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Digital Apollo :human and machine in spaceflight
How human pilots and automated systems worked together to achieve the ultimate in flight--the lunar landings of NASA's Apollo program.As Apollo 11's Lunar Module descended toward the moon under automatic control, a program alarm in the guidance computer's software nearly caused a mission abort. Neil Armstrong responded by switching off the automatic mode and taking direct control. He stopped mo…
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- 9780262266673
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- 1 online resource (xiii, 359 pages) :illustrations
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Mining the biomedical literature
A concise introduction to fundamental methods for finding and extracting relevant information from the ever-increasing amounts of biomedical text available.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262305167
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- 1 online resource (xi, 138 pages) :illustrations.
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Handbook of mobile communication studies
This volume offers a view of the cultural, interpersonal and family consequences of mobile communication across the globe. The contributors analyse the effects of moble communications on all aspects of life, from the relationship between literacy and the textual features of phones, to the use of ringtones as a form of social exchange.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262276818
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- 1 online resource (ix, 472 pages) :illustrations, map
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The analysis of feedback systems
"Parts of this monograph appeared in the author's doctoral dissertation entitled 'Nonlinear harmonic analysis' ... 1968."This monograph is an attempt to develop further and refine methods based on input -output descriptions for analyzing feedback systems. Contrary to previous work in this area, the treatment heavily emphasizes and exploits the causality of the operators involved. This brings th…
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- 0262257203
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- 1 online resource (xv, 188 pages) :illustrations.
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Adaptation in natural and artificial systems :an introductory analysis with a…
"A Bradford book."DSU Title III 2007-2012.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 1st MIT Press ed.
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- 0585038449
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- 1 online resource (xiv, 211 pages) :illustrations.
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Beowulf cluster computing with Linux
Beowulf clusters, which exploit mass-market PC hardware and software in conjunction with cost-effective commercial network technology, are becoming the platform for many scientific, engineering, and commercial applications. With growing popularity has come growing complexity. Addressing that complexity, Beowulf Cluster Computing with Linux and Beowulf Cluster Computing with Windows provide syst…
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- 9780262286770
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- 1 online resource (xxxiii, 496 pages) :illustrations.
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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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- 1 online resource (xvi, 424 pages) :illustrations
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