Presents Rodney Brooks's initial formulation of and contributions to the development of the behavioural approach to robotics. The text shows the philosophical/technical ideas that put the "bottom-up" approach in the forefront of research in not only Artificial Intelligence but in cognitive science.
Gathers research in the study of artificial neural networks. This title includes topics such as: a neural network based visual servo system; modelling of computer-assisted learning using artificial neural networks; prediction of hole quality in drilling GFRE using artificial neural networks; and, more.
This book touches on a range of topics in semantics demonstrating that theory and methods are inherent in the development of tools and applications and inversely that the application is also inherent in the motivation and presentation of tools and methods.
Culled from a range of workshops, summer schools and dissemination events, this survey of the state of the art in a rapidly emerging field provides both a conceptual foundation and detailed coverage of selected approaches to ubiquitous knowledge discovery.
Continuing where the last volume left off, this publication covers cutting-edge research into intelligent machines, including innovative applications such as document processing, language translation, and lightweight reprogramming for wireless sensor networks.
The application of soft computing techniques in industrial control, security, data mining, software world, robotics, can be easily seen. This book uncovers such applications, explaining the underlying technology and its implementation. It demonstrates how they can be modeled, designed, and implemented.
Constitutes the proceedings of the 11th European Conference on Logics in Artificial Intelligence, JELIA 2008, held in Dresden, Germany, Liverpool, in September/October 2008. This title includes papers that cover topics including belief revision, description logics, non-monotonic reasoning, multi-agent systems, and probabilistic logic.
This book covers general logical tools for handling change. The tools are preferential reasoning, theory revision and reasoning in inheritance systems. Logics examined are nonmonotonic, deontic, modal, intuitionistic and temporal as well as counterfactuals.
Aims to provide a forum for genuine interdisciplinary exchange in the spirit of a unified effort towards solving the problems of ontology, with an eye to both theoretical issues and concrete applications. This book contains a range of areas, all of which are important to the development of formal ontologies.
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.
Synthesises research and development in cognitive science and computing that deal with the automated assessment of human emotion. This title comprises of affect computing systems that learn to identify sentiment bearing sentences, and help in evaluating the polarity of opinion, positive/negative, in written text and speech.
Constitutes the refereed proceedings of the European conference on Machine Learning and Knowledge Discovery in Databases: ECML PKDD 2011, held in Athens, Greece, in September 2011. This title includes the papers that address areas related to machine learning and knowledge discovery in databases as well as other innovative application domains.
Constitutes the refereed proceedings of the European conference on Machine Learning and Knowledge Discovery in Databases: ECML PKDD 2011, held in Athens, Greece, in September 2011. This title presents the papers that address areas related to machine learning and knowledge discovery in databases as well as other innovative application domains.
This book examines preference representation, covering languages, nonmonotonic logics of preference and conditional networks, then moves to reasoning, exploring preference-based argumentation, rank-ordering outcomes, database queries and future research trends.
Computational optimization is an important paradigm with a wide range of applications. This book reviews and discusses the latest developments concerning optimization and modelling with a focus on methods and algorithms for computational optimization.
Constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Integration of AI and OR Techniques in Constraint Programming for Combinatorial Optimization Problems, CPAIOR 2007, held in Brussels, Belgium in May 2007. This book presents methodological and foundational issues from AI, OR, and algorithmics.
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.
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.
Constitutes the refereed post-workshop proceedings of the Third International Workshop on Languages, Methodologies, and Development Tools for Multi-Agent Systems, LADS 2010 that was held in Lyon, France, in August/September 2010, as part of MALLOW, a federation of workshops on Multi-Agent Logics, Languages, and Organizations.
Constitutes proceedings of the 20th Conference of the Canadian Society for Computational Studies of Intelligence, Canadian AI 2007, held in Montreal, Canada, in May 2007. This book covers agents, bioinformatics, classification, constraint satisfaction, data mining, knowledge representation and reasoning, learning, natural language, and planning.
Automated planning technology plays a significant role in a variety of demanding applications, ranging from controlling space vehicles and robots to playing the game of bridge. This book covers both the theory and practice of automated planning. It is useful for researchers, professionals, and graduate students.
Features the concepts and methods in automated deduction. This work focuses on basic research in deduction and on the knowledge on which modern deductive systems are based. It presents techniques of implementation and details about system building. It deals with applications of deductive techniques.
This volume, which includes the latest research on data mining and its applications to financial modeling, presents its material in an easy-to-consult handbook style and is aimed at a broad audience that includes both specialists and non-specialists alike.
Constitutes the post-workshop proceedings of the First International Workshop on Languages, Methodologies and Development Tools for Multi-Agent Systems, LADS 2007, held in Durham, UK, in September 2007. This work is organized in topical sections on declarative languages and technologies, methodologies and design and development frameworks.
