Cimiano, Bernardo Magnini
Publisher: IOS Press
Date: July 1, 2005
Category: Ontology
Abstract / Synopsis: This volume brings together ontology learning, knowledge acquisition and other related topics. It presents current research in ontology learning, addressing three perspectives. The first perspective looks at methodologies that have been proposed to automatically extract information from texts and to give a structured organization to such knowledge, including approaches based on machine learning techniques. Then there are evaluation methods for ontology learning, aiming at defining procedures and metrics for a quantitative evaluation of the ontology learning task; and finally application scenarios that make ontology learning a challenging area in the context of real applications such as bio-informatics. According to the three perspectives mentioned above, the book is divided into three sections, each including a selection of papers addressing respectively the methods, the applications and the evaluation of ontology learning approaches.
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Title #874: Optical Character Recognition (Wiley Series in Microwave
and Optical Engineering)
Edition: First Edition
ISBN Number: 0471308196
Number of Pages: 560
Author(s): Shunji Mori
Publisher: Wiley-Interscience
Date: April 2, 1999
Category: Optical character recognition (OCR)
Abstract / Synopsis: As optical character recognition (OCR) begins to find applications ranging from store checkout scanners to money-changing machines and postal system automation, it has become one of the most dynamic areas in information science today. Yet few volumes explore this data-oriented process without relying heavily on mathematical background reading. Now, Shunji Mori, Hirobumi Nishida, and Hiromitsu Yamada, among the field's most respected researchers since its inception, present this self-contained, clearly written guidebook to OCR—the first comprehensive treatment of the preprocessing, feature-extraction, and systematic description-matching stages of the OCR process. Including a wealth of original research material available here for the first time, this book is both an ideal professional reference source and an excellent entry point for course work in the subject.
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Title #875: PVM: Parallel Virtual Machine: A Users' Guide and Tutorial
for Network Parallel Computing (Scientific and Engineering
Computation), Paperback
Edition: First Edition
ISBN Number: 0262571080
Number of Pages: 299
Author(s): Al Geist
Publisher: The MIT Press
Date: November 8, 1994
Category: PVM (Parallel Virtual Machine) is a software package that enables the computer user to define a networked heterogeneous collection of serial, parallel, and vector computers to function as one large computer.
Abstract / Synopsis: Written by the team that developed the software, this tutorial is the definitive resource for scientists, engineers, and other computer users who want to use PVM to increase the flexibility and power of their high-performance computing resources. PVM introduces distributed computing, discusses where and how to get the PVM software, provides an overview of PVM and a tutorial on setting up and running existing programs, and introduces basic programming techniques including putting PVM in existing code. There are program examples and details on how PVM works on UNIX and multiprocessor systems, along with advanced topics (portability, debugging, improving performance) and troubleshooting. PVM (Parallel Virtual Machine) is a software package that enables the computer user to define a networked heterogeneous collection of serial, parallel, and vector computers to function as one large computer. It can be used as stand-alone software or as a foundation for other heterogeneous network software. PVM may be configured to contain various machine architectures, including sequential processors, vector processors, and multicomputers, and it can be ported to new computer architectures that may emerge.
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Title #876: Pattern Recognition From Classical to Modern Approaches
Edition: First Edition
ISBN Number: 9810246846
Number of Pages: 500
Author(s): Sankar K Pal, Amita Pal
Publisher: World Scientific Publishing Company
Date: January 15, 2002
Category: Pattern recognition
Abstract / Synopsis: This is a timely, comprehensive, and authoritative volume belonging to the mainstream of pattern recognition.
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Title #877: Wavelet Theory and Its Application to Pattern Recognition
Edition: First Edition
ISBN Number: 9810238193
Number of Pages: 300
Author(s): Yuan Y. Tan
Publisher: World Scientific Publishing Company
Date: July, 2000
Category: Wavelet Theory and Its Application to Pattern Recognition
Abstract / Synopsis: Wavelet analysis is a relatively recent development of applied mathematics in 1980s. (First sentence of the book)
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Title #878: Uncertainty in Artificial Intelligence, 6 (Machine
Intelligence and Pattern Recognition)
Edition: First Edition
ISBN Number: 0444892648
Number of Pages: 530
Author(s): P. P. Bonissone, Max Henrion, L. N. Kanal, J. F. Lemmer
Publisher: Elsevier Science Pub Co
Date: October, 1991
Category: Uncertainty in Artificial Intelligence
Abstract / Synopsis: Information Unavailable
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Title #879: The Pattern Recognition Basis of Artificial Intelligence,
Paperback
Edition: First Edition
ISBN Number: 0818677961
Number of Pages: 384
Author(s): Donald Tveter
Publisher: Wiley-IEEE Computer Society Pr
Date: February 27, 1998
Category: AI & Pattern recognition
Abstract / Synopsis: This book takes the viewpoint that plain symbol processing techniques have little hope of reproducing the depth and breadth of capabilities found in human beings. The book introduces new foundational principles to AI: connectionist/neural networking methods, case based and memory based methods and picture processing. The book looks at methods of AI as different ways of doing pattern recognition. One way to do pattern recognition is to compare a problem to stored cases. At the other end of the spectrum, Classical Symbol Processing AI compresses cases down to a small set of rules and then works only with this condensed knowledge. In between these two extremes are neural networks, especially backprop type networks. As much as possible the book compares these three basic methods using actual AI programs.
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Title #880: Uncertainty in Artificial Intelligence 5 (Machine Intelligence
and Pattern Recognition, 10), Paperback
Edition: First Edition
ISBN Number: 0444887393
Number of Pages: 459
Author(s): Max Henrion
Publisher: North-Holland
Date: October, 1990
Category: Uncertainty in Artificial Intelligence 5 (Machine Intelligence and
Pattern Recognition, 10)
Abstract / Synopsis: Information Unavailable
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Title #881: Perceptrons - Expanded Edition: An Introduction to
Computational Geometry, Paperback
Edition: Expanded edition
ISBN Number: 0262631113
Number of Pages: 275
Author(s): Marvin L. Minsky, Seymour A. Papert
Publisher: The MIT Press
Date: December 28, 1987
Category: Now the new developments in mathematical tools, the recent interest of physicists in the theory of disordered matter, the new insights into and psychological models of how the brain works, and the evolution of fast computers that can simulate networks of automata have given Perceptrons new importance
Abstract / Synopsis: Perceptrons - the first systematic study of parallelism in computation - has remained a classical work on threshold automata networks for nearly two decades. It marked a historical turn in artificial intelligence, and it is required reading for anyone who wants to understand the connectionist counterrevolution that is going on today. Artificial-intelligence research, which for a time concentrated on the programming of ton Neumann computers, is swinging back to the idea that intelligence might emerge from the activity of networks of neuronlike entities. Minsky and Papert's book was the first example of a mathematical analysis carried far enough to show the exact limitations of a class of computing machines that could seriously be considered as models of the brain. Now the new developments in mathematical tools, the recent interest of physicists in the theory of disordered matter, the new insights into and psychological models of how the brain works, and the evolution of fast computers that can simulate networks of automata have given Perceptrons new importance. Witnessing the swing of the intellectual pendulum, Minsky and Papert have added a new chapter in which they discuss the current state of parallel computers, review developments since the appearance of the 1972 edition, and identify new research directions related to connectionism. They note a central theoretical challenge facing connectionism: the challenge to reach a deeper understanding of how "objects" or "agents" with individuality can emerge in a network. Progress in this area would link connectionism with what the authors have called "society theories of mind."
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Title #882: Persuasive Technology: Using Computers to Change What We
Think and Do (The Morgan Kaufmann Series in Interactive
Technologies), Paperback
Edition: First Edition
ISBN Number: 1558606432
Number of Pages: 312
Author(s): B.J. Fogg
Publisher: Morgan Kaufmann
Date: December 2002
Category: The way we view computers
Abstract / Synopsis: Review: "The brilliance of Persuasive Technology is the way it analyzes the way we already view computers." Technology & Society Magazine, May 2003
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Title #883: Automated Planning : Theory & Practice (The Morgan
Kaufmann Series in Artificial Intelligence)
Edition: First Edition
ISBN Number: 1558608567
Number of Pages: 635
Author(s): Malik Ghallab
Publisher: Morgan Kaufmann
Date: May 3, 2004
Category: Automated planning technology
Abstract / Synopsis: Automated planning technology now plays a significant role in a variety of demanding applications, ranging from controlling space vehicles and robots to playing the game of bridge. These real-world applications create new opportunities for synergy between theory and practice: observing what works well in practice leads to better theories of planning, and better theories lead to better performance of practical applications. Automated Planning mirrors this dialogue by offering a comprehensive, up-to-date resource on both the theory and practice of automated planning. The book goes well beyond classical planning, to include temporal planning, resource scheduling, planning under uncertainty, and modern techniques for plan generation, such as task decomposition, propositional satisfiability, constraint satisfaction, and model checking.
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Title #884: Readings in Planning (Morgan Kaufmann Series in
Representation and Reasoning)
Edition: First Edition
ISBN Number: 1558601309
Number of Pages: 754
Author(s): James Allen
Publisher: Morgan Kaufmann Pub
Date: June, 1990
Category: Planning
Abstract / Synopsis: Although numerous review articles on planning have appeared over the years, no systematic attempt has been made to collect the major papers in this field into one volume. The goal of this book is to remedy this situation by bringing together in one place a set of readings that can be used to develop a familiarity with the planning literature, with the major AI theory underlying planning, and with the exciting directions of current research.
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Title #885: Intelligent Planning: A Decomposition and Abstraction Based
Approach (Artificial Intelligence)
Edition: First Edition
ISBN Number: 3540619011
Number of Pages: 252
Author(s): Qiang Yang
Publisher: Springer
Date: January 1998
Category: Book provides a clear, thorough coverage of key areas of classical
AI planning
Abstract / Synopsis: This monograph on planning based on Artificial Intelligence methods may serve both as an advanced textbook and as a general reference book. AI planning is an active research and applications field concerned with action and plan representation, plan synthesis and reasoning, analysis of planning algorithms, plan execution and monitoring, and plan reuse and learning. The book provides a clear, thorough coverage of key areas of classical AI planning. Its main theme is to build more intelligence on a set of basic algorithms and representations for planning. It presents advanced techniques for plan generation using decomposition and plan merging and for analyzing and comparing planning algorithms. The book contains illustrations, examples, algorithms, analyses, tables, and extensive references.
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Title #886: Automated Planning: Theory and Practice
Edition: First Edition
ISBN Number: 1558608567
Number of Pages: 635
Author(s): Dana Nau, Malik Ghallab, Paolo Traverso
Publisher: Elsevier Science & Technology Books
Date: May 2004
Category: Automated planning technology
Abstract / Synopsis: Automated planning technology now plays a significant role in a variety of demanding applications, ranging from controlling space vehicles and robots to playing the game of bridge. These real-world applications create new opportunities for synergy between theory and practice: observing what works well in practice leads to better theories of planning, and better theories lead to better performance of practical applications. Automated Planning mirrors this dialogue by offering a comprehensive, up-to-date resource on both the theory and practice of automated planning. The book goes well beyond classical planning, to include temporal planning, resource scheduling, planning under uncertainty, and modern techniques for plan generation, such as task decomposition, propositional satisfiability, constraint satisfaction, and model checking. The authors combine over 30 years experience in planning research and development to offer an invaluable text to researchers, professionals, and graduate students. *Comprehensively explains paradigms for automated planning. *Provides a thorough understanding of theory and planning practice, and how they relate to each other. *Presents case studies of applications in space, robotics, CAD/CAM, process control, emergency operations, and games. *Provides a thorough understanding of AI planning theory and practice, and how they relate to each other. *Covers all the contemporary topics of planning, as well as important practical applications of planning, such as model checking and game playing. *Presents case studies and applications in planning engineering, space, robotics, CAD/CAM, process control, emergency operations, and games. *Provides lecture notes, examples of programming assignments, pointers to downloadable planning systems and related information online.
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Title #887: Cased-Based Planning: Viewing Planning As a Memory Task
Edition: First Edition
ISBN Number: 0123220602
Number of Pages: 277
Author(s): Kristian J. Hammond, Rodney A. Brooks
Publisher: Academic Press
Date: March, 1989
Category: Cased-Based Planning: Viewing Planning As a Memory Task
Abstract / Synopsis: Information Unavailable
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Title #888: Intelligent Planning: A Decomposition and Abstraction Based
Approach
Edition: First Edition
ISBN Number: 3540619011
Number of Pages: 252
Author(s): Qiang Yang
Publisher: Springer
Date: January, 1998
Category: Book provides a clear, thorough coverage of key areas of classical
AI planning
Abstract / Synopsis: This monograph on planning based on Artificial Intelligence methods may serve both as an advanced textbook and as a general reference book. AI planning is an active research and applications field concerned with action and plan representation, plan synthesis and reasoning, analysis of planning algorithms, plan execution and monitoring, and plan reuse and learning. The book provides a clear, thorough coverage of key areas of classical AI planning. Its main theme is to build more intelligence on a set of basic algorithms and representations for planning. It presents advanced techniques for plan generation using decomposition and plan merging and for analyzing and comparing planning algorithms. The book contains illustrations, examples, algorithms, analyses, tables, and extensive references.
