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| 100 YEARS OF TELEPHONE SWITCHING : Part 1: Manual & Electromechanical Switching (1878-1960's) [R J Chapuis] Many books have been written about the many different manual and automatic systems used throughout the world. These works usually only describe the way a system works. In this publication, not only the differences in principles by which these systems function are distinguished, but also the background to the invention is given. This is done from the perspective of an unbiased international observer. It takes advantage of the vast storehouse of knowledge held by the International Telecommunication Union (ITU). Automatic switching was a typical product of the industrial revolution. The inventors found many ways to accomplish the functions of a manual switchboard. Inventors were prolific. Everything from moving balls in slots and miniature roller coaster carts to robot operators were proposed. This is a good time to examine the successful inventions of the past. Communication networks are now changing from being served by only circuit switches passing signals for telephone and telex to many forms of store and forward switching serving multi-rate digital signals. It is frequently said that as one looks forward one benefits from a review of history so as not to repeat the errors of the past. It is hoped that modern system designers will take time to examine the past. { 496pp, January 2003; HB, £93.00, 1586033492:9781586033491 / HB, £93.00, 1586033727:9781586033729 , IOS Press } |
| 25TH CONGRESS OF THE INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION FOR BREAST CANCER RESEARCH [IABCR (ed)] In this publication, you'll find the abstracts of the presentations of the Congress of the International Association for Breast Cancer Research. This international Congress brings together basic and clinical researchers from around the globe who are investigating the molecular basis of breast cancer. The theme for this meeting is 'Personalised Breast Cancer Therapy'. Given the rapid advances that are being made in basic and applied breast cancer research, this theme is particularly topical and covers a number of areas of general interest to breast cancer researchers including sessions on pathology and molecular profiling of breast tumours, signal transduction, receptors and hormones, tumour microenvironment, cancer stem cells and clinical therapeutics. The publication is of interest to scientists, clinical oncologists, regulators, breast cancer advocates, and representatives of the biotechnology and health care industries. { 84pp, September 2006; PB, £68.00, 1586036696:9781586036690 , IOS Press } |
| 32-BIT SUPERH MICROCOMPUTERS [Y Fujisawa] Computers, including microcomputers, have made our lives richer and easier in many ways. Many devices include a built-in microcomputer and, through connection to the telephone network or other kinds of networks, are controlled by means of instantaneous data exchange or by an optimal control method for the current circumstances. This book deals with the SuperH, the high-performance RISC-system microcomputers for embedded applications. Their performance is the same as that of a 32-bit microcomputer or a game machine - or rather, they are the microcomputers that are actually used. There is no predetermined system or board as in a personal computer. Knowledge of the hardware, at least, is necessary to use it. It is also necessary to create a board. But looking at it from a different angle, the SuperH is a microcomputer that makes it possible to be used in an unrestricted environment and configure a system that gives free rein to one's ideas. The SuperH includes single-chip products that can be used with simple hardware, and also products capable of running Linux, Windows CE°, and OS-9. The power consumption of most models is no more than 500 mW, a level appropriate for the use of a plastic package, allowing extended operation on battery power. This book has been edited for use as an introductory guide to the basics of using the SuperH. Numerous explanations of basic points have been included so that the SuperH can also be applied to products which will be developed in the future. { 290pp, January 2005; HB, £15.00, 1586035010:9781586035013 , IOS Press } |
| ABSTRACT MACHINE MODELS FOR PARALLEL & DISTRIBUTED COMPUTING [M Kara, J.R Davey, D Goodeve & J Nash (eds)] Abstract Machine Models have played a profound though frequently unacknowledged role in the development of modern computing systems. They provide a precise definition of vital concepts, allow system complexity to be managed by providing appropriate views of the activity under consideration, enable reasoning about the correctness and quantitative performance of proposed problem solutions, and encourage communication through a common medium of expression. Abstract Models in Parallel and Distributed computing have a particularly important role in the development of contemporary systems, encapsulating and controlling an inherently high degree of complexity. The Parallel and Distributed computing communities have traditionally considered themselves to be separate. However, there is a significant contemporary interest in both of these communities in a common hardware model; a set of workstation-class machines connected by a high-performance network. The traditional Parallel/Distributed distinction therefore appears under threat. { 232pp, January 1940; PB, £76.00, 905199267X:9789051992670 , IOS Press } |
