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The Computing collection presents a range of foundational and applied content across computer and data science, including fields such as Artificial Intelligence; Computational Modelling; Computer Networks, Computer Organization & Architecture, Computer Vision & Pattern Recognition, Data Management; Embedded Systems & Computer Engineering; HCI/User Interface Design; Information Security; Machine Learning; Network Security; Software Engineering.

  • Brain Theory

    Spatio-Temporal Aspects of Brain Function
    • 1st Edition
    • A. Aertsen
    • English
    Modern theories of brain function are increasingly concerned with dynamics. The task of organizing perception and behaviour in a meaningful interaction with the external world prompts the brain to recruit its various resources in a properly coordinated manner. Vis-a-vis the complexity and multitude of the dynamics involved, a careful orchestration of the various processing components, distributed over space and time, is essential. Hence, it should come as no surprise that a number of recent developments in both experimental and theoretical brain science have emphasized the aspect of spatio-temporal coordination. This collection of papers intends to capture these various developments in the brain sciences. It brings together new insights and concepts from various branches of experimental and theoretical neuroscience, partly in the form of review chapters, partly in short, focussed contributions, or critical essays. Further it sets out to explore the problems of the processing of the temporal dimension of sensory input and of the generation of space-time patterns in the motor output, as well as the intervening storage and transformation of temporal patterns in nerve nets.The publication is divided into four major sections: the first considers spatio-temporal aspects of brain function in the context of processing of sensory input and perception and the third, spatio-temporal aspects of brain function at the output end: planning and control of movement. The second section is dedicated to the intervening level of neuronal activity in the working brain and the various dynamics observed at different levels of resolution in space and time. The fourth part combines contributions that transcend this scheme.It is hoped the book achieves its goal which is to raise an interest in theoretical models that actively seek confrontation with experimental data from the functioning brain, and by a didactic effort aimed at experimentalists to present their data in a format that makes them more amenable to theory.

  • Three-Dimensional Object Recognition Systems

    • 1st Edition
    • Volume 1
    • Anil K Jain + 1 more
    • English
    The design and construction of three-dimensional [3-D] object recognition systems has long occupied the attention of many computer vision researchers. The variety of systems that have been developed for this task is evidence both of its strong appeal to researchers and its applicability to modern manufacturing, industrial, military, and consumer environments. 3-D object recognition is of interest to scientists and engineers in several different disciplines due to both a desire to endow computers with robust visual capabilities, and the wide applications which would benefit from mature and robust vision systems. However, 3-D object recognition is a very complex problem, and few systems have been developed for actual production use; most existing systems have been developed for experimental use by researchers only. This edited collection of papers summarizes the state of the art in 3-D object recognition using examples of existing 3-D systems developed by leading researchers in the field. While most chapters describe a complete object recognition system, chapters on biological vision, sensing, and early processing are also included. The volume will serve as a valuable reference source for readers who are involved in implementing model-based object recognition systems, stimulating the cross-fertilisation of ideas in the various domains. The variety of topics on Image Communication is so broad that no one can be a specialist in all the topics, and the whole area is beyond the scope of a single volume, while the requirement of up to date information is ever increasing. This new closed-end book series is intended both as a comprehensive reference for those already active in the area of Image Communication, as well as providing newcomers with a foothold for commencing research. Each volume will comprise a state of the art work on the editor's/author's area of expertise, containing information until now scattered in many journals and proceedings.

  • Advances in Electronics and Electron Physics

    • 1st Edition
    • Volume 85
    • English

  • Practical Neural Network Recipies in C++

    • 1st Edition
    • Masters
    • English
    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.

  • Advances in Electronics and Electron Physics

    • 1st Edition
    • Volume 86
    • English

  • Differential Equations with Applications to Mathematical Physics

    • 1st Edition
    • Volume 192
    • W. F. Ames
    • English

  • KADS

    A Principled Approach to Knowledge-Based System Development
    • 1st Edition
    • English
    KADS is a structured methodology for the development of knowledge based systems which has been adopted throughout the world by academic and industrial professionals alike. KADS approaches development as a modeling activity. Two key characteristics of KADS are the use of multiple models to cope with the complexity of knowledge engineering and the use of knowledge-level descriptions as an immediate model between system design and expertise data. The result is that KADS enables effective KBS construction by building a computational model of desired behavior for a particular problem domain.KADS contains three section: the Theoretical Basis of KADS, Languages and Tools, and Applications. Together they form a comprehensive sourcebook of the how and why of the KADS methodology. KADS will be required reading for all academic and industrial professionals concerned with building knowledge-based systems. It will also be a valuable source for students of knowledge acquisition and KBS.

