There is a scientific consensus that we need to act rapidly to
cut carbon dioxide emissions if we are to limit the most
extreme effects of climate change. The IT sector is in a
unique position to act as a catalyst for this change. By
implementing simple efficiencies, the sector can reduce its
carbon footprint – which currently...
Word sense disambiguation is a core research problem in computational
linguistics, which was recognized at the beginning of the scientific interest
in machine translation and artificial intelligence. And yet no book has been
fully devoted to review the wide variety of approaches to solving the problem.
The time is right for such a...
Computability has played a crucial role in mathematics and computer science
– leading to the discovery, understanding and classification of decidable/
undecidable problems, paving the way to the modern computer era
and affecting deeply our view of the world. Recent new paradigms of computation,
based on biological and physical...
The 11th Symposium on Trends in Functional Programming took place on the
University of Oklahoma campus in Norman, Oklahoma, May 17-19, 2010. The
program included presentations of 26 papers submitted by researchers from six
nations and an invited talk by J. Strother Moore on machine reasoning so well
received that the question/answer...
The primary goal of this book is to present to the scientific and management
communities a selection of applications using more recent Soft Computing (SC)
and Computing with Words and Perceptions (CWP) models and techniques meant
to solve the economics and financial problems. The selected examples could also
serve as a starting point...
This book is the revised and extended version of a Pfr.D. dissertation submitted
to the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences, University of
California at Berkeley. Many of the ideas presented in this book have their roots in
discussions with Eugene Wong, my mentor and thesis advisor. I would like to thank
Gene...
Using mathematical tools from number theory and finite fields, Applied Algebra: Codes, Ciphers, and Discrete Algorithms, Second Edition presents practical methods for solving problems in data security and data integrity. It is designed for an applied algebra course for students who have had prior classes in abstract or linear...
Together the book and CD-ROM form a learning system that provides both investigative studies and the visualization of complex processes. A didactic concept is undertaken for microelectronics, computer technology and communication engineering, which deals with the visualization of signals and processes in addition to graphical programming of...
Artificial neural networks, or simply called neural networks, refer to the
various mathematical models of human brain functions such as perception,
computation and memory. It is a fascinating scientific challenge of our time to
understand how the human brain works. Modeling neural networks facilitates
us in investigating the...
The effect of a commercialized Internet on American business, from the boom in e-commerce and adjustments by bricks-and-mortar businesses to file-sharing and community building.
When we think of the Internet, we generally think of Amazon, Google, Hotmail, Napster,
MySpace, and a host of other sites for buying products, searching...
The 10th International Conference on Intelligent Tutoring Systems, ITS 2010, continued
the bi-annual series of top-flight international conferences on the use of advanced
educational technologies that are adaptive to users or groups of users. These highly
interdisciplinary conferences bring together researchers in the learning sciences,...
The Handbook of Software Engineering and Knowledge Engineering is the first comprehensive handbook covering these two important areas that have become interwoven in recent years. Many international experts contribute to this Hand book. Each article is written in a way that a practitioner of software engineering and knowledge engineering can...
