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Heterogeneous agent systems
Software agents are the latest advance in the trend toward smaller, modular pieces of code, where each module performs a well-defined, focused task or set of tasks. Programmed to interact with and provide services to other agents, including humans, software agents act autonomously with prescribed backgrounds, beliefs, and operations. Systems of agents can access and manipulate heterogeneously s…
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- 9780262284561
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- 1 online resource (xiv, 580 pages) : illustrations
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- 001 SUB h
Greening the ivory tower :improving the environmental track record of univers…
Universities can teach and demonstrate environmental principles and stewardship by taking action to understand and reduce the environmental impacts of their own activities. Greening the Ivory Tower, a motivational and how-to guide for staff, faculty, and students, offers detailed "greening" strategies for those who may have little experience with institutional change or with the latest environm…
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- 0585201307
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- 1 online resource (xvii, 337 pages) : illustrations.
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Dynamic Allocation and Pricing: A Mechanism Design Approach
A new approach to dynamic allocation and pricing that blends dynamic paradigms from the operations research and management science literature with classical mechanism design methods.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262327732
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The High performance Fortran handbook
High Performance Fortran (HPF) is a set of extensions to Fortran expressing parallel execution at a relatively high level. For the thousands of scientists, engineers, and others who wish to take advantage of the power of both vector and parallel supercomputers, five of the principal authors of HPF have teamed up here to write a tutorial for the language. There is an increasing need for a common…
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- 0262291231
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- 1 online resource (xiv, 329 pages) : illustrations.
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- 001 KOE h
A history of online information services, 1963-1976
Every field of history has a basic need for a detailed chronology of what happened: who did what when. In the absence of such a resource, fanciful accounts flourish. This book provides a rich narrative of the early development of online information retrieval systems and services, from 1963 to 1976--a period important to anyone who uses a search engine, online catalog, or large database. Drawing…
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- 9780262269049
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- 1 online resource (xvi, 493 pages) : illustrations
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Household portfolios
Papers presented at the Conference on Household Portfolios, held in Florence, Italy, Dec. 17-18, 1999.Theoretical and empirical analysis of the structure of household portfolios.Until recently, researchers in economics and finance paid relatively little attention to household portfolios. Reasons included the tendency of most households to hold simple portfolios, the inability of the dominant as…
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- 9780262274517
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- 1 online resource (xii, 496 pages) : illustrations
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- 658 HOU
Quality and Reliability Management and Its Applications
Sebagian besar produk yang mempengaruhi kehidupan kita sehari-hari menjadi lebih kompleks. Manajemen Kualitas dan Keandalan—yang mengintegrasikan proses, kebijakan, dan prediksi keandalan dari awal siklus hidup pengembangan produk untuk memastikan kinerja dan keamanan produk tingkat tinggi—membantu perusahaan mengatasi tantangan sistem yang semakin kompleks dan proses yang tersebar luas sec…
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- 978-1-4471-6778-5
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- Reliability Engineering
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- 658.4012 PHA q
How children learn the meanings of words
How do children learn that the word "dog" refers not to all four-legged animals, and not just to Ralph, but to all members of a particular species? How do they learn the meanings of verbs like "think," adjectives like "good," and words for abstract entities such as "mortgage" and "story"? The acquisition of word meaning is one of the fundamental issues in the study of mind. According to Paul…
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- 9780262268783
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- 1 online resource (xii, 300 pages) : illustrations.
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- Learning, Development, And Conceptual Change
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- 400 BLO h
How images think
The transformation of images in the age of new media and the digital revolution.Digital images are an integral part of all media, including television, film, photography, animation, video games, data visualization, and the Internet. In the digital world, spectators become navigators wending their way through a variety of interactive experiences, and images become spaces of visualization with mo…
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- 9780262269568
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- 1 online resource (xxi, 253 pages) : illustrations
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The human semantic potential : spatial language and constrained connectionism
"A Bradford book.""Drawing on ideas from cognitive linguistics, connectionism, and perception, The Human Semantic Potential describes a connectionist model that learns perceptually grounded semantics for natural language in spatial terms. Languages differ in the ways in which they structure space, and Regier's aim is to have the model perform its learning task for terms from any natural languag…
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- 0585032610
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- 1 online resource (xiv, 220 pages).
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- 100 REG h
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