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Proceedings of International Conference on Data, Electronics and Computing

Auteure: Nibaran Das , Juwesh Binong , Ondrej Krejcar , Debotosh Bhattacharjee

Nombre de pages: 485

This book features high-quality, peer-reviewed research papers presented at the International Conference on Data Electronics and Computing (ICDEC 2022) organized by departments of Electronics and Communication Engineering, Computer Applications, and Biomedical Engineering, North-Eastern Hill University, Shillong, Meghalaya, India during 7 – 9 September, 2022. The book covers topics in communication, networking and security, image, video and signal processing; cloud computing, IoT and smart city, AI/ML, big data and data mining, VLSI design, antenna, and microwave and control.

Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Modelling, Identification and Control (ICMIC2019)

Auteure: Rui Wang , Zengqiang Chen , Weicun Zhang , Quanmin Zhu

Nombre de pages: 1340

This book includes original, peer-reviewed research papers from the 11th International Conference on Modelling, Identification and Control (ICMIC2019), held in Tianjin, China on July 13-15, 2019. The topics covered include but are not limited to: System Identification, Linear/Nonlinear Control Systems, Data-driven Modelling and Control, Process Modelling and Process Control, Fault Diagnosis and Reliable Control, Intelligent Systems, and Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence.The papers showcased here share the latest findings on methodologies, algorithms and applications in modelling, identification, and control, integrated with Artificial Intelligence (AI), making the book a valuable asset for researchers, engineers, and university students alike.

Focus On: 100 Most Popular 2010s Fantasy Films

Auteure: Wikipedia Contributors

Nombre de pages: 1343

Magnetic Resonance Microscopy

Auteure: Sabina Haber-pohlmeier , Bernhard Blümich , Luisa Ciobanu

Nombre de pages: 468

Magnetic Resonance Microscopy Explore the interdisciplinary applications of magnetic resonance microscopy in this one-of-a-kind resource In Magnetic Resonance Microscopy: Instrumentation and Applications in Engineering, Life Science and Energy Research, a team of distinguished researchers delivers a comprehensive exploration of the use of magnetic resonance microscopy (MRM) and similar techniques in an interdisciplinary milieux. Opening with a section on hardware and methodology, the book moves on to consider developments in the field of mobile nuclear magnetic resonance. Essential processes, including filtration, multi-phase flow and transport, and a wide range of systems – from biomarkers via single cells to plants and biofilms – are discussed next. After a fulsome treatment of MRM in the field of energy research, the editors conclude the book with a chapter extoling the virtues of a holistic treatment of theory and application in MRM. Magnetic Resonance Microscopy: Instrumentation and Applications in Engineering, Life Science and Energy Research also includes: A thorough introduction to recent developments in magnetic resonance microscopy hardware and methods, including...

BDM - 2023-2024

Auteure: Collectif

Nombre de pages: 1710

23e édition revue et schtroumpfée ! 23e édition revue et schtroumpfée !

Spin-Wave Theory and its Applications to Neutron Scattering and THz Spectroscopy

Auteure: Randy S Fishman , Jaime A Fernandez-baca , Toomas Rõõm

Nombre de pages: 225

Two of the most powerful tools used to study magnetic materials are inelastic neutron scattering and THz spectroscopy. Because the measured spectra provide a dynamical fingerprint of a magnetic material, those tools enable scientists to unravel the structure of complex magnetic states and to determine the microcscopic interactions that produce them. This book discusses the experimental techniques of inleastic neutron scattering and THz spectroscopy and provides the theoretical tools required to analyze their measurements using spin-wave theory. For most materials, this analysis can resolve the microscopic magnetic interactions such as exchange, anisotropy, and Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interactions. Assuming a background in elementary statistical mechanics and a familiarity with the quantized harmonic oscillator, this book presents a comprehensive review of spin-wave theory and its applications to both inelastic neutron scattering and THz spectroscopy. Spin-wave theory is used to study several model magnetic systems, including non-collinear magnets such as spirals and cycloids that are produced by geometric frustration, competing exchange interactions, or Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya...

