Never before was anticipation more relevant to the life and activity of humankind than it is today. “It is no overstatement to suggest that humanity’s future will be shaped by its capacity to anticipate….” (Research Agenda for the 21st Century, National Science Foundation). The sciences and the humanities can no longer risk explaining away the complexity and interactivity that lie at th…
This book constitutes the proceedings of the Fourth International Conference on Analysis of Images, Social Networks and Texts, AIST 2015, held in Yekaterinburg, Russia, in April 2015. The 24 full and 8 short papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 140 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on analysis of images and videos; pattern recognition and machine learning;…
This book gives an introduction to R to build up graphing, simulating and computing skills to enable one to see theoretical and statistical models in economics in a unified way. The great advantage of R is that it is free, extremely flexible and extensible. The book addresses the specific needs of economists, and helps them move up the R learning curve. It covers some mathematical topics such a…
This book presents basic ideas of machine learning in a way that is easy to understand, by providing hands-on practical advice, using simple examples, and motivating students with discussions of interesting applications. The main topics include Bayesian classifiers, nearest-neighbor classifiers, linear and polynomial classifiers, decision trees, neural networks, and support vector machines. Lat…
This book constitutes the proceedings of the 12th International Conference on the Integration of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Operations Research (OR) Techniques in Constraint Programming, CPAIOR 2015, held in Barcelona, Spain, in May 2015. The 29 papers presented together with 8 short papers in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 90 submissions. The purpose of the confere…
Dengan senang hati kami mempersembahkan prosiding Konferensi Iberia ke-7 tentang Pengenalan Pola dan Analisis Citra, IbPRIA 2015. Konferensi ini diadakan di Santiago de Compostela, Spanyol, mengikuti jejak pertemuan sukses sebelumnya di Andraxt (2003), Estoril (2005), Girona (2007), Pó Voa de Varzim (2009), Las Palmas de Gran Canaria (2011), dan Madeira (2013). IbPRIA merupakan konferensi inte…
Selamat datang di Melaka, Malaysia, dan Simposium Paralel Kongres Dunia Teknologi Informasi dan Komunikasi Keempat 2014 (WICT 2014) selama 8-11 Desember 2014. Pada abad yang lalu, masyarakat kita telah mengalami beberapa periode perubahan dramatis, didorong oleh inovasi seperti sistem transportasi, telepon. Beberapa dekade terakhir telah mengalami teknologi yang berkembang begitu pesat, menguba…
This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 4th International Symposium on Integrated Uncertainty in Knowledge Modeling and Decision Making, IUKM 2015, held in Nha Trang, Vietnam, in October 2015. The 40 revised full papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 58 submissions and are presented together with three keynote and invited talks. The papers provide a wealth of new ide…
Intelligent information and database systems are two closely related subfields of modern computer science which have been known for over thirty years. They focus on the integration of artificial intelligence and classic database technologies to create the class of next generation information systems. The book focuses on new trends in intelligent information and database systems and discusses to…
This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of seven workshops held at the 18th International Conference on Image Analysis and Processing, ICIAP 2015, in Genoa, Italy, in September 2015: International Workshop on Recent Advances in Digital Security: Biometrics and Forensics, BioFor 2015; International Workshop on Color in Texture and Material Recognition, CTMR 2015; International Workshop on…