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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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Learning in embedded systems
"A Bradford book."It is the first detailed exploration of the problem of learning action strategies in the context of designing embedded systems that adapt their behavior to a complex, changing environment; such systems include mobile robots, factory process controllers, and long-term software databases.Learning to perform complex action strategies is an important problem in the fields of artif…
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- 0262288508
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- 1 online resource (xi, 176 pages) :illustrations
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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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Knowledge in action :logical foundations for specifying and implementing dyna…
Modeling and implementing dynamical systems is a central problem in artificial intelligence, robotics, software agents, simulation, decision and control theory, and many other disciplines. In recent years, a new approach to representing such systems, grounded in mathematical logic, has been developed within the AI knowledge-representation community. This book presents a comprehensive treatment …
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- 9780262282314
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- 1 online resource (xvi, 424 pages) :illustrations
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Knowledge engineering and management :the CommonKADS methodology
"A Bradford book."OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262283236
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- 1 online resource (xiv, 455 pages) :illustrations
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Knowledge-based neurocomputing
Looking at ways to encode prior knowledge and to extract, refine, and revise knowledge within a neurocomputing system.Neurocomputing methods are loosely based on a model of the brain as a network of simple interconnected processing elements corresponding to neurons. These methods derive their power from the collective processing of artificial neurons, the chief advantage being that such systems…
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- 9780262270496
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- 1 online resource (xiv, 486 pages) :illustrations
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Mechanizing proof :computing, risk, and trust
Most aspects of our private and social lives--our safety, the integrity of the financial system, the functioning of utilities and other services, and national security--now depend on computing. But how can we know that this computing is trustworthy? In Mechanizing Proof, Donald MacKenzie addresses this key issue by investigating the interrelations of computing, risk, and mathematical proof over…
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- 9780262278829
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- 1 online resource (xi, 427 pages) :illustrations.
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Mobile communication and society :a global perspective : a project of the Ann…
"Wireless networks are the fastest growing communications technology in history. Are mobile phones expressions of identity, fashionable gadgets, tools for life - or all of the above? Mobile Communication and Society looks at how the possibility of multimodal communication from anywhere to anywhere at any time affects everyday life at home, at work, and at school, and raises broader concerns abo…
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- 9780262255882
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- 1 online resource (xii, 331 pages) :illustrations.
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The shape of actions :what humans and machines can do
What can humans do? What can machines do? How do humans delegate actions to machines? In this book, Harry Collins and Martin Kusch combine insights from sociology and philosophy to provide a novel answer to these increasingly important questions. The authors begin by distinguishing between two basic types of intentional behavior, which they call polimorphic actions and mimeomorphic actions. Pol…
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- 0585075670
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- 1 online resource (xi, 212 pages) :illustrations
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Rethinking homeostasis :allostatic regulation in physiology and pathophysiology
"A Bradford book."Homeostasis, a key concept in biology, refers to the tendency toward stability in the various bodily states that make up the internal environment. Examples include temperature regulation and oxygen consumption. The body's needs, however, do not remain constant. When an organism is under stress, the central nervous system works with the endocrine system to use resources to main…
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- 1 online resource (xvi, 296 pages) :illustrations.
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