By Yung C. Shin, Chengying Xu

£67.99   19 Nov 2008   Hardback   Taylor & Francis Ltd

Offering an introduction to the field of soft computing techniques, this book covers various major techniques in artificial intelligence. It highlights research and applications, addresses issues encountered in the development of applied systems, and describes a range of intelligent systems techniques.

Constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 3rd Asian Semantic Web Conference, ASWC 2008, held in Bankok, Thailand, in December 2008. This title includes papers that address the results in the research and applications of Semantic Web technologies and cover topics including: scalable reasoning and logic, ontology mapping, and ontologies and tags.

Constitutes the proceedings of the 4th International Symposium on Visual Computing, ISVC 2008, held in Las Vegas, NV, USA, in December 2008. This 2 volume set features papers organized in topical sections on computer graphics, visualization, shape/recognition, video analysis and event recognition, virtual reality, and computer vision applications.

Constitutes the refereed proceedings of the Second European Conference on Ambient Intelligence, AmI 2008, held in Nuremberg, Germany, in November 2008. This title includes the papers that are roughly classified into two groups on well-being and care, and mobility and logistics respectively.

Constitutes the proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Practical Aspects of Knowledge Management, PAKM 2008, held in Yokohama, Japan, in November 2008. This title organizes the papers in sections on knowledge sharing, collaboration platforms, content-oriented retrieval, knowledge acquisition, and knowledge management solutions.

£63.99   01 Nov 2008   Hardback   Springer-Verlag New York Inc.

A collection of technical articles that presents threads of modern robotics research. It also includes chapters that explore topics such as: mobile robots in extreme environments; autonomous spacecraft; the design of networked robotic systems; robotic grasping using inputs from vision systems; and a biomimetic approach to autonomous robot design.

£31.30   01 Nov 2008   Paperback   Focal Press

Offers information needed to learn the art of CG lighting.

By Witten, Ian H. Chakrabarti, Soumen Cox, Earl

£34.99   01 Nov 2008   Hardback   Morgan Kaufmann Publishers

Presenting the various elements of data mining, this book consolidates introductory and advanced topics, thereby covering the gamut of data mining and machine learning tactics from data integration and pre-processing, to fundamental algorithms, to optimization techniques and web mining methodology.

Contains papers organized in topical sections on graph-based methods, probabilistic and stochastic structural models for PR, image and video analysis, shape analysis, kernel methods, recognition and classification, applications, ensemble methods, feature selection, density estimation and clustering, and computer vision and biometrics.

Constitutes the proceedings of the 4th International Symposium on Visual Computing, ISVC 2008, held in Las Vegas, NV, USA, in December 2008. This title features papers organized in topical sections on computer graphics, visualization, shape/recognition, video analysis and event recognition, virtual reality, and computer vision applications.

Human Algorithms aim to model human forms, interactions, and dynamics in this new context. This book aims to reflect the developments of Digital Human Modeling, specifically emergent Human Algorithms. It provides 11 chapters that are divided into three parts: Human Dynamics, Virtual Humans and Human Forms.

£57.99   01 Nov 2008   Paperback   Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG

£84.00   01 Nov 2008   Paperback   Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG

Constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 10th Pacific Rim International Conference on Artificial Intelligence, PRICAI 2008, held in Hanoi, Vietnam, in December 2008. This book presents the papers that address various issues of modern AI research with topics such as AI foundations, knowledge representation, and evolutionary computation.

£51.99   01 Nov 2008   Hardback   Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG

Motivated learning is a research field in artificial intelligence and cognitive modeling research. This book covers the design, evaluation and application of computational models of motivation in reinforcement learning. It is suitable for researchers in artificial intelligence, machine learning and artificial life.

£181.00   01 Nov 2008   Paperback   Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG

£35.00   01 Nov 2008   Paperback   Springer London Ltd

Robots have been changing our lives for some decades. The scientific and industrial community have used them to investigate theoretical concepts of cognition, machine intelligence, and for inspection and exploration tasks. This title includes examples of modelling and analysing observed behaviour based on real-world robotics scenarios.