  • Readings in Groupware and Computer-Supported Cooperative Work

    Assisting Human-Human Collaboration
    • 1st Edition
    • Ronald M. Baecker
    • English
    This comprehensive introduction to the field represents the best of the published literature on groupware and computer-supported cooperative work (CSCW). The papers were chosen for their breadth of coverage of the field, their clarity of expression and presentation, their excellence in terms of technical innovation or behavioral insight, their historical significance, and their utility as sources for further reading. Taken as a whole, the papers and their introductions are a complete sourcebook to the field. This book will be useful for computer professionals involved in the development or purchase of groupware technology as well as for researchers and managers. It should also serve as a valuable text for university courses on CSCW, groupware, and human-computer interaction.

  • Parallelism in Production Systems

    • 1st Edition
    • Anoop Gupta
    • English

  • Automated Generation of Model-Based Knowledge-Acquisition Tools

    • 1st Edition
    • Mark A. Musen
    • English

  • All-In-1

    Integrating Applications in V3.0
    • 1st Edition
    • John Rhoton
    • English
    All-In-1

  • Intention-Based Diagnosis of Novice Programming Errors

    • 1st Edition
    • Lewis Johnson
    • English

  • The Mathematics of Inheritance Systems

    • 1st Edition
    • David S. Touretzky
    • English

  • Scientific Computing with Automatic Result Verification

    • 1st Edition
    • Volume 189
    • Adams
    • English

  • Morphogenesis

    • 1st Edition
    • Volume 3
    • P.T. Saunders
    • English
    The collected works of Turing, including a substantial amount of unpublished material, will comprise four volumes: Mechanical Intelligence, Pure Mathematics, Morphogenesis and Mathematical Logic. Alan Mathison Turing (1912-1954) was a brilliant man who made major contributions in several areas of science. Today his name is mentioned frequently in philosophical discussions about the nature of Artificial Intelligence. Actually, he was a pioneer researcher in computer architecture and software engineering; his work in pure mathematics and mathematical logic extended considerably further and his last work, on morphogenesis in plants, is also acknowledged as being of the greatest originality and of permanent importance. He was one of the leading figures in Twentieth-century science, a fact which would have been known to the general public sooner but for the British Official Secrets Act, which prevented discussion of his wartime work. What is maybe surprising about these papers is that although they were written decades ago, they address major issues which concern researchers today.

  • Analysis and Control of Nonlinear Infinite Dimensional Systems

    • 1st Edition
    • Volume 190
    • Barbu
    • English

  • Advances in Electronics and Electron Physics

    • 1st Edition
    • Volume 84
    • English

  • Artificial Intelligence, Expert Systems & Symbolic Computing

    • 1st Edition
    • E.N. Houstis + 1 more
    • English
    This volume contains papers in the areas of artificial intelligence, expert systems, symbolic computing and applications to scientific computing. Together, they provide an excellent overview of the dynamic state of these closely related fields. They reveal a future where scientific computation will increasingly involve symbolic and artificial intelligence tools as these software systems become more sophisticated; also a future where systems of computational science and engineering will be problem solving environments created with components from numerical analysis, computational geometry, symbolic computing and artificial intelligence.

