04/08/2010 - Yet another evolving creature claims basic intelligence
30/06/2010 - Agent Learning Explained
 | Machine-learning Techniques for Agents and Multi-agent Systems By Eduardo Alonso £70.50 30 Jun 2010 Audio-Visual / Multimedia Item John Wiley and Sons Ltd Bridges the gap between two communities that could have an impact on each other if techniques and knowledge were properly shared between them. They are the Artificial Intelligence Machine Learning community and the Software Agent community. |
30/06/2010 - Agent Learning Explained
| Machine-learning Techniques for Agents and Multi-agent Systems By Eduardo Alonso £60.00 30 Jun 2010 Hardback John Wiley and Sons Ltd Bridges the gap between two communities - the Artificial Intelligence Machine Learning community and the Software Agent community - that could have an impact on each other if techniques were properly shared between them. This book provides a tutorial-style reference on how to apply techniques from each discipline to solve common problems. |
30/06/2010 - Complex Systems: Adaptive Hierarchy Cont
| Adaptive Hierarchy Cont By GODBOLE LYGER, OS SASTRY £55.99 30 Jun 2010 Hardback Pearson Education Limited |
25/06/2010 - Agent and Multi-agent Technology for Internet and Enterprise Systems
| By Anne Hakansson, Ronald Hartung, Ngoc Thanh Nguyen £117.00 25 Jun 2010 Hardback Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG Research in multi-agent systems offers a promising technology for problems with networks, online trading and negotiations but also social structures and communication. This book focuses on agent and multi-agent technology for internet and enterprise systems. |
01/06/2010 - Advances in Intelligent Information and Database Systems
| By Ngoc Thanh Nguyen, Radoslaw Katarzyniak, Shyi-Ming Chen £117.00 01 Jun 2010 Hardback Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG Contains 32 chapters which have been based on selected submissions to the poster session organized during the 2nd Asian Conference on Intelligent Information and Database Systems (24-26 March 2010 in Hue, Vietnam). This book discusses theoretical and practical issues related to integration of artificial intelligence and database technologies. |
01/06/2010 - Introduction to Predictive Learning
| By Vladimir Cherkassky, Yunqian Ma £69.99 01 Jun 2010 Hardback Springer-Verlag New York Inc. Suitable for undergraduate students and practitioners, this book adopts the conceptual framework developed in Vapnik-Chervonenkis (VC) theory, focusing on the methodological and practical aspects of VC-theory rather than its technical details. |
30/05/2010 - Cuckoo Search Algorithm
28/05/2010 - Audience, Relevance, and Search
| Targeting Web Audiences with Relevant Content By James Mathewson, Frank Donatone, Cynthia Fishel £28.99 28 May 2010 Paperback Pearson Education (US) |
28/05/2010 - Artificial Intelligence
| A Modern Approach By Stuart Russell, Peter Norvig £51.99 28 May 2010 Paperback Pearson Education (US) For one or two-semester, undergraduate or graduate-level courses in Artificial Intelligence. The long-anticipated revision of this best-selling text offers the most comprehensive, up-to-date introduction to the theory and practice of artificial intelligence. View chapters 3 and 4 from the Third Edition. |
15/05/2010 - Nanotechnology and Microelectronics
| Global Diffusion, Economics and Policy By Ndubuisi Ekekwe £136.95 15 May 2010 Hardback IGI Global Presents case studies on the issues surrounding technology transfer and diffusion, trends and developments, and economics and policies as they relate to these technologies. This book is suitable for academics, students, policy-makers and professionals interested in advancing their knowledge of nanotechnology and microelectronics. |
15/05/2010 - Novel Developments in Granular Computing
| Applications for Advanced Human Reasoning and Soft Computation By JingTao Yao £136.95 15 May 2010 Hardback IGI Global Analyzes developments and trends of granular computing, reviewing some of the most influential research and predicting future trends. This book presents a comprehensive summary of existing practices, and enhances understanding on human reasoning. |
13/05/2010 - Household Robot Killers?
The results were not very reassuring, to say the least. The scientists equipped a robot arm with different tools and programmed it to strike objects, like silicone lumps or limbs from a dead pig, in order to simulate damage on a human body. The “weapons” were common, yet dangerous tools, like kitchen knives, screwdrivers and scissors - you know, things you’d need any helper to learn how to use around the house. The first series of tests were conducted without any safety devices, and the robot arm, which weighted 14kg (30 pounds), not only made a number of mistakes, it even dealt some lethal blows.
It serves to show the dangers of working alongside these not-so-gentle assistants, and that very serious accidents can happen quite easily. Although the level of danger depends on each specific prototype, researchers are convinced all robots need a safety system installed which would improve precision and tell the robot when to stop. Such a system was also tested out, which uses torque sensors to detect when the robot is coming close to striking the wrong object, and the rate of accidents was greatly reduced.
Having said all that, perhaps a bit of common sense would also help. Standing next to anyone wielding a knife is rarely a good idea, let alone a robot. But you never can be too careful.
If you ever wanted to watch a robot stabbing (or at least trying to) a human, watch the below video.
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11/05/2010 - CHARLI strides forward
Minus the face, it looks quite like the robot from the 2004 movie I, Robot
(and story by Isaac Asimov), and that’s because it is partly based on it. The inspiration behind CHARLI is quite simple—we live in a world tailored for humans, and so it makes sense that our robot helpers will look and be able to do most of the things we can. At five-feet tall, it is a little bit shorter than the average human, but CHARLI will be able to walk, run, jump, open doors or squeeze through tight places. Basically, it will be able to mimic us in almost all ways.Two prototypes of the robot have been designed to help with research. CHARLI L (Lightweight) is the one featured in the video, and as the name suggests, he can only perform the most basic of functions, like walking and moving his arms around. That explains why he looks a bit clumsy and frail, but the next in line is going to be CHARLI H (Heavy). He’s going to be no push-over, as he will not only be able to do the things advertised in the last paragraph, but he will have a bulkier frame too.
The goal, much like many robots of this kind, is for CHARLI to one day be able to help people around their homes or around the city. Dennis Hong, the associate professor of mechanical engineering and director of RoMeLa, refers to this plan as “The Jetsons Goal”, a reference to the 60s TV-show that took place in a robotic future. And it looks like we’re almost there.
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06/05/2010 - Perceptual Computing
| Aiding People in Making Subjective Judgments By Jerry M. Mendel, Dongrui Wu £60.50 06 May 2010 Paperback John Wiley and Sons Ltd Explains how to implement CWW for making subjective judgments using the three components of a Perceptual Computer (encoder, CWW engines, and decoder) and provides detailed applications. This book is suitable for researchers and students in AI, fuzzy logic, computer science in general, and psychology. |
26/04/2010 - An interesting swarm algorithm based on bats
16/04/2010 - Banking center gets robotic guides
It looks like that highly stylish A.I. future promised to us by movies may finally be on its way to becoming a reality. A 395-acre Spanish banking center, which has no less than nine buildings and 5,500 employees, is turning to various high-tech to help greet and accommodate its guests. Perhaps the most impressive of all is its “swarm” of Santander Interactive Guest Assistants (SIGA) robots, which will help users find their way around the massive buildings. Of course, robotic tour guides have been in development since the 90s and several have already been deployed in museums in North America and Europe.The robots themselves look pretty cool. In appearance they resemble large red helmets, and can wisp effortlessly around the different destinations they are instructed to show the visitors around. They can also sense other people and robots around, so as not to bump into them, and follow maps that tell them exactly where everything in the financial center is located. They are WiFi-controlled and operate on touch-screen technology, which allows guests to choose their language, or access features such as an audio and video history of the banking center, or the Santander group itself.
The video below shows the robots in action, as well as the other highly impressive innovations, such as the LED-panels that can digitally expand and access various facilities around a miniature model of the financial center. All this must have cost a huge amount of money, but as the employees interviewed in the video say, they wanted to offer a truly unique experience for their visitors. If the robots and all the other technology works as smoothly as shown here, they might have indeed created an environment that can’t be found anywhere else in the world—yet. It’s a model that many other businesses and institutions will want to one day emulate, though can only sit back and admire for now.
15/04/2010 - Soft Computing Methods for Practical Environment Solutions
| Techniques and Studies By Marcos Gestal-Pose, Daniel Rivero Cebrian £133.50 15 Apr 2010 Hardback IGI Global |
05/04/2010 - Geminoid F android unveiled
The new android is a clone of a 20-year old female model both in appearance and behavior. It has been designed using new actuation methods that allow for a larger number of facial expressions to be displayed using less hardware. According to the press release,
The humanoid robot “Geminoid HI-1” which has previously been developed by ATR Intelligent Robotics and Communication Laboratories (ATR-IRC) has a complicated body structure with 46-degree-of-freedom. In contrast, the newly-developed Geminoid F has minimum degrees of freedom required for tele-operation and has been designed to re-create more natural facial expressions like smiling. By limiting the number of moving parts, development cost was significantly reduced. In addition, wide applications in practical scenes can be expected by adopting the appearance of a more friendly woman.It all sounds good on paper but what does it look in real life? You can be the judge of Ishiguro's newest android after watching it in action in the the following video.
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01/04/2010 - Recommender Systems Handbook
| By Paul B. Kantor, Francesco Ricci, Lior Rokach, Bracha Shapira £133.00 01 Apr 2010 Hardback Springer-Verlag New York Inc. Recommender systems have proven to be a valuable way for online users to cope with the information overload and have become one of the most powerful and popular tools in electronic commerce. This handbook presents a coherent and unified repository of recommender systems' major concepts, theories, methodologies, trends, challenges and applications. |
28/03/2010 - A model Turing machine
I bet Alan Turing who invented the Turing machine (and wrote the first ever chess playing program among many other things) as a thought experiment convenient for discussions on the theory of computation would have never thought that in the year 2010 a smart guy from Wisconsin would actually take the time to build one. Mike Davey had some free time on his hands and since he likes building cool things decided to construct the first ever Turing machine; and it actually computes even though it only has a finite amount of tape.If you don't know what a Turing machine is but would like to after watching the below video of Mike's magnificent device then check out the information here and/or here. You can also get additional information about the hardware, software, and example programs that Mike's device can execute then go here.
15/03/2010 - Autonomous Benthic Explorer (ABE) lost at sea
According to a news release by the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) makers of ABE, the vehicle was on its second dive of the mission when things went wrong.
“After a smooth launch, the dive began normally,” scientists and engineers on the ABE team reported. “ABE actively homed to its assigned position, reached the seafloor, released its descent weights, then leveled off to check its ballast. After this point, we received no more acoustic returns from the vehicle on either of its two transponders”—undersea acoustic devices that transmit and receive sound signals between vehicle and ship. The loss had nothing to do with earthquake activity off Chile, the scientists said.
ABE was equipped with several independent systems to bring it back to the surface at the end of a dive or should a fault occur. The Melville remained in the vicinity to see if ABE had resurfaced, at first searching for ABE’s strobe lights in the darkness. Researchers tried to establish radio contact with ABE in the event it had surfaced, but attempts turned up nothing.
ABE started work in 1995 and it was a truly autonomous vehicle with no tether to the research ship above. The vehicle could operate autnomously in deep waters for hours following instructions that would be uploaded on-board before the mission's start.
It is very unfortunate that ABE was lost especially considering that it happened after the vehicle was officially retired. This was a pioneering robot and it deserved its place in the Smithsonian.
You can read more about ABE here.
15/03/2010 - Intelligent Soft Computation and Evolving Data Mining
| Integrating Advanced Technologies By Shyue-Liang Wang Leon, Tzung-Pei Hong £127.95 15 Mar 2010 Hardback IGI Global |
09/03/2010 - Plastic-sorting bots to save the Earth, starting with Japan
That’s why the robot, which is equipped with sensors and laser beams for sorting out and allocating the six different types of plastics that can be reused, is so important. Human workers lack this ability, and this is where one can see how beneficial robots can really be. Digging through the trash may not sound like the most glamorous job ever, but someone has to do it if we are to get back on the right track.
The robot itself looks more like a storage box, which is sort of what it’s supposed to be. It has a garbage slot tray with a weight scale, a transfer basket and recycling box, and a main display at the front, which contains the lazar senses that identify the different types of plastic. It is actually quite large in size, measuring up to 5ft 6ins (1.7m) by 6ft 9ins (2.1m).
Initially, a smaller version of the robot is going to be tested out at stores in Osaka and Nara, and is being released by the manufacturing company IDEC Corp. If the trial proves successful, more robots like this will be sold and put to work all over Japan for around $US 55,000.
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01/03/2010 - Simulation of Automated Negotiation
| By Michael Filzmoser £90.00 01 Mar 2010 Paperback Springer Verlag GmbH Automated negotiation might improve negotiation outcomes in e-commerce and allow the coordination of agents in autonomous systems. This book reviews the literature on the simulation of automated negotiation and addresses identified deficiencies by offering novel strategies for software agents and alternative interaction protocols. |
01/03/2010 - Knowledge-Free and Learning-Based Methods in Intelligent Game Playing
| By Jacek Mandziuk £90.00 01 Mar 2010 Hardback Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG Focuses on the developments and prospective challenging problems in the area of mind game playing (playing games that require mental skills) using Computational Intelligence (CI) methods, mainly neural networks, genetic/evolutionary programming and reinforcement learning. |
01/03/2010 - Advanced Technology in Teaching
| By Yanwen Wu £269.00 01 Mar 2010 Paperback Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG |
01/03/2010 - Portfolio Analysis
| By Xiaoxia Huang £90.00 01 Mar 2010 Hardback Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG |
01/03/2010 - Software Engineering and Knowledge Engineering
| Theory and Practice By Yanwen Wu £269.00 01 Mar 2010 Paperback Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG |
28/02/2010 - Advances in Cognitive Systems
| By Samia Nefti-Meziani, John Grey £65.00 28 Feb 2010 Hardback Institution of Engineering and Technology This book has been inspired by the portfolio of recent scientific outputs from a range of European and national research initiatives in cognitive science. This book will be of interest to those working in the fields of computer science and A.I. and also to psychologists, neural scientists and engineers. |
19/02/2010 - Science of Love: Romance and Patterns of Attraction
17/02/2010 - The waterfall illusion can be transferred between vision and touch
17/02/2010 - Don’t just cook your meals–manufacture them!
17/02/2010 - The Spiritual Brain: Selective Cortical Lesions Modulate Human Self-Transcendence
17/02/2010 - The Cutaneous Rabbit Illusion Hops Out Of The Body
09/02/2010 - ChIMERA: The giant single-celled robot
In terms of physical movement, the bot is able to charge-up stored potential energy, which Dr. Hong’s team use with active tension cords to allow it to move in different directions. Its chemical movements, however, are what really make it stand out. As the video at the end shows, the robot has been inspired by amoeba organisms in nature. When it reacts to a substance, the liquid-filled tube starts progressing forward in a type of expanding-contracting motion by pulling its body in and through the middle of its tube.
ChIMERA can move about at 0.5 m/s speeds, which is rather impressive for this initial prototype stage, and mimics a giant single-celled organism. The variable shape of its body allows it to shrink in diameter and squeeze through smaller holes and reach harder to get-to places. What’s more, is that it relies on no external parts to help it function, making it completely compact.
This impressive bit of technology can have numerous uses in the future development of robots, and provide an entirely different way of generating motion. It’s hard to see how exactly it will be applied, and perhaps combined with an AI machine to make full use of its capabilities, but for now one can use his or her imagination.
Watch the new locomotion method in action in the video below.
01/02/2010 - Finite Rotation Shells
| By Krystyna Wisniewski £117.00 01 Feb 2010 Hardback Springer Dealing with the formulation and finite elements for shells, this title covers topics related to non-linear shells, such as the parametrization of finite rotations, the methods of including the drilling rotation, various methods of treating the normal strain, and the enhanced as well as mixed and mixed/enhanced finite elements. |
01/02/2010 - Robocup
| Robot Soccer World Cup XIII £55.99 01 Feb 2010 Paperback Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG Includes the refereed post-conference proceedings of the 13th RoboCup International Symposium, held in Graz, Austria, in June/July, 2009 - representing the core meeting for presentation and discussion of scientific contributions to a variety of research areas related to all RoboCup divisions. |
01/02/2010 - Foundations of Information and Knowledge Systems
| £48.99 01 Feb 2010 Paperback Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG Constitutes the refereed post-conference proceedings of the Sixth International Symposium on Foundations of Information and Knowledge Systems (FoIKS 2010) which was held in Sofia, Bulgaria, in February 2010. This title presents the 19 revised full papers together with three invited talks that were reviewed and selected from 50 papers. |
01/02/2010 - Agents and Artificial Intelligence
| £57.99 01 Feb 2010 Paperback Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG Constitutes the refereed post-conference proceedings of the International Conference on Agents and Artificial Intelligence, ICAART 2009, held in Porto, Portugal, in January 2009. This title presents the 21 revised full papers together with one invited paper that were reviewed and selected from 161 papers. |
01/02/2010 - Adaptive Learning Agents
| £41.99 01 Feb 2010 Paperback Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG Constitutes the refereed post-conference proceedings of the Second Workshop on Adaptive and Learning Agents, ALA 2009, held as part of the AAMAS 2009 conference in Budapest, Hungary, in May 2009. This title presents the 8 revised full papers that were reviewed and selected from numerous submissions. |
01/02/2010 - Symbiotic Multi-Robot Organisms
| By Paul Levi, Serge Kernbach £108.00 01 Feb 2010 Hardback Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG |
01/02/2010 - European and Chinese Cognitive Styles and Their Impact on Teaching Mathematics
| By Filippo Spagnolo, Benedetto di Paola £90.00 01 Feb 2010 Hardback Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG Argues that research on the cognitive processes from arithmetic thought to algebraic thought should take into consideration the socio-cultural context. |
01/02/2010 - Declarative Agent Languages and Technologies (Bk. 7)
| £41.99 01 Feb 2010 Paperback Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG Constitutes the refereed post-workshop proceedings of the 7th International Workshop on Declarative Agent Languages and Technologies, DALT 2009, held in Budapest, Hungary, on May 11, 2009, as a satellite workshop of the 8th International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems, AAMAS 2009. |
01/02/2010 - Developments and Challenges for Autonomous Unmanned Vehicles
| By Anthony Finn, Steve Scheding £90.00 01 Feb 2010 Hardback Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG It is widely anticipated that autonomous vehicles may have a transformational impact on military forces and play a key role in many force structures. Suitable for research engineers and developers of robotics, this book provides a perspective on the implications and consequences of our craft. |
01/02/2010 - Computational Intelligence in Expensive Optimization Problems
| By Yoel Tenne, Chi-Keong Goh £180.00 01 Feb 2010 Hardback Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG |
01/02/2010 - Tree-Structure Based Hybrid Computational Intelligence
| By Yuehui Chen, Ajith Abraham £90.00 01 Feb 2010 Hardback Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG |
21/01/2010 - Lecture notes on Network Information Theory
17/01/2010 - Foundations of Reasoning Under Uncertainty
| By Bernadette Bouchon-Meunier, Luis Magdalena, Manuel Ojeda-Aciego, Jose-Luis Verdegay, Ronald R. Yager £90.00 17 Jan 2010 Hardback Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG |
16/01/2010 - Fuzzy Mathematics
| Approximation Theory By George A. Anastassiou £117.00 16 Jan 2010 Hardback Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG |
16/01/2010 - From Motor Learning to Interaction Learning in Robots
| By Olivier Sigaud, Jan Peters £153.00 16 Jan 2010 Hardback Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG |
13/01/2010 - Semantic Labeling of Places with Mobile Robots
| By Oscar Martinez Mozos £72.00 13 Jan 2010 Hardback Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG |
13/01/2010 - Advances in Intelligent Information Systems
| By Zbigniew W. Ras, Li-Shiang Tsay £118.50 13 Jan 2010 Hardback Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG |
12/01/2010 - Advances in Intelligent Web Mastering (Bk. 2)
| By Vaclav Snasel, Piotr S. Szczepaniak (Technical University of Lodz, Poland), Ajith Abraham, Janusz Ka £126.00 12 Jan 2010 Paperback Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG |
10/01/2010 - Evolution Robotics Mint floor cleaning robot
Mint is not a robot vacuum but a robotic mop designed for cleaning hard surface floors. Check out the video at the end of this post to see the robot in action. First to notice is the shape of the robot which is square. Evolution Robotics claims that this shape is better suited for floor cleaning around obstacles and at corners.
Most importantly, Mint utilizes the company's NorthStar localization system for navigation (in the past WowWee licensed the same technology and is currently using it with some of their robots.) In other words, the robot does not simply execute random motion patterns that guarantee floor coverage given enough time. Instead, the robot keeps track of the areas it has cleaned and does not waste time cleaning them further. Robot localization technology has matured enough over the last few years that it is no surprise that we see more of it being deployed on consumer devices. The Neato XV-11 robotic vacuum cleaner also utilizes an on-board laser sensor for localization and mapping.
Another of Mint's major features which is good news for consumers is that the robot works with common cleaning wipes such as the Swiffer brand Dry and Wet Cloths. Consumers won't have to waste time trying to order replacement wipes from specialized vendors; instead,they can buy them at their local store.
Mint's price is also good news for cash-strapped consumers. Evolution Robotics claims that the robot will be sold for less than $250. Mint will hit the market at the second half of 2010.
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07/01/2010 - Advances in Machine Learning II (Bk. 2)
| By Jacek Koronacki, Zbigniew W. Ras, Slawomir T. Wierzchon, Janusz Kacprzyk £153.00 07 Jan 2010 Hardback Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG |
07/01/2010 - Advances in Machine Learning I
| By Jacek Koronacki, Zbigniew W. Ras, Slawomir T. Wierzchon, Janusz Kacprzyk £153.00 07 Jan 2010 Hardback Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG |
06/01/2010 - Advances in Multi-Objective Nature Inspired Computing
| By Carlos A. Coello Coello, Clarisse Dhaenens, Laetitia Jourdan £90.00 06 Jan 2010 Hardback Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG Collects contributions that deal with the use of nature inspired metaheuristics for solving multi-objective combinatorial optimization problems. This book is suitable for those wishing to do research on the use of nature inspired metaheuristics for solving multi-objective combinatorial optimization problems. |
04/01/2010 - Intelligent Systems
| Principles, Paradigms and Pragmatics By Robert J. Schalkoff £44.99 04 Jan 2010 Hardback Jones and Bartlett Publishers, Inc Intelligent Systems: Principles, Paradigms and Pragmatics takes a modern, 21st century approach to the concepts of Artificial Intelligence and includes the latest developments, developmental tools, programming and approaches related to AI. |
01/01/2010 - Automata for Branching and Layered Temporal Structures
| By Gabriele Puppis £41.99 01 Jan 2010 Paperback Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG |
01/01/2010 - Intelligent Multimedia Analysis for Security Applications
| By Husrev T. Sencar, Sergio Velastin, Nikolaos Nikolaidis, Shiguo Lian £118.50 01 Jan 2010 Hardback Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG |
01/01/2010 - Transactions on Computational Systems Biology (v. 12)
| £56.99 01 Jan 2010 Paperback Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG Devoted to inter- and multidisciplinary research in the fields of computer science and life sciences, this book supports a paradigmatic shift in the techniques from computer and information science to cope with the challenges arising from the systems oriented point of view of biological phenomena. It focuses on the topic of modeling methodologies. |
01/01/2010 - Interactive Collaborative Information Systems
| By Robert Babuska, F.C.A. Groen £153.00 01 Jan 2010 Hardback Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG |
01/01/2010 - Semantics in Adaptive and Personalized Services
| By Manolis Wallace, Ioannis E. Anagnostopoulos, Phivos Mylonas, Maria Bielikova £117.00 01 Jan 2010 Hardback Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG |
01/01/2010 - Intelligent Autonomous Systems
| By Dilip Kumar Pratihar, Lakhmi C. Jain £90.00 01 Jan 2010 Hardback Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG Contains a sample of research in the area of intelligent autonomous systems. This title covers: general aspects of intelligent autonomous systems; design of intelligent autonomous robots; biped robots; robot for stair-case navigation; ensemble learning for multi-source information fusion; and, intelligent autonomous systems in psychiatry. |
01/01/2010 - Advances in Music Information Retrieval
| By Zbigniew W. Ras, Alicja Wieczorkowska £117.00 01 Jan 2010 Hardback Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG Sound waves propagate through various media, and allow communication or entertainment for us, humans. This book deals with advances in Music Information Retrieval. It is divided into four sections: MIR Methods and Platforms, Harmony, Music Similarity, and Content Based Identification and Retrieval. |
01/01/2010 - Access Networks
| £41.99 01 Jan 2010 Paperback Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG Constitutes the post-conference proceedings of the Fourth International Conference on Access Networks, AccessNets 2009, held in Hong Kong, China, in November 2009. This title presents original and fundamental research advances in the area of access networks. |
01/01/2010 - Agents and Peer-to-Peer Computing
| £41.99 01 Jan 2010 Paperback Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG Constitutes the refereed post-workshop proceedings of the 6th International Workshop on Agents and Peer-to-Peer Computing, AP2PC 2007, held in Honululu, Hawaii, USA, in May 2007, in the context of the 6th International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems, AAMAS 2007. |
01/01/2010 - The Virtual Decomposition Control
| By Wen-Hong Zhu £108.00 01 Jan 2010 Hardback Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG |
01/01/2010 - Optimal Models and Methods with Fuzzy Quantities
| By Bing-Yuan Cao £117.00 01 Jan 2010 Hardback Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG |
01/01/2010 - Evolutionary Algorithms and Chaotic Systems
| By Ivan Zelinka, Sergej Celikovsku, Hendrik Richter, Guanrong Chen £153.00 01 Jan 2010 Hardback Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG Discusses the mutual intersection of both the deterministic chaos and evolutionary computation. This book explores evolutionary computations which are able to handle tasks such as control of various chaotic systems and synthesis of their structure, investigating deterministic chaos as a behavioral part of evolutionary algorithms. |
01/01/2010 - Fuzzy Logic-Based Algorithms for Video De-Interlacing
| By Piedad Brox Jimenez, Iluminada Baturone Castillo, Santiago Sanchez Solano £90.00 01 Jan 2010 Hardback Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG |
01/01/2010 - Uncertainty Approaches for Spatial Data Modeling and Processing
| By Janusz Kacprzyk, Frederick E. Petry, Adnan Yazici £90.00 01 Jan 2010 Hardback Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG |
01/01/2010 - Introduction to Databases
| By Peter Revesz £79.00 01 Jan 2010 Hardback Springer London Ltd |
01/01/2010 - Artificial Intelligence in Manufacturing Research
| By J.Paulo Davim £74.50 01 Jan 2010 Hardback Nova Science Publishers Inc Artificial intelligence is a sub-field of computer science concerned with understanding the nature of intelligence and constructing computer systems capable of intelligent action. This book aims to provide the research and review studies on artificial intelligence in manufacturing. |
30/12/2009 - Biomimetics to give robots cockroach like running ability
28/12/2009 - The Artificial Intelligence
| By Stuart Russell, Peter Norvig £28.99 28 Dec 2009 Paperback Pearson Education (US) |
27/12/2009 - Brain-Machine Interface for hands free typing
The researchers devised a method that reads brain waves using electrocorticography (ECoG) in which electrodes are placed directly on the surface of the brain. This method is much more invasive than the electroencephalography (EEG) approach more commonly used in BMI.
Using a simple training method which involved showing a patient individual letters and recording the generated brain waves, the scientists developed software that can work in reverse, i.e., when the patient thinks of a letter, the computer displays it on the screen. Using this interface, patients can write at a speed of 8 characters per minute.
A well-designed and efficient BMI will allow people who suffer from Lou Gehrig's disease and spinal cord injuries to communicate with much ease improving their quality of life. Of course, as you can see from the video below, there are always going to be some silly application for the technology such as using it to twitter hands free.
You can read the original article here.
19/12/2009 - Prosthetic Fingers from Touch Bionics
The robotic digits feel natural and require no special surgery for attachment, which is a big benefit. They can be controlled either from a touchpad, or with myoelectric sensors that detect muscle signals from the remnants of the fingers, which activate the movements. Furthermore, the prosthetic hands can be customized to meet every individual’s specific needs. Doctors, for example, can tweak the device over Bluetooth to adjust the finer motor functions for every patient.
At a price range around $57,000 to $73,000, these robotic limbs are still quite expensive, but in some countries there are plans to make them available through health insurance. Whatever the cost, however, for many people they will surely be worth it. They equip patients with the ability to grasp on to and hold objects again, and do so securely, because they have the function to detect when the person has closed his fingers onto something.
In the video below, the patients selected to try out the ProDigits device accomplish tasks that many take for granted, such as folding clothes, drinking a cup of coffee and typing on a computer. In terms of design, they are not too abnormal, and can come in different skins, including one natural-looking “livingskin”. While the movements of the fingers do not seem perfectly flawless, they are a huge improvement on others of their kind. Most of all, they genuinely look like they can improve the lives of many people. Also, don't forget the also very cool and DARPA-sponsored Luke-Arm which is also undergoing clinical trials.
17/12/2009 - Smart Information and Knowledge Management
| By Edward Szczerbicki, Ngoc Thanh Nguyen £117.00 17 Dec 2009 Hardback Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG |
15/12/2009 - Particle Swarm Optimization and Intelligence
| Advances and Applications By Konstantinos E. Parsopoulos, Michael N. Vrahatis £119.95 15 Dec 2009 Hardback IGI Global |
13/12/2009 - Google uses quantum computing algorithm for image recognition
02/12/2009 - Evolution of Communication and Language in Embodied Agents
| By Stefano Nolfi, Marco Mirolli £90.00 02 Dec 2009 Hardback Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG |
01/12/2009 - Agents for Games and Simulations
| £37.99 01 Dec 2009 Paperback Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG |
01/12/2009 - Learning and Intelligent Optimization
| Designing, Implementing and Analyzing Effective Heuristics £41.99 01 Dec 2009 Paperback Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG |
01/12/2009 - Principles of Practice in Multi-Agent Systems
| £71.00 01 Dec 2009 Paperback Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG |
01/12/2009 - Intelligent Robotics and Applications
| £121.50 01 Dec 2009 Paperback Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG |
01/12/2009 - Service-Oriented Computing
| Agents, Semantics and Engineering £41.99 01 Dec 2009 Paperback Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG |
01/12/2009 - Experimental Methods for the Analysis of Optimization Algorithms
| By Thomas Bartz-Beielstein, Marco Chiarandini, Luis Paquete, Mike Preuss £68.99 01 Dec 2009 Hardback Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG |
01/12/2009 - Handbook of Multicriteria Analysis
| By Constantin Zopounidis, Panos M. Pardalos £109.50 01 Dec 2009 Hardback Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG Multicriteria analysis is a growing field in operations research and management science, with numerous practical applications in a wide range of fields. This book presents the advances in this field, including multicriteria optimization, multiattribute utility theory, outranking methods, disaggregation techniques. |
01/12/2009 - Research and Development in Intelligent Systems XXVI
| By Max Bramer, Richard Ellis, Miltos Petridis £119.00 01 Dec 2009 Paperback Springer London Ltd |
01/12/2009 - The Quest for Artificial Intelligence
| By Nils J. Nilsson £27.99 01 Dec 2009 Paperback Cambridge University Press The definitive history of artificial intelligence (AI), from the dreams of early pioneers to the achievements of modern research. |
01/12/2009 - The Quest for Artificial Intelligence
| By Nils J. Nilsson £75.00 01 Dec 2009 Hardback Cambridge University Press The definitive history of artificial intelligence (AI), from the dreams of early pioneers to the achievements of modern research. |
30/11/2009 - Multi-Objective Swarm Intelligent Systems
| By Nadia Nedjah, Leandro Dos Santos Coelho, Luiza de Macedo Mourelle (State University of Rio de Janeir £90.00 30 Nov 2009 Hardback Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG |
30/11/2009 - Logical Tools for Handling Change in Agent-Based Systems
| By Dov M. Gabbay (King's College London), Karl Schlechta £72.00 30 Nov 2009 Hardback Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG |
30/11/2009 - Resource-adaptive Cognitive Processes
| By Matthew W. Crocker, Jorg Siekmann £90.00 30 Nov 2009 Hardback Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG |
29/11/2009 - Retinal implant helps blind man see again
According to Second Sight, the device consists of a small camera and an electrode-studded array implanted on the patient's retina. This is how it all works.
The camera on the glasses captures an image and sends the information to the video processor, which converts the image to an electronic signal and sends it to the transmitter on the sunglasses. The implanted receiver wirelessly receives this data and sends the signals through a tiny cable to the electrode array, stimulating it to emit electrical pulses. The pulses induce responses in the retina that travel through the optic nerve to the brain, which perceives patterns of light and dark spots corresponding to the electrodes stimulated. Patients learn to interpret the visual patterns produced into meaningful images.
The Argus 16 and the next generation Argus II (which has 64 electrodes) are not designed to give sight to those who never had it. Mr. Lane and the others in the clinical trial suffer from Retinitis Pigmentosa which means they lost their sight in their later years. This is important because it essentially means that the brain is capable of interpreting the signals received from the eye but the disease has destroyed the retina and the flow of data has seized. Argus replaces the damaged tissue with an electronic one allowing the brain to once again receive the signals necessary to perceive the world.
This is a great breakthrough in the fight against blindness. Statistics show that more than 200,000 people in the USA and Europe suffer from Retinitis Pigmentosa and Argus II can immensely increase quality of life for these people. Some suggest that Second Sight might be able to start selling the device commercially in one year at the cost of nearly $100,000. Sure it is expensive but it is a start. Eventually, when the device is proven to work well and the cost of production decreases it will become much more affordable and available to all who need it.
[For clinical trial information go here.]
[source Times Online and the Daily Mail.]
28/11/2009 - Sensitivity Analysis for Neural Networks
| By Daniel S. Yeung, Ian Cloete, Daming Shi, Wing W.Y. Ng £72.00 28 Nov 2009 Hardback Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG |
27/11/2009 - Hierarchical Voronoi Graphs
| By Jan Oliver Wallgrun £72.00 27 Nov 2009 Hardback Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG |
25/11/2009 - Rough Sets, Fuzzy Sets, Data Mining and Granular Computing
| £63.99 25 Nov 2009 Paperback Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG |
25/11/2009 - AI*IA 2009
| Advances in Artificial Intelligence £58.99 25 Nov 2009 Paperback Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG |
25/11/2009 - Neural Networks and Micromechanics
| By Ernst Kussul, Tatiana Baidyk, Donald C. Wunsch £72.00 25 Nov 2009 Hardback Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG |
25/11/2009 - Diagrammatic Reasoning in AI
| By Robbie T. Nakatsu £73.50 25 Nov 2009 Hardback John Wiley and Sons Ltd A diagram can be used to graphically demonstrate cause and effect in intelligent systems, in particular, expert systems. This title explores the use of diagrams, or graphical representations, that show how something works or makes something easier to understand. It is suitable for researchers, programmers, and intelligent systems designers. |
25/11/2009 - Biometrics
| Theory, Methods, and Applications By N.V. Boulgouris £90.50 25 Nov 2009 Hardback John Wiley and Sons Ltd Covers system, processing, and application aspects of biometrics. This book includes such topics as parameterization, biometric individuality, biometric cryptosystems, quality measure of biometrics data, and sensor interoperability. |
22/11/2009 - Coping with Uncertainty
| By Kurt Marti, Yuri Ermoliev, Marek Makowski £72.00 22 Nov 2009 Paperback Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG |
20/11/2009 - Journal on Data Sematics XIV
| £56.99 20 Nov 2009 Paperback Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG |
15/11/2009 - Methodological Advancements in Intelligent Information Technologies
| Evolutionary Trends By Vijayan Sugumaran £119.95 15 Nov 2009 Hardback IGI Global |
15/11/2009 - Discoveries and Breakthroughs in Cognitive Informatics and Natural
| By Yingxu Wang £119.95 15 Nov 2009 Hardback IGI Global |
15/11/2009 - Machine Learning Methods for Commonsense Reasoning Processes
| Interactive Models By Xenia Naidenova £120.00 15 Nov 2009 Hardback IGI Global |
13/11/2009 - Knowledge Science, Engineering and Management
| £55.99 13 Nov 2009 Paperback Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG |
12/11/2009 - Donald Michie: Machine Intelligence, Biology and More
| By Ashwin Srinivasan £25.00 12 Nov 2009 Hardback Oxford University Press Donald Michie was many things; a computing pioneer in machine intelligence, a cryptographer who made key breakthroughs at Bletchley Park, and a geneticist. Tragically, two years ago he died in a car crash. Here, Ashwin Srinivasan presents an engaging collection of lively essays from Michie's writings, on thinking computers, mice, and much more. |
10/11/2009 - AI 2009: Advances in Artificial Intelligence
| £78.50 10 Nov 2009 Paperback Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG |
10/11/2009 - Artificial Life
| Borrowing from Biology £41.99 10 Nov 2009 Paperback Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG |
10/11/2009 - Advances in Information Technology
| £50.99 10 Nov 2009 Paperback Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG |
08/11/2009 - International Humanoid Robot Olympic Games
The organizers are busy trying to find sponsors for the robot Olympics while they expect 100 Universities from 20 countries will send robots to compete. The Olympics will be exclusive to humanoid robots. The events will be a mixture of traditional Olympic sports such as track and field and more robotics related activities such as doing housework.