£85.99   01 Nov 2008   Hardback   Nova Science Publishers Inc

As a broad subfield of artificial intelligence, machine learning is concerned with the design and development of algorithms and techniques that allow computers to "learn". At a general level, there are two types of learning: inductive, and deductive. This book presents research in this field.

£47.99   01 Nov 2008   Paperback   Springer

How can environmental scientists and engineers use the increasing amount of available data to enhance our understanding of planet Earth, its systems and processes? This book describes various potential approaches based on artificial intelligence (AI) techniques, including neural networks, decision trees, genetic algorithms and fuzzy logic.

£79.00   01 Nov 2008   Hardback   Springer

How can environmental scientists and engineers use the increasing amount of available data to enhance our understanding of planet Earth, its systems and processes? This book describes various potential approaches based on artificial intelligence (AI) techniques, including neural networks, decision trees, genetic algorithms and fuzzy logic.

£71.00   01 Nov 2008   Hardback   Springer-Verlag New York Inc.

Focuses on an obstacle that is preventing the development of intelligent, autonomous robots - the gap between the ability to reason about the world and the ability to sense the world and translate that sensory data into a symbolic model.

£67.00   01 Nov 2008   Hardback   World Scientific Publishing Co Pte Ltd

Covers the problem in robot control, dealing with the direct interaction between a robot and a dynamic environment, including the human-robot physical interaction. This book provides comprehensive theoretical and experimental coverage of interaction control problems.

£67.00   01 Nov 2008   Hardback   World Scientific Publishing Co Pte Ltd

Suitable for researchers, technicians and graduate students, this book includes scientific papers that show a broad spectrum of actual research topics and techniques used to solve challenging problems in the areas of computer vision and image analysis.

£45.00   29 Oct 2008   Hardback   Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG

Humans are often extraordinary at performing practical reasoning. The human computer is sometimes faster than any artificial intelligence system. Are we faster because of the way we perceive knowledge as opposed to the way we represent it? This book addresses this question by presenting neural network models.

£35.00   25 Oct 2008   Paperback   Glenlake Publishing Co ,U.S.

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£120.57   16 Oct 2008   Multimedia Item   Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG

£107.95   15 Oct 2008   Hardback   IGI Global

Offers advancements in cognitive informatics and natural intelligence. This book covers the five areas of cognitive informatics, natural intelligence, autonomic computing, knowledge science, and relevant development. It is suitable for researchers, academicians, students, and practitioners.

£107.95   15 Oct 2008   Hardback   IGI Global

Contains research articles in artificial intelligence (AI). This book covers significant AI subjects such as information retrieval, conceptual modeling, supply chain demand forecasting, and machine learning algorithms.

£68.99   01 Oct 2008   Hardback   Springer

Presents theoretical and practical results about information theoretic methods used in the context of statistical learning. This book also presents a comprehensive overview of the large range of different methods that have been developed in a multitude of contexts.

By Ted, Dunstone Yager, Neil Dunstone, Ted

£59.00   01 Oct 2008   Hardback   Springer

By Schaeffer, Jonathan

£25.00   01 Oct 2008   Paperback   Springer

The new edition of this extraordinary book depicts the creation of the world champion checkers computer program, Chinook. In only two years, Chinook had become a worthy opponent to the world champion, and within four years had defeated all the world's top human players. Jonathan Schaeffer, the originator and leader of the Chinook team, details the mistakes and technical problems made and the lessons learned in the continuous effort to improve Chinook's performance, revealing the human factor behind the programa (TM)s design. The development of Chinook begins in 1988 as an innocent question asked over lunch and is followed to the final match against then world champion, Marion Tinsley, and ultimately to its recent triumph, solving checkers. Schaeffera (TM)s unwaveringly honest narrative features new anecdotes, updated material and technology descriptions, and additional photos and figures, providing an engrossing account of an obsessive quest to achieve perfection in computer checkers.

£79.00   01 Oct 2008   Hardback   Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG

£75.50   01 Oct 2008   Hardback   Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG

Present the work of the Intelligent Computer Graphics community. This volume contains papers from the last 3IA Conference (3IA'2008), together with an introduction presenting the area of Intelligent Computer Graphics and various Computer Graphics areas where introduction of intelligent techniques permitted to resolve important problems.