| ACADEMIC PUBLISHING IN EUROPE-APE2006 : The Role of Information in Science & Society [A De Kemp, E H Fredriksson & B Ortelbach (eds)] What is happening in publishing and in the information market? This book provides an international strategic forum for all parties involved in the role of information in science and society. Rather than simply restating well known positions, the editors aim at a fresh approach which will deal with the many structural changes which have taken place in the information and value chains. Issues of language, culture, education, finance, technology, politics, standardisation and other matters will have a serious impact on the outreach of scientific communication. Academic publishing in Europe has a long tradition in which many small and medium -sized publishers and publishing societies have played a significant role. We have seen valuable initiatives for the creation of digital libraries. We have seen new funding models such as Open Access and a major change from subscriptions to the licensing of information usage. The way in which we cite, quote and link information is changing as well. The correct use of information, however, depends also on the ability to search information and search engines do not yet come up to professional expectations. The goal of this publication is that stakeholders and interested parties will have a better understanding of the implications of change and will be able to identify the challenges { 156pp, October 2006; PB, £44.00, 1586036548:9781586036546 , IOS Press } |
| ACCOUNTING FOR ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT & SOCIAL CHANGE [S J Keuning] The relevance of applied economic and social analysis stands or falls with the strength of the analytical tools, on the one hand, and the appropriateness of the underlying data framework, on the other hand. Whereas virtually all economic and sociological research focuses on the analytical tools, this book deals with the design of an appropriate data framework. In many countries, it is not so much a lack of data per se that is the problem. Official statistics often comprise a wealth of information, laid down in many different publications. The main difficulty then relates to the lack of integration of these statistics, so that all kinds of events that are interrelated in reality can only be studied in isolation. Of course, the lack of integration of statistics applies less to economic data, as the national accounts function as a co-ordinating information system for these data. In fact, an important issue in this book is to demonstrate that the basic principles of national accounts can and should be extended to a wider range of statistics, notably social and environmental statistics. For this purpose, a so-called System of Economic and Social Accounting Matrices and Extensions (SESAME) is designed and applied in this book, following its announcement in the 1993 System of National Accounts, the guidelines of the United Nations and other international organisations. { 246, January 1996; HB, £71.00, 9051992823:9789051992823 , IOS Press } |
| ACCOUNTS OF NATIONS [Z Kenessey (ed)] National income and products estimates are used extensively worldwide. During the 1950's P. Studenski's work 'The Income of Nations' became a classic on the topic. With more extensive compilations, more sophisticated applications, the results and methodology and far reaching international agreements, the international comparability in accounts is now insured. This volume supplements the earlier research in national accounting with a historical overview that shows the development in national income and product accounts. The book is of interest to researchers and professionals in economy, statistics and accounting. { 260pp, January 1994; HB, £64.00, 9051991568:9789051991567 , IOS Press } |
| ACQUIRED DYSLEXIA & DYSGRAPHIA ACROSS SCRIPTS [B.S Weekes (ed)] Aphasiologists have accumulated a sophisticated understanding of the language impairments among English speakers. Research in the field of cognitive neuropsychology has improved our knowledge about how language becomes impaired in English speakers following brain damage by generating conceptual frameworks for understanding why language impairments occur. A large proportion of the research evidence that supports these models comes from studies of patients who have acquired problems in spoken and written naming (anomia), reading (dyslexia) and writing (dysgraphia). The ultimate aim of this research is to enhance the lives of patients with aphasia by improving diagnosis of language impairments and by development of innovative rehabilitation strategies. The aim of this publication is to describe communication disorders in patients who speak Cantonese, French, German, Hebrew, Mandarin, Spanish and Turkish. These languages were selected because they differ on critical linguistic dimensions (grammar, orthography, phonology) and although each dimension is important for understanding the disorders of communication in each language, the focus of this book is selective disorders of reading and writing. The sample of languages discussed here also offers the opportunity of new insights into how different language environments - in terms of the script that has evolved in the environment - can have impact on brain function. This is an important question in cognitive neuroscience. { 138pp, February 2006; PB, £102.00, 1586035924:9781586035921 , IOS Press } |
| ACTION BASED COLLABORATION ANALYSIS FOR GROUP LEARNING [M Mühlenbrock (ed)] With networked computers, new ways of learning and working together with other people are possible. A particular area of computer-supported collaborative learning are shared-workspace systems with structured graphical representations. These systems allow for free user interaction and the joint construction of problem solutions for potentially open-ended tasks. Unlike traditional student modelling as the basis for intelligent support, group modelling in shared workspaces has to take on a process-oriented perspective due to the reduced system control in shared workspaces. Action-based collaboration analysis is defined as the monitoring of user actions and the abstraction and interpretation of the raw data in the context of the group interaction and the problem representation. Formally based on plan recognition and the situation calculus, an approach (activity recognition) has been developed that incorporates an operational hierarchy for generally modelling activities. The system performs an automatic, online analysis of group interactions, and the results are visualised in different forms to give feedback and stimulating self-reflection. { 190pp, January 2001; PB, £24.00, 1586031759:9781586031756 , IOS Press } |
