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Mathematical Olympiad Challenges

Birkhauser, 2008

This significantly revised and expanded second edition of "Mathematical Olympiad Challenges" is a rich collection of problems put together by two experienced and well-known professors and coaches of the U.S. International Mathematical Olympiad Team. Hundreds of beautiful, challenging, and instructive problems from algebra, geometry,...

Tools and Algorithms for the Construction and Analysis of Systems (Lecture Notes in Computer Science)

Springer, 2007

ETAPS 2007 is the tenth instance of the European Joint Conferences on Theory and Practice of Software, and thus a cause for celebration.

The events that comprise ETAPS address various aspects of the system development process, including specification, design, implementation, analysis and...

Knowledge Needs and Information Extraction: Towards an Artificial Consciousness (ISTE)

John Wiley & Sons, 2013

The title of this book is both subversive and ambitious. It is subversive because few academic publications deal with this subject. There has, of course, been work done in robotics on artificially reproducing a “human” movement. One can also find more cognitive works about the way of reasoning – i.e. storing and...

Bottlenecks: Aligning UX Design with User Psychology

Apress, 2017

Learn the psychological constrictions of attention, perception, memory, disposition, motivation, and social influence that determine whether customers will be receptive to your digital innovations.

Bottlenecks: Aligning UX Design with User Psychology fills a need for entrepreneurs, designers, and marketing...

Fuzzy Logic: A Practical Approach

Morgan Kaufmann, 1994

The last decade has seen a large interest in technologies that have as their motivation some aspect of human function. Some of these, like artificial intelligence, can be seen to be rooted in the psychological domain. Others, like neural networks, genetic algorithms, and evolutionary programming, are inspired by reconsiderations of biological...

Neurochemistry of Consciousness: Neurotransmitters in mind (Advances in Consciousness Research)

John Benjamins Publishing, 2002

This pioneering book explores in depth the role of neurotransmitters in conscious awareness. The central aim is to identify common neural denominators of conscious awareness, informed by the neurochemistry of natural, drug induced and pathological states of consciousness. Chemicals such as acetylcholine and dopamine, which bridge the synaptic...

First-Order Dynamic Logic (Lecture Notes in Computer Science)

Springer, 1979

This is a research monograph intended primarily for those researchers in Theoretical Computer Science interested in the areas of logics of programs, programming language semantics and program verification. It is also aimed at mathematically-inclined researchers in Logic, Linguistics and Philosophy, interested in a well-motivated...

Healthcare Informatics: Improving Efficiency and Productivity

CRC Press, 2010

Healthcare Informatics: Improving Efficiency and Productivity examines the complexities involved in managing resources in our healthcare system and explains how management theory and informatics applications can increase efficiencies in various functional areas of healthcare services. Delving into data and project management...

Large-Scale Knowledge Resources: Construction and Application - Third International Conference on Large-Scale Knowledge Resources, LKR 2008

Springer, 2008

At the start of the 21st century, we are now well on the way towards a knowledgeintensive society, in which knowledge plays ever more important roles. Thus, research interest should inevitably shift from information to knowledge, with the problems of building, organizing, maintaining and utilizing knowledge becoming central issues in a wide variety...

Joint Source-Channel Coding of Discrete-Time Signals with Continuous Amplitudes (Communications and Signal Processing)

Imperial College Press, 2007

This book provides the first comprehensive and easy-to-read discussion of joint source-channel encoding and decoding for source signals with continuous amplitudes. It is a state-of-the-art presentation of this exciting, thriving field of research, making pioneering contributions to the new concept of source-adaptive modulation. The book starts with...

Pattern-Oriented Software Architecture Volume 1: A System of Patterns

John Wiley & Sons, 1996

Represents the progression and evolution of the pattern approach into a system of patterns capable of describing and documenting large-scale applications.

This practical tutorial/reference demonstrates how patterns can enable users to create large-scale applications and solve recurring design problems. Contains a catalog of 25...

Neurocriminology: Forensic and Legal Applications, Public Policy Implications

CRC Press, 2018

Neurocriminology: Forensic and Legal Applications, Public Policy Implications explores the dramatic impact of advances in neuroscience research and practice to our present understanding of criminality and crime control. Contemporary, cutting-edge research in neuroscience is cited and explained. Studies and cases are clearly...

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