By Moshkov, Mikhail Ju Piliszczuk, Marcin Zielosko, Beata

£75.50   01 Oct 2008   Hardback   Springer

£103.00   01 Oct 2008   Hardback   Springer-Verlag, Austria

This is first book to fully address the disparate languages existing between computer scientists and neuro-pyschologists in the common field of artificial intelligence. It fosters the existing cooperation between engineers and neuro-psychoanalysts, which we call the fifth generation of artificial intelligence: The technical implementation of the neuro-psychoanalytical model for use in automation systems. Research in this direction is vital for future improvement of automation systems. Included are solicited contributions from leading experts in the fields of process automation, building automation, industry automation, (traditional) artificial intelligence, and neuro-psychoanalysis. This work is not about a behavior-prediction model or a statistical model about humansa (TM) behavior, but rather is focuses on a functional model of human mental functions. This approach seems to be most promising for creating machines with human-like intelligence in future times.

By Konstantinos Dalamagkidis, Kimon P. Valavanis, Les A. Piegl

£45.00   01 Oct 2008   Hardback   Kluwer Academic Publishers Group

Commercial interest for unmanned aircraft systems (UAS) has seen a steady increase over the last decade. Nevertheless, UAS operations have remained almost exclusively military. This is mainly due to the lack of a regulatory framework that allows only limited public and civil UAS operations with usually crippling restrictions. Although efforts from the Federal Aviation Administration and its partners are already underway to integrate UAS in the National Airspace System (NAS), the appropriate regulation will not be ready for several more years. In the meantime UAS developers need to be aware of the current operational restrictions, as well as make informed decisions on their research and development efforts so that their designs will be airworthy when the regulatory framework is in place.

This monograph aims to present an overview of current aviation regulation followed by an investigation of issues and factors that will affect future regulation.

By Pedro Domingos, Daniel Lowd

£22.50   15 Sep 2008   Paperback   Morgan & Claypool Publishers

Presents 20 refereed papers on the hot topics under research in different EU projects: legislative XML, legal ontologies, semantic web, search and meta-search engines, web services, system architecture, dialectic systems, dialogue games, multi-agent systems (MAS), legal argumentation, legal reasoning, e-justice, and online dispute resolution.

£41.50   03 Sep 2008   Paperback   Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG

Presents an examination of mobile robots and embedded systems, from introductory to intermediate level. This book deals with Embedded Systems (hardware and software design, actuators, sensors, PID control, multitasking), Mobile Robot Design (driving, balancing, walking, and flying robots), and Mobile Robot Applications.

£100.00   01 Sep 2008   Hardback   Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG

The issue of linkage in GEAs has garnered recognition from researchers. Conventional approaches that rely much on ad hoc tweaking of parameters to control the search by balancing the level of exploitation and exploration are grossly inadequate. This title presents a work which shows that such parameters tweaking based approaches have their limits.

£21.95   01 Sep 2008   Paperback   Springer

Dieses Buch gibt eine EinfA1/4hrung in die Bildanalyse. Es werden neben der eigentlichen digitalen Bildverarbeitung auch die Objekterkennung in Bildern sowie die dreidimensionale Bildinterpretation behandelt. Die beiden letzten Gebiete spielen unter anderen in der autonomen mobilen Robotik eine wichtige Rolle.

Folgende Themen werden behandelt: Bildverarbeitung, Morphologische Bildoperationen, Bildsegmentierung, Berechnung von Objektmerkmalen, Klassifikation, Dreidimensionale Bildinterpretation, Bewegungsanalyse aus Bildfolgen.

Zahlreiche Aoebungsaufgaben helfen, den Stoff zu vertiefen; viele detaillierte Abbildungen illustrieren das Gesagte.

£75.50   01 Sep 2008   Hardback   Springer

Captures 20 of the papers presented at the 9th ACIS International Conference on Software Engineering, Artificial Intelligence, Networking, and Parallel/Distributed Computing, held in Phuket Thailand on August 6-8, 2008 conference's most promising papers.

