Nature has solved its most complicated problem, the creation, variation, and improvement
of living organisms, in a simple and efficient manner. Starting from primitive forms in
earth history, mutation and crossover produced variations that had to struggle for their
existence and to compete with their ancestors and genetically...
We as a species are probably a little bit smarter than fish: at least we know
that we spend our lives “swimming” at the bottom of an ocean of air. About
4/5th of that ocean is the relatively harmless gas nitrogen. Around another
1/5 of it is the highly reactive and slightly toxic gas oxygen. The...
The use of computing technology for entertainment purposes is not a recent phenomenon.
Video game consoles, home computers and other entertainment media
have been used widely for more than three decades, and people of all ages are spending
an increasing amount of time and money on these technologies.
Python, a high-level language with easy-to-read syntax, is highly flexible, which makes it an ideal language to learn and use. For science andR&D, a few extra packages are used to streamline the development process and obtain goals with the fewest steps possible. Among the best of these are SciPy and NumPy. This book gives a brief...
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 is a collection of six articles arising from the meeting of the NATO Advanced Study Institute (ASI) ''Combinatorial Optimization: Methods and Applications,'' which was held at the University of Montreal in June 2006. This ASI consisted of seven series of five one-hour lectures and one series of four one-hour...
Few of us can any longer keep up with the flood of scientific literature, even
in specialized subfields. Any attempt to do more and be broadly educated
with respect to a large domain of science has the appearance of tilting at
windmills. Yet the synthesis of ideas drawn from different subjects into new,
powerful, general...
This publication offers and investigates efficient Monte Carlo simulation methods in order to realize a Bayesian approach to approximate learning of Bayesian networks from both complete and incomplete data. For large amounts of incomplete data when Monte Carlo methods are inefficient, approximations are implemented, such that learning remains...
Complex systems are defined as systems with many interdependent parts that
give rise to nonlinear and emergent properties determining their high-level
functioning and behavior. Due to the interdependence of their constituent
elements and other characteristics of complex systems, it is difficult to predict
system behavior based...
A First Course in Probability, Eighth Edition, features clear and intuitive explanations of the mathematics of probability theory, outstanding problem sets, and a variety of diverse examples and applications. This book is ideal for an upper-level undergraduate or graduate level introduction to probability for math, science, engineering...
This introduction to graph theory focuses on well-established topics, covering primary techniques and including both algorithmic and theoretical problems. The algorithms are presented with a minimum of advanced data structures and programming details. This thoroughly corrected 1988 edition provides insights to computer scientists as well as...
The present book includes extended and revised versions of a set of selected best
papers from the 6th International Joint Conference on e-Business and Telecommunications
(ICETE), which was held in July 2009, in Milan, Italy. This conference
reflects a continuing effort to increase the dissemination of recent research
results...