ECAI 2023

Auteure: K. Gal , A. Nowé , G.j. Nalepa

Nombre de pages: 3328

Artificial intelligence, or AI, now affects the day-to-day life of almost everyone on the planet, and continues to be a perennial hot topic in the news. This book presents the proceedings of ECAI 2023, the 26th European Conference on Artificial Intelligence, and of PAIS 2023, the 12th Conference on Prestigious Applications of Intelligent Systems, held from 30 September to 4 October 2023 and on 3 October 2023 respectively in Kraków, Poland. Since 1974, ECAI has been the premier venue for presenting AI research in Europe, and this annual conference has become the place for researchers and practitioners of AI to discuss the latest trends and challenges in all subfields of AI, and to demonstrate innovative applications and uses of advanced AI technology. ECAI 2023 received 1896 submissions – a record number – of which 1691 were retained for review, ultimately resulting in an acceptance rate of 23%. The 390 papers included here, cover topics including machine learning, natural language processing, multi agent systems, and vision and knowledge representation and reasoning. PAIS 2023 received 17 submissions, of which 10 were accepted after a rigorous review process. Those 10 papers...

Advances in Intelligent Data Analysis XVII

Auteure: Wouter Duivesteijn , Arno Siebes , Antti Ukkonen

Nombre de pages: 403

This book constitutes the conference proceedings of the 17th International Symposium on Intelligent Data Analysis, which was held in October 2018 in ‘s-Hertogenbosch, the Netherlands. The traditional focus of the IDA symposium series is on end-to-end intelligent support for data analysis. The 29 full papers presented in this book were carefully reviewed and selected from 65 submissions. The papers cover all aspects of intelligent data analysis, including papers on intelligent support for modeling and analyzing data from complex, dynamical systems.

Pattern Recognition and Computer Vision

Auteure: Zhouchen Lin , Ming-ming Cheng , Ran He , Kurban Ubul , Wushouer Silamu , Hongbin Zha , Jie Zhou , Cheng-lin Liu

Nombre de pages: 585

This 15-volume set LNCS 15031-15045 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 7th Chinese Conference on Pattern Recognition and Computer Vision, PRCV 2024, held in Urumqi, China, during October 18–20, 2024. The 579 full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 1526 submissions. The papers cover various topics in the broad areas of pattern recognition and computer vision, including machine learning, pattern classification and cluster analysis, neural network and deep learning, low-level vision and image processing, object detection and recognition, 3D vision and reconstruction, action recognition, video analysis and understanding, document analysis and recognition, biometrics, medical image analysis, and various applications.

Information Fusion

Auteure: Jinxing Li , Bob Zhang , David Zhang

Nombre de pages: 283

In the big data era, increasing information can be extracted from the same source object or scene. For instance, a person can be verified based on their fingerprint, palm print, or iris information, and a given image can be represented by various types of features, including its texture, color, shape, etc. These multiple types of data extracted from a single object are called multi-view, multi-modal or multi-feature data. Many works have demonstrated that the utilization of all available information at multiple abstraction levels (measurements, features, decisions) helps to obtain more complex, reliable and accurate information and to maximize performance in a range of applications. This book provides an overview of information fusion technologies, state-of-the-art techniques and their applications. It covers a variety of essential information fusion methods based on different techniques, including sparse/collaborative representation, kernel strategy, Bayesian models, metric learning, weight/classifier methods, and deep learning. The typical applications of these proposed fusion approaches are also presented, including image classification, domain adaptation, disease detection,...

PROCEEDINGS OF THE 23RD CONFERENCE ON FORMAL METHODS IN COMPUTER-AIDED DESIGN – FMCAD 2023

Auteure: Alexander Nadel , Kristin Yvonne Rozier

Nombre de pages: 332

The Conference on Formal Methods in Computer-Aided Design (FMCAD) is an annual conference on the theory and applications of formal methods in hardware and system in academia and industry for presenting and discussing groundbreaking methods, technologies, theoretical results, and tools for reasoning formally about computing systems. FMCAD covers formal aspects of computer-aided system testing.