| ACTIVE MINING : PADDA 2001 [H Motoda (ed)] The need for collecting relevant data sources, mining useful knowledge from different forms of data sources and promptly reacting to situation change is ever increasing. Active mining is a collection of activities each solving a part of this need, but collectively achieving the mining objective through the spiral effect of these interleaving three steps. This book is a joint effort from leading and active researchers in Japan with a theme about active mining and a timely report on the forefront of data collection, user-centered mining and user interaction/reaction. It offers a contemporary overview of modern solutions with real-world applications, shares hard-learned experiences, and sheds light on future development of active mining. { 302pp, January 2002; HB, £61.00, 158603264X:9781586032647 , IOS Press } |
| ACUPUNCTURE & MOXIBUSTION [X Fei & M Jianhua (eds)] In Acupuncture and Moxibustion, acupoints are expounded comprehensively in aspects of their indications, theoretical bases of their use, present clinical applications and modern experimental study. Although there are 361 channel points, the commonly used ones in clinical treatment are less than half. Therefor, only the most frequently used points are selected. Analysis of functionally analogues points is presented as one section. This part attempts to clarify the main differences between acupoints for beginners. In addition, paring points and point distinction are discussed. Achievements of modern study of channels, cholaterals and acupoints are introduced respectively. These parts help readers get a deeper understanding of acupuncture. In order to facilitate study for Western readers, the treatment is based on Traditional Chinese Medicine Syndrome Identification while the diseases' names are taken from Western medicine. On the basis of introducing the fundamental acupuncture theory, much effort has been made to clearly explain some difficult and key points. Therefor, the book can be taken as a textbook for beginners as well as a reference book for those with a certain level of Traditional Chinese Medicine knowledge. Since practicality is the basic purpose in compiling this book and clinical applications are explained in details, the book will be very useful for all clinical medical workers. Pinyin-Chinese indexes of technical terms, acupoint names and source text are included for easy reference. { 427, January 1999; HB, £60.00, 905199303X:9789051993035 , IOS Press } |
| ADA IN TRANSITION [W.J Taylor (ed)] { 212pp, January 1992; PB, £56.00, 9051991134:9789051991130 , IOS Press } |
| ADA YEARBOOK 1993 [C Loftus (ed)] { 448pp, January 1993; HB, £73.00, 905199124X:9789051991246 , IOS Press } |
| ADA YEARBOOK 1994 [C Loftus (ed)] { 458pp, January 1994; HB, £73.00, 905199155X:9789051991550 , IOS Press } |
| ADA YEARBOOK 1995 [P Ratcliffe (ed)] { 468pp, January 1995; HB, £64.00, 9051992181:9789051992182 , IOS Press } |
| ADA: TOWARDS MATURITY [L Collingbourne (ed)] { 224pp, January 1993; PB, £59.00, 9051991428:9789051991420 , IOS Press } |
| ADAPTIVE LAYOUT OF DYNAMIC WEB PAGES [A Kröner (ed)] In this work architecture for the automated creation of Web page layout is proposed. Based on a separation of knowledge about content and layout, it uses a declarative representation of layout design knowledge and AI-powered processing modules. It is shown how the proposed architecture provides an efficient means for the specification and processing of layout knowledge, and how it enables the production of dynamic, user-adapted presentations. { 238pp, January 2001; PB, £26.00, 1586031899:9781586031893 , IOS Press } |
| ADAPTIVE WEB SITES [J.D Velásquez & V Palade] This book can be presented in two different ways. Firstly, it introduces a particular methodology to build adaptive Web sites and secondly, it presents the main concepts behind Web mining and then applying them to adaptive Web sites. In this case, Adaptive Web Sites is the case study to exemplify the tools introduced in the text. The authors start by introducing the Web and motivating the need for adaptive Web sites. The second chapter introduces the main concepts behind a Web site: its operation, its associated data and structure, user sessions, etc. Chapter three explains the Web mining process and the tools to analyze Web data, mainly focused in machine learning. The fourth chapter looks at how to store and manage data. Chapter five looks at the three main and different mining tasks: content, links and usage. The following chapter covers Web personalization; a crucialtopic if we want to adapt our site to specific groups of people. Chapter seven shows how to use information extraction techniques to find user behavior patterns. The subsequent chapter explains how to acquire and maintain knowledge extracted from the previous phase. Finally, chapter nine contains the case study where all the previous concepts are applied to present a framework to build adaptive Web sites. In other words, the authors have taken care of writing a self-contained for people that want to learn and apply personalization and adaptation in Web sites. This is commendable considering the large and increasing bibliography in these and related topics. The writing is easy to follow and although the coverage is not exhaustive, the main concepts and topics are all covered. { 296pp, January 2008; PB, £81.00, 1586038311:9781586038311 , IOS Press } |
| ADIPOCYTE BIOLOGY & HORMONE SIGNALING [J.M Ntambi (ed)] This book emphasises the molecular regulation of lipid biogenesis in the context of adipocyte metabolism, differentiation, gene expression, hormone and growth signaling. Many disciplines such as genetics, cell biology and biochemistry are merging to provide a more detailed understanding of the dynamic role that the fat cell plays in metabolism, disease and signaling. Prominent biochemists, molecular biologists and endocrinologists have written chapters for this book. { 248pp, January 2000; HB, £69.00, 1586030027:9781586030025 , IOS Press } |
