The main purpose of statistical theory is to derive from observations of a
random phenomenon an inference about the probability distribution underlying
this phenomenon. That is, it provides either an analysis (description)
of a past phenomenon, or some predictions about a future phenomenon of
a similar nature. In this book, we insist...
Your encounters with GIS to date may be similar to
those of a Martian arriving on Earth and being faced
with a motor car. Imagine a Martian coming to
Earth and stumbling across a motor car showroom.
Very soon he (or she) has heard of a ‘car’ and may
even have seen a few glossy brochures. Perhaps you
are in the same...
Michael Gelfond has been an extraordinary mentor, teacher, and colleague for
many people in the knowledge representation and reasoning (KR&R), logic programming
(LP), and answer set programming (ASP) communities.
Michael’s current and former students often like to tell stories about their
experience with Michael as...
Anticipatory optimization for dynamic decision making relies on a number of different
scientific disciplines. On a general level, the foundations of the field may be
localized at the intersection of operations research, computer science and decision
theory. Closer inspection reveals the important role of branches such as simulation,...
Beautiful mathematical ideas abound in multimedia software! Some are not
encountered until late in undergraduate or even postgraduate study, whereas they
can be appreciated and used much earlier. This book presents a few dozen such
pearls, strung together by their ubiquity in many applications. It is based on
the course Topics in...
Iwhat has happened in that time. We have seen the transformation of the Web from
a small experiment to a World Wide phenomenon. We have seen the emergence
of voice over IP and peer-to-peer content sharing. We have seen technology speed up
a hundred-fold, the emergence of broadband to the home, and the rise of botnets and
other horrid...
Casino card games such as baccarat and blackjack
differ significantly from casino games such as craps,
roulette, and slot machines in that they are not indepen-
dent trial processes-that is, the cards that already have
been played do affect the odds on subsequent hands.
Consider for a moment the game of blackjack, where
the cards...
Simulation is an essential tool in any field related to engineering techniques,
whether it is used lor teaching purposes or in research and development.
When teaching technical subjects, lab works play an important role, as im
portant as exercise sessions in helping students assimilate theory. The recent
introduction of simulation...
The HTML5 canvas is revolutionizing graphics and visualizations on the Web. Powered
by JavaScript, the HTML5 Canvas API enables web developers to create visualizations
and animations right in the browser without Flash. Although the HTML5 Canvas is quickly
becoming the standard for online graphics and interactivity, many developers fail...
The phenomenal growth of the Internet has resulted in the availability of
huge amounts of online information, a situation that is overwhelming to
the end-user. To overcome this problem personalization technologies have
been extensively employed across several domains to provide assistance in
filtering, sorting, classifying and sharing...
The idea of a writing a book about Android development can be somewhat futile at
times, considering the pace at which Android continues to expand, morph, and
change. What started out as a book project a few years ago has now become a series of
updates to the original work with the page count nearly double the original project—...
Data mining and knowledge discovery can today be considered as stable fields with
numerous efficient methods and studies that have been proposed to extract knowledge
from data. Nevertheless, the famous golden nugget is still challenging. Actually, the
context evolved since the first definition of the KDD process and knowledge has now...
