Artificial intelligence Books

Chaos-based cryptography, attracting many researchers in the past decade, is a research field across two fields, i.e., chaos (nonlinear dynamic system) and cryptography (computer and data security). It Chaos' properties, such...

Complex-Valued Neural Networks have higher functionality, learn faster and generalize better than their real-valued counterparts.This book is devoted to the Multi-Valued Neuron (MVN) and MVN-based neural networks. It contains a...

The book consists of 35 extended chapters which have been based on selected submissions to the poster session organized during the 3rd Asian Conference on Intelligent Information and Database Systems (20-22 April 2011 in Daegu,...

The International Symposium on Distributed Computing and Artificial Intelligence 2011 (DCAI 2011) is a stimulating and productive forum where the scientific community can work towards future cooperation on Distributed Computing...

PAAMS, the International Conference on Practical Applications of Agents and Multi-Agent Systems is an evolution of the International Workshop on Practical Applications of Agents and Multi-Agent Systems. PAAMS is an...

The growth in the Bioinformatics and Computational Biology fields over the last few years has been remarkable and the trend is to increase its pace. In fact, the need for computational techniques that can efficiently handle the...

PAAMS, the International Conference on Practical Applications of Agents and Multi-Agent Systems is the international yearly tribune to present, to discuss, and to disseminate the latest developments and the most important outcomes related to real-world...

Data fusion problems arise frequently in many different fields.  This book provides a specific introduction to data fusion problems using support vector machines. In the first part, this book begins with a brief survey of...

The four-volume set LNCS 6492-6495 constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-proceedings of the 10th Asian Conference on Computer Vision, ACCV 2009, held in Queenstown, New Zealand in November 2010. All together the four volumes...

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Information Systems, Technology and Management, ICISTM 2011, held in Gurgaon, India, in March 2011. The 35 revised full papers presented...

Basic Notions.- Programming Languages and Paradigms.- Constraints.- Multiparadigm Constraint Programming Languages.- Concurrent Constraint Functional Programming with CCFL.- A Generic Framework for Multiparadigm Constraint Programming.- Outlook.-...

This volume comprises the 6th IFIP International Conference on Intelligent Infor- tion Processing. As the world proceeds quickly into the Information Age, it encounters both successes and challenges, and it is well recognized...

Image Processing and Communications represents an exciting and dynamic part of the information area. This book consists of 52 scientific and technical papers from 14 Nations, after a careful selection performed by many...

The book presents a representative selection of all publications published between 01/2009 and 06/2010 in various books, journals and conference proceedings by the researchers of the institute cluster: IMA - Institute of...

Although parallel robots are known to offer many advantages with respect to accuracy, dynamics, and stiffness, major breakthroughs in industrial applications have not yet taken place. This is due to a knowledge gap preventing...

th This volume is part of the three-volume proceedings of the 20 International Conference on Arti?cial Neural Networks (ICANN 2010) that was held in Th- saloniki, Greece during September 15-18, 2010. ICANN is an annual meeting...

The emergent ?eld of Intelligent Distributed Computing brings together two wellestablishedareasofComputerScience:DistributedComputingandC- putational Intelligence. Theoretical foundations and practical applications of ...

May the Forcing Functions be with You: The Stimulating World of AIED and ITS Research It is my pleasure to write the foreword for Advances in Intelligent Tutoring S- tems. This collection, with contributions from leading...

Intimesofdecliningeconomicgrowth,companieshavetocontroltheircostsmore than ever to saveresources needed in the future. Regardless of the economic size of the company, the processes of production and logistics play a decisive...

Production engineering and management involve a series of planning and control activities in a production system. A production system can be as small as a shop with only one machine or as big as a global operation including...

Solving practical problems often requires the integration of information and knowledge from many different sources, taking into account uncertainty and impreciseness. The 2010 International Symposium on Integrated Uncertainty...

The increasing complexity of our world demands new perspectives on the role of technology in decision making. Human decision making has its li- tations in terms of information-processing capacity. We need new technology to cope...

TheSeventhInternationalConferenceonMathematicalMethodsforCurvesand SurfacestookplaceJune26-July 1,2008,inTønsberg,Norway. Theearlier conferences in the series took place in Oslo (1988),Biri (1991), Ulvik (1994), ...

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

Fundamentals of Chaos.- Computational Methods for Rigorous Analysis of Chaotic Systems.- Fundamentals of Fractal Sets, Space-Filling Curves and Their Applications in Electronics and Communications.- Fractal Based Image Indexing and Retrieval.- Fractal...

Intelligent systems and technologies are increasing finding their ways in our daily lives. This book presents a sample of recent research results from key researchers. The contributions include: Introduction to intelligent...

The application of geometric algebra to the engineering sciences is a young, active subject of research. The promise of this field is that the mathematical structure of geometric algebra together with its descriptive power will result in intuitive and...

The basic principles guiding sensing, perception and action in bio systems seem to rely on highly organised spatial-temporal dynamics. In fact, all biological senses, (visual, hearing, tactile, etc.) process signals coming from...

Intelligent agents have revolutionised the way we do business, we teach, we learn, design systems, and so on. Agent applications are increasingly being developed in - mains as diverse as meteorology, manufacturing, war gaming,...

Evolutionary Multi-Multi-Objective Optimization - EMMOO.- Implementation of Multiobjective Memetic Algorithms for Combinatorial Optimization Problems: A Knapsack Problem Case Study.- Knowledge Infused in Design of Problem-Specific Operators.- Solving...

Keynotes.- A Virtual Geographic Environment for a Simulation of Air Pollution Dispersion in the Pearl River Delta (PRD) Region.- Representing and Exchanging 3D City Models with CityGML.- Research and Development Program for the Third National Geographic...

Knowledge processing and decision making in agent-based systems constitute the key components of intelligent machines. The contributions included in the book are: Innovations in Knowledge Processing and Decision Making in...

to Digital Libraries and Semantic Web.- Digital Libraries and Knowledge Organization.- Semantic Web and Ontologies.- Social Semantic Information Spaces.- A Vision of Semantic Digital Libraries.- Goals of Semantic Digital Libraries.- Architecture of...

In recent years, the issue of linkage in GEAs has garnered greater attention and recognition from researchers. Conventional approaches that rely much on ad hoc tweaking of parameters to control the search by balancing the level...

Intelligent Distributed Computing - IDC Symposium Series was started as an initiative of research groups from: (i) Systems Research Institute, Polish Academy of Sciences in Warsaw, Poland ...

Bayesian networks currently provide one of the most rapidly growing areas of research in computer science and statistics. In compiling this volume we have brought together contributions from some of the most prestigious...

1 Innovations in Virtual Humans.- Intelligent Virtual Humans with Autonomy and Personality: State-of-the-Art.- A Comprehensive Context Model for Multi-party Interactions with Virtual Characters.- Social Intelligence in Virtual Groups.- Modeling...

Optical Configurations for Imaging Spectrometers.- Remote Sensing Data Compression.- A Multiobjective Evolutionary Algorithm for Hyperspectral Image Watermarking.- Architecture and Services for Computational Intelligence in Remote Sensing.- On...

To built intelligent systems that can cope with real world problems we need to - velop computational mechanisms able to deal with very large amounts of data, gen- ate complex plans, schedules, and resource allocation ...