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Visual Complexity and Intelligent Computer Graphics Techniques Enhancements

Author : Dimitri Plemenos
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 9783642012600
Total Pages : 246 pages
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Download or read book Visual Complexity and Intelligent Computer Graphics Techniques Enhancements written by Dimitri Plemenos and published by Springer. This book was released on 2009-08-29 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this book, three main notions will be used in the editors search of improvements in various areas of computer graphics: Artificial Intelligence, Viewpoint Complexity and Human Intelligence. Several Artificial Intelligence techniques are used in presented intelligent scene modelers, mainly declarative ones. Among them, the mostly used techniques are Expert systems, Constraint Satisfaction Problem resolution and Machine-learning. The notion of viewpoint complexity, that is complexity of a scene seen from a given viewpoint, will be used in improvement proposals for a lot of computer graphics problems like scene understanding, virtual world exploration, image-based modeling and rendering, ray tracing and radiosity. Very often, viewpoint complexity is used in conjunction with Artificial Intelligence techniques like Heuristic search and Problem resolution. The notions of artificial Intelligence and Viewpoint Complexity may help to automatically resolve a big number of computer graphics problems. However, there are special situations where is required to find a particular solution for each situation. In such a case, human intelligence has to replace, or to be combined with, artificial intelligence. Such cases, and proposed solutions are also presented in this book.

Visual Complexity and Intelligent Computer Graphics Techniques Enhancements

Author : Dimitri Plemenos
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3642012590
Total Pages : 246 pages
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Download or read book Visual Complexity and Intelligent Computer Graphics Techniques Enhancements written by Dimitri Plemenos and published by Springer. This book was released on 2009-05-06 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this book, three main notions will be used in the editors search of improvements in various areas of computer graphics: Artificial Intelligence, Viewpoint Complexity and Human Intelligence. Several Artificial Intelligence techniques are used in presented intelligent scene modelers, mainly declarative ones. Among them, the mostly used techniques are Expert systems, Constraint Satisfaction Problem resolution and Machine-learning. The notion of viewpoint complexity, that is complexity of a scene seen from a given viewpoint, will be used in improvement proposals for a lot of computer graphics problems like scene understanding, virtual world exploration, image-based modeling and rendering, ray tracing and radiosity. Very often, viewpoint complexity is used in conjunction with Artificial Intelligence techniques like Heuristic search and Problem resolution. The notions of artificial Intelligence and Viewpoint Complexity may help to automatically resolve a big number of computer graphics problems. However, there are special situations where is required to find a particular solution for each situation. In such a case, human intelligence has to replace, or to be combined with, artificial intelligence. Such cases, and proposed solutions are also presented in this book.

Computational Intelligence Techniques for Bioprocess Modelling, Supervision and Control

Author : Maria Carmo Nicoletti
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3642018882
Total Pages : 341 pages
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Book Synopsis Computational Intelligence Techniques for Bioprocess Modelling, Supervision and Control by : Maria Carmo Nicoletti

Download or read book Computational Intelligence Techniques for Bioprocess Modelling, Supervision and Control written by Maria Carmo Nicoletti and published by Springer. This book was released on 2009-07-09 with total page 341 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Computational Intelligence (CI) and Bioprocess are well-established research areas which have much to offer each other. Under the perspective of the CI area, Biop- cess can be considered a vast application area with a growing number of complex and challenging tasks to be dealt with, whose solutions can contribute to boosting the development of new intelligent techniques as well as to help the refinement and s- cialization of many of the already existing techniques. Under the perspective of the Bioprocess area, CI can be considered a useful repertoire of theories, methods and techniques that can contribute and offer interesting alternative approaches for solving many of its problems, particularly those hard to solve using conventional techniques. Although throughout the past years CI and Bioprocess areas have accumulated substantial specific knowledge and progress has been quick and with a high degree of success, we believe there is still a long way to go in order to use the potentialities of the available CI techniques and knowledge at their full extent, as tools for supporting problem solving in bioprocesses. One of the reasons is the fact that both areas have progressed steadily and have been continuously accumulating and refining specific knowledge; another reason is the high level of technical expertise demanded by each of them. The acquisition of technical skills, experience and good insights in either of the two areas is very demanding and a hard task to be accomplished by any professional.