Immunology for Engineers

Nombre de pages: 580

Immunology for Engineers, Volume 140 consists of chapters from stalwarts of the field, covering topics such as antibody engineering, adjuvant requirement and its methodology for assessment, and the need to develop immunotherapy, etc. Chapters covered in this volume discuss Current Status and Future Prospective of Breast Cancer Immunotherapy, Engineering high affinity antigen binders- beyond antibodies, Platelets and Inter-Cellular Communication in Immune Responses: Dialogue with both Professional and Non-Professional Immune Cells, Chimeric Antigen Receptor (CAR) T cell-based cancer immunotherapy: A boon for cancer-free life, and Molecular insights and promise of Oncolytic Virus based Immunotherapy. - Presents the latest in immunological engineering - Delves into timely topics such as antibody engineering - Covers vaccine engineering amongst many other important topics

Bayesian Inference and Computation in Reliability and Survival Analysis

Auteure: Yuhlong Lio , Ding-geng Chen , Hon Keung Tony Ng , Tzong-ru Tsai

Nombre de pages: 367

Bayesian analysis is one of the important tools for statistical modelling and inference. Bayesian frameworks and methods have been successfully applied to solve practical problems in reliability and survival analysis, which have a wide range of real world applications in medical and biological sciences, social and economic sciences, and engineering. In the past few decades, significant developments of Bayesian inference have been made by many researchers, and advancements in computational technology and computer performance has laid the groundwork for new opportunities in Bayesian computation for practitioners. Because these theoretical and technological developments introduce new questions and challenges, and increase the complexity of the Bayesian framework, this book brings together experts engaged in groundbreaking research on Bayesian inference and computation to discuss important issues, with emphasis on applications to reliability and survival analysis. Topics covered are timely and have the potential to influence the interacting worlds of biostatistics, engineering, medical sciences, statistics, and more. The included chapters present current methods, theories, and...

Trump's War

Auteure: Michael Savage

Nombre de pages: 242

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER The wall, taxes, tariffs, deportations, Obamacare, guns, military strength, schools, abortion, religion - what will the new president do? The "Godfather of Trumpmania," Michael Savage, examines the initial appointments, speeches, tweets and history of Donald Trump and offers his insights and analysis. The man many consider to be the determining factor in driving Trump over the finish line by motivating millions of undecideds and the "Deplorables," who would have otherwise sat out the election, provides a crucial first look at the early direction of the Trump presidency. Savage has waged a twenty-five year war on the radio to save America's borders, language and culture from a progressive onslaught that is already turning Europe into a socialist, multiculturalist nightmare, where violent gangs of radical Islamic refugees terrorize defenseless citizens on a daily basis. While most in the chattering classes around the world dismissed Trump's campaign, conservative radio icon Dr. Michael Savage championed Trump's platform and helped him galvanize the support of disaffected middle Americans left behind by the globalist central planners in their distant...

Performance Evaluation Methodologies and Tools

Auteure: Evangelia Kalyvianaki , Marco Paolieri

Nombre de pages: 189

This volume contains the proceedings of the 16th EAI International Conference on Performance Evaluation Methodologies and Tools, VALUETOOLS 2023, which took place in Heraklion, Crete during September 6-7, 2023. The conference brought together researchers, developers, and practitioners from around the world and from different communities including computer science, networks and telecommunications, operations research, optimization, control theory, and manufacturing. The 27 members of the International Program Committee (PC) helped to provide at least 3 reviews for each of the 30 submitted contributions. Based on the reviews and PC discussions, 11 high-quality papers (9 research papers, 1 tool paper, and 1 work-in-progress paper) were accepted to be presented during the conference. The volume includes contributions organized into four thematic sessions: Games and Optimization; Simulation; Networking and Queues; Tools.