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Title #889: Probabilistic Reasoning in Intelligent Systems : Networks of
Plausible Inference, Paperback
Edition: First Edition
ISBN Number: 1558604790
Number of Pages: 552
Author(s): Judea Pearl
Publisher: Morgan Kaufmann
Date: September 1, 1988
Category: Theoretical foundations and computational methods that underlie
plausible reasoning under uncertainty
Abstract / Synopsis: Probabilistic Reasoning in Intelligent Systems is a complete and accessible account of the theoretical foundations and computational methods that underlie plausible reasoning under uncertainty. The author provides a coherent explication of probability as a language for reasoning with partial belief and offers a unifying perspective on other AI approaches to uncertainty, such as the Dempster-Shafer formalism, truth maintenance systems, and nonmonotonic logic. The author distinguishes syntactic and semantic approaches to uncertainty--and offers techniques, based on belief networks, that provide a mechanism for making semantics-based systems operational. Specifically, network-propagation techniques serve as a mechanism for combining the theoretical coherence of probability theory with modern demands of reasoning-systems technology: modular declarative inputs, conceptually meaningful inferences, and parallel distributed computation. Application areas include diagnosis, forecasting, image interpretation, multi-sensor fusion, decision support systems, plan recognition, planning, speech recognition--in short, almost every task requiring that conclusions be drawn from uncertain clues and incomplete information. Probabilistic Reasoning in Intelligent Systems will be of special interest to scholars and researchers in AI, decision theory, statistics, logic, philosophy, cognitive psychology, and the management sciences. Professionals in the areas of knowledge-based systems, operations research, engineering, and statistics will find theoretical and computational tools of immediate practical use. The book can also be used as an excellent text for graduate-level courses in AI, operations research, or applied probability.
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Title #890: Programming in Prolog : Using the ISO Standard, Paperback
Edition: 5th Edition
ISBN Number: 354000678
Number of Pages: 293
Author(s): W.F. Clocksin, C.S. Mellish
Publisher: Springer
Date: September 10, 2003
Category: Prolog programming
Abstract / Synopsis: Originally published in 1981, this was the first textbook on programming in the Prolog language and is still the definitive introductory text on Prolog. Though many Prolog textbooks have been published since, this one has withstood the test of time because of its comprehensiveness, tutorial approach, and emphasis on general programming applications. Prolog has continued to attract a great deal of interest in the computer science community, and has turned out to be a basis for an important new generation of programming languages and systems for Artificial Intelligence. Since the previous edition of Programming in Prolog, the language has been standardised by the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) and this book has been updated accordingly. The authors have also introduced some new material, clarified some explanations, corrected a number of minor errors, and removed appendices about Prolog systems that are now obsolete.
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Title #891: Prolog Programming for Artificial Intelligence, Paperback
Edition: 3rd edition
ISBN Number: 0201403757
Number of Pages: 678
Author(s): Ivan Bratko
Publisher: Addison Wesley
Date: September 8, 2000
Category: Guide to Prolog, AI programming
Abstract / Synopsis: This best-selling guide to Prolog has been fully revised and extended to provide an even greater range of applications, enhancing its value as a stand-alone guide to Prolog, artificial intelligence, or AI programming. Ivan Bratko discusses natural language processing with grammar rules, planning, and machine learning. The coverage of meta-programming includes meta-interpreters and object-oriented programming in Prolog. The new edition includes coverage of: constraint logic programming; qualitative reasoning; inductive logic programming; recently developed algorithms; belief networks for handling uncertainty; and a major update on machine learning. This book is aimed at programmers who need to learn AI programming.
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Title #892: Prolog and Natural-Language Analysis (Center for the Study
of Language and Information Publication Lecture Notes),
Paperback
Edition: First Edition
ISBN Number: 0937073180
Number of Pages: 273
Author(s): Fernando C. N. Pereira, Stuart M. Shieber
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Date: July 1, 1987
Category: Introductions to prolog programming
Abstract / Synopsis: This book provides, in one volume, one of the best introductions to prolog programming and one of the best introductions to natural language processing. It is virtually unique in that it shows how to interface a natural language interface to a theorem prover.
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Title #893: Artificial Intelligence Programming with Turbo PROLOG
Edition: First Edition
ISBN Number: 0471627526
Number of Pages: 272
Author(s): K. Weiskamp, T. Hengl
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Inc
Date: February, 1988
Category: AI programming with PROLOG
Abstract / Synopsis: Information Unavailable
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Title #894: Prolog Programming for Artificial Intelligence
Edition: 2nd Edition
ISBN Number: 0201416069
Number of Pages: 609
Author(s): Ivan Bratko
Publisher: Addison-Wesley Pub
Date: August, 1990
Category: Prolog
Abstract / Synopsis: Concentrates on using Prolog programming language to solve interesting problems in artificial intelligence, first teaching the language and then implementing it in an interactive way
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Title #895: Prolog Programming for Students: With Expert Systems and
Artificial Intelligence Topics, Paperback
Edition: First Edition
ISBN Number: 1844801128
Number of Pages: Information Unavailable
Author(s): David Callear
Publisher: Thomson Learning
Date: July 16, 2001
Category: Prolog Programming
Abstract / Synopsis: Information Unavailable
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Title #896: How Machines Think: A General Introduction to Artificial
Intelligence : Illustrated in Prolog
Edition: First Edition
ISBN Number: 0471911399
Number of Pages: 214
Author(s): Nigel Ford
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Date: April, 1987
Category: How Machines Think: A General Introduction to Artificial
Intelligence : Illustrated in Prolog
Abstract / Synopsis: Information Unavailable
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Title #897: Prolog: Sophisticated Applications in Artificial Intelligence,
Paperback
Edition: First Edition
ISBN Number: 0830693920
Number of Pages: 198
Author(s): Ramachandran Bharath
Publisher: Tab Books
Date: February, 1989
Category: Prolog: Sophisticated Applications in Artificial Intelligence Abstract / Synopsis: Information Unavailable
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Title #898: The Power of Turbo Prolog: The Natural Language of
Artificial Intelligence
Edition: First Edition
ISBN Number: 083060782X
Number of Pages: 195
Author(s): Ralph Roberts
Publisher: Tab Books
Date: April, 1987
Category: The Power of Turbo Prolog: The Natural Language of Artificial
Intelligence
Abstract / Synopsis: Information Unavailable
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Title #899: Artificial Intelligence Through Prolog
Edition: First Edition
ISBN Number: 0130486795
Number of Pages: 451
Author(s): Neil C. Rowe
Publisher: Prentice Hall
Date: January, 1988
Category: Artificial Intelligence Through Prolog
Abstract / Synopsis: Information Unavailable
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Title #900: Artificial intelligence techniques in Prolog
Edition: First Edition
ISBN Number: 1558603190
Number of Pages: 327
Author(s): Yoav Shoham
Publisher: Morgan Kaufmann Publishers
Date: 1994
Category: Artificial intelligence techniques in Prolog
Abstract / Synopsis: Information Unavailable
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Title #901: Artificial intelligence through Prolog: Instructor's manual
Edition: First Edition
ISBN Number: 0130486876
Number of Pages: 110
Author(s): Neil C Rowe
Publisher: Prentice-Hall
Date: 1988
Category: Artificial intelligence through Prolog: Instructor's manual
Abstract / Synopsis: Information Unavailable
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Title #902: Prolog by Example: How to Learn, Teach and Use It
Edition: First Edition
ISBN Number: 0387183132
Number of Pages: 382
Author(s): Helder Coelho, Jose C. Cotta
Publisher: Springer
Date: October, 1988
Category: Prolog by Example: How to Learn, Teach and Use It
Abstract / Synopsis: Information Unavailable
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Title #903: The Emperor's New Mind: Concerning Computers, Minds,
and the Laws of Physics (Popular Science), Paperback
Edition: First Edition
ISBN Number: 0192861980
Number of Pages: 480
Author(s): Roger Penrose, Martin Gardner
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Date: October 2002
Category: Intimate, unknowable relation between quantum effects and our
thinking
Abstract / Synopsis: A physicist who believes that some aspects of the human mind will never be duplicated by artificial intelligence here supports his view with material drawn from quantum mechanics, brain structure and other theories.
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Title #904: Automatic Quantum Computer Programming : A Genetic
Programming Approach (Genetic Programming)
Edition: First Edition
ISBN Number: 1402078943
Number of Pages: 168
Author(s): Lee Spector
Publisher: Springer
Date: June 11, 2004
Category: Provides an introduction to quantum computing for non-physicists, as well as an introduction to genetic programming for non-computer-scientists
Abstract / Synopsis: Automatic Quantum Computer Programming provides an introduction to quantum computing for non-physicists, as well as an introduction to genetic programming for non-computer-scientists. The book explores several ways in which genetic programming can support automatic quantum computer programming and presents detailed descriptions of specific techniques, along with several examples of their human-competitive performance on specific problems. Source code for the author’s QGAME quantum computer simulator is included as an appendix, and pointers to additional online resources furnish the reader with an array of tools for automatic quantum computer programming.
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Title #905: Robot Building for Beginners
Edition: First Edition
ISBN Number: 1893115445
Number of Pages: 600
Author(s): David Cook
Publisher: Apress
Date: January 18, 2002
Category: AI in robots
Abstract / Synopsis: Learning robotics by yourself isn’t easy. It helps when the encouragement comes from someone who’s been there. Not only does Robot Building for Beginners assist you in understanding component parts of robot development, but also it prepares you with techniques to learn new discoveries on your own. Author David Cook begins with the anatomy of a homemade robot and gives you the best advice on how to proceed successfully. General sources for tools and parts are provided in a consolidated list, and specific parts are recommended throughout the book. Also, learn basic safety precautions and essential numbering and measuring systems. An in-depth analysis of digital multimeters gives you all the information you need to select and obtain this valuable tool for yourself. Other tools and parts covered include: motors, wheels, resistors, wire strippers, needle nose pliers, tap and die, alligator clips, LEDs, solderless breadboards, soldering irons, heat-shrink tubing, photoresistors, transistors, chips, gears, nut drivers, screws, cut-off wheels, connectors, and batteries.
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Title #906: Intermediate Robot Building
Edition: First Edition
ISBN Number: 1590593731
Number of Pages: 464
Author(s): David Cook
Publisher: Apress
Date: April 2004
Category: Robert building
Abstract / Synopsis: For readers of Robot Building for Beginners (Apress, 2002), welcome to the next level! Intermediate Robot Building offers the kind of real-world knowledge that only an experienced robot builder can offer & emdash; the kind of knowledge beginners usually have to learn through mistakes. In this book, you'll learn the value of a robot heartbeat and the purpose of the wavy lines in photocells. You'll find out what electronic part you should sand. You'll discover how a well-placed switch can help a robot avoid obstacles better than a pair of feelers. And you'll avoid mistakes that can cause a capacitor to explode. Want a robot that can explore rooms, follow lines, or battle opponents in mini-sumo? This book presents step-by-step instructions and circuit and part descriptions so that you can build the robot featured in the book or apply the modules to your own robot designs. Finally, you'll find the complete schematics for Roundabout, a room explorer that requires no programming and uses only off-the-shelf electronics.
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Title #907: Computer Vision: A Modern Approach
Edition: First Edition
ISBN Number: 0130851981
Number of Pages: 693
Author(s): David A. Forsyth, Jean Ponce
Publisher: Prentice Hall
Date: August 14, 2002
Category: Computer vision
Abstract / Synopsis: The accessible presentation of this book gives both a general view of the entire computer vision enterprise and also offers sufficient detail to be able to build useful applications. Users learn techniques that have proven to be useful by first-hand experience and a wide range of mathematical methods. KEY TOPICS: Comprehensive and up-to-date, this book includes essential topics that either reflect practical significance or are of theoretical importance. Topics are discussed in substantial and increasing depth. Application surveys describe numerous important application areas such as image based rendering and digital libraries. Many important algorithms broken down and illustrated in pseudo code. MARKET: Appropriate for use by engineers as a comprehensive reference to the computer vision enterprise.
