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Advances in the evolutionary synthesis of intelligent agents
"A Bradford book.""This book explores a central issue in artificial intelligence, cognitive science, and artificial life: how to design information structures and processes that create and adapt intelligent agents through evolution and learning." "The book is organized around four topics: the power of evolution to determine effective solutions to complex tasks, mechanisms to make evolutionary d…
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- 0585387168
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- 1 online resource (xxiv, 480 pages) :illustrations
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What we know about emotional intelligence :how it affects learning, work, rel…
"A Bradford book."Sorting out the scientific facts from the unsupported hype about emotional intelligence.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262255011
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- 1 online resource (xviii, 441 pages) :illustrations, map
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Artificial life :an overview
"A Bradford book."Artificial life, a field that seeks to increase the role of synthesis in the study of biological phenomena, has great potential, both for unlocking the secrets of life and for raising a host of disturbing issues -- scientific and technical as well as philosophical and ethical. This book brings together a series of overview articles that appeared in the first three issues of th…
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- 0585036152
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- 1 online resource (xi, 340 pages, 6 unnumbered pages of plates) :illustrations (some color).
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Artificial intelligence at MIT :expanding frontiers.
The broad range of material included in these volumes suggests to the newcomer the nature of the field of artificial intelligence, while those with some background in AI will appreciate the detailed coverage of the work being done at MIT. The results presented are related to the underlying methodology. Each chapter is introduced by a short note outlining the scope of the problem begin taken up …
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- 0262322323
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- 1 online resource (682 pages).
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Artificial intelligence in perspective
"A Bradford book."Reprinted from Artificial intelligence, an international journal, vol. 59, nos. 1-2, 1993.This collection of essays reviews the scope and progress of research in artificial intelligence over the past two decades. Seminal and most-cited papers from the journal "Artificial Intelligence" are revisited by the authors who describe how their research has been developed since publica…
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- 1st MIT Press ed.
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- 0262291061
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- 1 online resource (viii, 462 pages) :illustrations.
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Beyond Hegel and Nietzsche :philosophy, culture, and agency
Are Hegel and Nietzsche philosophical opposites? Can twentieth-century Continental philosophers be categorized as either Hegelians or Nietzscheans? In this book Elliot Jurist places Hegel and Nietzsche in conversation with each other, reassessing their relationship in a way that affirms its complexity. Jurist examines Hegel's and Nietzsche's claim that philosophy and culture are linked and expl…
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- 0585442681
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- 1 online resource (xii, 355 pages).
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Is human nature obsolete? :genetics, bioengineering, and the future of the hu…
Papers from a conference held in spring 2001 at the University of Scranton.As our scientific and technical abilities expand at breathtaking speeds, concern that modern genetics and bioengineering are leading us to a posthuman future is growing. Is Human Nature Obsolete? poses the overarching question of what it is to be human against the background of these current advances in biotechnology. It…
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- 9780262267571
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- 1 online resource (x, 422 pages).
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Learnability and cognition :the acquisition of argument structure
"A Bradford book."OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262281614
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- 1 online resource (xiv, 411 pages) :illustrations.
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Knowledge of meaning :an introduction to semantic theory
"A Bradford book."OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262277945
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- 1 online resource (xvii, 639 pages)
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Layered learning in multiagent systems :a winning approach to robotic soccer
This book looks at multiagent systems that consist of teams of autonomous agents acting in real-time, noisy, collaborative, and adversarial environments. The book makes four main contributions to the fields of machine learning and multiagent systems. First, it describes an architecture within which a flexible team structure allows member agents to decompose a task into flexible roles and to swi…
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- 0585228361
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- 1 online resource (xii, 272 pages) :illustrations.
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