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 & text analysis. ...

Frederick Douglass, a Centaur, serpents, Christ, & an assortment of mythical beasts are just some of the characters that appear within the world of Alex Gross lush, incongruous paintings in Discrepancies. Historical figures coexist with fashionable men & women, often on their cell phones, & frequently set in landscapes that simultaneously invoke both Gothic Flemish Art & the metropolitan, billboard-infested urban advertising that we find inescapable in our world today. Gross highly involved, figurative oil paintings defy categorization his unusual hybrids, for all their dreamlike mystery, powerfully convey universal ...

Offers a comprehensive introduction to discrete geometry. This book covers traditional topics such as convex hulls, triangulations, & Voronoi diagrams, as well as subjects like pseudotriangulations, curve reconstruction, & locked chains. It is suitable for sophomores in mathematics, computer science, engineering, or physics. ...