IT HAS BEEN SAID THAT SIR ISAAC NEWTON was the last person to know everything. He was an
accomplished physicist (his three laws of motion were the basis of classical mechanics, which defi ned
astrophysics for three centuries), mathematician (he was one of the inventors of calculus and
developed Newton’s Method for fi nding...
In writing Engineering Hear Trmnfer, I have attempted to provide the reader with a foundation
in the study of heat-transfer principles while also emphasizing some of the topic's practical
applications. The mathematics presented in the text should not present undue learning difficulties
to the student who has completed first...
I first saw the web in my final year of university in 1993-94. All the cool
kids (bear in mind, this was a Computer Science department) were playing
with a strange bit of software called Mosaic on their Sun 4 workstations.
I had some fun with it and created my first web page (a guide to...
The aim of this book is to teach computer programming using examples
from mathematics and the natural sciences. We have chosen to use
the Python programming language because it combines remarkable expressive
power with very clean, simple, and compact syntax. Python is
easy to learn and very well suited for an introduction to...
Optimization is an extremely important area in science and technology which provides
powerful and useful tools and techniques for the formulation and solution of
a multitude of problems in which we wish, or need, to find a best possible option
or solution. It has been an important area of research for more than half a century,...
Conceptual Graphs (CG, www.conceptualgraphs.org) provide a powerful knowledge
representation and inference environment, whilst exhibiting the familiar objectoriented
and database features of contemporary enterprise and web applications. CG
capture nuances in natural language whilst being able to be implemented in computer...
This volume in the Lecture Notes of Artificial Intelligence represents the first book on
human computing. We introduced the notion of human computing in 2006 and
organized two events that were meant to explain this notion and the research
conducted worldwide in the context of this notion.
All geographic information systems (GIS) are built using formal models that describe how things are located in space. A formal model is an abstract and well-defined system of concepts. It defines the vocabulary that we can use to describe and reason about things. A geographic data model defines the vocabulary for describing and reasoning...
If you work in a small business, you have to know how to sell. Full stop. But selling as most people know it doesn’t work anymore. It’s relationships that count.
Real selling is about understanding customers’ goals and helping them to buy, not topping off a template presentation with a pushy attitude. So...
Bayesian Networks, the result of the convergence of artificial intelligence with statistics, are growing in popularity. Their versatility and modelling power is now employed across a variety of fields for the purposes of analysis, simulation, prediction and diagnosis.
This book provides a general introduction to Bayesian networks,...
This book presents basic and advanced principles underlying the multivalent
interactions that are prevalent in biological systems. To illustrate important or
complex concepts, the book provides up-to-date examples of synthetic multivalent
molecules, their design, and their biological benefits. Functional roles
displayed by such...
The field of iminosugars is a very exciting area of research. These carbohydrate mimetics
were first imagined and synthesized by chemists in the 1960s before being isolated from
Nature a few years later. Since the discovery of their biological activity as potent glycosidase
inhibitors in the 1970s, iminosugars have been the subject...
