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2008 Editors' Symposium

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Emigration and immigration law
ISBN : STANFORD:36105063783588

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2007 Editors' Symposium

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Privacy, Right of
ISBN : STANFORD:36105063770379

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Programme and The Book of Abstracts / Tenth Annual Conference YUCOMAT 2008

Author : Dragan Uskoković
Publisher : Institute of Technical Sciences of the Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2008-08-20
Category : Science
ISBN : 9788680321158

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Programme and The Book of Abstracts / Tenth Annual Conference YUCOMAT 2008 by Dragan Uskoković Pdf

The First Conference on materials science and engineering, including physics, physical chemistry, condensed matter chemistry, and technology in general, was held in September 1995, in Herceg Novi. An initiative to establish Yugoslav Materials Research Society was born at the conference and, similar to other MR societies in the world, the programme was made and objectives determined. The Yugoslav Materials Research Society (Yu-MRS), a nongovernment and non-profit scientific association, was founded in 1997 to promote multidisciplinary goal-oriented research in materials science and engineering. The main task and objective of the Society has been to encourage creativity in materials research and engineering to reach a harmonic coordination between achievements in this field in our country and analogous activities in the world with an aim to include our country into global international projects. Until 2003, Conferences were held every second year and then they grew into Annual Conferences that were traditionally held in Herceg Novi in September of every year. In 2007 Yu-MRS formed two new MRS: MRS-Serbia (official successor of Yu-MRS) and MRS-Montenegro (in founding). In 2008, MRS – Serbia became a member of FEMS (Federation of European Materials Societies).

Human-Computer Interaction Symposium

Author : Fabio Paternò,Annelise Mark Pejtersen
Publisher : Springer
Page : 227 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2008-07-08
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780387096780

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Human-Computer Interaction Symposium by Fabio Paternò,Annelise Mark Pejtersen Pdf

The IFIP World Computer Congress (WCC) is one of the most important conferences in the area of computer science and a number of related Human and Social Science disciplines at the worldwide level and it has a federated structure, which takes into account the rapidly growing and expanding interests in this area. Human-Computer Interaction is now a mature and still dynamically evolving part of this area, which is represented in IFIP by the Technical Committee 13 on HCI. We are convinced that in this edition of WCC, which takes place for the first time in Italy, it will be interesting and useful to have a Symposium on Human- Computer Interaction in order to present and discuss a number of contributions in this field. There has been increasing awareness among designers of interactive systems of the importance of designing for usability, but we are still far from having products that are really usable, and usability can mean different things depending on the application domain. We are all aware that too many users of current technology feel often frustrated because computer systems are not compatible with their abilities and needs with existing work practices. As designers of tomorrow technology, we have the responsibility of creating computer artefacts that would permit better user experience with the various computing devices, so that users may enjoy more satisfying experiences with information and communications technologies.

Pacific Symposium on Biocomputing 2010, Kamuela, Hawaii, USA, 4-8 January 2010

Author : Russ B. Altman
Publisher : World Scientific
Page : 502 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2009-10-23
Category : Bioinformatics
ISBN : 9789814295291

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Pacific Symposium on Biocomputing 2010, Kamuela, Hawaii, USA, 4-8 January 2010 by Russ B. Altman Pdf

The Pacific Symposium on Biocomputing (PSB) 2010 is an international, multidisciplinary conference for the presentation and discussion of current research in the theory and application of computational methods in problems of biological significance. Presentations are rigorously peer reviewed and are published in an archival proceedings volume. PSB 2010 will be held on January 4 - 8, 2010 in Kohala Coast, Hawaii. Tutorials and workshops will be offered prior to the start of the conference. PSB 2010 will bring together top researchers from the US, Asia Pacific, and around the world to exchange research results and address pertinent issues in all aspects of computational biology. It is a forum for the presentation of work in databases, algorithms, interfaces, visualization, modeling, and other computational methods, as applied to biological problems, with emphasis on applications in data-rich areas of molecular biology. The PSB has been designed to be responsive to the need for critical mass in sub-disciplines within biocomputing. For that reason, it is the only meeting whose sessions are defined dynamically each year in response to specific proposals. PSB sessions are organized by leaders of research in biocomputing's "hot topics". In this way, the meeting provides an early forum for serious examination of emerging methods and approaches in this rapidly changing field.

