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The Contours of Agency: Essays on Themes from Harry Frankfurt
"A Bradford book."The original essays in this book address Harry Frankfurt's influential writing on personal identity, love, value, moral responsibility, and the freedom and limits of the human will. Many of Frankfurt's deepest insights come from exploring the self-reflective nature of human agents and the psychic conflicts that self-reflection often produces. His work has informed discussions …
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- 1 online resource (xx, 361 pages)
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Contracts in Trade and Transition: The Resurgence of Barter
An institutional approach to explaining countertrade and barter in international trade and domestic trade in transition economies.Difficulties in contract enforcement impede international transactions in the world economy and domestic transactions in transition economies. In Contracts in Trade and Transition, Dalia Marin and Monika Schnitzer explain how barter as an economic institution can fac…
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- 9780262279123
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- 1 online resource (xvi, 206 pages) :illustrations
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Control and Freedom: Power and Paranoia in the Age of Fiber Optics
"How has the Internet, a medium that thrives on control, been accepted as a medium of freedom? Why is freedom increasingly indistinguishable from paranoid control? In Control and Freedom, Wendy Hui Kyong Chun explores the current political and technological coupling of freedom with control by tracing the emergence of the Internet as a mass medium. The parallel (and paranoid) myths of the Intern…
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- 9780262288583
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Conversations in the Cognitive Neurosciences
Conversations in the Cognitive Neurosciences is a brief, informative yet informal guide to recent developments in the cognitive neurosciences by the scientists who are in the thick of things.
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- 9780262286893
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- 1 online resource (viii, 193 pages) :illustrations
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Coordinating Distributed Objects: An Actor-Based Approach to Synchronization
Coordinating Distributed Objects presents a novel object-oriented methodology to simplify the construction of distributed software systems. The methodology is based on a programming construct, called synchronizer, that allows the coordination of distributed application components to be programmed in a modular fashion and at a high level of abstraction. The methodology offers new insight into th…
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- 1 online resource (xxii, 195 pages) :illustrations
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Advances in genetic programming Volume 3
"A Bradford book."OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262284127
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- 1 online resource (476 pages) :illustrations.
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Advances in large margin classifiers
The concept of large margins is a unifying principle for the analysis of many different approaches to the classification of data from examples, including boosting, mathematical programming, neural networks, and support vector machines. The fact that it is the margin, or confidence level, of a classification--that is, a scale parameter--rather than a raw training error that matters has become a …
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- 9780262283977
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- 1 online resource (vi, 412 pages) :illustrations.
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Advances in minimum description length :theory and applications
A source book for state-of-the-art MDL, including an extensive tutorial and recent theoretical advances and practical applications in fields ranging from bioinformatics to psychology.The process of inductive inference--to infer general laws and principles from particular instances--is the basis of statistical modeling, pattern recognition, and machine learning. The Minimum Descriptive Length (M…
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- 9780262274463
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- 1 online resource (x, 444 pages) :illustrations.
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Coordinating the Internet
For years, the world saw the Internet as a creature of theU. S. Department of Defense. Now some claim that the Internet is aself-governing organism controlled by no one and needing nooversight. Although the National Science Foundation and othergovernment agencies continue to support and oversee criticaladministrative and coordinating functions, the Internet is remarkablydecentralized and uninst…
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- 9780262286909
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Advances in neural information processing systems 14 :proceedings of the 2001…
"This volume contains the papers presented at the fifteenth annual Neural Information Processing Systems (NIPS) conference, held in British Columbia, Canada from Dec 3 through 8, 2001--Preface."A Bradford book."The proceedings of the 2001 Neural Information Processing Systems (NIPS) Conference.The annual conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NIPS) is the flagship conference on ne…
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- 9780262271738
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- 1 online resource (2 volumes (1594 pages)) :illustrations
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