£77.00   01 Sep 2008   Hardback   Springer

£59.00   01 Sep 2008   Hardback   Springer

£55.00   01 Sep 2008   Hardback   Springer London Ltd

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By Zarri, Gian Piero

£49.50   01 Sep 2008   Hardback   Springer

By DasGupta, Dipankar Nino, Fernando DasGupta, D.

£62.99   01 Sep 2008   Hardback   Auerbach Publication

Presents immunity-based computational techniques. After a brief review of fundamental immunology concepts, this book presents computational models based on the negative selection process that occurs in the thymus. It examines immune networks, including continuous and discrete immune network models, clonal selection, and hybrid models.

By Siddiqi, Kaleem Pizer, Stephen

£56.50   01 Sep 2008   Hardback   Springer

The last half century has seen the development of many biological or physical theories that have explicitly or implicitly involved medial descriptions of objects and other spatial entities in our world. Simultaneously mathematicians have studied the properties of these skeletal descriptions of shape, and, stimulated by the many areas where medial models are useful, computer scientists and engineers have developed numerous algorithms for computing and using these models.

The book consists of an introductory chapter, two chapters on the major mathematical results on medial representations, five chapters on algorithms for extracting medial models from boundary or binary image descriptions of objects, and three chapters on applications in image analysis and other areas of study and design. This book will serve the science and engineering communities using medial models and will provide learning material for students entering this field.

By Goertzel, Ben Ikle, Matthew Goertzel, Izabela Lyon Freire

£77.00   01 Sep 2008   Hardback   Springer

This book describes Probabilistic Logic Networks (PLN), a novel conceptual, mathematical and computational approach to uncertain inference. In order to carry out effective reasoning in real-world circumstances, AI software must be able to robustly handle uncertainty. However, previous approaches to uncertain inference are overly limited, without the breadth of scope required to provide an integrated treatment of the various forms of cognitively critical uncertainty as they manifest themselves within the various forms of cognitively critical inference. Going beyond prior probabilistic approaches to uncertain inference, PLN has the ability to encompass within uncertain logic such ideas as induction, abduction, analogy, fuzziness and speculation, and reasoning about time and causality. The bulk of the book reviews the conceptual and mathematical foundations of PLN, giving the specific algebra involved in each type of inference encompassed within PLN.

£118.50   01 Sep 2008   Paperback   Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG

Scientists have applied the principles of complex systems science to diverse fields. Their novel approaches have provided answers to long-standing questions in biology, ecology, physics, engineering, computer science, economics, psychology and sociology. This work documents and archives the progress of cross-fertilization in this field.

By George F. Luger

£49.99   28 Aug 2008   Paperback   Pearson Education (US)

£134.50   27 Aug 2008   Hardback   Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG

£79.00   27 Aug 2008   Hardback   Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG

Represents the peer-reviewed proceedings of the Second International Symposium on Intelligent Distributed Computing - IDC 2008 held in Catania, Italy during September 18-19, 2008. This book addresses topics related to intelligent and distributed computing, systems and applications, including: argumentation; auctions; and, collaborative systems.

Interaction with computers is ever-changing. This book aims to give an overview on the developments in the field, by addressing theoretical foundations, emotion and affect as input, as well as output, together with user experience studies, usability and design issues.

Constitutes the proceedings of the 9th European Conference on Case-Based Reasoning, ECCBR 2008, held in Trier, Germany, in September 2008. This book presents 34 research papers and 5 application papers with 3 invited talks which were reviewed and selected from 71 submissions.

Constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Knowledge-Based Intelligent Information and Engineering Systems, KES 2008, held in Zagreb, Croatia, in September 2008. This volume covers artificial intelligence driven engineering design optimization; communicative intelligence; and, intelligent computing for Grid.

Constitutes the proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Knowledge-Based Intelligent Information and Engineering Systems, KES 2008, held in Zagreb, Croatia, in September 2008. This volume covers topics such as artificial neural networks and connectionists systems; fuzzy and neuro-fuzzy systems; and, evolutionary computation.

Constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Knowledge-Based Intelligent Information and Engineering Systems, KES 2008, held in Zagreb, Croatia, in September 2008. This volume covers topics such as intelligent data processing in process systems and plants; and, neural information processing for data mining.

