An analysis of the ways that software creates new spatialities in everyday life, from supermarket checkout lines to airline flight paths.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
A new approach for conceptualizing and modeling multi-agent systems that consist of people, devices, and software agents.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
"A Bradford Book."The definitive presentation of Soar, one AI's most enduring architectures, offering comprehensive descriptions of fundamental aspects and new components.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
"A Bradford book."An analysis of how economic theories can be used to understand disordered and pathological gambling that calls on empirical evidence about behavior and the brain and argues that addictive gambling is the basic form of all addiction.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
This collection of short expository, critical and speculative texts offers a field guide to the cultural, political, social and aesthetic impact of software. Experts from a range of disciplines each take a key topic in software and the understanding of software, such as algorithms and logical structures.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
Much of the difficulty in creating information technology systems that truly meet people's needs lies in the problem of pinning down system requirements. This book offers a new approach to the requirements challenge, based on modeling and analyzing the relationships among stakeholders. Although the importance of the system-environment relationship has long been recognized in the requirements en…
In this book, Josh Lerner and Mark Schankerman, drawing on a new, large-scale database, show that open source and proprietary software interact in sometimes unexpected ways, and discuss the policy implications of these findings.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
Wendy Hui Kyong Chun argues that cycles of obsolescence & renewal result in part from the ways in which new media encapsulates a logic of programmability. In seeking to embody a future based on past data, new media becomes a metaphor for metaphor itself.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
"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…
A comprehensive account of the decades-long, multiple antitrust actions against Microsoft and an assessment of the effectiveness of antitrust law in the digital age.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.