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Title #908: Robot: Mere Machine to Transcendent Mind, Paperback
Edition: First Edition
ISBN Number: 0195136306
Number of Pages: 240
Author(s): Hans P. Moravec
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Date: May 2000
Category: Robotics
Abstract / Synopsis: Robotics pioneer Moravec predicts that if the present exponential growth rate of computing power continues, super-robots that perceive, intuit, adapt, think and even simulate feelings much like human beings will be buildable before 2050. Mixing broad speculations and practical suggestions for speeding up robotics research and development, Moravec, a founder of Carnegie Mellon University's Robotics Institute, picks up where he left off in Mind Children (in which he suggested the uploading of human minds to software). In this new mind-bending futurist scenario, he predicts that advanced robots will perform all essential manufacturing and food production, pushing humanity into greater leisure and the sharing of wealth. Moravec's hypothetical robots also launch into the cosmos as colonizers, transferring whole industries to outer space. Yet, as these super-minds repeatedly restructure themselves, physical activity will increasingly give way to pure thought; cyberspace will become the inhabited universe and, in a science fiction-like twist, our robotic progeny may turn away from us in behavior and motive. Moravec dares to dream of a trillion-fingered medical robot whose molecular interventions allow it to act as diagnostic instrument, surgeon and medicine, and of quantum computers that make time travel conceivable. In this remarkable report, Moravec may have looked deeper into some aspects of the future than anyone else.
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Title #909: Robotic Explorations: An Introduction to Engineering
Through Design
Edition: First Edition
ISBN Number: 0130895687
Number of Pages: 462
Author(s): Fred G. Martin
Publisher: Prentice Hall
Date: December 7, 2000
Category: Robot building, emphasizing technological systems of all kinds
Abstract / Synopsis: Written by one of the founders of the famous MIT "6270" Lego Robotic design Competition, Robotic Explorations: A Hands-On Introduction to Engineering engages students in hands-on robot building, emphasizing technological systems of all kinds—electrical, mechanical, and computational. A first text for students as well as reference for practitioners, the book provides all the practical information needed to create an introductory freshman-level laboratory class. This versatile and pioneering book sparks the imagination and leads the reader into many thought-provoking and challenging engineering situations.
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Title #910: Machine Vision : Theory, Algorithms, Practicalities
Edition: Third Edition
ISBN Number: 0122060938
Number of Pages: 934
Author(s): E. R. Davies
Publisher: Morgan Kaufmann
Date: December 22, 2004
Category: Machine vision
Abstract / Synopsis: In the last 40 years, machine vision has evolved into a mature field embracing a wide range of applications including surveillance, automated inspection, robot assembly, vehicle guidance, traffic monitoring and control, signature verification, biometric measurement, and analysis of remotely sensed images. While researchers and industry specialists continue to document their work in this area, it has become increasingly difficult for professionals and graduate students to understand the essential theory and practicalities well enough to design their own algorithms and systems. This book directly addresses this need. As in earlier editions, E.R. Davies clearly and systematically presents the basic concepts of the field in highly accessible prose and images, covering essential elements of the theory while emphasizing algorithmic and practical design constraints. In this thoroughly updated edition, he divides the material into horizontal levels of a complete machine vision system. Application case studies demonstrate specific techniques and illustrate key constraints for designing real-world machine vision systems.
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Title #911: An Introduction to AI Robotics (Intelligent Robotics and
Autonomous Agents)
Edition: First Edition
ISBN Number: 0262133830
Number of Pages: 400
Author(s): Robin R. Murphy
Publisher: The MIT Press
Date: November 13, 2000
Category: Programming an AI robot
Abstract / Synopsis: This text covers all the material needed to understand the principles behind the AI approach to robotics and to program an artificially intelligent robot for applications involving sensing, navigation, planning, and uncertainty. Robin Murphy is extremely effective at combining theoretical and practical rigor with a light narrative touch. In the overview, for example, she touches upon anthropomorphic robots from classic films and science fiction stories before delving into the nuts and bolts of organizing intelligence in robots. Following the overview, Murphy contrasts AI and engineering approaches and discusses what she calls the three paradigms of AI robotics: hierarchical, reactive, and hybrid deliberative/reactive. Later chapters explore multiagent scenarios, navigation and path-planning for mobile robots, and the basics of computer vision and range sensing. Each chapter includes objectives, review questions, and exercises. Many chapters contain one or more case studies showing how the concepts were implemented on real robots
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Title #912: Embedded Robotics : Mobile Robot Design and Applications
with Embedded Systems
Edition: First Edition
ISBN Number: 3540034366
Number of Pages: 434
Author(s): Thomas Braunl
Publisher: Springer
Date: August 26, 2004
Category: Mobile robots and embedded systems
Abstract / Synopsis: This book presents a unique combination of mobile robots and embedded systems, from introductory to intermediate level. It is structured in three parts, dealing with embedded systems (hardware and software design, actuators, sensors, PID control, multitasking), mobile robot design (driving, balancing, walking, and flying robots), and mobile robot applications (mapping, robot soccer, genetic algorithms, neural networks, behavior-based systems, and simulation). The book is written as a text for courses in computer science, computer engineering, IT, electronic engineering, and mechatronics, as well as a guide for robot hobbyists and researchers.
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Title #913: Behavior-Based Robotics (Intelligent Robotics and
Autonomous Agents)
Edition: First Edition
ISBN Number: 0262011654
Number of Pages: 491
Author(s): Ronald C. Arkin
Publisher: The MIT Press
Date: May 22, 1998
Category: Intelligent behavior-based autonomous robotic systems
Abstract / Synopsis: This introduction to the principles, design, and practice of intelligent behavior-based autonomous robotic systems is the first true survey of this robotics field. The author presents the tools and techniques central to the development of this class of systems in a clear and thorough manner. Following a discussion of the relevant biological and psychological models of behavior, he covers the use of knowledge and learning in autonomous robots, behavior-based and hybrid robot architectures, modular perception, robot colonies, and future trends in robot intelligence.
The text throughout refers to actual implemented robots and includes many pictures and descriptions of hardware, making it clear that these are not abstract simulations, but real machines capable of perception, cognition, and action
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Title #914: Flesh and Machines: How Robots Will Change Us
Edition: First Edition
ISBN Number: 0375420797
Number of Pages: 272
Author(s): Rodney Brooks
Publisher: Pantheon
Date: February 12, 2002
Category: AI and robotics
Abstract / Synopsis: Brooks, a leading "roboticist" and computer science professor at MIT, believes that robots in the future will probably be nothing like such all-knowing brain machines as 2001's HAL, nor will they resemble the sleek cyborgs of other Hollywood nightmares. Rather, they will be simple, ubiquitous, curious little machines that will have more in common with humans than one might think. Brooks, and his fellow researchers, suggest that the focus of much AI and robot research has been to develop superhuman devices that operate at the highest intellectual levels. Much better, he says, to make a lot of simple, cheap robots that can perform only a few tasks, but do them well. Brooks begins with a brief but comprehensive overview of the field of research into AI and robotics, then dives quickly into his and his fellow enthusiasts' work as they engineer one strange, insect-looking (and weirdly human-acting) metallic creature after another. Occasionally, Brooks's involvement with iRobots (he is chairman and chief technical officer of the robot company) shifts the book into an advertisement for upcoming products. Brooks points the way toward a future where humans work in tandem with and even begin to resemble a host of his fast, cheap creations not a science fiction utopia, but a future where people have a lot more and better tools to work with.
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Title #915: Definitive Guide to LEGO MINDSTORMS, Second Edition,
Paperback
Edition: Second Edition
ISBN Number: 1590590635
Number of Pages: 432
Author(s): Dave Baum
Publisher: Apress
Date: November 11, 2002
Category: Robot programming
Abstract / Synopsis: The LEGO MINDSTORMS Robotics Invention System kit enables anyone to build programmable robots with an assortment of LEGO pieces that snap, slide, and click into place. In this exciting second edition from MINDSTORMS expert Dave Baum, you'll be able to take your robotics experiments to a new level. Baum takes you step-by-step through the entire process of building and programming MINDSTORMS robots using both LEGO's RCX code and the author's own, more powerful programming language, Not Quite C (NQC). This edition has been updated with new programs that take advantage of the LEGO MINDSTORMS Robotics Invention System 2.0 and includes instructions for building 14 different robots including Tankbot, Bugbot, and Brick Sorter. With Definitive Guide to LEGO MINDSTORMS, Second Edition, you will master the challenging yet always fun creation of your own robots from the ground up!
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Title #916: Robohelp for the Web, Paperback
Edition: Book & CD-Rom edition
ISBN Number: 1556229542
Number of Pages: 400
Author(s): John Hedtke, Brenda P. Huettner
Publisher: Wordware Publishing, Inc.
Date: July 15, 2002
Category: Robohelp for the Web
Abstract / Synopsis: Information Unavailable
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Title #917: Mind Children : The Future of Robot and Human Intelligence,
Paperback
Edition: Repeat edition
ISBN Number: 0674576187
Number of Pages: Information Unavailable
Author(s): Hans Moravec
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Date: January 2, 1990
Category: Future of robots, AI, the human mind, and human identity
Abstract / Synopsis: This book does a great job of exploring the future of robots, artificial intelligence, the human mind, and human identity. A few parts of it seem dated, but most of what the book describes seems likely to happen this century and to surprise the large fraction of the population which still hasn't given any thought to the possibilities this book describes.
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Title #918: Robot Vision (MIT Electrical Engineering and Computer
Science)
Edition: First Edition
ISBN Number: 0262081598
Number of Pages: 480
Author(s): Berthold K. P. Horn
Publisher: The MIT Press
Date: March 13, 1986
Category: Machine vision
Abstract / Synopsis: This book presents a coherent approach to the fast moving field of machine vision, using a consistent notation based on a detailed understanding of the image formation process. It covers even the most recent research and will provide a useful and current reference for professionals working in the fields of machine vision, image processing, and pattern recognition. An outgrowth of the author's course at MIT, Robot Vision presents a solid framework for understanding existing work and planning future research. Its coverage includes a great deal of material that important to engineers applying machine vision methods in the real world. The chapters on binary image processing, for example, help explain and suggest how to improve the many commercial devices now available. And the material on photometric stereo and the extended Gaussian image points the way to what may be the next thrust in commercialization of the results in this area. The many exercises complement and extend the material in the text, and an extensive bibliography will serve as a useful guide to current research.
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Title #919: Designing Autonomous Mobile Robots : Inside the Mind of an
Intelligent Machine, Paperback
Edition: Book & CD-Rom edition
ISBN Number: 0750676833
Number of Pages: 352
Author(s): John M. Holland
Publisher: Newnes
Date: December 15, 2003
Category: Topics of the hardware and software of mobile robot design
Abstract / Synopsis: Designing Autonomous Mobile Robots introduces the reader to the fundamental concepts of this complex field. The author addresses all the pertinent topics of the electronic hardware and software of mobile robot design, with particular emphasis on the more difficult problems of control, navigation, and sensor interfacing.
Covering topics such as advanced sensor fusion, control systems for a wide array of application sensors and instrumentation, and fuzzy logic applications, this volume is essential reading for engineers undertaking robotics projects as well as undergraduate and graduate students studying robotic engineering, artificial intelligence, and cognitive science. Its state-of-the-art treatment of core concepts in mobile robotics helps and challenges readers in exploring new avenues in an exciting field. The accompanying CD-ROM provides software routines for the examples cited as well as an electronic version of the text.
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Title #920: Cambrian Intelligence: The Early History of the New AI,
Paperback
Edition: First Edition
ISBN Number: 0262522632
Number of Pages: 213
Author(s): Rodney A. Brooks
Publisher: The MIT Press
Date: July 16, 1999
Category: Behavior-based approach to robotics
Abstract / Synopsis: Until the mid-1980s, AI researchers assumed that an intelligent system doing high-level reasoning was necessary for the coupling of perception and action. In this traditional model, cognition mediates between perception and plans of action. Realizing that this core AI, as it was known, was illusory, Rodney A. Brooks turned the field of AI on its head by introducing the behavior-based approach to robotics. The cornerstone of behavior-based robotics is the realization that the coupling of perception and action gives rise to all the power of intelligence and that cognition is only in the eye of an observer. Behavior-based robotics has been the basis of successful applications in entertainment, service industries, agriculture, mining, and the home. It has given rise to both autonomous mobile robots and more recent humanoid robots such as Brooks' Cog. This book represents Brooks' initial formulation of and contributions to the development of the behavior-based approach to robotics. It presents all of the key philosophical and technical ideas that put this "bottom-up" approach at the forefront of current research in not only AI but all of cognitive science.