| ADJUVANT THERAPY [K Miller (ed)] The efficacy of adjuvant chemotherapy was first demonstrated in the early 1970's. Prolonged follow-up of these trials confirms the lasting improvement in overall survival with the administration of adjuvant chemotherapy. The early meta-analysis offers the practising physician a good sense of the broad trends in adjuvant therapy (both chemotherapy and hormonal therapy) but falls short during periods of rapid changes in available agents or approaches. This volume deals with different views on the early overview. One view highlights therapeutic advances that have not yet been incorporated. Another view places the overview in context, contrasting the consensus recommendations with actual delivery of therapy in the community. While the overview provides meaningful guidelines for the patient with an 'average risk' early breast cancer, oncologists routinely struggle with patients at either end of the risk spectrum. In this volume, the use of neoadjuvant chemotherapy is looked at, which was initially reserved for patients with locally advanced or inflammatory disease. Adjuvant treatment decisions are based largely on the results of randomised clinical trials. But trials attempt to simplify. Consequently, virtually every trial is necessarily unrepresentative of the general population of breast cancer patients. Another point is that in real life, clinical therapy frequently requires a series of negotiations between patient and physician, especially with the explosion of the Internet, which makes it easier for patients to find (mis)information. { 74pp, January 2005; PB, £70.00, 1586035002:9781586035006 , IOS Press } |
| ADRENOMEDULLIN [F Cuttitta & A Martinez (eds)] Adrenomedullin is a recently discovered peptide hormone which involved in many physiological and pathological processes. This book reviews all the information available on this intriguing molecule, covering topics as diverse as blood pressure regulation, growth of tumours and normal cells, the central nervous system, and comparative studies from sharks to mammals. An international group of experts has contributed to this volume which will be of interest to professionals, researchers, and those who will benefit from a broad review of the literature and the main trends in Adrenomedullin research. { 340, January 1997; HB, £63.00, 9051993609:9789051993608 , IOS Press } |
| ADVANCED COMPUTATIONAL APPLIED ELECTROMAGNETICS In recent years, the combination of the maturation of mathematical models of electromagentic phenomena, the rapid progress in computational technology and the computational experience of science and engineering has resulted in significant advances in the field of computational applied electromagnetics. However, even with the most advanced computer hardware, some problems have not been solved successfully. This means that advanced hardware technology, sophisticated software architecture and "smart'' problem solving approaches are necessary ingredients but, by themselves, are not sufficient. They must be combined together in an interdisciplinary environment to solve today's challenging problems. For this purpose, the book includes a wide range of topics, starting from a theoretical discussion of applied electromagnetics, extending to new numerical methods, as well as various application of the electromagnetic phenomena: advanced computational methods, inverse problems, wave propagation, electromagnetic fields in materials. { 430, January 1995; HB, £98.00, 9051992416:9789051992410 , IOS Press } |
| ADVANCED COMPUTER TECHNIQUES IN APPLIED ELECTROMAGNETICS [S Wiak, A Krawczyk & I Dolezel (eds)] The contributions in this publication on electromagnetic fields in electrical engineering aim at joining theory and practice, thus the majority of the papers are deeply rooted in engineering problems and simultaneously present a high theoretical level. There are three chapters in this volume, all divided into seven subchapters. Papers gathered in the first chapter are mainly devoted to physics of electromagnetic materials and mathematical approaches to electromagnetic problems. The next chapter contains papers dealing with numerical (or computer) analysis of electromagnetic devices and phenomena, whereas the last chapter reveals the world of engineering problems, showing how theoretical and methodological considerations can be transferred to real engineering problems. The editors hope that this book will help the world-wide electromagnetic community, both academic and engineering, in better understanding electromagnetism itself and its application to technical problems. { 340pp, July 2008; HB, £94.00, 1586038958:9781586038953 , IOS Press } |
| ADVANCED INFRASTRUCTURES FOR FUTURE HEALTHCARE [A Marsh, L Grandinetti & T Kauranne (eds)] Healthcare is a major candidate for improvement in any vision of the kinds of "information highways" and "information societies" that are now being visualised. The (interactive) communication between healthcare providers and their patients or other healthcare providers regardless of geographic distance, namely telemedicine, will become of central importance. The objective of any advanced infrastructure that can be imagined for future healthcare must be to provide a global uniform level of healthcare. To facilitate the possibilities for any international collaboration standardised approaches must be adopted. This book has been mainly written for specialists, practitioners, scientists and managers in the new growing area of health information technologies. It is particularly relevant for those people - a large increasing number - who bridge and integrate knowledges in medicine (basic and clinical) and advanced technologies such as IT. The intended audience is broad and interdisciplinary; biomedical engineers, medical practitioners interested in the advanced IT infrastructures applied to medicine, computer scientists, academic professionals and graduate students, health care managers, standardisation bodies, industrial engineers: designers and planners of innovative health care technologies, specialists in telemedicine, internet computing, computer graphics applications. { 558pp, January 2000; HB, £82.00, 1586030957:9781586030957 , IOS Press } |