The organizers claim that the robot Olympics are designed to help make more intelligent robots for use at home. The Humanoid Olympic Games will be competing with the well established RobotCup competition which attracts much attention every year. Robot rescue and robot soccer are the two main events with the latter having the longest history in robotics competitions (see our previous stories "Robot soccer: Then and now!" and "RoboCup: When and why did robots start playing soccer? for more information".)
I am curious to see if the Humanoid Olympics actually take place and if so how many Universities will be able to take part. More importantly, it is amazing to me that in 2009, we can start thinking about robotics competitions that involve only humanoid robots and expect many participants. It goes to show how quickly the field of robotics has advanced in the last decade.
04/11/2009 - Engineering Societies in the Agents World (Bk. 10)
| £41.99 04 Nov 2009 Paperback Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG |
03/11/2009 - Strength Analysis in Geomechanics
| By Serguey A. Elsoufiev £89.99 03 Nov 2009 Hardback Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG |
01/11/2009 - Proceedings of the 6th CIRP-sponsored International Conference on Digital
| By George Huang, K.L. Mak, Paul G. Maropoulos £269.00 01 Nov 2009 Paperback Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG |
01/11/2009 - Continuum Damage Mechanics and Numerical Applications
| By Wohua Zhang, Yuanqiang Cai £224.00 01 Nov 2009 Hardback Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG |
01/11/2009 - Recent Advances in Nonlinear Dynamics and Synchronization
| By Kyandoghere Kyamakya, Wolfgang A. Halang, Herwig Unger, Jean Chamberlain Chedjou, Nikolai F. Rulkov, £117.00 01 Nov 2009 Hardback Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG |
01/11/2009 - Intelligent Systems for Knowledge Management
| By Ngoc Thanh Nguyen, Edward Szczerbicki £90.00 01 Nov 2009 Hardback Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG |
01/11/2009 - Mobile Roboter: Eine Einfa1/4hrung Aus Sicht Der Informatik
| By Hertzberg, Joachim Lingemann, Kai Na1/4chter, Andreas £21.95 01 Nov 2009 Paperback Springer Wo bin ich? Wohin soll ich? Wie komme ich dahin? Mobile Roboter in Alltagsumgebungen wie in BA1/4ros oder auf StraAen mA1/4ssen stAndig solche Fragen beantworten, sollen sie autonom, also ohne Fernsteuerung operieren. Die Berechnungen im Robotersteuerungsprogramm beruhen wesentlich auf Sensordaten aus der Umgebung, die oft unvollstAndig oder fehlerhaft sind. Entsprechend der Perspektive der Informatik stehen in diesem Lehrbuch Algorithmen und ReprAsentationen fA1/4r die Steuerung mobiler Roboter im Zentrum. Aufbauend auf ausfA1/4hrlichen Kapiteln A1/4ber Sensorik und Sensordatenverarbeitung werden alle zentralen nicht-mechanischen Aspekte der Fortbewegung - Lokalisierung in Karten, Kartierung, Navigation, Umgebungsdateninterpretation - behandelt. Das Buch ist aus Lehrveranstaltungen entstanden und ist nicht nur fA1/4r Bachelor-Veranstaltungen an allen Hochschularten, sondern auch zum Selbststudium und als Nachschlagewerk geeignet. |
24/10/2009 - Evolutionary Design of Intelligent Systems in Modeling, Simulation and Control
| By Oscar Castillo, Witold Pedrycz, Janusz Kacprzyk £117.00 24 Oct 2009 Hardback Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG |
22/10/2009 - Knowledge Representation for Agents and Multi-Agent Systems
| £41.99 22 Oct 2009 Paperback Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG |
20/10/2009 - Artificial Intelligence and Computational Intelligence
| £78.50 20 Oct 2009 Paperback Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG |
19/10/2009 - MIT's Micro Aerial Vehicle (MAV)
The team built upon a quadrotor helicopter developed by Ascending Technologies which they equipped with a Hokuyo laser rangefinder, small USB camera, and a micro-controller for interfacing with the sensors and actuators while providing communications to off-board computers for additional number crunching.
The team participated in and won the AUVSI International Aerial Robotics Competition (IARC) which was held on the campus of the University of Puerto Rico at Mayagüez (UPRM.)
More information about how the MIT-MAV works in the video below.
19/10/2009 - On the Move to Meaningful Internet Systems
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19/10/2009 - On the Move to Meaningful Internet Systems: OTM 2009
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19/10/2009 - On the Move to Meaningful Internet Systems: OTM 2009
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19/10/2009 - Infinity in Logic and Computation
| £38.99 19 Oct 2009 Paperback Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG |
15/10/2009 - Anaphora Processing and Applications
| £41.99 15 Oct 2009 Paperback Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG |
14/10/2009 - Proceedings of the 18th International Meshing Roundtable
| By Brett W. Clark £171.00 14 Oct 2009 Hardback Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG |
13/10/2009 - Advances in Machine Learning
| £55.99 13 Oct 2009 Paperback Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG |
13/10/2009 - Flexible Query Answering Systems
| £71.00 13 Oct 2009 Paperback Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG |
13/10/2009 - Safety and Security in Multiagent Systems
| £48.99 13 Oct 2009 Paperback Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG |
02/10/2009 - Innovations in Swarm Intelligence
| By Chee Peng Lim, Lakhmi C. Jain, Satchidananda Dehuri £90.00 02 Oct 2009 Hardback Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG |
02/10/2009 - Swarm Intelligence for Multi-objective Problems in Data Mining
| By Carlos A. Coello Coello, Satchidananda Dehuri, Susmita Ghosh £90.00 02 Oct 2009 Hardback Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG |
01/10/2009 - Quantum Neural Computation
| By Vladimir G. Ivancevic (Defence Science and Technology Organisation), Tijana T. Ivancevic (The University of Adelaide) £180.00 01 Oct 2009 Hardback Springer |
01/10/2009 - Computational Intelligence and Intelligent Systems
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01/10/2009 - Brain Informatics
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01/10/2009 - Advances in Computation and Intelligence
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01/10/2009 - Constructive Neural Networks
| By Leonardo Franco, David A. Elizondo, Jose M. Jerez £90.00 01 Oct 2009 Hardback Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG |
01/10/2009 - Computational Methods in Chemical Engineering with Maple Applications
| By Ralph E. White, Venkat R. Subramanian £57.84 01 Oct 2009 Multimedia Item Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG |
01/10/2009 - Innovations in Neural Information Paradigms and Applications
| By Monica Bianchini, Lakhmi C. Jain, Marco Maggini, Franco Scarselli £87.00 01 Oct 2009 Hardback Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG |
28/09/2009 - Progress in Artificial Intelligence
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27/09/2009 - Virtual ant swarms to hunt down computer worms
21/09/2009 - Computational Collective Intelligence
| Semantic Web, Social Networks and Multiagent Systems £85.50 21 Sep 2009 Paperback Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG |
20/09/2009 - Selected Aerothermodynamic Design Problems of Hypersonic Flight Vehicles
| By Dr. Ernst Heinrich Hirschel, Claus Weiland £81.50 20 Sep 2009 Hardback Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG Treats selected aerothermodynamic design problems of different classes of hypersonic vehicles. This title places emphasis on the fact, that outer surfaces of hypersonic vehicles primarily are radiation cooled. |
18/09/2009 - Discovery Science
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18/09/2009 - Algorithmic Learning Theory
| £55.99 18 Sep 2009 Paperback Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG |
18/09/2009 - Constraint-Based Local Search
| By Pascal Van Hentenryck, Laurent Michel £16.95 18 Sep 2009 Paperback MIT Press Ltd Introducing a method for solving combinatorial optimization problems that combines the techniques of constraint programming and local search. |
17/09/2009 - David Orban Interviews Itamar Arel on Artificial General Intelligence for Singularity Summit 2009
See the video on YouTube. Arel claims that AGI could be possible within 10 years if there was enough focus and funding on the problem. He claims that the basic breakthroughs for AGI have already been made.
16/09/2009 - Knowledge-based and Intelligent Information and Engineering Systems
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16/09/2009 - Knowledge-based and Intelligent Information and Engineering Systems
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15/09/2009 - Advances in Data Analysis, Data Handling and Business Intelligence
| By Andreas Fink, Berthold Lausen, Wilfried Seidel, Alfred Ultsch £117.00 15 Sep 2009 Paperback Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG Data Analysis, Data Handling and Business Intelligence are research areas at the intersection of computer science, artificial intelligence, mathematics, and statistics. This work contains the revised versions of selected papers presented during the 32nd Annual Conference of the German Classification Society (Gesellschaft fur Klassifikation (GfKl). |
15/09/2009 - Handbook of Research on Machine Learning Applications and Trends
| Algorithms, Methods and Techniques By Emilio Soria Olivas, Jose David Martin Guerrero, Marcelino Martinez Sober, Jose Rafael Magdalena Ben £339.00 15 Sep 2009 Hardback IGI Global The machine learning approach provides a useful tool when the amount of data is very large and a model is not available to explain the generation and relation of the data set. This title provides a set of practical applications for solving problems and applying various techniques in automatic data extraction and setting. |
15/09/2009 - Artificial Intelligence Applications for Improved Software Engineering
| New Prospects By Farid Meziane, Sunil Vadera £122.50 15 Sep 2009 Hardback IGI Global Despite decades of research, developing software that is fit for purpose, developed on time, and within budget remains a challenge. This title provides an overview of useful techniques in artificial intelligence for future software development along with critical assessment for further advancement. |
15/09/2009 - Intelligent Information Systems and Knowledge Management for Energy
| Applications for Decision Support, Usage, and Environmental Protection By Kostas Metaxiotis £120.00 15 Sep 2009 Hardback IGI Global More than ever before, energy is becoming one of the most crucial concerns in economical and industrial development. This title provides an analysis of the need for a holistic approach for the construction and engineering of cities and societies. It examines key issues and approaches for energy use and also offers future direction of development. |
15/09/2009 - Nature-inspired Informatics for Intelligent Applications and Knowledge
| Implications in Business, Science, and Engineering By Raymond Chiong £120.00 15 Sep 2009 Hardback IGI Global Nature has stimulated many successful techniques, algorithms, and computational applications allowing conventionally difficult problems to be solved through novel computing systems. This title provides the findings in nature-inspired algorithms and their applications for breakthroughs in a wide range of disciplinary fields. |
15/09/2009 - Handbook of Research on Scalable Computing Technologies
| By Kuan-Ching Li, Ching-Hsien Hsu, Laurence Tianruo Yang, Jack Dongarra £339.00 15 Sep 2009 Hardback IGI Global Presents ideas, results, and experiences in advancements and challenges of enabling technologies. This book contains findings for those involved with developing programming tools and environments in computing as well as those in related upper-level undergraduate and graduate courses. |
09/09/2009 - KI 2009: Advances in Artificial Intelligence
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09/09/2009 - Scalable Uncertainty Management
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09/09/2009 - AI for Synthetic Characters
| Behavior, Learning and Motor Control By Bruce Blumberg £41.95 09 Sep 2009 Hardback Elsevier Science & Technology |
09/09/2009 - Virtual Humans
| A Practical Guide to Principles, Design, Implementation and Applications £46.99 09 Sep 2009 Hardback Elsevier Science & Technology |
08/09/2009 - Ontology Representation
| Design Patterns and Ontologies That Make Sense By R. Hoekstra £90.00 08 Sep 2009 Paperback IOS Press Intends to clarify the role ontologies play in knowledge representation. This book discusses the distinctions with their use in philosophy, gives insight in the features, rationale and limitations of the OWL 2 web ontology language, and provides a review of methodologies and design principles advocated to improve the quality of ontologies. |
02/09/2009 - Logic Programming and Nonmonotonic Reasoning
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02/09/2009 - Frontiers of Combining Systems
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02/09/2009 - Transactions on Computational Systems Biology
| By Corrado Priami £65.99 02 Sep 2009 Paperback Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG |
01/09/2009 - Advances in Information and Intelligent Systems
| By Zbigniew W. Ras, William Ribarsky £117.00 01 Sep 2009 Hardback Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG |
01/09/2009 - Brain-Inspired Information Technology
| By Akitoshi Hanazawa, Tsutomu Miki, Keiichi Horio £90.00 01 Sep 2009 Hardback Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG |
01/09/2009 - Applications of Supervised and Unsupervised Ensemble Methods
| By Oleg Okun, Giorgio Valentini £90.00 01 Sep 2009 Hardback Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG |
01/09/2009 - Fuzzy Information and Engineering (v. 2)
| By Bingyuan Cao, Tai-Fu Li, Cheng-Yi Zhang £269.00 01 Sep 2009 Paperback Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG |
01/09/2009 - Intelligent Distributed Computing 2009
| By G.A. Papadopoulos, Costin Badica £90.00 01 Sep 2009 Hardback Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG |
01/09/2009 - Nature Inspired Cooperative Strategies for Optimization (NICSO 2008)
| By Natalio Krasnogor, Belen Melian-Batista, Jose A. Moreno-Perez, Jose Marcos Moreno-Vega, David Pelta £112.50 01 Sep 2009 Hardback Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG |
01/09/2009 - Human-computer Systems Interaction
| By Zdzislaw S. Hippe, Juliusz L. Kulikowski £224.00 01 Sep 2009 Paperback Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG |
01/09/2009 - Innovations in Digital Watermarking Techniques
| By Feng-Hsing Wang, Jeng-Shyang Pan, Lakhmi C. Jain £90.00 01 Sep 2009 Hardback Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG |
01/09/2009 - Recent Advances in Multimedia Signal Processing and Communications
| By Mislav Grgic, Kresimir Delac, Mohammed Ghanbari £90.00 01 Sep 2009 Hardback Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG |
01/09/2009 - Radio Monitoring
| By Anatoly Rembovsky, Alexander Ashikhmin, Vladimir Kozmin, Sergey Smolskiy £153.00 01 Sep 2009 Hardback Springer-Verlag New York Inc. Offers a unified approach to fundamental aspects of Automated Radio Monitoring (ARM). This book discusses the development, modeling, design, and manufacture of ARM systems. It provides classification and descriptions of modern high-efficient hardware-software ARM equipment, including the equipment for detection and radio direction-finding. |
01/09/2009 - Distributed Intelligent Systems
| A Coordination Perspective By Ranjeev Mittu, A. Bedrouni, A. Boukhtouta, Jean Berger £72.00 01 Sep 2009 Hardback Springer-Verlag New York Inc. Answers commonly asked questions about coordination in agent-oriented distributed systems. Based on the practical deployed applications and various opportunities, this book identifies and examines trends, challenges, and various agent-oriented research directions. It is suitable for advanced-level students in computer science and engineering. |
31/08/2009 - Computational Intelligence in Security for Information Systems
| By Lvaro Herrero, Paolo Gastaldo, Rodolfo Zunino, Emilio Corchado £171.00 31 Aug 2009 Paperback Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG |
31/08/2009 - New Challenges in Computational Collective Intelligence
| By Ngoc Thanh Nguyen, Radoslaw Katarzyniak, Adam Janiak £117.00 31 Aug 2009 Hardback Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG |
28/08/2009 - Intelligent Virtual Agents
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28/08/2009 - Foundations of Intelligent Systems
| £71.00 28 Aug 2009 Paperback Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG |
27/08/2009 - Advances in Information Retrieval Theory
| £55.99 27 Aug 2009 Paperback Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG |
27/08/2009 - Text, Speech and Dialogue
| £55.99 27 Aug 2009 Paperback Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG |
27/08/2009 - Machine Learning and Knowledge Discovery in Databases
| £78.50 27 Aug 2009 Paperback Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG |
27/08/2009 - Machine Learning and Knowledge Discovery in Databases
| £78.50 27 Aug 2009 Paperback Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG |
27/08/2009 - Handbook of Weighted Automata
| By Manfred Droste, Werner Kuich, Heiko Vogler £108.00 27 Aug 2009 Hardback Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG Weighted finite automata are classical nondeterministic finite automata in which the transitions carry weights. This book covers the main aspects of weighted automata and formal power series methods, ranging from theory to applications. |
26/08/2009 - Semantics and Algebraic Specification
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26/08/2009 - Multiagent System Technologies
| £48.99 26 Aug 2009 Paperback Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG |
25/08/2009 - Computational Intelligence Paradigms
| By S. Sumathi, Surekha Paneerselvam £78.99 25 Aug 2009 Hardback Taylor & Francis Ltd Offering a wide range of programming examples implemented in MATLAB[registered], this book presents theoretical concepts and a general framework for CI approaches. It also contains research projects, a survey of emerging commercial software packages, and numerous review questions. |
24/08/2009 - Emerging Intelligent Computing Technology and Applications. With Aspects of
| £107.00 24 Aug 2009 Paperback Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG |
24/08/2009 - Man-Machine Interactions
| By Krzysztof A. Cyran, Stanislaw Kozielski, James F. Peters, Urszula Stanczyk, Alicja Wakulicz-Deja £224.00 24 Aug 2009 Paperback Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG |
23/08/2009 - AIspace: Learn artificial intelligence using this collection of freely available interactive tools
To that effect, I would like to bring your attention to AIspace which is an online collection of interactive tools specifically designed for teaching introductory AI concepts to students. The tools have been under continuous development since 1999 at the University of British Columbia, Canada.
AIspace includes interactive tools for learning about arc consistency for constraint satisfaction problems, belief networks, graph searching, decision networks, neural networks, planning, and robot control. The tools are also accompanied with plenty of documentation to help anyone get started in AI.
The video below provides a short overview of AIspace. For the record, the person narrating in the video is Prof. Alan Mackworth who among many other honors is also the Founding Father of Robot soccer, i.e., Robocup.
20/08/2009 - Advances in Computational Intelligence
| By Wen Yu, Edgar N. Sanchez £171.00 20 Aug 2009 Paperback Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG |
17/08/2009 - Database and Expert Systems Applications
| £85.50 17 Aug 2009 Paperback Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG |
15/08/2009 - Philosophy of Artificial Intelligence
| A Critique of the Mechanistic Theory of Mind By Rajakishore Nath £19.95 15 Aug 2009 Paperback Upublish.com,US |
09/08/2009 - Touchable holography
Until now, that is!
Researchers from The University of Tokyo Shinoda lab have figured out a way to add touch to holograms.
First, they utilize an LCD-based, concave mirror, holographic display for displaying the 3D images. Using this display, images appear to float 30cm away from the display surface. Second, they use a couple of Wii controllers for hand tracking in order to determine the user's hand location with respect to the displayed objects. Third, they provide tactile feedback using their own Airborne Ultrasound Tactile Display (AUTD.) The device uses acoustic radiation pressure to induce tactile feedback as users interact with the displayed objects.
The touchable holography prototype will be on display at the 2009 SIGGRAPH conference in the emerging technologies track.
The video below explains how touchable holography works.
09/08/2009 - Microsoft's pressure-sensitive keyboard prototype
I never thought of a pressure sensitive keyboard before but watching the video below demonstrating its capabilities and possible uses definitely makes me think that it is a peripheral device I might want to own some day. I really like how it can be used to determine incorrect key presses, a functionality that should be of great use in mobile devices with tiny keyboards. Students participating in the first annual Student Innovation Contest in Victoria, Canada, will be the first to play with this keyboard trying to come up with innovative interfaces that take advantage of its pressure sensitivity.
Here is the video from Microsoft Hardware explaining how the pressure-sensitive keyboard is constructed and how it can be used to interact with a computer.
Contest winners will be announced on 6 October 2009. I can't wait to see what kind of killer applications the students come up with.
03/08/2009 - Agents and Data Mining Interaction
| £38.99 03 Aug 2009 Paperback Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG |
01/08/2009 - Safety and Reliability in Cooperating Unmanned Aerial Systems
| By Rabbath, Camille Alain Lechevin, N. £35.00 01 Aug 2009 Hardback World Scientific Publishing Company Presents a comprehensive overview of advances in the analysis and design of health management systems for cooperating unmanned aerial vehicles. This monograph presents fundamental principles and results encompassing optimization, systems theory, information theory, dynamics, modeling and simulation. |
01/08/2009 - Progress in Robotics
| £60.99 01 Aug 2009 Paperback Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG |
01/08/2009 - Advances in Robotics
| £44.99 01 Aug 2009 Paperback Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG |
01/08/2009 - Towards Intelligent Engineering and Information Technology
| By Imre J. Rudas, Janos Fodor, Janusz Kacprzyk £153.00 01 Aug 2009 Hardback Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG |
01/08/2009 - Research and Education in Robotics
| £53.99 01 Aug 2009 Paperback Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG |
01/08/2009 - Computational Intelligence in Flow Shop and Job Shop Scheduling
| By Uday K. Chakraborty £90.00 01 Aug 2009 Hardback Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG |
01/08/2009 - Web Personalization in Intelligent Environments
| By Giovanna Castellano, Lakhmi C. Jain, Anna Maria Fanelli £90.00 01 Aug 2009 Hardback Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG Web is evolving at a speed never experienced by any other discipline before. This research book includes a sample of new research directions on web personalization in intelligent environment. The contributions include:
This book is directed to the researchers, graduate students, professors and practitioner interested in web personalization. |
01/08/2009 - Sprachbedienung Im Automobil: Teilautomatisierte Entwicklung Benutzerfreundlicher Dialogsysteme
| By Hamerich, Stefan W. £81.87 01 Aug 2009 Hardback Springer Sprachdialogsysteme im Automobil bieten die sprachliche Kontrolle A1/4ber Telefon, Navigationssystem, Medienspieler und andere GerAte im Automobil. Dieses Buch gibt Aufschluss A1/4ber die Funktionsweise entsprechender Systeme, zeigt die Technologie dahinter sowie neue AnsAtze. Zur Modellierung von Sprachdialogen werden Methoden sehr unterschiedlicher Disziplinen wie der Ingenieurswissenschaften, Informatik, Linguistik und Psychologie benAtigt. Dem Autor gelingt es, fA1/4r die Modellierung von Sprachdialogen einen Bogen A1/4ber diese Disziplinen zu spannen; er vereinigt die wichtigsten Erkenntnisse der jeweiligen Gebiete in einer Entwicklungsumgebung. Das Buch vermittelt die Grundlagen und hebt nicht auf SpezialfAlle ab. Einzig die Implementierung beruht auf grA1/4ndlich eingefA1/4hrten proprietAren Technologien. |
01/08/2009 - Information Theory in Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
| By Francisco Escolano, Pablo Suau, Boyan Bonev £90.00 01 Aug 2009 Hardback Springer London Ltd Researchers are bringing information theory elements to the computer vision and pattern recognition (CVPR) arena. Among these elements there are measures (entropy, mutual information), principles (maximum entropy, minimax entropy) and theories (rate distortion theory, method of types). This book explores the latter elements. |
01/08/2009 - Unervised Learning Via Self-Organization: A Dynamic Approach
| A Dynamic Approach By Guan, L. £70.50 01 Aug 2009 Hardback IEEE Computer Society Press To aid in intelligent data mining, this book introduces a family of unsupervised algorithms that have a basis in self-organization, yet are free from many of the constraints typical of other well known self-organizing architectures. It also features a series of pertinent real world applications with regards to the processing of multimedia data. |
01/08/2009 - The Art of Agent-Oriented Modeling
| By Sterling, Leon Taveter, Kuldar £20.88 01 Aug 2009 Hardback Mit Press A new approach for conceptualizing and modeling multi-agent systems that consist of people, devices, and software agents. |
01/08/2009 - Artificial Intelligence for Games
| By Millington, Ian Funge, John £39.99 01 Aug 2009 Hardback Morgan Kaufmann Publishers Creating robust artificial intelligence is one of the greatest challenges for game developers, yet the commercial success of a game is often dependent upon the quality of the AI. This book focuses on the problem of improving the quality of AI in games. It includes examples from over 100 real games. |
31/07/2009 - Tom Barbalet gets Slashdotted
"After 13 years, the creator of the Noble Ape cognitive simulation says he's learned two things about artificial intelligence. 'Survival is a far better metric of intelligence than replicating human intelligence,' and "There are a number of examples of vastly more intelligent systems (in terms of survival) than human intelligence." Both Apple and Intel have used his simulation as a processor metric, but now Tom Barbalet argues its insights could be broadly applied to real life. His examples of durable non-human systems? The legal system, the health care system, and even the internet, where individual humans are simply the 'passive maintaining agents,' and the systems can't be conquered without a human onslaught that's several magnitudes larger."
30/07/2009 - Augmented reality business card
For another interesting augmented reality application relating to smart phones and direction finding in an urban environment see our older post titled "With computer vision by your side you will never have to ask for directions again".
20/07/2009 - Knowledge Management for Health Care Procedures
| £38.99 20 Jul 2009 Paperback Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG |
20/07/2009 - Recent Advances in Constraints
| £38.99 20 Jul 2009 Paperback Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG |
17/07/2009 - Information Hiding and Applications
| By Jeng-Shyang Pan, Hsiang-Cheh Huang, Lakhmi C. Jain £90.00 17 Jul 2009 Hardback Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG Information hiding is an area of great interest due to its applications in copyright protection of images, data, passport control, CDs, DVDs, videos and so on. This book presents a sample of research results from key researchers. It is suitable for application engineers, researchers, graduate students and professors. |
16/07/2009 - Advances in Data Management
| By Zbigniew W. Ras, Agnieszka Dardzinska £118.50 16 Jul 2009 Hardback Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG Managing Data has been continuously challenged by demands from various areas and applications and has evolved in parallel with advances in hardware and computing techniques. This volume focuses on its advances. It also contains six contributions in the area of intelligent agents and applications of data management in medical domain. |
15/07/2009 - New Directions in Intelligent Interactive Multimedia Systems and Services - 2
| By Ernesto Damiani, Jechang Jeong, Robert J. Howlett, Lakhmi C. Jain £153.00 15 Jul 2009 Hardback Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG |
15/07/2009 - Networked Knowledge - Networked Media
| By Sebastian Schaffert, Soren Auer, Klaus Tochtermann, Tassilo Pellegrini £118.50 15 Jul 2009 Hardback Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG When Social Media and the Semantic Web became popular, it was a simple co-existence between the two, but in the meantime they have increasingly melted making it impossible to think of knowledge technologies without thinking of the Semantic Web. This book focuses on the increasing convergence of Social Media and Semantic Web technologies. |
15/07/2009 - Computational Intelligence
| By Christine L. Mumford, Lakhmi C. Jain £180.00 15 Jul 2009 Hardback Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG Covers a diverse variety of computer-based techniques, involving some aspect of computational intelligence (CI). This collection proposes some practical and novel ways in which different CI techniques can be combined with each other, or with more traditional computational techniques, to produce problem-solving environments. |
13/07/2009 - Methods and Supporting Technologies for Data Analysis
| By Danuta Zakrzewska, Ernestina Menasalvas, Liliana Byczkowska-Lipinska £79.00 13 Jul 2009 Hardback Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG |
12/07/2009 - Wiimote control of a 15-tonne machine
Thanks Adrian for the heads up.
10/07/2009 - 2009 International IACSIT Conference on Machine Learning and Computing
| By Venkatesh Mahadevan £98.00 10 Jul 2009 Hardback World Academic Union Ltd |
09/07/2009 - Solving the Real Problems
This idea came via a BBC podcast. Please divert your eyes from the copyright notice. Unfortunately they only maintain one episode in their feed.
[Also via download]
So the question goes something like;
Can we simulate a geno/phenotype and energy consumption model to explain the optimized progression from dinosaurs to mammals?
I think it's doable with existing artificial life models and possibly could make an interesting contribution to the discussion.