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Title #921: Robots for Kids: Exploring New Technologies for Learning
(The Morgan Kaufmann Series in Interactive Technologies),
Paperback
Edition: First Edition
ISBN Number: 1558605975
Number of Pages: 350
Author(s): Allison Druin, James Hendler
Publisher: Morgan Kaufmann
Date: March 29, 2000
Category: Challenge of developing robots specifically for children
Abstract / Synopsis: Robots for Kids: Exploring New Technologies for Learning opens with contributions from leading designers and researchers, each offering a unique perspective into the challenge of developing robots specifically for children. The second part is devoted to the stories of educators who work with children using these devices, exploring new applications and mapping their impact. Throughout the book, essays by children are included that discuss their first-hand experiences and ideas about robots. This is an engaging, entertaining, and insightful book for a broad audience, including HCI, AI, and robotics researchers in business and academia, new media and consumer product developers, robotics hobbyists, toy designers, teachers, and education researchers.
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Title #922: Intelligent Mobile Robot Navigation (Springer Tracts in
Advanced Robotics)
Edition: First Edition
ISBN Number: 3540239561
Number of Pages: 204
Author(s): Federico Cuesta, Aníbal Ollero
Publisher: Springer
Date: April 29, 2005
Category: Intelligent Mobile Robot Navigation
Abstract / Synopsis: Intelligent Mobile Robot Navigation builds upon the application of fuzzy logic to the area of intelligent control of mobile robots. Reactive, planned, and teleoperated techniques are considered, leading to the development of novel fuzzy control systems for perception and navigation of nonholonomic autonomous vehicles. The unique feature of this monograph lies in its comprehensive treatment of the problem, from the theoretical development of the various schemes down to the real-time implementation of algorithms on mobile robot prototypes. As such, the book spans different domains ranging from mobile robots to intelligent transportation systems, from automatic control to artificial intelligence.
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Title #923: Introduction to Robotics: Analysis, Systems, Applications
Edition: First Edition
ISBN Number: 0130613096
Number of Pages: 349
Author(s): Saeed B. Niku, Saeed B Niku
Publisher: Prentice Hall
Date: July 20, 2001
Category: Comprehensive, yet concise coverage of robotics
Abstract / Synopsis: This book offers comprehensive, yet concise coverage of robotics. It covers analysis of robot kinematics, differential motions, robot dynamics, and trajectory planning. It then proceeds to discuss in detail such important robot subsystems as actuators, sensors, vision systems, and fuzzy logic (at an introductory level). Robotic applications are drawn from a wide variety of fields.
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Title #924: Mobility : Processes, Computers, and Agents (ACM Press),
Paperback
Edition: First Edition
ISBN Number: 0201379287
Number of Pages: 704
Author(s): Dejan Milojicic
Publisher: Addison-Wesley Professional
Date: April 19, 1999
Category: The leading edge of research and practice in three areas of mobility: process migration, mobile computing, and mobile agents
Abstract / Synopsis: This book brings together in one single resource the leading edge of research and practice in three areas of mobility: process migration, mobile computing, and mobile agents. Presented chronologically, the papers in this book--each written by leading experts in that particular area--track the development of critical technologies that have influenced mobility. Introductions by the editors and original after-words by many of the papers' authors provide information on implementation and practical application, technological context, and updates on the most recent advances.
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Title #925: Robotics, Mechatronics, and Artificial Intelligence:
Experimental Circuit Blocks for Designers, Paperback
Edition: First Edition
ISBN Number: 0750673893
Number of Pages: 336
Author(s): Newton C. Braga
Publisher: Elsevier Science & Technology Books
Date: November 15, 2001
Category: Inexpensive and creative robotics projects
Abstract / Synopsis: Accessible to all enthusiasts at all levels, including students and amateur technology hobbyists, this book provides inexpensive and creative robotics projects. It covers a wide range of electronics disciplines, including interfacing with computers, home automation, mechanics, and more. The comprehensive project blocks make it possible for readers to pick and choose the circuit elements for individual robotic projects. From how to control a DC or stepper motor to instruction on creating moving robotic parts- this book covers it all.
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Title #926: God In the Machine : What Robots Teach Us About Humanity
and God
Edition: First Edition
ISBN Number: 0525947663
Number of Pages: 224
Author(s): Anne Foerst
Publisher: Information unavailable
Date: December 16, 2004
Category: Book looks at the theological implications of artificial intelligence
Abstract / Synopsis: A provocative look at the theological implications of artificial intelligence—and the controversial questions raised by robotics about our very definition of humanity—from the founder of MIT’s God and Computers Project Get ready to meet two remarkable characters, Cog and Kismet. They both enjoy working with others, they’re very attentive, have excellent learning skills, and, according to their colleagues, they’re very charming. And they’re both robots.
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Title #927: Robot Learning (Kluwer International Series in Engineering
and Computer Science)
Edition: First Edition
ISBN Number: 0792393651
Number of Pages: 240
Author(s): Jonalthan H. Connell, Sridhar Mahadevan
Publisher: Kluwer Academic Publishers
Date: June 1993
Category: Robot learning
Abstract / Synopsis: Information unavailable
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Title #928: Concise Encyclopedia of Robotics, Paperback
Edition: First Edition
ISBN Number: 0071410104
Number of Pages: 365
Author(s): Stan Gibilisco, Stan Gibilisco
Publisher: McGraw-Hill/TAB Electronics
Date: November 12, 2002
Category: Useful reference for students and hobbyists
Abstract / Synopsis: Robotics contains elements of mechanical engineering, electrical engineering, and computer science. One of the challenges in reading a robotics text or entering the field as a hobbyist is the variety of concepts and terminology one must know. This book, a "how things work" for the robotics field, provides about 400 brief articles explaining concepts from "acoustic proximity sensor" to "zooming." Some entries are very short; "Guidance System," for example, requires only two sentences and refers to other articles. A longer article like "Logic Gate" is a page and a half long, including a diagram and table. Most topics are technical, but some are philosophical, such as "Jungian World Theory." This well-written book is not an introduction to robotics--there is no "history" article, and no article titled "Robot" or "Robotics"--but it is likely to be a useful reference for students and hobbyists. -- Written by S. L. Tanimoto, University of Washington
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Title #929: Robots: Bringing Intelligent Machines to Life
Edition: 1st US edition
ISBN Number: 0764155415
Number of Pages: 144
Author(s): Ruth Aylett
Publisher: Barrons Educational Series
Date: October 15, 2002
Category: Robots
Abstract / Synopsis: Can we build a robot with humanlike intelligence? What technology is needed to produce the perfect blueprint for the ideal "living" robot? What part will robots play in the future of humanity? Are we risking robot domination of the world? This highly readable volume tells the past, present, and future stories of robots and Artificial Intelligence, more commonly known as AI. Discussed here are the dreams of the pioneers Alan Turing and John von Neumann, who envisioned making computers intelligent when they were first invented. The author also describes in detail the current state of computer and robot technology, and points out the challenges inherent in teaching a machine to "think" and make decisions. Other topics include the life cycle of a present-day robot, raw materials and energy sources required for robot construction, and experimental progress in the field of self-designing robots. This absorbing volume is science fact—not science fiction. It includes more than 200 full-color photos and illustrations.
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Title #930: March Of The Machines: The Breakthrough In Artificial
Intelligence, Paperback
Edition: First Edition
ISBN Number: 0252072235
Number of Pages: 307
Author(s): Kevin Warwick
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Date: August 31, 2004
Category: Part history and part future speculation concerning the science of
robots and its current and forthcoming impact on humanity
Abstract / Synopsis: March Of The Machines: The Breakthrough In Artificial Intelligence by Kevin Warwick Professor of Cybernetics, University of Reading, is an informed and informative survey into the history, philosophy, and state-of-the-art exposition on the development of artificial intelligence within the framework of computer science. Drawing upon the author's extensive knowledge of the field, including his personal achievement of building robots that communicate in their own language, teach each other lessons, and behave as they will with regard to human beings, March Of The Machines is part history and part future speculation concerning the science of robots and its current and forthcoming impact on humanity. Claiming that the possibility exists for machine intelligence to surpass human intelligence, and therefore human domination of the planet, all in the reasonably near future, March Of The Machines is a riveting and thought-provoking discussion of what composes intellect and the fallout of man's own scientific achievements.
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Title #931: Computer and Robot Vision (Volume II), Paperback
Edition: First Edition
ISBN Number: 0201569434
Number of Pages: Information Unavailable
Author(s): Robert M. Haralick, Linda G. Shapiro
Publisher: Addison Wesley Longman
Date: June 6, 2002
Category: Computer and Robot Vision
Abstract / Synopsis: Information Unavailable
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Title #932: Robotics for Bio Production Systems (Asae Publication, 05-98)
Edition: First Edition
ISBN Number: 0929355946
Number of Pages: 325
Author(s): N Kondo
Publisher: American Society of Agricultural Engineers
Date: July 1998
Category: Robotics for Bio Production Systems
Abstract / Synopsis: Information Unavailable
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Title #933: Underwater Robots
Edition: First Edition
ISBN Number: 0792397541
Number of Pages: 256
Author(s): Junku Yuh
Publisher: Springer
Date: July 31, 1996
Category: Autonomous Underwater Robots
Abstract / Synopsis: Underwater Robots reports on the latest progress in underwater robotics. In spite of its importance, the ocean is generally overlooked, since we focus more of our attention on land and atmospheric issues. We have not yet been able to explore the full depths of the ocean and its resources. The deep oceans range between 19000 to 36000 feet. At a mere 33-foot depth, the pressure is twice the normal atmospheric pressure of 29.4 psi. This obstacle, compounded with other complex issues due to the unstructured and hazardous environment, makes it difficult to travel in the ocean even though today's technologies allow humans to land on the moon. Only recently, we discovered by using manned submersibles that a large amount of carbon dioxide comes from the sea-floor and that extraordinary groups of organisms live in hydrothermal vent areas. On March 24, 1995 Kaiko (a remotely operated vehicle) navigated the deepest region of the ocean, the Mariana Trough. This vehicle successfully dived to a depth of 33000 feet and instantly showed scenes from the trench through a video camera. New tools like this enable us to gain knowledge of mysterious places. However, extensive use of manned submersibles and remotely operated vehicles is limited to a few applications because of very high operational costs, operator fatigue and safety issues. In spite of these hindrances, the demand for advanced underwater robot technologies is growing and will eventually arrive at fully autonomous, specialized, reliable underwater robotic vehicles. Underwater Robots is an edited volume of peer-reviewed original research comprising thirteen invited contributions by leading researchers. This research work has also been published as a special issue of Autonomous Robots
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Title #934: Robot Intelligence ... With Experiments
Edition: First Edition
ISBN Number: 0830611916
Number of Pages: Information Unavailable
Author(s): David L. Heiserman
Publisher: Tab Books
Date: Information Unavailable
Category: Robot intelligence
Abstract / Synopsis: Information Unavailable
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Title #935: Remote Control Robotics
Edition: First Edition
ISBN Number: 0387985972
Number of Pages: 224
Author(s): Craig Sayers
Publisher: Springer
Date: December 21, 1998
Category: Techniques used to control remote robots
Abstract / Synopsis: Increasingly, robots are being used in environments inhospitable to humans such as the deep ocean, inside nuclear reactors, and in deep space. Such robots are controlled by remote links to human operators who may be close by or thousands of miles away. The techniques used to control these robots is the subject of this book. The author begins with a basic introduction to robot control and then considers the important problems to be overcome: delays or noisy control lines, feedback and response information, and predictive displays. Readers are assumed to have a basic understanding of robotics though this may be their first exposure to the subject of telerobotics. Professional engineers and roboticists will find this an invaluable introduction to this subject.
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Title #936: Mechanics of Robotic Manipulation (Intelligent Robotics and
Autonomous Agents)
Edition: First Edition
ISBN Number: 0262133962
Number of Pages: 272
Author(s): Matthew T. Mason
Publisher: The MIT Press
Date: August 1, 2001
Category: Focuses on manipulation rather than manipulators
Abstract / Synopsis: "Manipulation" refers to a variety of physical changes made to the world around us. Mechanics of Robotic Manipulation addresses one form of robotic manipulation, moving objects, and the various processes involved--grasping, carrying, pushing, dropping, throwing, and so on. Unlike most books on the subject, it focuses on manipulation rather than manipulators. This attention to processes rather than devices allows a more fundamental approach, leading to results that apply to a broad range of devices, not just robotic arms. The book draws both on classical mechanics and on classical planning, which introduces the element of imperfect information. The book does not propose a specific solution to the problem of manipulation, but rather outlines a path of inquiry.