By Tsau Young Lin, Ying Xie, Anita Wasilewska, Churn-Jung Liau (Academica Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan)

£134.50   14 Aug 2008   Hardback   Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Natural Language Processing, GoTAL 2008, Gothenburg, Sweden, August 2008.

The 44 revised full papers presented together with 3 invited talks were carefully reviewed and selected from 107 submissions. The papers address all current issues in computational linguistics and monolingual and multilingual intelligent language processing - theory, methods and applications.

£50.50   08 Aug 2008   Hardback   John Wiley and Sons Ltd

A self-evolving neural net automatically generates network architectures to best perform the task at hand. Addressing the problem of self-evolving neural networks, this work examines a generation of neural networks for pattern classification.

By Jensen, Rich Jensen, Richard Shen, Qiang

£57.95   01 Aug 2008   Hardback   IEEE Computer Society Press

Offers the background and fundamental ideas behind feature selection with an emphasis on those techniques based on rough and fuzzy sets, including their hybridizations. This title introduces set theory, fuzzy set theory, rough set theory, and fuzzy-rough set theory.

£32.00   01 Aug 2008   Hardback   World Scientific Publishing Co Pte Ltd

Presents minimal equational axiom-systems for various lattice-related algebras, regardless of whether they are given in terms of 'join and meet' or other types of operations such as ternary operations.

£143.00   01 Aug 2008   Paperback   Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-conference proceedings of the Third International Conference on Topic Map Research and Applications, TMRA 2007, held in Leipzig, Germany in October 2007.

The 16 revised full papers and 4 revised short papers presented together with 1 invited paper and 1 keynote lecture were carfully reviewed and selected from 44 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on applied topic maps in industry and administration, visualisation and representation of topic maps, collaborative applications, standards related research, information integration with topic maps, social software with topic maps, topic maps engines, topic maps and dublin core, information management with topic maps, as well as open space and poster sessions.

£61.50   01 Aug 2008   Paperback   Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG

£100.00   01 Aug 2008   Hardback   Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG

The purpose of this book is to provide an overview of powerful state-of-the-art methodologies that are currently utilized for biomedicine and/ or bioinformatics-oriented applications, so that researchers working in those fields could learn of new methods to help them tackle their problems. On the other hand, the CI community will find this book useful by discovering a new and intriguing area of applications. In order to help fill the gap between the scientists on both sides of this spectrum, the editors have solicited contributions from researchers actively applying computational intelligence techniques to important problems in biomedicine and bioinformatics.

£75.50   01 Aug 2008   Hardback   Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG

The 6th ACIS International Conference on Software Engineering, Research, Management and Applications (SERA 2008) was held in Prague in the Czech Republic on August 20 a" 22. SERA a (TM)08 featured excellent theoretical and practical contributions in the areas of formal methods and tools, requirements engineering, software process models, communication systems and networks, software quality and evaluation, software engineering, networks and mobile computing, parallel/distributed computing, software testing, reuse and metrics, database retrieval, computer security, software architectures and modeling. Our conference officers selected the best 17 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 or the program committee, and underwent further rounds of rigorous review.

By Philipp Limbourg

£77.00   01 Aug 2008   Hardback   Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG

By Blay Whitby

£9.99   01 Aug 2008   Paperback   Oneworld Publications

Covers what from nanotechnology used to make insect-like robots, to the computers that perform surgery and, reminiscent of films like "Terminator", computers that can learn by teaching themselves. This book reveals the pervasive impact of AI on our daily lives.

By Ron Alterovitz, Ken Goldberg

£61.50   29 Jul 2008   Hardback   Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG

The monograph written by Ron Alterovitz and Ken Goldberg combines ideas from robotics, physically-based modeling, and operations research to develop new motion planning and optimization algorithms for image-guided medical procedures. A challenge clinicians commonly face is compensating for errors caused by soft tissue deformations that occur when imaging devices or surgical tools physically contact soft tissue. A number of methods are presented which can be applied to a variety of medical procedures, from biopsies to anaesthesia injections to radiation cancer treatment. They can also be extended to address problems outside the context of medical robotics, including nonholonomic motion planning for mobile robots in field or manufacturing environments.