  • The Steiner Tree Problem

    • 1st Edition
    • Volume 53
    • F.K. Hwang + 2 more
    • English
    The Steiner problem asks for a shortest network which spans a given set of points. Minimum spanning networks have been well-studied when all connections are required to be between the given points. The novelty of the Steiner tree problem is that new auxiliary points can be introduced between the original points so that a spanning network of all the points will be shorter than otherwise possible. These new points are called Steiner points - locating them has proved problematic and research has diverged along many different avenues.This volume is devoted to the assimilation of the rich field of intriguing analyses and the consolidation of the fragments. A section has been given to each of the three major areas of interest which have emerged. The first concerns the Euclidean Steiner Problem, historically the original Steiner tree problem proposed by Jarník and Kössler in 1934. The second deals with the Steiner Problem in Networks, which was propounded independently by Hakimi and Levin and has enjoyed the most prolific research amongst the three areas. The Rectilinear Steiner Problem, introduced by Hanan in 1965, is discussed in the third part. Additionally, a forth section has been included, with chapters discussing areas where the body of results is still emerging.The collaboration of three authors with different styles and outlooks affords individual insights within a cohesive whole.

  • Physically-Based Modeling for Computer Graphics

    A Structured Approach
    • 1st Edition
    • Ronen Barzel + 1 more
    • English
    Physically-Based Modeling for Computer Graphics: A Structured Approach addresses the challenge of designing and managing the complexity of physically-based models. This book will be of interest to researchers, computer graphics practitioners, mathematicians, engineers, animators, software developers and those interested in computer implementation and simulation of mathematical models.

  • C4.5

    Programs for Machine Learning
    • 1st Edition
    • J. Ross Quinlan
    • English
    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. 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. This book should be of interest to developers of classification-based intelligent systems and to students in machine learning and expert systems courses.

  • Understanding the New SQL

    A Complete Guide
    • 1st Edition
    • Jim Melton + 1 more
    • English
    An effective introduction to SQL, and a comprehensive reference for years to come. As the editor of the 1992 standard, Jim Melton is an authority on the language and its new features. Using a highly readable, conversational style, he and Alan Simon clearly present the power of SQL. They describe practical methods of using SQL to solve problems, advanced SQL query expressions, dynamic SQL, transaction models, and database design.

  • Advances in Computers

    • 1st Edition
    • Volume 35
    • English

  • Transaction Processing

    Concepts and Techniques
    • 1st Edition
    • Jim Gray + 1 more
    • English
    The key to client/server computing.Transactio... processing techniques are deeply ingrained in the fields ofdatabases and operating systems and are used to monitor, control and updateinformation in modern computer systems. This book will show you how large,distributed, heterogeneous computer systems can be made to work reliably.Using transactions as a unifying conceptual framework, the authors show howto build high-performance distributed systems and high-availabilityapp... with finite budgets and risk.The authors provide detailed explanations of why various problems occur aswell as practical, usable techniques for their solution. Throughout the book,examples and techniques are drawn from the most successful commercial andresearch systems. Extensive use of compilable C code fragments demonstratesthe many transaction processing algorithms presented in the book. The bookwill be valuable to anyone interested in implementing distributed systemsor client/server architectures.

  • Advances in Electronics and Electron Physics

    • 1st Edition
    • Volume 83
    • English

  • Tree Automata and Languages

    • 1st Edition
    • Volume 10
    • M. Nivat + 1 more
    • English
    The theory of tree languages, founded in the late Sixties and still active in the Seventies, was much less active during the Eighties. Now there is a simultaneous revival in several countries, with a number of significant results proved in the past five years. A large proportion of them appear in the present volume.The editors of this volume suggested that the authors should write comprehensive half-survey papers. This collection is therefore useful for everyone interested in the theory of tree languages as it covers most of the recent questions which are not treated in the very few rather old standard books on the subject. Trees appear naturally in many chapters of computer science and each new property is likely to result in improvement of some computational solution of a real problem in handling logical formulae, data structures, programming languages on systems, algorithms etc. The point of view adopted here is to put emphasis on the properties themselves and their rigorous mathematical exposition rather than on the many possible applications.This volume is a useful source of concepts and methods which may be applied successfully in many situations: its philosophy is very close to the whole philosophy of the ESPRIT Basic Research Actions and to that of the European Association for Theoretical Computer Science.

  • Artificial Intelligence in Engineering Design

    Volume III: Knowledge Acquisition, Commercial Systems, And Integrated Environments
    • 1st Edition
    • Christopher Tong + 1 more
    • English
    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 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.