Deductive Software Verification – The KeY Book

Author : Wolfgang Ahrendt,Bernhard Beckert,Richard Bubel,Reiner Hähnle,Peter H. Schmitt,Mattias Ulbrich
Publisher : Springer
Page : 714 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2016-12-19
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9783319498126

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Deductive Software Verification – The KeY Book by Wolfgang Ahrendt,Bernhard Beckert,Richard Bubel,Reiner Hähnle,Peter H. Schmitt,Mattias Ulbrich Pdf

Static analysis of software with deductive methods is a highly dynamic field of research on the verge of becoming a mainstream technology in software engineering. It consists of a large portfolio of - mostly fully automated - analyses: formal verification, test generation, security analysis, visualization, and debugging. All of them are realized in the state-of-art deductive verification framework KeY. This book is the definitive guide to KeY that lets you explore the full potential of deductive software verification in practice. It contains the complete theory behind KeY for active researchers who want to understand it in depth or use it in their own work. But the book also features fully self-contained chapters on the Java Modeling Language and on Using KeY that require nothing else than familiarity with Java. All other chapters are accessible for graduate students (M.Sc. level and beyond). The KeY framework is free and open software, downloadable from the book companion website which contains also all code examples mentioned in this book.

Algorithms for Reinforcement Learning

Author : Csaba Szepesvari
Publisher : Morgan & Claypool Publishers
Page : 103 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2010-08-08
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9781608454938

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Algorithms for Reinforcement Learning by Csaba Szepesvari Pdf

Reinforcement learning is a learning paradigm concerned with learning to control a system so as to maximize a numerical performance measure that expresses a long-term objective. What distinguishes reinforcement learning from supervised learning is that only partial feedback is given to the learner about the learner's predictions. Further, the predictions may have long term effects through influencing the future state of the controlled system. Thus, time plays a special role. The goal in reinforcement learning is to develop efficient learning algorithms, as well as to understand the algorithms' merits and limitations. Reinforcement learning is of great interest because of the large number of practical applications that it can be used to address, ranging from problems in artificial intelligence to operations research or control engineering. In this book, we focus on those algorithms of reinforcement learning that build on the powerful theory of dynamic programming. We give a fairly comprehensive catalog of learning problems, describe the core ideas, note a large number of state of the art algorithms, followed by the discussion of their theoretical properties and limitations. Table of Contents: Markov Decision Processes / Value Prediction Problems / Control / For Further Exploration

Hypervolume-based Search for Multiobjective Optimization

Author : Johannes M. Bader
Publisher : Johannes Bader
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2010-02-13
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9781450579131

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Hypervolume-based Search for Multiobjective Optimization by Johannes M. Bader Pdf

Most problems encountered in practice involve the optimization of multiple criteria. Usually, some of them are conflicting such that no single solution is simultaneously optimal with respect to all criteria, but instead many incomparable compromise solutions exist. In recent years, evidence has accumulated showing that Evolutionary Algorithms (EAs) are effective means of finding good approximate solutions to such problems. One of the crucial parts of EAs consists of repeatedly selecting suitable solutions. In this process, the two key issues are as follows: first, a solution that is better than another solution in all objectives should be preferred over the latter. Second, the diversity of solutions should be supported, whereby often user preference dictates what constitutes a good diversity.The hypervolume offers one possibility to achieve the two aspects; for this reason, it has been gaining increasing importance in recent years. The present thesis investigates three central topics of the hypervolume that are still unsolved:1: Although more and more EAs use the hypervolume as selection criterion, the resulting distribution of points favored by the hypervolume has scarcely been investigated so far. Many studies only speculate about this question, and in parts contradict one another.2: The computational load of the hypervolume calculation sharply increases the more criteria are considered. This hindered so far the application of the hypervolume to problems with more than about five criteria.3: Often a crucial aspect is to maximize the robustness of solutions, which is characterized by how far the properties of a solution can degenerate when implemented in practice. So far, no attempt has been made to consider robustness of solutions within hypervolume-based search.

Handbook of Service Description

Author : Alistair Barros,Daniel Oberle
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 554 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2012-03-02
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9781461418641

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Handbook of Service Description by Alistair Barros,Daniel Oberle Pdf

The Handbook of Service Description introduces an in-depth overview of service description efforts. The book also highlights the recent Unified Service Description Language (USDL) in detail and discusses its methods. The Handbook of Service Description is the normative scientific reference for the upcoming standardization of the Unified Service Description Language (USDL). Complete documentation is included. The Handbook of Service Description is designed for those working in the service science industry as a reference book. Advanced-level students focused on computer science, engineering and business will also find this book a valuable asset.

Security and Dependability for Ambient Intelligence

Author : George Spanoudakis,Spyros Kokolakis
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 386 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2009-04-21
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9780387887753

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Security and Dependability for Ambient Intelligence by George Spanoudakis,Spyros Kokolakis Pdf

Security and Dependability for Ambient Intelligence is the primary publication of the SERENITY approach, which provides security and dependability (S&D) solutions for dynamic, highly distributed, heterogeneous systems. The objective of SERENITY is to enhance the security and dependability of ambient intelligence systems by providing a framework supporting the automated integration, configuration, monitoring and adaptation of security and dependability mechanisms. An edited volume contributed by world leaders in the field, this book covers the problems that the highly dynamic and heterogeneous nature of ambient intelligence systems poses to security and dependability and presents solutions to these problems. Security and Dependability for Ambient Intelligence is designed for researchers and practitioners focusing on the dynamic integration, deployment and verification of security and dependability solutions in highly distributed systems incorporating ambient intelligence features. It is also suitable as a reference or secondary text for advanced-level students in computer science and computer or electrical engineering.