Chameleon Bravo

Auteure: Bill Walters

Nombre de pages: 452

Its 1943 and the British and American intelligence agencies meet in Washington DC. They cant kill Hitler, God knows they tried, so they come up with Chameleon Bravo, a long shot contrivance. IF, they can locate the right man, they will switch him with the real Adolph Hitler. His job, will be to slowly, run the Third Reich into the ground by making emotional laden decisions. Unbeknown to the allies, Stalins security forces inadvertently locate a peasant girl who is the spitting image of Hitlers girlfriend, Eva Braun. They coerce her into submitting to be swapped with the assignment of killing Hitler, when she receives a code word. The two, impostors meet, fall in love and know they can never be with the other. He cant tell her he is not the monster she has to kill someday.

Optimization, Learning, and Control for Interdependent Complex Networks

Auteure: M. Hadi Amini

Nombre de pages: 306

This book focuses on a wide range of optimization, learning, and control algorithms for interdependent complex networks and their role in smart cities operation, smart energy systems, and intelligent transportation networks. It paves the way for researchers working on optimization, learning, and control spread over the fields of computer science, operation research, electrical engineering, civil engineering, and system engineering. This book also covers optimization algorithms for large-scale problems from theoretical foundations to real-world applications, learning-based methods to enable intelligence in smart cities, and control techniques to deal with the optimal and robust operation of complex systems. It further introduces novel algorithms for data analytics in large-scale interdependent complex networks. • Specifies the importance of efficient theoretical optimization and learning methods in dealing with emerging problems in the context of interdependent networks • Provides a comprehensive investigation of advance data analytics and machine learning algorithms for large-scale complex networks • Presents basics and mathematical foundations needed to enable efficient...

Machine Vision Inspection Systems, Machine Learning-Based Approaches

Auteure: Muthukumaran Malarvel , Soumya Ranjan Nayak , Prasant Kumar Pattnaik , Surya Narayan Panda

Nombre de pages: 354

Machine Vision Inspection Systems (MVIS) is a multidisciplinary research field that emphasizes image processing, machine vision and, pattern recognition for industrial applications. Inspection techniques are generally used in destructive and non-destructive evaluation industry. Now a day's the current research on machine inspection gained more popularity among various researchers, because the manual assessment of the inspection may fail and turn into false assessment due to a large number of examining while inspection process. This volume 2 covers machine learning-based approaches in MVIS applications and it can be employed to a wide diversity of problems particularly in Non-Destructive testing (NDT), presence/absence detection, defect/fault detection (weld, textile, tiles, wood, etc.), automated vision test & measurement, pattern matching, optical character recognition & verification (OCR/OCV), natural language processing, medical diagnosis, etc. This edited book is designed to address various aspects of recent methodologies, concepts, and research plan out to the readers for giving more depth insights for perusing research on machine vision using machine learning-based...

Applications in Electronics Pervading Industry, Environment and Society

Auteure: Francesco Bellotti , Miltos D. Grammatikakis , Ali Mansour , Massimo Ruo Roch , Ralf Seepold , Agusti Solanas , Riccardo Berta

Nombre de pages: 523

This book provides a thorough overview of cutting-edge research on electronics applications relevant to industry, the environment, and society at large. It covers a broad spectrum of application domains, from automotive to space and from health to security, while devoting special attention to the use of embedded devices and sensors for imaging, communication, and control. The book is based on the 2023 ApplePies Conference, held in Genoa, Italy, in September 2023, which brought together researchers and stakeholders to consider the most significant current trends in the field of applied electronics and to debate visions for the future. Areas addressed by the conference included information communication technology; biotechnology and biomedical imaging; space; secure, clean, and efficient energy; the environment; and smart, green, and integrated transport. As electronics technology continues to develop apace, constantly meeting previously unthinkable targets, further attention needs to be directed toward the electronics applications and the development of systems that facilitate human activities. This book, written by industrial and academic professionals, represents a valuable...

