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Mindswap

Author : Robert Sheckley
Publisher : Orb Books
ISBN 13 : 1466827343
Total Pages : 230 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (668 download)

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Download or read book Mindswap written by Robert Sheckley and published by Orb Books. This book was released on 2006-05-30 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A classic science fiction novel from beloved author Robert Sheckley returns to print in Mindswap. In the future, interstellar travel to alien worlds will be too expensive for most ordinary people. It certainly is for Marvin, a college student who wants to take a really good vacation. And so he signs up for what he can afford, a mindswap, in which your consciousness is swapped into the body of an alien lifeform. But Marvin is unlucky, and finds himself in the body of an interstellar criminal, a body that he has to vacate fast. But that criminal consciousness has stolen Marvin's earthly body, and Marvin has to find a body on the black market. Travel from world to world with Marvin, each one crazier than the last, as he keeps finding far from ideal bodies in awful situations, just to stay alive. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

The Status Civilization

Author : Robert Sheckley
Publisher : Good Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 144 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (66 download)

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Download or read book The Status Civilization written by Robert Sheckley and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2023-08-22 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The Status Civilization" by Robert Sheckley. Published by Good Press. Good Press publishes a wide range of titles that encompasses every genre. From well-known classics & literary fiction and non-fiction to forgotten−or yet undiscovered gems−of world literature, we issue the books that need to be read. Each Good Press edition has been meticulously edited and formatted to boost readability for all e-readers and devices. Our goal is to produce eBooks that are user-friendly and accessible to everyone in a high-quality digital format.

The Mind-Swap Menace

Author : Steve Cole
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1442446161
Total Pages : 132 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (424 download)

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Download or read book The Mind-Swap Menace written by Steve Cole and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2011-09-13 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Smashing space stations! While on another vital mission, Captain Teggs and his crew nearly crash into an unknown spaceship. But when it spins around, the gaping hole and the mark of the meat-eaters reveal that it's a carnivore space station! What's it doing in the middle of the Vegetarian Sector? Teggs and his chief engineer, Iggy, board the space station to check it out. They soon discover that the only remaining dinosaurs in the ship are also two of the most evil criminals in the universe, and one of them is a genius. He's built a machine that can swap minds, and he's going to use it on Teggs and Iggy so he and his partner can fulfill their dreams of riches! It's up to Teggs and his crew to stop them, but how can they when no one knows who is who?

Mac OS X Panther Hacks

Author : Rael Dornfest
Publisher : "O'Reilly Media, Inc."
ISBN 13 : 9780596007188
Total Pages : 596 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (71 download)

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Download or read book Mac OS X Panther Hacks written by Rael Dornfest and published by "O'Reilly Media, Inc.". This book was released on 2004 with total page 596 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mac OS X is a wonderful combination of the power and flexibility of Unix with the ease of use that seems to come only from Apple. Between the tools baked right into the system, a veritable cornucopia of third-party applications, and a cottage industry of customizations, tweaks, and hacks, the Mac is a force to be reckoned with like never before. Mac OS X Panther Hacks celebrates the Macintosh's adventurous spirit, inviting the citizen engineer on a quest of deeper discovery -- both with the purpose of going further and simply enjoying the ride. Mac OS X Panther Hacks continues the tradition started with Mac OS X Hacks, sitting squarely at the peculiar confluence of deadly earnest optimization and creative (albeit sometimes wacky) tweaking you seem to find only on a Mac.

Rule-Based Reasoning, Programming, and Applications

Author : Nick Bassiliades
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 3642225454
Total Pages : 397 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (422 download)

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Book Synopsis Rule-Based Reasoning, Programming, and Applications by : Nick Bassiliades

Download or read book Rule-Based Reasoning, Programming, and Applications written by Nick Bassiliades and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2011-07-12 with total page 397 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 5th International Symposium on Rules, RuleML 2011 - Europe, held in Barcelona, Spain, in July 2011 - collocated with the 22nd International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, IJCAI 2011. It is the first of two RuleML events that take place in 2011. The second RuleML Symposium - RuleML 2011 - America - will be held in Fort Lauderdale, FL, USA, in November 2011. The 18 revised full papers, 8 revised short papers and 3 invited track papers presented together with the abstracts of 2 keynote talks were carefully reviewed and selected from 58 submissions. The papers are organized in the following topical sections: rule-based distributed/multi-agent systems; rules, agents and norms; rule-based event processing and reaction rules; fuzzy rules and uncertainty; rules and the semantic Web; rule learning and extraction; rules and reasoning; and rule-based applications.

