Archeologia E Calcolatori Supplemento 6 2014 Archeosema Artificial Adaptive Systems For The Analysis Of Complex Phenomena Collected Papers In Honour Of David Leonard Clarke

Author : Marco Ramazzotti
Publisher : All’Insegna del Giglio
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2014-01-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9788878146082

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Archeologia e Calcolatori, Supplemento 6, 2014. ARCHEOSEMA. Artificial Adaptive Systems for the Analysis of Complex Phenomena. Collected Papers in Honour of David Leonard Clarke by Marco Ramazzotti Pdf

ARCHEOSEMA, a meta-disciplinary project of theoretical, analytical and experimental archaeology, has been recently awarded by La Sapienza University of Rome. The project title is an acronym which sums up its two main theoretical foundations: the openness of modern archaeology (ARCHEO) to the analysis of physical, historical, linguistic signs (SEMA) underlying natural and cultural systems reconstructed and simulated through Artificial Sciences. This volume edited by Marco Ramazzotti, a Supplement to «Archeologia e Calcolatori», is a Special Issue dedicated to the memory of the English archaeologist David Leonard Clarke (1937-1976), and is a further attempt to collect some applicative studies of complex natural and cultural phenomena following the Artificial Intelligence computational models through the lens of Analytical Archaeology.

Author : Vanessa Bigot Juloux,Amy Rebecca Gansell,Alessandro Di Ludovico
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 486 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2018-08-07
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789004375086

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CyberResearch on the Ancient Near East and Neighboring Regions by Vanessa Bigot Juloux,Amy Rebecca Gansell,Alessandro Di Ludovico Pdf

CyberResearch on the Ancient Near East and Neighboring Regions is now available on PaperHive! PaperHive is a new free web service that offers a platform to authors and readers to collaborate and discuss, using already published research. Please visit the platform to join the conversation. CyberResearch on the Ancient Near East and Neighboring Regions provides case studies on archaeology, objects, cuneiform texts, and online publishing, digital archiving, and preservation. Eleven chapters present a rich array of material, spanning the fifth through the first millennium BCE, from Anatolia, the Levant, Mesopotamia, and Iran. Customized cyber- and general glossaries support readers who lack either a technical background or familiarity with the ancient cultures. Edited by Vanessa Bigot Juloux, Amy Rebecca Gansell, and Alessandro Di Ludovico, this volume is dedicated to broadening the understanding and accessibility of digital humanities tools, methodologies, and results to Ancient Near Eastern Studies. Ultimately, this book provides a model for introducing cyber-studies to the mainstream of humanities research.

Author : Paul Taylor
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
ISBN : UOM:39015064131355

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The Iconography of Cylinder Seals by Paul Taylor Pdf

The essays in the volume study various aspects of the iconography of cylinder seals from the Akkadian period to the Neo-Assyrian period, from Mesopotamia to Hittite Anatolia. The authors deal mostly with concrete cases, including themes such as warfare, the sacred tree, fish and the god Ninurta. An introduction discusses the problems involved in interpreting iconography with few or no texts, and the volume is opened by a memorial of Henri Frankfort, second Director of the Institute, by his successor J. B. Trapp. The illustrations include a wide range of seal impressions. The book will be of interest to archaeologists and art historians of the ancient Near East, and to comparative iconologists. It was first published in 2006, and quickly sold out (ISBN-10: 0854811354). A limited number of volumes have been reprinted in 2018 for interested specialists (ISBN-13: 978-0-85481-135-9).

Author : Julianne Nyhan,Andrew Flinn
Publisher : Springer
Page : 285 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2016-11-23
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9783319201702

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Computation and the Humanities by Julianne Nyhan,Andrew Flinn Pdf

This book addresses the application of computing to cultural heritage and the discipline of Digital Humanities that formed around it. Digital Humanities research is transforming how the Human record can be transmitted, shaped, understood, questioned and imagined and it has been ongoing for more than 70 years. However, we have no comprehensive histories of its research trajectory or its disciplinary development. The authors make a first contribution towards remedying this by uncovering, documenting, and analysing a number of the social, intellectual and creative processes that helped to shape this research from the 1950s until the present day. By taking an oral history approach, this book explores questions like, among others, researchers’ earliest memories of encountering computers and the factors that subsequently prompted them to use the computer in Humanities research. Computation and the Humanities will be an essential read for cultural and computing historians, digital humanists and those interested in developments like the digitisation of cultural heritage and artefacts. This book is open access under a CC BY-NC 2.5 license