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Title #937: Nonholonomic Manipulators (Springer Tracts in Advanced
Robotics)
Edition: First Edition
ISBN Number: 3540221085
Number of Pages: 115
Author(s): W. Chung
Publisher: Springer
Date: October 15, 2004
Category: Nonholonomic manipulators
Abstract / Synopsis: This focused monograph on nonholonomic manipulators builds upon an increasing interest in nonholonomic mechanical systems in robotics and control engineering. The scope of this book is the definition and development of new nonholonomic machines which are designed on the basis of nonlinear control theory for nonholonomic mechanical systems. A key feature of the work is the possibility to exploit nonholonomic theory to design innovative mechanical systems with a reduced number of actuators without reducing the size of their controllable space. The book offers a comprehensive treatment of the problem from the theoretical development of the various control schemes to prototyping new types of manipulators, while testing their performance by simulation and experiments in a number of significant cases.
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Title #938: Geometric Fundamentals of Robotics (Monographs in
Computer Science)
Edition: First Edition
ISBN Number: 0387208747
Number of Pages: 398
Author(s): J.M. Selig
Publisher: Springer
Date: November 19, 2004
Category: Feature of this book is that it introduces mathematical tools,
especially geometric ones, for solving problems in robotics
Abstract / Synopsis: "The majority of textbooks dealing with this subject cover various topics in kinematics, dynamics, control, sensing, and planning for robot manipulators. The distinguishing feature of this book is that it introduces mathematical tools, especially geometric ones, for solving problems in robotics. In particular, Lie groups and allied algebraic and geometric concepts are presented in a comprehensive manner to an audience interested in robotics. The aim of the author is to show the power and elegance of these methods as they apply to problems in robotics." -- MathSciNet
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Title #939: Intelligent Systems: Architecture, Design, Control
Edition: First Edition
ISBN Number: 0471193747
Number of Pages: 758
Author(s): James S. Albus, James S. Albus
Publisher: Wiley-Interscience
Date: August 7, 2001
Category: Book focuses on the NIST-RCS (Real-time Control System) model
that has been used recently in the Mars Rover
Abstract / Synopsis: This comprehensive treatment of the field of intelligent systems is written by two of the foremost authorities in the field. The authors clearly examine the theoretical and practical aspects of these systems. The book focuses on the NIST-RCS (Real-time Control System) model that has been used recently in the Mars Rover.
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Title #940: Mathematical Methods for Artificial Intelligence and
Autonomous Systems
Edition: First Edition
ISBN Number: 0135609135
Number of Pages: 446
Author(s): Edward R. Dougherty, Charles R. Giardina
Publisher: Prentice Hall
Date: March, 1988
Category: Math methods for AI and Autonomous systems
Abstract / Synopsis: Information Unavailable
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Title #941: Geometrical Foundations of Robotics, Paperback
Edition: First Edition
ISBN Number: 9810241135
Number of Pages: 152
Author(s): J. M. Selig
Publisher: World Scientific Publishing Company
Date: January 15, 2000
Category: Discusses the application of modern geometrical methods to
problems in robotics
Abstract / Synopsis: A collection of talks presented at a tutorial session of the 1998 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, held in Leuven, Belguim. Discusses the application of modern geometrical methods to problems in robotics.
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Title #942: Designing Sociable Robots (Intelligent Robotics and
Autonomous Agents)
Edition: First Edition
ISBN Number: 0262025108
Number of Pages: 281
Author(s): Cynthia L. Breazeal
Publisher: The MIT Press
Date: May 4, 2002
Category: Presents vision of the sociable robot of the future, a synthetic
creature and not merely a sophisticated tool
Abstract / Synopsis: Cynthia Breazeal here presents her vision of the sociable robot of the future, a synthetic creature and not merely a sophisticated tool. A sociable robot will be able to understand us, to communicate and interact with us, to learn from us and grow with us. It will be socially intelligent in a humanlike way. Eventually sociable robots will assist us in our daily lives, as collaborators and companions. Because the most successful sociable robots will share our social characteristics, the effort to make sociable robots is also a means for exploring human social intelligence and even what it means to be human. Breazeal defines the key components of social intelligence for these machines and offers a framework and set of design issues for their realization. Much of the book focuses on a nascent sociable robot she designed named Kismet. Breazeal offers a concrete implementation for Kismet, incorporating insights from the scientific study of animals and people, as well as from artistic disciplines such as classical animation. This blending of science, engineering, and art creates a lifelike quality that encourages people to treat Kismet as a social creature rather than just a machine.
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Title #943: Vision As Process: Basic Research on Computer Vision
Systems (Esprit Basic Research Series)
Edition: First Edition
ISBN Number: 038758143X
Number of Pages: 440
Author(s): J. L. Crowley, H. I. Christensen
Publisher: Springer
Date: April 1995
Category: Book describes the first implemented vision system anywhere to integrate robotic camera control, ocular reflexes, reactive fixation, real-time image processing, image tracking, perceptual grouping, active 3D modeling, and object recognition
Abstract / Synopsis: There is growing interest in the use of active control of image formation to simplify and accelerate scene understanding. AI research on machine vision emphasizes the use of declarative knowledge and explicit representation of goals to control the perceptual process. This book describes the first implemented vision system anywhere to integrate robotic camera control, ocular reflexes, reactive fixation, real-time image processing, image tracking, perceptual grouping, active 3D modeling, and object recognition. The book presents the results of the ESPRIT project BG 3038/7108 "Vision as Process" initiated in 1989. The presentation is organized as five parts which reflect the components developed for the resulting experimental test-bed system.
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Title #944: Control Problems in Robotics
Edition: First Edition
ISBN Number: 3540002510
Number of Pages: 294
Author(s): Antonio Bicchi
Publisher: Springer
Date: January 31, 2003
Category: Book aims at reporting some of the most challenging open
problems of control theoretic nature raised by robotics applications
Abstract / Synopsis: This book aims at reporting some of the most challenging open problems of control theoretic nature raised by robotics applications. Topics covered in the book represent many of the most innovative areas in contemporary robotics research, with special emphasis on vision, sensory-feedback control, human-centered robotics, manipulation, planning, flexible and cooperative robots, or assembly systems. The basic idea behind the book is to present the variety of innovative applications and related technology demands that arise from robotics and automation to a larger community, including in particular, researchers in automatic control, applied mathematics, mechanical engineering, or computer science. The book is intended for an audience of researchers and graduate students in those disciplines and in robotics.
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Title #945: Neurotechnology for Biomimetic Robots (Bradford Books)
Edition: First Edition
ISBN Number: 026201193X
Number of Pages: 650
Author(s): Joseph Ayers
Publisher: The MIT Press
Date: August 15, 2002
Category: Book provides an in-depth overview of Biomimetic robots
Abstract / Synopsis: The goal of neurotechnology is to confer the performance advantages of animal systems on robotic machines. Biomimetic robots differ from traditional robots in that they are agile, relatively cheap, and able to deal with real-world environments. The engineering of these robots requires a thorough understanding of the biological systems on which they are based, at both the biomechanical and physiological levels. This book provides an in-depth overview of the field. The areas covered include myomorphic actuators, which mimic muscle action; neuromorphic sensors, which, like animal sensors, represent sensory modalities such as light, pressure, and motion in a labeled-line code; biomimetic controllers, based on the relatively simple control systems of invertebrate animals; and the autonomous behaviors that are based on an animal’s selection of behaviors from a species-specific behavioral "library." The ultimate goal is to develop a truly autonomous robot, one able to navigate and interact with its environment solely on the basis of sensory feedback without prompting from a human operator.
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Title #946: Multiagent Robotic Systems
Edition: First Edition
ISBN Number: 084932288X
Number of Pages: 328
Author(s): Jiming Liu, Jianbing Wu
Publisher: CRC Press
Date: May 30, 2001
Category: Demonstrates the interrelationships between the autonomy of individual robots and the emerged global behavior properties of a group performing a cooperative task.
Abstract / Synopsis: Providing a guided tour of the pioneering work and major technical issues, Multiagent Robotic Systems addresses learning and adaptation in decentralized autonomous robots. Its systematic examination demonstrates the interrelationships between the autonomy of individual robots and the emerged global behavior properties of a group performing a cooperative task. The author also includes descriptions of the essential building blocks of the architecture of autonomous mobile robots with respect to their requirement on local behavioral conditioning and group behavioral evolution.
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Title #947: Biorobotics, Paperback
Edition: First Edition
ISBN Number: 026273141X
Number of Pages: 250
Author(s): Barbara Webb, Thomas R. Consi
Publisher: AAAI Press
Date: August 1, 2001
Category: Animal-like robots
Abstract / Synopsis: Animal-like robots are playing an increasingly important role as a link between the worlds of biology and engineering. The new, multidisciplinary field of biorobotics provides tools for biologists studying animal behavior and test beds for the study and evaluation of biological algorithms for potential engineering applications. This book focuses on the role of robots as tools for biologists. An animal is profoundly affected by the many subtle and complex signals within its environment, and because the animal invariably disturbs its environment, it constantly creates a new set of stimuli. Biorobots are now enabling biologists to understand these complex animal-environment relationships. This book unites scientists from diverse disciplines who are using biorobots to probe animal behavior and brain function. The first section describes the sensory systems of biorobotic crickets, lobsters, and ants and the visual system of flies. The second section discusses robots with cockroach motor systems and the intriguing question of how the evolution of complex motor abilities could lead to the development of cognitive functions. The final section discusses higher brain function and neural modeling in mammalian and humanoid robots.
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Title #948: Biologically Inspired Robot Behavior Engineering
Edition: First Edition
ISBN Number: 3790815136
Number of Pages: 438
Author(s): Richard J. Duro
Publisher: Physica-Verlag Heidelberg
Date: December 6, 2002
Category: Book crosses several boundaries in the field of robotics and the
closely related field of artificial life
Abstract / Synopsis: The book presents an overview of current research on biologically inspired autonomous robotics from the perspective of some of the most relevant researchers in this area. The book crosses several boundaries in the field of robotics and the closely related field of artificial life. The key aim throughout the book is to obtain autonomy at different levels. From the basic motor behavior in some exotic robot architectures right through to the planning of complex behaviors or the evolution of robot control structures, the book explores different degrees and definitions of autonomous behavior. These behaviors are supported by a wide variety of modeling techniques: structural grammars, neural networks, and fuzzy logic and evolution underlies many of the development processes. Thus this text can be used by scientists and students interested in these areas and provides a general view of the field for a more general audience.
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Title #949: Texture Analysis in Machine Vision
Edition: First Edition
ISBN Number: 9810243731
Number of Pages: 257
Author(s): M. K. Pietikainen
Publisher: World Scientific Publishing Company
Date: January 15, 2000
Category: Machine vision
Abstract / Synopsis: Based partly on a 1999 workshop on texture analysis and machine vision, held in Oulu, Finland, this text presents recent research in the area. The first part of the text deals with methodology, while the second covers applications, with bright color photographs to supplement the text.
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Title #950: Robotics and Artificial Intelligence
Edition: First Edition
ISBN Number: 0613796209
Number of Pages: Information Unavailable
Author(s): Sandy Fritz
Publisher: Sagebrush Education Resources
Date: January 2004
Category: Robotics and AI
Abstract / Synopsis: Science and technology are expanding at an explosive rate. From the building of microscopic machinery to the search for alien life, "Hot Science examines six fascinating areas of scientific exploration and offers a glimpse into the future of science.
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Title #951: The Interpretation of Visual Motion
Edition: First Edition
ISBN Number: 026221007X
Number of Pages: 229
Author(s): Shimon Ullman
Publisher: The MIT Press
Date: March 22, 1979
Category: Robotics
Abstract / Synopsis: Information Unavaileble
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Title #952: Three-Dimensional Computer Vision
Edition: First Edition
ISBN Number: 0262061589
Number of Pages: 695
Author(s): Olivier Faugeras
Publisher: The MIT Press
Date: November 19, 1993
Category: Robotics
Abstract / Synopsis: This monograph by one of the world's leading vision researchers provides a thorough, mathematically rigorous exposition of a broad and vital area in computer vision: the problems and techniques related to three-dimensional (stereo) vision and motion. The emphasis is on using geometry to solve problems in stereo and motion, with examples from navigation and object recognition.