Internet of Things and Big Data Applications

Auteure: Valentina E. Balas , Vijender Kumar Solanki , Raghvendra Kumar

Nombre de pages: 283

This book provides essential future directions for IoT and Big Data research. Thanks to rapid advances in sensors and wireless technology, Internet of Things (IoT)-related applications are attracting more and more attention. As more devices are connected, they become potential components for smart applications. Thus, there is a new global interest in these applications in various domains such as health, agriculture, energy, security and retail. The main objective of this book is to reflect the multifaceted nature of IoT and Big Data in a single source. Accordingly, each chapter addresses a specific domain that is now being significantly impacted by the spread of soft computing

Compressive Sensing of Earth Observations

Auteure: C.h. Chen

Nombre de pages: 379

Future remote sensing systems will make extensive use of Compressive Sensing (CS) as it becomes more integrated into the system design with increased high resolution sensor developments and the rising earth observation data generated each year. Written by leading experts in the field Compressive Sensing of Earth Observations provides a comprehensive and balanced coverage of the theory and applications of CS in all aspects of earth observations. This work covers a myriad of practical aspects such as the use of CS in detection of human vital signs in a cluttered environment and the corresponding modeling of rib-cage breathing. Readers are also presented with three different applications of CS to the ISAR imaging problem, which includes image reconstruction from compressed data, resolution enhancement, and image reconstruction from incomplete data.

Advances in Computer Vision

Auteure: Kohei Arai , Supriya Kapoor

Nombre de pages: 833

This book presents a remarkable collection of chapters covering a wide range of topics in the areas of Computer Vision, both from theoretical and application perspectives. It gathers the proceedings of the Computer Vision Conference (CVC 2019), held in Las Vegas, USA from May 2 to 3, 2019. The conference attracted a total of 371 submissions from pioneering researchers, scientists, industrial engineers, and students all around the world. These submissions underwent a double-blind peer review process, after which 120 (including 7 poster papers) were selected for inclusion in these proceedings. The book’s goal is to reflect the intellectual breadth and depth of current research on computer vision, from classical to intelligent scope. Accordingly, its respective chapters address state-of-the-art intelligent methods and techniques for solving real-world problems, while also outlining future research directions. Topic areas covered include Machine Vision and Learning, Data Science, Image Processing, Deep Learning, and Computer Vision Applications.

Founding Weimar

Auteure: Mark Jones

Nombre de pages: 405

The first study to reveal the key relationship between violence and fears of violence during the German Revolution of 1918-1919.

Recent Developments in Model-Based and Data-Driven Methods for Advanced Control and Diagnosis

Auteure: Didier Theilliol , Józef Korbicz , Janusz Kacprzyk

Nombre de pages: 352

The book consists of recent works on several axes either with a more theoretical nature or with a focus on applications, which will span a variety of up-to-date topics in the field of systems and control. The main market area of the contributions include: Advanced fault-tolerant control, control reconfiguration, health monitoring techniques for industrial systems, data-driven diagnosis methods, process supervision, diagnosis and control of discrete-event systems, maintenance and repair strategies, statistical methods for fault diagnosis, reliability and safety of industrial systems artificial intelligence methods for control and diagnosis, health-aware control design strategies, advanced control approaches, deep learning-based methods for control and diagnosis, reinforcement learning-based approaches for advanced control, diagnosis and prognosis techniques applied to industrial problems, Industry 4.0 as well as instrumentation and sensors. These works constitute advances in the aforementioned scientific fields and will be used by graduate as well as doctoral students along with established researchers to update themselves with the state of the art and recent advances in their...

Proceedings of International Conference on Computational Intelligence, Data Science and Cloud Computing

Auteure: Valentina E. Balas , Aboul Ella Hassanien , Satyajit Chakrabarti , Lopa Mandal

Nombre de pages: 781

This book includes selected papers presented at International Conference on Computational Intelligence, Data Science and Cloud Computing (IEM-ICDC) 2020, organized by the Department of Information Technology, Institute of Engineering & Management, Kolkata, India, during 25–27 September 2020. It presents substantial new research findings about AI and robotics, image processing and NLP, cloud computing and big data analytics as well as in cyber security, blockchain and IoT, and various allied fields. The book serves as a reference resource for researchers and practitioners in academia and industry.

