Agent Twister

Author : Philip Augar,Keely Winstone
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 263 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2022-05-26
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781398505421

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Agent Twister by Philip Augar,Keely Winstone Pdf

He lived a double-life in the sixties Faked his own death in the seventies And retained his cover in the eighties A period thriller with powerful political and espionage themes, Agent Twister is the remarkable story behind one of the greatest scandals of the 1970s, told in full for the first time. If you think you know the true story of John Stonehouse – think again. It’s November 1974 and John Stonehouse MP, once a star in Harold Wilson’s Labour government, is missing in Miami, presumed drowned. His disappearance exposes the most lurid details of his life, including identity fraud, corporate corruption, a love triangle, blackmail, links with the Mafia and a decade-long career as a Soviet spy. The public are gripped by this story, happy to forget the strikes, IRA bombs and rising prices that are making daily life a misery. On Christmas Eve, Stonehouse is tracked down in Melbourne, Australia, where he is suspected of being that other missing Englishman, Lord Lucan. The comic absurdity of the story is offset by claims of a mental breakdown and a refusal to resign as an MP, even when he is extradited back to the UK and up on charges at the Old Bailey. For the first time, Agent Twister reveals the corporate crimes at the heart of Stonehouse’s business empire, the true extent of his ten-year collusion with powerful Soviet proxies and the political consequences of his antics. It’s a scandal greater than Profumo that lay buried for thirty years, with three prime ministers – Wilson, Callaghan and Thatcher – covering it up for very different reasons. Written by the makers of the Channel Four documentary The Spy Who Died Twice, Agent Twister is the first impartial account to put this extraordinary scandal in political context and reveal why John Stonehouse really disappeared.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Marvel Entertainment
Page : 147 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2024-06-01
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN : 9780785180388

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Author : Julian Hayes
Publisher : Robinson
Page : 393 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2021-07-22
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781472146526

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Stonehouse by Julian Hayes Pdf

The true story behind the 2023 ITV series, STONEHOUSE, starring Matthew Macfayden and Keeley Hawes. 'An extraordinary life . . . a vivid account' Telegraph 'Completely absorbing' CAROL ANN LEE, author of The Murders at White House Farm and A Passion For Poison 'I literally consumed the book in just a few hungry sittings . . . most definitely a must read' DR SALEYHA AHSAN, filmmaker and journalist, Cambridge In November 1974, British MP and former cabinet minister John Stonehouse walked into the sea off a beach in Miami and disappeared, seemingly drowned. Then he was found - on the other side of the world, in Australia - and his extraordinary story began to come to light: a Labour cabinet minister and a devoted family man; also in a long-term affair with his secretary, and a spy for the Czech State Security agency, who had committed fraud and attempted to fake his own death to escape catastrophic business failures. Was it a mental breakdown as he later claimed? Or were there more sinister reasons for his dramatic disappearance? This is the definitive biography of Stonehouse, written by Julian Hayes, who, as the son of Stonehouse's nephew and lawyer, Michael Hayes, is uniquely placed to tell the story of this charismatic but deeply flawed politician.

Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Ways and Means
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 112 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 1983
Category : Boats and boating
ISBN : UCR:31210024956011

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Excise Taxes to Fund Recreational Boating Safety and Fish Restoration and Management Programs, and Establishment of a U.S. Fish and Wildlife Foundation by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Ways and Means Pdf

Author : Xuan Shi,Volodymyr Kindratenko,Chaowei Yang
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 251 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2013-10-27
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9781461487456

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Modern Accelerator Technologies for Geographic Information Science by Xuan Shi,Volodymyr Kindratenko,Chaowei Yang Pdf

This book explores the impact of augmenting novel architectural designs with hardware‐based application accelerators. The text covers comprehensive aspects of the applications in Geographic Information Science, remote sensing and deploying Modern Accelerator Technologies (MAT) for geospatial simulations and spatiotemporal analytics. MAT in GIS applications, MAT in remotely sensed data processing and analysis, heterogeneous processors, many-core and highly multi-threaded processors and general purpose processors are also presented. This book includes case studies and closes with a chapter on future trends. Modern Accelerator Technologies for GIS is a reference book for practitioners and researchers working in geographical information systems and related fields. Advanced-level students in geography, computational science, computer science and engineering will also find this book useful.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 974 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 1928
Category : Insurance
ISBN : UIUC:30112088122087