  • Pattern Recognition and Machine Learning

    • 1st Edition
    • Y. Anzai
    • English
    This is the first text to provide a unified and self-contained introduction to visual pattern recognition and machine learning. It is useful as a general introduction to artifical intelligence and knowledge engineering, and no previous knowledge of pattern recognition or machine learning is necessary. Basic for various pattern recognition and machine learning methods. Translated from Japanese, the book also features chapter exercises, keywords, and summaries.

  • Advances in Computers

    • 1st Edition
    • Volume 34
    • English

  • Fourth Czechoslovakian Symposium on Combinatorics, Graphs and Complexity

    • 1st Edition
    • Volume 51
    • J. NeÅ¡etril + 1 more
    • English
    This volume in the Annals of Discrete Mathematics brings together contributions by renowned researchers in combinatorics, graphs and complexity. The conference on which this book is based was the fourth in a series which began in 1963, which was the first time specialists from East and West were able to come together. The 1990 meeting attracted 170 mathematicians and computer scientists from around the world, so this book represents an international, detailed view of recent research.

  • A Guide to RISC Microprocessors

    • 2nd Edition
    • Florence Slater
    • English
    A Guide to RISC Microprocessors provides a comprehensive coverage of every major RISC microprocessor family. Independent reviewers with extensive technical backgrounds offer a critical perspective in exploring the strengths and weaknesses of all the different microprocessors on the market. This book is organized into seven sections and comprised of 35 chapters. The discussion begins with an overview of RISC architecture intended to help readers understand the technical details and the significance of the new chips, along with instruction set design and design issues for next-generation processors. The chapters that follow focus on the SPARC architecture, SPARC chips developed by Cypress Semiconductor in collaboration with Sun, and Cypress's introduction of redesigned cache and memory management support chips for the SPARC processor. Other chapters focus on Bipolar Integrated Technology's ECL SPARC implementation, embedded SPARC processors by LSI Logic and Fujitsu, the MIPS processor, Motorola 88000 RISC chip set, Intel 860 and 960 microprocessors, and AMD 29000 RISC microprocessor family. This book is a valuable resource for consumers interested in RISC microprocessors.

  • Building an Object-Oriented Database System

    • 1st Edition
    • Francois Bancilhon + 2 more
    • English
    Modern database and software system technology must respond to a wide variety of needs. Advanced applications such as office automation, CAD, or software engineering have new requirements in design environments, transaction mechanisms, and data types. This comprehensive volume by designers, implementors and users covers all aspects of building an object-oriented software system from data model through system implementation, interfaces, and applications. Utilizing techniques from databases, object-oriented languages, programming environments, and user interfaces, O2 is a landmark object-oriented database system representing a new generation of database technology. This guide will help researchers, database designers, and users to assess the nature and potential of object-oriented technology for themselves.

  • Stability and Time-Optimal Control of Hereditary Systems

    • 1st Edition
    • Volume 188
    • Chukwu
    • English

  • Database Transaction Models for Advanced Applications

    • 1st Edition
    • Ahmed K. Elmagarmid
    • English
    This collection offers the reader a broad survey of the role of transaction processing in advanced computer applications. It contains an introduction to traditional transaction technology, and comprehensive descriptions of commercial systems and research projects.This volume will help anyone interested in keeping up with database applications and the potential for transaction processing systems to address the needs of OLTP, CAD, CASE, computer aided publishing, heterogeneous databases, active databases, communications, systems and other areas.For researchers, managers, software developers, professionals in the data processing fields, or anyone interested in a coherent overview of this new and fast growing area of computer science.

  • Fundamentals of Spatial Information Systems

    • 1st Edition
    • Robert Laurini + 1 more
    • English
    The study and application of spatial information systems have been developed primarily from the use of computers in the geosciences. These systems have the principle functions of capturing, storing, representing, manipulating, and displaying data in 2-D and 3-D worlds. This book approaches its subject from the perspectives of informatics and geography, presenting methods of conceptual modeling developed in computer science that provide valuable aids for resolving spatial problems. This book is an essential textbook for both students and practitioners. It is indispensable for academic geographers, computer scientists, and the GIS professional.