Data Management, Analytics and Innovation

Auteure: Neha Sharma , Amlan Chakrabarti , Valentina Emilia Balas , Alfred M. Bruckstein

Nombre de pages: 453

This book presents the latest findings in the areas of data management and smart computing, machine learning, big data management, artificial intelligence, and data analytics, along with advances in network technologies. The book is a collection of peer-reviewed research papers presented at Fifth International Conference on Data Management, Analytics and Innovation (ICDMAI 2021), held during January 15–17, 2021, in a virtual mode. It addresses state-of-the-art topics and discusses challenges and solutions for future development. Gathering original, unpublished contributions by scientists from around the globe, the book is mainly intended for a professional audience of researchers and practitioners in academia and industry.

Resting Places

Auteure: Scott Wilson

Nombre de pages: 887

In its third edition, this massive reference work lists the final resting places of more than 14,000 people from a wide range of fields, including politics, the military, the arts, crime, sports and popular culture. Many entries are new to this edition. Each listing provides birth and death dates, a brief summary of the subject's claim to fame and their burial site location or as much as is known. Grave location within a cemetery is provided in many cases, as well as places of cremation and sites where ashes were scattered. Source information is provided.

Engineering Principles

Auteure: Kavian Cooke , Ronaldo Câmara Cozza

Nombre de pages: 340

Over the last decade, there has been substantial development of welding technologies for joining advanced alloys and composites demanded by the evolving global manufacturing sector. The evolution of these welding technologies has been substantial and finds numerous applications in engineering industries. It is driven by our desire to reverse the impact of climate change and fuel consumption in several vital sectors. This book reviews the most recent developments in welding. It is organized into three sections: “Principles of Welding and Joining Technology,” “Microstructural Evolution and Residual Stress,” and “Applications of Welding and Joining.” Chapters address such topics as stresses in welding, tribology, thin-film metallurgical manufacturing processes, and mechanical manufacturing processes, as well as recent advances in welding and novel applications of these technologies for joining different materials such as titanium, aluminum, and magnesium alloys, ceramics, and plastics.

Advances in Computer Vision and Computational Biology

Auteure: Hamid R. Arabnia , Leonidas Deligiannidis , Hayaru Shouno , Fernando G. Tinetti , Quoc-nam Tran

Nombre de pages: 903

The book presents the proceedings of four conferences: The 24th International Conference on Image Processing, Computer Vision, & Pattern Recognition (IPCV'20), The 6th International Conference on Health Informatics and Medical Systems (HIMS'20), The 21st International Conference on Bioinformatics & Computational Biology (BIOCOMP'20), and The 6th International Conference on Biomedical Engineering and Sciences (BIOENG'20). The conferences took place in Las Vegas, NV, USA, July 27-30, 2020, and are part of the larger 2020 World Congress in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, & Applied Computing (CSCE'20), which features 20 major tracks. Authors include academics, researchers, professionals, and students. Presents the proceedings of four conferences as part of the 2020 World Congress in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, & Applied Computing (CSCE'20); Includes the tracks on Image Processing, Computer Vision, & Pattern Recognition, Health Informatics & Medical Systems, Bioinformatics, Computational Biology & Biomedical Engineering; Features papers from IPCV'20, HIMS'20, BIOCOMP'20, and BIOENG'20.

Applications in Electronics Pervading Industry, Environment and Society

Auteure: Sergio Saponara , Alessandro De Gloria , Francesco Bellotti

Nombre de pages: 258

This book features the manuscripts accepted for the Special Issue “Applications in Electronics Pervading Industry, Environment and Society—Sensing Systems and Pervasive Intelligence” of the MDPI journal Sensors. Most of the papers come from a selection of the best papers of the 2019 edition of the “Applications in Electronics Pervading Industry, Environment and Society” (APPLEPIES) Conference, which was held in November 2019. All these papers have been significantly enhanced with novel experimental results. The papers give an overview of the trends in research and development activities concerning the pervasive application of electronics in industry, the environment, and society. The focus of these papers is on cyber physical systems (CPS), with research proposals for new sensor acquisition and ADC (analog to digital converter) methods, high-speed communication systems, cybersecurity, big data management, and data processing including emerging machine learning techniques. Physical implementation aspects are discussed as well as the trade-off found between functional performance and hardware/system costs.