09/07/2009 - Journal on Data Semantics XIII
| £51.99 09 Jul 2009 Paperback Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG |
09/07/2009 - Advances in Data Mining
| Applications and Theoretical Aspects By Petra Perner £51.99 09 Jul 2009 Paperback Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG |
08/07/2009 - Artificial Intelligence in Medicine
| £54.99 08 Jul 2009 Paperback Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG |
06/07/2009 - Education and Technology for a Better World
| £135.00 06 Jul 2009 Hardback Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG |
06/07/2009 - Conceptual Structures
| Leveraging Semantic Technologies £44.99 06 Jul 2009 Paperback Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG |
06/07/2009 - Nano-Net
| £38.99 06 Jul 2009 Paperback Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-conference proceedings of the Third International Conference on Nano-Networks, Nano-Net, held in Boston, MS, USA, in September 2008. The 17 revised full papers presented together with 5 invited presentations were carefully reviewed and selected. The papers address the whole spectrum of Nano-Networks and spans topis like modeling, simulation, statdards, architectural aspects, novel information and graph theory aspects, device physics and interconnects, nanorobotics as well as nano-biological systems. |
01/07/2009 - Cluster Computing for Robotics and Computer Vision
| By Lyons, Damian M. £29.00 01 Jul 2009 Hardback World Scientific Publishing Company In this book, we look at how cluster technology can be leveraged to build better robots. Algorithms and approaches in key areas of robotics and computer vision, such as map building, path planning, target tracking, action selection and learning, are reviewed and cluster implementations for these are presented. The objective of the book is to give professionals working in the beowulf cluster or robotics and computer vision fields a concrete view of the strong synergy between the areas as well as to spur further fruitful exploitation of this connection. The book is written at a level appropriate for an advanced undergraduate or graduate student. The key concepts in robotics, computer vision and cluster computing are introduced before being used to make the text useful to a wide audience in these fields. |
01/07/2009 - Autonomous Agents and Multi-agent Systems
| £51.99 01 Jul 2009 Paperback Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG |
01/07/2009 - Cross-Modal Analysis of Speech, Gestures, Gaze and Facial Expressions
| £54.99 01 Jul 2009 Paperback Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG |
01/07/2009 - Programming Multi-Agent Systems
| £41.99 01 Jul 2009 Paperback Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG |
01/07/2009 - Computational Color Imaging
| £44.99 01 Jul 2009 Paperback Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG |
01/07/2009 - Artificial Intelligence
| An International Perspective £57.99 01 Jul 2009 Paperback Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG |
01/07/2009 - Advances in Bioinformatics and Computational Biology
| £38.99 01 Jul 2009 Paperback Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG |
01/07/2009 - Ontology-Based Multi-Agent Systems
| By Maja Hadzic, Elizabeth Chang, Pornpit Wongthongtham, Tharam S. Dillon £117.00 01 Jul 2009 Hardback Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG The Semantic web has given a great deal of impetus to the development of ontologies and multi-agent systems. This book provides an integrated treatment of the modeling, design and implementation of such combined ontology/multi-agent systems. It provides an exposition of this integrated modeling and design methodology. |
01/07/2009 - Intelligent Systems and Technologies
| By H-.N. Teodorescu, Junzo Watada, Lakhmi C. Jain £90.00 01 Jul 2009 Hardback Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG Intelligent systems and technologies are increasing finding their ways in our daily lives. This book presents a sample of the research results from key researchers. It is suitable for graduate students, researchers, professors and the practitioner of intelligent systems. |
01/07/2009 - Evolutionary Image Analysis and Signal Processing
| By Stefano Cagnoni £90.00 01 Jul 2009 Hardback Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG Offers readers a view of what can be achieved using Evolutionary Computation techniques in computer vision, pattern recognition, and image and signal processing. This book consists of extended versions of a selection of papers which were presented at editions of "EvoIASP". |
01/07/2009 - Architecture-based Design of Multi-agent Systems
| By Danny Weyns £62.99 01 Jul 2009 Hardback Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG Multi-agent systems are claimed to be especially suited to the development of software systems that are decentralized, can deal flexibly with dynamic conditions, and are open to system components that come and go. This book presents a software engineering approach for multi-agent systems that is based on software architecture. |
29/06/2009 - Case-Based Reasoning Research and Development
| £58.99 29 Jun 2009 Paperback Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG |
29/06/2009 - Engineering Psychology and Cognitive Ergonomics
| £65.99 29 Jun 2009 Paperback Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Engineering Psychology and Cognitive Ergonomics, EPCE 2009, held in San Diego, CA, USA, in July 2009, within the framework of the 13th International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction, HCII 2009, together with 10 other thematically similar conferences. The 66 revised papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from numerous submissions. The book has been split into the following four topical sections: cognitive approaches in HCI design, interaction and cognition, driving safety and support, and aviation and transport. |
26/06/2009 - Organized Adaption in Multi-Agent Systems
| £38.99 26 Jun 2009 Paperback Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG Constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-conference proceedings of the First International Workshop on Organised Adaptation in Multi-Agent Systems, OAMAS 2008, held in Estoril, Portugal, in May 2008 as an associated event of AAMAS 2008. |
01/06/2009 - Wavelet Theory Approach to Pattern Recognition
| By Tang, Yuan Yan £70.33 01 Jun 2009 Hardback World Scientific Publishing Company This 2nd edition is an update of the book Wavelet Theory and Its Application to Pattern Recognition published in 2000. Three new chapters, which are research results conducted during 20012008, will be added. The book consists of two parts the first contains the basic theory of wavelet analysis and the second includes applications of wavelet theory to pattern recognition. The new book provides a bibliography of 170 references including the current state-of-the-art theory and applications of wavelet analysis to pattern recognition. |
01/06/2009 - Multiple Classifier Systems: 8th International Workshop, MCS 2009, Reykjavik, Iceland, June 10-12, 2009, Proceedings
| £54.40 01 Jun 2009 Paperback Springer |
01/06/2009 - Hybrid Artificial Intelligence Systems: 4th International Conference, Hais 2009, Salamanca, Spain, June 10-12, 2009, Proceedings
| £65.38 01 Jun 2009 Paperback Springer |
01/06/2009 - Fuzzy Logic and Applications: 8th International Workshop, Wilf 2009 Palermo, Italy, June 9-12, 2009 Proceedings
| £43.93 01 Jun 2009 Paperback Springer |
01/06/2009 - Logic, Language, Information and Computation: 16th International Workshop, Wollic 2009, Tokyo, Japan, June 21-24, 2009, Proceedi
| £49.42 01 Jun 2009 Paperback Springer |
01/06/2009 - Pattern Recognition and Image Analysis: 4th Iberian Conference, Ibpria 2009 Pa3voa de Varzim, Portugal, June 10-12, 2009 Proceed
| £54.40 01 Jun 2009 Paperback Springer |
01/06/2009 - Graph-Based Representations in Pattern Recognition: 7th Iapr-Tc-15 International Workshop, Gbrpr 2009, Venice, Italy, May 26-28,
| £43.93 01 Jun 2009 Paperback Springer This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 7th IAPR-TC-15 International Workshop on Graph-Based Representations in Pattern Recognition, GbRPR 2009, held in Venice, Italy in May 2009. The 37 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 47 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on graph-based representation and recognition, graph matching, graph clustering and classification, pyramids, combinatorial maps, and homologies, as well as graph-based segmentation. |
01/06/2009 - Multi-Agent-Based Simulation IX: International Workshop, Mabs 2008, Estoril, Portugal, May 12-13, 2008, Revised Selected Papers
| £35.69 01 Jun 2009 Paperback Springer This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed postproceedings of the 9th International Workshop on Multi-Agent-based Simulation, MABS 2008, held in Estoril, Portugal, in May 2008. The 16 revised full papers presented have gone through two rounds of reviewing, selection, and improvement and were selected from 44 submissions; they present state-of-the-art research results in agent-based simulation and modeling. The papers are organized in topical sections on simulation of economic behaviour; modelling and simulation of social behaviou; applications; techniques, infrastructure and technologies as well as methods and methodologies. |
01/06/2009 - Integration of AI and or Techniques in Constraint Programming for Combinatorial Optimization Problems: 6th International Confere
| £41.18 01 Jun 2009 Paperback Springer This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Integration of AI and OR Techniques in Constraint Programming for Combinatorial Optimization Problems, CPAIOR 2009, held in Pittsburgh, PA, USA, in May 2009. The 20 revised full papers and 10 extended abstracts presented together with 2 invited talks were carefully reviewed and selected from 65 submissions. The papers describe current research in the fields of constraint programming, artificial intelligence, and operations research and present new techniques or new applications in combinatorial optimization, thus exploring ways of solving large-scale, practical optimization problems through integration and hybridization of the fields' different techniques. |
01/06/2009 - Opportunities and Challenges of Connected K-Covered Wireless Sensor Networks
| By Habib M. Ammari £117.00 01 Jun 2009 Hardback Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG |
01/06/2009 - Knowledge Acquisition: Approaches, Algorithms and Applications: Pacific Rim Knowledge Acquisition Workshop, Pkaw 2008, Hanoi, Vi
| Approaches, Algorithms and Applications £41.99 01 Jun 2009 Paperback Springer This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-workshop proceedings of the 2008 Pacific Rim Knowledge Acquisition Workshop, PKAW 2008, held in Hanoi, Vietnam, in December 2008 as part of 10th Pacific Rim International Conference on Artificial Intelligence, PRICAI 2008. The 20 revised papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 57 submissions and went through two rounds of reviewing and improvement. The papers are organized in topical sections on machine learning and data mining, incremental knowledge acquisition, web-based techniques and applications, as well as domain specific knowledge acquisition methods and applications. |
01/06/2009 - Agent-Based Technologies and Applications for Enterprise Interoperability: International Workshops, Atop 2005, Utrecht, the Neth
| £41.99 01 Jun 2009 Paperback Springer The ATOP (Agent-Based Technologies and Applications for Enterprise Interoperability) workshop series focuses on technologies that support interoperability in networked organizations, on successful applications of these technologies, and on lessons learned. So far two ATOP workshops have been held at the AAMAS conferences in Utrecht, The Netherlands, in July 2005, and in Estoril, Portugal, in May 2008. The 13 papers presented here are extended versions of carefully reviewed and selected contributions to the workshops. The topics covered are business interoperability; organizations and virtual institutions; modeling multiagent systems; agent interaction; and security. The main goal was to collect approaches for the application of agent technologies in these areas. Current trends in the development of agent technologies are compared with recent developments in service-oriented and model-driven system design, with respect to their ability to solve interoperability problems. |
01/06/2009 - Agent and Multi-Agent Systems: Technologies and Applications: Third Kes International Symposium, Kes-Amsta 2009, Uppsala, Sweden
| Technologies and Applications £79.99 01 Jun 2009 Paperback Springer |
01/06/2009 - Biologically-Inspired Optimisation Methods: Parallel Algorithms, Systems and Applications
| By Lewis, Andrew Mostaghim, Sanaz Randall, Marcus £117.00 01 Jun 2009 Hardback Springer Includes contributions that represent extended studies of work presented at a number of workshops on Biologically-Inspired Optimisation Methods at international conferences on e-Science, Grid Computing, and Evolutionary Computation. |
01/06/2009 - The Sixth International Symposium on Neural Networks (Isnn 2009)
| By Wang, Hongwei Shen, Yi Huang, Tingwen £269.00 01 Jun 2009 Paperback Springer Constitutes the Proceedings of the 6th International Symposium of Neural Networks (ISNN 2009) held in Wuhan, China during May 26 - 29, 2009. |
01/06/2009 - Advances in Robotics Research: Theory, Implementation, Application
| By Wahl, Friedrich M. Krager, Torsten £171.00 01 Jun 2009 Hardback Springer A convention of roboticists from academia and industry working on mathematical and algorithmic foundations of robotics, on the design and analysis of robotic systems as well as on robotic applications. It includes contributions from researchers in German-speaking countries as well as from the international robotics community. |
01/06/2009 - Distributed Autonomous Robotic Systems 8
| By Asama, Hajime Kurokawa, Haruhisa Ota, Jun £136.50 01 Jun 2009 Hardback Springer The International Symposia on Distributed Autonomous Robotic Systems (DARS) started at Riken, Japan in 1992. Since then, the DARS symposia have been held every two years. This book features the research results related to DARS from theoretical studies to application-oriented ones. |
01/06/2009 - Forecasting and Hedging in the Foreign Exchange Markets
| By Ullrich, Christian £58.99 01 Jun 2009 Paperback Springer The growing complexity of many real world problems is one of the biggest challenges of our time. From the high complexity of the foreign exchange market and related decision problems, this book derives the necessity to use tools from Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence. |
01/06/2009 - Computer Recognition Systems 3
| By Kurzynski, Marek Wozniak, Michal £224.00 01 Jun 2009 Paperback Springer The computer recognition systems are one of the most promising directions in artificial intelligence. This book includes the following sections: features, learning and classifiers, image processing and computer vision, speech and word recognition, medical applications, and miscellaneous applications. |
01/06/2009 - Opportunities and Challenges for Next-Generation Applied Intelligence
| By Chien, Been-Chian Hong, Tzung-Pei £117.00 01 Jun 2009 Hardback Springer |
01/06/2009 - Multisensor Fusion and Integration for Intelligent Systems: An Edition of the Selected Papers from the IEEE International Confer
| By IEEE International Conference on Multisensor Fusion and Integration for Intelligent Systems (2008 : Seoul, Korea) £90.00 01 Jun 2009 Hardback Springer Intends to provide engineers, researchers, educators, and advanced students in the field of Multisensor Fusion and Integration for Intelligent Systems with the progress in theory and applications. This book addresses the growing interest in our society regarding the field of Multisensor Fusion and Integration for Intelligent Systems. |
01/06/2009 - Mechanics of Terrestrial Locomotion: With a Focus on Non-Pedal Motion Systems
| By Zimmermann, Klaus Zeidis, Igor Behn, Carsten £64.99 01 Jun 2009 Hardback Springer Covers the specific aspects of mechanics and control theory that are applied in terrestrial locomotion systems. |
01/06/2009 - Recent Advances in Intelligent Control Systems
| By Yu, Wen £90.00 01 Jun 2009 Hardback Springer Illustrates the interdisciplinary antecedents of intelligent control and contrast its results with those of more traditional control methods. This collection is suitable for researchers in automatic control, automation, computer science and mechatronics, and for graduate students and practicing control engineers working with intelligent systems. |
01/06/2009 - Handbook of Remote Biometrics: For Surveillance and Security
| By Tistarelli, Massimo Li, Stan Z. Chellappa, Rama £79.95 01 Jun 2009 Hardback Springer A comprehensive handbook that covers aspects of biometrics from the perspective of recognizing individuals at a distance, in motion, and under a surveillance scenario. It investigates issues of iris recognition, gait recognition, and touchless fingerprint recognition, as well as various aspects of face recognition. |
01/06/2009 - Artificial Beings: Moral Conscience, Awareness and Consciencousness
| The Conscience of a Conscious Machine By Pitrat, Jacques Pitrat, J. £60.50 01 Jun 2009 Hardback Wiley-Iste |
01/06/2009 - The Posthuman Condition: Consciousness Beyond the Brain
| Consciousness Beyond the Brain By Pepperell, Robert £19.95 01 Jun 2009 Paperback Intellect (UK) Presents key philosophical theories about humankind's relationship with art, nature and technology. This book addresses problems of language, thought and science. It builds on Chaos Theory, Catastrophe Theory and Cybernetics to explain Post-Humanism in the contemporary world. |
01/06/2009 - Computational Intelligence for Missing Data Imputation, Estimation, and Management: Knowledge Optimization Techniques
| Knowledge Optimization Techniques By Marwala, Tshilidzi £112.50 01 Jun 2009 Hardback Information Science Publishing The issue of missing data imputation has been extensively explored in information engineering. This book presents methods and technologies in estimation of missing values given the observed data. It covers techniques such as radial basis functions, support vector machines, and principal component analysis. |
01/06/2009 - Dynamic Learning Networks: Models and Cases in Action
| By Romano, Aldo Secundo, Giustina £108.00 01 Jun 2009 Hardback Springer Presents an attempt to provide a network perspective of organizational learning to drive dynamic competition through extended firm learning processes. This title provides academics and company managers with an extended view of organizational learning networks from real cases and different perspectives. |
01/06/2009 - Building Effective Recommender Systems
| By Bracha Shapira, Lior Rokach £104.50 01 Jun 2009 Hardback Springer Publishing Co Inc.,U.S. Recommender systems support the user with the decision-making and buying process. This book deals with the field of recommender systems. It covers different aspects and important techniques for recommender systems, such as collaborative filtering, content based techniques, popular hybrid approaches and a tutorial of recommender systems software. |
01/06/2009 - Multi-Agent Systems: Simulation and Applications
| By Uhrmacher, Adelinde M. Weyns, Danny £85.00 01 Jun 2009 Hardback CRC Press Focuses on the intersection of MAS and simulation, emphasizing application domains. This book discusses the use of simulation in MAS, and explains simulation support for agent decision making. It presents a number of representative platforms and tools for MAS and simulation. |
01/06/2009 - Viability Theory
| By Aubin, Jean-Pierre £32.94 01 Jun 2009 Paperback Springer |
01/06/2009 - Evolutionary Optimization: The Agp Toolkit
| The UGP Toolkit By Sanchez, Ernesto Schillaci, Massimiliano Squillero, Giovanni £59.99 01 Jun 2009 Hardback Springer Offers an exploration of the material on A GP features. This book provides an overview of the most popular techniques of evolutionary computation, and a discussion of the theoretical and practical aspects of A GP. |
29/05/2009 - Daniel Pinchbeck in Lawrence, KS
08/05/2009 - An Introduction to MultiAgent Systems
| By Michael Wooldridge £34.99 08 May 2009 Paperback John Wiley and Sons Ltd Offers an introduction to the concept of agents and multi-agent systems, and the main applications for which they are appropriate. This book introduces the issues surrounding the design of intelligent agents and the issues surrounding the design of a multi-agent society. It also introduces a number of typical applications for agent technology. |
01/05/2009 - Advances in Artificial Intelligence
| £44.99 01 May 2009 Paperback Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG |
01/05/2009 - Formal Concept Analysis
| £47.99 01 May 2009 Paperback Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG |
01/05/2009 - Foundations of Computational Intelligence (v. 5)
| By Aboul Ella Hassanien, Ajith Abraham, Vaclav Snasel £90.00 01 May 2009 Hardback Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG |
01/05/2009 - Adaptive Differential Evolution
| By Jingqiao Zhang, Arthur C. Sanderson £90.00 01 May 2009 Hardback Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG |
01/05/2009 - Computer and Information Science 2009
| By Lee, Roger Hu, Gongzu Miao, Huaikou £79.00 01 May 2009 Hardback Springer The purpose of the 8th IEEE/ACIS International Conference on Computer and Information Science (ICIS 2009) to be held on June 1-3, 2009 in Shanghai is to bring together scientists, engineers, computer users, students to exchange research results about all aspects of computer and information Science. This book includes 27 papers from ICIS 2009. |
01/05/2009 - Complex Networks: Results of the 1st International Workshop on Complex Networks (Complenet 2009)
| By Menezes, Ronaldo Fortunato, Santo Mangioni, Giuseppe £89.99 01 May 2009 Hardback Springer Intends to bring to the attention of the scientific community different advances in complex networks. This volume covers significant aspects of networks' structure and dynamics, both from the analytical and the empirical point of view. |
01/05/2009 - Software Engineering, Artificial Intelligence, Networking and Parallel/Distributed Computing
| By Lee, Roger Ishii, Naohiro £79.00 01 May 2009 Hardback Springer Captures 20 papers of the 10th ACIS International Conference on Software Engineering, Artificial Intelligence, Networking, and Parallel/Distributed Computing, held in Daegu, Korea on May 27-29, 2009. |
01/05/2009 - Robotic Mapping and Exploration
| By Stachniss, Cyrill £71.99 01 May 2009 Hardback Springer Presents a contribution in the area of self-localization and mapping (SLAM) for autonomous robots, which has been receiving a great deal of attention by the research community. This title focuses on the autonomous mapping learning problem. |
01/05/2009 - New Advances in Intelligent Decision Technologies: Results of the First Kes International Symposium Idt'09
| By Nakamatsu, Kazumi Phillips-Wren, Gloria Jain, Lakhmi C. £154.50 01 May 2009 Hardback Springer Presents the works and new research results of scholars from the First KES International Symposium on Intelligent Decision Technologies (KES IDT'09), hosted and organized by University of Hyogo in conjunction with KES International (Himeji, Japan, April, 2009). |
01/05/2009 - Creating Brain-Like Intelligence: From Basic Principles to Complex Intelligent Systems
| £38.99 01 May 2009 Paperback Springer Documents the scientific outcome of the 'International Symposium Creating Brain-Like Intelligence', which took place in Hohenstein, Germany, in February 2007. This title presents an introduction to this interdisciplinary field by drawing together 15 articles from researchers across a broad range of disciplines. |
01/05/2009 - Tuning Metaheuristics: A Machine Learning Perspective
| By Birattari, Mauro £90.00 01 May 2009 Hardback Springer The importance of tuning metaheuristics is widely acknowledged in scientific literature. Typically, scientists and practitioners tune metaheuristics by hand, guided only by their experience and by some rules of thumb. This book lays the foundations for a scientific approach to tuning metaheuristics. |
01/05/2009 - Axiomatic Fuzzy Set Theory and Its Applications
| By Liu, Xiaodong Pedrycz, Witold £118.50 01 May 2009 Hardback Springer |
01/05/2009 - Iterative-Interpolation Super-Resolution Image Reconstruction: A Computationally Efficient Technique
| By Bannore, Vivek Swierkowski, Leszek £89.99 01 May 2009 Hardback Springer Presents a novel and hybrid, computationally efficient, reconstruction scheme for solving the problem of super-resolution restoration of high-resolution images from sequences of geometrically warped, aliased and under-sampled low-resolution images. This book analyses influence of the regularization term over the fidelity of reconstruction. |
01/05/2009 - Foundations in Grammatical Evolution for Dynamic Environments
| By Dempsey, Ian O'Neill, Michael Brabazon, Anthony £87.00 01 May 2009 Hardback Springer Dynamic environments abound, encompassing many real-world problems in fields as diverse as finance, engineering, biology and business. This book illustrates development in applying grammar-based evolutionary computation to solve real-world problems in dynamic environments. It is of interest to practitioners, academics and students. |
01/05/2009 - Informatics in Control, Automation and Robotics: Selcted Papers from the International Conference on Informatics in Control, Aut
| By Andrade Cetto, Juan Ferrier, Jean-Louis Filipe, Joaquim £73.50 01 May 2009 Hardback Springer |
01/05/2009 - Nature-Inspired Algorithms for Optimisation
| By Chiong, Raymond £153.00 01 May 2009 Hardback Springer A collection of algorithms and important studies for tackling various kinds of optimisation problems. It comprises 18 chapters, including two introductory chapters which address the fundamental issues that have made optimisation problems difficult to solve and explain the rationale for seeking inspiration from nature. |
01/05/2009 - On the Construction of Artificial Brains
| By Ramacher, Ulrich Malsburg, Christoph Von Der £74.60 01 May 2009 Hardback Springer |
01/05/2009 - Zur Konstruktion Ka1/4nstlicher Gehirne
| By Ramacher, Ulrich Malsburg, Christoph Von Der £65.38 01 May 2009 Hardback Springer |
01/05/2009 - Music-Inspired Harmony Search Algorithm: Theory and Applications
| By Geem, Zong Woo £90.00 01 May 2009 Hardback Springer There exists an analogy between music and optimization: each musical instrument corresponds to each decision variable; musical note corresponds to variable value; and, harmony corresponds to solution vector. This book focuses on a music-inspired metaheuristic algorithm, harmony search. |
01/05/2009 - Biologically Inspired Signal Processing for Chemical Sensing
| By Marco, Santiago Gutia(c)Rrez, Agusta-N £90.00 01 May 2009 Hardback Springer Presents a collection of research advances in biologically inspired signal processing for chemical sensing. This book provides some background on the olfactory system including a review on information processing in the insect olfactory system along with a proposed signal processing architecture based on the mammalian cortex. |
01/05/2009 - Intelligent Computing Based on Chaos
| By Kocarev, Ljupco Galias, Zbigniew Lian, Shiguo £90.00 01 May 2009 Hardback Springer Presents research related to chaos applications in intelligent computing. This book presents an understanding of the concepts, issues, problems, trends, challenges and opportunities related to this field of study. |
01/05/2009 - Intelligent Systems in Oil Field Development Under Uncertainty
| By Pacheco, Marco A. C. Vellasco, Marley M. B. R. £90.00 01 May 2009 Hardback Springer The decision to invest in oil field development is an extremely complex problem, even in the absence of uncertainty, due to the great number of technological alternatives that may be used. This book makes use of computational intelligence techniques for purposes of solving this investment under uncertainty problem. |
01/05/2009 - Modelling Dynamics in Processes and Systems
| By Mitkowski, Wojciech Kacprzyk, Janusz £118.50 01 May 2009 Hardback Springer Dynamics is what characterizes virtually all phenomenae we face in the real world, and processes that proceed in practically all kinds of inanimate and animate systems, notably social systems. This book concerns with some modern tools and techniques which can be useful for the modeling of dynamics. |
01/05/2009 - Modeling Uncertainty with Fuzzy Logic: With Recent Theory and Applications
| By Celikyilmaz, Asli Ta1/4rksen, I. Burhan Tarksen, I. Burhan £118.50 01 May 2009 Hardback Springer Intends to present an uncertainty modeling approach using a different type of fuzzy system model via 'Fuzzy Functions'. This title also reviews many standard tools of fuzzy system modeling approaches to demonstrate the novelty of the structurally different fuzzy functions, before introducing new methodologies. |
01/05/2009 - Extreme Learning Machine
| By Huang, Guang-Bin £90.00 01 May 2009 Hardback Springer Extreme Learning Machine (ELM) is a unified framework of broad type of generalized single-hidden layer feedforward networks. Unlike traditional popular learning methods, ELM requires less human interventions and can run thousand times faster than those conventional methods. This title introduces ELM including its theories and learning algorithms. |
01/05/2009 - Ontologien: Konzepte, Technologien Und Anwendungen
| By Stuckenschmidt, Heiner £16.46 01 May 2009 Paperback Springer Ontologien haben durch die aktuellen Entwicklungen des Semantic Web groAe Beachtung erfahren, da jetzt Technologien bereitgestellt werden, die eine Verwendung von Ontologien in Informationssystemen ermAglichen. Beginnend mit den grundlegenden Konzepten und Ideen von Ontologien, die der Philosophie und Linguistik entstammen, stellt das Buch den aktuellen Stand der Technik im Bereich unterstA1/4tzender Technologien aus der Semantic Web Forschung dar und zeigt vielversprechende Anwendungsbiete auf. Das Buch richtet sich an alle Leser, die ein grundlegendes Interesse an Ontologien als Teil moderner Informationstechnologien haben und sich einen Aoeberblick und schnellen Einstieg in das Gebiet verschaffen wollen. |
01/05/2009 - Mathematics of Fuzzinessa "Basic Issues
| Basic Issues By Wang, Xuzhu Ruan, Da Kerre, Etienne E. £89.99 01 May 2009 Hardback Springer Presents a self-contained introduction to the essentials of mathematics of fuzziness ranging from fuzzy sets, fuzzy relations, fuzzy numbers, fuzzy algebra, fuzzy measures, fuzzy integrals, and fuzzy topology to fuzzy control in a strictly mathematical manner. This book is suitable for undergraduate and graduate student in mathematics. |
01/05/2009 - Process Neural Networks: Theory and Applications
| Theory and Applications By Xu, Shaohua He, Xingui £108.00 01 May 2009 Hardback Springer Intends to sets forth the concept and model for a process neural network. This book helps you discover how a process neural network expands the mapping relationship between the input and output of traditional neural networks and greatly enhances the expression capability of artificial neural networks. |
01/05/2009 - Mechanisms and Robots Analysis with Matlaba(r)
| By Marghitu, Dan B. £69.99 01 May 2009 Hardback Springer Ccovers kinematics and dynamics. This book emphasises on basic concepts, derivations, and interpretations of the general principles. It is suitable for senior undergraduate and graduate students interested in the classical principles of mechanisms and robotics systems. |
01/05/2009 - Handbook of Research on Synthetic Emotions and Sociable Robotics: New Applications in Affective Computing and Artificial Intelli
| By Vallverd, Jordi Casacuberta, David £134.62 01 May 2009 Hardback Information Science Publishing Decades of scientific research on neurophysiology have proven emotions are not simply a minor aspect of human activity, but rather a fundamental one. This handbook provides comprehensive coverage and definitions of the most important issues, concepts, trends, and technologies in artificial emotions and related topics. |
01/05/2009 - Artificial Intelligence Applications and Innovations
| By Lazaros Iliadis, Ioannis Vlahavas, Max Bramer £162.00 01 May 2009 Hardback Springer Publishing Co Inc.,U.S. Constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 5th IFIP Artificial Intelligence Innovations and Applications Conference held in Thessaloniki, Greece. This book features proceedings and post-proceedings of refereed international conferences in computer science and interdisciplinary fields. |
01/05/2009 - Argumentation in Artificial Intelligence
| By Iyad Rahwan, Guillermo Simari £90.00 01 May 2009 Hardback Springer-Verlag New York Inc. Examines the intersection between two fields of inquiry, including Argumentation Theory and Artificial Intelligence. This book presents an overview of key concepts in argumentation theory and of formal models of argumentation in AI. It offers a review of the foundational issues in argumentation and formal argument modeling. |
30/04/2009 - SimplySim: A very impressive 3D simulation environment
I was recently told about SimplySim a new French startup that specializes in creating realistic 3D simulations. The small company was established a year ago with the hope of offering the best simulation software and related services to the robotics community. SimplySim simulations are not only visually pleasing but also physically correct. The software integrates nicely with the Microsoft Robotics Developer Studio providing complete and detailed 3D environments and sensor models such as the sonar one recently released. In fact, any 3D environment created using one of the many tools included in Simply Suite can be exported and used in a robotics simulation within MRDS. The SimplySim team has recently released an MRDS simulator for the Lego NXT Mindstorms which is free to download from the SimplySim website.
The simulated robot is composed of a differential drive, an ultrasonic sensor, a light intensity sensor and a bumper. You can also control the claws. It moves in a fully physical environment with several objects.
The team is also working closely with Microsoft to support the Imagine Cup event and more specifically the Mars Challenge competition. This challenge requires students to develop software that would guide a NASA rover to explore near a crater on the surface of Mars performing science experiments classifying different rock types while looking for evidence for the existence of water on the Red planet.
It is difficult to appreciate how good the 3D simulations are from a textual description thus I present below a video showing off some of the main features of the product including the above mentioned NXT simulator package.
22/04/2009 - Agent Computing and Multi-agent Systems
| £54.99 22 Apr 2009 Paperback Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG |
17/04/2009 - Hollow Mask Illusion Fails To Fool Schizophrenia Patients
09/04/2009 - Advances in Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining
| £92.50 09 Apr 2009 Paperback Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG Constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 13th Pacific-Asia Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining, PAKDD 2009, held in Bangkok, Thailand, in April 2009. |
01/04/2009 - Automated Database Applications Testing: Specification Representation for Automated Reasoning
| By Mikhail, Rana Rarid Berndt, Donald Kandel, Abraham £41.21 01 Apr 2009 Hardback World Scientific Publishing Company This book introduces SpecDB, an intelligent database created to represent and host software specifications in a machine-readable format, based on the principles of artificial intelligence and unit testing database operations. SpecDB is demonstrated via two automated intelligent tools. The first automatically generates database constraints from a rule-base in SpecDB. The second is a reverse engineering tool that logs the actual execution of the program from the code. |
01/04/2009 - Connectionist Models of Behavior and Cognition II: Proceedings of the 11th Neural Computation and Psychology Workshop
| Proceedings of the 11th Neural Computation and Psychology Workshop By Mayor, Julien Ruh, Nicolas Plunkett, Kim £70.00 01 Apr 2009 Hardback World Scientific Publishing Company A collection of contributions of most of the papers presented at the Eleventh Neural Computation and Psychology Workshop (NCPW11), held in 2008 at the University of Oxford (England) by researchers from four continents and 15 countries. |
01/04/2009 - Linguistic Values-Based Intelligent Information Processing: Theory, Methods, and Applications
| Theory, Methods, and Applications By Pei, Zheng Ruan, Da Liu, Jun £66.00 01 Apr 2009 Hardback Atlantis Press |
01/04/2009 - Foundations of Computational Intelligence
| By Aboul Ella Hassanien, Ajith Abraham, Francisco Herrera £90.00 01 Apr 2009 Hardback Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG |
01/04/2009 - Foundations of Computational Intelligence (v. 6)
| By Ajith Abraham, Aboul Ella Hassanien, Andre Carlos Leon F. de Carvalho, Vaclav Snasel £90.00 01 Apr 2009 Hardback Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG |
01/04/2009 - Foundations of Computational Intelligence (v. 4)
| By Ajith Abraham, Aboul Ella Hassanien, Andre Carlos Leon F. de Carvalho £90.00 01 Apr 2009 Hardback Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG |
01/04/2009 - Applications of Declarative Programming and Knowledge Management: 17th International Conference, Inap 2007, and 21st Workshop on
| £38.43 01 Apr 2009 Paperback Springer This volume constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-conference proceedings of the 17th International Conference on Applications of Declarative Programming and Knowledge Management, INAP 2007, and the 21st Workshop on Logic Programming, WLP 2007, held in WA1/4rzburg, Germany, during October 4-6, 2007. The 16 thoroughly revised full papers presented together with 1 invited paper were carefully reviewed and selected from numerous submissions. The topics covered are constraints; databases and data mining; extensions of logic programming; and system demonstrations. |
01/04/2009 - Soft Computing Based Modeling in Intelligent Systems
| By Balas, Valentina Emilia Fodor, Janos Varkonyi-Ka3czy, Annamaria R. £90.00 01 Apr 2009 Hardback Springer Includes soft computing implementations of intelligent systems models. |
01/04/2009 - Cooperative Control of Dynamical Systems
| By Zhihva Qu £80.00 01 Apr 2009 Hardback Springer London Ltd Offers an overview of cooperative behaviors and the modeling of constrained non-linear dynamical systems like ground, aerial, and underwater vehicles. This book includes a review of useful concepts from system theory. It presents results on cooperative control of linear and non-linear systems and on control of individual non-holonomic systems. |
01/04/2009 - Finite-state Methods and Natural Language Processing
| Post-proceedings of the 7th International Workshop FSMNLP 2008 By J. Piskorski, B. Watson, Anssi Yli-Jyra £90.00 01 Apr 2009 Hardback IOS Press Contains papers that cover a range of Natural Language Processing (NLP) applications, including machine learning and translation, logic, computational phonology, morphology and semantics, data mining, information extraction and disambiguation, as well as programming, optimization and compression of finite-state networks. |
01/04/2009 - Intelligent Systems and Automation
| By Lotfi Beji, Samir Otmane, Azgal Abichou £154.50 01 Apr 2009 Hardback American Institute of Physics Aims to present the research and application results emerging from the research and technological developments of complex systems and intelligent machines acting on known or unknown, virtual or real, environments in an autonomous way or in cooperation with humans. |
29/03/2009 - Rescue robot that can clear debris and lift heavy weights
Rescue robots are one application for which there has been much excitement during the last decade. These robots are designed to be small and versatile carrying a comprehensive sensor payload in order to detect victims under heavy debris in disaster areas. Everyone who has watched the news after a major earthquake or hurricane with many buildings destroyed can easily understand the need for such robots as rescuers are frantically searching for survivors under heavy debris. Researchers from the Tokyo Institute of Technology have recently proposed a new type of rescue robot that is capable of not only detecting victims in need of help but also clearing and lifting heavy debris to reach them.
The prototype robot named Bari-bari-II has a unique design that allows it to navigate over and lift debris. Its front is designed to have a step structure which can grip on debris, lift it and move under it. Once under, the robot uses oil hydraulic power to lift up to 600Kgrs. Like traditional rescue robots, a sensor payload consisting of a camera and microphone help rescuers to find victims in the rumble. The robot weighs 25Kgrs and it measures 48x28x14cm in size. Rescuers can use more than one robots at the same time to lift even heavier debris.
The video below gives an overview of Bari-bari-II rescue robot showing it in action in a simulated disaster situation.
16/03/2009 - Artificial Intelligence
| £32.00 16 Mar 2009 Paperback Elektor Electronics Publishing Contains 23 artificial intelligence machine-learning projects, for microcontroller and PC. This book teaches how to set up a neural network in a microcontroller, and how to make the network self-learning. It tells how you can breed robots, and how changing a fitness function results in a totally different behavior. |
15/03/2009 - Handbook of Research on Multi-agent Systems
| Semantics and Dynamics of Organizational Models By Virginia Dignum £183.95 15 Mar 2009 Hardback IGI Global Organizational design plays a critical role in the development of complex multi-agent systems (MAS). This work brings together views and approaches from different communities including MAS, computational organizational simulation, social simulation, organizational theory, and cognitive science, to present the intersections of the different topics. |
11/03/2009 - Handbook of Satisfiability
| By A. Biere, M. Heule, H. Van Maaren, T. Walsh £113.00 11 Mar 2009 Hardback IOS Press A collection of papers on various theoretical and practical aspects of SAT solving. It is suitable for students and researchers. |
05/03/2009 - Evolutionary Computation for Image Compression
I suspect that you'd have better luck with evolution of wavelet decomposition type mathematical systems. JPEG and similar codecs use a deterministic algorithm, but you could probably get higher compression (at the expensive of more cycles of course) using evolution on similar mathematical constructs.
01/03/2009 - Advances in Information Retrieval
| £79.99 01 Mar 2009 Paperback Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG |
01/03/2009 - Methods, Models and Tools for Fault Tolerance
| £38.99 01 Mar 2009 Paperback Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG Based on the Workshop on Methods, Models and Tools for Fault Tolerance, MeMoT 2007, held in conjunction with the 6th international conference on Integrated Formal Methods, iFM 2007 in Oxford, UK, in July 2007. |
01/03/2009 - Quantum Interaction
| £44.99 01 Mar 2009 Paperback Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG Constitutes the proceedings of the Third International Symposium on Quantum Interaction, QI 2009, held in Saarbrucken, Germany, in March 2009. This title features papers that show the cross-disciplinary nature of quantum interaction covering topics such as computation, cognition, decision theory, and, computational linguistics and finance. |
01/03/2009 - Computer Processing of Oriental Languages
| Language Technology for the Knowledge-based Economy £51.99 01 Mar 2009 Paperback Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG Constitutes the thoroughly refereed proceedings of the 22nd International Conference on Computer Processing of Oriental Languages, ICCPOL 2009, held in Hong Kong, in March 2009. This title includes papers that address a variety of topics in natural language processing and its applications. |
01/03/2009 - Emerging Trends in Visual Computing
| £44.99 01 Mar 2009 Paperback Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG Based on LIX Fall Colloquium on the Emerging Trends in Visual Computing, ETVC 2008, which was held in Palaiseau, France, November 18-20, 2008, this survey features topical sections on: geometric computing, information geometry and applications, computer graphics and vision, information retrieval, and medical imaging and computational anatomy. |
01/03/2009 - Journal on Data Semantics (v. 12)
| £51.99 01 Mar 2009 Paperback Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG |
01/03/2009 - Enterprise Information Systems
| £47.99 01 Mar 2009 Paperback Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG |
01/03/2009 - Constraint-Handling in Evolutionary Optimization
| By Efren Mezura-Montes £90.00 01 Mar 2009 Hardback Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG Based on special session on constraint-handling techniques used in evolutionary algorithms within the Congress on Evolutionary Computation (CEC) in 2007, this book includes chapters that refer to swarm- intelligence-based approaches. It studies differential evolution, a very competitive evolutionary algorithm for constrained optimization. |
01/03/2009 - New Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence
| £44.99 01 Mar 2009 Paperback Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG Consists of award papers from the 22nd Annual Conference of the Japanese Society for Artificial Intelligence, held in Asahikawa, Japan, in June 2008 and selected papers from three co-located international workshops. |
01/03/2009 - Attention in Cognitive Systems
| £41.99 01 Mar 2009 Paperback Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG Constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-workshop proceedings of the 5th International Workshop on Attention in Cognitive Systems, WAPCV 2008, held in Fira, Santorini, Greece in May 2008 as an associated event of the 6th International Conference on Computer Vision Systems (ICVS 2008). |
01/03/2009 - Multimodal Signals
| Cognitive and Algorithmic Issues £47.99 01 Mar 2009 Paperback Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG Constitutes the refereed post-conference proceedings of the COST Action 2102 and euCognition supported international school on Multimodal Signals: 'Cognitive and Algorithmic Issues' held in Vietri sul Mare, Italy, in April 2008. This book features papers that are reviewed and selected from participants' contributions given at the workshop. |
01/03/2009 - Metaheuristic Clustering
| By Swagatam Das, Ajith Abraham, Amit Konar £90.00 01 Mar 2009 Hardback Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG Cluster analysis means the organization of an unlabeled collection of objects or patterns into separate groups based on their similarity. This title formulates clustering as an optimization problem, where the best partitioning of a given dataset is achieved by minimizing/maximizing one or more (multi-objective clustering) objective functions. |
01/03/2009 - Design and Control of Intelligent Robotic Systems
| By Liu, Dikai Wang, Lingfeng Tan, Kay Chen £154.50 01 Mar 2009 Hardback Springer With the increasing applications of intelligent robotic systems in various fields, the design and control of these systems have increasingly attracted interest from researchers. This book presents a collection of some advanced research on design and control of intelligent robots. It is suitable for engineers, researchers, and graduate students. |
01/03/2009 - Multi-Objective Memetic Algorithms
| By Goh, Chi-Keong Ong, Yew-Soon Tan, Kay Chen £118.50 01 Mar 2009 Hardback Springer The application of sophisticated evolutionary computing approaches for solving complex problems with multiple conflicting objectives in science and engineering have increased over the years. This book presents a comprehensive collection of works that reflects the developments in the theory and practice of multi-objective Memetic algorithms. |
01/03/2009 - Computers in the Human Interaction Loop
| By Waibel, Alexander Stiefelhagen, Rainer £56.99 01 Mar 2009 Hardback Springer Integrates a wide range of research topics related to and useful for the development of proactive, smart, computers in the human interaction loop, including the development of audio-visual perceptual components for such environments; and the design, implementation and analysis of proactive perceptive services supporting humans. |
01/03/2009 - New Directions in Neural Networks
| 18th Italian Workshop on Neural Networks - WIRN 2008 By Bruno Apolloni, S. Bassis, M. Marinaro £109.00 01 Mar 2009 Hardback IOS Press A collection of selected papers from the 18th WIRN workshop, the annual meeting of the Italian Neural Networks Society (SIREN). It is divided in two general subjects, 'models' and 'applications' and two specific ones, 'economy and complexity' and 'remote sensing image processing'. |
01/03/2009 - Automated Deduction for Projection Elimination
| By C. Wernhard £48.00 01 Mar 2009 Paperback IOS Press Projection is a logic operation which allows to express tasks in knowledge representation. These tasks involve extraction or removal of knowledge concerning a given sub-vocabulary. This title presents a semantic characterization of projection for 1st-order logic on which basis, properties underlying applications and processing methods are derived. |
01/03/2009 - The Geomap Representation
| On Topologically Correct Sub-pixel Image Analysis By H. Meine £48.00 01 Mar 2009 Paperback IOS Press Introduces a unified representation (termed GeoMap) for capturing both the geometrical and the topological aspects of a segmentation result. This book also introduces an integrated environment for image segmentation based on a relevance filtering process that reduces the number of irrelevant boundaries within a GeoMap. |
23/02/2009 - HeartLander: Miniature mobile robot for minimally invasive cardiac therapy
One of the most promising application areas for robotics and more specifically miniature and nano robotics is in medicine. Whether the tiny robots are specifically designed to deliver medications or directly attack viruses, their usefulness in prolonging our lives and eliminating the pain and suffering of disease is indisputable. I am always happy to read about recent advances in medical robotics that bring us one step closer to such devices. This post is about HeartLander, a miniature medical robot under development at CMU's Robotics Institute; the robot is designed for performing minimally invasive cardiac therapy.So how does the robot work?