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Title #953: Legged Robots That Balance
Edition: First Edition
ISBN Number: 0262181177
Number of Pages: 250
Author(s): Marc Raibert
Publisher: The MIT Press
Date: March 26, 1986
Category: Robotics
Abstract / Synopsis: This book, by a leading authority on legged locomotion, presents exciting engineering and science, along with fascinating implications for theories of human motor control. It lays fundamental groundwork in legged locomotion, one of the least developed areas of robotics, addressing the possibility of building useful legged robots that run and balance. The book describes the study of physical machines that run and balance on just one leg, including analysis, computer simulation, and laboratory experiments. Contrary to expectations, it reveals that control of such machines is not particularly difficult. It describes how the principles of locomotion discovered with one leg can be extended to systems with several legs and reports preliminary experiments with a quadruped machine that runs using these principles. Raibert's work is unique in its emphasis on dynamics and active balance, aspects of the problem that have played a minor role in most previous work. His studies focus on the central issues of balance and dynamic control, while avoiding several problems that have dominated previous research on legged machines.
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Title #954: Artificial Intelligence: Robotics and Machine Evolution
Edition: First Edition
ISBN Number: 0613112849
Number of Pages: Information Unavailable
Author(s): Davies Jefferis
Publisher: Rebound by Sagebrush
Date: March, 2001
Category: Robotics
Abstract / Synopsis: Artificial Intelligence opens up the fantastic world of cutting edge robot technology to young readers from their appearance in early science fiction to their use today in communication, finance, entertainment, and the environment. The ethical pros and cons of technological advancement are considered and a helpful glossary explains scientific terms and concepts.
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Title #955: Minimalist Mobile Robotics
Edition: First Edition
ISBN Number: 012185230X
Number of Pages: 192
Author(s): Jonathan H. Connell
Publisher: Morgan Kaufmann
Date: July 28, 1990
Category: Robot Navagation
Abstract / Synopsis: Rather than using traditional artificial intelligence techniques, which are ineffective when applied to the complexities of real-world robot navigation, Connell describes a methodology of reconstructing intelligent robots with distributed, multiagent control systems. After presenting this methodology, the author describes a complex, robust, and successful application-a mobile robot "can collection machine" which operates in an unmodified office environment occupied by moving people.
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Title #956: HANDEY: A Robot Task Planner
Edition: First Edition
ISBN Number: 0262121727
Number of Pages: 256
Author(s): Tomás Lozano-Pérez, Joseph L. Jones, Emmanuel Mazer,
Patrick A. O'Donnell
Publisher: The MIT Press
Date: July 1, 1992
Category: HANDEY is a task-level robot system that requires only a
geometric description
Abstract / Synopsis: HANDEY is a task-level robot system that requires only a geometric description of a pick-and-place task rather than the specific robot motions necessary to carry out the task. The system-building process this book describes is an important step toward eliminating the current programming bottleneck that is keeping robots from fulfilling their scientific and economic potential. The HANDEY system, the state-of-the art technologies for developing it, and the problems encountered are clearly presented, aided by numerous marginal illustrations. The development of HANDEY is part of the authors' long-term goal of achieving systems that can manipulate a variety of objects in different environments using a wide class of robots. HANDEY has been tested on numerous pick-and-place tasks, including parts ranging from wooden cubes to electric motors; it can be used to generate commands for different types of industrial robots, can coordinate two arms working in the same workspace, and has been tested with a module that locates the position of a specific part in a jumble of other parts.
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Title #957: Principles and Elements of Thought Construction, Artificial
Intelligence, and Cognitive Robotics
Edition: First Edition
ISBN Number: 0945541007
Number of Pages: 151
Author(s): Charles M. Bowling
Publisher: Csy Pub December
Date: 1987
Category: Principles and Elements of Thought Construction, Artificial
Intelligence, and Cognitive Robotics
Abstract / Synopsis: Information Unavailable
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Title #958: Programming Languages for Industrial Robots
Edition: First Edition
ISBN Number: 0387163190
Number of Pages: 376
Author(s): Christian Blume, Wilfried Jakob
Publisher: Springer
Date: October, 1986
Category: Programming Languages for Industrial Robots
Abstract / Synopsis: Information Unavailable
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Title #959: Robot planning and artificial intelligence
Edition: First Edition
ISBN Number: B00070YK4A
Number of Pages: Information Unavailable
Author(s): Kathryn F Jones
Publisher: University of Colorado at Denver, Department of Mathematics
Date: 1986
Category: Robot planning and artificial intelligence
Abstract / Synopsis: Information Unavailable
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Title #960: Robot Hands and the Mechanics of Manipulation
Edition: First Edition
ISBN Number: 0262132052
Number of Pages: 275
Author(s): Matthew T. Mason, J. Kenneth Salisbury
Publisher: The MIT Press
Date: May 30, 1985
Category: Book explores several aspects of the basic mechanics of grasping,
pushing, and in general, manipulating objects
Abstract / Synopsis: Robot Hands and the Mechanics of Manipulation explores several aspects of the basic mechanics of grasping, pushing, and in general, manipulating objects. It makes a significant contribution to the understanding of the motion of objects in the presence of friction, and to the development of fine position and force controlled articulated hands capable of doing useful work. In the book's first section, kinematic and force analysis is applied to the problem of designing and controlling articulated hands for manipulation. The analysis of the interface between fingertip and grasped object then becomes the basis for the specification of acceptable hand kinematics. A practical result of this work has been the development of the Stanford/JPL robot hand - a tendon-actuated, 9 degree-of-freedom hand which is being used at various laboratories around the country to study the associated control and programming problems aimed at improving robot dexterity.
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Title #961: Views into the Chinese Room:
New Essays on Searle and Artificial Intelligence
Edition: First Edition
ISBN Number: 0198250576
Number of Pages: 650
Author(s): John Preston, Mark Bishop
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Inc.
Date: November 2002
Category: John Searle's "Chinese Room" argument
Abstract / Synopsis: Featuring 19 specially written essays by leading scientists and philosophers, this volume is a state-of-the-art work on the foundations of cognitive science. The most famous challenge to computational cognitive science and artificial intelligence is the philosopher John Searle's "Chinese Room" argument. Searle argued that, although machines can be devised to respond to input with the same output as would a mind, machines--unlike minds--lack understanding of the symbols they process. 19 essays by leading scientists and philosophers assess, renew, and respond to this crucial challenge.
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Title #962: Creating the Semantic Web with RDF: Professional
Developer's Guide (With CD-ROM)
Edition: Book & CD-Rom edition
ISBN Number: 0471402591
Number of Pages: 277
Author(s): Johan Hjelm, Johan Hjelm
Publisher: Wiley
Date: May 11, 2001
Category: Complete guidance for Web and content developers who use
Resource Description Framework (RDF) to create Web services
Abstract / Synopsis: The first state-of-the-art guide for Web developers who need to enable totally new services using metadata. This book offers for the first time complete guidance for Web and content developers who use Resource Description Framework (RDF) to create Web services, both wired and wireless, for metadata, or data that is maintained by an application. Written by the W3C Fellow charged with making the W3C XML standard work with other open standards, the book clearly demonstrates how RDF and metadata can greatly improve a user's Web experience through richer, better-tailored content. The author explains RDF theory and practice and how it compares to XML and HTML in layman terms and provides source code for several important tools. He includes descriptions of real services, both for the desktop computer and the handheld wireless device, and hands-on examples illustrating how metadata is used to tailor services for users.
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Title #963: Intelligent Information Integration for the Semantic Web
Edition: First Edition
ISBN Number: 3540229930
Number of Pages: 150
Author(s): Bubo Visser
Publisher: Springer
Date: March 14, 2005
Category: Semantic Web
Abstract / Synopsis: The semantic Web offers new opportunities for information processes. This book is devoted to the core issue of data integration at the semantic level and demonstrates the applicability of the techniques developed to spatio-temporal representation and reasoning and geographic information systems. Preceded by a motivating introduction and an overview of the state of the art in the field of information integration, fundamental problems of terminological representation, terminological reasoning, and semantic translation are treated in detail. The theoretical results and techniques developed are applied to intelligent conceptual and spatio-temporal queries of heterogeneous geographic information systems.
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Title #964: Semantic Networks in Artificial Intelligence
Edition: First Edition
ISBN Number: 0080420125
Number of Pages: 768
Author(s): Fritz Lehmann, Ervin Y. Rodin
Publisher: Pergamon Pr
Date: July 1, 1992
Category: Book addresses every level of reader interested in the field of
knowledge representation
Abstract / Synopsis: Semantic Networks are graphic structures used to represent concepts and knowledge in computers. Key uses include natural language understanding, information retrieval, machine vision, object-oriented analysis and dynamic control of combat aircraft. This major collection addresses every level of reader interested in the field of knowledge representation. Easy to read surveys of the main research families, most written by the founders, are followed by 25 widely varied articles on semantic networks and the conceptual structure of the world. Some extend ideas of philosopher Charles S Peirce 100 years ahead of his time. Others show connections to databases, lattice theory, semiotics, real-world ontology, graph-grammers, lexicography, relational algebras, property inheritance and semantic primitives. Hundreds of pictures show semantic networks as a visual language of thought.
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Title #965: Nonlinear Biomedical Signal Processing, Fuzzy Logic, Neural
Networks, and New Algorithms (IEEE Press Series on
Biomedical Engineering)
Edition: First Edition
ISBN Number: 0780360117
Number of Pages: 276
Author(s): Metin Akay
Publisher: Wiley-IEEE Press
Date: July 21, 2000
Category: Comprehensive coverage of nonlinear signal processing techniques
Abstract / Synopsis: For the first time, eleven experts in the fields of signal processing and biomedical engineering have contributed to an edition on the newest theories and applications of fuzzy logic, neural networks, and algorithms in biomedicine. Nonlinear Biomedical Signal Processing, Volume I provides comprehensive coverage of nonlinear signal processing techniques. In the last decade, theoretical developments in the concept of fuzzy logic have led to several new approaches to neural networks. This compilation delivers plenty of real-world examples for a variety of implementations and applications of nonlinear signal processing technologies to biomedical problems. Included here are discussions that combine the various structures of Kohenen, Hopfield, and multiple-layer "designer" networks with other approaches to produce hybrid systems. Comparative analysis is made of methods of genetic, back-propagation, Bayesian, and other learning algorithms.
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Title #966: Speech Recognition : Theory and C++ Implementation
Edition: Book & CD Rom edition
ISBN Number: 0471977306
Number of Pages: 428
Author(s): Claudio Becchetti
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Date: May 25, 1999
Category: Speech Recognition
Abstract / Synopsis: Speech Recognition introduces the principles of ASR systems, including the theory and implementation issues behind multi-speaker continuous speech recognition.
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Title #967: How to Build a Speech Recognition Application: Second
Edition: A Style Guide for Telephony Dialogues, Paperback
Edition: 2nd edition
ISBN Number: 0967127823
Number of Pages: 414
Author(s): Bruce Balentine, David P. Morgan
Publisher: Enterprise Integration Group
Date: December 31, 2001
Category: Speech recognition
Abstract / Synopsis: Although this style guide has stood up fairly well over the two and a half years since it was first published, the voice user interface subject area has continued to expand and mature. In this edition we have taken more time to address voice portals and we have added an appendix on selecting and training "Voice Talent." It has become obvious over the past few years that selecting the talent for the application can have as much impact on the end user as the design itself. Furthermore, the application designer and the talent must work together to create a satisfying user experience. We have also rewritten and expanded on Chapter 11, "Usability Testing and Performance Reporting." Most of the new material summarizes our experiences since the first edition was published. In addition, we have added a major section to Chapter 8 on "Challenges in Implementing Natural Language Systems"-new material that has been compiled since the first edition. We have also updated the yes-no discussion in Section 6.3 with a description of some recently-proven methods for handling mixed-initiative replies. Other improvements in this edition include updated dialogue examples, more copious cross references, and improvements to the index and glossary.
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Title #968: Spoken Dialogue Technology, Paperback
Edition: First Edition
ISBN Number: 1852336722
Number of Pages: 374
Author(s): T.V. Raman (Foreword), Michael F. McTear
Publisher: Springer
Date: September 15, 2004
Category: Provides extensive coverage of spoken dialogue systems
Abstract / Synopsis: Spoken Dialogue Technology provides extensive coverage of spoken dialogue systems, ranging from the theoretical underpinnings of the study of dialogue through to a detailed look at a number of well-established methods and tools for developing spoken dialogue systems. The book enables students and practitioners to design and test dialogue systems using several available development environments and languages, including the CSLU toolkit, VoiceXML, SALT, and XHTML+ voice. This practical orientation is usually available otherwise only in reference manuals supplied with software development kits. The latest research in spoken dialogue systems is presented along with extensive coverage of the most relevant theoretical issues and a critical evaluation of current research prototypes.