| ADVANCED RESEARCH IN COMPUTERS & COMMUNICATIONS IN EDUCATION [G Cumming, T Okamoto & L Gomez (eds)] This book discusses educational uses of technology in the service of enhanced learning. Bringing together contributions of researchers, practitioners and policy-makers, it aims to improve communication and understanding in educational research and practice involving technology. Networking is specially emphasised, since increasingly education via technology is available world-wide. Furthermore, many issues of pedagogy, access, equity, culture and social effects are discussed, alongside questions of technology. Technology is a means to allow people to enhance their abilities. More important than technology itself are the educational processes and outcomes. A substantial part of this book discusses these two central issues. { 2128pp, January 2000; HB, £165.00, 1586030272:9781586030278 , IOS Press } |
| ADVANCED SECURITY TECHNOLOGIES IN NETWORKING [B Jerman-Blaic, T Klobucar & W S Schneider (eds)] The book is aimed to provide wide knowledge about security services used and deployed in networking and related applications. This book contains background material of a one-week tutorial in information security technology which was given in May/June 2000 in Portoroz, Slovenia, under the auspices of the NATO science programme. It is a collection of articles of various authors from U.S. and Europe covering a broad area of security in networking, including basic cryptography, public key infrastructures, security in networking, e.g. ATM security and IPv6 security mechanisms, virtual private networks and active agents related security services, security application such as secure e-mail or secure World Wide Web, security provision in e-business and e-commerce, security service provision and trusted third party technology in banking associations, electronic money and smart card technology for e-business, as well as legal aspects of electronic signatures. { 258pp, January 2001; HB, £64.00, 1586031562:9781586031565 , IOS Press } |
| ADVANCED TECHNOLOGIES & METHODOLOGIES FOR RISK MANAGEMENT IN THE GLOBAL TRANSPORT OF DANGEROUS GOODS [C Bersani, A Boulmakoul, E Garbolino & R Sacile (eds)] In the last few years, logistics has become a strategic factor for development and competition. In fact, research and development activities have traditionally faced the management of supply chain and international transport focusing on two main aspects: speed and efficiency. However, several vulnerabilities have recently been highlighted under a safety and security viewpoint. The weakness of the logistic chains has become more evident with the beginning of the new millennium. Terrorist attacks, such as the 11th of September 2001 in the USA, have caused the introduction of new rules and procedures, which affect the overall logistics showing the vulnerability of the global economy. So, nowadays, it would appear anachronistic to carry out an exhaustive research activity on the supply chain with no relation to the various typologies of risk, which may affect it. This book aims to effectively represent the current status of research on dangerous goods transport. { 346pp, September 2008; HB, £86.00, 1586038990:9781586038991 , IOS Press } |
| ADVANCED X-RAY TECHNIQUES IN RESEARCH & INDUSTRIES [A K Singh (ed)] The book is a collection of articles covering basic crystallography, local texture measurements with high energy synchrotron radiation, evolution of textures, texture mapping by scanning X-ray diffraction, absorption tomography for three dimensional measurements in bulk materials, ultra thin films specular X-ray reflectivity, small angle X-ray scattering, glancing incidence X-ray diffraction and X-ray line profile analysis. A large number of chapters cover the application of the Rietveld refinement technique for different materials. The application of high temperature X-ray diffraction to different materials is also discussed. Apart from this the application of X-ray diffraction techniques to characterise the materials is dealt with in different areas; such as magnetic materials, nano materials, aluminium alloys, titanium alloys, biomaterials, forensic application of textile fabrics, sensors, steels and surface modifications. It also covers the geometrical aspects of X-ray diffractometre and related applications. { 594pp, 165x245mm, January 2005; HB, £102.00, 1586035371:9781586035372 , IOS Press } |
| ADVANCEMENT OF ASSISTIVE TECHNOLOGY [G Anogianakis, C Bühler & M Soede (eds)] This book is aimed at people working or interested in rehabilitation and assistive technology such as physicians, nurses, computer scientists, engineers and technicians, as well as health policy makers. It brings together a wide spectrum of experiences and solutions to the wide range of problems in the field of rehabilitation. Different cultural backgrounds, problem-solving traditions and resources are also highlighted. The book covers all aspects of rehabilitation and assistive technology and research, such as needs analysis, man-machine interfacing, device development, evaluations, clinical and user experiences, service delivery, technology transfer and cost effectiveness. { 400, January 1997; HB, £75.00, 9051993617:9789051993615 , IOS Press } |