Author : Marilyn Deegan,Kathryn Sutherland
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 218 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2016-02-24
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781317007906

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Transferred Illusions by Marilyn Deegan,Kathryn Sutherland Pdf

This is a study of the forms and institutions of print - newspapers, books, scholarly editions, publishing, libraries - as they relate to and are changed by emergent digital forms and institutions. In the early 1990s hypertext was briefly hailed as a liberating writing tool for non-linear creation. Fast forward no more than a decade, and we are reading old books from screens. It is, however, the newspaper, for around two hundred years print's most powerful mass vehicle, whose economy persuasively shapes its electronic remediation through huge digitization initiatives, dominated by a handful of centralizing service providers, funded and wrapped round by online advertising. The error is to assume a culture of total replacement. The Internet is just another information space, sharing characteristics that have always defined such spaces - wonderfully effective and unstable, loaded with valuable resources and misinformation; that is, both good and bad. This is why it is important that writers, critics, publishers and librarians - in modern parlance, the knowledge providers - be critically engaged in shaping and regulating cyberspace, and not merely the passive instruments or unreflecting users of the digital tools in our hands.

Author : Marco Iamoni
Publisher : Harrassowitz
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : Copper age
ISBN : 3447106905

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Trajectories of Complexity by Marco Iamoni Pdf

This volume is the result of a workshop that was organised by Salam Al-Quntar and the editor of the present proceedings on June 11, 2014 during the 9th International Congress on the Archaeology of the Ancient Near East (ICAANE) in Basel, Switzerland. The workshop?s aim was to stimulate colleagues studying the Neolithic and Chalcolithic periods in Mesopotamia to present papers investigating the development of human societies during the 6th?4th millennia BC in Upper Mesopotamia. Of specific interest was the analysis of the ?socio-economic complexity? phenomenon. The ten contributions that compose the volume propose conclusions that go beyond such rigid subdivisions. Many of them present the most recent data from key research projects currently ongoing in Upper Mesopotamia. Therefore this volume offers an updated view of the crucial changes that characterised the region throughout the Neolithic and Chalcolithic periods.

Author : Lou Burnard,Katherine O'Brien O'Keeffe,John Unsworth
Publisher : Modern Language Assn of Amer
Page : 419 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0873529707

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Electronic Textual Editing by Lou Burnard,Katherine O'Brien O'Keeffe,John Unsworth Pdf

The long history of textual editing and scholarship has been intimately involved with the physique of the book, which set limits on the presentation and study of text. Increasingly, since the 1980s, the written word has taken on a digital form, and the shift from codex to computer, from print to electronic media, creates new opportunities - and new difficulties. This volume offers an emerging consensus about the fundamental issues of electronic textual editing. It provides practical advice and faces theoretical questions. Its twenty-four essays deal with markup coding and procedures, electronic archive administration, use of standards (such as Unicode), rights and permissions, and the changing and challenging environment of the Internet. Some of the specific texts discussed are Greek and Latin inscriptions, the Gospel of John, the Canterbury Tales, William Blake's poems and art, Percy Bysshe Shelley's The Devil's Walk, Stijn Streuvels's De teleurgang van den Waterhoek, Ludwig Wittgenstein's Nachlass, and the papers of Thomas Edison. The guidelines of the MLA's Committee on Scholarly Editions, recently revised to address electronic editions, are included in full. The CD accompanying this volume contains the complete text of the Text Encoding Initiative guidelines (P4 edition) in both HTML and PDF formats.

Author : Paolo Massimo Buscema,William J. Tastle
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 522 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2012-11-28
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789400749146

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Intelligent Data Mining in Law Enforcement Analytics by Paolo Massimo Buscema,William J. Tastle Pdf

This book provides a thorough summary of the means currently available to the investigators of Artificial Intelligence for making criminal behavior (both individual and collective) foreseeable, and for assisting their investigative capacities. The volume provides chapters on the introduction of artificial intelligence and machine learning suitable for an upper level undergraduate with exposure to mathematics and some programming skill or a graduate course. It also brings the latest research in Artificial Intelligence to life with its chapters on fascinating applications in the area of law enforcement, though much is also being accomplished in the fields of medicine and bioengineering. Individuals with a background in Artificial Intelligence will find the opening chapters to be an excellent refresher but the greatest excitement will likely be the law enforcement examples, for little has been done in that area. The editors have chosen to shine a bright light on law enforcement analytics utilizing artificial neural network technology to encourage other researchers to become involved in this very important and timely field of study.