Advanced Concepts for Intelligent Vision Systems

Auteure: Jacques Blanc-talon , Cosimo Distante , Wilfried Philips , Dan Popescu , Paul Scheunders

Nombre de pages: 767

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 17th International Conference on Advanced Concepts for Intelligent Vision Systems, ACIVS 2016, held in Lecce, Italy, in October 2016. The 64 revised full papers presented in this volume were carefully selected from 137 submissions. They deal with classical low-level image processing techniques; image and video compression; 3D; security and forensics; and evaluation methodologies.

Transparent Data Mining for Big and Small Data

Auteure: Tania Cerquitelli , Daniele Quercia , Frank Pasquale

Nombre de pages: 224

This book focuses on new and emerging data mining solutions that offer a greater level of transparency than existing solutions. Transparent data mining solutions with desirable properties (e.g. effective, fully automatic, scalable) are covered in the book. Experimental findings of transparent solutions are tailored to different domain experts, and experimental metrics for evaluating algorithmic transparency are presented. The book also discusses societal effects of black box vs. transparent approaches to data mining, as well as real-world use cases for these approaches.As algorithms increasingly support different aspects of modern life, a greater level of transparency is sorely needed, not least because discrimination and biases have to be avoided. With contributions from domain experts, this book provides an overview of an emerging area of data mining that has profound societal consequences, and provides the technical background to for readers to contribute to the field or to put existing approaches to practical use.

In the Forest of No Joy: The Congo-Océan Railroad and the Tragedy of French Colonialism

Auteure: J. P. Daughton

Nombre de pages: 315

The epic story of the Congo-Océan railroad and the human costs and contradictions of modern empire. The Congo-Océan railroad stretches across the Republic of Congo from Brazzaville to the Atlantic port of Pointe-Noir. It was completed in 1934, when Equatorial Africa was a French colony, and it stands as one of the deadliest construction projects in history. Colonial workers were subjects of an ostensibly democratic nation whose motto read “Liberty, Equality, Fraternity,” but liberal ideals were savaged by a cruelly indifferent administrative state. African workers were forcibly conscripted and separated from their families, and subjected to hellish conditions as they hacked their way through dense tropical foliage—a “forest of no joy”; excavated by hand thousands of tons of earth in order to lay down track; blasted their way through rock to construct tunnels; or risked their lives building bridges over otherwise impassable rivers. In the process, they suffered disease, malnutrition, and rampant physical abuse, likely resulting in at least 20,000 deaths. In the Forest of No Joy captures in vivid detail the experiences of the men, women, and children who toiled on the...

Discovering the Frontiers of Human-Robot Interaction

Auteure: Ramana Vinjamuri

Nombre de pages: 491

The field of Human-Robot Interaction (HRI) is rapidly evolving, blurring the lines between human and machine capabilities. Recent advances in computer science, computer vision, artificial intelligence, robotics, brain-computer interfaces, neural engineering, and cognitive science have profoundly transformed HRI. As we stand on the threshold of a new era characterized by increasingly sophisticated human-machine interactions, it becomes imperative to explore the emerging frontiers of this dynamic field. Robots are now entering homes, workplaces, and even battlefields, necessitating a deeper understanding of effective, safe, and ethical human-robot interaction. This book delves into cutting-edge research shaping the future of HRI, representing a collective effort to navigate uncharted territories. Through diverse chapters authored by leading experts, it offers a comprehensive exploration of the latest developments, challenges, and opportunities in HRI. By examining technical, engineering, and methodological challenges, this volume brings together perspectives from researchers, engineers, and designers to provide a comprehensive view of this dynamic field. Aiming to showcase...