| ADVANCES & CHALLENGES IN MULTISENSOR DATA & INFORMATION PROCESSING [E Lefebvre (ed)] Information fusion resulting from multi-source processing, often called multisensor data fusion when sensors are the main sources of information, is a relatively young (less than 20 years) technology domain. It provides techniques and methods for: Integrating data from multiple sources and using the complementarity of this data to derive maximum information about the phenomenon being observed; Analysing and deriving the meaning of these observations; Selecting the best course of action; and Controlling the actions. Various sensors have been designed to detect some specific phenomena, but not others. Data fusion applications can combine synergically information from many sensors, including data provided by satellites and contextual and encyclopedic knowledge, to provide enhanced ability to detect and recognise anomalies in the environment, compared with conventional means. Data fusion is an integral part of multisensor processing, but it can also be applied to fuse non-sensor information (geopolitical, intelligence, etc.) to provide decision support for a timely and effective situation and threat assessment. One special field of application for data fusion is satellite imagery, which can provide extensive information over a wide area of the electromagnetic spectrum using several types of sensors. Satellite imagery provides the coverage rate needed to identify and monitor human activities from agricultural practices (land use, crop types identification...) to defence-related surveillance (land/sea target detection and classification). By acquiring remotely sensed imagery over earth regions that land sensors cannot access, valuable information can be gathered for the defence against terrorism. { 412pp, April 2007; HB, £78.00, 1586037277:9781586037277 , IOS Press } |
| ADVANCES IN AGILE MANUFACTURING [P T Kidd & W Karwowski (eds)] Contemporary manufacturing industry is undergoing a major shift away from mass production towards a newly emerging paradigm known as Agile Manufacturing. A key element in the reassessment is the shift of focus towards systematic examination of the organisation and people issues in advanced manufacturing. The major part of the 160+ papers presented in this work is connected with the issue of developing multidisciplinary methods and tools to support TOP integration (technology, organisation and people) and the implementation of Advanced Manufacturing Systems. The commercial concern to build agile enterprises by integrating technology, organisation and people results in the need to achieve a competitive advantage through this process by means of concurrent engineering, team working, empowerment and other tools. The interest to master the process of designing and implementing advanced systems has special emphasis. Readers: professionals in computer integrated manufacturing, engineering, human resource management and business. { 718pp, January 1994; HB, £101.00, 9051991762:9789051991765 , IOS Press } |
| ADVANCES IN AMBIENT INTELLIGENCE [J C Augusto & D Shapiro (eds)] Ambient Intelligence lies at the confluence of several trends: the continued decrease in cost and size of computing technology; the increasing availability of networking and communication infrastructure; the growing public familiarity/comfort with computing artefacts; and practical advances in artificial intelligence. These developments make it possible to contemplate the ubiquitous deployment of intelligent systems - prototypically in smart homes, but more broadly in public spaces, private automobiles and on individual appliances and hand-held devices -- in applications ranging from entertainment through eldercare, to safety critical device control. Ambient Intelligence is a young field. As a result, it has been natural to wonder what the technology can do to improve the way we live. At the same time, it is becoming increasingly important to ask: "What do we want?" since the intent is to embed technology in new and pervasive ways. The contributions in this volume provide a window into the visions and trends currently dominating the area of Ambient Intelligence. This publication is divided into three sections. The first describes visions for the future of Ambient Intelligence, the second addresses core technology of the field and the third provides an analysis of elements of the area which will demand special consideration during the future development of the area. { 186pp, October 2007; HB, £68.00, 1586038001:9781586038007 , IOS Press } |
| ADVANCES IN ARTIFICIAL GENERAL INTELLIGENCE : Concepts, Architectures & Algorithms [B Goertzel & P Wang (eds)] The topic of this book -- the creation of software programs displaying broad, deep, human-style general intelligence -- is a grand and ambitious one. And yet it is far from a frivolous one: what the papers in this publication illustrate is that it is a fit and proper subject for serious science and engineering exploration. No one has yet created a software program with human-style or (even roughly) human-level general intelligence -- but we now have a sufficiently rich intellectual toolkit that it is possible to think about such a possibility in detail, and make serious attempts at design, analysis and engineering. possibility in detail, and make serious attempts at design, analysis and engineering. This is the situation that led to the organisation of the 2006 AGIRI (Artificial General Intelligence Research Institute) workshop; and to the decision to publish a book from contributions by the speakers at the conference. The material presented here only scratches the surface of the AGI-related R&D work that is occurring around the world at this moment. But the editors are pleased to have had the chance to be involved in organising and presenting at least a small percentage of the contemporary progress. { 304pp, June 2007; HB, £71.00, 1586037587:9781586037581 , IOS Press } |
| ADVANCES IN BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING [J.E.W Beneken & V Thévenin (eds)] Despite the social and economic importance of biomedical and health research, it is only fairly recently that the European Community became involved in research and technological development in this research sector. The general goal of the programme is clearly to contribute to a better quality of life by improving health, and its distinctive feature is to strengthen European collaboration in order to achieve this goal. The ultimate goal of the biomedical engineering part of the programme has been to contribute to the improvement of the quality of health care, as well as to the containment of its costs. Health technology assessment has gained further importance in view of the completion of the internal market within the EC. Such assessment may provide essential information for decision making at all levels (i.e. political, health services, medical). { 364pp, January 1993; HB, £101.00, 9051991193:9789051991192 , IOS Press } |