Basically, a surgeon creates a small incision on the patient's chest. Using a pair of forceps, the surgeon places the robot directly on the beating heart. Using a joystick, he can then guide the robot delivering medicine directly to affected areas, helping to attach pacemaker electrodes or even assisting with specialized techniques for curing arrhythmia. The worm-like robot moves using an ingenious mechanism driven by miniature ultrasonic piezoelectric motors.
Although the robot is still a proof of concept, the CMU research team has been able to demonstrate its use on a pig's beating heart (see the video at the end of this post.) The team still has to work out a number of issues such as the development of wireless remote control mechanism in order to eliminate the reliance on a tether whose stiffness causes problems with locomotion. The same tether is used to supply energy to HeartLander although a future production version would most likely utilize an on-board battery. This is an excellent and very promising research project and I am looking forward to the next generation of HeartLander.
Note: The image and video are copyright CMU.
13/02/2009 - Data sets galore!
11/02/2009 - Shaving digitally
Virtual shaving is achieved by modeling human faces in images as a set of layers that can be separated and manipulated at will; in fact, the method is not only good for shaving but also for adding a beard or even transferring a beard from one photo to another. If you find that you are losing your hair, you could potentially use this method to virtually enhance your photograph with a full set of luscious hair.
The CMU researchers utilized a machine learning method to predict what a person's face looks like under a beard making it possible to reconstruct features not visible in the original image. Using a large database of faces with and without beards (properly labeled for supervised learning,) the researchers learned two subspaces (one for each class of faces) and a model of the differences between the two subspaces. These are later used to transform a bearded face image to a non-bearded one and vice versa. Below is an example beard removal from the published paper.
The result shown above was obtained after training with a small number of images; the total number of images used was about 1200, i.e., a very small number for machine learning to be the most effective. As the authors proposed in their Eurographics 2008 paper, a larger set of images available for training should provide a large improvement on the final result. Finally, the same method is general enough to be used for other digital image manipulation tasks such as removing one's glasses.
01/02/2009 - Learning OpenCV book review
A few days ago, I received my copy of a new book focused on implementing computer vision systems using the OpenCV library. OpenCV is the most comprehensive open source, cross-platform, computer vision library that have been available and under development for many years; however, only recently a book on learning to program with it finally became available. The Learning OpenCV: Computer Vision with the OpenCV Library book is published by O'Reilly and written by Gary Bradski and Adrian Kaehler both veterans in machine vision with lots of academic and industry experience.The origins of the OpenCV library go back many years. Intel first introduced the image processing library in 1999. At the time, the library was being developed for real-time image processing on Intel CPUs; in fact, having a copy of Intel's Integrated Performance Primitives(IPP)library installed on your computer can provide huge speed ups in processing images even today. As an open source project, several Beta versions of OpenCV were published on a yearly schedule with the official version 1.0 released in 2006. Since then, the project remained dormant until a year ago when robotics startup Willow Garage decided to take over continuing its development as an open source computer vision library that would be of use to scientists, industry developers, and hobbyists alike. Version 1.1 was released in October 2008 to coincide with the publication of the Learning OpenCV book.
I have used OpenCV over the years and I am glad that finally someone wrote a book describing how to program with it. The online documentation is not the best to get people started and it is only useful to those with knowledge of computer vision who just want to know how to use the API. The new book is here to fix the documentation problem helping experts and amateurs alike to get started with programming basic and advanced image processing algorithms with ease. I have spent a couple of days reading parts of the book and so far I find it to be very well written and more useful than the online documentation. The book does a great job describing both the API and the mathematics behind the implemented algorithms. Although some sections tend to be a bit heavy on the math, the authors often suggest that readers can skip over these descriptions and jump straight to the section that describes the API. I would encourage anyone who wants to take full advantage of the library to read through the entire book including the mathematical descriptions; you don't need to know how an internal combustion engine works to drive a car but if you want to build a better car then you do.
The book starts by discussing basic image processing (image smoothing, resizing, thresholding, etc.) and eventually moves on to talk about gradients, transforms (Hough, Discrete Fourier, and Discrete Cosine Transforms,) integral images and histograms. These basic tools can be used to implement advanced algorithms for contour extraction and matching as well as image segmentation and tracking. In the latter chapters, the focus changes to camera calibration and 3D vision. There is also a brief introduction to Machine Learning for classification and clustering (K-means, naïve Bayes classifier, binary decision trees, and boosting.) The authors conclude the book with their overview of where they hope to take OpenCV over the next few years implementing many state of the art algorithms and providing better documentation. Since this is an open source project, everyone is encouraged to make a contribution either by implementing new algorithms, fixing bugs, or optimizing the current implementation.
Learning OpenCV is a must have book for everyone working on computer vision.
01/02/2009 - Advances in Web Mining and Web Usage Analysis
| £33.99 01 Feb 2009 Paperback Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG |
01/02/2009 - Logic-Based Program Synthesis and Transformation
| £33.99 01 Feb 2009 Paperback Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG |
01/02/2009 - Coordination, Organizations, Institutions, and Norms in Agent Systems (Bk. 4)
| £36.99 01 Feb 2009 Paperback Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG |
01/02/2009 - Declarative Agent Languages and Technologies VI: 6th International Workshop, Dalt 2008, Estoril, Portugal, May 12, 2008, Revised
| £42.99 01 Feb 2009 Paperback Springer Covers the 6th International Workshop, DALT 2008, held as satellite workshop of AAMAS 2008, the 7th International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems, in Estoril, Portugal, on May 12, 2008. |
01/02/2009 - Views on Fuzzy Sets and Systems from Different Perspectives
| Philosophy, Logic, and Criticism By Rudolf Seising £154.50 01 Feb 2009 Hardback Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG Includes a collection of the views of numerous scholars in different parts of the world who are involved in various research projects concerning fuzziness in science, technology, economic systems, social sciences, logics and philosophy. This book demonstrates that there are many different views of the theory of fuzzy sets and systems. |
01/02/2009 - Human-centric Information Processing Through Granular Modelling
| By Andrzej Bargiela, Witold Pedrycz £118.50 01 Feb 2009 Hardback Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG Intends to document the milestone contributions to human-centric information processing research and to demonstrate the computational methods and the processing environments that arose from these research insights. This book is suitable for graduate students intending to focus on particular aspects of human-centric information processing. |
01/02/2009 - Gesture-Based Human-Computer Interaction and Simulation: 7th International Gesture Workshop, GW 2007, Lisbon, Portugal, May 23-2
| £42.99 01 Feb 2009 Paperback Springer Covers the post-proceedings of the 7th International Workshop on Gesture-Based Human-Computer Interaction and Simulation, GW 2007. This book contains papers that are organized in topical sections on analysis and synthesis of gesture; theoretical aspects of gestural communication and interaction; and vision-based gesture recognition. |
01/02/2009 - Combinatorial Development of Solid Catalytic Materials: Design of High-Throughput Experiments, Data Analysis, Data Mining
| Design of High-Throughput Experiments, Data Analysis, Data Mining By Baerns, Manfred Hole, Martin £37.00 01 Feb 2009 Hardback Imperial College Press Offers a comprehensive treatment of combinatorial development of heterogeneous catalysts. The book describes evolutionary optimization in a broader context of methods of searching for optimal catalytic materials, including statistical design of experiments, as well as presents neural networks in a broader context of data analysis. |
01/02/2009 - Game Theoretic Problems in Network Economics and Mechanism Design Solutions
| By Narahari, Y. Garg, Dinesh Narayanam, Ramasuri £56.99 01 Feb 2009 Hardback Springer Offers a comprehensive description of mechanism design theory and its application to solving game theoretic problems in computer science, communication networks and networked systems. This book presents the foundations of mechanism design in a rigorous way and provides a comprehensive discussion of key results in mechanism design theory. |
01/02/2009 - Autonomous and Autonomic Systems
| With Applications to NASA Intelligent Spacecraft Operations and Exploration By Christopher A. Rouff £56.99 01 Feb 2009 Hardback Springer London Ltd Provides a discussion of autonomous and autonomic systems, their interdependencies, differences and similarities. This work explores the concepts, ideas and experiences in relation to real-life NASA systems in spacecraft control and in the exploration domain. |
01/02/2009 - After Cognitivism
| By Karl Leidlmair £95.50 01 Feb 2009 Hardback Kluwer Academic Publishers Group |
01/02/2009 - Multiagent Systems
| Algorithmic, Game-theoretic, and Logical Foundations By Yoav Shoham, Kevin Leyton-Brown £35.00 01 Feb 2009 Hardback Cambridge University Press A thorough introduction to a burgeoning interdisciplinary field, with an emphasis on foundational material. |
26/01/2009 - Enhancing low resolution video using high resolution still images
For more details on the method and lots of examples of it working watch the 9-minute video below.
15/01/2009 - Artificial Intelligence for Maximizing Content Based Image Retrieval
| By Zongmin Ma £133.50 15 Jan 2009 Hardback IGI Global The increasing trend of multimedia data use is likely to accelerate creating an urgent need of providing a clear means of capturing, storing, indexing, retrieving, analyzing, and summarizing data through image data. This book discusses major aspects of content-based image retrieval (CBIR) using technologies and applications. |
13/01/2009 - Electrodes implanted in the brain
13/01/2009 - iRobot Looj 2, ConnectR and iTube
The new Looj is a small upgrade to the one introduced last year. The new model includes an internal antenna, easier access to the rechargeable battery, and a new anti-flipping auger. I'd say this is a better product than the current version but nothing to write home about. Look for Looj 2 in a store near you this Spring for a mere $130.
On another note, iRobot also decided to discontinue the ConnectR program. This program was an effort to create a telepresence or virtual visiting (as the call it) robot. Testing with users revealed that the product was not ready for the consumer market and as such iRobot decided to cancel it at the beta stage and go back to the drawing board. As the company says, this is not their last effort to creating such a robot for the consumer market. Let me remind you that WowWee has two telepresence robots available today including the Rovio and the recently announced Spyball robot.
Finally, iRobot also announced this past week a new YouTube channel. The new video channel is an effort to showcase the company's many robots along with the creations of their faithful owners and fans. More specifically,
This channel is part of the company?s commitment to support science, technology, engineering and math education through the celebration of achievement in robotics. Videos of iRobot products, fans and their pets have enjoyed widespread popularity on the Internet. The new iRobot iTube online video channel gives these creative expressions a home on the Web and opens up a new form of communication with iRobot for students, inventors and robot enthusiasts.
Enjoy the new iRobot YouTube channel here. And just so that you don't think that the channel is all about serious technology, enjoy the video below of a toddler riding on a Scooba!
10/01/2009 - Wikipedia on Artificial Life
06/01/2009 - How long before the government can read your mind?
01/01/2009 - Operations Research and Cyber-Infrastructure
| By Saltzman, Matthew J. Chinneck, John W. Kristjansson, Bjarni £87.00 01 Jan 2009 Hardback Springer A companion volume to the 'Eleventh INFORMS Computing Society Conference' (ICS 2009), held in Charleston, South Carolina, from January 11 to 13, 2009. It includes refereed research papers that illustrate the wide range of topics on modeling, on optimization and three on general topics, of which two involve stochastic/probabilistic processes. |
01/01/2009 - Modelling Multiagent Systems
| By Huget, Marc-Philippe £134.50 01 Jan 2009 Hardback Springer Covers the research on modelling multiagent systems. This book includes a theoretical discussion on notations and how to apply them, as well as a practical discussion on model-driven engineering and domain-specific language. It is suitable for students and software professionals who design and develop multiagent systems in their applications. |
01/01/2009 - Proceedings of the European Computing Conference: Volume 2
| By European Computing Conference £142.50 01 Jan 2009 Hardback Springer The European Computing Conference offers a forum for establishing various collaborations within research projects, exchanging useful ideas, presenting research results, participating in discussions and establishing fresh academic collaborations, linking university with the industry. This title presents the proceedings of the Conference. |
01/01/2009 - Proceedings of the European Computing Conference: Volume 1
| By Mastorakis, Nikos Mladenov, Valeri Kontargyri, Vassiliki T. £142.50 01 Jan 2009 Hardback Springer The European Computing Conference offers a forum for establishing various collaborations within research projects, exchanging useful ideas, presenting research results, participating in discussions and establishing fresh academic collaborations, linking university with the industry. This title presents the proceedings of the Conference. |
01/01/2009 - Flow, Gesture, and Spaces in Free Jazz
| By Guerino B. Mazzola, Paul B. Cherlin £40.59 01 Jan 2009 Multimedia Item Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG Develops geometric theories of gestures and distributed identities, also known as swarm intelligence. This book exemplifies this approach in the framework of free jazz, which is a prototypical creative and collaborative art form. |
01/01/2009 - Fuzzy Systems in Bioinformatics and Computational Biology
| By Yaochu Jin, Lipo Wang £103.00 01 Jan 2009 Hardback Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG Biological systems are inherently stochastic and uncertain. This book contains 16 chapters that present representative research results on the application of fuzzy systems to genome sequence assembly, gene expression analysis, promoter analysis, cis-regulation logic analysis and synthesis, and reconstruction of genetic and cellular networks. |
01/01/2009 - Applications and Innovations in Intelligent Systems (v. 16)
| By Tony Allen, Richard Ellis, Miltos Petridis £90.00 01 Jan 2009 Paperback Springer London Ltd Contains papers that are the refereed application papers presented at AI-2008, the Twenty-eighth SGAI International Conference on Innovative Techniques and Applications of Artificial Intelligence, held in Cambridge in December 2008. This title presents applications of artificial intelligence across a wide range of domains. |
01/01/2009 - Proof Theory for Fuzzy Logics
| By Metcalfe, George Olivetti, Nicola Gabbay, Dov £95.00 01 Jan 2009 Hardback Springer Fuzzy logics are many-valued logics that are well suited to reasoning in the context of vagueness. This book focuses on the development and applications of 'proof-theoretic' presentations of fuzzy logics. |
31/12/2008 - Robot Vision
| Strategies, Algorithms and Motion Planning By Daiki Ito £92.99 31 Dec 2008 Hardback Nova Science Publishers Inc The field of robot vision guidance is developing rapidly. The benefits of sophisticated vision technology include savings, improved quality, reliability, safety and productivity. Robot vision is used for part identification and navigation. This book presents research in the field. |
30/12/2008 - IBM to build global brain
30/12/2008 - Butterfly ornithopter high speed video
For most of us, the most familiar ornithopter robot is probably Flytech's remote controlled Dragonfly toy. However, the state of the art of flapping wing robots inspired by nature is still happening in robotics laboratories around the world. This post is about the butterfly ornithopter work at the Shimoyama-Matsumoto Laboratory, University of Tokyo, in Japan.In a paper published at IROS 2008, Japanese researchers presented their work on building a 0.39gr ornithopter. The focus of their work rests on testing different materials and designs for the robot's wings. They constructed and tested three different types of butterfly wings made of a thin polymer membrane and micromolded polyurethane veins. In the end, the researchers discovered that wings with veins enable a butterfly to fly forward; moreover, they demonstrated stable forward flight using their laboratory-created, rubber-powered, miniature ornithopter. The robot flaps its wings at a frequency of 10Hz.
The video below shows the ornithopter in flight (using each of the three wing types) from the side and the front. The high-speed video is unbelievable!
19/12/2008 - Sanskrit Computational Linguistics
| £33.99 19 Dec 2008 Paperback Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG Covers the proceedings of the Third International Symposium on Sanskrit Computational Linguistics, held in Hyderabad, India, in January 2009. This book contains papers that deal with the structure of Panini's "Astadhyayi", parsing issues, various aspects of machine translation and the Web concordance of an important Sanskrit text. |
17/12/2008 - Trust in Agent Societies
| £41.99 17 Dec 2008 Paperback Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG Constitutes the refereed post-workshop proceedings of the 11th International Workshop on Trust in Agent Societies, TRUST 2008, held in Estoril, Portugal, in the context of AAMAS 2008, the main international conference on autonomous agents and multi-agent systems. |
17/12/2008 - Complexity of Constraints
| £36.99 17 Dec 2008 Paperback Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG Constraint satisfaction problems (CSPs) are ubiquitous in many different areas of computer science. This title presents a survey that contains the papers that were invited by the organizers after conclusion of an International Dagstuhl-Seminar on Complexity of Constraints, held in Dagstuhl Castle, Germany, in October 2006. |
16/12/2008 - Darpa?s Gandalf first to start to use smart mobile phones for AI
12/12/2008 - Cognitive Vision
| £33.99 12 Dec 2008 Paperback Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG Constitutes the post-conference proceedings of the 4th International Cognitive Vision Workshop, ICVW 2008, held in Santorini, Greece, on May 12, 2008. This title presents 11 papers that were reviewed and selected from 17 submissions that cover important aspects of cognitive vision like face recognition, activity interpretation, and attention. |
02/12/2008 - Will robots be more ethical on the battlefield than humans?
01/12/2008 - Artificial Intelligence
| By Russell, Stuart Norvig, Peter £59.34 01 Dec 2008 Hardback Prentice Hall |
01/12/2008 - Brain-Mind Machinery: Brain-Inspired Computing and Mind Opening
| Brain-Inspired Computing and Mind Opening By Gee-Wah Ng £31.00 01 Dec 2008 Hardback World Scientific Publishing Company Provides a walkthrough to the world of brain-inspired computing and mind-related questions. Bringing together diverse viewpoints from multidisciplinary communities, this book explores the human quest to build a thinking machine with human-like capabilities. It provides understanding of the brain and mind mechanisms and machineries. |
01/12/2008 - Logic and Its Applications
| £36.99 01 Dec 2008 Paperback Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG Contains the refereed proceedings of the Third Indian Conference on Logic and Its Applications, ICLA 2009, held in Chennai, India, in January 2009. This title includes 12 revised papers presented together with 7 invited lectures that were reviewed and selected from numerous submissions. |
01/12/2008 - Learning and Intelligent Optimization
| £36.99 01 Dec 2008 Paperback Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG Constitutes the refereed post-conference proceedings of the Second International Conference on Learning and Intelligent Optimization, LION 2007 II, held in Trento, Italy, in December 2007. This book includes 18 revised papers that were reviewed and selected from 48 submissions. |
01/12/2008 - Biomedical Engineering Systems and Technologies
| £62.99 01 Dec 2008 Paperback Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG Constitutes the proceedings of the International Joint Conference on Biomedical Engineering Systems and Technologies, BIOSTEC 2008, held in Funchal, Portugal, in January 2008. This book contains papers that are organized in topical sections on biodevices, biosignals as well as health. |
01/12/2008 - Advances in Computation and Intelligence
| £72.00 01 Dec 2008 Paperback Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG Constitutes the refereed proceedings of the Third International Symposium on Intelligence Computation and Applications, ISICA 2008, held in Wuhan, China, in December 2008. The papers are organized in topical sections on computational intelligence, evolutionary computation, and evolutionary multi-objective and dynamic optimization. |
01/12/2008 - Trajectory Planning for Automatic Machines and Robots
| By Biagiotti, Luigi Melchiorri, Claudio £79.00 01 Dec 2008 Hardback Springer Presents the problems of trajectory planning and motion law generation for automatic machines and robots. This book offers a detailed presentation of several techniques for trajectories definition, both in the one-dimensional and in the multi-dimensional space. It also presents an analysis related to their practical implementation and use. |
01/12/2008 - Innovization
| Innovative Solution Principles Using Multiobjective Optimization By Kalyanmoy Deb £43.99 01 Dec 2008 Hardback Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG Offers an approach to optimization that involves two steps: find a set of trade-off optimal solutions involving two or more conflicting objectives related to the problem, and analyze these high-performing solutions to determine solution principles that commonly prevail among these solutions. |
01/12/2008 - Application and Adaptation of Heuristic Optimization Methods
| By Franz Rothlauf £47.99 01 Dec 2008 Hardback Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG Demonstrates how to apply heuristic optimization methods. This book teaches readers how to properly model the problem, choose the optimization method, adapt that method to the properties of the specific problem, and, finally, implement the method. |
01/12/2008 - Applying Computational Intelligence
| By Arthur Kordon £43.99 01 Dec 2008 Hardback Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG Offers guidelines on creating value from the application of computational intelligence methods. This work introduces a methodology for effective real-world application of computational intelligence while minimizing development cost, and outlines the critical, underestimated technology marketing efforts required. |
01/12/2008 - Advances in Intelligent IT
| Handbook of Intelligent IT By N. Zhong, J. Liu £66.00 01 Dec 2008 Hardback IOS Press Intelligent IT (iIT) encompasses the theories and applications of artificial intelligence. This collection of papers covers new or major topics in iIT, such as data mining agents, soft computing in MAS, Web agents, ontology technology in MAS, intelligent agents in e-commerce, and more. |
01/12/2008 - Words and Intelligence: Selected Papers by Yorick Wilks Volume 35 and Volume 36
| By Ahmad, Khurshid Brewster, Christopher Stevenson, Mark £109.34 01 Dec 2008 Hardback Springer |
01/12/2008 - The Coming Robot Revolution
| Realizing the Science Fiction of Synthetic Humans By Yoseph Bar-Cohen, David Hanson, Adi Marom £23.99 01 Dec 2008 Hardback Springer-Verlag New York Inc. How will the presence of the robots challenge our identity? This book discusses the emergence of humanlike robots into our world. It covers the trends, possibilities, and concerns we feel with their emergence. It explores the fascinating implications of robot technology while alerting of its possibly disturbing flipside. |
30/11/2008 - Adobe interactive video editing
27/11/2008 - Semantic Knowledge Management
| By John Davies, Marko Grobelnik, Dunja Mladenic £51.99 27 Nov 2008 Hardback Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG Despite its growth over the years, the Web remains essentially a tool to allow humans to access information. Semantic Web technologies aim to extend the Web's capability through increased availability of machine-processable information. This book presents a combination of fundamental research, tools, and applications in Semantic Web technologies. |
26/11/2008 - CSSEvolve
19/11/2008 - Intelligent Systems
| Modeling, Optimization, and Control 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. |
18/11/2008 - The Semantic Web
| £54.99 18 Nov 2008 Paperback Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG 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. |
14/11/2008 - Worse than random?
People often wonder how evolutionary processes can produce anything particularly interesting, given that their most fundamental source if input is random noise. But random noise is not biased; there are cases when the bias introduced by intelligence is worse than random. Try winning the game linked above without a source of true randomness (or at least a good cryptographic random number generator with a hard to predict sequence), and you'll understand.
P.S. I highly recommend Overcoming Bias. It discusses a lot of topics that should be of interest to any reader here.
12/11/2008 - Advances in Visual Computing
| £88.50 12 Nov 2008 Paperback Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG 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. |
11/11/2008 - Ambient Intelligence
| £41.99 11 Nov 2008 Paperback Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG 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. |
04/11/2008 - Practical Aspects of Knowledge Management
| £36.99 04 Nov 2008 Paperback Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG 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. |
01/11/2008 - The Path to Autonomous Robots
| By Gaurav Sukhatme £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. |
01/11/2008 - Essential CG Lighting Techniques with 3ds Max
| By Brooker, Darren £31.30 01 Nov 2008 Paperback Focal Press Offers information needed to learn the art of CG lighting. |
01/11/2008 - Data Mining: Know It All
| Know it All 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. |
01/11/2008 - Structural, Syntactic, and Statistical Pattern Recognition
| £79.00 01 Nov 2008 Paperback Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG 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. |
01/11/2008 - Advances in Visual Computing
| £88.50 01 Nov 2008 Paperback Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG 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. |
01/11/2008 - Digital Human Modeling
| £31.99 01 Nov 2008 Paperback Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG 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. |
01/11/2008 - Al 2008
| Advances in Artificial Intelligence £57.99 01 Nov 2008 Paperback Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG |
01/11/2008 - HCI and Usability for Education and Work
| £51.99 01 Nov 2008 Paperback Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG |
01/11/2008 - PRICAI 2008
| Trends in Artificial Intelligence £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. |
01/11/2008 - Motivated Reinforcement Learning
| By Kathryn Merrick, Mary Lou Maher £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. |
01/11/2008 - Fuzzy Information and Engineering
| By Bingyuan Cao, Chengyi Zhang, Tai-Fu Li, Jinliang Shi £181.00 01 Nov 2008 Paperback Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG |
01/11/2008 - Robot Behaviour
| By Ulrich Nehmzow £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. |
01/11/2008 - Machine Learning Research Progress
| By Hannah Peters, Mia Vogel £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. |
01/11/2008 - Artificial Intelligence Methods in the Environmental Sciences
| By Sue Ellen Haupt, Antonello Pasini, Caren Marzban £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. |
01/11/2008 - Artificial Intelligence Methods in the Environmental Sciences
| By Sue Ellen Haupt, Antonello Pasini, Caren Marzban £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. |
01/11/2008 - Robots, Reasoning, and Reification
| By James P. Gunderson, Louise F. Gunderson £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. |
01/11/2008 - Dynamics and Robust Control of Robot-Environment Interaction
| By Vukobratovic Miomir, Surdilovic Dragoljub, Ekalo Yury £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. |
01/11/2008 - Progress in Computer Vision and Image Analysis
| By Horst Bunke, Juan Jose Villanueva, Gemma Sanchez £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. |
29/10/2008 - Neural-symbolic Cognitive Reasoning
| By Artur S. D'Avila Garcez, Luis C. Lamb, Dov M. Gabbay (King's College London) £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. |
25/10/2008 - Artificial Intelligence and Software Engineering
| By Derek Partridge £35.00 25 Oct 2008 Paperback Glenlake Publishing Co ,U.S. PN06302006 |
22/10/2008 - Miniature jumping robot
The result of their efforts is a miniature jumping robot that weighs 7 grams and is only 5cm tall. Using a clever design, the researchers have created a prototype robot that can jump as high as 1.4 meters which is more than 27 times its own height. The new robot can jump an order of magnitude higher than all other existing jumping robots.
So, how does it work? The short description as given by the researchers in a recently published paper is the following.
It employs elastic elements in a four bar linkage leg system to allow for very powerful jumps and adjustment of the jumping force, take-off angle and force profile during the acceleration phase.
The following video shows the robot in action; the slow motion footage is worth its bandwidth in gold!
16/10/2008 - Proceedings of the International Workshop on Computational Intelligence in
| By Emilio Corchado, Rodolfo Zunino, Paolo Gastaldo, Lvaro Herrero £120.57 16 Oct 2008 Multimedia Item Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG |
15/10/2008 - Novel Approaches in Cognitive Informatics and Natural Intelligence
| By Yingxu Wang £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. |
15/10/2008 - Distributed Artificial Intelligence, Agent Technology, and Collaborative
| By Vijayan Sugumaran £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. |
06/10/2008 - Advanced Concepts for Intelligent Vision Systems
| £87.50 06 Oct 2008 Multimedia Item Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG |
02/10/2008 - Engineering Societies in the Agents World VIII
| £42.72 02 Oct 2008 Multimedia Item Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG |
01/10/2008 - Information Theory and Statistical Learning
| By Emmert-Streib, Frank Dehmer, Matthias £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. |
01/10/2008 - Biometric System and Data Analysis: Design, Evaluation, and Data Mining
| Design, Evaluation, and Data Mining By Ted, Dunstone Yager, Neil Dunstone, Ted £59.00 01 Oct 2008 Hardback Springer |
01/10/2008 - One Jump Ahead:: Computer Perfection at Checkers
| Computer Perfection at Checkers 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. |
01/10/2008 - Entertainment Computing - ICEC 2008
| £46.99 01 Oct 2008 Paperback Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG |
01/10/2008 - Motion in Games
| £37.63 01 Oct 2008 Multimedia Item Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG |
01/10/2008 - String Processing and Information Retrieval
| £39.67 01 Oct 2008 Multimedia Item Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG |
01/10/2008 - Inhibitory Rules in Data Analysis
| By Pawel Delimata, Mikhail Ju Moshkov, Andrzej Skowron, Zbigniew Suraj £79.00 01 Oct 2008 Hardback Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG |
01/10/2008 - Artificial Intelligence Techniques for Computer Graphics
| By Dimitri Plemenos, Georgios Miaoulis £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. |
01/10/2008 - Partial Covers, Reducts and Decision Rules in Rough Sets: Theory and Applications
| Theory and Applications By Moshkov, Mikhail Ju Piliszczuk, Marcin Zielosko, Beata £75.50 01 Oct 2008 Hardback Springer |
01/10/2008 - Simulating the Mind
| By Dietmar Dietrich, Georg Fodor, Gerhard Zucker, Dietmar Bruckner £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. |
01/10/2008 - On Integrating Unmanned Aircraft Systems into the National Airspace System
| Issues, Challenges, Operational Restrictions, Certification, and 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. |
18/09/2008 - Independent Science Journalism?
I reflect occasionally on a post by Justin Hall (who was discussed by Douglas Davis in his Biota Chat) about how independent media can assess the validity of a scientific claim. Clearly, there needs to be a group like the Center for Independent Media that can provide assistance with independent science journalism too.
15/09/2008 - Markov Logic
| An Interface Layer for Artificial Intelligence By Pedro Domingos, Daniel Lowd £22.50 15 Sep 2008 Paperback Morgan & Claypool Publishers |
08/09/2008 - Spore Review
Good: It's a fun little mini-game, with some nice effects. The "powers of 10" feel with the growth is very nice. Chasing down creatures that previously you ran from is always satisfying.
Bad: Just a mini-game. The creatures used are always the same, and the range of parts available is very limited.
Overall: I expect this part will be the first to get expansion pack love. It's over too soon, and really just feels like part of the game you play to pick up the bonus ability for later. I'd happily play it for hours, on an ever increasing scale, if there was a bit more to it.
Creature Stage
Good: Nice controls, and the first place where you get to do some real customization. Fighting or Socializing makes a real difference to how you play.
Bad: The preset story line (migration) plays the same way every time. Also the creatures, while visually different, all act much the same. You get some "level 1" guys you can deal with solo, then later higher level guys which forces you to use the pack dynamic.
Also, the Social "dance-off" feels like "hangin' with my homies, we be frontin'". And I didn't like the recent spate of dance-off movies. There are clear advantages to certain body parts. If you want to play for advantage, you are pretty much required to use the Level 4 body parts, since that's the only way to get higher scores in the interaction skills. More cheap parts doesn't appear to equal less expensive parts.
Overall: The section that got the most advertising time, it doesn't play differently enough each time.
Tribal Stage
Good: Um. You get clothes. At least, a few.
Bad: All the controls change. You can socialize with even your worst enemies, and win them over easily. The winning over process is very the same: "Present food, take guys with instruments, play requests, repeat".
Overall: I really didn't enjoy this stage.
City Stage
Good: The city planners proximity system is good, once you work it out. Using the epic creatures against your enemies is fun. Godzilla!
Bad: Military and religious interaction use different effects, but play the same way. Also I've played this section twice, and I think I got the same map each time. The three vehicle types are not very differentiated in ability, only in disability.
Overall: If you like designing vehicles, here's where it's at. As a RTS, it's over quickly. Build a good city layout, tank/boat rush.
Space stage
Good: Lots of planets. Lots of races. Lots of generated events to keep you busy, and each race will give you go-fetch missions.
Bad: You spend most of your time zipping back and forth. Also the 3D space presentation is a little awkward, with the travel range of your ship not always clearly displayed.
The ship editor is lacking rotate knobs on many of its parts.
Overall: Definitely the "end game" content, I'm still playing at this one. I haven't seen any kinds of customization here that matter, though.
All in all
I expected more. Of course, with the amount of hype, both generated by imagining the possibilities, and by the advertising, that's not surprising. I expect many sims style expansion packs, which will add new body parts / clothes parts.
In terms of a-life/biota, this game is definitely not evolution in action. It's Intelligent Design at best, and takes some nice side-steps in avoiding certain questions (where does life comes from? Somewhere life already was).
However, it's pretty, fun, shows what can be done with generated content, and I think will interest a lot of people to thinking "this is what happens when I pick the parts, what would it be like if the evolution was more natural/random".
Review by Peter Newman (Biota.org site admin).
05/09/2008 - Computable Models of the Law
| £36.63 05 Sep 2008 Multimedia Item Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG 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. |
03/09/2008 - Embedded Robotics
| By Thomas Braunl £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. |
01/09/2008 - Linkage in Evolutionary Computation
| By Ying-Ping Chen, Meng Hiot Lim £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. |
01/09/2008 - Bildanalyse: Von Der Bildverarbeitung Zur Raumlichen Interpretation Von Bildern
| By Steinmuller, Johannes £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. |
01/09/2008 - Software Engineering, Artificial Intelligence, Networking and Parallel/Distributed Computing
| By Lee, Roger £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. |
01/09/2008 - Self-Adaptive Heuristics for Evolutionary Computation
| By Kramer, Oliver £77.00 01 Sep 2008 Hardback Springer |
01/09/2008 - Robust Intelligent Systems
| By Schuster, Alfons £59.00 01 Sep 2008 Hardback Springer |
01/09/2008 - Line Drawing Interpretation
| By Martin Cooper £55.00 01 Sep 2008 Hardback Springer London Ltd PN01010001 |
01/09/2008 - Representation and Management of Narrative Information: Theoretical Principles and Implementation
| Theoretical Principles and Implementation By Zarri, Gian Piero £49.50 01 Sep 2008 Hardback Springer |
01/09/2008 - Immunological Computation: Theory and Applications
| Theory and Applications 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. |
01/09/2008 - Medial Representations: Mathematics, Algorithms and Applications
| Mathematics, Algorithms and Applications 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. |
01/09/2008 - Probabilistic Logic Networks: A Comprehensive Framework for Uncertain Inference
| A Comprehensive Framework for Uncertain Inference 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. |
01/09/2008 - Unifying Themes in Complex Systems
| By Ali A. Minai (University of Cincinnati), Dan Braha, Yaneer Bar-Yam £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. |
28/08/2008 - Artificial Intelligence
| Structures and Strategies for Complex Problem Solving By George F. Luger £49.99 28 Aug 2008 Paperback Pearson Education (US) |
27/08/2008 - Soft Computing for Hybrid Intelligent Systems
| By Oscar Castillo, Patricia Melin, Janusz Kacprzyk, Witold Pedrycz £134.50 27 Aug 2008 Hardback Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG |
27/08/2008 - Intelligent Distributed Computing, Systems and Applications
| By Costin Badica, Giuseppe Mangioni, Vincenza Carchiolo, Dumitru Dan Burdescu £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. |
25/08/2008 - Affect and Emotion in Human-Computer Interaction
| £32.05 25 Aug 2008 Multimedia Item Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG 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. |
22/08/2008 - Advances in Case-Based Reasoning
| £59.00 22 Aug 2008 Multimedia Item Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG 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. |
18/08/2008 - Knowledge-Based Intelligent Information and Engineering Systems
| £81.90 18 Aug 2008 Multimedia Item Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG 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. |
18/08/2008 - Knowledge-Based Intelligent Information and Engineering Systems
| £70.19 18 Aug 2008 Multimedia Item Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG 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. |
18/08/2008 - Knowledge-Based Intelligent Information and Engineering Systems
| £72.24 18 Aug 2008 Multimedia Item Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG 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. |
14/08/2008 - Calling all Clueless Chuckleheads
From the conclusion to We Can Make Software that Comes to Life.