Advanced Intelligent Technologies for Industry

Auteure: Kazumi Nakamatsu , Roumen Kountchev , Srikanta Patnaik , Jair M. Abe , Andrey Tyugashev

Nombre de pages: 585

The book includes new research results of scholars from the Second International Conference on Advanced Intelligent Technologies (ICAIT 2021) subtitled Intelligent Technology and Industry organized by IRNet International Academic Communication Center, held during October 15–17, 2021. The book covers research work from active researchers who are working on collaboration of industry and various intelligent technologies such as intelligent technologies applicable/applied to manufacturing and distribution of industrial products, factory automation, business, etc. The book focuses on theory, design, development, testing, and evaluation of all intelligent technologies applicable/applied to various parts of industry and its infrastructure. The topics included are all computational intelligence techniques applicable/applied to industry, intelligent techniques in data science applicable/applied to business and management, intelligent network systems applicable/applied to industrial production, intelligent technologies applicable to smart agriculture, and intelligent information systems for agriculture.

NASA Formal Methods

Auteure: Ritchie Lee , Susmit Jha , Anastasia Mavridou , Dimitra Giannakopoulou

Nombre de pages: 448

This book constitutes the proceedings of the 12th International Symposium on NASA Formal Methods, NFM 2020, held in Moffett Field, CA, USA, in May 2020.* The 20 full and 5 short papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 62 submissions. The papers are organized in the following topical sections: learning and formal synthesis; formal methods for DNNs; high assurance systems; requirement specification and testing; validation and solvers; solvers and program analysis; verification and times systems; autonomy and other applications; and hybrid and cyber-physical systems. *The conference was held virtually due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The chapter “Verifying a Solver for Linear Mixed Integer Arithmetic in Isabelle/HOL” is available open access under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License via link.springer.com.

Artificial Neural Networks and Evolutionary Computation in Remote Sensing

Auteure: Taskin Kavzoglu

Nombre de pages: 256

Artificial neural networks (ANNs) and evolutionary computation methods have been successfully applied in remote sensing applications since they offer unique advantages for the analysis of remotely-sensed images. ANNs are effective in finding underlying relationships and structures within multidimensional datasets. Thanks to new sensors, we have images with more spectral bands at higher spatial resolutions, which clearly recall big data problems. For this purpose, evolutionary algorithms become the best solution for analysis. This book includes eleven high-quality papers, selected after a careful reviewing process, addressing current remote sensing problems. In the chapters of the book, superstructural optimization was suggested for the optimal design of feedforward neural networks, CNN networks were deployed for a nanosatellite payload to select images eligible for transmission to ground, a new weight feature value convolutional neural network (WFCNN) was applied for fine remote sensing image segmentation and extracting improved land-use information, mask regional-convolutional neural networks (Mask R-CNN) was employed for extracting valley fill faces, state-of-the-art...

Mining Journal, Railway & Commercial Gazette

Nombre de pages: 758

Proceedings of International Conference on Computational Intelligence

Auteure: Ritu Tiwari , Mario F. Pavone , Ranjith Ravindranathan Nair

Nombre de pages: 475

The book presents high quality research papers presented at International Conference on Computational Intelligence (ICCI 2021) held online during 27–28 December, 2021. The topics covered are artificial intelligence, neural network, deep learning techniques, fuzzy theory and systems, rough sets, self-organizing maps, machine learning, chaotic systems, multi-agent systems, computational optimization ensemble classifiers, reinforcement learning, decision trees, support vector machines, hybrid learning, statistical learning. metaheuristics algorithms: evolutionary and swarm-based algorithms like genetic algorithms, genetic programming, differential evolution, particle swarm optimization, whale optimization, spider monkey optimization, firefly algorithm, memetic algorithms. And also machine vision, Internet of Things, image processing, image segmentation, data clustering, sentiment analysis, big data, computer networks, signal processing, supply chain management, web and text mining, distributed systems, bioinformatics, embedded systems, expert system, forecasting, pattern recognition, planning and scheduling, time series analysis, human-computer interaction, web mining, natural...

Digital Twins for Digital Transformation: Innovation in Industry

Auteure: Aboul Ella Hassanien , Ashraf Darwish , Vaclav Snasel

Nombre de pages: 206

This book aims to present dominant applications and use cases of the fast-evolving DT and determines vital Industry 4.0 technologies for building DT that can provide solutions for fighting local and globalmedical emergencies during pandemics. Moreover, it discusses a new framework integrating DT and blockchain technology to provide a more efficient and effective preventive conservation in different applications.