General Computing category: 15796 books
A Missing Link in Cybernetics
Logic and Continuity
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2009
In this book I argue that a reason for the limited success of various studies under the general heading of cybernetics is failure to appreciate the importance of con- nuity, in a simple metrical sense of the term. It is with particular, but certainly not exclusive, reference to the Arti cial Intelligence...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 22, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: May 22, 2017
This handbook offers the first comprehensive reference guide to the interdisciplinary field of model-based reasoning. It highlights the role of models as mediators between theory and experimentation, and as educational devices, as well as their relevance in testing hypotheses and explanatory functions....
by Márcio Moretto Ribeiro
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2012
Since the advent of the Semantic Web, interest in the dynamics of ontologies (ontology evolution) has grown significantly. Belief revision presents a good theoretical framework for dealing with this problem; however, classical belief revision is not well suited for logics such as Description Logics.
Belief...
Dictionary of Computing
Updated with the latest technologies (2016)
Language: English
Release Date: January 14, 2014
A best-selling reference work for all computer users. Include: -Windows -Networking -Help Desk -Social Media -Web Design Updated with the latest technologies - 2015
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Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2014
Emotions convey significant information through means of natural language analysis, embodiment, and emotional signing. Machines equipped with the ability to experience and interpret emotions perform better in complex environments and share in the emotionally-rich social context. The Handbook of Research...
Digital Visual Culture
Theory and Practice
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2009
Digital creativity is boundless. Art practitioners and scholars continue to explore what technology has to offer and practice-based research is redefining their disciplines. What happens when an artist experiments with bio-scientific data and discovers something the scientists failed to notice? How...
Content-Based Video Retrieval
A Database Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2013
The area of content-based video retrieval is a very hot area both for research and for commercial applications. In order to design effective video databases for applications such as digital libraries, video production, and a variety of Internet applications, there is a great need to develop effective...
Advances in Ergonomics of Manufacturing: Managing the Enterprise of the Future
Proceedings of the AHFE 2016 International Conference on Human Aspects of Advanced Manufacturing, July 27-31, 2016, Walt Disney World®, Florida, USA
Language: English
Release Date: July 26, 2016
This book discusses the latest advances in people-centered design, operation, and management of broadly defined advanced manufacturing systems and processes. It reports on human factors issues related to various research areas such as intelligent manufacturing technologies, web-based manufacturing...
Archaeologies of Touch
Interfacing with Haptics from Electricity to Computing
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2018
A material history of haptics technology that raises new questions about the relationship between touch and media
Since the rise of radio and television, we have lived in an era defined increasingly by the electronic circulation of images and sounds. But the flood of new computing technologies...
by Simon H. Lavington, Alex A. Freitas
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Mining Very Large Databases with Parallel Processing addresses the problem of large-scale data mining. It is an interdisciplinary text, describing advances in the integration of three computer science areas, namely `intelligent' (machine learning-based) data mining techniques, relational databases...
Multiword Expressions Acquisition
A Generic and Open Framework
Language: English
Release Date: September 24, 2014
This book is an excellent introduction to multiword expressions. It provides a unique, comprehensive and up-to-date overview of this exciting topic in computational linguistics. The first part describes the diversity and richness of multiword expressions, including many examples in several languages....
Analysis of Images, Social Networks and Texts
6th International Conference, AIST 2017, Moscow, Russia, July 27–29, 2017, Revised Selected Papers
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2017
This book constitutes the proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Analysis of Images, Social Networks and Texts, AIST 2017, held in Moscow, Russia, in July 2017.
The 29 full papers and 8 short papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 127 submissions. The papers are organized...
OpenGL 4 Shading Language Cookbook
Build high-quality, real-time 3D graphics with OpenGL 4.6, GLSL 4.6 and C++17, 3rd Edition
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2018
Over 70 recipes that cover advanced techniques for 3D programming such as lighting, shading, textures, particle systems, and image processing with OpenGL 4.6
Key Features
Explore techniques for implementing shadows using shadow maps and shadow volumes
Learn to use GLSL features such as compute,...
by Yue Gao, Qionghai Dai
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2014
Content-based 3-D object retrieval has attracted extensive attention recently and has applications in a variety of fields, such as, computer-aided design, tele-medicine,mobile multimedia, virtual reality, and entertainment. The development of efficient and effective content-based 3-D object retrieval...