| ADVANCES IN BIOPHOTONICS [B C Wilson, V V Tuchin & S Tanev (eds)] The field of biophotonics is rapidly emerging in both academia and industry. It is the convergence of photonics and life sciences. Photonics -- the science and technology of light generation, manipulation and measurement - has itself seen a remarkable expansion in the past 20 years, both in research and in commercialisation, particularly in telecommunications. The life sciences have an increasing need for new technologies to which photonics can make significant contributions. As biology and medicine move into the post-genomics era, it is increasingly important to have highly sensitive tools for probing cells, tissues and whole organism structure and functions. Through photonic technologies optical fibres and sensitive imaging detectors, these measurements can often be done in a non- or minimally-invasive way, which is tremendously valuable for clinical and remote-sensing applications. In clinical medicine the ability to probe and image tissues is leading to a wide range of novel diagnostic methods, examples of these techniques are given in this book. Finally, the new field of nanotechnology is now penetrating into biophotonics. Examples include the use of nanoparticles such as metal nanospheres or rods and quantum dots for enhanced cell and tissue imaging and local light energy absorption. As will be evident, this volume is not intended as a comprehensive text on biophotonics. Rather, it presents ‘snapshots’ of some of the most exciting developments, from a perspective of photonic technologies, and life-sciences applications. { 283pp, 165x245mm, December 2005; HB, £74.00, 1586035401:9781586035402 , IOS Press } |
| ADVANCES IN COMPUTER & INFORMATION SCIENCES '98 [U Gudukbay, T Dayar, A Gursoy & E Gelenbe (eds)] This volume includes very high quality papers in different areas of computer and information sciences. The main themes are (computer network) performance evaluation and artificial neural networks and their applications. The latest developments in these areas are presented by a number of distinguished researchers from all over the world. These proceedings of The 13th International Symposium on Computer and Information Sciences (ISCIS'98) contain outstanding papers specifically related to the areas of "Gelenbe" neural networks and their applications, performance of computer-communication networks, simulations and analytic methods in order to study the performance of telecommunication networks, scheduling and resource allocation in computer and multimedia systems, stochastic ordering applied to performance evaluation, and simulation of virtual humans. { 599, January 1998; HB, £83.00, 9051994052:9789051994056 , IOS Press } |
| ADVANCES IN INDUCTIVE LOGIC PROGRAMMING [L De Raedt (ed)] Inductive Logic Programming is a research area situated in machine learning and logic programming, two sub-fields of artificial intelligence. The goal of inductive logic programming is to develop theories, techniques and tools for inducing hypotheses from observations using the representations from computational logic. Inductive Logic Programming has a high potential for applications in data mining, automated scientific discovery, knowledge discovery in databases, as well as automatic programming. This book provides a detailed state-of-the-art overview of Inductive Logic Programming as well as a collection of recent technical contributions to Inductive Logic Programming. The state-of-the-art overview is based on - among others - the successful ESPRIT basic research project no. 6020 on Inductive Logic Programming, funded by the European Commission from 1992 till 1995. It highlights some of the most important recent results within Inductive Logic Programming and can be used as a thorough introduction to the field. This book is relevant to students, researchers and practitioners of artificial intelligence and computer science, especially those concerned with machine learning, data mining and computational logic. { 334pp, January 1996; HB, £134.00, 9051992424:9789051992427 , IOS Press } |
| ADVANCES IN INFORMATION TECHNOLOGIES : The Business Challenge [J -Y Roger, B Stanford-Smith & P T Kidd (eds)] Organisations ignoring the Information Society are, in effect, abandoning their competitive position because the technologies are already affecting how business is conducted and leading to new products and services. In order to prosper, companies must remain aware of advances in Information Technology and appreciate the implications if they are to be ready to spot the opportunities and react quickly. This is particularly true for the companies in those fields, in which the system concept is dominating, including obviously the microelectronics industries. This book will help all those having a responsibility for business and research strategies. It covers the three key areas of electronic commerce, multimedia and embedded systems and examines their possible effects. The editors have brought together more than a hundred papers from International experts that describe current thinking, research projects and emerging technology. The papers are grouped in five main sections. The first, on policy considerations, opens with examples of companies that are adopting new strategies to take advantage of technological developments. The section continues with a look at the influence of government research programmes and closes with views by some technology vendors. The next section considers those aspects of Information Technology of particular concern to the smaller businesses that frequently lack the knowledge and resources to follow developments and apply them effectively. The final three sections address Electronic Commerce, Multimedia and Embedded systems and cover applications, development tools and emerging technologies. This book is supported by the European Commission and includes several research projects in the ESPRIT programme. Commission funding and organisation has contributed greatly to the progress of the Information Society in Europe. { 948pp, January 1999; HB, £105.00, 9051993854:9789051993851 , IOS Press } |