Intelligent Systems and Technologies

Author : Horia-Nicolai Teodorescu
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3642018858
Total Pages : 300 pages
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Download or read book Intelligent Systems and Technologies written by Horia-Nicolai Teodorescu and published by Springer. This book was released on 2009-07-07 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 systems; A Fuzzy Density Analysis of Subgroups by means of DNA Oligonucleotides; Evolution of Cooperating Classification Rules with an Archiving Strategy to Underpin Collaboration; Designing Agents with Dynamic Capability; Localized versus Locality Preserving Representation Methods in Face Recognition Tasks; Invariance Properties of Recurrent Neural Networks; Solving Bioinformatics Problems by Soft Computing Techniques; Transforming an Interactive Expert Code into a Statefull Service and a Multicoreenabled System; Ro-WordNet with Paradigmatic Morphology and Subjectivity Mark-up; Special Cases of Relative Object Qualification using the AMONG Operator; Effective Speaker Tracking Strategies for Multi-party Human-Computer Dialogue; The Fuzzy Interpolative Control for Passive Greenhouses; GPS safety system for airplanes; 3D Collaborative Interfaces for E-learning; Open Projects in Contemporary E-Learning; Software Platform for Archaeological Patrimony Inventory and Management. The book is directed to the graduate students, researchers, professors and the practitioner of intelligent systems.

Complex Networks

Author : Ronaldo Menezes
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 3642012051
Total Pages : 232 pages
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Download or read book Complex Networks written by Ronaldo Menezes and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2009-08-11 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Though the reductionist approachto biology and medicine has led to several imp- tant advances, further progresses with respect to the remaining challenges require integration of representation, characterization and modeling of the studied systems along a wide range of spatial and time scales. Such an approach, intrinsically - lated to systems biology, is poised to ultimately turning biology into a more precise and synthetic discipline, paving the way to extensive preventive and regenerative medicine [1], drug discovery [20] and treatment optimization [24]. A particularly appealing and effective approach to addressing the complexity of interactions inherent to the biological systems is provided by the new area of c- plex networks [34, 30, 8, 13, 12]. Basically, it is an extension of graph theory [10], focusing on the modeling, representation, characterization, analysis and simulation ofcomplexsystemsbyconsideringmanyelementsandtheirinterconnections.C- plex networks concepts and methods have been used to study disease [17], tr- scription networks [5, 6, 4], protein-protein networks [22, 36, 16, 39], metabolic networks [23] and anatomy [40].

Evolutionary Image Analysis and Signal Processing

Author : Stefano Cagnoni
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 3642016359
Total Pages : 213 pages
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Download or read book Evolutionary Image Analysis and Signal Processing written by Stefano Cagnoni and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2009-06-22 with total page 213 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The publication of this book on evolutionaryImage Analysis and Signal P- cessing (IASP) has two main goals. The ?rst, occasional one is to celebrate the 10th edition of EvoIASP, the workshop which has been the only event speci?cally dedicated to this topic since 1999. The second, more important one is to give an overview of the opportunities o?ered by Evolutionary C- putation (EC) techniques to computer vision,pattern recognition,and image and signal processing. It is not possible to celebrate EvoIASP properly without ?rst ackno- edging EvoNET, the EU-funded network of excellence, which has made it possible for Europe to build a strong European research community on EC. Thanks to the success of the ?rst, pioneering event organized by EvoNET, held in 1998 in Paris, it was possible to realize that not only was EC a f- tile ground for basic research but also there were several application ?elds to which EC techniques could o?er a valuable contribution. That was how the ideaofcreatingasingleevent,EvoWorkshops,outofacollectionofworkshops dedicated to applications of EC, was born. Amongst the possible application ?elds for EC, IASP was selected almost accidentally, due to the occasional presence, within EvoNET, of less than a handful of researchers who were interested in it. I would lie if I stated that the event was a great success since its very start, but it was successful enough to survive healthily for a couple of years, before reaching its present size, relevance, and popularity.

