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Great Events From History: The 20th Century, 1941-1970

Salem Press, 2007

This is a unique resource: Nothing is comparable with this much depth or numbers that covers so many 20th century events.??AAGreat Events from History: The Twentieth Century, 1941-1970??AA, is the ninth installment in Salem Press' ongoing ??AAGreat Events from History??AA series. This six-volume set contains 1,112 essays on more than 1,100...

Rare Event Simulation using Monte Carlo Methods

John Wiley & Sons, 2009

In a probabilistic model, a rare event is an event with a very small probability of occurrence. The forecasting of rare events is a formidable task but is important in many areas. For instance a catastrophic failure in a transport system or in a nuclear power plant, the failure of an information processing system in a bank, or in the communication...

Transactions on Edutainment I (Lecture Notes in Computer Science / Transactions on Edutainment) (No. 1)

Springer, 2008

This journal subline serves as a forum for stimulating and disseminating innovative research ideas, theories, emerging technologies, empirical investigations, state-of-the-art methods, and tools in all different genres of Edutainment, such as Game-based Learning and Serious Games, Interactive Storytelling, Virtual Learning Environments, VR-based...

$Statistics II for Dummies (Math & Science)$

Statistics II for Dummies (Math & Science)

For Dummies, 2009

So you’ve gone through some of the basics of statistics. Means, medians, and standard deviations all ring a bell. You know about surveys and experiments and the basic ideas of correlation and simple regression. You’ve studied probability, margin of error, and a few hypothesis tests and confidence intervals. Are you ready to load your...

Behavioral Biometrics For Human Identification: Intelligent Applications (Premier Reference Source)

Medical Information Science Reference, 2009

Automatic biometrics recognition techniques are becoming increasingly important in corporate and public security systems and have increased in methods due to rapid field development. Behavioral Biometrics for Human Identification: Intelligent Applications discusses classic behavioral biometrics as well as collects the latest...

Designing Steel Structures for Fire Safety

CRC Press, 2009

Structural design in fire conditions is conceptually similar to structural design in normal temperature conditions, but often more difficult because of internal forces induced by thermal expansion, strength reduction due to elevated temperatures, much larger deflections, and numerous other factors. Before making any design decisions it is...

Shape Interrogation for Computer Aided Design and Manufacturing

Springer, 2010

Shape interrogation is the process of extraction of information from a geometric model. It is a fundamental component of Computer Aided Design and Manufacturing (CAD/CAM) systems. The authors focus on shape interrogation of geometric models bounded by free-form surfaces. Free-form surfaces, also called sculptured surfaces, are widely used in the...

Managing It Outsourcing Performance

Business Science, 2009

Information technology outsourcing – the practice of transferring IT assets, leases, staff, and management responsibility for delivery of services from internal IT functions to third party vendors – has become an undeniable trend. In recent years, private and public sector organizations worldwide have outsourced significant portions of...

Organizational Communication and Sustainable Development: Icts for Mobility (Premier Reference Source)

Information Science Publishing, 2009

In this book, three different but converging processes are investigated; sustainable development, globalization and technical development. Each process is complicated and multi-faceted, but here, their mutual interaction, effects and possibilities have gained attention and interest.

“Sustainable development” are words of...

Brain Sense: The Science of the Senses and How We Process the World Around Us

AMACOM, 2009

Have you ever wondered why you remember color images and scenes so much better than those in black and white? The answer is in the way our brains interpret and process the sights, smells, tastes, and touches that make up our lives. "Brainsense" explores brain function and the senses, and offers new insight about what makes us tick. Based...

Advances in Machine Learning I: Dedicated to the Memory of Professor Ryszard S. Michalski (Studies in Computational Intelligence)

Springer, 2010

This is the first volume of a large two-volume editorial project we wish to dedicate to the memory of the late Professor Ryszard S. Michalski who passed away in 2007. He was one of the fathers of machine learning, an exciting and relevant, both from the practical and theoretical points of view, area in modern computer science and...

Advances in Machine Learning II: Dedicated to the memory of Professor Ryszard S. Michalski

Springer, 2010

This is the second volume of a large two-volume editorial project we wish to dedicate to the memory of the late Professor Ryszard S. Michalski who passed away in 2007. He was one of the fathers of machine learning, an exciting and relevant, both from the practical and theoretical points of view, area in modern computer science and information...

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