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Travelers Protection and Agent's Record by Anonim Pdf

Author : Marina De Vos,Nicoletta Fornara,Jeremy V. Pitt,George Vouros
Publisher : Springer
Page : 377 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2011-05-27
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9783642212680

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Coordination, Organizations, Institutions, and Norms in Agent Systems VI by Marina De Vos,Nicoletta Fornara,Jeremy V. Pitt,George Vouros Pdf

This book constitutes the thoroughly reviewed joint postprocessings of two international workshops on Coordination, Organization, Institutions and Norms in Agent Systems, COIN@AAMAS 2010, held in Toronto, Canada in May 2010 and COIN@MALLOW 2010, held in Lyon, France in August 2010. The 20 revised full papers presented went through several rounds of reviewing and revision and were carefully selected for presentations. The papers are organized in topical sections on normative systems design and modeling; social aspects; and norms at runtime: learning and enforcing.

Author : Trajkovski, Goran
Publisher : IGI Global
Page : 396 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2010-11-30
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9781609601737

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Developments in Intelligent Agent Technologies and Multi-Agent Systems: Concepts and Applications by Trajkovski, Goran Pdf

Developments in Intelligent Agent Technologies and Multi-Agent Systems: Concepts and Applications discusses research on emerging technologies and systems based on agent and multi-agent paradigms across various fields of science, engineering and technology. This book is a collection of work that covers conceptual frameworks, case studies, and analysis while serving as a medium of communication among researchers from academia, industry and government.

Author : Faye Summit
Publisher : Christian Faith Publishing, Inc.
Page : 449 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2021-05-07
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 9781098067304

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The Regions of Exordia by Faye Summit Pdf

A race before man was created to bring lives into the worlds. Instead, they erringly created beings that flooded the worlds with terrors and deaths. The race of Elysian hoped to end the decimated war between these formidable creations. Fortified realms were forged to bound them for their eternity in the Order of the Confinement. Locking away their biggest mistake. Then, us, the human, was created. Undeniably, we are bound in our physical world. But our ignorance of this confinement has destined ourselves into unescapable annihilation. Kacey, a scion of the Elysian was born amongst us. She was lured to traverse into the realms, disrupted the Order. The Elysian's ancient defense system had been triggered, when the realignment happens everything will return to the beginning, return to nothing. Will this be the end of mankind? And who is able to stop it?

Author : Adelinde M. Uhrmacher,Danny Weyns
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 632 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2018-10-08
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9781351834674

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Multi-Agent Systems by Adelinde M. Uhrmacher,Danny Weyns Pdf

Methodological Guidelines for Modeling and Developing MAS-Based Simulations The intersection of agents, modeling, simulation, and application domains has been the subject of active research for over two decades. Although agents and simulation have been used effectively in a variety of application domains, much of the supporting research remains scattered in the literature, too often leaving scientists to develop multi-agent system (MAS) models and simulations from scratch. Multi-Agent Systems: Simulation and Applications provides an overdue review of the wide ranging facets of MAS simulation, including methodological and application-oriented guidelines. This comprehensive resource reviews two decades of research in the intersection of MAS, simulation, and different application domains. It provides scientists and developers with disciplined engineering approaches to modeling and developing MAS-based simulations. After providing an overview of the field’s history and its basic principles, as well as cataloging the various simulation engines for MAS, the book devotes three sections to current and emerging approaches and applications. Simulation for MAS — explains simulation support for agent decision making, the use of simulation for the design of self-organizing systems, the role of software architecture in simulating MAS, and the use of simulation for studying learning and stigmergic interaction. MAS for Simulation — discusses an agent-based framework for symbiotic simulation, the use of country databases and expert systems for agent-based modeling of social systems, crowd-behavior modeling, agent-based modeling and simulation of adult stem cells, and agents for traffic simulation. Tools — presents a number of representative platforms and tools for MAS and simulation, including Jason, James II, SeSAm, and RoboCup Rescue. Complete with over 200 figures and formulas, this reference book provides the necessary overview of experiences with MAS simulation and the tools needed to exploit simulation in MAS for future research in a vast array of applications including home security, computational systems biology, and traffic management.