Opportunities and Challenges for Next-Generation Applied Intelligence

Author : Been-Chian Chien
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3540928146
Total Pages : 344 pages
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Book Synopsis Opportunities and Challenges for Next-Generation Applied Intelligence by : Been-Chian Chien

Download or read book Opportunities and Challenges for Next-Generation Applied Intelligence written by Been-Chian Chien and published by Springer. This book was released on 2009-05-12 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The term “Artificial Intelligence” has been used since 1956 and has become a very popular research field. Generally, it is the study of the computations that enable a system to perceive, reason and act. In the early days, it was expected to achieve the same intelligent behavior as a human, but found impossible at last. Its goal was thus revised to design and use of intelligent methods to make systems more ef- cient at solving problems. The term “Applied Intelligence” was thus created to represent its practicality. It emphasizes applications of applied intelligent systems to solve real-life problems in all areas including engineering, science, industry, automation, robotics, business, finance, medicine, bio-medicine, bio-informatics, cyberspace, and man-machine interactions. To endow the intelligent behavior of a system, many useful and interesting techniques have been developed. Some of them are even borrowed from the na- ral observation and biological phenomenon. Neural networks and evolutionary computation are two examples of them. Besides, some other heuristic approaches like data mining, adaptive control, intelligent manufacturing, autonomous agents, bio-informatics, reasoning, computer vision, decision support systems, expert s- tems, fuzzy logic, robots, intelligent interfaces, internet technology, planning and scheduling, are also commonly used in applied intelligence.

Biologically-Inspired Optimisation Methods

Author : Andrew Lewis
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 3642012612
Total Pages : 365 pages
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Download or read book Biologically-Inspired Optimisation Methods written by Andrew Lewis and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2009-05-25 with total page 365 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book covers the latest theories, applications and techniques in Biologically-Inspired Optimisation Methods. Many chapters derive from studies presented at workshops and international conferences on e-Science, Grid Computing and Evolutionary computation.

Computer and Information Science 2009

Author : Roger Lee
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3642012094
Total Pages : 304 pages
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Download or read book Computer and Information Science 2009 written by Roger Lee and published by Springer. This book was released on 2009-05-01 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume includes the best papers of the IEEE/ACIS International Conference on Computer and Information Science, ICIS 2009, held on June 2009 in Shanghai, China.

Software Engineering, Artificial Intelligence, Networking and Parallel/Distributed Computing

Author : Roger Lee
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3642012035
Total Pages : 284 pages
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Book Synopsis Software Engineering, Artificial Intelligence, Networking and Parallel/Distributed Computing by : Roger Lee

Download or read book Software Engineering, Artificial Intelligence, Networking and Parallel/Distributed Computing written by Roger Lee and published by Springer. This book was released on 2009-05-02 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The purpose of the 10th ACIS International Conference on Software Engineering Artificial Intelligence, Networking and Parallel/Distributed Computing (SNPD rd 2009), held in Daegu, Korea on May 27–29, 2009, the 3 International Workshop st on e-Activity (IWEA 2009) and the 1 International Workshop on Enterprise Architecture Challenges and Responses (WEACR 2009) is to aim at bringing together researchers and scientist, businessmen and entrepreneurs, teachers and students to discuss the numerous fields of computer science, and to share ideas and information in a meaningful way. Our conference officers selected the best 24 papers from those papers accepted for presentation at the conference in order to publish them in this volume. The papers were chosen based on review scores submitted by members of the program committee, and underwent further rounds of rigorous review. In chapter 1, Igor Crk and Chris Gniady propose a network-aware energy m- agement mechanism that provides a low-cost solution that can significantly reduce energy consumption in the entire system while maintaining responsiveness of local interactive workloads. Their dynamic mechanisms reduce the decision delay before the disk is spun-up, reduce the number of erroneous spin-ups in local wo- stations, decrease the network bandwidth, and reduce the energy consumption of individual drives. In chapter 2, Yoshihito Saito and Tokuro Matsuo describe a task allocation mechanism and its performance concerning with software developing. They run simulations and discuss the results in terms of effective strategies of task allocation.