Trust-based Recommendations in Multi-layer Networks

Author : Claudia Heß
Publisher : IOS Press
ISBN 13 : 9783898383165
Total Pages : 246 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (831 download)

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Book Synopsis Trust-based Recommendations in Multi-layer Networks by : Claudia Heß

Download or read book Trust-based Recommendations in Multi-layer Networks written by Claudia Heß and published by IOS Press. This book was released on 2008 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The huge interest in social networking applications – Friendster.com, for example, has more than 40 million users – led to a considerable research interest in using this data for generating recommendations. Especially recommendation techniques that analyze trust networks were found to provide very accurate and highly personalized results. The main contribution of this thesis is to extend the approach to trust-based recommendations, which up to now have been made for unlinked items such as products or movies, to linked resources, in particular documents. Therefore, a second type of network, namely a document reference network, is considered apart from the trust network. This is, for example, the citation network of scientific publications or the hyperlink graph of webpages. Recommendations for documents are typically made by reference-based visibility measures which consider a document to be the more important, the more often it is referenced by important documents. These two networks, as well as further networks such as organization networks, are integrated in a multi-layer network. This architecture allows for combining classical measures for the visibility of a document with trust-based recommendations, giving trust-enhanced visibility measures. Moreover, an approximation approach is introduced which considers the uncertainty induced by duplicate documents. These measures are evaluated in simulation studies. The trust-based recommender system for scientific publications SPRec implements a two-layer architecture and provides personalized recommendations via a web interface.

Knowledge-Based and Intelligent Information and Engineering Systems

Author : Rossitza Setchi
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3642153844
Total Pages : 671 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (421 download)

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Download or read book Knowledge-Based and Intelligent Information and Engineering Systems written by Rossitza Setchi and published by Springer. This book was released on 2010-09-07 with total page 671 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: th The 14 International Conference on Knowledge-Based and Intelligent Information and Engineering Systems was held during September 8–10, 2010 in Cardiff, UK. The conference was organized by the School of Engineering at Cardiff University, UK and KES International. KES2010 provided an international scientific forum for the presentation of the - sults of high-quality research on a broad range of intelligent systems topics. The c- ference attracted over 360 submissions from 42 countries and 6 continents: Argentina, Australia, Belgium, Brazil, Bulgaria, Canada, Chile, China, Croatia, Czech Republic, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hong Kong ROC, Hungary, India, Iran, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Japan, Korea, Malaysia, Mexico, The Netherlands, New Zealand, Pakistan, Poland, Romania, Singapore, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Syria, Taiwan, - nisia, Turkey, UK, USA and Vietnam. The conference consisted of 6 keynote talks, 11 general tracks and 29 invited s- sions and workshops, on the applications and theory of intelligent systems and related areas. The distinguished keynote speakers were Christopher Bishop, UK, Nikola - sabov, New Zealand, Saeid Nahavandi, Australia, Tetsuo Sawaragi, Japan, Yuzuru Tanaka, Japan and Roger Whitaker, UK. Over 240 oral and poster presentations provided excellent opportunities for the presentation of interesting new research results and discussion about them, leading to knowledge transfer and generation of new ideas. Extended versions of selected papers were considered for publication in the Int- national Journal of Knowledge-Based and Intelligent Engineering Systems, Engine- ing Applications of Artificial Intelligence, Journal of Intelligent Manufacturing, and Neural Computing and Applications.