Space in Weak Propositional Proof Systems

Author : Ilario Bonacina
Publisher : Springer
Page : 130 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2018-01-11
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9783319734538

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Space in Weak Propositional Proof Systems by Ilario Bonacina Pdf

This book considers logical proof systems from the point of view of their space complexity. After an introduction to propositional proof complexity the author structures the book into three main parts. Part I contains two chapters on resolution, one containing results already known in the literature before this work and one focused on space in resolution, and the author then moves on to polynomial calculus and its space complexity with a focus on the combinatorial technique to prove monomial space lower bounds. The first chapter in Part II addresses the proof complexity and space complexity of the pigeon principles. Then there is an interlude on a new type of game, defined on bipartite graphs, essentially independent from the rest of the book, collecting some results on graph theory. Finally Part III analyzes the size of resolution proofs in connection with the Strong Exponential Time Hypothesis (SETH) in complexity theory. The book is appropriate for researchers in theoretical computer science, in particular computational complexity.

Monte Carlo and Quasi-Monte Carlo Sampling

Author : Christiane Lemieux
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 373 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2009-04-03
Category : Mathematics
ISBN : 9780387781655

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Monte Carlo and Quasi-Monte Carlo Sampling by Christiane Lemieux Pdf

Quasi–Monte Carlo methods have become an increasingly popular alternative to Monte Carlo methods over the last two decades. Their successful implementation on practical problems, especially in finance, has motivated the development of several new research areas within this field to which practitioners and researchers from various disciplines currently contribute. This book presents essential tools for using quasi–Monte Carlo sampling in practice. The first part of the book focuses on issues related to Monte Carlo methods—uniform and non-uniform random number generation, variance reduction techniques—but the material is presented to prepare the readers for the next step, which is to replace the random sampling inherent to Monte Carlo by quasi–random sampling. The second part of the book deals with this next step. Several aspects of quasi-Monte Carlo methods are covered, including constructions, randomizations, the use of ANOVA decompositions, and the concept of effective dimension. The third part of the book is devoted to applications in finance and more advanced statistical tools like Markov chain Monte Carlo and sequential Monte Carlo, with a discussion of their quasi–Monte Carlo counterpart. The prerequisites for reading this book are a basic knowledge of statistics and enough mathematical maturity to follow through the various techniques used throughout the book. This text is aimed at graduate students in statistics, management science, operations research, engineering, and applied mathematics. It should also be useful to practitioners who want to learn more about Monte Carlo and quasi–Monte Carlo methods and researchers interested in an up-to-date guide to these methods.

Translation in Practice

Author : Gill Paul
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 74 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 1564785483

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Translation in Practice by Gill Paul Pdf

In February 2008, editors and translators from the US and the UK came together at the British Council in London to discuss best practices for the translation of literary works into English. This book comprises the results of that meeting.

Semantic Web and Model-Driven Engineering

Author : Fernando S. Parreiras
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2012-05-09
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9781118135051

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Semantic Web and Model-Driven Engineering by Fernando S. Parreiras Pdf

The next enterprise computing era will rely on the synergy between both technologies: semantic web and model-driven software development (MDSD). The semantic web organizes system knowledge in conceptual domains according to its meaning. It addresses various enterprise computing needs by identifying, abstracting and rationalizing commonalities, and checking for inconsistencies across system specifications. On the other side, model-driven software development is closing the gap among business requirements, designs and executables by using domain-specific languages with custom-built syntax and semantics. It focuses on using modeling languages as programming languages. Among many areas of application, we highlight the area of configuration management. Consider the example of a telecommunication company, where managing the multiple configurations of network devices (routers, hubs, modems, etc.) is crucial. Enterprise systems identify and document the functional and physical characteristics of network devices, and control changes to those characteristics. Applying the integration of semantic web and model-driven software development allows for (1) explicitly specifying configurations of network devices with tailor-made languages, (2) for checking the consistency of these specifications (3) for defining a vocabulary to share device specifications across enterprise systems. By managing configurations with consistent and explicit concepts, we reduce cost and risk, and enhance agility in response to new requirements in the telecommunication area. This book examines the synergy between semantic web and model-driven software development. It brings together advances from disciplines like ontologies, description logics, domain-specific modeling, model transformation and ontology engineering to take enterprise computing to the next level.