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We humans are tribal, grouping ourselves by a multitude of criteria: physical, intellectual, political, emotional, etc. The Internet and its auxiliary technologies have enabled a novel dimension in tribal behavior during our recent past. This growing connectivity begs...
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SAGE Publications Ltd
Parution :
2008-01-15
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This book is designed for professionals and students in software engineering or information technology who are interested in understanding the dynamics of software development in order to assess and optimize their own process strategies. It explains how simulation of...
Editeur :
Wiley-IEEE Press
Parution :
2008-01-07
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The depiction of computers on the various "Star Trek" series has ranged from lame to breathtakingly imaginative. This book covers the gamut, and makes lucid and entertaining comparison of these fictional computers with those that now exist or are likely to inhabit our...
Editeur :
Basic Books
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2008-01-04
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Editeur :
Springer
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2007-12-31
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Il volume si propone di fornire una prima introduzione alla teoria elementare dei numeri, rivolta agli insegnanti (e ai futuri insegnanti) di matematica. Esso vuole costituire un invito e una preparazione per la lettura di opere più impegnative di cui c'è gran copia...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2007-12-27
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Convergenze
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Edited volume discusses artificial/computational sapience and sapient systems from a diverse set of contributors
Organised into seven sections so that the reader is guided through the subject in a structured and comprehensive manner
Concepts are formalized and...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2007-12-26
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Distributed search by agents is an important topic of distributed AI and has not been treated thoroughly as such. While the scope of work on multi-agent systems has grown steadily over the last decade, very little of it has spilled into distributed search. In conrast,...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2007-12-20
Collection :
Advanced Information and Knowledge Processing
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Pro Oracle Spatial for Oracle Database 11g shows how to take advantage of Oracle Databases built–in feature set for working with location–based data. A great deal of the information used in business today is associated with location in some way, and analysis of that...
Editeur :
Apress
Parution :
2007-12-15
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Eliminates lengthy introductions, detailed explanations, and sidebars, focusing on what new Mac OS X users want most-clear instructions on how to accomplish specific tasks An easy-to-navigate landscape layout featuring a two-column design and illustrated step-by-step...
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For Dummies
Parution :
2007-12-10
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As we enter the third decade of the World Wide Web (WWW), the textual revolution has seen a tremendous change in the availability of online information. Finding inf- mation for just about any need has never been more automatic—just a keystroke or mouseclick away. While...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2007-12-10
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By a specification language we understand a formal system of syntax, semantics and proof rules. The syntax and semantics define a language; the proof rules define a proof system. Specifications are expressions in the language, and reasoning over properties of these...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2007-12-05
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Motivation for the book Database security has been gaining a great deal of importance as industry, military, and government organizations have increasingly adopted Internet-based techno- gies on a large-scale, because of convenience, ease of use, and the ability to take...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2007-12-03
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Combining biology, computer science, mathematics, and statistics, the field of bioinformatics has become a hot new discipline with profound impacts on all aspects of biology and industrial application. Now, Computational Intelligence in Bioinformatics offers an...
Editeur :
Wiley-IEEE Press
Parution :
2007-11-26
Collection :
IEEE Press Series on Computational Intelligence
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Self-organization is a multi-faceted phenomenon, present in many fields, operating at multiple scales, and performs diverse roles. This book focuses on the state of the practice of self-organizing systems. The case studies described illustrate the richness of the topic,...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2007-11-24
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Parsing the Turing Test is a landmark exploration of both the philosophical and methodological issues surrounding the search for true artificial intelligence. Will computers and robots ever think and communicate the way humans do? When a computer crosses the threshold...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2007-11-23
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From common consumer products such as cell phones and MP3 players to more sophisticated projects such as human-machine interfaces and responsive robots, speech technologies are now everywhere. Many think that it is just a matter of time before more applications of the...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2007-11-22
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RSA is the first workable and practicable public-key cryptographic system, based on the use of large prime numbers. It is also the most popular and widely-used cryptographic system in today's digital world, for which its three inventors Rivest, Shamir and Adleman...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2007-11-15
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Multiobjective problems involve several competing measures of solution quality, and multiobjective evolutionary algorithms (MOEAs) and multiobjective problem solving have become important topics of research in the evolutionary computation community over the past 10...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2007-11-15
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Parsing, also referred to as syntax analysis, has been and continues to be an essential part of computer science and linguistics. Today, parsing techniques are also implemented in a number of other disciplines, including but not limited to, document preparation and...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2007-10-29
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Noisy data appear very naturally in applications where the authentication is based on physical identifiers. This book provides a self-contained overview of the techniques and applications of security based on noisy data.
It covers both the theory of authentication based...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2007-10-24
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