  • Dictionary of Information Science and Technology

    • 1st Edition
    • Carolyn Watters
    • English
    Information science is the study of information phenomena, including the acquisition, storage, and manipulation of data, information, and knowledge. It is by nature an interdisciplinary field. Researchers, managers, system users, and students need access to tools, terms, and techniques that are spread out over a large literature in a number of different disciplines: information retrieval, database management, office information systems, information technology, communication and networking, relevant computer hardware, and artificial intelligence.This work facilitates the cross-use terms from the various contributing sub-areas of information science. With definitions of one-thousand terms, in alphabetical order, the volume provides a unified, integrated, and concise guide to the field. Each term is annotated by one or more references to the literature. Where possible, the first reference directs the user to a basic or seminal discussion of the term and subsequent references show its usage in an information science-related application. This work will be an indispensable reference for students, researchers, and professionals.

  • Motif Programming

    The Essentials... and More
    • 1st Edition
    • Marshall Brain
    • English
    A quick and thorough introduction to Motif programming.Here is a straightforward, easy-to-understand introduction to Motif application development, covering both basic and advanced features of graphical user interfaces as implemented under Motif. Even though you may have little or no experience with X or other window programming environments, this useful guide will ease you into Motif programming smoothly and quickly. Using simple examples and explanations, it shows you how to design and build graphical applications with Motif in a reasonable amount of time. By the end of the book, you'll be familiar with all of the Motif widgets as well as the process of application design in Motif, the basic capabilities of the X and Xt layers, and the X drawing model.

  • Matrix Logic and Mind

    A Probe into a Unified Theory of Mind and Matter
    • 1st Edition
    • A. Stern
    • English
    In this revolutionary work, the author sets the stage for the science ofthe 21st Century, pursuing an unprecedented synthesis of fields previouslyconsidered unrelated. Beginning with simple classical concepts, he endswith a complex multidisciplinary theory requiring a high level ofabstraction. The work progresses across the sciences in severalmultidiscipli... directions: Mathematical logic, fundamental physics,computer science and the theory of intelligence. Extraordinarily enough,the author breaks new ground in all these fields.In the field offundamental physics the author reaches the revolutionary conclusion thatphysics can be viewed and studied as logic in a fundamental sense, ascompared with Einstein's view of physics as space-time geometry. This opensnew, exciting prospects for the study of fundamental interactions. Aformulation of logic in terms of matrix operators and logic vector spacesallows the author to tackle for the first time the intractable problem ofcognition in a scientific manner. In the same way as the findings ofHeisenberg and Dirac in the 1930s provided a conceptual and mathematicalfoundati... for quantum physics, matrix operator logic supports an importantbreakthroug... in the study of the physics of the mind, which is interpretedas a fractal of quantum mechanics. Introducing a concept of logic quantumnumbers, the author concludes that the problem of logic and theintelligence code in general can be effectively formulated as eigenvalueproblems similar to those of theoretical physics. With this important leapforward in the study of the mechanism of mind, the author concludes thatthe latter cannot be fully understood either within classical or quantumnotions. A higher-order covariant theory is required to accommodate thefundamental effect of high-level intelligence. The landmark resultsobtained by the author will have implications and repercussions for thevery foundations of science as a whole. Moreover, Stern's Matrix Logic issuitable for a broad spectrum of practical applications in contemporarytechnolo...

  • Practical Parallel Programming

    • 1st Edition
    • Barr E. Bauer
    • English
    This is the book that will teach programmers to write faster, more efficient code for parallel processors. The reader is introduced to a vast array of procedures and paradigms on which actual coding may be based. Examples and real-life simulations using these devices are presented in C and FORTRAN.

  • Classical Recursion Theory

    The Theory of Functions and Sets of Natural Numbers
    • 1st Edition
    • Volume 125
    • P. Odifreddi
    • English
    1988 marked the first centenary of Recursion Theory, since Dedekind's 1888 paper on the nature of number. Now available in paperback, this book is both a comprehensive reference for the subject and a textbook starting from first principles.Among the subjects covered are: various equivalent approaches to effective computability and their relations with computers and programming languages; a discussion of Church's thesis; a modern solution to Post's problem; global properties of Turing degrees; and a complete algebraic characterization of many-one degrees. Included are a number of applications to logic (in particular Gödel's theorems) and to computer science, for which Recursion Theory provides the theoretical foundation.

