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Physarum Machines
World Scientific Publishing Company 2010; US$ 127.00A Physarum machine is a programmable amorphous biological computer experimentally implemented in the vegetative state of true slime mould Physarum polycephalum. It comprises an amorphous yellowish mass with networks of protoplasmic veins, programmed by spatial configurations of attracting and repelling gradients. This book demonstrates how to create... more...
Formal Ontologies Meet Industry
IOS Press 2011; US$ 145.00Knowledge modeling and the semantic dimension of information plays an increasingly central role in the network economy today. Theoretical research and actual implementations bring up unexpected problems and issues and there is, moreover, an increasing need for solid theoretical foundations for practical applications of ontologies, based on philosophy,... more...
Machinery of the Mind
Crown Publishing Group 2011; US$ 19.95Machinery of Mind is a full-scale, indispensable examination of the history, content, politics, and philosophy of Artificial Intelligence. In detail, consecutively but with a keen awareness of the interdisciplinary nature of the field, Johnson traces the history of the burgeoning science from its earliest practitioners to corporation-funded engineers... more...
Approximate Reasoning by Parts
Springer 2011; US$ 139.99The monograph offers a view on Rough Mereology, a tool for reasoning under uncertainty, which goes back to Mereology, formulated in terms of parts by Lesniewski, and borrows from Fuzzy Set Theory and Rough Set Theory ideas of the containment to a degree. The result is a theory based on the notion of a part to a degree. One can invoke here a formula... more...
Next Generation Intelligent Environments
Springer 2011; US$ 99.99Intelligent environments represent an emerging topic in research. Next Generation Intelligent Environments: Ambient Adaptive Systems will cover all key topics in the field of intelligent ambient adaptive systems. It focuses on the results worked out within the framework of the ATRACO (Adaptive and TRusted Ambient eCOlogies) project. The theoretical... more...
Intelligence Management
Springer Fachmedien 2011; US$ 79.99The current rapid development in both computing power and the ability to present and mine complex data sets in useful ways provides the backdrop to "Intelligence Management: Knowledge Driven Frameworks for Combating Terrorism and Organized Crime". The chapters address the linkage between: law enforcement; developments in information and communication... more...
Man-Machine Interactions 2
Springer 2011; US$ 209.99Man-machine interaction is the interdisciplinary field, focused on a human and a machine in conjunction. It is the intersection of computer science, behavioural sciences, social psychology, ergonomics, security. It encompasses study, design, implementation, and evaluation of small- and large-scale, interacting, computing, hardware and software systems... more...
Artificial Intelligence Research and Development
IOS Press 2011; US$ 174.00This book is a collection of the papers accepted for presentation at the 14th International Conference of the Catalan Association for Artificial Intelligence (CCIA 2011), held at the University of Lleida in October 2011. From the 28 papers submitted, 24 were accepted for inclusion in this book and for oral presentation at the conference after a careful... more...
Biologically Inspired Cognitive Architectures 2011
IOS Press 2011; US$ 195.00This book presents the proceedings of the Annual International Conference on Biologically Inspired Cognitive Architectures, BICA 2011, which is also the Second Annual Meeting of the BICA Society, held in November 2011 in Arlington, Virginia, USA. A Biologically Inspired Cognitive Architecture (BICA) is a computational framework for the design of intelligent... more...
Advances in Collective Intelligence 2011
Springer 2012; US$ 159.99Collective intelligence has become an attractive subject of interest for both academia and industry. More and more conferences and workshops discuss the impact of the users' motivation to participate in the value creation process, the enabling role of leading-edge information and communication technologies and the need for better algorithms to deal... more...









