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Work meets life :exploring the integrative study of work in living systems
The work performed by living systems ranges from photosynthesis to prodigious feats of computation and organization. This multidisciplinary volume explores the relationships between work and the study of work across many different levels of organization.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262265843
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- 1 online resource (xv, 249 pages) :illustrations
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Elements of argumentation
Here the authors introduce techniques for formalizing deductive argumentation in artificial intelligence, emphasising emerging formalizations for practical argumentation. They discuss how arguments can be constructed, how key intrinsic and extrinsic factors can be identified, and how these analyses can be harnessed in the real world.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262268400
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- 1 online resource (298 pages)
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Tales from a robotic world :how intelligent machines will shape our future
"A glimpse into the future of intelligent machines, and a journey through the laboratories and researchers that are building them. The book offers a mix of fiction and nonfiction narrative: readers can "see" a world, a few decades away, where intelligent machines have become reality, and learn about the science brewing in today's labs and the technical and socioeconomic challenges, often throug…
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- 9780262371803
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The next age of disruption
"Collection of Sloan Management Review articles centered on the concept of disruptive innovation and how to update/extend it for the current and future business landscape"--OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262363129
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Creative Destruction: Business Survival Strategies in the Global Internet Eco…
A collection of 12 papers which "grew out of a March 1999 symposium held at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, Tufts University. "Creative Destruction -- or Just Destruction? Telecoms in Transition: Survival and Success in the Global Internet Economy" was co-sponsored by the Fletcher School's Hitachi Center for Technology and International Affairs, the Fletcher School's Edward R. Murrow …
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- 9780262276788
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- 1 online resource (xii, 289 pages) :illustrations
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Artifacts :an archaeologist's year in Silicon Valley
Silicon Valley, a small place with few identifiable geologic or geographic features, has achieved a mythical reputation in a very short time. The modern material culture of the Valley may be driven by technology, but it also encompasses architecture, transportation, food, clothing, entertainment, intercultural exchanges, and rituals.Combining a reporter's instinct for a good interview with trad…
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- 9780262272674
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- 1 online resource (xlix, 246 pages) :illustrations, map
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Artificial life IV :proceedings of the Fourth International Workshop on the S…
Held at MIT, Cambridge, Mass., July 6th-8th, 1994."A Bradford book.""The field of artificial life has recently emerged through the interaction of research in biology, physics, parallel computing, artificial intelligence, and complex adaptive systems. The goal is to understand, through synthetic experiments, the organizational principles underlying the dynamics (usually the nonlinear dynamics) o…
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- 9780262286756
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- 1 online resource (xii, 444 pages) :illustrations (some color).
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Artificial life IX :proceedings of the ninth International Conference on the …
"A Bradford book."Artificial Life is an interdisciplinary effort to investigate the fundamental properties of living systems through the simulation and synthesis of life-like processes. The young field brings a powerful set of tools to the study of how high-level behavior can arise in systems governed by simple rules of interaction. Some of the fundamental questions include:What are the princip…
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- 9780262291392
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- 1 online resource (xiv, 589 pages) :illustrations
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Artificial life VII :proceedings of the seventh International Conference on A…
"A Bradford book."The term "artificial life" describes research into synthetic systems that possess some of the essential properties of life. This interdisciplinary field includes biologists, computer scientists, physicists, chemists, geneticists, and others. Artificial life may be viewed as an attempt to understand high-level behavior from low-level rules -- for example, how the simple interac…
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- 9780262291071
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- 1 online resource (xii, 564 pages) :illustrations.
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Inconsistencies
Meditations, aphorisms, maxims, notes, and comments construct a philosophy of thought congruent with the inconsistency of our reality.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262343541
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