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Title #969: Spoken Dialogues with Computers: Signal Processing and Its
Applications (Signal Processing and its Applications)
Edition: First Edition
ISBN Number: 0122090551
Number of Pages: 702
Author(s): Renato De Mori
Publisher: Academic Press
Date: January 15, 1998
Category: State-of-the-art description of all the components of a computer-
based spoken dialogue system
Abstract / Synopsis: Gives a complete state-of-the-art description of all the components of a computer-based spoken dialogue system. Experts review the complete chain in detail, from microphone to speech synthesis.
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Title #970: Verbmobil: Foundations of Speech-to-Speech Translation
Edition: First Edition
ISBN Number: 3540677836
Number of Pages: 677
Author(s): Wolfgang Wahlster
Publisher: Springer
Date: September 6, 2000
Category: Speech-to-Speech Translation
Abstract / Synopsis: Verbmobil is the result of eight years of intensive research in a large speech-to-speech translation project, executed by a consortium comprising nineteen academic and four industrial partners. The system that was developed by more than 100 researchers and engineers handles dialogs in three business-oriented domains, with translation between three languages: German, English, and Japanese. Verbmobil deals with spontaneous speech, which includes realistic repair phenomena, and uses deep semantic analysis to recognize a speaker's slips and to translate what he tried to say rather than what he actually said. This book gives the first comprehensive overview of the results of this unique and seminal project in human language technology. Contributions by leading scientists in speech and language technology look at the component technologies that make Verbmobil the most advanced speech-to-speech translation system worldwide and a landmark project in the history of natural language processing.
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Title #971: Incremental Speech Translation
Edition: First Edition
ISBN Number: 3540667539
Number of Pages: 224
Author(s): Jan W. Amtrup
Publisher: Springer
Date: January 7, 2000
Category: Complete translation system for spontaneously spoken language
Abstract / Synopsis: This book describes a complete translation system for spontaneously spoken language, constructed using the incremental paradigm. It starts by presenting the theoretical and algorithmic basis necessary to cope with the complex endeavour of translating speech incrementally and in parallel. In particular, graph-theoretic foundations of natural language processing and feature-based descriptions of linguistic objects are covered. A thorough description of the system and its performance follows. The author covers syntactic and semantic processing as well as transfer and syntactic generation. Thus the book can also be used as a broad-coverage introduction to the field of speech translation. This book is essential reading for researchers and students working in the field of speech translation. It is also intended as a research tool for those interested in the architecture of general natural language processing systems.
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Title #972: Stochastic Local Search : Foundations & Applications (The
Morgan Kaufmann Series in Artificial Intelligence)
Edition: First Edition
ISBN Number: 1558608729
Number of Pages: 658
Author(s): Holger H. Hoos, Thomas Stützle
Publisher: Morgan Kaufmann
Date: September 16, 2004
Category: Stochastic local search (SLS) algorithms
Abstract / Synopsis: Stochastic local search (SLS) algorithms are among the most prominent and successful techniques for solving computationally difficult problems in many areas of computer science and operations research, including propositional satisfiability, constraint satisfaction, routing, and scheduling. SLS algorithms have also become increasingly popular for solving challenging combinatorial problems in many application areas, such as e-commerce and bioinformatics. Hoos and Stützle offer the first systematic and unified treatment of SLS algorithms. In this groundbreaking new book, they examine the general concepts and specific instances of SLS algorithms and carefully consider their development, analysis and application. The discussion focuses on the most successful SLS methods and explores their underlying principles, properties, and features. This book gives hands-on experience with some of the most widely used search techniques, and provides readers with the necessary understanding and skills to use this powerful tool.
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Title #973: Scatter Search : Methodology and Implementations in C
(Operations Research/Computer Science Interfaces Series)
Edition: First Edition
ISBN Number: 1402073763
Number of Pages: 312
Author(s): Manuel Laguna, Rafael Martí
Publisher: Springer
Date: February 28, 2003
Category: Scatter search
Abstract / Synopsis: Intended as a reference book for researchers and practitioners interested in gaining in-depth understanding of scatter search, with the goal of expanding this methodology or applying it to difficult practical problems. Provides basic principles and fundamental ideas of scatter search.
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Title #974: Learning Automata and Stochastic Optimization (Lecture
Notes in Control and Information Sciences), Paperback
Edition: First Edition
ISBN Number: 3540761543
Number of Pages: 204
Author(s): A. S. Poznyak, K. Najim
Publisher: Springer-Verlag Telos
Date: January 15, 1997
Category: Features new and efficient learning techniques for stochastic optimization, and with examples illustrating the practical application of these techniques
Abstract / Synopsis: In the last decade there has been a steadily growing need for and interest in computational methods for solving stochastic optimization problems with or without constraints. Optimization techniques have been gaining greater acceptance in many industrial applications, and learning systems have made a significant impact on engineering problems in many areas, including modeling, control, optimization, pattern recognition, signal processing and diagnosis. Learning automata have an advantage over other methods in being applicable across a wide range of functions. Featuring new and efficient learning techniques for stochastic optimization, and with examples illustrating the practical application of these techniques, this volume will be of benefit to practicing control engineers and to graduate students taking courses in optimization, control theory or statistics.
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Title #975: Learning with Kernels: Support Vector Machines,
Regularization, Optimization, and Beyond (Adaptive
Computation and Machine Learning)
Edition: First Edition
ISBN Number: 0262194759
Number of Pages: 644
Author(s): Bernhard Schlkopf, Alexander J. Smola
Publisher: The MIT Press
Date: December 15, 2001
Category: Support Vector Machine
Abstract / Synopsis: In the 1990s, a new type of learning algorithm was developed, based on results from statistical learning theory: the Support Vector Machine (SVM). This gave rise to a new class of theoretically elegant learning machines that use a central concept of SVMs—-kernels--for a number of learning tasks. Kernel machines provide a modular framework that can be adapted to different tasks and domains by the choice of the kernel function and the base algorithm. They are replacing neural networks in a variety of fields, including engineering, information retrieval, and bioinformatics. Learning with Kernels provides an introduction to SVMs and related kernel methods. Although the book begins with the basics, it also includes the latest research. It provides all of the concepts necessary to enable a reader equipped with some basic mathematical knowledge to enter the world of machine learning using theoretically well-founded yet easy-to-use kernel algorithms and to understand and apply the powerful algorithms that have been developed over the last few years.
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Title #976: An Introduction to Support Vector Machines and Other
Kernel-based Learning Methods
Edition: First Edition
ISBN Number: 0521780195
Number of Pages: 189
Author(s): Nello Cristianini, John Shawe-Taylor
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Date: March 23, 2000
Category: Machine learning and data mining
Abstract / Synopsis: First comprehensive introduction to this recent method for machine learning and data mining.
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Title #977: Support Vector Machines for Pattern Classification (Advances
in Pattern Recognition)
Edition: First Edition
ISBN Number: 1852339292
Number of Pages: 346
Author(s): Shigeo Abe
Publisher: Springer
Date: July 29, 2005
Category: SVMs by taking the only approach that focuses on classification
rather than covering the theoretical aspects
Abstract / Synopsis: Support vector machines (SVMs), were originally formulated for two-class classification problems, and have been accepted as a powerful tool for developing pattern classification and function approximations systems. This book provides a unique perspective of the state of the art in SVMs by taking the only approach that focuses on classification rather than covering the theoretical aspects. The book clarifies the characteristics of two-class SVMs through their extensive analysis, presents various useful architectures for multiclass classification and function approximation problems, and discusses kernel methods for improving generalization ability of conventional neural networks and fuzzy systems. Ample illustrations, examples and computer experiments are included to help readers understand the new ideas and their usefulness. This book supplies a comprehensive resource for the use of SVMs in pattern classification and will be invaluable reading for researchers, developers & students in academia and industry.
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Title #978: Swarm Intelligence (The Morgan Kaufmann Series in
Artificial Intelligence)
Edition: First Edition
ISBN Number: 1558605959
Number of Pages: 510
Author(s): Russell C. Eberhart
Publisher: Morgan Kaufmann
Date: March 23, 2001
Category: Swarm Intelligence
Abstract / Synopsis: Well received the September UK Game industry show. Recent publicity includes a mention in Visual Basic Design Magazine, June issue.
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Title #979: Swarm Intelligence: From Natural to Artificial Systems (Santa
Fe Institute Studies in the Sciences of Complexity
Proceedings), Paperback
Edition: First Edition
ISBN Number: 0195131592
Number of Pages: 307
Author(s): Eric Bonabeau
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Date: October 1, 1999
Category: Mechanisms underlying collective behavior in social insects
Abstract / Synopsis: This book provides a rigorous look at the mechanisms underlying collective behavior in social insects. The field is developing rapidly, and the book includes up-to-date research from biology, neuroscience, artificial intelligence, robotics, operations research, and computer graphics.
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Title #980: Term Indexing, Paperback
Edition: First Edition
ISBN Number: 3540610405
Number of Pages: 284
Author(s): Peter Graf
Publisher: Springer
Date: June, 1996
Category: Term indexing supports the construction of efficient automated
reasoning systems
Abstract / Synopsis: Term indexing supports the construction of efficient automated reasoning systems, as e.g. automated theorem provers, by allowing rapid access to first order predicate calculus terms with specific properties. This monograph provides a comprehensive, well-written survey on term indexing in general and presents new indexing techniques for the retrieval and maintenance of data that help to overcome program degradation in automated reasoning systems. Theoretical foundations and applicational aspects are treated in detail; finally the PURR prover for parallel unit resulting resolution is discussed to demonstrate the importance of careful implementations.
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Title #981: The Man Who Knew Too Much: Alan Turing and the
Invention of the Computer (Great Discoveries)
Edition: First Edition
ISBN Number: 0393052362
Number of Pages: 288
Author(s): David Leavitt
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Date: November 28, 2005
Category: British mathematician Alan Turing
Abstract / Synopsis: Hounded by authorities and peers alike, British mathematician Alan Turing committed suicide in 1954 by biting into a cyanide-laced apple. A groundbreaking thinker in the field of pure math, a man principally responsible for breaking the Enigma code used by the Germans during WWII and the originator of the ideas that led to the invention of the computer, Turing was also an avowed homosexual at a time when such behavior flew in the face of both convention and the law. Leavitt (The Body of Jonah Boyd) writes that the unfailingly logical Turing was so literal minded, he "neither glorified nor anthologized" his homosexuality. Educated at King's College, Cambridge, and Princeton, Turing produced the landmark paper "On Computable Numbers" in 1937, where he proposed the radical idea that machines would and could "think" for themselves. Despite his Enigma code–breaking prowess during the war, which gave the Allies a crucial advantage, Turing was arrested in 1952 and charged with committing acts of gross indecency with another man. With lyrical prose and great compassion, Leavitt has produced a simple book about a complex man involved in an almost unfathomable task that is accessible to any reader
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Title #982: The Essential Turing: Seminal Writings in Computing, Logic,
Philosophy, Artificial Intelligence, And Artificial Life; Plus
The Secrets Of Enigma, Paperback
Edition: First Edition
ISBN Number: 0198250800
Number of Pages: 613
Author(s): B. Jack Copeland, Alan Mathison Turing
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Date: November 30, 2004
Category: Alan Turing’s works
Abstract / Synopsis: Alan Turing was one of the most influential thinkers of the 20th century. In 1935, aged 22, he developed the mathematical theory upon which all subsequent stored-program digital computers are modeled. At the outbreak of hostilities with Germany in September 1939, he joined the Goverment Codebreaking team at Bletchley Park, Buckinghamshire and played a crucial role in deciphering Engima, the code used by the German armed forces to protect their radio communications. Turing's work on the version of Enigma used by the German navy was vital to the battle for supremacy in the North Atlantic. He also contributed to the attack on the cyphers known as 'Fish,' which were used by the German High Command for the encryption of signals during the latter part of the war. His contribution helped to shorten the war in Europe by an estimated two years. After the war, his theoretical work led to the development of Britain's first computers at the National Physical Laboratory and the Royal Society Computing Machine Laboratory at Manchester University. Turing was also a founding father of modern cognitive science, theorizing that the cortex at birth is an 'unorganized machine' which through 'training' becomes organized 'into a universal machine or something like it.' He went on to develop the use of computers to model biological growth, launching the discipline now referred to as Artificial Life. The papers in this book are the key works for understanding Turing's phenomenal contribution across all these fields. The collection includes Turing's declassified wartime 'Treatise on the Enigma'; letters from Turing to Churchill and to codebreakers; lectures, papers, and broadcasts which opened up the concept of AI and its implications; and the paper which formed the genesis of the investigation of Artifical Life.