Transfer in Reinforcement Learning Domains

Author : Matthew Taylor
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 3642018815
Total Pages : 237 pages
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Download or read book Transfer in Reinforcement Learning Domains written by Matthew Taylor and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2009-06-05 with total page 237 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In reinforcement learning (RL) problems, learning agents sequentially execute actions with the goal of maximizing a reward signal. The RL framework has gained popularity with the development of algorithms capable of mastering increasingly complex problems, but learning difficult tasks is often slow or infeasible when RL agents begin with no prior knowledge. The key insight behind "transfer learning" is that generalization may occur not only within tasks, but also across tasks. While transfer has been studied in the psychological literature for many years, the RL community has only recently begun to investigate the benefits of transferring knowledge. This book provides an introduction to the RL transfer problem and discusses methods which demonstrate the promise of this exciting area of research. The key contributions of this book are: Definition of the transfer problem in RL domains Background on RL, sufficient to allow a wide audience to understand discussed transfer concepts Taxonomy for transfer methods in RL Survey of existing approaches In-depth presentation of selected transfer methods Discussion of key open questions By way of the research presented in this book, the author has established himself as the pre-eminent worldwide expert on transfer learning in sequential decision making tasks. A particular strength of the research is its very thorough and methodical empirical evaluation, which Matthew presents, motivates, and analyzes clearly in prose throughout the book. Whether this is your initial introduction to the concept of transfer learning, or whether you are a practitioner in the field looking for nuanced details, I trust that you will find this book to be an enjoyable and enlightening read. Peter Stone, Associate Professor of Computer Science

Challenges and Opportunities of Connected k-Covered Wireless Sensor Networks

Author : Habib M. Ammari
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3642018785
Total Pages : 342 pages
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Download or read book Challenges and Opportunities of Connected k-Covered Wireless Sensor Networks written by Habib M. Ammari and published by Springer. This book was released on 2009-08-05 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “The decomposition of the difficulties to be resolved, or the objects to be known, should be pushed up to the simplest elements ... Such elements are seized directly and completely by the intuition. ” René Descartes, Discours de la méthode (1637) Wireless sensor networks have received significant attention because of their - portant role and many conveniences in our lives. Indeed, the recent and fast - vances in inexpensive sensor technology and wireless communications have made the design and development of large-scale wireless sensor networks cost-effective and appealing to a wide range of mission-critical situations, including civilian, natural, industrial, and military applications, such as health and environmental monitoring, seism monitoring, industrial process automation, and battlefields s- veillance, respectively. A wireless sensor network consists of a large number of - ny, low-powered devices, called sensors, which are randomly or deterministically deployed in a field of interest while collaborating and coordinating for the successful accomplishment of their mission. These sensors suffer from very scarce resources and capabilities, such as bandwidth, storage, CPU, battery power (or - ergy), sensing, and communication, to name a few, with energy being the most critical one. The major challenge in the design process of this type of network is mainly due to the limited capabilities of the sensors, and particularly, their energy, which makes them unreliable.

Foundations of Computational Intelligence Volume 2

Author : Aboul-Ella Hassanien
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3642015336
Total Pages : 312 pages
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Download or read book Foundations of Computational Intelligence Volume 2 written by Aboul-Ella Hassanien and published by Springer. This book was released on 2009-05-27 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Foundations of Computational Intelligence Volume 2: Approximation Reasoning: Theoretical Foundations and Applications Human reasoning usually is very approximate and involves various types of - certainties. Approximate reasoning is the computational modelling of any part of the process used by humans to reason about natural phenomena or to solve real world problems. The scope of this book includes fuzzy sets, Dempster-Shafer theory, multi-valued logic, probability, random sets, and rough set, near set and hybrid intelligent systems. Besides research articles and expository papers on t- ory and algorithms of approximation reasoning, papers on numerical experiments and real world applications were also encouraged. This Volume comprises of 12 chapters including an overview chapter providing an up-to-date and state-of-the research on the applications of Computational Intelligence techniques for - proximation reasoning. The Volume is divided into 2 parts: Part-I: Approximate Reasoning – Theoretical Foundations Part-II: Approximate Reasoning – Success Stories and Real World Applications Part I on Approximate Reasoning – Theoretical Foundations contains four ch- ters that describe several approaches of fuzzy and Para consistent annotated logic approximation reasoning. In Chapter 1, “Fuzzy Sets, Near Sets, and Rough Sets for Your Computational Intelligence Toolbox” by Peters considers how a user might utilize fuzzy sets, near sets, and rough sets, taken separately or taken together in hybridizations as part of a computational intelligence toolbox. In multi-criteria decision making, it is necessary to aggregate (combine) utility values corresponding to several criteria (parameters).