At least he got the requirement for organization right. Maybe Bullock will get a clue and figure out that complex things don’t just "self" organize like a magic origami. What a dope. Where do they find these clueless chuckleheads and how do they possibly get advanced degrees?
And the follow up Laws of Nature, again the conclusion;
It will be a case of one intelligence creating another intelligence. That will do nothing more than add further evidentiary weight to the proposed law that intelligence only comes from intelligence.
I guess the clueless chuckleheads who read this blog can post reasoned responses at the source. Enjoy.
14/08/2008 - Data Mining
| Foundations and Practice 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 |
11/08/2008 - Advances in Natural Language Processing
| £51.88 11 Aug 2008 Multimedia Item 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. |
08/08/2008 - Self-Evolving Neural Networks for Classification
| By Halgamuge £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. |
01/08/2008 - Computational Intelligence and Feature Selection: Rough and Fuzzy Approaches
| Rough and Fuzzy Approaches 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. |
01/08/2008 - Axioms for Lattices and Boolean Algebras
| By R. Padmanabhan, S. Rudeanu £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. |
01/08/2008 - Soft Methods for Handling Variability and Imprecision
| By Didier Dubois, M. Asuncion Lubiano, Henri Prade, Maria Angeles Gil, Przemyslaw Grzegorzewski, Olgier £143.00 01 Aug 2008 Paperback Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG |
01/08/2008 - Scaling Topic Maps
| £34.59 01 Aug 2008 Multimedia Item 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. |
01/08/2008 - Model Abstraction in Dynamical Systems: Application to Mobile Robot Control
| By Patricia Mellodge, Pushkin Kachroo £61.50 01 Aug 2008 Paperback Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG |
01/08/2008 - Computational Intelligence in Biomedicine and Bioinformatics
| By Tomasz G. Smolinski, Mariofanna G. Milanova, Aboul-Ella Hassanien £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. |
01/08/2008 - Software Engineering Research, Management and Applications
| By Roger Lee £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. |
01/08/2008 - Dependability Modelling Under Uncertainty
| An Imprecise Probabilistic Approach By Philipp Limbourg £77.00 01 Aug 2008 Hardback Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG |
01/08/2008 - Artificial Intelligence
| A Beginner's Guide 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. |
30/07/2008 - GreyThumb Silicon Valley: A Speaker's Account
29/07/2008 - Motion Planning in Medicine
| Optimization and Simulation Algorithms for Image-guided Procedures 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. |
28/07/2008 - Wavelets
28/07/2008 - Rough -- Granular Computing in Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining
| By J. Stepaniuk £75.50 28 Jul 2008 Hardback Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG |
25/07/2008 - Artificial Intelligence in Theory and Practice II
| By Max Bramer £119.00 25 Jul 2008 Hardback Springer |
20/07/2008 - Scientists: Humans and machines will merge in future
Transhumanists, according to Bostrom, anticipate an era in which biotechnology, molecular nanotechnologies, artificial intelligence and other new types of cognitive tools will be used to amplify our intellectual capacity, improve our physical capabilities and even enhance our emotional well-being.
The end result would be a new form of "posthuman" life with beings that possess qualities and skills so exceedingly advanced they no longer can be classified simply as humans.
Bostrom declined to predict an exact time frame when this revolutionary biotechnological metamorphosis might occur. "Maybe it will take eight years or 200 years," he said. "It is very hard to predict."
18/07/2008 - Handbook of Granular Computing
| By Pedrycz, Witold. £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. |
18/07/2008 - Languages, Methodologies and Development Tools for Multi-Agent Systems
| £34.59 18 Jul 2008 Multimedia Item Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG |
18/07/2008 - Multi-Agent-Based Simulation VIII
| £31.53 18 Jul 2008 Multimedia Item Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG 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. |
15/07/2008 - Intelligence Integration in Distributed Knowledge Management
| By Dariusz Krol, Ngoc Thanh Nguyen £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. |
15/07/2008 - Machine Learning
| By Kubat £29.99 15 Jul 2008 Paperback Jones and Bartlett Publishers, Inc |
09/07/2008 - A Theory of Shape Identification
| By Frederic Cao, Jose-Luis Lisani, Jean-Michel Morel, Pablo Muse, Frederic Sur £30.00 09 Jul 2008 Paperback Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG |
01/07/2008 - Design Computing and Cognition
| Proceedings of the Third International Conference on Design Computing and By John S. Gero, Ashok K. Goel £107.34 01 Jul 2008 Multimedia Item Kluwer Academic Publishers Group |
01/07/2008 - Artificial Dreams: The Quest for Non-Biological Intelligence
| The Quest for Non-biological Intelligence 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. |
01/07/2008 - Artificial Dreams
| The Quest for Non-biological Intelligence 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. |
01/07/2008 - Automated Visual Surveillance
| Theory and Practice By Omar Javed, Mubarak Shah £60.00 01 Jul 2008 Hardback Springer-Verlag New York Inc. |
01/07/2008 - The Allure of Machinic Life: Cybernetics, Artificial Life, and the New AI
| Cybernetics, Artificial Life, and the New AI 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. |
01/07/2008 - Perception in Multimodal Dialogue Systems: 4th IEEE Tutorial and Research Workshop on Perception and Interactive Technologies fo
| £41.18 01 Jul 2008 Hardback Springer |
01/07/2008 - Pattern Recognition: 30th Dagm Symposium Munich, Germany, June 10-13, 2008 Proceedings
| £54.40 01 Jul 2008 Hardback Springer |
01/07/2008 - Fuzzy Logic in Action
| Applications in Epidemiology and Beyond 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 |
01/07/2008 - Fuzzy Implications
| By Michal Baczynski, Balasubramaniam Jayaram £98.00 01 Jul 2008 Hardback Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG |
01/07/2008 - New Frontiers in Applied Artificial Intelligence: 21st International Conference on Industrial, Engineering and Other Application
| £76.37 01 Jul 2008 Paperback Springer |
01/07/2008 - Spatial Representation and Reasoning for Robot Mapping: A Shape-Based Approach
| A Shape-based Approach 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. |
01/07/2008 - Robocup 2007: Robot Soccer World Cup XI
| £54.40 01 Jul 2008 Hardback Springer 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. |
01/07/2008 - Multimodal Technologies for Perception of Humans: International Evaluation Workshops Clear 2007 and Rt 2007, Baltimore, MD, USA,
| £59.89 01 Jul 2008 Hardback Springer |
01/07/2008 - Information Technologies in Biomedicine
| By Pietka, Ewa Kawa, Jacek £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. |
01/07/2008 - Artificial Neural Networks
| Methods and Applications 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. |
01/07/2008 - Computational Intelligence: Grundlagen Und Konzepte
| By Kramer, Oliver £16.46 01 Jul 2008 Paperback Springer |
01/07/2008 - Agents and Peer-To-Peer Computing: 5th International Workshop, Ap2pc 2006, Hakodate, Japan, May 9, 2006, Revised and Invited Pap
| £32.94 01 Jul 2008 Hardback 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. |
01/07/2008 - Metalearning
| Applications to Data Mining By Pavel Brazdil, Christophe Giraud-Carrier, Carlos Soares, Ricardo Vilalta £49.00 01 Jul 2008 Hardback Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG |
01/07/2008 - Articulated Motion and Deformable Objects: 5th International Conference, Amdo 2008, Port D'Andratx, Mallorca, Spain, July 9-11,
| £54.40 01 Jul 2008 Hardback Springer |
01/07/2008 - Artificial Neural Networks in Pattern Recognition: Third Iapr Tc3 Workshop, Annpr 2008 Paris, France, July 2-4, 2008 Proceedings
| £43.93 01 Jul 2008 Hardback Springer |
01/07/2008 - Logic, Language, Information and Computation: 15th International Workshop, Wollic 2008 Edinburgh, UK, July 1-4, 2008 Proceedings
| £38.43 01 Jul 2008 Hardback Springer |
01/07/2008 - Image and Signal Processing: 3rd International Conference, Icisp 2008, Cherbourg-Octeville, July 1-3, 2008, Proceedings
| £59.89 01 Jul 2008 Hardback Springer |
01/07/2008 - Image Analysis and Recognition: 5th International Conference, Iciar 2008, Pa3voa de Varzim, Portugal, June 25-27, 2008, Proceedi
| £87.36 01 Jul 2008 Hardback Springer 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. |
01/07/2008 - Artificial Intelligence and Soft Computing -- Icaisc 2008: 9th International Conference Zakopane, Poland, June 22-26, 2008, Proc
| £98.35 01 Jul 2008 Hardback Springer 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. |
01/07/2008 - Advances in Intelligent Information Processing: Tools and Applications
| Tools and Applications 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. |
01/07/2008 - The Art and Science of Interface and Interaction Design
| By Christa Sommerer, Lakhmi C. Jain, Laurent Mignonneau £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. |
30/06/2008 - I?ll be watching you
19/06/2008 - Mind as Machine
| A History of Cognitive Science 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. |
18/06/2008 - From Animals to Animats 10
| 10th International Conference on Simulation of Adaptive Behavior, SAB 2008, 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 |
18/06/2008 - New Directions in Intelligent Interactive Multimedia
| By George A. Tsihrintzis, Maria Virvou, Robert J. Howlett, Lakhmi C. Jain £130.50 18 Jun 2008 Hardback Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG |
18/06/2008 - Artificial Neural Networks for the Modelling and Fault Diagnosis of
| By Krzysztof Patan £60.00 18 Jun 2008 Paperback Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG The book is mainly focused on investigating the properties of locally recurrent neural networks, developing training procedures for them and their application to the modelling and fault diagnosis of non-linear dynamic processes and plants. The material included in the monograph results from research that has been carried out at the Institute of Control and Computation Engineering of the University of Zielona GA3ra, Poland, for the last eight years in the area of the modelling of non-linear dynamic processes as well as fault diagnosis of industrial processes. |
16/06/2008 - Evolutionary webpages
11/06/2008 - Informatics in Control Automation and Robotics
| Selected Papers from the International Conference on Informatics in Control By Juan Andrade-Cetto (Autonomous University of Barcelona), Jean Louis Ferrier, Jose Miguel Costa Dias £61.50 11 Jun 2008 Hardback Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG |
11/06/2008 - Computational Intelligence
| A Compendium By John Fulcher, Lakhmi C. Jain £130.50 11 Jun 2008 Hardback Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG Computational Intelligence: A Compendium presents a well structured overview about this rapidly growing field with contributions of leading experts in Computational Intelligence. The main focus of the compendium is on applied methods tired-and-proven effective to realworld problems, which is especially useful for practitioners, researchers, students and also newcomers to the field. The 25 chapters are grouped into the following themes: I. Overview and Background II. Data Preprocessing and Systems Integration III. Artificial Intelligence IV. Logic and Reasoning V. Ontology VI. Agents VII. Fuzzy Systems VIII. Artificial Neural Networks IX. Evolutionary Approaches X. DNA and Immune-based Computing. |
11/06/2008 - Modeling Semantic Web Services
| The Web Service Modeling Language By Jos De Bruijn, Dieter Fensel, Mick Kerrigan, Uwe Keller, Holger Lausen, James Scicluna £30.00 11 Jun 2008 Hardback Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG |
01/06/2008 - New Advances in Virtual Humans
| Artificial Intelligence Environment By Nadia Magnenat-Thalmann, Lakhmi C. Jain, N.S. Ichalkaranje £98.00 01 Jun 2008 Hardback Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG |
01/06/2008 - Computational Intelligence Paradigms
| Innovative Applications By Lakhmi C. Jain, Mika Sato-Ilic (University of Tsukuba), Maria Virvou, George A. Tsihrintzis, Valenti £75.50 01 Jun 2008 Hardback Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG |
01/06/2008 - Machine Learning
| Modeling Data Locally and Globally By Kai-Zhu Huang, Hai-Qin Yang, Irwin King, Michael R. Lyu £98.00 01 Jun 2008 Hardback Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG |
01/06/2008 - Adaptive and Multilevel Metaheuristics
| By Carlos Cotta, Marc Sevaux, Kenneth Sorensen £75.50 01 Jun 2008 Hardback Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG |
01/06/2008 - Data Analysis, Machine Learning and Applications: Proceedings of the 31st Annual Conference of the Gesellschaft Fa1/4r Klassifik
| Proceedings of the 31st Annual Conference of the Gesellschaft Fur By Annual Conference of the Gesellschaft fuer Klassifikation e.V. (31st : 2007 : Freiburg, Germany) £100.00 01 Jun 2008 Paperback Springer Contains the selected papers in the field of data analysis, machine learning and applications presented during the 31st Annual Conference of the German Classification Society (Gesellschaft fur Klassifikation - GfKl), which was held at the Albert-Ludwigs-University in Freiburg, Germany, in March 2007. |
01/06/2008 - Vehicular-2-X Communication: State-Of-The-Art and Research in Mobile Vehicular Ad Hoc Networks
| By Popescu-Zeletin, Radu Radusch, Ilja Rigani, Mihai A. £54.40 01 Jun 2008 Hardback Springer Along the ISO OSI reference model the authors describe medium access control, routing in WAVE/DSRC (Dedicated Short Range Communications), 802.11p, and accompanying standards based on the communication architecture defined by the Car-2-Car Communication Consortium and the National Vehicle Infrastructure Integration Consortium (VIIC), as within the Federal ITS Program (RITA). Future automotive applications such as cooperative driving manoeuvres utilizing car-2-X (or vehicle-2-x) communication between on-board units and road-side units are introduced and described en detail. Furthermore, a novel simulation approach combining current approaches for traffic and network simulations is introduced as a method for validating the automotive applications. |
01/06/2008 - Design by Evolution
| Advances in Evolutionary Design By Philip F. Hingston, Luigi C. Barone, Zbigniew Michalewicz £56.50 01 Jun 2008 Hardback Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG |
01/06/2008 - Advances in Differential Evolution
| By Uday K. Chakraborty £77.00 01 Jun 2008 Hardback Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG |
01/06/2008 - Algorithmic Foundations of Robotics (v. 7)
| Selected Contributions of the Seventh International Workshop on the By Srinivas Akella, Nancy Amato, Wesley Huang, Bud Mishra £90.50 01 Jun 2008 Hardback Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG |
01/06/2008 - Springer Handbook of Robotics
| By Siciliano, Bruno Khatib, Oussama £239.00 01 Jun 2008 Hardback Springer |
01/06/2008 - Artificial Intelligence
| New Research By Randal B. Bernstein, Wesley N. Curtis £85.99 01 Jun 2008 Hardback Nova Science Publishers Inc The modern definition of artificial intelligence (or AI) is "the study and design of intelligent agents" where an intelligent agent is a system that perceives its environment and takes actions which maximise its chances of success. AI research overlaps robotics, control systems, and many others. This book presents the research in the field. |
01/06/2008 - Advances in Cognitive Neurodynamics ICCN 2007
| Proceedings of the International Conference on Cognitive Neurodynamics. Iccn By Rubin Wang, Fanji Gu, Enhua Shen £191.50 01 Jun 2008 Hardback Kluwer Academic Publishers Group |
29/05/2008 - Big brother arrives via Comcast 24 years later than predicted
29/05/2008 - The Foundations of Causal Decision Theory
| By James M. Joyce £19.99 29 May 2008 Paperback Cambridge University Press The most complete defense of causal decision theory available. |
26/05/2008 - Self building - self reparing wireless networks
22/05/2008 - Plans for 1989 bot invasion of the moon
19/05/2008 - Neuromarketing lets advertisers get inside your brain
15/05/2008 - Survival research labs
15/05/2008 - Encyclopedia of Artificial Intelligence
| By Juan R. Rabunal, Julian Dorado, Alejandro Pazos Sierra £490.00 15 May 2008 Hardback IGI Global Covering theoretical developments, techniques, technologies, and applications of systems using intelligent characteristics for adaptability, automation learning, classification, prediction, and even artistic creation, this work features over 200 articles suitable for a research library's technology holdings. |
15/05/2008 - Trading Agents
| By Michael Wellman £22.50 15 May 2008 Paperback Morgan & Claypool Publishers |
12/05/2008 - UAVs to patrol US cities? But what happens after that?
09/05/2008 - Data Mining
| Data Mining, Protection, Detection and Other Security Technologies By C.A. Brebbia, N.F.F. Ebecken, A. Zanasi £105.00 09 May 2008 Hardback WIT Press |
08/05/2008 - Sparse Distributed Memory
05/05/2008 - Nano sized gains in nano technology brings giga sized concerns
01/05/2008 - The hive mind of humanity has arrived
01/05/2008 - New Challenges in Applied Intelligence Technologies
| By Ngoc Thanh Nguyen, Radoslaw Katarzyniak £100.00 01 May 2008 Hardback Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG |
01/05/2008 - Computational Intelligence for Remote Sensing
| By Manuel Grana, Richard J. Duro £98.00 01 May 2008 Hardback Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG |
01/05/2008 - Computational Intelligence in Automotive Applications
| By Danil Prokhorov £98.00 01 May 2008 Hardback Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG |
01/05/2008 - Evolution of Web in Artificial Intelligence Environments
| By Richi Nayak, N.S. Ichalkaranje, Lakhmi C. Jain £75.50 01 May 2008 Hardback Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG |
01/05/2008 - Soft Computing Applications in Business
| By Bhanu Prasad £100.00 01 May 2008 Hardback Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG |
01/05/2008 - Nature Inspired Cooperative Strategies for Optimization (NICSO 2007)
| By Natalio Krasnogor, Giuseppe Nicosia, Mario Pavone, David Pelta £100.00 01 May 2008 Hardback Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG |
01/05/2008 - Metaheuristics for Scheduling in Industrial and Manufacturing Applications
| By Fatos Xhafa, Ajith Abraham £100.00 01 May 2008 Hardback Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG |
01/05/2008 - Learning Classifier Systems in Data Mining
| By Larry Bull, Bernado-Mansilla Ester, John Holmes £77.00 01 May 2008 Hardback Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG |
01/05/2008 - Modelling and Control of Dynamical Systems
| Numerical Implementation in a Behavioral Framework By Ricardo Zavala Yoe £77.00 01 May 2008 Hardback Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG |
01/05/2008 - Communications and Discoveries from Multidisciplinary Data
| By Shuichi Iwata, Yukio Ohsawa, Shusaku Tsumoto, Ning Zhong, Yong Shi, Lorenzo Magnani £100.00 01 May 2008 Hardback Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG |
01/05/2008 - Quantum Inspired Intelligent Systems
| By Nadia Nedjah, Leandro Dos Santos Coelho, Luiza de Macedo Mourelle (State University of Rio de Janeir £77.00 01 May 2008 Hardback Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG |
01/05/2008 - Multimedia Services in Intelligent Environments
| Advanced Tools and Methodologies By George A. Tsihrintzis, Lakhmi C. Jain £77.00 01 May 2008 Hardback Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG |
01/05/2008 - Intelligent Computer Techniques in Applied Electromagnetics
| By Slawomir Wiak, Andrzej Krawczyk, Ivo Dolezel £77.00 01 May 2008 Hardback Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG |
01/05/2008 - Discrete-time High Order Neural Control
| Trained with Kalman Filtering By Edgar N. Sanchez, Alma Y. Alanis, Alexander G. Loukianov £77.00 01 May 2008 Hardback Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG |
01/05/2008 - Sprachverarbeitung: Grundlagen Und Methoden Der Sprachsynthese Und Spracherkennung
| By Pfister, Beat Kaufmann, Tobias £43.93 01 May 2008 Paperback Springer Das Buch erklArt die wesentlichen AnsAtze zur Sprachsynthese und zur Spracherkennung und vermittelt die dafA1/4r relevanten Grundlagen. Dazu gehAren insbesondere: Grundkenntnisse A1/4ber die menschliche Sprachproduktion und -wahrnehmung; Eigenschaften von Sprachsignalen und ihre Darstellung; Grundkenntnisse in Linguistik, insbes. Phonetik, Morphologie und Syntax; die wichtigsten Transformationen und Methoden der digitalen Sprachsignalverarbeitung; statistische AnsAtze zur Beschreibung vieldimensionaler GrAAen und komplexer ZusammenhAnge (Markov-Modelle und neuronale Netze) sowie die Formulierung und Anwendung von Wissen in der Form von Regeln. Das Buch geht auch auf viele praktische Probleme ein, die beim Konzipieren von sprachverarbeitenden Systemen zu lAsen sind. Dieses gut lesbare Buch wendet sich insbesondere an Studenten und Praktiker im Bereich Sprachverarbeitung. Ein ausfA1/4hrliches Glossar und eine Internet-basierte Sammlung von HArbeispielen ergAnzen das Buch. |
01/05/2008 - Springer Handbook of Robotics
| By Bruno Siciliano, Oussama Khatib £190.00 01 May 2008 Electronic Book Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG |
01/05/2008 - Advances in Computational Intelligence and Bioinformatics
| By Radu Dogaru, John A. Rose (The University of Tokyo), Mircea Gh. Negoita (Wellington Institute of Technology) £69.00 01 May 2008 Hardback Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG |
01/05/2008 - Springer Handbook of Robotics
| By Bruno Siciliano, Oussama Khatib £190.00 01 May 2008 Hardback Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG Starting from a predominantly industrial focus, robotics has been rapidly expanding into the challenges of unstructured environments. This book incorporates these developments and presents a conglomeration of application areas of robotics. |
01/05/2008 - Electroactive Polymer Gel Robots
| Modelling and Control of Artifical Muscles By Mihoko Otake £61.50 01 May 2008 Hardback Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG Presents developments and advances of deformable robots made of electroactive polymer (EAP) gel. This book presents the design, development and experimental control of deformable machines consisting of EAP gel on the basis of a theoretical deformation model. It also talks about the future direction of gel robots. |
01/05/2008 - Computational Intelligence in Archaeology
| By Juan A. Barcelo £92.00 01 May 2008 Hardback Information Science Reference Offers analytical theories offered by artificial intelligence computing methods in the archaeological domain. |
01/05/2008 - Cognition and Multi-Agent Interaction: From Cognitive Modeling to Social Simulation
| From Cognitive Modeling to Social Simulation By Sun, Ron £18.99 01 May 2008 Paperback Cambridge University Press Explores the intersection between individual cognitive modeling and modeling of multi-agent interaction. |
28/04/2008 - Insight into fly vision may lead to better computer vision
24/04/2008 - Algorithm to find networks no matter how small discovered
21/04/2008 - Statistical patterns in terrorism, damn statistics, or lies?
17/04/2008 - Facial expression AI will help your computer to understand you
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14/04/2008 - Flying robot mechanics to repair satellites
10/04/2008 - Distributed networking comes to satellites
07/04/2008 - Multi agent systems become more regretfully human
03/04/2008 - More cool robotic help for old foggies
01/04/2008 - Modeling Communication with Robots and Virtual Humans
| Second Zif Research Group 2005/2006 International Workshop on Embodied £34.50 01 Apr 2008 Paperback Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG |
01/04/2008 - Probabilistic Reasoning and Decision Making in Sensory-Motor Systems
| By Pierre Bessia]re, Christian Laugier, Roland Siegwart £77.00 01 Apr 2008 Hardback Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG |
01/04/2008 - Coordination, Organizations, Institutions, and Norms in Agent Systems III
| Coin 2007 International Workshops Coin@Aamas 2007, Honolulu, HI, USA, May £37.00 01 Apr 2008 Paperback Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG |
01/04/2008 - Statistical Implicative Analysis
| Theory and Applications By Ra(c)Gie Gras, Einoshin Suzuki, Fabrice Guillet £130.50 01 Apr 2008 Hardback Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG |
01/04/2008 - Supervised and Unsupervised Ensemble Methods and Their Applications
| By Oleg Okun, Giorgio Valentini £77.00 01 Apr 2008 Hardback Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG |
01/04/2008 - Algorithms for Fuzzy Clustering
| Methods in C-means Clustering with Applications By Sadaaki Miyamoto, Hidetomo Ichihashi, Katsuhiro Honda £77.00 01 Apr 2008 Hardback Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG |
01/04/2008 - Semantic Service Provisioning
| By Dominik Kuropka, Peter Troger, Steffen Staab, Mathias Weske £42.50 01 Apr 2008 Hardback Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG |
01/04/2008 - Applications of Computational Intelligence in Biology
| Current Trends and Open Problems By Tomasz G. Smolinski, Mariofanna G. Milanova, Aboul Ella Hassanien £100.00 01 Apr 2008 Hardback Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG |
01/04/2008 - Discrete Optimization with Interval Data
| Minmax Regret and Fuzzy Approach By Adam Kasperski £77.00 01 Apr 2008 Hardback Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG |
01/04/2008 - European Robotics Symposium 2008
| By Bruyninckx, Herman Preucil, Libor Kulich, Miroslav £77.00 01 Apr 2008 Hardback Not Avail |
01/04/2008 - Intelligent Decision and Policy Making Support Systems
| By Da Ruan, Frank Hardeman, Klaas van der Meer £100.00 01 Apr 2008 Hardback Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG |
01/04/2008 - Advances of Computational Intelligence in Industrial Systems
| By Ying Ming Liu, Aixin Sun, Han Tong Loh, Wen Feng Lu, Ee-Peng Lim £100.00 01 Apr 2008 Hardback Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG |
01/04/2008 - 3D-position Tracking and Control for All-terrain Robots
| By Pierre Lamon £61.50 01 Apr 2008 Hardback Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG |
01/04/2008 - Intelligent Interactive Systems in Knowledge-based Environments
| By Maria Virvou, Lakhmi C. Jain £77.00 01 Apr 2008 Hardback Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG |
01/04/2008 - Advanced Web Metrics with Google Analytics
| By Clifton, Brian £21.99 01 Apr 2008 Paperback Sybex Illustrates how to implement best-practice Web analytics methods using Google's popular analytics tool to help marketers, Web developers, and other professionals gain critical information about their site traffic and customer behavior. This book explains setups for configuring goals, filters, and segmenting visitor types. |
31/03/2008 - Robotic rats coming to alley near you
24/03/2008 - Shape shifting robots escape Lost and are coming to you
21/03/2008 - AI Game Programming Wisdom 4
| By Steve Rabin £40.69 21 Mar 2008 Cd-Rom Thomson Learning Filled with the insights of industry pros, this book provides new tricks, techniques, algorithms, architectures, and approaches to help programmers avoid redundancy and save valuable programming time. It provides advances, discoveries, and techniques that may affect the direction and use of game AI for the next generation of games. |
20/03/2008 - Star Trek medical devices get a step closer to reality
17/03/2008 - ?Mind Gaming? Could Enter Market This Year
17/03/2008 - Instead of blowing up third world nations we can now blow up Second Life
11/03/2008 - More 3D movies coming our way
Real D is different than traditional 3D projector technology because it uses a single projector (as opposed to using 2 projectors in older systems) along with an ingenious setup that eliminates flicker and errors when, for example, the viewer turns her head sideways. Real D utilizes glasses with circular polarized lenses instead of the more traditional read and blue filter glasses that you might remember from some older TV shows who did 3D episodes and gave the glasses away for free.
It will be interesting to see if the technology will stick this time or it will be exciting for a bit and then disappear once more until a new advance in 3D movie projection makes it popular again.
More information:
CNN: Deal could bring 3-D movies to 10,000 screens.
Wikipedia: Real D Cinema.
10/03/2008 - Coming soon to a city near you, robotic flies
10/03/2008 - Coming soon to a city near you, robotic flies
03/03/2008 - Robots evolve and learn to lie
03/03/2008 - Knowledge Management for Health Care Procedures
 | From Knowledge to Global Care, AIME 2007 Workshop K4CARE 2007, Amsterdam, By David Riano £32.50 03 Mar 2008 Paperback Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG |
01/03/2008 - Policy-Based Autonomic Computing
 | By Rana, Omer F. Johnston-Watt, Duncan £30.50 01 Mar 2008 Paperback Springer |
01/03/2008 - Agent and Multi-agent Systems - Technologies and Applications
 | Second KES International Symposium, KES-AMSTA 2008, Incheon, Korea, March By Ngoc Thanh Nguyen, Geun Sik Jo, Robert J. Howlett, Lakhmi Jain £71.50 01 Mar 2008 Paperback Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG |
01/03/2008 - New Computational Methods in Power System Reliability
| By David Elmakias £100.00 01 Mar 2008 Hardback Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG |
01/03/2008 - Electronic Commerce
| Theory and Practice By Makoto Yokoo, Takayuki Ito, Minjie Zhang, Juhnyoung Lee, Tokuro Matsuo £77.00 01 Mar 2008 Hardback Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG |
01/03/2008 - Intelligent Techniques and Tools for Novel System Architectures
| By Panagiotis Chountas, Ilias Petrounias, Janusz Kacprzyk £130.50 01 Mar 2008 Hardback Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG |
01/03/2008 - Evolutionary Swarm Robotics
| Evolving Self-organising Behaviours in Groups of Autonomous Robots By Vito Trianni £77.00 01 Mar 2008 Hardback Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG |
01/03/2008 - Soft Computing
| Techniques and Its Applications in Electrical Engineering By Devendra K. Chaturvedi £130.50 01 Mar 2008 Hardback Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG |
01/03/2008 - Holonic Execution
| A BDI Approach By Jacqueline Jarvis, Ralph Ronnquist, Dennis Jarvis, Lakhmi C. Jain £77.00 01 Mar 2008 Hardback Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG |
01/03/2008 - Natural Computing in Computational Finance
| By Brabazon, Tony O'Neill, Michael Brabazon, Anthony £77.00 01 Mar 2008 Hardback Springer |
01/03/2008 - Multimedia Semantics
| The Role of Metadata By Michael Granitzer, Mathias Lux, Marc Spaniol £77.00 01 Mar 2008 Hardback Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG |
01/03/2008 - Implementing Semantic Web Services
| The Sesa Framework By Dieter Fensel, Mick Kerrigan, Michal Zaremba £50.00 01 Mar 2008 Hardback Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG |
01/03/2008 - Computational Intelligence in Multimedia Processing: Recent Advances
| Recent Advances By Hassanien, Aboul Ella Abraham, Ajith Kacprzyk, Janusz £100.00 01 Mar 2008 Hardback Springer For the last decades Multimedia processing has emerged as an important technology to generate content based on images, video, audio, graphics, and text. Furthermore, the recent new development represented by High Definition Multimedia content and Interactive television will generate a huge volume of data and important computing problems connected with the creation, processing and management of Multimedia content. "Computational Intelligence in Multimedia Processing: Recent Advances" is a compilation of the latest trends and developments in the field of computational intelligence in multimedia processing. This edited book presents a large number of interesting applications to intelligent multimedia processing of various Computational Intelligence techniques, such as rough sets, Neural Networks; Fuzzy Logic; Evolutionary Computing; Artificial Immune Systems; Swarm Intelligence; Reinforcement Learning and evolutionary computation. |
01/03/2008 - Field and Service Robotics
 | Results of the 6th International Conference By Christian Laugier, Roland Y. Siegwart £77.00 01 Mar 2008 Hardback Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG |
01/03/2008 - Swarm Intelligence
 | Introduction and Applications By Christian Blum, Daniel Merkle £46.00 01 Mar 2008 Hardback Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG The laws governing the behavior of social insect colonies continue to mesmerize researchers. This title is an overview of swarm intelligence and a guide to the developments. It is intended for both novices and experienced researchers in the field. |
01/03/2008 - Artificial Life Fundamentals Artificial Life Fundamentals: The Simulation and Synthesis of Living Systems the Simulation and Syn
| The Simulation and Synthesis of Living Systems By Nehaniv, Chrystopher Dautenhahn, Kerstin £35.50 01 Mar 2008 Hardback Springer |
01/03/2008 - Robotics: Science and Systems III
 | Science and Systems III By W Burgard £48.95 01 Mar 2008 Paperback Mit Press Contains proceedings from the third annual Robotics: Science and Systems conference, presenting research on the foundations of robotics, robotics applications, and robotics systems. This volume covers topics such as: legged robotics, reconfigurable robots, biomimetic robots, manipulation, humanoid robotics, telerobotics, and haptics. |
29/02/2008 - You will be assimilated
25/02/2008 - Buddhabot converts to Christianity
22/02/2008 - Robots capable of surgery at 1.8gs but can?t put dishes away
21/02/2008 - Behavior: An Absence of Free Will, a Tendency to Cheat
20/02/2008 - Spam bots advance to stealing web 2.0 identitities
18/02/2008 - Turing tests re-visited
15/02/2008 - Man-Computer Symbiosis 50 years ago and now
15/02/2008 - Intelligent Complex Adaptive Systems
 | By Ang Yang, Yin Shan £59.50 15 Feb 2008 Hardback IGI Global Explores the foundation, history, and theory of intelligent adaptive systems, providing scholars, researchers, and practitioners with a fundamental resource on topics such as the emergence of intelligent adaptive systems in social sciences, biologically inspired artificial social systems, and sensory information processing. |
13/02/2008 - Lost in space robot replica
Wouldn't be cool if you could own your own replica of the Lost in Space B-9 robot? It sure would be. Many of us have dreamed of having a robot like the B-9 since we first watched the legendary TV show back in the 60s (okay, I was not born until 1975 so I only saw the robot in reruns much later but it makes little difference.) But alas, modern science has yet to fulfill our dreams. So, how about we just settle for an exact replica of the TV-show robot.Hammacher Schlemmer offers an exact and genuine replica of the Lost in Space B-9 robot for anyone to own. This robot is so cool that other than being of the correct size, it can also peaks over 500 pre-recorded phrases including the ever so popular "Danger Will Robinson!"
Every detail of the original robot is faithfully reproduced from original archival molds, patterns and blueprints. It is made from fiberglass, acrylic, aluminum, and steel parts, including its rotating torso and radar head, flashing lights, animated ear sensors, and clawed arms. It can be operated using the included remote control, allowing you to move its torso left and right and activate the robots soil sampler (which comes out of its right tread housing and spins; the robot provides an audible environmental analysis thereafter).
Very, very cool. The only problem is the price. Unfortunately, to own your own copy of the Lost in Space B-9 Environmental Control Robot you will have to pay the very steep $24,500 price (which is only $24,497 Canadian for those living North of the border.)