Author : D. Barbucha,M.T. Le,R.J. Howlett
Publisher : IOS Press
Page : 484 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2013-05-14
Category : COMPUTERS
ISBN : 9781614992547

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Advanced Methods and Technologies for Agent and Multi-Agent Systems by D. Barbucha,M.T. Le,R.J. Howlett Pdf

The field of agent and multi-agent systems is concerned with the development and evaluation of sophisticated, AI-based, problem solving and control architectures for both single and multi-agent systems. This book presents the proceedings of the 7th KES Conference on Agent and Multi-agent Systems – Technologies and Applications (KES-AMSTA 2013), held in Hue City, Vietnam, in May 2013. The KES-AMSTA 2013 conference provides an internationally respected forum for scientific research in the technologies and applications of agent and multi-agent systems. In all, 44 papers were selected for oral presentation and publication in this volume. Special attention is paid to the feature topics of intelligent technologies and applications in the area of e-health, social networking, self-organizing systems, economics and trust management. Other topics covered include: agent oriented software engineering; beliefs engineering; desires and intentions representation; agent cooperation, coordination, negotiation, organization and communication; distributed problem-solving; specification of agent communication languages; formalization of ontologies; and conversational agents. The book highlights new trends and challenges in agent and multi-agent research, and will be of interest to the research community working in the fields of artificial intelligence, collective computational intelligence, robotics, dialogue systems and, in particular, agent and multi-agent systems, technologies and applications.

Author : Mattias Skipper,Asbjø Steglich-Petersen
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 331 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2019-10-10
Category : Evidence
ISBN : 9780198829775

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Higher-Order Evidence by Mattias Skipper,Asbjø Steglich-Petersen Pdf

We often have reason to doubt our own ability to form rational beliefs, or to doubt that some particular belief of ours is rational. Perhaps we learn that a trusted friend disagrees with us about what our shared evidence supports. Or perhaps we learn that our beliefs have been afflicted bymotivated reasoning or by other cognitive biases. These are examples of higher-order evidence. While it may seem plausible that higher-order evidence should somehow impact our beliefs, it is less clear how and why. Normally, when evidence impacts our beliefs, it does so by virtue of speaking for oragainst the truth of theirs contents. But higher-order evidence does not directly concern the contents of the beliefs that they impact. In recent years, philosophers have become increasingly aware of the need to understand the nature and normative role of higher-order evidence. This is partly due tothe pervasiveness of higher-order evidence in human life, for example in the form of disagreement. But is has also become clear that higher-order evidence lies at the heart of a number of central epistemological debates, spanning from classical disputes between internalists and externalists to morerecent discussions of peer disagreement and epistemic akrasia. Many of the controversies within these and other debates stem, at least in part, from conflicting views about the normative significance of higher-order evidence.This volume brings together, for the first time, a distinguished group of leading and up-and-coming epistemologists to explore a wide range of interrelated issues about higher-order evidence.

Author : United States. Women's Bureau
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 524 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 1928
Category : Labor laws and legislation
ISBN : UIUC:30112104140071

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The Effects of Labor Legislation on the Employment Opportunities of Women by United States. Women's Bureau Pdf

Author : Paul Davidsson
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 275 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2005-03-07
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9783540252627

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Multi-Agent and Multi-Agent-Based Simulation by Paul Davidsson Pdf

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed postproceedings of the Joint International Workshop on Multi-Agent and Multi-Agent-Based Simulation, MABS 2004, held in New York, NY, USA in July 2004. The 20 revised full papers presented have gone through two rounds of reviewing, selection, and improvement; they present state-of-the-art research results in agent-based simulation and modeling. The papers are organized in topical sections on simulation of multi-agent systems, techniques and technologies, methodology and modeling, social dynamics, and application.

Author : Luis Gustavo Nardin,Luis Antunes
Publisher : Springer
Page : 155 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2017-10-03
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9783319674773

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Multi-Agent Based Simulation XVII by Luis Gustavo Nardin,Luis Antunes Pdf

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-conference proceedings of the 17th International Workshop on Multi-Agent-Based Simulation, MABs 2016, held in Singapore, in May 2016. The workshop was held in Conjunction with the 15th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems, AAMAS 2016. The 10 revised full papers included in this volume were carefully selected from 15 submissions. The topic of the papers is about modeling and analyzing multi-agent systems and applying agent-based simulation techniques to real-world problems, focusing on the confluence of socio-technical- natural sciences and multi-agents systems with a strong application/empirical vein. Special emphasis is given on exploratory agent-based simulation as a principled way of undertaking scientific research in the social sciences and on using social theories as an inspiration to new frameworks and developments in multi-agent systems.