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Title #983: The Turing Option: A Novel
Edition: First Edition
ISBN Number: 0446515655
Number of Pages: 422
Author(s): Harry Harrison, Marvin Minsky
Publisher: Warner Books Inc
Date: August, 1992
Category: A novel, but a good one
Abstract / Synopsis: Minsky ( The Society of the Mind ), one of the foremost authorities on artificial intelligence research, has many interesting ideas about the potential and pitfalls of the quest for a truly free-thinking machine, and some of them come through in this murky, creaky thriller, written with veteran science fiction author Harrison ( Return to Eden ). Brian Delany, a brilliant computer scientist at top-secret Megalobe labs, is on the brink of developing a true machine intelligence when industrial pirates penetrate security and steal his research, gravely wounding him in the process. Though a bullet has destroyed parts of his brain, the technology he created offers hope: neurosurgeon Erin Snaresbrook uses microsurgical robots and a superpowerful computer to restore Brian to consciousness. Now he races against time to re-create his research before the thieves can develop it for the marketplace, and to find out who was behind the theft before they can finish him off. The stale, contrived plot and unlikely characters serve only as a framework for the authors' exposition of various issues surrounding AI. Readers interested in a lecture enlivened by a plot line should find this entertaining; those seeking the pleasures of fiction (science or otherwise) should look elsewhere.
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Title #984: The Turing Test : Verbal Behavior as the Hallmark of
Intelligence (Bradford Books), Paperback
Edition: First Edition
ISBN Number: 0262692937
Number of Pages: 336
Author(s): Stuart Shieber
Publisher: The MIT Press
Date: June 18, 2004
Category: Book examine the profound philosophical issues surrounding the
Turing Test as a criterion for intelligence
Abstract / Synopsis: The Turing Test is part of the vocabulary of popular culture -- it has appeared in works ranging from the Broadway play "Breaking the Code" to the comic strip "Robotman." The writings collected by Stuart Shieber for this book examine the profound philosophical issues surrounding the Turing Test as a criterion for intelligence. Alan Turing's idea, originally expressed in a 1950 paper titled "Computing Machinery and Intelligence" and published in the journal Mind, proposed an "indistinguishability test" that compared artifact and person. Following Descartes's dictum that it is the ability to speak that distinguishes human from beast, Turing proposed to test whether machine and person were indistinguishable in regard to verbal ability. He was not, as is often assumed, answering the question "Can machines think?" but proposing a more concrete way to ask it. Turing's proposed thought experiment encapsulates the issues that the writings in The Turing Test define and discuss.
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Title #985: Alan Turing: Life and Legacy of a Great Thinker
Edition: First Edition
ISBN Number: 3540200207
Number of Pages: 542
Author(s): Christof Teuscher
Publisher: Springer
Date: October 2005
Category: Definitive collection of commemorative essays, and the distinguished contributors have expertise in such diverse fields as artificial intelligence, natural computing, mathematics, physics, cryptology, cognitive studies, philosophy and anthropology
Abstract / Synopsis: Alan Turing's fundamental contributions to computing led to the development of modern computing technology, and his work continues to inspire researchers in computing science and beyond. This book is the definitive collection of commemorative essays, and the distinguished contributors have expertise in such diverse fields as artificial intelligence, natural computing, mathematics, physics, cryptology, cognitive studies, philosophy and anthropology. The volume spans the entire rich spectrum of Turing's life, research work and legacy. New light is shed on the future of computing science by visionary Ray Kurzweil. Notable contributions come from the philosopher Daniel Dennett, the Turing biographer Andrew Hodges, and the distinguished logician Martin Davis, who provides a first critical essay on an emerging and controversial field termed hypercomputation. A special feature of the book is the play by Valeria Patera which tackles the scandal surrounding the last apple, and presents as an enigma the life, death and destiny of the man who did so much to decipher the Enigma code during the Second World War. Other chapters are modern reappraisals of Turing's work on computability, and deal with the major philosophical questions raised by the Turing Test, while the book also contains essays addressing his less well-known ideas on Fibonacci phyllotaxis and connectionism.
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Title #986: Turing: The Great Philosophers (The Great Philosophers
Series)
Edition: First Edition
ISBN Number: 0415923786
Number of Pages: 58
Author(s): Andrew Hodges
Publisher: Routledge
Date: July, 1999
Category: Places the philosopher and his ideas into historical perspective
Abstract / Synopsis: Philosophy is one of the most intimidating and difficult of disciplines, as any of its students can attest. This book is an important entry in a distinctive new series from Routledge: The Great Philosophers. Breaking down obstacles to understanding the ideas of history's greatest thinkers, these brief, accessible, and affordable volumes offer essential introductions to the great philosophers of the Western tradition from Plato to Wittgenstein. In just 64 pages, each author, a specialist on his subject, places the philosopher and his ideas into historical perspective. Each volume explains, in simple terms, the basic concepts, enriching the narrative through the effective use of biographical detail. And instead of attempting to explain the philosopher's entire intellectual history, which can be daunting, this series takes one central theme in each philosopher's work, using it to unfold the philosopher's thoughts.
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Title #987: The Turing Test:
The Elusive Standard of Artificial Intelligence
Edition: First Edition
ISBN Number: 1402012047
Number of Pages: 288
Author(s): James H. Moor
Publisher: Springer
Date: April 2003
Category: The Turing Test
Abstract / Synopsis: This text provides a comprehensive, in-depth and contemporary assessment of the Turing test. It offers new insights into Turing's own interpretation and traces the history of the debate about the merits of the Turing test in detail. In a famous 1950 article, British mathematician and philosopher Alan Turing proclaimed that properly designed and educated computers could exhibit intelligent behavior indistinguishable from that of humans, and predicted that in half a century average people would not be able to tell whether they were talking to a human or a machine. Here, 14 articles reprinted from 2000 and 2001 issues of and , question whether the criteria is valid, if so why it is far from being met, and if not what other criteria for artificial intelligence might be. They are not indexed. Annotation (c)2003 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR ()
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Title #988: Artificial Intelligence and Tutoring Systems: Computational
and Cognitive Approaches to the Communication of
Knowledge
Edition: First Edition
ISBN Number: 0934613265
Number of Pages: 486
Author(s): Etienne Wenger
Publisher: Morgan Kaufmann Pub
Date: October, 1987
Category: Tutoring system
Abstract / Synopsis: Information unavailable
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Title #989: Foundations of Intelligent Tutoring Systems, Paperback
Edition: First Edition
ISBN Number: 0805800549
Number of Pages: 296
Author(s): M. Polson
Publisher: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates
Date: May 1988
Category: Tutoring systems
Abstract / Synopsis: Information Unavailable
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Title #990: Artificial Intelligence and Human Learning: Intelligent
Computer-Aided Instruction
Edition: First Edition
ISBN Number: 041230130X
Number of Pages: Information Unavailable
Author(s): J. Self
Publisher: Chapman & Hall
Date: March, 1988
Category: Artificial Intelligence and Human Learning: Intelligent
Computer-Aided Instruction
Abstract / Synopsis: Information Unavailable
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Title #991: Tutorial Computers for Artificial Intelligence Applications,
Paperback
Edition: First Edition
ISBN Number: 0818607068
Number of Pages: 648
Author(s): Benjamin Wah, G. J. Li
Publisher: IEEE Computer Society
Date: June, 1986
Category: Tutorial Computers for Artificial Intelligence Applications
Abstract / Synopsis: Information Unavailable
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Title #992: Artificial Intelligence and Instruction: A Selected Bibliography
Edition: First Edition
ISBN Number: 0877782202
Number of Pages: Information Unavailable
Author(s): William D. Milheim
Publisher: Educational Technology Pub
Date: September, 1989
Category: Artificial Intelligence and Instruction
Abstract / Synopsis: Information Unavailable
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Title #993: Automatic Program Debugging for Intelligent Tutoring
Systems
Edition: First Edition
ISBN Number: 0934613982
Number of Pages: Information Unavailable
Author(s): William R. Murray
Publisher: Morgan Kaufmann Pub
Date: February, 1989
Category: Automatic Program Debugging for Intelligent Tutoring Systems
Abstract / Synopsis: Information Unavailable
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Title #994: Explorations in Intelligent Tutoring and Help
Edition: First Edition
ISBN Number: 9051991126
Number of Pages: 238
Author(s): Radboud Winkels
Publisher: Ios Pr Inc
Date: January 1, 1992
Category: Explorations in Intelligent Tutoring and Help
Abstract / Synopsis: Information Unavailable
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Title #995: Artificial Intelligence and Education: Learning Environments
and Tutoring Systems
Edition: First Edition
ISBN Number: 089391438X
Number of Pages: Information Unavailable
Author(s): Robert W. Lawler, Masoud Yazdani
Publisher: Ablex Pub
Date: May, 1987
Category: Artificial Intelligence and Education: Learning Environments and
Tutoring Systems
Abstract / Synopsis: Information Unavailable
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Title #996: Vector Models for Data-Parallel Computing
Edition: First Edition
ISBN Number: 026202313X
Number of Pages: 273
Author(s): Guy E. Blelloch
Publisher: The MIT Press
Date: August 1, 1990
Category: Vector Models for Data-Parallel Computing
Abstract / Synopsis: Vector Models for Data-Parallel Computing describes a model of parallelism that extends and formalizes the Data-Parallel model on which the Connection Machine and other supercomputers are based. It presents many algorithms based on the model, ranging from graph algorithms to numerical algorithms, and argues that data-parallel models are not only practical and can be applied to a surprisingly wide variety of problems, they are also well suited for very-high-level languages and lead to a concise and clear description of algorithms and their complexity. Many of the author's ideas have been incorporated into the instruction set and into algorithms currently running on the Connection Machine. The book includes the definition of a parallel vector machine; an extensive description of the uses of the scan (also called parallel-prefix) operations; the introduction of segmented vector operations; parallel data structures for trees, graphs, and grids; many parallel computational-geometry, graph, numerical and sorting algorithms; techniques for compiling nested parallelism; a compiler for Paralation Lisp; and details on the implementation of the scan operations.
Guy E. Blelloch is an Assistant Professor of Computer Science and a Principal Investigator with the Super Compiler and Advanced Language project at Carnegie Mellon University.
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Title #997: Force and Touch Feedback for Virtual Reality
Edition: First Edition
ISBN Number: 0471021415
Number of Pages: 360
Author(s): Grigore C. Burdea
Publisher: Wiley-Interscience
Date: August 3, 1996
Category: Force feedback—the hottest area of research in virtual reality
Abstract / Synopsis: A comprehensive treatment of force feedback—the hottest area of research in virtual reality. Can interactivity in virtual reality (VR) extend to include our sense of touch?. Could weight, temperature, and texture combine to bring simulated objects to life? Describing cutting-edge technology that will influence the way we interact with computers for years to come, this pioneering book answers yes: not only is it possible, but devices capable of providing force and tactile sensory feedback already exist. Force and Touch Feedback for Virtual Reality is the first comprehensive source of information on the design, modeling, and applications of force and tactile interfaces for VR. It is a must have for scientists, engineers, psychologists, and developers involved in VR, and for anyone who would like to gain a deeper understanding of this exciting and fast-growing field.
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Title #998: Understanding Virtual Reality: Interface, Application, and
Design (The Morgan Kaufmann Series in Computer Graphics)
Edition: First Edition
ISBN Number: 1558603530
Number of Pages: 582
Author(s): William R. Sherman, Alan Craig
Publisher: Morgan Kaufmann
Date: Information unavailable
Category: Virtual reality
Abstract / Synopsis: Information unavailable
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Title #999: Artificial Reality 2 (2nd Edition), Paperback
Edition: Second Edition
ISBN Number: 0201522608
Number of Pages: 304
Author(s): Myron W. Krueger
Publisher: Addison-Wesley Professional
Date: May 1991
Category: Artificial Reality
Abstract / Synopsis: Information unavailable
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Title #1000: Computers, Artificial Intelligence and Virtual Reality:
Social, Moral, Philosophical and Theological Implications
Edition: First Edition
ISBN Number: 1885583133
Number of Pages: Information Unavailable
Author(s): Robert Brungs
Publisher: ITEST Faith/Science Press
Date: 2005
Category: Social, moral, ethical aspects of AI
Abstract / Synopsis: Information Unavailable
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Title #1001: Artificial intelligence-supported weather prediction for
highway operations
Edition: First Edition
ISBN Number: B0006QF1B6
Number of Pages: 49
Author(s): Elmar R Reiter
Publisher: Strategic Highway Research Program, National Research Council
Date: 1991
Category: Artificial intelligence-supported weather prediction for highway
operations
Abstract / Synopsis: Information Unavailable
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