Ontology-Based Multi-Agent Systems

Author : Maja Hadzic
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3642019048
Total Pages : 274 pages
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Download or read book Ontology-Based Multi-Agent Systems written by Maja Hadzic and published by Springer. This book was released on 2009-07-07 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the last two decades, the idea of Semantic Web has received a great deal of attention. An extensive body of knowledge has emerged to describe technologies that seek to help us create and use aspects of the Semantic Web. Ontology and agent-based technologies are understood to be the two important technologies here. A large number of articles and a number of books exist to describe the use individually of the two technologies and the design of systems that use each of these technologies individually, but little focus has been given on how one can - sign systems that carryout integrated use of the two different technologies. In this book we describe ontology and agent-based systems individually, and highlight advantages of integration of the two different and complementary te- nologies. We also present a methodology that will guide us in the design of the - tegrated ontology-based multi-agent systems and illustrate this methodology on two use cases from the health and software engineering domain. This book is organized as follows: • Chapter I, Current issues and the need for ontologies and agents, describes existing problems associated with uncontrollable information overload and explains how ontologies and agent-based systems can help address these - sues. • Chapter II, Introduction to multi-agent systems, defines agents and their main characteristics and features including mobility, communications and collaboration between different agents. It also presents different types of agents on the basis of classifications done by different authors.

Foundations of Computational Intelligence

Author : Aboul-Ella Hassanien
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 3642010814
Total Pages : 401 pages
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Download or read book Foundations of Computational Intelligence written by Aboul-Ella Hassanien and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2009-05-05 with total page 401 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Recent years have seen numerous applications across a variety of fields using various techniques of Computational Intelligence. This book, one of a series on the foundations of Computational Intelligence, is focused on learning and approximation.

Foundations of Computational Intelligence

Author : Ajith Abraham
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3642010881
Total Pages : 396 pages
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Download or read book Foundations of Computational Intelligence written by Ajith Abraham and published by Springer. This book was released on 2009-04-30 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Foundations of Computational Intelligence Volume 4: Bio-Inspired Data Mining Theoretical Foundations and Applications Recent advances in the computing and electronics technology, particularly in sensor devices, databases and distributed systems, are leading to an exponential growth in the amount of data stored in databases. It has been estimated that this amount doubles every 20 years. For some applications, this increase is even steeper. Databases storing DNA sequence, for example, are doubling their size every 10 months. This growth is occurring in several applications areas besides bioinformatics, like financial transactions, government data, environmental mo- toring, satellite and medical images, security data and web. As large organizations recognize the high value of data stored in their databases and the importance of their data collection to support decision-making, there is a clear demand for - phisticated Data Mining tools. Data mining tools play a key role in the extraction of useful knowledge from databases. They can be used either to confirm a parti- lar hypothesis or to automatically find patterns. In the second case, which is - lated to this book, the goal may be either to describe the main patterns present in dataset, what is known as descriptive Data Mining or to find patterns able to p- dict behaviour of specific attributes or features, known as predictive Data Mining. While the first goal is associated with tasks like clustering, summarization and association, the second is found in classification and regression problems.

Knowledge Discovery Enhanced with Semantic and Social Information

Author : Bettina Berendt
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3642018912
Total Pages : 143 pages
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Download or read book Knowledge Discovery Enhanced with Semantic and Social Information written by Bettina Berendt and published by Springer. This book was released on 2009-07-09 with total page 143 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is showcases recent advances in knowledge discovery enhanced with semantic and social information. It includes eight chapters that grew out of joint workshops at ECML/PKDD 2007. The contributions emphasize the vision of the Web as a social medium.