  • Mechanical Intelligence

    • 1st Edition
    • Volume 1
    • D.C. Ince
    • English
    The collected works of Turing, including a substantial amount of unpublished material, will comprise four volumes: Mechanical Intelligence, Pure Mathematics, Morphogenesis and Mathematical Logic. Alan Mathison Turing (1912-1954) was a brilliant man who made major contributions in several areas of science. Today his name is mentioned frequently in philosophical discussions about the nature of Artificial Intelligence. Actually, he was a pioneer researcher in computer architecture and software engineering; his work in pure mathematics and mathematical logic extended considerably further and his last work, on morphogenesis in plants, is also acknowledged as being of the greatest originality and of permanent importance. He was one of the leading figures in Twentieth-century science, a fact which would have been known to the general public sooner but for the British Official Secrets Act, which prevented discussion of his wartime work. What is maybe surprising about these papers is that although they were written decades ago, they address major issues which concern researchers today.

  • Pure Mathematics

    • 1st Edition
    • Volume 2
    • J.L. Britton
    • English
    The collected works of Turing, including a substantial amount of unpublished material, will comprise four volumes: Mechanical Intelligence, Pure Mathematics, Morphogenesis and Mathematical Logic. Alan Mathison Turing (1912-1954) was a brilliant man who made major contributions in several areas of science. Today his name is mentioned frequently in philosophical discussions about the nature of Artificial Intelligence. Actually, he was a pioneer researcher in computer architecture and software engineering; his work in pure mathematics and mathematical logic extended considerably further and his last work, on morphogenesis in plants, is also acknowledged as being of the greatest originality and of permanent importance. He was one of the leading figures in Twentieth-century science, a fact which would have been known to the general public sooner but for the British Official Secrets Act, which prevented discussion of his wartime work. What is maybe surprising about these papers is that although they were written decades ago, they address major issues which concern researchers today.

  • VAX/VMS

    Operating System Concepts
    • 1st Edition
    • David Donald Miller
    • English
    VAX/VMS

  • From Memex To Hypertext

    • 1st Edition
    • James M. Nyce + 1 more
    • English
    Vannevar Bush, the engineer who designed the world's most powerful analog computer, predicted the development of a new kind of computing machine he called Memex. For many computer and information scientists, Bush's Memex has been the prototype for a machine to help people think. This book contains Bush's essays, and original essays by academic and commerical researchers relating the state of art in personal computing, hypertext and information retrieval software to bush's ideas and Memex.

  • The Art of Programming Embedded Systems

    • 1st Edition
    • Jack Ganssle
    • English
    Embedded systems are products such as microwave ovens, cars, and toys that rely on an internal microprocessor. This book is oriented toward the design engineer or programmer who writes the computer code for such a system. There are a number of problems specific to the embedded systems designer, and this book addresses them and offers practical solutions.

  • Advances in Electronics and Electron Physics

    • 1st Edition
    • Volume 82
    • English

  • Decentralized A.I., 2

    • 1st Edition
    • Y. Demazeau + 1 more
    • English
    The purpose of this proceedings is to stimulate exchange and discussion of research in the field of multi-agent systems. A multi-agent system consists of at least two agents that are engaged in some task that may require coordination, cooperation and/or competition. An autonomous agent has its own goals, capabilities and knowledge. The actions of an agent occur in the context of other agents that may have structures and strategies different from the agent's own. Multi-agent problems arise when several autonomous agents share a common environment. These problems may result from limited resources, shared or competing goals, etc. This MAAMAW workshop proceedings emphasizes multi-agent systems of all sorts from very simple to very complex agents and agent organizations.

  • Advances in Electronics and Electron Physics

    • 1st Edition
    • Volume 81
    • English

  • Meta-Level Inference Systems

    • 1st Edition
    • Frank van Harmelen
    • English

  • Advances in Electronics and Electron Physics

    • 1st Edition
    • Volume 80
    • English

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