Morgan Claypool Publishers imprint: 107 books
Design and the Digital Divide
Insights from 40 Years in Computer Support for Older and Disabled People
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2011
Demographic trends and increasing support costs means that good design for older and disabled people is an economic necessity, as well as a moral imperative. Alan Newell has been described as "a visionary who stretches the imagination of all of us" and "truly ahead of his time."...
Transforming Technologies to Manage Our Information
The Future of Personal Information Management, Part II
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2013
With its theme, "Our Information, Always and Forever," Part I of this book covers the basics of personal information management (PIM) including six essential activities of PIM and six (different) ways in which information can be personal to us. Part I then goes on to explore key issues that...
by Nitin Agarwal, Huan Liu
Language: English
Release Date: August 8, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: August 8, 2009
This book offers a comprehensive overview of the various concepts and research issues about blogs or weblogs. It introduces techniques and approaches, tools and applications, and evaluation methodologies with examples and case studies. Blogs allow people to express their thoughts, voice their opinions,...
Recognizing Textual Entailment
Models and Applications
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2013
In the last few years, a number of NLP researchers have developed and participated in the task of Recognizing Textual Entailment (RTE). This task encapsulates Natural Language Understanding capabilities within a very simple interface: recognizing when the meaning of a text snippet is contained in...
Judgment Aggregation
A Primer
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2014
Judgment aggregation is a mathematical theory of collective decision-making. It concerns the methods whereby individual opinions about logically interconnected issues of interest can, or cannot, be aggregated into one collective stance. Aggregation problems have traditionally been of interest for...
by Mathias Lux, Oge Marques
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2013
Visual information retrieval (VIR) is an active and vibrant research area, which attempts at providing means for organizing, indexing, annotating, and retrieving visual information (images and videos) from large, unstructured repositories. The goal of VIR is to retrieve matches ranked by their relevance...
by Gadi Taubenfeld, Michel Raynal
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2018
Computers and computer networks are one of the most incredible inventions of the 20th century, having an ever-expanding role in our daily lives by enabling complex human activities in areas such as entertainment, education, and commerce. One of the most challenging problems in computer science for...
Testing iOS Apps with HadoopUnit
Rapid Distributed GUI Testing
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2014
Smartphone users have come to expect high-quality apps. This has increased the importance of software testing in mobile software development. Unfortunately, testing apps—particularly the GUI—can be very time-consuming. Exercising every user interface element and verifying transitions between different...
Database Anonymization
Privacy Models, Data Utility, and Microaggregation-based Inter-model Connections
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2016
The current social and economic context increasingly demands open data to improve scientific research and decision making. However, when published data refer to individual respondents, disclosure risk limitation techniques must be implemented to anonymize the data and guarantee by design the fundamental...
by Stefan Carmien
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2016
Assistive Technology Design for Intelligence Augmentation presents a series of frameworks, perspectives, and design guidelines drawn from disciplines spanning urban design, artificial intelligence, sociology, and new forms of collaborative work, as well as the author's experience in designing systems...
by Sonia Chernova, Andrea L. Thomaz
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2014
Learning from Demonstration (LfD) explores techniques for learning a task policy from examples provided by a human teacher. The field of LfD has grown into an extensive body of literature over the past 30 years, with a wide variety of approaches for encoding human demonstrations and modeling skills...
iRODS Primer 2
Integrated Rule-Oriented Data System
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2015
Since the end of Dennard scaling in the early 2000s, improving the energy efficiency of computation has been the main concern of the research community and industry. The large energy efficiency gap between general-purpose processors and application-specific integrated circuits (ASICs) motivates the exploration...
Metaphor
A Computational Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: February 29, 2016
The literary imagination may take flight on the wings of metaphor, but hard-headed scientists are just as likely as doe-eyed poets to reach for a metaphor when the descriptive need arises. Metaphor is a pervasive aspect of every genre of text and every register of speech, and is as useful for describing...
by Horacio Saggion, Graeme Hirst
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2017
Thanks to the availability of texts on the Web in recent years, increased knowledge and information have been made available to broader audiences. However, the way in which a text is written—its vocabulary, its syntax—can be difficult to read and understand for many people, especially those with...