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Morgan Kaufmann

  • Readings in Speech Recognition

    • 1st Edition
    • May 1, 1990
    • Alexander Waibel + 1 more
    • English
    After more than two decades of research activity, speech recognition has begun to live up to its promise as a practical technology and interest in the field is growing dramatically. Readings in Speech Recognition provides a collection of seminal papers that have influenced or redirected the field and that illustrate the central insights that have emerged over the years. The editors provide an introduction to the field, its concerns and research problems. Subsequent chapters are devoted to the main schools of thought and design philosophies that have motivated different approaches to speech recognition system design. Each chapter includes an introduction to the papers that highlights the major insights or needs that have motivated an approach to a problem and describes the commonalities and differences of that approach to others in the book.

  • Cache and Memory Hierarchy Design

    A Performance Directed Approach
    • 1st Edition
    • May 1, 1990
    • Steven A. Przybylski
    • English
    An authoritative book for hardware and software designers. Caches are by far the simplest and most effective mechanism for improving computer performance. This innovative book exposes the characteristics of performance-optimal single and multi-level cache hierarchies by approaching the cache design process through the novel perspective of minimizing execution times. It presents useful data on the relative performance of a wide spectrum of machines and offers empirical and analytical evaluations of the underlying phenomena. This book will help computer professionals appreciate the impact of caches and enable designers to maximize performance given particular implementation constraints.

  • A General Explanation-Based Learning Mechanism and its Application to Narrative Understanding

    • 1st Edition
    • January 1, 1990
    • Raymond J. Mooney
    • English

  • Readings in Planning

    • 1st Edition
    • January 1, 1990
    • James Allen + 2 more
    • English
    Readings in Planning

  • Proceedings 1989 VLDB Conference

    15th International Conference on Very Large Data Bases
    • 1st Edition
    • December 1, 1989
    • VLDB
    • English
    Proceedings of the 15th International Conference (see title), August 1989, Amsterdam, The Netherlands. Contains forty-five papers from worldwide contributors which explore fundamental issues and current developments parallelism, interfaces, statistics, and programming languages.

  • Database Programming Languages 2nd

    • 1st Edition
    • September 1, 1989
    • Richard Hull + 2 more
    • English

  • An Introduction to Ray Tracing

    • 1st Edition
    • January 28, 1989
    • Andrew S. Glassner
    • English
    The creation of ever more realistic 3-D images is central to the development of computer graphics. The ray tracing technique has become one of the most popular and powerful means by which photo-realistic images can now be created. The simplicity, elegance and ease of implementation makes ray tracing an essential part of understanding and exploiting state-of-the-art computer graphics.An Introduction to Ray Tracing develops from fundamental principles to advanced applications, providing "how-to" procedures as well as a detailed understanding of the scientific foundations of ray tracing. It is also richly illustrated with four-color and black-and-white plates. This is a book which will be welcomed by all concerned with modern computer graphics, image processing, and computer-aided design.

  • Data and Knowledge Bases

    Proceedings of the Third International Conference
    • 1st Edition
    • December 25, 1988
    • Catriel Beeri + 2 more
    • English

  • Proceedings 1988 VLDB Conference

    14th International Conference on Very Large Data Bases
    • 1st Edition
    • December 1, 1988
    • VLDB
    • English

  • Probabilistic Reasoning in Intelligent Systems

    Networks of Plausible Inference
    • 1st Edition
    • September 1, 1988
    • Judea Pearl
    • English
    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.Probabil... 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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