£75.50   28 Jul 2008   Hardback   Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG

£119.00   25 Jul 2008   Hardback   Springer

£150.00   18 Jul 2008   Hardback   John Wiley and Sons Ltd

Includes chapters covering the foundations of granular computing, interval analysis and fuzzy set theory; hybrid methods and models of granular computing; and, applications and case studies. This work starts with the concepts and motivation and proceeds to design that materializes in specific algorithms, applications and case studies.

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-proceedings of the 8th International Workshop on Multi-Agent-Based Simulation, MABS 2007, held in Honolulu, HI, USA in May 2007 as an associated event of AAMAS 2007, the main international conference on autonomous agents and multi-agent systems.

The 10 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 20 submissions.The papers are organized in topical sections on architectures; teams, learning, education; economy, trust and reputation.

£99.00   15 Jul 2008   Hardback   IGI Global

Offers technologies and practices in intelligence for distributed systems, and covers major aspects of the agent based systems. This book is suitable for those striving to enhance their understanding of distributed knowledge management and extend their ideas of cooperation using for numerous real-world problems.

£29.99   15 Jul 2008   Paperback   Jones and Bartlett Publishers, Inc

£30.00   09 Jul 2008   Paperback   Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG

By John S. Gero, Ashok K. Goel

£107.34   01 Jul 2008   Multimedia Item   Kluwer Academic Publishers Group

By Ekbia, H. R. Ekbia, Hamid R.

£38.00   01 Jul 2008   Hardback   Cambridge University Press

Uncovers the hidden assumptions about Artificial Intelligence, penetrating deeply into the inner workings of models and systems.

By Hamid R. Ekbia

£14.99   01 Jul 2008   Paperback   Cambridge University Press

Uncovers the hidden assumptions about Artificial Intelligence, penetrating deeply into the inner workings of models and systems.

By Omar Javed, Mubarak Shah

£60.00   01 Jul 2008   Hardback   Springer-Verlag New York Inc.

By Johnston, John

£25.95   01 Jul 2008   Hardback   MIT Press (MA)

Presents an account of the creation of various forms of life and intelligence in cybernetics, artificial life, and artificial intelligence that analyzes both the similarities and the differences among these sciences in actualizing life.

By Eduardo Massad, Neli R.S. Ortega, Laecio C. Barros, Claudio J. Struchiner

£98.00   01 Jul 2008   Hardback   Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG

£98.00   01 Jul 2008   Hardback   Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG

By Wolter, Diedrich

£61.50   01 Jul 2008   Hardback   Springer

This book addresses spatial representations and reasoning techniques for mobile robot mapping, providing an analysis of fundamental representations and processes involved. A spatial representation based on shape information is proposed and shape analysis techniques are developed to tackle the correspondence problem in robot mapping. A general mathematical formulation is presented to provide the formal ground for an efficient matching of configurations of objects.

This book constitutes the proceedings of the 11th RoboCup International Symposium, held in Atlanta, GA, USA, in July 2007, immediately after the 2007 RoboCupSoccer, RoboCupRescue and RoboCupJunior Competitions. Papers presented at the symposium focused on topics related to these three events and to artificial intelligence and robotics in general.

The 18 revised full papers and 42 revised poster papers included in the book were selected from 133 submissions. Each paper was reviewed by at least three program committee members. The program committee also nominated two papers for the Best Paper and Best Student Paper awards, respectively.

The book provides a valuable source of reference and inspiration for R&D professionals and educationalists active or interested in robotics and artificial intelligence.

£143.00   01 Jul 2008   Paperback   Springer

As the medical information systems have been integrated in order to address the core of medicine, including patient care in ambulatory and in-patient setting, computer assisted diagnosis and treatment, telemedicine, and home care we are witnessing radical changes in the Information Technologies. This will continue in the years to come. This book presents a comprehensive study in this field and contains carefully selected articles contributed by experts of information technologies. It is an interdisciplinary collection of papers that have both a theoretical and applied dimension. In particular, it includes the following sections: - Image Processing and CAD, - Signal Processing, - Biotechnology, - Data Analysis, - Multimedia, - Biomechanics.