Author : Massimo Buscema,Marina Ruggieri
Publisher : River Publishers
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2011-03
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9788792329578

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Advanced Networks, Algorithms and Modeling for Earthquake Prediction by Massimo Buscema,Marina Ruggieri Pdf

Imagination depicts earthquakes as a mysterious and magic matter. However, as scientists and technical experts, we do have to consider them also from a different perspective: they are naturalphenomena that evolve with time and depend on a number of variables. Their modeling can help us to reply to the simplest and - at the same time - the most complex question: are earthquakes predictable? In case the answer is affirmative, what could be the role of the extremely mature Information and Communication Technology (ICT) in setting up an effective prediction process? How Artificial Intelligence Algorithms can contribute to the picture? The book presents our vision about the above matter. The book is organized in three parts. Part 1 frames the possible use of ICT and Artificial Intelligence in dealing with earthquake-related Disaster Ahead Management (DAM). Part 2 presents modeling tools for the earthquake issue and proposes possible ICT tools for supporting the earthquake DAM. Part 3 presents an experimental network for earthquake DAM based on communications and navigation (GNSS) tools.

Author : Leandro Nunes de Castro
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 674 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2006-06-02
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9781420011449

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Fundamentals of Natural Computing by Leandro Nunes de Castro Pdf

Natural computing brings together nature and computing to develop new computational tools for problem solving; to synthesize natural patterns and behaviors in computers; and to potentially design novel types of computers. Fundamentals of Natural Computing: Basic Concepts, Algorithms, and Applications presents a wide-ranging survey of novel techniqu

Author : J. C. Gardin
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2009-06-18
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0521109388

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Archaeological Constructs by J. C. Gardin Pdf

Archaeology, like all scientific disciplines, is accumulating an ever-increasing volume of data which the researcher must be able to retrieve and use in formulating and testing theories of interpretation. There are many practical questions of how information can best be recorded, stored and disseminated, but behind these lie fundamental intellectual questions. It is to the latter that Jean-Claude Gardin addresses this book. The advent of data banks, computers, micro-publishing, etc. will not in itself improve the access of the researcher to information of real value unless some consensus can be reached on the way the information is selected and presented and the reasoning processes that these different modes of presentation embody. Jean-Claude Gardin sees this as a long-term goal, the book as one step on the way to its achievement.

Author : Heinz von Foerster
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 364 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2007-05-08
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9780387217222

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Understanding Understanding by Heinz von Foerster Pdf

In these ground-breaking essays, Heinz von Foerster discusses some of the fundamental principles that govern how we know the world and how we process the information from which we derive that knowledge. The author was one of the founders of the science of cybernetics.

Author : Desmond Paul Henry
Publisher : Manchester University Press
Page : 366 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 1984
Category : First philosophy
ISBN : 0719009472

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Quaestio Subtilissima by Desmond Paul Henry Pdf

Author : Arthur Frederick Parker-Rhodes
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 1978
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : UCAL:B4350669

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Inferential Semantics by Arthur Frederick Parker-Rhodes Pdf

Author : D. Hestenes
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 716 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2005-12-17
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780306471223

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New Foundations for Classical Mechanics by D. Hestenes Pdf

(revised) This is a textbook on classical mechanics at the intermediate level, but its main purpose is to serve as an introduction to a new mathematical language for physics called geometric algebra. Mechanics is most commonly formulated today in terms of the vector algebra developed by the American physicist J. Willard Gibbs, but for some applications of mechanics the algebra of complex numbers is more efficient than vector algebra, while in other applications matrix algebra works better. Geometric algebra integrates all these algebraic systems into a coherent mathematical language which not only retains the advantages of each special algebra but possesses powerful new capabilities. This book covers the fairly standard material for a course on the mechanics of particles and rigid bodies. However, it will be seen that geometric algebra brings new insights into the treatment of nearly every topic and produces simplifications that move the subject quickly to advanced levels. That has made it possible in this book to carry the treatment of two major topics in mechanics well beyond the level of other textbooks. A few words are in order about the unique treatment of these two topics, namely, rotational dynamics and celestial mechanics.