13/02/2008 - Active Sensor Planning for Multiview Vision Tasks
 | By S.Y. Shengyong Chen, L. Youfu, J. Zhang, W. Wang £77.00 13 Feb 2008 Hardback Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG Describes strategies to generate a sequence of viewing poses and sensor settings for optimally completing a perception task. This book offers implementation examples with theoretical methods for testing in a real robot system. |
11/02/2008 - Power line urban sentry finds a hack around battery problems
08/02/2008 - High oil prices bring us oil drilling robots
06/02/2008 - Robots to build Korean skyscrapers by 2010 and the Japanese are close behind
04/02/2008 - The Painting Fool is the machine intelligence competition winner
In the fall of 2007, I wrote about the annual Machine Intelligence competition organized by the British Computer Society. A couple of days ago, Richard emailed me to let me know that the finalists have now been decided and a winner has been chosen. Among the many interesting projects submitted to the competition, the winner was project called The Painting Fool created by Simon Colton, Maja Pantic, and Michel Valstar of the Imperial College London. According to the Press Release I received over email (thanks again Richard) The Painting Fool is software that records video of a person's face, analyzes it to extra information about his/her emotional state and then paints a portrait accordingly. In more detail, it works as follows,The Emotionally Aware Painting Fool brings together two Artificial Intelligence systems in order to produce computer portraits in an exciting new way. Firstly, the system 'looks' at a video clip of someone expressing an emotion, for instance smiling or frowning. Then, the software determines which emotion is being shown, where the eyes, nose and mouth are in the picture, and at what point in the clip the person is being the most emotional. This information is passed to The Painting Fool, a computer program which aims to be taken seriously as a creative artist in its own right. The Painting Fool chooses its colour palette and painting style according to the emotion in the picture. So, it might choose muted colours and careful pencil marks for a sad portrait, or bright, slapdash paint strokes for a happy portrait. Because The Painting Fool is also told where the facial features are, it can pay more attention to the eyes and mouth, and it can use exaggeration to heighten the emotion.
One example painting can be seen in the image to the top left of this post (click for a larger view.) You can find more examples of paintings at the project's website here. There you can also find a 15-minute long video presentation of The Painting Fool (click here for a direct link to the video.)
This is a cool project but don't think that it was the only great system that entered the machine intelligence competition. A small list of other competition participants with their projects (taken from the PR) includes,
- Mei Yii Lim and Michael Kriegel, Heriot-Watt University with their system FearNot (Fun with Empathic Agents Reaching Novel Outcomes in Teaching). This system uses intelligent graphical characters to improvise relationships between bullies and their victims.
- Tony Allen and Sergio Grau, Nottingham Trent University with SiLog. A voice activated computer password protector.
- Xenogene Gray, Grays Knowledge Engineering, Australia with eGanges, A freely navigable question and answer system for use in law. Client interacts with the system which makes notes for lawyers.
- Eric Atwell, Leeds University with CHEAT a hybrid human-machine intelligence system to generate academic research papers.
You can find more information about the competition and all these projects at the official Machine Intelligence Competition website.
04/02/2008 - Frankenstein reborn as a blue rat
01/02/2008 - TUG robot makes the rounds
01/02/2008 - New Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence
| Jsai 2007 Conference and Workshops, Miyazaki, Japan, June 18-22, 2007, £43.00 01 Feb 2008 Paperback Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG |
01/02/2008 - DNA Computing
| 13th International Meeting on DNA Computing, Dna13, Memphis, Tn, USA, June £37.00 01 Feb 2008 Paperback Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG |
01/02/2008 - Adaptive Agents and Multi-Agent Systems III
| Adaptation and Multi-Agent Learning, 5th, 6th, and 7th European Symposium, £34.50 01 Feb 2008 Paperback Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG |
01/02/2008 - Towards Affordance-Based Robot Control
| International Seminar, Dagstuhl Castle, Germany, June 5-9, 2006, Revised £32.50 01 Feb 2008 Paperback Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG |
01/02/2008 - Interval / Probabilistic Uncertainty and Non-classical Logics
 | By Van-Nam Huynh, Yoshiteru Nakamori, Hiroakira Ono, Jonathan Lawry, Vkladik Kreinovich, Hung T. Nguyen £115.50 01 Feb 2008 Paperback Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG |
01/02/2008 - Knowledge-driven Computing
| Knowledge Engineering and Intelligent Computations By Carlos Cotta, Simeon Reich, Robert Schaefer, Antoni Ligeza £100.00 01 Feb 2008 Hardback Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG |
01/02/2008 - Search Engines, Link Analysis, and User's Web Behavior
| A Unifying Web Mining Approach By George Meghabghab, Abraham Kandel £100.00 01 Feb 2008 Hardback Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG This book presents a specific and unified approach framework to three major components: Search Engines Performance, Link Analysis, and User??'s Web Behavior. The explosive growth and the widespread accessibility of the WWW has led to a surge of research activity in the area of information retrieval on the WWW. The book can be used by researchers in the fields of information sciences, engineering (especially software), computer science, statistics and management, who are looking for a unified theoretical approach to finding relevant information on the WWW and a way of interpreting it from a data perspective to a user perspective. It specifically stresses the importance of the involvement of the user looking for information to the relevance of information sought to the performance of the medium used to find information on the WWW. |
01/02/2008 - Multi-objective Evolutionary Algorithms for Knowledge Discovery from Databases
| By Ashish Ghosh, Satchidananda Dehuri, Susmita Ghosh £77.00 01 Feb 2008 Hardback Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG |
01/02/2008 - Enhancing Cognitive Assistance Systems with Inertial Measurement Units
| By Wolfgang Gunthner £77.00 01 Feb 2008 Hardback Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG The primary goal of this book is the specification, design and testing of an inertially stabilized camera platform for assistance systems with the focus on adaptive inertial measurement. This can be divided into the following sub-goals which also served as internal milestones for the project; development of a highly miniaturized inertial measurement unit, development of adaptive control algorithms for gaze stabilization, industrial application and development of multi-sensor fusion algorithms. |
01/02/2008 - Granular Computing
 | At the Junction of Rough Sets and Fuzzy Sets By Rafael Bello, Rafael Falcon, Witold Pedrycz, Janusz Kacprzyk £100.00 01 Feb 2008 Hardback Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG |
01/02/2008 - Intelligent Decision Making
| An AI-based Approach By Gloria Phillips-Wren, Nikhil Ichalkaranje, Lakhmi Jain £100.00 01 Feb 2008 Hardback Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG |
01/02/2008 - Systematic Design for Emergence in Cellular Nonlinear Networks
| With Applications in Natural Computing and Signal Processing By Radu Dogaru £77.00 01 Feb 2008 Hardback Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG |
01/02/2008 - Monte Carlo Methods in Fuzzy Optimization
 | By Jowers, Leonard J. Buckley, James J. £77.00 01 Feb 2008 Hardback Springer |
01/02/2008 - Computational Intelligence
| Methods and Techniques By Leszek Rutkowski £54.00 01 Feb 2008 Hardback Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG |
01/02/2008 - Machine Learning in Document Analysis and Recognition
| By Fujisawa, Hiromichi Marinai, Simone £100.00 01 Feb 2008 Hardback Springer The objective of Document Analysis and Recognition (DAR) is to recognize the text and graphical components of a document and to extract information. This book is a collection of research papers and state-of-the-art reviews by leading researchers all over the world including pointers to challenges and opportunities for future research directions. The main goals of the book are identification of good practices for the use of learning strategies in DAR, identification of DAR tasks more appropriate for these techniques, and highlighting new learning algorithms that may be successfully applied to DAR. |
01/02/2008 - A Legacy for Living Systems
 | Gregory Bateson as Precursor to Biosemiotics By Jesper Hoffmeyer £100.00 01 Feb 2008 Hardback Kluwer Academic Publishers Group |
01/02/2008 - Artificial Intelligence: Structures and Strategies for Complex Problem Solving
 | By Luger, George F. £57.73 01 Feb 2008 Hardback Addison Wesley Longman |
31/01/2008 - Artificial Intelligence
| Structures and Strategies for Complex Problem Solving By George F. Luger £45.78 31 Jan 2008 Multimedia Item Pearson Education Limited |
30/01/2008 - Are swarms chaotic?
28/01/2008 - Backward induction
27/01/2008 - Modeling Crowds
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23/01/2008 - Big blue is watching you
21/01/2008 - Braitenberg Vehicles
16/01/2008 - CyberLover swindles the willing
16/01/2008 - Negotiation, Auctions, and Market Engineering
| International Seminar, Dagstuhl Castle, Germany, November 12-17, 2006, By Henner Gimpel, N.R. Jennings, G.E. Kersten, A. Ockenfels, C. Weinhardt £32.50 16 Jan 2008 Paperback Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG Contains papers presented at the International Seminar "Negotiation and Market Engineering", held at Dagstuhl Castle, Germany, in November 2006. This work gives an overview on the major issues to be addressed and the methodologies used to approach them, covering research from computer science, economics, business administration, and mathematics. |
11/01/2008 - Just how real is that dinosaur you are carrying?
10/01/2008 - Nanocomputers and Swarm Intelligence
| By Jean-Baptiste Waldner £65.00 10 Jan 2008 Hardback ISTE Ltd and John Wiley & Sons Inc |
09/01/2008 - More robots on the sea
09/01/2008 - Learning Search Control Knowledge for Equational Deduction
| By S. Schulz £26.00 09 Jan 2008 Paperback IOS Press This text presents an approach to learning search guiding heuristics for the supposition-based theorom prover E. It looks at Term Space Mapping as an alternative learning method for recursive structures, used to learn heuristic evaluation functions for the evaluation of potential new consequences. |
04/01/2008 - 5 new models of animal flocking behavior discovered
02/01/2008 - What happens when weapons development goes private?
01/01/2008 - Robot Navigation from Nature
| Simultaneous Localisation, Mapping, and Path Planning Based on Hippocampal By Michael John Milford £61.50 01 Jan 2008 Hardback Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG |
01/01/2008 - Soft Computing Applications in Industry
| By Bhanu Prasad £100.00 01 Jan 2008 Hardback Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG |
01/01/2008 - Applying Fuzzy Mathematics to Formal Models in Comparative Politics
| By Terry D. Clark, Jennifer M. Larson, John N. Mordeson £77.00 01 Jan 2008 Hardback Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG |
01/01/2008 - Underactuated Robotic Hands
| By Lionel Birglen, Thierry Laliberte, Clement M. Gosselin £61.50 01 Jan 2008 Hardback Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG Grasping and manipulation skills are at the core of the development of modern robotic systems. With the introduction of robotics in new applications involving unstructured environments (e.g. space, undersea, surgery), intelligent manipulation and grasping has become a crucial research area. The authors have developed an internationally recognized expertise in this area. Additionally, they designed and built several prototypes which attracted the attention of the scientific community. Their work was reported in several publications which appeared in the most renowned journals and conferences. The purpose of this book is to summarize years of research and to present, in an attractive format, the expertise developed by the authors on a new technology for grasping???namely underactuation???which has achieved great success both in theory and in practice. This book is not intended to be used as a textbook but could be used as a reference at the post-graduate level. |
01/01/2008 - Experimental Robotics
| The 10th International Symposium on Experimental Robotics By Oussama Khatib, Vijay Kumar, Daniela Rus £92.50 01 Jan 2008 Hardback Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG The International Symposium on Experimental Robotics (ISER) is a series of bi-annual meetings which are organized in a rotating fashion around North America, Europe and Asia/Oceania. The goal of ISER is to provide a forum for research in robotics that focuses on novelty of theoretical contributions validated by experimental results. The meetings are conceived to bring together, in a small group setting, researchers from around the world who are in the forefront of experimental robotics research. This unique reference presents the latest advances across the various fields of robotics, with ideas that are not only conceived conceptually but also explored experimentally. It collects contributions on the current developments and new directions in the field of experimental robotics, which are based on the papers presented at the 10th ISER held in Rio de Janeiro, July 2006. |
01/01/2008 - Advances in Hybrid Information Technology: First International Conference, Ichit 2006, Jeju Island, Korea, November 9-11, 2006,
| £59.89 01 Jan 2008 Paperback Springer This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-proceedings of the First International Conference on Hybrid Information Technology, ICHIT 2006, held in Jeju Island, Korea, in November 2006. The 64 revised papers were carefully selected during a second round of reviewing and improvement from 235 reports given at the conference and are presented in extended version in the book. The papers are organized in topical sections on data analysis, modeling, and learning; imaging, speech, and complex data; applications of artificial intelligence; hybrid, smart, and ubiquitous systems; hardware and software engineering; as well as networking and telecommunications. |
01/01/2008 - Automaed Dedutction in Geometry: 6th International Workshop, Adg 2006, Pontevedra, Spain, August 31-September 2, 2006, Revised P
| £32.94 01 Jan 2008 Paperback Springer
The 13 revised full papers presented were carefully selected from the submissions made due to a call for papers - within the scope of ADG - shortly after the meeting. The papers show the lively variety of topics and methods and the current applicability of automated deduction in geometry to different branches of mathematics and to other sciences and technologies. |
01/01/2008 - Practice and Theory of Automated Timetabling VI: 6th International Conference, Patat 2006 Brno, Czech Republic, August 30-Septem
| £43.93 01 Jan 2008 Paperback Springer This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Practice and Theory of Automated Timetabling, PATAT 2006, held in Brno, Czech Republic, in August/September 2006. The 25 revised full papers presented were carefully selected during a second round of reviewing and improvement from 70 original conference presentations. The papers are organized in topical sections on general issues, employee timetabling, timetabling of meetings, sports timetabling, course timetabling, school timetabling, and examination timetabling. |
01/01/2008 - 50 Years of Artificial Intelligence: Essays Dedicated to the 50th Anniversary of Artificial Intelligence
| £43.93 01 Jan 2008 Paperback Springer |
01/01/2008 - Emerging Technologies in Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining: Pakdd 2007 International Workshops Nanjing, China, May 22-25, 2007
| £59.89 01 Jan 2008 Paperback Springer This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-proceedings of three workshops and an industrial track held in conjunction with the 11th Pacific-Asia Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining, PAKDD 2007, held in Nanjing, China in May 2007. The 62 revised full papers presented together with an overview article to each workshop were carefully reviewed and selected from 355 submissions. The volume contains papers of the PAKDD 2007 industrial track, that promotes industry applications of new data mining techniques, methodologies and systems, the workshop on Data Mining for Biomedical Applications (BioDM 2007), the workshop on High Performance Data Mining and Applications (HPDMA 2007), as well as the workshop on on Service, Security and its Data management for Ubiquitous Computing (SSDU 2007). |
01/01/2008 - Applied Pattern Recognition
| By Horst Bunke, Abraham Kandel, Mark Last £77.00 01 Jan 2008 Hardback Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG A sharp increase in the computing power of modern computers, accompanied by a decrease in the data storage costs, has triggered the development of extremely powerful algorithms that can analyze complex patterns in large amounts of data within a very short period of time. Consequently, it has become possible to apply pattern recognition techniques to new tasks characterized by tight real-time requirements (e.g., person identification) and/or high complexity of raw data (e.g., clustering trajectories of mobile objects). The main goal of this book is to cover some of the latest application domains of pattern recognition while presenting novel techniques that have been developed or customized in those domains. |
01/01/2008 - Computational Intelligence in Bioinformatics
| By Arpad Kelemen, Ajith Abraham, Yuehui Chen £100.00 01 Jan 2008 Hardback Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG |
01/01/2008 - Success in Evolutionary Computation
| By Ang Yang, Yin Shan, Lam Thu Bui £100.00 01 Jan 2008 Hardback Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG Darwinian evolutionary theory is one of the most important theories in human history for it has equipped us with a valuable tool to understand the amazing world around us. There can be little surprise, therefore, that Evolutionary Computation (EC), inspired by natural evolution, has been so successful in providing high quality solutions in a large number of domains. EC includes a number of techniques, such as Genetic Algorithms, Genetic Programming, Evolution Strategy and Evolutionary Programming, which have been used in a diverse range of highly successful applications. This book brings together some of these EC applications in fields including electronics, telecommunications, health, bioinformatics, supply chain and other engineering domains, to give the audience, including both EC researchers and practitioners, a glimpse of this exciting rapidly evolving field. |
01/01/2008 - Rational, Robust, and Secure Negotiations in Multi-agent Systems
| By Takayuki Ito, Hiromitsu Hattori, Minjie Zhang, Tokuro Matsuo £77.00 01 Jan 2008 Hardback Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG This book addresses all aspects of negotiation mechanisms in multi-agent systems, including Multi-Issue Negotiations, Concurrent Negotiations, Strategy-proof Mechanisms, Rational Argumentation, Auctions and Voting, and so on. These issues are being explored by researchers from different communities in Multi-Agent systems. They are, for instance, being studied in agent negotiation, multi-issue negotiations, auctions, mechanism design, electronic commerce, voting, secure protocols, matchmaking & brokering, argumentation, and co-operation mechanisms. This workshop will bring together researchers from these communities to learn about each other ??'s approaches, form long-term collaborations, and cross-fertilize the different areas to accelerate progress towards scaling up to larger and more realistic applications. |
01/01/2008 - Shape Understanding Systems
| By Zbigniew Les, Magdalena Les £100.00 01 Jan 2008 Hardback Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG |
01/01/2008 - Case Based Design
 | Applications in Process Engineering By Yuri Avramenko, Andrzej Kraslawski £77.00 01 Jan 2008 Hardback Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG |
01/01/2008 - Speech, Audio, Image and Biomedical Signal Processing Using Neural Networks
 | By Bhanu Prasad, S.R.M. Prasanna £100.00 01 Jan 2008 Hardback Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG |
01/01/2008 - Robotic Exploration and Landmark Determination
 | Hardware-efficient Algorithms and FPGA Implementations By K. Sridharan, Panakala Rajesh Kumar £77.00 01 Jan 2008 Hardback Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG |
01/01/2008 - Evolutionary Intelligence
 | An Introduction to Theory and Applications with Matlab By Sai Sumathi, T. Hamsapriya, P. Surekha £77.00 01 Jan 2008 Hardback Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG |
01/01/2008 - Applications of Complex Adaptive Systems
 | By Shan, Yin Yang, Ang £57.50 01 Jan 2008 Hardback Igi Publishing The universe is a massive system of systems - for example, ecological systems, social systems, commodity and stock markets. This title provides a global view of the research on the strategies, applications, practice, and implications of complex adaptive systems, to better understand the various critical systems that surround human life. |
01/01/2008 - Mining Imperfect Data
 | Dealing with Contamination and Incomplete Records By Ronald K. Pearson £40.00 01 Jan 2008 Paperback Society for Industrial & Applied Mathematics,U.S. This book discusses the problems that can occur in data mining, including their sources, consequences, detection and treatment. |
01/01/2008 - Genetic Programming Theory and Practice (v. 5)
 | By Rick Riolo, Terence Soule, Bill Worzel £65.50 01 Jan 2008 Hardback Springer-Verlag New York Inc. Genetic Programming Theory and Practice V was developed from the fifth workshop at the University of Michigan??'s Center for the Study of Complex Systems to facilitate the exchange of ideas and information related to the rapidly advancing field of Genetic Programming (GP). Contributions from the foremost international researchers and practitioners in the GP arena examine the similarities and differences between theoretical and empirical results on real-world problems. The text explores the synergy between theory and practice, producing a comprehensive view of the state of the art in GP application. The work covers applications of GP to a wide variety of domains, including bioinformatics, symbolic regression for system modeling, financial modeling, circuit design and robot controllers. This volume is a unique and indispensable tool for academics, researchers and industry professionals involved in GP, evolutionary computation, machine learning and artificial intelligence. |
31/12/2007 - By imitating bees servers can handle being Slashdotted or Digg?d more efficiently
28/12/2007 - Cell phones with face recognition
26/12/2007 - Robot cockroach leads the swarm
22/12/2007 - Taking Artificial Life to a General Audience
I was on ShrinkRapRadio Live last Sunday. I talked about everything from Soprano feral cats, the origins of intelligence, machine intelligence with cars, how the Turing test fails, the Singularity, simulations in the real world and freewill in robots.
An interview was released with me on the SciPhi Show this week. It is an interview that was taken about six months ago. I'd like to see science fiction authors including artificial life themes in their books. There appear to be a few sci-fi authors who listen to the SciPhi Show.
If you could take what is learnt from artificial life to any general audience, where would you take it?
21/12/2007 - Swarm intelligence reaches a new level
19/12/2007 - Personal agents may reach your phone before they reach your computer
17/12/2007 - Graphical models of knowledge representation
15/12/2007 - 3D search engine
One of the major problems that the team is trying to solve is discovering an efficient representation for 3D shape so that different objects can easily be identified. Some representations can be too general; for example, we can represent a human head and a soccer ball using a sphere but it would be hard to distinguish between the two unless more elements of the shape of each object are taken into account, i.e., the facial characteristics of humans can help differentiate a head from a ball. In addition, a model that is too specific will not be good for recognizing objects in a large database; for example, we would like to discover the features that make a car easy to recognize (a general class of objects) as opposed to a specific model, i.e., an SUV versus a sports car.
The 3D model search engine allows anyone to upload a 3D model of an object in order to help make it better. So, if you have some 3D models lying around, you can (and should) help the Princeton researchers improve their search engine.
15/12/2007 - Artificial Intelligence for Advanced Problem Solving Techniques
| By Dimitris Vrakas, Ioannis Vlahavas £95.00 15 Dec 2007 Hardback IGI Global Discusses the various ways a specific application can be modeled and solved using advanced problem solving techniques. |
14/12/2007 - Computer recognizes you by your typing skills or lack thereof
12/12/2007 - Pretty soon I?ll be housekeeping like Jane Jetson
10/12/2007 - Is mathematics the new artificial intelligence?
07/12/2007 - Violin playing robot: Why is it important?
Now, I'm certain that you are wondering what is the usefulness of a violin playing robot? Toyota and many other technology companies in Japan are in a race to develop affordable helper robots to assist an ageing population on daily tasks. The humanoid robots revealed by Toyota are part of a roadmap to start mass producing such machines no more than 5 years from now. But, do elderly people really want a robot that plays the violin or do they actually need a robot that can help them pick up their groceries and do their dishes?
The reason Toyota has developed a violin playing robot is not because the robot's ultimate purpose is to entertain people with its musical talents. Toyota is simply demonstrating the advances in their robotics technology. More specifically, they are showing us how dexterous their robot is and as they said, they plan to make it even better in the next couple of years; I would not be surprised if they achieved such a goal considering that this robot is the product of Toyota's robotics group established no more than 3 years ago. Playing the violin is not an easy task. The fact that this humanoid can do it is impressive to say the least.
07/12/2007 - Mobile phone smart network warns of intruders
05/12/2007 - The terminator for pirates has arrived
04/12/2007 - Computational Intelligence
| An Introduction By Andries P. Engelbrecht £64.62 04 Dec 2007 Audio-Visual / Multimedia Item John Wiley and Sons Ltd Explores the adaptive mechanisms that enable intelligent behaviour in complex and changing environments. This text focuses on the computational modelling of biological and natural intelligent systems, encompassing swarm intelligence, fuzzy systems, artificial neutral networks, artificial immune systems and evolutionary computation. |
03/12/2007 - Software recognizes short and long term anxiety in people
01/12/2007 - Issues in Multi-Agent Systems: The Agentcities.Es Experience
 | The AgentCities. ES Experience By Pavon, Juan Moreno, Antonio Pav?n, Juan £30.50 01 Dec 2007 Paperback Springer |
01/12/2007 - Verbal and Nonverbal Communication Behaviours: Cost Action 2102 International Workshop, Vietri Sul Mare, Italy, March 29-31, 200
 | Cost Action 2101 International Workshop, Vietri Sul Mare, Italy, March By Anna Esposito, Marcos Faundez-Zanuy (Escola Universitaria Politecnica de Mataro), Eric Keller, Maria £37.00 01 Dec 2007 Paperback Springer This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-proceedings of the COST Action 2102 International Workshop on Verbal and Nonverbal Communication Behaviours held in Vietri sul Mare, Italy, in March 2007. The 26 revised full papers presented together with 1 introductory paper comprise carefully reviewed and selected participants??? contributions and invited lectures given at the workshop. The papers are organized in topical sections on verbal and nonverbal coding schema, emotional expressions, gestural expressions, analysis and algorithms for verbal and nonverbal speech, as well as machine multimodal interaction. |
01/12/2007 - Computer Vision - Accv 2007: 8th Asian Conference on Computer Vision, Tokyo, Japan, November 18-22, 2007, Proceedings, Part II
 | 8th Asian Conference on Computer Vision, Tokyo, Japan, November 18-22, 2007, By Yasushi Yagi, Sing Bing Kang (Microsoft Corporation, Redmond, WA 98052, USA), In So Kweon, Hongbin Z £71.50 01 Dec 2007 Paperback Springer The two volume set LNCS 4843 and LNCS 4844 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 8th Asian Conference on Computer Vision, ACCV 2007, held in Tokyo, Japan, in November 2007. The 46 revised full papers, 3 planary and invited talks, and 130 revised poster papers of the two volumes were carefully reviewed and seleceted from 551 submissions. The papers of this volume are organized in topical sections on shape and texture, fitting, calbration, detection, image and video processing, applications, face and gesture, tracking, camera networks, face/gesture/action detection and recognition, learning, motion and tracking, retrival and search, human pose estimation, matching, face/gesture/action detection and recognition, low level vision and phtometory, motion and tracking, human detection, and segmentation. |
01/12/2007 - Computer Vision -- Accv 2007: 8th Asian Conference on Computer Vision, Tokyo, Japan, November 18-22, 2007, Proceedings, Part I
 | 8th Asian Conference on Computer Vision, Tokyo, Japan, November 18-22, 2007, By Yasushi Yagi, Sing Bing Kang (Microsoft Corporation, Redmond, WA 98052, USA), In So Kweon, Hongbin Z £71.50 01 Dec 2007 Paperback Springer The two volume set LNCS 4843 and LNCS 4844 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 8th Asian Conference on Computer Vision, ACCV 2007, held in Tokyo, Japan, in November 2007. The 46 revised full papers, 3 planary and invited talks, and 130 revised poster papers of the two volumes were carefully reviewed and seleceted from 551 submissions. The papers of this volume are organized in topical sections on shape and texture, fitting, calbration, detection, image and video processing, applications, face and gesture, tracking, camera networks, face/gesture/action detection and recognition, learning, motion and tracking, retrival and search, human pose estimation, matching, face/gesture/action detection and recognition, low level vision and phtometory, motion and tracking, human detection, and segmentation. |
01/12/2007 - Advances in Semantic Media Adaptation and Personalization
| By Manolis Wallace, Marios C. Angelides, Phivos Mylonas £100.00 01 Dec 2007 Hardback Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG Realizing the growing importance of semantic adaptation and personalization of media, the editors of this book brought together leading researchers and practitioners of the field to discuss the state-of-the-art, and explore emerging exciting developments. This volume comprises extended versions of selected papers presented at the 1st International Workshop on Semantic Media Adaptation and Personalization (SMAP 2006), which took place in Athens in December 2006. |
01/12/2007 - Annotating, Extracting and Reasoning about Time and Events: International Seminar, Dagstuhl Castle, Germany, April 20-15, 2005,
 | International Seminar, Dagstuhl Castle, Germany, April 20-15, 2005, Revised By Frank Schilder, Graham Katz, James Pustejovsky £29.00 01 Dec 2007 Paperback Springer This state-of-the-art survey comprises a selection of the material presented at the International Dagstuhl Seminar on Annotating, Extracting and Reasoning about Time and Events, held in Dagstuhl Castle, Germany, in April 2005. The seminar centered around an emerging de facto standard for time and event annotation: TimeML. The 9 papers included in the book constitute the thoroughly cross-reviewed and revised versions of selected summaries and findings presented and discussed at the seminar. The papers feature current research and discuss open problems concerning annotation, temporal reasoning, and event identification. The main concern is with the determination of the effectivity of the TimeML language for consistent annotation, the determination of the usefulness of such annotations for further processing, and the question as to which modifications should be applied to the standard to improve its convenience in applications such as question-answering and information retrieval. |
01/12/2007 - Computational Intelligence in Medical Informatics
 | By Arpad Kelemen, Ajith Abraham, Yulan Liang £100.00 01 Dec 2007 Hardback Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG |
01/12/2007 - Knowledge Discovery in Inductive Databases: 5th International Workshop, Kdid 2006 Berlin, Germany, September 18th, 2006 Revised
 | 5th International Workshop, KDID 2006 Berlin, Germany, September 18th, 2006 By Saso Dzeroski, Jan Struyf £37.00 01 Dec 2007 Paperback Springer This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed joint postproceedings of the 5th International Workshop on Knowledge Discovery in Inductive Databases, KDID 2006, held in Berlin, Germany, September 18th, 2006 in association with ECML/PKDD. The 15 revised full papers presented together with 1 invited paper were carefully selected during two rounds of reviewing and improvement for inclusion in the book. Bringing together the fields of databases, machine learning, and data mining the papers address various current topics in knowledge discovery and data mining in the framework of inductive databases such as constraint-based mining, database technology and inductive querying. |
01/12/2007 - Modern Computational Intelligence Methods for the Interpretation of Medical
 | By Marek R. Ogiela, Ryszard Tadeusiewicz £77.00 01 Dec 2007 Hardback Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG |
01/12/2007 - Current Topics in Artificial Intelligence: 12th Conference of the Spanish Association for Artificial Intelligence, Caepia 2007,
 | 12th Conference of the Spanish Association for Artificial Intelligence, £34.50 01 Dec 2007 Paperback Springer This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 12th Conference of the Spanish Association for Artificial Intelligence, CAEPIA 2007, held in Salamanca, Spain, in November 2007, in conjunction with the 7th Workshop on Artificial Intelligence Technology Transfer, TTIA 2007. The 28 revised full papers presented were carefully selected during two rounds of reviewing and improvement from 134 submissions. The papers address all current issues of artificial intelligence ranging from methodological and foundational aspects to advanced applications in various fields. |
01/12/2007 - Innovations in Hybrid Intelligent Systems
 | By Corchado, Juan M. Abraham, Ajith Corchado, Emilio £115.50 01 Dec 2007 Hardback Springer Hybrid Artificial Intelligence Systems (HAIS) combines symbolic and sub-symbolic techniques to construct more robust and reliable problem solving models. This volume focused on "Hybrid Artificial Intelligence Systems" contains a collection of papers that were presented at the 2nd International Workshop on Hybrid Artificial Intelligence Systems, held in 12 - 13 November, 2007, Salamanca, Spain. This carefully edited book provides a comprehensive overview of the recent advances in the hybrid intelligent systems and covers a wide range of application areas, including data analysis and data mining, intelligent control, pattern recognition, robotics, optimization, etc. The book is aimed at researchers, practitioners and postgraduate students who are engaged in developing and applying advanced intelligent systems principles to solving real-world problems. |
01/12/2007 - Multiobjective Problem Solving from Nature
 | From Concepts to Applications By Joshua Knowles, David Corne, Kalyanmoy Deb £50.00 01 Dec 2007 Hardback Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG Focuses on how multiobjective evolutionary algorithms (MOEAs) and related techniques are used to solve problems, particularly in science and engineering. This book deals with the problem, solution, objective, constraint, utility and preference, and shows how these concepts are investigated in practice. |
01/12/2007 - Cognitive Research
| A Formal Approach By Tamas Gergely, Oleg M. Anshakov, Victor K. Finn, Sergei O. Kuznetsov £46.00 01 Dec 2007 Hardback Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG Describing the theory, methodology and algorithmisation of a different approach, this book explains some of its applications realized in the form of intelligent systems. It talks about cognitive reasoning, integrating three types of inference: context dependent induction, causal analogy, and a different formalization of abduction. |
01/12/2007 - Proceedings of the Eighth International Conference on the Application of
 | By B.H.V. Topping £80.00 01 Dec 2007 Multimedia Item Civil-Comp Ltd Contains the abstracts of the contributed papers presented at the Eighth International Conference on the Application of Artificial Intelligence to Civil, Structural and Environmental Engineering, held in Rome, Italy, 30 August - 2 September 2005. The papers are available in electronic format on the accompanying CD-ROM. |
01/12/2007 - Research and Development in Intelligent Systems XXIV: Proceedings of AI-2007, the Twenty-Seventh Sgai Initernational Conference
 | Proceedings of AI-2007, the Twenty-seventh SGAI International Conference on By Bramer, Max Coenen, Frans Petridis, Miltos £80.00 01 Dec 2007 Paperback Springer The papers in this volume are the refereed technical papers presented at AI-2007, the Twenty-seventh SGAI International Conference on Innovative Techniques and Applications of Artificial Intelligence, held in Cambridge in December 2007. They present new and innovative developments in the field, divided into sections on Constraint Satisfaction, AI Techniques, Data Mining and Machine Learning, Multi-Agent Systems, Data Mining and Knowledge Acquisition and Management, followed by the text of short papers presented as posters at the conference. This is the twenty-fourth volume in the Research and Development series. The series is essential reading for those who wish to keep up to date with developments in this important field. The Application Stream papers are published as a companion volume under the title Applications and Innovations in Intelligent Systems XV. |
01/12/2007 - Distributed Consensus in Multi-Vehicle Cooperative Control
 | Theory and Applications By Wei Ren, Randal Beard £69.00 01 Dec 2007 Hardback Springer-Verlag London Ltd Covering introductory, theoretical and experimental material, this book features: an overview of the use of consensus algorithms in cooperative control; consensus algorithms in single- and double-integrator dynamical systems; consensus algorithms for rigid-body attitude dynamics; and rendezvous and axial alignment. |
01/12/2007 - Toward Artificial Sapience: Principles and Methods for Wise Systems
| Principles and Methods for Wise Systems By Mayorga, Rene V. Perlovsky, Leonid £49.50 01 Dec 2007 Hardback Springer Offers discussion of Artificial/Computational Sapience and Sapient Systems from a diverse set of contributors. This book presents computational paradigms describing lower- and higher-level cognitive functions, including mechanisms of concepts, instincts, emotions, situated behavior, language communication and social functioning. |
01/12/2007 - Biologically Inspired Artificial Intelligence for Computer Games
| By Charles, Darryl £54.92 01 Dec 2007 Hardback Idea Group Reference Computer games are often played by a human player against an artificial intelligence software entity. In order to truly respond in a human-like manner, the artificia intelligence in games must be adaptive, or respond as a human player would as he/she learns to play a game. |
01/12/2007 - Probing Experience: From Assessment of Emotions and Behaviour to Development of Products
 | From Academic Research to Commercial Propositions By Ouwerkerk, Martin Overbeek, Th??r??se J. M. Pasveer, W. Frank £61.50 01 Dec 2007 Hardback Springer |
30/11/2007 - Neural network trained to recognize 3d scenes falls for same optical illusions as do people
28/11/2007 - Presidental candidate uses illegal bot net to spam voters
26/11/2007 - AT&T big brother or savior?
26/11/2007 - Mapping the brain
From the article:
"Only one organism's wiring diagram currently exists: that of the microscopic worm C. elegans. Despite containing a mere 302 neurons, the C. elegans mapping effort took more than a decade to complete, in the 1970s. It has been an invaluable research resource and earned its creators a Nobel Prize.
"With an estimated 100 billion neurons and 100 trillion synapses in the human brain, creating an all-encompassing map of even a small chunk is a daunting task. Using standard methods, it would take roughly three billion person years to generate the wiring diagram of a single cortical column, a narrow functional unit of neurons in the cortex, estimates Winfried Denk, a neuroscientist at the Max Planck Institute for Medical Research in Heidelberg, Germany...
"Seung and Denk aim to dramatically speed up the tracing process, which takes a single graduate student weeks to complete, with automated machine-learning algorithms. The researchers use data from a manually generated wiring diagram to train an artificial neural network to emulate the human tracing process. They can then use the resulting algorithm to analyze new chunks of brain tissue. To date, they've been able to speed the process about one hundred- to one thousand-fold.