Semantic Web Programming

Author : John Hebeler
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1118080602
Total Pages : 662 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (18 download)

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Download or read book Semantic Web Programming written by John Hebeler and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2011-02-25 with total page 662 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The next major advance in the Web-Web 3.0-will be built on semantic Web technologies, which will allow data to be shared and reused across application, enterprise, and community boundaries. Written by a team of highly experienced Web developers, this book explains examines how this powerful new technology can unify and fully leverage the ever-growing data, information, and services that are available on the Internet. Helpful examples demonstrate how to use the semantic Web to solve practical, real-world problems while you take a look at the set of design principles, collaborative working groups, and technologies that form the semantic Web. The companion Web site features full code, as well as a reference section, a FAQ section, a discussion forum, and a semantic blog.

The Mind-swap Menace

Author : Stephen Cole
Publisher : Random House
ISBN 13 : 1849411522
Total Pages : 146 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (494 download)

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Download or read book The Mind-swap Menace written by Stephen Cole and published by Random House. This book was released on 2010 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Captain Teggs is no ordinary dinosaur - he's an astrosaur! On the incredible spaceship DSS Sauropod, along with his faithful crew, Gypsy, Arx and Iggy, Teggs rights wrongs, fights evil and eats a lot of grass! The Astrosaurs are on another mission when they almost crash into a deserted space station.

Adaptive Information

Author : Jeffrey T. Pollock
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 0471714208
Total Pages : 440 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (717 download)

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Download or read book Adaptive Information written by Jeffrey T. Pollock and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2004-11-11 with total page 440 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New Paradigm for considering application integration and B2Bproblems Heightens the importance of conveying meaning betweensystems Addresses movement in the EAI space toward more data handlingcapabilities Offers a solution for the multitude of managers disconnectedwith the latest technologies Leverages the technical advances made in complex dataintegration over 15 years Shifts the focus from technology solutions to informationsolutions Relies heavily on the use of practical examples, tips,definitions, and soapbox excerpts throughout the main body oftext

The Semantic Web

Author : Bo Leuf
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 0470028165
Total Pages : 378 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (7 download)

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Download or read book The Semantic Web written by Bo Leuf and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2006-02-22 with total page 378 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Semantic Web is an idea of World Wide Web inventor Tim Berners-Lee that the Web as a whole can be made more intelligent and perhaps even intuitive about how to serve a users needs. Although search engines index much of the Web's content, they have little ability to select the pages that a user really wants or needs. Berners-Lee foresees a number of ways in which developers and authors, singly or in collaborations, can use self-descriptions and other techniques so that the context-understanding programs can selectively find what users want. The Semantic Web: Crafting Infrastructure for Agency presents a more holistic view of the current state of development and deployment. This a comprehensive reference to the rapidly developing technologies, which are enabling more intelligent and automated transactions over the internet, and a visionary overview of the implications of deploying such a layer of infrastructure. A through examination of the Semantic Web, including the following topics: web information management, languages and protocols, application and tools, and collaboration and agency. A unique volume of practical information, in-depth analysis, conceptual overviews and contextual material from professionals in the field. Features appendices of technical terms and glossary, Semantic Web resources, intellectual property issues and lists of elements. This is essential reading for engineers, web developers and industry professionals wishing to enhance their knowledge of recent developments. Management staff, lecturers. postgraduate and undergraduate students will also find this book appealing.

Ontologies and Semantic Technologies for Intelligence

Author : Leo Joseph Obrst
Publisher : IOS Press
ISBN 13 : 1607505800
Total Pages : 236 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (75 download)

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Download or read book Ontologies and Semantic Technologies for Intelligence written by Leo Joseph Obrst and published by IOS Press. This book was released on 2010 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Featuring chapters by selected contributors to the second international Ontology for the Intelligence Community (OIC) conference, this book offers a partial technology roadmap for decision makers in the field of information integration, sharing and situational awareness in the use of ontologies and semantic technologies for intelligence.

