Researchers in Artificial Intelligence have traditionally been classified into two categories: the “neaties” and the “scruffies”. According to the scruffies, the neaties concentrate on building elegant formal frameworks, whose properties are beautifully expressed by means of definitions, lemmas, and theorems, but...

In 2002, Web services were a hot topic and the concept of serviceoriented architecture (SOA), while not a new idea, was beginning to pick up steam. It did not take long for organizations to realize that Web services mandated the concept and organizational model of SOA to guide their selection, design, implementation, and management....

One of the most challenging tasks in today’s business and information technology (IT) environments is to communicate a solution to an organizational problem in a simple manner that can be easily understood by business and IT personnel alike. Is it also arduous to explain in simple words how a remedy to an enterprise concern can be...

Neural Networks started as an academic discipline over 50 years ago with the publication by McCulloch and Pitts of their famous result that any logical problem can be solved by a suitable network composed of so-called binary decision nodes. These are processors which make the simplest possible decision, that is, whether or not to respond to a...

This book originates from the desire to perpetuate expertise in the field of performance evaluation, particularly for telecommunication systems and networks. It is obviously impossible to translate into a single work all the facets of an activity which encompasses many systems and a great variety of domains such as standardization,...

If trying to understand human behavior was the only goal, I’d have stopped by now and pointed you to dozens of other...

These Lecture Series in Computational Science and Engineering include the proceedings of a Summer Program in Multi-Scale Modelling and Simulation held in Lugano, Switzerland, between August 4th and 30th, 2003. The workshop was organized by the ETHZ Computational Laboratory (CoLab) together with the Swiss Center for Scientific...

The data collected by organizations is growing in volume and complexity. As such, businesses are abandoning traditional methods and relying more heavily on enterprise information systems to aid in the analysis and utilization of time-sensitive data and organizational knowledge. Enterprise information systems have gained in popularity...

In an age where online universities and distance learning courses exist side by side with traditional classroom learning, the development, design, use and challenges of creating web-based learning systems that promote learning in students, whether over a distance or within a university proper, is increasingly complex and often...

Making Sense of Data III: A Practical Guide to Designing Interactive Data Visualizations explores a diverse range of disciplines to explain how meaning from graphical representations is extracted. Additionally,...