"Denk, Seung, and their collaborators are now developing sensitive new imaging techniques and machine-learning algorithms to automate the construction process. They have already generated a partial wiring diagram of part of the rabbit retina. But they'll need to make their technique a million times faster to finally bring larger maps--like that of a cortical column--into the realm of reality."
23/11/2007 - Buddhabot passes a turing test on Yahoo Answers
21/11/2007 - Use artficial intelligence to sort link spam from legitimate links
19/11/2007 - Neural network levels playing field in MMORGs
19/11/2007 - Programming Multi--Agent Systems in AgentSpeak Using Jason
| By Rafael H. Bordini, Michael Wooldridge, Jomi Fred Hubner £58.75 19 Nov 2007 Audio-Visual / Multimedia Item John Wiley and Sons Ltd Jason is an Open Source interpreter for an extended version of AgentSpeak - a logic-based agent-oriented programming language - written in Java[trademark]. This work explains Jason's AgentSpeak variant and provides a comprehensive, practical guide to using Jason to program multi-agent systems. |
16/11/2007 - Have machines already achieved consciousness?
15/11/2007 - ResearchCyc
| By Michael Witbrock, Lawrence Lefkowitz, Keith Goolsbey £22.50 15 Nov 2007 Paperback Morgan & Claypool Publishers |
14/11/2007 - Lua scripting language
13/11/2007 - Collaborative Language Engineering
| A Case Study in Efficient Grammar-based Processing By Dan Flickinger, Stephan Oepen, Hans Uszkoreit, Jun-Ichi Tsujii £43.00 13 Nov 2007 Hardback Centre for the Study of Language & Information This volume provides an update on the development and application of broad-coverage declarative grammars built on sound linguistic foundations and presents research efforts to produce comprehensive, re-usable grammars and efficient technology for parsing and generating with such grammars. |
12/11/2007 - Made from scrap robot outperforms most commercial models
09/11/2007 - Robotic devices lets cheap digital cameras take gigapixel images
After a two-year collaboration with colleagues at NASA’s Ames Research Center, Carnegie Mellon University scientists unveil their Gigapan camera system this week. It’s a robotic device that attaches to any digital camera. The device enables the public to shoot interactive, multi-billion pixel panoramas that can be explored in great depth on the Internet.”We are going to change the way people browse for exploration, discovery and cultural understanding,” said Carnegie Mellon’s Illah Nourbakhsh, an associate professor of robotics. Nourbakhsh is co-director of the Global Connection Project, with project scientist Randy Sargent of Carnegie Mellon West. [ read more Introducing the Gigapan Camera ]
The robotic camera mount takes hundreds of overlapping images to create the panoramas. The the software developed to go with the robot stitches all the images together.More information:GigapanView some of the panoramas that have been takenSystem enables any digital camera to produce interactive, multibillion pixel panoramsGoogle Earth GigaPan: Disappointing? See also:Amazing camera phone art
07/11/2007 - Darpa?s urban challenge has 3 winners
Originally 20 teams had hoped to compete in the Urban Challenge, 11 made the first cut. Some didn’t pass the ’safe for road’ test. The 11 finalists VictorTango, CarOLO, Ben Franklin, Cornell, Stanford, Tartan, MIT, Knight Rider, AnnieWAY, Intelligent Vehicle Systems, Terra Max all competed for a three and a half million dollar prize.
Six of the vehicles crossed the finish, and the three winners were Stanford ( $1 million ), Carnegie Mellon ( Tartan )( $2 million ) , and Virginia Tech ( Ben Franklin ) ( half a million ) finishing in less than 6 hours each.The course was 60 miles long, and vehicles had to avoid obstacles including 50 human driven cars.
More information:
Darpa, Urban Challenge
05/11/2007 - Evolutionary computing finds practical uses
. . . The idea of evolutionary algorithms is not new. Until recently, however, their use has been confined to projects such as refining the aerodynamic profiles of car bodies, aircraft fuselages and wings. That is because only large firms have been able to afford the supercomputers needed to mutate and crossbreed large virtual genomes?and then simulate the behaviour of their offspring?for perhaps 20m generations before the perfect design emerges.What has changed, in this as in so much else, is the availability and cheapness of computing power. According to John Koza of Stanford University, who is one of the pioneers of the field, evolutionary designs that would have taken many months to run on PCs are now feasible in days.The result is that the range of applications to which the principles of evolutionary design are being applied is growing fast. Among those revealed at the Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference held in London this summer were long-life USB memory sticks, superfast racing-yacht keels, ultra-high-bandwidth optical fibres, high performance Wi-Fi antennae (evolved to avoid patent fees), cochlear implants that can optimise themselves to individual patients and a cancer-biopsy analyser that was evolved to match a human pathologist?s tumour-spotting skills.How can evolution help improve a USB stick? It turns out that the storage transistors in these flash-memory devices are prone to being gummed up with electrostatic charge that they cannot dissipate. That prevents them being erased, limiting the stick?s useful life. A team at the University of Limerick in Ireland therefore evolved new signal-timing patterns that minimise the build-up of the disabling charge. The result: USB sticks that last up to 30 times longer than their predecessors. At the University of Sydney, in Australia, Steve Manos let an evolutionary algorithm come up with novel patterns in a type of optical fibre that has air holes shot through its length. Normally, these holes are arranged in a hexagonal pattern, but the algorithm generated a bizarre flower-like pattern of holes that no human would have thought of trying. It doubled the fibre?s bandwidth. . . . [ read more Don’t invent evolve]
See also:
Evolutionary computation: An overview(pdf)
Adrian Thompson’s Hardware Evolution Page ( He uses evolution to improve computer chips. )
01/11/2007 - Bridging the Gap Between Graph Edit Distance and Kernel Machines
 | By Michel Neuhaus Horst Bunke £32.00 01 Nov 2007 Hardback World Scientific Publishing Company Focuses on graph kernel functions that are highly tolerant towards structural errors. This book introduces a collection of novel graph kernels related to edit distance, including diffusion kernels, convolution kernels, and random walk kernels. |
01/11/2007 - Analysis of Biological Data: A Soft Computing Approach
 | A Soft Computing Approach By Sanghamitra Bandyopadhyay Ujjwal Maulik Jason T. L. Wang £37.00 01 Nov 2007 Hardback World Scientific Publishing Company Aims to provide a treatise, with both theoretical and experimental results, describing the basic principles of soft computing and demonstrating the various ways in which they can be used for analyzing biological data in an efficient manner. This book brings together research articles from scientists around the world. |
01/11/2007 - Hci and Usability for Medicine and Health Care
 | Third Symposium of the Austrian Hci and Usability Engineering Group, Usab £46.00 01 Nov 2007 Paperback Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG |
01/11/2007 - Multi-Agent-Based Simulation VII: International Workshop, Mabs 2006, Hakodate, Japan, May 8, 2006, Revised and Invited Papers
| £32.94 01 Nov 2007 Paperback Springer |
01/11/2007 - Computer Aided Systems Theory - Eurocast 2007
 | 11th International Conference on Computer Aided Systems Theory, Las Palmas By Roberto Moreno-Diaz (Universidad de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria), Franz Pichler, Alexis Quesada Arenc £87.50 01 Nov 2007 Paperback Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG |
01/11/2007 - Spatial Cognition V
| Reasoning, Action, Interaction £49.00 01 Nov 2007 Paperback Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG |
01/11/2007 - Adaptive Cooperation Between Driver and Assistant System
 | Improving Road Safety By Frederic Holzmann £77.00 01 Nov 2007 Hardback Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG |
01/11/2007 - Mechatronics and Machine Vision in Practice
 | By John Billingsley, Robin Bradbeer £107.50 01 Nov 2007 Hardback Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG From grading and preparing harvested vegetables to the tactile probing of a patient??'s innermost recesses, mechatronics has become part of our way of life. The addition of senses and computing intelligence to blend with mechanical actuation gives rise to a breed of new machines with all the best attributes of a robot. Here we find educational robots competing under water and dancing on land. Surgical robots drill precision holes in the skull while others direct radiation treatment or extract blood from an umbilical cord. Machine vision manages beer kegs and automated paint spraying, while controlling feral animals and the watering of cotton crops. Although there is no shortage of theoretical and technical detail in these chapters, they have the common theme that they describe work that has been applied in practice. They are vital reading both for students of mechatronics and for engineers harnessing its power to create new products. |
01/11/2007 - Agent-Based Modeling: The Santa Fe Institute Artificial Stock Market Model Revisited
 | The Santa Fe Institute Artificial Stock Market Model Revisited By Ehrentreich, Norman £46.00 01 Nov 2007 Paperback Springer This book reconciles the existence of technical trading with the Efficient Market Hypothesis. By analyzing a well-known agent-based model, the Santa Fe Institute Artificial Stock Market (SFI-ASM), it finds that when selective forces are weak, financial evolution cannot guarantee that only the fittest trading rules will survive.Its main contribution lies in the application of standard results from population genetics which have widely been neglected in the agent-based community. This has led to various misinterpretations of previous simulation results. The book is able to finally establish the emergence of technical trading for faster learning speeds in the SFI-ASM beyond a doubt. In emphasizing the importance of genetic drift as an important evolutionary factor and analyzing its effects on various mutation operators, this book provides agent-based modelers with several tools to design better evolutionary algorithms. |
01/11/2007 - Lectures in Supercomputational Neurosciences
 | Dynamics in Complex Brain Networks By P. Beim Graben, Changsong Zhou, Marco Thiel, Jurgen Kurths £61.50 01 Nov 2007 Hardback Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG |
01/11/2007 - The Art of Artificial Evolution
 | A Handbook on Evolutionary Art and Music By Juan Romero, Penousal Machado £65.50 01 Nov 2007 Hardback Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG |
01/11/2007 - Computational Intelligence in Bioinformatics
| By Corne, David W. Pan, Yi Fogel, Gary B. £42.50 01 Nov 2007 Hardback IEEE Computer Society Press Highlights the importance and success of computational intelligence methods over a diverse range of bioinformatics problems. This book encourages readers to use these methods and approaches in their research. It also provides an introduction to computational intelligence methods and applications to the consumers of the research. |
01/11/2007 - Computational Intelligence: An Introduction
 | An Introduction By Engelbrecht, Andries P. £55.00 01 Nov 2007 Hardback John Wiley & Sons Focuses on computational modelling of biological and natural intelligent systems in order to develop nature inspired artificially intelligent systems. This second edition covers advances in Computaional Intelligence, namely artificial immune systems, hybrid systems, and a section on how to perform empirical studies. |
01/11/2007 - Programming Multi-Agent Systems in Agentspeak Using Jason
 | A Practical Introduction with Jason By Bordini, Rafael H. Wooldridge, Michael Hbner, Jomi Fred £50.00 01 Nov 2007 Hardback Wiley-Interscience Jason is an Open Source interpreter for an extended version of AgentSpeak - a logic-based agent-oriented programming language - written in Java[trademark]. This title provides a brief introduction to multi-agent systems and the BDI agent architecture on which AgentSpeak is based. It explains Jason's AgentSpeak variant. |
01/11/2007 - Encyclopedia of Machine Learning
 | £299.00 01 Nov 2007 Hardback Springer-Verlag New York Inc. Provides access to relevant information on various aspects of machine learning. Each entry includes: a definition, key words, an illustration, applications, a bibliography, and links to related literature. |
01/11/2007 - Encyclopedia of Machine Learning
| £299.00 01 Nov 2007 Electronic Book Springer-Verlag New York Inc. |
31/10/2007 - The International Dictionary of Artificial Intelligence
| By William Raynor £24.95 31 Oct 2007 Paperback Financial World Publishing Anticipating the needs of professionals and researchers alike, this dictionary is the first up-to-date reference volume on a discipline of ever-growing importance. Artificial intelligence is rapidly becoming the foundation discipline for thousands of new applications and will have dramatic effects on virtually every activity we engage in.This essential reference features over 2,500 entries--all defined, explained and illustrated--as well as detailed explanations of major concepts in related disciplines. A completely cross-referenced index, annotated bibliography, and extensive appendix of World Wide Web sites on the latest trends in AI will make this a favorite resource for practitioners and researchers around the world. |
25/10/2007 - Correlative Learning
 | A Basis for Brain and Adaptive Systems By Zhe Chen, Simon Haykin, Jos J. Eggermont, Suzanna Becker £65.95 25 Oct 2007 Hardback John Wiley and Sons Ltd Aims to provide a bridge between three disciplines: computational neuroscience, neural networks, and signal processing. This book also presents an overview of the role of correlation in the human brain as well as in the adaptive signal processing world. |
21/10/2007 - Second annual reinforcement learning competition
18/10/2007 - Perspectives on Contexts
| By Paolo Bouquet, Luciano Serafini, Richmond H. Thomason £20.50 18 Oct 2007 Paperback Centre for the Study of Language & Information Most human thinking is thoroughly informed by context, but theories of reasoning have concentrated on abstract rules and generalities that make no reference to this crucial factor. This work brings together essays from leading cognitive scientists to forge an interdisciplinary understanding of the contextual phenomenon. |
18/10/2007 - Perspectives on Contexts
| By Paolo Bouquet, Luciano Serafini, Richmond H. Thomason £44.50 18 Oct 2007 Hardback Centre for the Study of Language & Information Most human thinking is thoroughly informed by context, but theories of reasoning have concentrated on abstract rules and generalities that make no reference to this crucial factor. This work brings together essays from leading cognitive scientists to forge an interdisciplinary understanding of the contextual phenomenon. |
15/10/2007 - The Search for Equilibrium in Markov Games
| By Amy Greenwald £22.50 15 Oct 2007 Paperback Morgan & Claypool Publishers |
01/10/2007 - Computer Recognition Systems (No. 2)
 | By Marek Kurzynski, Edward Puchala, Michal Wozniak, Andrzej Zolnierek £176.00 01 Oct 2007 Paperback Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG Presents the results of the 5th International Conference on Computer Recognition Systems CORES-07 held 22-25 October 2007 in Hotel Tumski, Wroclaw, Poland. This work brings together original research results in both methodological issues and different application areas of pattern recognition. |
01/10/2007 - Advances in Computation and Intelligence: Second International Symposium, Isica 2007, Wuhan, China, September 21-23, 2007, Proce
 | Second International Symposium, Isica 2007wuhan, China, September 21-23, By Lishan Kang, Yong Liu, Sanyou Zeng £58.50 01 Oct 2007 Paperback Springer <P>This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the Second International Symposium on Intelligence Computation and Applications, ISICA 2007, held in Wuhan, China, September 21-23, 2007.</P> <P>The 71 revised full papers were carefully reviewed and selected from nearly 1000 submissions. The topics include Evolutionary Computation, Evolutionary learning, Neural Networks, Swarms, Pattern Recognition, Data Mining and others.<BR></P> |
01/10/2007 - Multiple Heterogeneous Unmanned Aerial Vehicles
 | By Maza, Ivan £61.50 01 Oct 2007 Hardback Springer Provides an overview of issues related to aerial robotics, addressing problems ranging from flight control to terrain perception and mission planning and execution. This book examines potential applications of UAVs and details a relevant application case: forest fire detection and monitoring. |
01/10/2007 - Introduction to Genetic Algorithms
 | By S.N. Sivanandam (PSG College of Technology), S.N. Deepa £54.00 01 Oct 2007 Hardback Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG Designed to provide knowledge on the basic operational features and characteristics of Genetic Algorithms. This book also explores the different types of Genetic Algorithms available along with their importance. It contains basic concepts, several applications of Genetic Algorithms and solved Genetic Problems using MATLAB software and C/C++. |
01/10/2007 - Case-based Reasoning on Images and Signals
| By Petra Perner £100.00 01 Oct 2007 Hardback Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG |
01/10/2007 - Advances in Metaheuristics for Hard Optimization
| By Patrick Siarry, Zbigniew Michalewicz £57.50 01 Oct 2007 Hardback Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG Contains chapters which are organized into parts on simulated annealing, tabu search, ant colony algorithms, general-purpose studies of evolutionary algorithms, applications of evolutionary algorithms, and various metaheuristics. This book gathers contributions related to: theoretical developments in metaheuristics; and software implementations. |
01/10/2007 - Markov Models for Pattern Recognition
 | From Theory to Applications By Gernot A. Fink £34.50 01 Oct 2007 Hardback Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG |
01/10/2007 - Media Theory
 | Interdisciplinary Applied Mathematics By David Eppstein, Jean-Claude Falmagne, Sergei Ovchinnikov £57.50 01 Oct 2007 Hardback Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG Focuses on mathematical structure modeling a physical or biological system that can be in any of a number of 'states.' Each state is characterized by a set of binary features, and differs from some other neighbor state or states by just one of those feature. |
01/10/2007 - Intelligent Computing Everywhere
| By Schuster, Alfons £55.00 01 Oct 2007 Hardback Springer-Verlag London Ltd Investigates the relevance and relationship between artificial intelligence and modern trends in computing. This book explores some of the fields in computing, including pervasive computing, autonomic computing, bioinformatics, artificial life, artificial synthetic life, DNA computing, and quantum computing. |
01/10/2007 - Project Management and Risk Management in Complex Projects: Studies in Organizational Semiotics
 | Studies in Organizational Semiotics By Charrel, Pierre-Jean Galarreta, Daniel £77.00 01 Oct 2007 Hardback Springer |
28/09/2007 - Genesis Redux
| Essays in the History and Philosophy of Artificial Life By Jessica Riskin £41.00 28 Sep 2007 Hardback The University of Chicago Press Since antiquity, philosophers and engineers have tried to take life's measure by reproducing it. This title collects seventeen essays from distinguished scholars in several fields. It is intended for historians and philosophers of science and technology, scientists and engineers working in artificial life and intelligence, and others. |
21/09/2007 - Computational Intelligence Theory and Implementation
 | By Eberhart £39.99 21 Sep 2007 Hardback Elsevier Science & Technology |
15/09/2007 - Architectural Design of Multi-agent Systems
 | Technologies and Techniques By Hong Lin £98.00 15 Sep 2007 Hardback IGI Global Compiles advanced research results focusing on architecture and modeling issues of multi-agent systems. This book serves as a reference for further research on system models, architectural design languages, formal methods and reasoning. |
14/09/2007 - Robot Brains
 | Circuits and Systems for Conscious Machines By Pentti O. Haikonen £65.00 14 Sep 2007 Hardback John Wiley and Sons Ltd Presenting practical design guidelines for the creation of non numeric, autonomous cognitive machines, this book examines the component parts and realization principles and provides real world examples for designers, researchers, and advanced students in the field. It explains how all the component parts are related to conscious machines. |
01/09/2007 - Frontiers of Combining Systems: 6th International Workshop, Frocos 2007, Liverpool, UK, September 10-12, 2007. Proceedings
 | 6th International Workshop, Frocos 2007, Liverpool, UK, September 10-12, By Boris Konev, Frank Wolter £34.50 01 Sep 2007 Hardback Not Avail |
01/09/2007 - Advanced Concepts for Intelligent Vision Systems: 9th International Conference, Acivs 2007, Delft, the Netherlands, August 28-31
 | 9th International Conference, ACIVS 2007, Delft, the Netherlands, August By Jacques Blanc-Talon, Wilfried Philips, Dan C. Popescu, Paul Scheunders £81.00 01 Sep 2007 Hardback Not Avail |
01/09/2007 - KI 2007: Advances in Artificial Intelligence: 30th Annual German Conference on AI, KI 2007, Osnabr??ck, Germany, September 10-13
| 30th Annual German Conference on AI, Ki 2007, Osnabruck, Germany, September £49.00 01 Sep 2007 Hardback Not Avail |
01/09/2007 - Holonic and Multi-Agentsystems for Manufacturing: Third International Conference on Industrial Applications of Holonic and Multi
| Third International Conference on Industrial Applications of Holonic and £46.00 01 Sep 2007 Hardback Not Avail |
01/09/2007 - Comutational Intelligence and Security: International Conference, Cis 2006, Guangzhou, China, November 3-6, 2006, Revised Select
| International Conference, CIS 2006, Guangzhou, China, November 3-6, 2006, By Yunping Wang, Yiu-Ming Cheung (Hong Kong Baptist University), Hailin Liu £80.00 01 Sep 2007 Hardback Not Avail |
01/09/2007 - Advanced Intelligent Computing Theories and Applications. with Aspects of Contemporary Intelligent Computing Techniques: Third I
 | Third International Conference on Intelligent Computing, Icic 2007, Qingdao, By De-Shuang Huang (Chinese Academy of Sciences), Laurent Heutte, Marco Loog £94.50 01 Sep 2007 Paperback Not Avail |
01/09/2007 - Computer Analysis of Images and Patterns: 12th International Conference, Caip 2007, Vienna, Austria, August 27-29, 2007, Proceed
 | 12th International Conference, CAIP 2007, Vienna, Austria, August 27-29, By Walter G. Kropatsch, Martin Kampel, Allan Hanbury £76.00 01 Sep 2007 Paperback Not Avail |
01/09/2007 - Anticipatory Behavior in Adaptive Learning Systems: From Brains to Individual and Social Behavior
 | From Brains to Individual and Social Behavior By Martin V. Butz, Olivier Sigaud, Giovanni Pezzulo, Gianluca Baldassarre £40.00 01 Sep 2007 Paperback Not Avail |
01/09/2007 - Image Analysis and Recognition: 4th International Conference, Iciar 2007, Montreal, Canada, August 22-24, 2007, Proceedings
 | 4th International Conference, ICIAR 2007, Montreal, Canada, August 22-24, By Mohamed Kamel, Aurelio Campilho £89.00 01 Sep 2007 Paperback Not Avail |
01/09/2007 - Modeling and Using Context: 6th International and Interdisciplinary Conference, Context 2007, Roskilde, Denmark, August 20-24, 2
 | 6th International and Interdisciplinary Conference, CONTEXT 2007, Roskilde, By Boicho Kokinov, Daniel C. Richardson, Thomas R. Roth-Berghofer, Laure Vieu £52.50 01 Sep 2007 Paperback Not Avail |
01/09/2007 - Algorithmic Methods for Railway Optimization: International Dagstuhl Workshop, Dagsthl Castle, Germany, June 20-25, 2004, 4thint
 | International Dagstuhl Workshop, Dagsthl Castle, Germany, June 20-25, 2004, By Frank Geraets, Leo Kroon, Anita Schoebel, Dorothea Wagner, Christos Zaroliagiis £35.50 01 Sep 2007 Hardback Not Avail |
01/09/2007 - Advanced Intelligent Computing Theories and Applications: Third International Conference on Intelligent Computing, ICIC 2007, Qi
 | Third International Conference on Intelligent Computing, ICIC 2007, Qingdao, By De-Shuang Huang (Chinese Academy of Sciences), Laurent Heutte, Marco Loog £94.50 01 Sep 2007 Hardback Not Avail |
01/09/2007 - Speaker Classification I: Fundamentals, Features, and Methods
 | Fundamentals, Features, and Methods By Christian Muller £40.00 01 Sep 2007 Paperback Not Avail |
01/09/2007 - Advanced Intelligent Computing Theories and Applications - With Aspects of Theoretical and Methodological Issues: Third Internat
| Third International Conference on Intelligent Computing, ICIC 2007 Qingdao, By De-Shuang Huang (Chinese Academy of Sciences), Laurent Heutte, Marco Loog £94.50 01 Sep 2007 Hardback Not Avail |
01/09/2007 - Model Checking and Artificial Intelligence: 4th Workshop, Mochart IV, Riva del Garda, Italy, August 29, 2006, Revised Selected a
| 4th Workshop, Mochart IV, Riva Del Garda, Italy, August 29, 2006, Revised By Stefan Edelkamp, Alessio Lomuscio £32.50 01 Sep 2007 Hardback Not Avail |
01/09/2007 - Speaker Classifcation II: Selected Papers
 | Selected Papers By C. Muller £34.50 01 Sep 2007 Hardback Not Avail |
01/09/2007 - Robocup 2006: Robot Soccer World Cup X
 | Robot Soccer World Cup By Gerhard Lakemeyer, Elizabeth Sklar, Domenico G. Sorrenti, Tomoichi Takahashi £51.00 01 Sep 2007 Hardback Not Avail |
01/09/2007 - Brownian Agents and Active Particles: Collective Dynamics in the Natural and Social Sciences
 | Collective Dynamics in the Natural and Social Sciences By Frank Schweitzer £34.50 01 Sep 2007 Paperback Not Avail Lays out a vision for a coherent framework for understanding complex systems. By developing the idea of Brownian agents, this work combines concepts from informatics, such as multiagent systems, with approaches of statistical many-particle physics. It also shows that Brownian agent models can be successfully applied in many different contexts. |
01/09/2007 - Learning from Data Streams
| Processing Techniques in Sensor Networks By Joao Gama, Mohamed Medhat Gaber £50.00 01 Sep 2007 Hardback Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG Processing data streams generated from wireless sensor networks has raised new research challenges due to the huge numbers of data streams to be managed continuously and at a very high rate. This book provides you with an overview of stream data processing, including prototype implementations like the Nile system and the Tiny OS operating system. |
01/09/2007 - The 2005 Darpa Grand Challenge: The Great Robot Race
 | The Great Robot Race By Buehler, Martin Singh, Sanjiv Iagnemma, Karl £38.50 01 Sep 2007 Hardback Springer |
01/09/2007 - Autonomous Robots and Agents
| By Subhash Mukhopadhyay, Gourab Sen Gupta £77.00 01 Sep 2007 Hardback Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG |
01/09/2007 - Thinking in Complexity
 | The Computational Dynamics of Matter, Mind, and Mankind By Klaus Mainzer £38.50 01 Sep 2007 Hardback Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG The theory of nonlinear, complex systems has become a proven problem-solving approach in the natural sciences. This book discusses, in essentially nontechnical language, the common framework behind these ideas and challenges. It emphasizes the evolution of structures in natural and cultural systems. |
01/09/2007 - Confabulation Theory: The Mechanism of Thought
 | The Mechanism of Thought By Hecht-Nielsen, Robert £54.00 01 Sep 2007 Hardback Springer |
01/09/2007 - Fundamentals of the New Artificial Intelligence: Neural, Evolutionary, Fuzzy and More
| Neural, Evolutionary, Fuzzy and More By Munakata, Toshinori £39.50 01 Sep 2007 Hardback Springer |
01/09/2007 - Minds and Computers: An Introduction to the Philosophy of Artificial Intelligence
 | An Introduction to the Philosophy of Artificial Intelligence By Tallis, Raymond Carter, Matt £17.99 01 Sep 2007 Paperback Edinburgh University Press An introductory textbook to the Philosophy of Artificial Intelligence and Philosophy of Mind. This book introduces students to the philosophical issues of Artificial Intelligence in an engaging, coherent, and highly approachable manner. It also presents introductory material from the disciplines, which constitute Cognitive Science. |
01/09/2007 - Correlative Learning: A Basis for Brain and Adaptive Systems
| By Chen, Zhe Haykin, Simon Eggermont, Jos J. £68.68 01 Sep 2007 Non-Book Item Wiley-Interscience < i> Correlative Learning: A Basis for Brain and Adaptive Systems< /i> provides a bridge between three disciplines: computational neuroscience, neural networks, and signal processing. First, the authors lay down the preliminary neuroscience background for engineers. The book also presents an overview of the role of correlation in the human brain as well as in the adaptive signal processing world; unifies many well-established synaptic adaptations (learning) rules within the correlation-based learning framework, focusing on a particular correlative learning paradigm, ALOPEX; and presents case studies that illustrate how to use different computational tools and ALOPEX to help readers understand certain brain functions or fit specific engineering applications. |
01/09/2007 - Stochastic Learning and Optimization: A Sensitivity-Based Approach
| A Sensitivity-based Approach By Cao, Xiren Cao, Xi-Ren £84.50 01 Sep 2007 Hardback Springer Performance optimization is important in designing and operating modern engineering systems in many areas, including communications (Internet and wireless), manufacturing, robotics, and logistics. This book proposes research in performance optimization and looks at areas that seek to make the "best decision" to optimize system performance. |
01/09/2007 - Evolutionary Algorithms for Solving Multi-Objective Problems
 | By Coello Coello, Carlos A. Van Veldhuizen, David A. Lamont, Gary B. £59.00 01 Sep 2007 Hardback Springer Disseminates the application of evolutionary algorithm techniques to a variety of practical problems, including test suites with associated performance based on a variety of appropriate metrics, as well as serial and parallel algorithm implementations. This book contains appendices, index and bibliography. |
29/08/2007 - The Robotics Primer
 | By Maja J. Mataric £17.95 29 Aug 2007 Paperback MIT Press Ltd An introduction to robotics for students at pre-university and university levels, robot hobbyists, and anyone interested in this field. This work covers the basic concepts to the sophisticated applications and topics with an emphasis on what it takes to create autonomous intelligent robot behavior. |
16/08/2007 - Satisficing Games and Decision Making
 | With Applications to Engineering and Computer Science By Wynn C. Stirling £23.99 16 Aug 2007 Paperback Cambridge University Press An alternative approach to mathematical decision making for AI and expert systems engineers and scientists. |
01/08/2007 - Hybrid Evolutionary Algorithms
| By Ajith Abraham, Hisao Ishibuchi £100.00 01 Aug 2007 Hardback Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG |
01/08/2007 - Neurodynamics of Cognition and Consciousness
| By Robert Kozma £61.50 01 Aug 2007 Hardback Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG |
01/08/2007 - Foundation of Global Genetic Optimization
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01/08/2007 - Computational Intelligence for Agent-based Systems
| By Raymond S.T. Lee (Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong China), Vincenzo Loia £77.00 01 Aug 2007 Hardback Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG |
01/08/2007 - Uncertainty Theory
| By Baoding Liu £77.00 01 Aug 2007 Hardback Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG |
01/08/2007 - Evolution of Teaching and Learning Paradigms in Intelligent Environment
 | By Tedmann, Raymond Tedman, Debra £77.00 01 Aug 2007 Hardback Springer This book on the evolution of teaching and learning paradigms in intelligent environment presents the latest ideas pertaining to educational pedagogy. The following contents are included: Introduction to the Evolution of Teaching and Learning Paradigms; Why Designers cannot be Agnostic about Pedagogy: The Influence of Constructivist Thinking in Design of e-Learning for HE; Problem Based Learning in an E-learning environment ??? A Case Study at Griffith University School of Medicine; Education Ontologies Construction for Personalised Learning on the Web; Sequencing in Web-based Education; From Dungeons to Classrooms; The Development of an Approach to Learning within the Middle Schooling Paradigm; Data Mining in E-Learning; Data Mining of Virtual Campus Data; Authoring and Management Tools For Adaptive Educational Hypermedia Systems; Technology and Pedagogy ??? How to Learn Technique. This book is directed to teaching professionals of all disciplines. |
01/08/2007 - Iccs 2007
| Proceedings of the 15th International Workshops on Conceptual Structures By Babak Akhgar £75.00 01 Aug 2007 Paperback Springer-Verlag London Ltd |
01/08/2007 - Programming Collective Intelligence: Making Sense of Big Data
| By Segaran, Toby £28.50 01 Aug 2007 Paperback O'Reilly Media This book introduces Web developers to the advanced topic of machine learning and statistics in a clear and concise way, with easy-to-follow examples and code that can be used in their own applications. |
01/08/2007 - Foreign-exchange-rate Forecasting with Artificial Neural Networks
 | By Lean Yu, Shouyang Wang, Kin Keung Lai £77.00 01 Aug 2007 Hardback Springer-Verlag New York Inc. |
01/08/2007 - Genesis Redux: Essays in the History and Philosophy of Artificial Life
 | Essays in the History and Philosophy of Artificial Life By Jessica Riskin £16.00 01 Aug 2007 Paperback University of Chicago Press Since antiquity, philosophers and engineers have tried to take life's measure by reproducing it. This title collects seventeen essays from distinguished scholars in several fields. It is intended for historians and philosophers of science and technology, scientists and engineers working in artificial life and intelligence, and others. |
15/07/2007 - A Concise Introduction to Multiagent Systems and Distributed Artificial
| By Nikos Vlassis £22.50 15 Jul 2007 Paperback Morgan & Claypool Publishers |
15/07/2007 - Intelligent Computing
| Theory and Applications V By Kevin L. Priddy, Emre Ertin £53.50 15 Jul 2007 Paperback SPIE Press |
14/07/2007 - Principles of Data Mining
| By Davis £45.00 14 Jul 2007 Hardback John Wiley & Sons Inc |
11/07/2007 - Beyond AI
 | Creating the Conscience of the Machine By J. Storrs Hall £19.99 11 Jul 2007 Hardback Prometheus Books Reviews the history of AI and discusses some of the roadblocks that the field has overcome. Weaving disparate threads together in an enlightening manner from cybernetics, computer science, psychology, philosophy of mind, neurophysiology, game theory, and economics, this book provides a glimpse into the possibilities and dilemmas. |
05/07/2007 - Introducing Artificial Intelligence
 | By Henry Brighton, Howard Selina £9.99 05 Jul 2007 Paperback Icon Books Ltd Can machines really think? Is the mind just a complicated computer program? This work focuses on the major issues behind one of the hardest scientific problems ever undertaken. It explains the advances made, from Alan Turing's influential groundwork to cutting edge robotics and the New Al. |
01/07/2007 - Digital Human Modeling
| First International Conference, Dhm 2007, Helt as Part of Hci International £78.50 01 Jul 2007 Paperback Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG |
01/07/2007 - Foundations of Augmented Cognition
| Third International Conference, Fac 2007, Held as Part of Hci International By Leah M. Reeves £46.00 01 Jul 2007 Paperback Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG |
01/07/2007 - Forging the New Frontiers
| Fuzzy Pioneers I By Janusz Kacprzyk, Lotfi A. Zadeh £100.00 01 Jul 2007 Hardback Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG |
01/07/2007 - Nature Inspired Problem-Solving Methods in Knowledge Engineering: Second International Work-Conference on the Interplay Between
| Second International Work-Conference on the Interplay Between Natural and £58.50 01 Jul 2007 Hardback Springer Includes 126 papers that are divided into two volumes. This second volume contains contributions connected with biologically inspired methods and techniques for solving AI and knowledge engineering problems in different application domains. The first includes the contributions related with AI and knowledge engineering with clinics and cognition. |
01/07/2007 - Bio-Inspired Modeling of Cognitive Tasks: Second International Work-Conference on the Interplay Between Natural and Artificial C
| Second International Work-Conference on the Interplay Between Natural and £58.50 01 Jul 2007 Hardback Springer Constitutes the refereed proceedings of the Second International Work-Conference on the Interplay between Natural and Artificial Computation, IWINAC 2007, held in La Manga del Mar Menor, Spain in June 2007. |
01/07/2007 - Foundations of Fuzzy Logic and Soft Computing: 12th International Fuzzy Systems Association World Congress, Ifsa 2007, Cancun, M
| 12th International Fuzzy Systems Association World Congress, IFSA 2007, By Patricia Melin, Oscar Castillo, L.T. Aguilar, J. Kacprzyk, W. Pedrycz (University of Alberta, Edmont £66.00 01 Jul 2007 Hardback Springer |
01/07/2007 - Computational Intelligence in Economics and Finance
| Volume II By Shu-Heng Chen, Paul P. Wang, Tzu-Wen Kuo £57.50 01 Jul 2007 Hardback Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG |
01/07/2007 - Advanced Intelligent Paradigms in Computer Games
 | By Lakhmi C. Jain £100.00 01 Jul 2007 Hardback Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG |
01/07/2007 - Innovations in Intelligent Machines
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01/07/2007 - Computational Intelligence Based on Lattice Theory
 | By Vassilis G. Kaburlasos (Technological Educational Institute of Kavala), Gerhard X. Ritter £100.00 01 Jul 2007 Hardback Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG |
01/07/2007 - Advances in Intelligent Web Mastering: Proceedings of the 5th Atlantic Web Intelligence Conference ??? Awic???2007, Fontainbleau
 | Proceedings of the 5th Atlantic Web Intelligence Conference, WIC, 2007, By Atlantic Web Intelligence Conference (5th : 2007 : Fontainebleau, France) £115.50 01 Jul 2007 Hardback Springer |
01/07/2007 - Rough Sets, Fuzzy Sets, Data Mining and Granular Computing: 11th International Conference, Rsfdgrc 2007, Toronto, Canada, May 14
| 11th International Conference, Rsfdgrc 2007, Toronto, Canada, May 14-16, 2007 By RSFDGrC 2007 (11th : 2007 : Toronto, Canada) £52.50 01 Jul 2007 Hardback Springer |
01/07/2007 - Multiple Classifier Systems: 7th International Workshop, MCS 2007, Prague, Czech Republic, May 23-25, 2007, Proceedings
| 7th International Workshop, MCS 2007, Prague, Czech Republic, May 23-25, By MCS 2007 (7th : 2007 : Prague, Czech Republic) £49.00 01 Jul 2007 Hardback Springer |
01/07/2007 - Model-based Reasoning in Science, Technology, and Medicine
 | By Lorenzo Magnani, Ping Li £107.50 01 Jul 2007 Hardback Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG The volume is based on the papers that were presented at the international conference Model-Based Reasoning in Science and Medicine (MBR???06 China), held at Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, P.R. China in July 2006. The presentations given at the conference explored how scientific thinking uses models and explanatory reasoning to produce creative changes in theories and concepts. Some addressed the problem of model-based reasoning in technology, and stressed the issue of technological innovation and medical reasoning. The various contributions of the book are written by interdisciplinary researchers who are active in the area of creative reasoning in science and technology: the most recent results and achievements about the topics above are illustrated in detail in the papers. |
01/07/2007 - Multi-Sensor Data Fusion
 | An Introduction By H.B. Mitchell £50.00 01 Jul 2007 Hardback Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG |
01/07/2007 - Introduction to Prolog
| By R.P. Suri £24.95 01 Jul 2007 Hardback Alpha Science International Ltd |
01/07/2007 - Advances in Artificial General Intelligence
| Concepts, Architectures and Algorithms - Proceedings of the AGI Workshop 2006 By Ben Goertzel, Pei Wang £71.00 01 Jul 2007 Hardback IOS Press Examines the creation of software programs displaying broad, deep, human-style general intelligence. This work features papers presented at the 2006 AGIRI (Artificial General Intelligence Research Institute) workshop, which illustrates that it is a fit and proper subject for serious science and engineering exploration. |
17/06/2007 - Google?s initiatives in Artificial Intelligence
Introduction
Google’s earnings nearly doubled last year.
http://news.com.com/Google+profit+nearly+doubles/2100-1030_3-6127658.html
Unlike Microsoft that gets its money from shifting boxes Google relies on advertising to pay its way. There is a tremendous incentive to improve the quality of searching. The first reason is obvious. The better Google is perceived to perform as a search engine, the more people will use Google for their searches and the greater the traffic for advertisers. The second reason is a little bit more sinister. Google gets paid according to the number of clicks made on an advertisement. Google as well as telling you the results of your search needs also to put some ads your way. The share price of Google is closely linked to the perceived quality of search.