Finding the Concept, Not Just the Word

Author : Brandy King
Publisher : Elsevier
ISBN 13 : 1780631723
Total Pages : 225 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (86 download)

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Download or read book Finding the Concept, Not Just the Word written by Brandy King and published by Elsevier. This book was released on 2008-08-30 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Aimed at students and professionals within Library and Information Services (LIS), this book is about the power and potential of ontologies to enhance the electronic search process. The book will compare search strategies and results in the current search environment and demonstrate how these could be transformed using ontologies and concept searching. Simple descriptions, visual representations, and examples of ontologies will bring a full understanding of how these concept maps are constructed to enhance retrieval through natural language queries. Readers will gain a sense of how ontologies are currently being used and how they could be applied in the future, encouraging them to think about how their own work and their users' search experiences could be enhanced by the creation of a customized ontology. - The authors, a librarian and software consultant, use their expertise to convey both the information science and technical aspects of ontologies and semantic search - Written for librarians. Unlike most work on ontologies which is highly technical and written for professionals in computer science and knowledge management, this text is easy to understand and highlights applications of this technology that are most relevant - Case studies of real life ontologies give a practical look at how they are currently being used

Semantic Web Services: Theory, Tools and Applications

Author : Cardoso, Jorge
Publisher : IGI Global
ISBN 13 : 1599040476
Total Pages : 372 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (99 download)

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Download or read book Semantic Web Services: Theory, Tools and Applications written by Cardoso, Jorge and published by IGI Global. This book was released on 2007-03-31 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This book brings together researchers, scientists, and representatives from different communities to study, understand, and explore the theory, tools, and applications of the semantic Web. It joins the semantic Web, ontologies, knowledge management, Web services, and Web processes into one fully comprehensive resource, serving as the platform for exchange of both practical technologies and research"--Provided by publisher.

Provenance and Annotation of Data

Author : Ian Foster
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3540463038
Total Pages : 298 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (44 download)

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Download or read book Provenance and Annotation of Data written by Ian Foster and published by Springer. This book was released on 2006-11-23 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book constitutes the thoroughly referred post-proceedings of the International Provenance and Annotation Workshops, IPAW 2006, held in Chicago, Il, USA in May 2006. The 26 revised full papers presented together with two keynote papers were carefully selected for presentation during two rounds of reviewing and improvement. The papers are organized in topical sections.

Knowledge-Driven Multimedia Information Extraction and Ontology Evolution

Author : Georgios Paliouras
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 3642207944
Total Pages : 251 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (422 download)

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Download or read book Knowledge-Driven Multimedia Information Extraction and Ontology Evolution written by Georgios Paliouras and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2011-05-19 with total page 251 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents the state of the art in the areas of ontology evolution and knowledge-driven multimedia information extraction, placing an emphasis on how the two can be combined to bridge the semantic gap. This was also the goal of the EC-sponsored BOEMIE (Bootstrapping Ontology Evolution with Multimedia Information Extraction) project, to which the authors of this book have all contributed. The book addresses researchers and practitioners in the field of computer science and more specifically in knowledge representation and management, ontology evolution, and information extraction from multimedia data. It may also constitute an excellent guide to students attending courses within a computer science study program, addressing information processing and extraction from any type of media (text, images, and video). Among other things, the book gives concrete examples of how several of the methods discussed can be applied to athletics (track and field) events.

The People Trap

Author : Robert Sheckley
Publisher : Open Road Media
ISBN 13 : 1497650518
Total Pages : 197 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (976 download)

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Download or read book The People Trap written by Robert Sheckley and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2014-05-13 with total page 197 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of witty science fiction including a Nebula Award–nominated story. In “Diplomatic Immunity,” what happens when an alien ambassador arrives, telling the residents of Earth that they will be joining a galactic union whether they like it or not—and the ambassador is unkillable? The thirteen other stories in this collection are “The People Trap,” “The Victim from Space,” “Shall We Have a Little Talk?”, “Restricted Area,” “The Odor of Thought,” “The Necessary Thing,” “Redfern’s Labyrinth,” “Proof of the Pudding,” “The Laxian Key,” “The Last Weapon,” “Fishing Season,” “Dreamworld,” and “Ghost V.” From the very beginning of his career, Robert Sheckley was recognized by fans, reviewers, and fellow authors as a master storyteller and the wittiest satirist working in the science fiction field. Open Road is proud to republish his acclaimed body of work, with nearly thirty volumes of full-length fiction and short story collections. Rediscover, or discover for the first time, a master of science fiction who, according to the New York Times, was “a precursor to Douglas Adams.”