This book offers a comprehensive discussion of the ways that Evolutionary Algorithms can be adapted to real-world problems such as production process planning, inventory system and supply chain network optimisation, soil properties analysis and more.
Differential evolution has proven itself a very simple while very powerful stochastic global optimizer. This book focuses on applications of differential evolution in electromagnetics to showcase its achievement and capability in solving synthesis and design problems in electromagnetics.
Constitutes the post-conference proceedings of the 8th Asian Symposium on Computer Mathematics, ASCM 2007, held in Singapore in December 2007. This book organizes the papers in topical sections on algorithms and implementations, numerical methods and applications, cryptology, and computational logic.
Presents information on particle swarm optimisation such as using mono-objective and multi-objective particle swarm optimisation for the tuning of process control laws; convergence issues in particle swarm optimisation; and, study on vehicle routing problems using enhanced particle swarm optimisation and others.
Presents the refereed proceedings of the 16th International Conference on Conceptual Structures, ICCS 2008, held in Toulouse, France, in July 2008. This book includes papers that present Conceptual Structure approaches that build on techniques derived from artificial intelligence, knowledge representation, and computational linguistics.
Artificial Intelligence is a branch of computer science and a discipline in the study of machine intelligence. This book consists of 16 chapters on artificial intelligence. It discusses the methods and technology from theory, algorithm, system and applications related to artificial intelligence. It is intended for senior students or graduates.
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.
From reanimating dead bodies with electricity, which led to the introduction of the electric chair, through to the use of machines to render hysterics and the insane fit for reintroduction into society, this book conveys the truths behind our relationship with machines. It is a contribution to the contemporary debates about humans and machines.
Constitutes the proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Theory and Application of Diagrams, Diagrams 2008, held in Herrsching, Germany, in September 2008. This book organizes the papers in topical sections on diagram aesthetics and layout, psychological and cognitive issues, applications of diagrams, and theoretical aspects.
Heinz von Foerster is one of the founders of the science of cybernetics: he produced the first parallel computers and contributed to many other path-breaking developments. Here, he discusses some of the fundamental principles that govern how we know the world and how we process the information from which we derive that knowledge.
This volume provides a philosophical "applied" account of violence, engaged with both empirical and theoretical debates in other disciplines such as cognitive science, sociology, psychiatry, anthropology, political theory, evolutionary biology, and theology.
Martin Charles Golumbic make seminal contributions to algorithmic graph theory and artificial intelligence throughout his career. This book, published in honor of Golumbic on the occasion of his 60th birthday, contains 20 papers, written by graduate students, research collaborators, and computer science colleagues.
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.
Constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Rough Sets and Current Trends in Computing, RSCTC 2008, held in Akron, OH, USA, in October 2008. This book presents the papers that are organized in topical sections on logical and mathematical foundations, data analysis, data mining, and decision support systems.
Constitutes proceedings of the Second International Conference on Rough Sets and Knowledge Technology, RSKT 2007, held in Toronto, Canada in May 2007 in conjunction with the 11th International Conference on Rough Sets, Fuzzy Sets, Data Mining, and Granular Computing, RSFDGrC 2007, both as part of the Joint Rough Set Symposium, JRS 2007.
Introduced in the early 1980s, Rough Set Theory has become an important part of soft computing in the last 25 years. This book provides a practical, context-based analysis of rough set theory, with each chapter exploring a real-world application of Rough Sets.
Established in 1997, the International Machine Vision and Image Processing (IMVIP) conferences bring together theoreticians, practitioners, industrialists and academics, from the numerous related disciplines involved in the processing and analysis of image-based information. This title includes the proceedings.
Automatic course generation is a very important area of research with numerous practical applications in e-learning. It has been studied since the 1980s in the fields of intelligent tutoring, AI and education, adaptive hypermedia and web-based educational systems. This book focuses on course generation based on Hierarchical Task Network planning.
The multitude of factors characterizing automated negotiations render them highly complex. This book describes new trends in agent-based CAMs, presenting papers from many of the leading researchers in the field and covering platforms as well as strategies.
Constitutes the proceedings of the 5th Hellenic Conference on Artificial Intelligence, SETN 2008, held at Syros, Greece in October 2008. This book includes the papers that address the area of artificial intelligence; particular fields of interest include Adaptive Systems, AI and Creativity, AI architectures, and Artificial Life.
Includes the refereed proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence: Methodology, Systems, and Applications, AIMSA 2008, held in Varna, Bulgaria in September 2008. This book contains 30 papers that were presented together with the 10 posters that were reviewed and selected from 109 submissions.