This book is a great reference tool for scientists who deal with problems of designing and implementing information processing tools employed in systems that assist the clinicians in patient diagnosis and treatment.

By David J. Livingstone

£61.50   01 Jul 2008   Hardback   Humana Press Inc.,U.S.

As an extension of artificial intelligence research, artificial neural networks (ANN) aim to simulate intelligent behavior by mimicking the way that biological neural networks function. In Artificial Neural Networks, an international panel of experts report the history of the application of ANN to chemical and biological problems, provide a guide to network architectures, training and the extraction of rules from trained networks, and cover many cutting-edge examples of the application of ANN to chemistry and biology. In the tradition of the highly successful Methods in Molecular Biologya"[ series, this volume exhibits clear, easy-to-use information with many step-by-step laboratory protocols.

Comprehensive and state-of-the-art, Artificial Neural Networks is an excellent guide to this accelerating technological field of study.

£16.46   01 Jul 2008   Paperback   Springer

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-workshop proceedings of the 5th International Workshop on Agents and Peer-to-Peer Computing, AP2PC 2006, held in Hakodate, Japan, in May 2006, in the context of the 5th International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems, AAMAS 2006.

The 10 revised full papers and 6 revised short papers presented together with 1 invited paper were carefully reviewed and selected from 23 submissions; they are fully revised to incorporate reviewers' comments and discussions at the workshop. The volume is organized in topical sections on P2P Infrastructure, agents in P2P, P2P search, and applications.

By Pavel Brazdil, Christophe Giraud-Carrier, Carlos Soares, Ricardo Vilalta

£49.00   01 Jul 2008   Hardback   Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Image Analysis and Recognition, ICIAR 2008, held in PA3voa do Varzim, Portugal, in June 2008.

The 110 revised full papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 226 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on image restoration and enhancement, image and video segmentation, non-linear image processing, image and video coding and encryption, indexing and retrieval, computer vision, feature extraction and classification, shape representation and matching, object recognition, character recognition, texture and motion analysis, tracking, biomedical image analysis, biometrics, face recognition, and a special session on recent advances in multimodal biometric systems and applications.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Soft Computing, ICAISC 2006, held in Zakopane, Poland, in June 2006.

The 128 revised contributed papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 400 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on neural networks and their applications, fuzzy systems and their applications, evolutionary algorithms and their applications, rough sets, classification and clustering, image analysis and robotics, bioinformatics and medical applications, various problems of artificial intelligence.

By B. Chanda C. a. Murthy

£50.00   01 Jul 2008   Hardback   World Scientific Publishing Company

Deals with several key aspects of developing technologies in information processing systems. This book explains various problems related to advanced image processing systems and describes some of the techniques in solving them. It covers the advances in image and video processing with real-life applications.

£98.00   01 Jul 2008   Hardback   Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG

Artists and creators in interactive art and interaction design have long been conducting research on human-machine interaction. Through artistic, conceptual, social and critical projects, they have shown how interactive digital processes are essential elements for their artistic creations. Resulting prototypes have often reached beyond the art arena into areas such as mobile computing, intelligent ambiences, intelligent architecture, fashionable technologies, ubiquitous computing and pervasive gaming. Many of the early artist-developed interactive technologies have influenced new design practices, products and services of today's media society. This book brings together key theoreticians and practitioners of this fields. It shows how historically relevant the issues of interaction and interface design are, as they can be analyzed not only from an engineering point of view but from a social, artistic and conceptual, and even commercial angle as well.

By Margaret Boden

£50.00   19 Jun 2008   Paperback   Oxford University Press

Cognitive science is the project of understanding the mind by modelling its workings. Its development is one of the most remarkable and fascinating intellectual achievements of the modern era. Mind as Machine is a masterful history of cognitive science, told by one of its most eminent practitioners.

By Minoru Asada, John C.T. Hallam, Jean-Arcady Meyer, Jun Tani

£48.84   18 Jun 2008   Paperback   Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG

£130.50   18 Jun 2008   Hardback   Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG