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Metaheuristics and Optimization in Civil Engineering
This timely book deals with a current topic, i.e. the applications of metaheuristic algorithms, with a primary focus on optimization problems in civil engineering. The first chapter offers a concise overview of different kinds of metaheuristic algorithms, explaining their advantages in solving complex engineering problems that cannot be effectively tackled by traditional methods, and citing the…
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- 978-3-319-26243-7
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- XI, 302
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- Modeling and Optimization in Science and Technologies
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Metabolic Response of Slowly Absorbed Carbohydrates in Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus
This SpringerBrief focuses on clinical nutrition research, particularly on the effects of slowly absorbed carbohydrates on postprandial glucose metabolism in type 2 diabetes. Slowlyabsorbed carbohydrates will cause gradual increases in blood glucose and insulin levels, and may therefore be effective as part of a treatment strategy for glycemic control and reduction of cardiovascular complicatio…
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- 978-3-319-27897-1
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- XVI, 135
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- SpringerBriefs in Systems Biology
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Knowledge Management for School Education
This book introduces the application of knowledge management (KM) theories, practices, and tools in school organization for sustainable development. Schools in Asia Pacific have long faced a variety of challenges in terms of sustainable development under the education reforms and curriculum reforms to meet the demands of a knowledge society. Schools are inevitably expected to develop human c…
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- 978-981-287-233-3
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Knowledge Engineering and Semantic Web: 6th International Conference, KESW 20…
This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 6th Conference on Knowledge Engineering and the Semantic Web, KESW 2015, held in Moscow, Russia, in September/October 2015. The 17 revised full papers presented together with 6 short system descriptions were carefully reviewed and selected from 35 submissions. The papers address research issues related to semantic web, linked data, ontolog…
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- 978-3-319-24543-0
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Knowledge Engineering and Knowledge Management: EKAW 2014 Satellite Events, V…
This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of Satellite Events held at the 19th International Conference on Knowledge Engineering and Knowledge Management, EKAW 2014 in November 2014. EKAW 2014 hosted three satellite workshops: VISUAL 2014, International Workshop on Visualizations and User Interfaces for Knowledge Engineering and Linked Data Analytics, EKM1, the First International Workshop…
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- 978-3-319-17966-7
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Knowledge Discovery, Knowledge Engineering and Knowledge Management: 5th Inte…
This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed proceedings of the 5th International Joint Conference on Knowledge Discovery, Knowledge Engineering and Knowledge Management, IC3K 2013, held in Vilamoura, Portugal, in September 2013. The 27 full papers presented together with two invited papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 239 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections …
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- 978-3-662-46549-3
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Knowledge Discovery, Knowledge Engineering and Knowledge Management: 6th Inte…
This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed proceedings of the 6th International Joint Conference on Knowledge Discovery, Knowledge Engineering and Knowledge Management, IC3K 2014, held in Rome, Italy, in October 2014. The 37 full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 287 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on knowledge discovery and information ret…
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- 978-3-319-25840-9
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Knowledge Capture in Financial Regulation: Data-, Information- and Knowledge-…
Eva Becker assesses the US financial crisis as a crisis of regulatory data, information and knowledge. Based on the Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission’s interviews as well her own interviews, and drawing on Capture Theory and recent reformulations thereof, she develops “knowledge capture” as a theoretic framework to assess financial regulation under conditions of 21st century complexity.
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- 978-3-658-13666-6
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Knee Joint Vibroarthrographic Signal Processing and Analysis
This book presents the cutting-edge technologies of knee joint vibroarthrographic signal analysis for the screening and detection of knee joint injuries. It describes a number of effective computer-aided methods for analysis of the nonlinear and nonstationary biomedical signals generated by complex physiological mechanics. This book also introduces several popular machine learning and pattern r…
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- 978-3-662-44284-5
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Bacterial Fish Pathogens : Disease of Farmed and Wild Fish
The purpose is to provide up-to-date information on emerging technology available for pathogen identification in farm-raised fish. … This book clearly meets their objectives in defining and describing the bacterial pathogens of fish. The audience is aquatic microbiologists. Any investigator could learn and immediately use the techniques described in this book. … This book presents updates o…
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- 978-3-319-32674-0
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- XXXV, 732
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- 579.3
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