Presents topical research in the study of the tools and applications of artificial intelligence. This book discusses topics that include the application of artificial intelligence in the oil and gas industry and in metal stamping die design; and using artificial intelligence to predict embryo quality and in biomedical imaging techniques.
Constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 5th IFIP Artificial Intelligence Innovations and Applications Conference. This book also features proceedings and post-proceedings of refereed international conferences in computer science and interdisciplinary fields.
Constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Soft Computing, ICAISC 2008, held in Zakopane, Poland, in June 2008. This title also includes papers that are organized in topical sections on neural networks and their applications, fuzzy systems and their applications, and agent systems.
Offers the coverage you need to pass CompTIA's latest Security+ exam and to understand the risks and threats to an organization's data. This book covers: systems security, network infrastructure, access control, assessments and audits, cryptography, and organizational security.
Multiple intelligent agent systems are commonly used in research requiring complex behavior. Synchronization control provides an advantage in solving the problem of multi-agent coordination. This book focuses on the use of synchronization control to coordinate the group behavior of multiple agents. It also includes real-world application examples.
In celebration of the work of Abe Mamdani, one of the founders of fuzzy logic control, this work examines the key challenges and opportunities facing fuzziness at present, as well as the potential obstacles to future progress in researching this vital field.
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.
Addresses theoretical and practical issues in trading agent design and technologies, theoretical and empirical evaluation of strategies in complex trading scenarios as well as mechanism design. This book covers issues of agent-mediated electronic commerce including the design of electronic marketplaces and efficient protocols.
Covers the proceedings of the 8th International Conference CASYS'07, on Computing Anticipatory Systems. This title deals with Research & Development in the area of theoretical developments and applications in the modelling and computing of anticipation in any fields of natural and artificial systems.
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.
Self-organizing Software is the first book to offer an integrated view of self-organization technologies applied to distributed systems. The text explains self-organization concepts and principles, using clear definitions and a strong theoretical background.
Constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 17th International Symposium on Methodologies for Intelligent Systems, ISMIS 2008, held in Toronto, Canada, in May 2008. This book includes sections on knowledge discovery and data mining: foundations, advances, mining changes and actional patterns.
Presents selected papers from the conference Intelligent System and Knowledge Engineering (ISKE) 2011, held December 15-17 in Shanghai, China. This title introduces the scientific and technical advances in the fields of artificial intelligence, machine learning, pattern recognition, data mining, information retrieval, and more.
Proposes an approach for the analysis and design of artificial cognitive systems - the anticipatory approach. This title also proposes a view of the importance of dealing with the future, of gaining some autonomy from the environmental data, and of endogenously generating sensorimotor and abstract representations.
Constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Discovery Science, DS 2008, held in Budapest, Hungary, in October 2008, co-located with the 19th International Conference on Algorithmic Learning Theory, ALT 2008. This book presents the papers that are organized in topical sections on learning and text analysis.
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. This work organizes these papers in topical sections on applied topic maps in industry and administration, and collaborative applications.
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.
This book focuses on rare category analysis where the majority classes have smooth distributions and the minority classes exhibit the compactness property. It focuses on challenging cases where the support regions of the majority and minority classes overlap.
Contains the papers presented at AGS 2009, the First International Workshop on Agents for Games and Simulations, held in Budapest on May 11, 2009, which focused on the particular challenges facing those using agent technology for games and simulations.
This edited volume comprises 14 chapters, including several overview chapters, which provide up-to-date and state-of-the art research covering the theory and algorithms of function approximation and classification. This is the fifth volume in the series.
The main focus of the book is on computational modelling of biological and natural intelligent systems in order to develop nature inspired artificially intelligent systems. These algorithmic models have as their main objective to facilitate the implementation of artificial intelligent systems for solving complex real-world systems (e.g.
Includes the refereed proceedings of the 4th Australian Conference on Artificial Life, ACAL 2009, held in Melbourne, Australia, in December 2009. This title covers the main areas of biological behavior as a metaphor for computational models, and computational models to solve biological problems.
Takes academic research and practices and puts them into layman's terms, allowing sci-fi buffs to explore and understand the technology behind the artificial life forms used in popular TV and film. The book reveals the mysteries of AI and explains where "Star Trek" writers may be right and where their ideas are impossible.
This second volume of highlights from the WTCS 2009 conference contains well over 100 quality papers relating to cutting-edge research and data on the interface between education, psychology and computer science, a key nexus in educational development.
Constitutes the proceedings of the 6th German Conference on Multiagent Systems Technologies, MATES 2008, held in Kaiserslautern, Germany, in September 2008 - co-located with the 31st German Conference on Artificial Intelligence, KI 2008. This title presents and discusses the advances of research and development in the area of autonomous agents.
Constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Modeling Decisions for Artificial Intelligence, MDAI 2008, held in Sabadell, Spain, in October 2008. This book presents papers that are devoted to theory and tools for modeling decisions, as well as applications that encompass decision making processes.
This volume presents computer-based methods of computational collective intelligence (CCI) and their applications. Topics include web page language identification, a novel image edge detection approach using ant colony optimization techniques, and more.
Contains a collection of articles selected from regular submissions and invited papers of substantially extended contributions based on the best papers presented at the First International Conference on Computational Collective Intelligence: Semantic Web, Social Networks and Multiagent Systems (ICCCI 2009) during October 5-7, 2009 in Wroclaw.
Constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 12th International Workshop on Cooperative Information Agents, CIA 2008, held in Prague, Czech Republic, in September 2008. This book contains the papers that are organized in topical sections on Trust, Applications, Coordination and Communications, and Negotiation.
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.
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.
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.
Here are selected papers of the First International Workshop on Model-Based Software and Data Integration 2008, part of the Berlin Software Integration Week 2008. The 9 revised full papers and 3 invited lectures were carefully picked from numerous submissions.
Constitutes the refereed proceedings of the International Workshop on Engineering Environment-Mediated Multi-Agent Systems, EEMMAS 2007, held in Dresden, Germany, in October 2007. This volume is organized in sections on engineering self-organizing applications, stigmergic interaction and modeling and structuring mediating environments.
Covers the underlying science and application issues related to aggregation operators, focusing on tools used in practical applications that involve numerical information. This book contains introductions to information fusion and integration, measurement and probability theory, fuzzy sets, and functional equations.
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).
This book is suitable for researchers and postgraduates in the areas of artificial intelligence, database theory, and logic. The authors illustrate the idea through the presentation of various algorithms and offer the most-up-to-date book on this topic.
This volume presents a variety of fuzzy logic techniques which address the challenges posed by autonomous robot navigation. Amongst the problems considered are: how to design robust behavior-producing control modules, and how to use data from sensors for the purpose of environment modeling.
Introduces the reader to fundamental concepts of "Designing Autonomous Mobile Robots". The author addresses the pertinent topics of electronic hardware and software of mobile robot design, with particular emphasis on the more difficult problems of control, navigation, and sensor interfacing. It also includes a CD-ROM with software routines.
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.
Researchers of the "Fuzzy Logic" group at the Microelectronics Institute of Seville have been studying fuzzy logic since the early 1990s. This book, borne of their efforts, covers the state-of-the-art of fuzzy logic-based algorithms for video de-interlacing.
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. This book showcases the advances in evolutionary algorithms for design.
Constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 34th Annual German Conference on Artificial Intelligence, KI 2011, held in Berlin, Germany, in October 2011. This book contains topical sections on computational learning and data mining, knowledge representation and reasonings, augmented reality, swarm intelligence, and planning and scheduling.
Constitutes the proceedings of the 31st Annual German Conference on Artificial Intelligence, KI 2008, held in Kaiserslautern, Germany, September 2008. This book presents papers that cover important areas such as pattern recognition, multi-agent systems, machine learning, natural language processing, constraint reasoning, and temporal reasoning.
Presents the refereed proceedings of the 4th International Joint Conference on Automated Reasoning, IJCAR 2008, held in Sydney, Australia, in August 2008. This title includes papers that address the spectrum of research in automated reasoning and are organized in topical sections on specific theories.
Constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 8th International Workshop on Computational Processing of the Portuguese Language, PROPOR 2010, held in Portp Alegre, Brazil, in April 2010. This book presents the papers that are organized in topical sections on information handling, text processing, language processing, language resources, and more.
Covers papers organized in topical sections on AI methods for ambient intelligence, evaluating ubiquitous systems with users, model driven software engineering for ambient intelligence applications, smart products, ambient assisted living, human aspects in ambient intelligence, Amigo, WASP as well as the cojoint PERSONA and SOPRANO workshops.
Presents a formal approach to dealing with agents and agent systems. This book discusses a framework that provides unambiguous meanings for common concepts and terms for agent systems, allowing for the description of alternative agent models and architectures, and serves as a foundation for development of increasingly refined agent concepts.
This book introduces major advances of the harmony search algorithm in recent years. Topics cover theory and application and include robotics, visual tracking, web text data mining, power flow planning, fuzzy control system, irrigation, logistics and more.
Featuring the latest research on human-computer interaction, and including problems, solutions and applications, this volume of the collection covers topics ranging from diagnostic systems to environment modeling, skin cancer recognition and stroke diagnosis.
This volume, the second in a series devoted to the subject, reflects current issues in the field, especially the need to improve information exchange between humans and computers. The wealth of valuable material on the topic necessitated the two volume set.