The quest for AI
As one might expect Google is deeply into AI. AI one might argue is essentially what the core business of Google depends on. Suppose we can take a web page, find out exactly what it is about, extract all the relevant facts and put them into a database, then on the prompting of a query from a user marshal all the facts that are relevant to that enquiry. This is what an AI system looking at web pages would essentially do.
http://news.com.com/2100-11395_3-6160372.html
Google is talking about the size of the human genome and the size of AI. I think the arguments are a little bit misleading. I would prefer to look at what we would expect from AI. Suppose I were to show you a box and I told you that that box was “intelligent“. What would you expect. Well Alan Turing devised what is now known as the Turing Test. He said that if the response of a computer to a conversation was indistinguishable from that of a human, it had passed the Turing Test.
On the subject of the Turing Test, Alan Turing envisaged a test which would distinguish between men and women and also would be psychic. Turing believed in ESP. Looking at Alice I am aghast, whenever I say something she always changes the subject. Hardly surprising in view of the Spanish! (La estacion de resorte - El barco attravesta una cerradura)
In other words I would expect to be able to ask questions and get an intelligible response. I could engage in a conversation if I wanted greater depth. If the box claimed to speak Spanish I would expect translations which showed an understanding of context. In fact it could not produce an intelligible response without context. We would also want the answer to statistical questions, like how do people like BMW cars? What is the correlation between this and that? Can we deduce anything about cancer from the people who get it their lifestyles etc?
We would also like to see some evidence of reasoning ability. Google is not committed specifically to reasoning. In a sense reasoning comes after the ability to retrieve efficiently. This has been discussed by myself and other people in “Creating Artificial Intelligence”
http://groups.google.co.uk/group/creatingAI?hl=en
I have also written the following blogs.
http://ipai.blogspot.com/
http://ipai1.blogspot.com/
http://ipai2.blogspot.com/
One thing to remember and that is that the ability to find facts is closely related to the ability to automatically construct wrappers. This is one of the main features of Web 3.0.
Let us now return to Google and what they are doing to produce a Web based AI
Searching - The fundamentals
Search engines are basically databases. The information which is contained in the database has changed throughout the years. What the user needs to know about a Web page is :-
1) What is it about?
2) How is it rated, is it written by a crank or does it contain good and useful stuff?
http://infolab.stanford.edu/~backrub/google.html
Describes the main techniques used in search engines.
Google became the primary search engine on the basis of what might be termed a citation index. Scientists have used this principle almost from the year dot. At the bottom of an academic paper are references and these references are “citations”. The “Science Citation Index” is an index of papers which cite a given paper. Now a paper which is frequently cited is generally regarded as being a good paper. Google does exactly the same things with hyperlinks. There is also the number of times other people access a website.
http://209.85.163.132/papers/sawzall-sciprog.pdf
The Web is of course very large and Google has to find a way of dividing up the tasks. This paper is the key to the way in which Google does this. The database is far too large to place on a single machine, and is therefore stored on a number of servers. Sawzall is quite ingenious. A query is passed round from server to server, but while the query is in transit other queries are being worked on. Hence although a query takes a few seconds to process on the network, the fact that other queries can be processed at the same time means that a high throughput is maintained. One quite important fact is that it is possible to discuss aggregations. That is to say once websites are found with their keywords a further search based on programs written in C++ can be performed.
http://infolab.stanford.edu/pub/papers/google.pdf
Describes what Google was doing in 2000
Google wants to know your surfing history. This will enable it to both target web pages and ads. Suppose I am a civil engineer and I enter “Bridge” as one of my search terms. A civil engineer is interested in “puente that is the sort of bridge that crosses a river. If I am a card player I will be interested in the game of Bridge. A website containing “4 hearts”, is about a card game.
Google also wants to target it advertisments. It wants to know what you think of a particular organization.
http://ryanmcd.googlepages.com/sentimentACL07.pdf
Does just that. It used a training set There is of course one other thing. Advertisers like some sort of feedback on how they and their product is perceived. This paper attempts to achieve this and manages to achieve scores approximating to 80%.
It is not my aim to make moral judgements about Google. Google in fact, unlike Microsoft, has not broken the law. Indeed the Google code is mostly open source. How it is all put together is highly proprietary, but there are references to source code in all the papers. If you are bundling inaccessible code with a inferior operating system (Windows as a sheer operating system is inferior to Linux.) a fine of x million Euros a day is appropriate. Google technology is immensely powerful and society will have to come to terms with it in some way.
Google and Semantic Analysis
http://www2007.org/papers/paper342.pdf
This is a most remarkable paper. Let us dissect some of the terminology. It talks about “Vectors”. What are these “vectors”? They are all derived from Latent Semantic Analysis, or some other allied method. It talks about partially indexing the vectors (not storing the full vector). It takes queries and search results. It actually looks at what people have put into their query as keywords and the web pages they actually click on. An algorithm is developed for giving people exactly what they want. The paper makes great play on optimization for an inveted file search. Now an inverted file is a database file where the entries are indexed. Quite clearly if you are doing web based searches
http://labs.google.com/papers/orkut-kdd2005.html
This paper is 2007 so its results are not yet in “Google”. The methodology is amazingly powerful and could be applied in a variety of circumstances. Slightly chillingly the “Orkut” set which correlates friendship and personality and other similarities is used. The paper can effectively find you matches and build you up a friendship network. Equally it can judge you by the friends that you have!
Potentially you could take El Cid and its English translation and match words up. Rather you are not just matching words you are matching vectors. An inverted file then gives the correct Spanish translation for an English vector and vice versa. This program will take any set of vector pairs and do a match.
Translation
At present translation with Google Translate is rather poor.
El barco attravesta una cerradura - The boat goes through a lock
La estacion de resorte - The season of spring.
http://www.stefanriezler.com/PAPERS/NAACL06.pdf
Google have in 2006 recruited Stefan Riezler. It is interesting in that it indicates a direction in which Google is moving. Here is his CV
http://www.stefanriezler.com/CV07.pdf
It is probably a pretty good summary of the way in which Google intend to go. One thing should be pointed out straight away and that is that is that the Google NLP initiatives are based on strict parsing as their starting point. This contrasts with some versions of Latent Semantic Analysis where unparsed words are entered. Google looks at subjects, verbs, adjectives, adverbs, objects and possessives. Google is also interested in question and answer responses.
http://www.cs.nyu.edu/~mohri/postscript/hbka.pdf
This paper is a review article about a very much related area of speech recognition. I think I should say straight away that the recognition of individual phonemes by computer is as good if not better than that performed manually. The reason why human speech recognition is better than that of a machine is that humans recognize words in context. This in fact makes speech very similar to translation. I can illustrate this with words that have different meanings and spellings but the same phoneme structure. Whether (si), weather (tiempo) hear (oir), here (aqui). One thing that is a little bit disappointing is that the speech and NLP groups in Google appear to be working independently.
Speech is in fact a far harder problem than translation or the discernment of meaning from text. This is because in translating from text you have fewer choices. The methos used is Markov chains and the association of neighbouring words including grammar. Interestingly in neither Riezler’s work or this are words chosen on the basis of long range meaning. Let us say we have a medical paper and we could bias the search to medical terms. They do not seem to do this.
To produce the right words in speech you need an iterative annealing process. This means you may wish to change the phoneme, or word, assignment once other words have been found.
http://www.stefanriezler.com/PAPERS/ACL07.pdf
Suppose I am not looking for a website. Suppose I want to know a fact. “What is the velocity of light?”, “What is somebody’s address?”, “What is the turnover of company X?”. To answer a question the question needs to be parsed so that its meaning can be ascertained. We are here quite close to the Turing test.
http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~acarlson/semisupervised/million-fact-aaai06.pdf
http://www.cs.bell-labs.com/cm/cs/who/pfps/temp/web/www2007.org/papers/paper560.pdf
This is the first stage of Google’s program. A database of, initially, a million facts will be gathered. These facts are going into a database which will be used to answer questions. This will of course be extended as time goes on.
Head to Head with Microsoft
Google has a spreadsheet and a word processor. It also features desktop publishing.
https://www.google.com/accounts/ServiceLogin?service=writely&passive=true&continue=http%3A%2F%2Fdocs.google.com%2F%3Fhl%3Den_GB&hl=en_GB<mpl=homepage&nui=1&utm_source=en_GB-more&utm_medium=more&utm_campaign=en_GB
There are advantages and disadvantages in using the Web for basic word processing and spreadsheets. The advantages are that the software is :-
1) Up to date.
2) Will run of both Linux and windows systems.
3) Is free.
4) There are facilities for work sharing.
http://labs.google.com/papers/gfs.html
5) Your work is backed up automatically.
The disadvantages are that you need to be connected to the Web to access your work. There are question marks over security, although to be fair Google is investing a considerable effort in this field.
http://labs.google.com/papers.html
This gives a list of Google papers. Note those on security. I have not mentioned them individually since my main thrust is AI.
I feel that we should look at spellcheckers and how word processing and AI can be integrated. Often when we spell words wrong the spelling is valid but means something different. People will often spell words that sound the same wrongly. This puts spellcheckers in the same position as translators, and on a Web spell-check the latest translator can be used. If I use a translator as a spellchecker I am one stage up on anything Microsoft has produced. If you are writing in Spanish “si” and “tiempo” are never confused. In English large number of people confuse “whether” and “weather”. Present day spellcheckers pass both.
There is one other point. If I want to write something learned, I want references. If I write on web software Google can suggest them to me. If I have Microsoft software on my own computer, it cannot do this.
Conclusion
I started off this investigation rather skeptical. I came away from Google translate distinctly unimpressed. “La estacion de resorte” - I did not know stations were elastic! I came away deeply impressed with the work which Google are doing and its scope. My criticism that the research on Natural Language should involve more interchange of information is perhaps rather carping, considering the difficulties involved in running a program on this scale.
On the question of personal information I can see where Google is coming from. Lets put it this way. If you meet a friend in the street you will have remembered some of the “personal” information that they have told you if you were to start a conversation. We can thus show that any Turing machine must store personal information, you need personal information stored if you are ever going to “talk to Google”. It is also vital for proper retrieval of information. The information you get must be relevant to you.
http://michaelaltendorf.wordpress.com/2007/06/13/top-100-alternative-search-engines-from-readwrite-web/
The whole point of search engine technology is to get relevant references and facts. This reference misses this point completely. If you need a 3D display your basic engine is lousy.
Google is now entering the world of facts rather than just websites. This could have some very interesting consequences in the future.
There is one fact that society in the future will have to come to terms with. To become president of the United States you need television exposure. Television, telephones and the Internet are now becoming one. Who will choose the programs you watch? Why Google of course. This is a tremendous responsibility.
15/06/2007 - Artificial Intelligence
 | By Harry Henderson £20.50 15 Jun 2007 Hardback Chelsea House Publishers Cognitive psychology emerged as a dialogue between the growing capabilities of digital computers and the study of human cognition and perception. Artificial Intelligence (AI) researchers developed models of perception, reasoning, and knowledge organization. This work presents portraits of the men and women in the vanguard of this field. |
14/06/2007 - Genesis Machines
 | The New Science of Biocomputing By Martyn Amos £9.99 14 Jun 2007 Paperback Atlantic Books Scientists are using real, wet, squishy, living biology to build the next generation of computers. Cells, gels and DNA strands are the 'wetware' of the twenty-first century. Tracing the history of computing, this book describes how this technology will change the way we think not just about computers - but about life itself. |
02/06/2007 - POTW 5/21/07: Discussion of ?A Study on Retrospective and On-Line Event Detection? by Yang, Pierce and Carbonell
Yang’s paper on on-line event detection (”A Study on Retrospective and On-Line Event Detection“) discusses the use of common text retrieval techniques to automatically detect events in news streams.
Imagine that you are responsible for monitoring all the major news feeds in every single country your company does business in order to advise the CEO on trends and events that effect your company. Obviously, you can’t read all of them on a daily basis and having a large staff to help would be costly. This is exactly the kind of scenario that online event detection is meant to solve. You need a program that can identify and organize news feeds as they come in, allowing you to see the key events (or even minor events) as they are reported, not days later.
This paper discusses the approach of a group of researchers at Carnegie Mellon University in the field of Topic Detection and Tracking. After providing some background information on the topic, the authors dive into the details of their approach. The task at hand was to analyze a corpus of documents in a temporal fashion to identify events and track them. In other words, even though they had the whole corpus at the time, they had to pretend like they were receiving the news in chronological order just like you and I do on a daily basis. They could not look “into the future”, if you will, in doing their analysis.
Yang’s group attempts to solve this problem by using a clustering approach. In fact, they are modifying Cutting’s Scatter/Gather approach that we discussed here and also a single-pass, incremental approach. They approach the problem in two ways. First, they use the scatter/gather approach on a “retrospective” collection containing articles that occurred in the “simulated” past. This is done to build up statistics about past events, figuring that new events will contain similar structures and statistics (TF/IDF, etc.) albeit with variations due to new names and events. Section 3.1 discusses the representation of the clusters and 3.2 discusses their modifications of Cutting’s Scatter/Gather approach into what they call Group Average Clustering (GAC).
To solve the real-time, online problem, an incremental, single-pass approach was used. To do this kind of thing, one needs to somehow estimate corpus statistics like IDF (inverse document frequency) in order to come up with reasonable estimations in order to come up with the proper weights for the term vectors used in the clustering algorithm. The CMU group solves this problem by originally estimating the IDF using the stats from the retrospective process and then updating it as new information becomes available in the real-time approach.
Much of the rest of the paper is about picking parameters and evaluation. Section 4.3 has some interesting discussion of “Behavior Analysis” that is worth looking into. The gist of it being that the GAC approach seemed to be good at identifying large news bursts, while the incremental approach is better at tracking at long-lasting events. In our scenario, you will most likely be interested in both kinds of events. The key, of course, is having the ability to zoom in/out on the various news feeds and to setup alerts, etc. that help you manage the clusters.
01/06/2007 - Theoretical Advances and Applications of Fuzzy Logic and Soft Computing
 | By Patricia Melin, Witold Pedrycz, Janusz Kacprzyk £191.50 01 Jun 2007 Paperback Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG |
01/06/2007 - Analysis and Design of Intelligent Systems Using Soft Computing Techniques
 | By Oscar Castillo, Janusz Kacprzyk, Witold Pedrycz £191.50 01 Jun 2007 Paperback Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG |
01/06/2007 - Type Synthesis of Parallel Mechanisms
| By Xianwen Kong, Clement M. Gosselin £61.50 01 Jun 2007 Hardback Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG |
01/06/2007 - Cells and Robots
| Modeling and Control of Large-size Agent Populations By Dejan Milutinovic, Pedro Lima £61.50 01 Jun 2007 Hardback Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG |
01/06/2007 - Fuzzy Logic
 | A Spectrum of Theoretical and Practical Issues By Paul P. Wang, Da Ruan, Etienne E. Kerre £100.00 01 Jun 2007 Hardback Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG |
01/06/2007 - Context-aware Emotion-based Multi-agent Systems
| By Rajiv Khosla, Nadia Bianchi-Berthouze, Toyoaki Nishida £60.00 01 Jun 2007 Hardback Springer-Verlag London Ltd Human emotions are an integral part of decision making in businesses and organizations. This book covers the modeling of emotions and emotional states in human decision making and describes how human problem-solving may be integrated with intelligent technologies and intelligent agents. |
01/06/2007 - Advances in Unmanned Aerial Vehicles
| State of the Art and the Road to Autonomy By Kimon P. Valavanis £104.00 01 Jun 2007 Hardback Kluwer Academic Publishers Group |
01/06/2007 - Computing Meaning
 | By Harry Bunt, Reinhard Muskens £107.50 01 Jun 2007 Hardback Kluwer Academic Publishers Group |
01/06/2007 - Artificial Intelligence
 | A Systems Approach By M.Tim Jones £42.00 01 Jun 2007 Multimedia Item Infinity Science Press Offers a perspective on the study of artificial intelligence concepts. This book gives practical information on data input and reduction, and data output. It presents a "sensor/algorithm/effecter" approach which grounds the algorithms with an environment. It includes applications in areas such as intelligent agents, neural networks,and others. |
01/06/2007 - Cognitive Wireless Communication Networks
| By Bhargava, Vijay K. Hossain, Ekram £59.00 01 Jun 2007 Hardback Springer |
01/05/2007 - Iterative Learning Control
| Robustness and Monotonic Convergence in the Iteration Domain By Hyo-Sung Ahn, Kevin L. Moore, Yangquan Chen £55.00 01 May 2007 Hardback Springer-Verlag London Ltd |
01/05/2007 - Evolutionary Computer Music
 | By Eduardo Miranda, John Al Biles £55.00 01 May 2007 Paperback Springer-Verlag London Ltd Discusses the applications of evolutionary computation to music, and presents tools needed to create and study such systems. This book describes simulation tools that can be combined to create surrogate artificial worlds populated by interacting simulated organisms, which permit complex musical experiments that would otherwise be impossible. |
01/05/2007 - A Computer Scientist's Guide to Cell Biology
 | By William Cohen £19.00 01 May 2007 Paperback Springer-Verlag New York Inc. Provides a "reading knowledge" of biology to those entering the field from the perspective of computer science. This text explores three different facets of biology: biological systems, experimental methods, and language and nomenclature. It provides the vocabulary necessary to read and understand the literature in biology. |
01/05/2007 - My experiences writing AI software for vehicle control in games and virtual reality systems
* Writing example code for my book AI Agents in Virtual Reality Worlds
* Working on the Indy 500 car simulation system at SAIC. I actually worked on the motion platform control, network programming, and sound system software. For this project, you always raced against other people, also in simulators.
* At Angel Studios working on 2 Nintendo games and a PC-based hover craft racing game.
Anyway, I do have some advice on how to write AI driving opponents:
The first thing that you want to do is to define data structures for navigational "way points" that AI vehicles follow and simply have the vehicles move between these "way points". If possible, AI controlled vehicles should use the same physics simulation code as the player's vehicle (at least when the AI vehicle is close and in the player's field of view).
After your AI controlled vehicles can move along using "way points", then, based on the game theme, add logic for detecting the proximity of the player's vehicle (e.g., AI vehicle might swerve into the player's vehicle under specified circumstances), etc. Do not bother with complex behavior if a vehicle is not in the rendered scene for a player.
It should be fairly easy to get the code running to follow way points, but that is definitely your first step. Combining driving logic control with "lerping" between weigh points will also make the vehicles look a lot more realistic while more or less keeping them where you want them.
When possible, your movement logic should depend heavily on where the AI vehicle is in the player's field of view. For efficiency, it might be expedient to use simple finite state machines for the control logic. However, I have experimented (again, see my book) with using expert systems, neural networks, and genetic algorithms. For Java programmers, my book "Intelligent Java Applications" contains a (not practical, but fun!) example of using genetic algorithms to train simple control programs in an "asteroids" style arcade game.
Good luck, and have fun!
01/04/2007 - Advanced Numerical Methods to Optimize Cutting Operations of Five Axis
 | By Stanislav S. Makhanov, Weerachai Anotaipaiboon £65.00 01 Apr 2007 Hardback Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG |
01/04/2007 - Computational Intelligence in Information Assurance and Security
| By Nadia Nedjah, Ajith Abraham, Luiza de Macedo Mourelle (State University of Rio de Janeiro) £77.00 01 Apr 2007 Hardback Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG |
01/04/2007 - Emergent Intelligence of Networked Agents
| By Akira Namatame, Satoshi Kurihara, Hideyuki Nakashima £77.00 01 Apr 2007 Hardback Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG |
01/04/2007 - Semantic Web Services
| Concepts, Technologies, and Applications By Rudi Studer, Stephan Grimm, Andreas Abecker £54.00 01 Apr 2007 Hardback Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG |
01/04/2007 - Computational Textile
| By Xianyi Zeng, Y. Li, Da Ruan, L. Koehl £100.00 01 Apr 2007 Hardback Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG |
01/04/2007 - Modeling Decisions
 | Information Fusion and Aggregation Operators By Vicenc Torra, Yasuo Narukawa £42.50 01 Apr 2007 Hardback Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG |
01/04/2007 - Genetic Programming Theory and Practice
 | By Rick Riolo, Terence Soule, Bill Worzel £59.00 01 Apr 2007 Hardback Springer-Verlag New York Inc. Deals with ideas and information related to the field of Genetic Programming. This book examines the similarities and differences between theoretical and empirical results on real-world problems. It explores the synergy between theory and practice, and produces a comprehensive view of the Genetic Programming application. |
30/03/2007 - Intelligent Decision and Control Systems
| By Nader Vadiee, Mohammad Jamshidi £42.50 30 Mar 2007 Hardback John Wiley and Sons Ltd The infusion of artificial intelligence (AI), such as fuzzy logic, has been most felt in the areas of control theory. This text covers the approach to control theory that integrates AI techniques with well-developed techniques and is known as "intelligent control". |
22/03/2007 - The Singularity is Near
 | By Raymond Kurzweil £14.99 22 Mar 2007 Paperback Gerald Duckworth & Co Ltd Examines the next step in the evolutionary process of the union of human and machine. This title offers a view of the coming age that is both a dramatic culmination of centuries of technological ingenuity and a genuinely inspiring vision of our ultimate destiny. |
14/03/2007 - Information Modelling and Knowledge Bases
| By M. Duzi, H. Jaakkola, Y. Kiyoki, Hannu Kangassalo £71.00 14 Mar 2007 Hardback IOS Press Aims to exchange scientific results and experiences achieved in computer science and other related disciplines using innovative methods and progressive approaches. This book covers a variety of themes in the domain of information modelling, conceptual analysis, design and specification of information systems, ontologies, and more. |
01/03/2007 - Parameter Setting in Evolutionary Algorithms
| By Fernando G. Lobo, Claudio F. Lima, Zbigniew Michalewicz £100.00 01 Mar 2007 Hardback Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG |
01/03/2007 - Neural Networks
| Computational Models and Applications By Huajin Tang, Kay Chen Tan (National University of Singapore, Singapore), Yi Zhang £77.00 01 Mar 2007 Hardback Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG |
01/03/2007 - Fuzzy Choice Functions
| A Revealed Preference Approach By Irina Georgescu £77.00 01 Mar 2007 Hardback Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG |
01/03/2007 - Neural Preprocessing and Control of Reactive Walking Machines
| Towards Versatile Artificial Perception-action Systems By Poramate Manoonpong £38.50 01 Mar 2007 Hardback Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG |
01/03/2007 - Peach
| Intelligent Interfaces for Museum Visits By Oliviero Stock, Massimo Zancanaro £57.50 01 Mar 2007 Hardback Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG |
01/03/2007 - Applied Graph Theory in Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
| By Abraham Kandel, Horst Bunke, Mark Last £77.00 01 Mar 2007 Hardback Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG |
01/03/2007 - Evolutionary Computation in Dynamic and Uncertain Environments
| By Shengxiang Yang, Yew Soon Ong, Yaochu Jin £115.50 01 Mar 2007 Hardback Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG Provides a compilation on the state-of-the-art advances of evolutionary algorithms in dynamic and uncertain environments. This title also presents the methods for addressing major sources of uncertainties in evolutionary computation. It is useful for scientists, researchers, professionals and students in the field of engineering and science. |
01/03/2007 - Neural Networks Theory
| By Alexander I. Galushkin £61.50 01 Mar 2007 Hardback Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG Details more than 40 years of Soviet and Russian neural network research. This work presents the systematized methodology of neural networks synthesis. It is intended for works in different regimes: teaching, self-teaching (clusterization), teaching with a teacher of finite qualification and other regimes. |
01/03/2007 - Artificial Intelligence in Recognition and Classification of Astrophysical
 | By Valentina Zharkova, Lakhmi C. Jain £100.00 01 Mar 2007 Hardback Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG Presents techniques related to Recognition and Classification of Astrophysical and Medical Images. This book includes an introduction to pattern recognition and classification in astrophysical and medical images; image standardization and enhancement; region-based methods for pattern recognition in medical and astrophysical images; and more. |
01/03/2007 - Dynamic Vision for Perception and Control of Motion
| By Ernst D. Dickmanns £60.00 01 Mar 2007 Hardback Springer-Verlag London Ltd The application of machine vision to autonomous vehicles is an important area of research with exciting applications in industry, defense, and transportation. This book presents an approach to real-time machine vision for the understanding of dynamic scenes. It provides pointers to the development and applications of this field of research. |
01/03/2007 - Handbook of Spatial Logics
| By Marco Aiello, Ian. E. Pratt- Hartmann, Johan, F.A.K. van Benthem £230.00 01 Mar 2007 Hardback Kluwer Academic Publishers Group Spatial logic is a formal language interpreted over any class of structures featuring geometrical entities and relations, broadly construed. In the past decade, spatial logics have attracted much attention in response to developments in fields ranging from Artificial Intelligence to Philosophy. This book presents an account of this field. |
01/02/2007 - Pixelization Paradigm
| Visual Information Expert Workshop, View 2006, Paris, France, April 24-25, By P.P. Levy, B. Le Grand, F. Poulet, M. Soto, L. Darago, L. Toubiana, J.-F. Vibert £34.50 01 Feb 2007 Paperback Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG |
01/02/2007 - Cognitive Systems
| Joint Chinese-German Workshop, Shanghai, China, March 7-11, 2005, Revised By Rugian Lu, Jorg Siekmann, Carsten A. Ullrich £32.50 01 Feb 2007 Paperback Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG |
01/02/2007 - Advances in Probabilistic Graphical Models
 | By Peter Lucas, Jose A. Gamez, Antonio Salmeron £77.00 01 Feb 2007 Hardback Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG |
01/02/2007 - Software Engineering for Experimental Robotics
| By Davide Brugali £92.50 01 Feb 2007 Hardback Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG |
01/02/2007 - Dynamic Pricing and Automated Resource Allocation for Complex Information
 | Reinforcement Learning and Combinatorial Auctions By Michael Schwind (Universitat Frankfurt) £54.00 01 Feb 2007 Paperback Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG |
01/02/2007 - Control of Interactive Robotic Interfaces
| A Port-hamiltonian Approach By Cristian Secchi, Stefano Stramigioli, Cesare Fantuzzi £61.50 01 Feb 2007 Hardback Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG |
01/02/2007 - Fuzzy and Rough Techniques in Medical Diagnosis and Medication
 | By Elisabeth Rakus-Andersson £77.00 01 Feb 2007 Hardback Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG |
01/02/2007 - Classification and Learning Using Genetic Algorithms
| Applications in Bioinformatics and Web Intelligence By Sanghamitra Bandyopadhyay, Sankar K. Pal (Indian Statistical Institute) £54.00 01 Feb 2007 Hardback Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG |
01/02/2007 - Evolutionary Scheduling
 | By Keshav Dahal, Kay Chen Tan, Peter I. Cowling £100.00 01 Feb 2007 Hardback Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG Evolutionary scheduling is a vital research domain at the interface of two important sciences - artificial intelligence and operational research. This book gives an overview of the developments in the growing field of evolutionary scheduling, and demonstrates the applicability of evolutionary computational techniques to solve scheduling problems. |
01/02/2007 - Fundamentals of Relational Database Management Systems
| By Sai Sumathi, S. Esakkirajan £130.50 01 Feb 2007 Hardback Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG Information is a valuable resource to an organization. Computer software provides an efficient means of processing information, and database systems are becoming common means, allowing data to be stored and retrieved information in an effective manner. This book provides comprehensive coverage of fundamentals of database management system. |
01/02/2007 - Robotics Research
 | Results of the 12th International Symposium ISRR By Sebastian Thrun, Rodney Allen Brooks, Hugh F. Durrant-Whyte (University of Oxford, UK) £100.00 01 Feb 2007 Hardback Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG |
01/02/2007 - Advanced Computational Intelligence Paradigms in Healthcare
| By Hiro Yoshida, Ashlesha Jain, Ajita Ichalkaranje, Lakhmi C. Jain, Nikhil Ichalkaranje £100.00 01 Feb 2007 Hardback Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG Presents some of the research results on the applications of computational intelligence in healthcare. This book is suitable for computer scientists, medical practitioners, scientists, professors and students of health, science, computer science and related disciplines. |
01/02/2007 - Neuro-fuzzy Associative Machinery for Comprehensive Brain and Cognition
| By Vladimir G. Ivancevic (Defence Science and Technology Organisation), Tijana T. Ivancevic (The University of Adelaide) £107.50 01 Feb 2007 Hardback Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG Provides an introduction to both conceptual and rigorous brain and cognition modelling. This book helps on understanding, prediction and control of the fundamental mechanisms of brain functioning. It offers a scientific tool to help the reader perform a competitive research in brain and cognition modelling. |
01/02/2007 - Handbuch Robotik
| Programmieren Und Einsatz Intelligenter Roboter By Matthias Haun £144.00 01 Feb 2007 Book Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG |
01/02/2007 - Emergence of Communication and Language
 | By Lyon, Caroline Nehaniv, Chrystopher L. Cangelosi, Angelo £55.00 01 Feb 2007 Hardback Springer Brings together work on the emergence of communication and language drawing on diverse disciplines, including linguistics and psychology. This book examines the role of simulations as a novel way to express theories in science, and their contribution to the development of a new approach to the study of the emergence of communication and language. |
01/02/2007 - Minds and Computers
 | An Introduction to the Philosophy of Artificial Intelligence By Matt Carter £49.99 01 Feb 2007 Hardback Edinburgh University Press An introductory textbook to the Philosophy of Artificial Intelligence and Philosophy of Mind. This book introduces students to the philosophical issues of Artificial Intelligence in an engaging, coherent, and highly approachable manner. It also presents introductory material from the disciplines, which constitute Cognitive Science. |
31/01/2007 - International Dictionary of Artificial Intelligence
| By Raynor, William £18.00 31 Jan 2007 Paperback Financial World Publishing |
01/01/2007 - Applications and Innovations in Intelligent Sytems
| Proceedings of AI-2006, the Twenty-sixth Sgai International Conference on By Richard Ellis, Tony Allen, Andrew Tuson £80.00 01 Jan 2007 Paperback Springer-Verlag London Ltd Constitutes the refereed application papers presented at AI-2006, the twenty-sixth SGAI International Conference on Innovative Techniques and Applications of Artificial Intelligence, held in Cambridge. Part of the "Applications and Innovations" series, this volume presents the innovative developments in this field. |
01/01/2007 - Research and Development in Intelligent Systems
| Proceedings of AI-2006, the Twenty-sixth Sgai International Conference on By Max Bramer, Frans Coenen, Andrew Tuson £80.00 01 Jan 2007 Paperback Springer-Verlag London Ltd Constitutes the refereed technical papers presented at AI-2006, the Twenty-sixth SGAI International Conference on Innovative Techniques and Applications of Artificial Intelligence, held in Cambridge. Part of the "Research and Development" series, this title presents innovative developments in this field. |
01/01/2007 - Artificial Consciousness
| By Antonio Chella, Riccardo Manzotti £17.95 01 Jan 2007 Paperback Imprint Academic Focuses on the topic of artificial consciousness: from neuroscience to artificial intelligence, from bioengineering to robotics. |
01/01/2007 - Design for Emergence
| Collaborative Social Play with Online and Location-based Media By Y. Vogiazou £61.00 01 Jan 2007 Paperback IOS Press Investigates spontaneous, unpredictable uses of technology that are driven by social contexts and collaborative processes, based on our ability to communicate our presence, both virtual and physical, in symbolic ways. This book proposes a research model of design for emergence, focusing on emergent phenomena as part of an iterative design process. |
15/12/2006 - Advances in web mining and web usage analysis : 7th International Workshop on Knowledge Discovery on the Web : WEBKDD 2005 ...
 | 7th International Workshop on Knowledge Discovery on the Web, Webkdd 2005, By International Workshop on Knowledge Discovery on the Web 2005 (7th : 2005 : Chicago, Ill.) £32.50 15 Dec 2006 Paperback Springer Vlg |
18/08/2006 - Classic reasoning systems like Loom and PowerLoom vs. more modern systems based on probalistic networks
We are in a hedge our bets mode, basically using three promising approaches - I can not talk too much about the application domain, but it will be useful to see which approaches end up being most useful.
BTW, I have written about this on my regular web blog, but the release of a new version of PowerLoom under liberal open source licensing (that is, commercial use OK) is a great addition to anyone's 'AI toolkit'.
