Yesterday - 175 | Today +103Design by Evolution Advances in Evolutionary Design → E-Books![]() Springer; 1 edition (October 2008) PDF | 352 pages | English | 30mb(rar) Design by Evolution Advances in Evolutionary Design/by Philip F. Hingston (Editor), Luigi C. Barone (Editor), Michalewicz Zbigniew (Editor) Description Evolution is Nature’s design process. The natural world is full of wonderful examples of its successes, from engineering design feats such as powered flight, to the design of complex optical systems such as the mammalian eye, to the merely stunningly beautiful designs of orchids or birds of paradise. With increasing computational power, we are now able to simulate this process with greater fidelity, combining complex simulations with high-performance evolutionary algorithms to tackle problems that used to be impractical. This book showcases the state of the art in evolutionary algorithms for design.
08.10.2008 00:51 | Posted by rwdfox | Views 902 | Tags computer,mathematics,philosophy,interaction,design,photoshop,artificial,intelligence Oppositional Concepts in Computational Intelligence → E-Books![]() 328 pages | 2008-10-01 | PDF | 5 Mb This volume is motivated in part by the observation that opposites permeate everything around us, in some form or another. Its study has attracted the attention of countless minds for at least 2500 years. However, due to the lack of an accepted mathematical formalism for opposition it has not been explicitly studied to any great length in fields outside of philosophy and logic. Despite the fact that we observe opposition everywhere in nature, our minds seem to divide the world into entities and opposite entities; indeed we use opposition everyday. We have become so accustomed to opposition that its existence is accepted, not usually questioned and its importance is constantly overlooked. On the one hand, this volume is a fist attempt to bring together researchers who are inquiring into the complementary nature of systems and processes and, on the other hand, it provides some elementary components for a framework to establish a formalism for opposition-based computing. From a computational intelligence perspective, many successful opposition-based concepts have been in existence for a long time. It is not the authors’ intention to recast these existing methods, rather to elucidate that, while diverse, they all share the commonality of opposition - in one form or another, either implicitly or explicitly. Therefore they have attempted to provide rough guidelines to understand what makes concepts “oppositional”. Best Internet Links → SoftWare
today 06:00 | Posted by NFO The Art and Science of Interface and Interaction Design → E-Books![]() Springer; 1 edition (September 1, 2008) PDF | 190 pages | English | 22.5mb(rar) The Art and Science of Interface and Interaction Design/by Christa Sommerer (Editor), Lakhmi C. Jain (Editor), Laurent Mignonneau (Editor) Description 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.
22.09.2008 20:57 | Posted by rwdfox | Views 734 | Tags mathematics,philosophy,science,artificial,intelligence Intelligent Distributed Computing, Systems and Applications → E-Books![]() 312 pages | 2008-09-01 | PDF | 10 Mb This book 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. The 35 contributions in this book address many topics related to intelligent and distributed computing, systems and applications, including: adaptivity and learning; agents and multi-agent systems; argumentation; auctions; case-based reasoning; collaborative systems; data structures; distributed algorithms; formal modeling and verification; genetic and immune algorithms; grid computing; information extraction, annotation and integration; network and security protocols; mobile and ubiquitous computing; ontologies and metadata; P2P computing; planning; recommender systems; rules; semantic Web; services and processes; trust and social computing; virtual organizations; wireless networks; XML technologies.
18.09.2008 04:11 | Posted by tutigermany | Views 671 | Tags Intelligent,Distributed,Computing,Systems,Applications Advanced Computational Intelligence Paradigms in Healthcare - 3 → E-Books![]() 258 pages | June 23, 2008 | PDF | 11 Mb Computational intelligence paradigms offer many advantages in maintaining and enhancing the field of healthcare. This volume presents seven chapters selected from the rapidly growing application areas of computational intelligence to healthcare systems, including intelligent synthetic characters, man-machine interface, menu generators, analysis of user acceptance, pictures archiving and communication systems. This book will serve as a useful resource for the health professionals, professors, students, and the computer scientists, who are working on or interested in learning healthcare systems, to overview the current stat-of-the-art of diverse applications of computational intelligence to healthcare practice. HeMa # Funny Computer walls-(2) → Graphic![]() HeMa # Funny Computer walls-(1) → Graphic![]() Words of Intelligence: A Dictionary → E-Books![]() 206 pages | PDF | 2 MB |
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