| ADVANCES IN INTELLIGENT IT { May 2006; HB, £65.00, 1586036157:9781586036157 , IOS Press } |
| ADVANCES IN INTELLIGENT SYSTEMS : Theory & Applications [M Mohammadian (ed)] This book is dedicated to the theory and applications of Intelligent Systems. Research and development work in Intelligent Systems area is growing rapidly due to many successful applications of these new techniques in very diverse problems. "Intelligent Systems and Techniques" cover many fields such as neural networks, (adaptive) fuzzy logic, evolutionary computing and their hybrids and derivatives. This book is to provide highlights of the current research in Intelligent Systems area. It consists of research papers in the fields of Neural Networks, Fuzzy Logic, Genetic Algorithms and Evolutionary Computing, Knowledge Acquisition and Knowledge Discovery, Intelligent Agents, Image Processing, Robotics and Automation, Speech Recognition, Signal Processing and Control, Data Mining and Information Retrieval, Case-based Reasoning and Clustering. { 402pp, January 2000; HB, £72.00, 1586030434:9781586030438 , IOS Press } |
| ADVANCES IN INTELLIGENT SYSTEMS [F C Morabito (ed)] Intelligent Systems can be defined as systems whose design, mainly based on computational techniques, is supported, in some parts, by operations and processing skills inspired by human reasoning and behaviour. Intelligent Systems must typically operate in a scenario in which non-linearities are the rule and not as a disturbing effect to be corrected. Finally, Intelligent Systems also have to incorporate advanced sensory technology in order to simplify man-machine interactions. Several algorithms are currently the ordinary tools of Intelligent Systems. This book contains a selection of contributions regarding Intelligent Systems by experts in diverse fields. Topics discussed in the book are: Applications of Intelligent Systems in Modelling and Prediction of Environmental Changes, Cellular Neural Networks for Non-Linear Filtering, NNs for Signal Processing, Image Processing, Transportation Intelligent Systems, Intelligent Techniques in Power Electronics, Applications in Medicine and Surgery, Hardware Implementation and Learning of NNs. { 562pp, January 1997; HB, £59.00, 9051993552:9789051993554 , IOS Press } |
| ADVANCES IN INTELLIGENT SYSTEMS & ROBOTICS [G L Torres, J M Abe, M L Mucheroni & P E Cruvinel (eds)] This publication present the approved and invited papers of the 4th Congress of Logic Applied to Technology - LAPTEC'2003. Logic (Classical and Non-Classical) is being increasingly related with almost every other scientific discipline and human activity. In this volume the role of logic in several disciplines is emphasised its. The disciplines discussed are Artificial Intelligence, Robotics, Informatics in general, Technology and correlated themes. Through the wide variety of papers, the publications gives a great overview of the recent developments in the area of Logic. { 232pp, January 2003; HB, £74.00, 1586033867:9781586033866 , IOS Press } |
| ADVANCES IN LEARNING THEORY : Methods, Models & Applications [J A K Suykens, G Horvath, S Basu, C Micchelli & J Vandewalle (eds)] In recent years, considerable progress has been made in the understanding of problems of learning and generalisation. In this context, Intelligence basically means the ability to perform well on new data after learning a model on the basis of given data. Such problems arise in many different areas and are becoming increasingly important and crucial towards many applications such as in bioinformatics, multimedia, computer vision and signal processing, internet search and information retrieval, data-mining and text-mining, finance, fraud detection, measurement systems and process control, and several others. Currently, the development of new technologies enables to generate massive amounts of data containing a wealth of information that remains to become explored. Often the dimensionality of the input spaces in these novel applications is huge. In the analysis of microarray data, for example, where expression levels of thousands of genes need to be analysed given only a limited number of experiments. Without performing dimensionality reduction, the classical statistical paradigms show fundamental shortcomings at this point. Facing these new challenges, there is a need for new mathematical foundations and models such that the data can become processed in a reliable way. These subjects are very interdisciplinary and relate to problems studied in neural networks, machine learning, mathematics and statistics. { 440pp, January 2003; HB, £74.00, 1586033417:9781586033415 , IOS Press } |
| ADVANCES IN LOGIC BASED INTELLIGENT SYSTEMS [K Nakamatsu & J M Abe (eds)] LAPTEC'2005 promoted the discussion and interaction between researchers and practitioners focused on both theoretical and practical disciplines concerning logics applied to technology, with diverse backgrounds including all kinds of intelligent systems having classical or non-classical logics as underlying common matters. It was the first time for LAPTEC to be held in a different country than Brazil since its birth in 2000, and this has made the congress more international. This book is dedicated to Emeritus Professor Atsuyuki Suzuki in commemoration of his honourable retirement from Shizuoka University, March 2005. Prof. Suzuki is learned in application of para consistent logic and has contributed many papers as a member of the program committee to LAPTEC since the beginning. { 304pp, December 2005; HB, £62.00, 1586035681:9781586035686 , IOS Press } |
| ADVANCES IN LOGIC, ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE & ROBOTICS [J.M Abe & J.I Da Silva Filho (eds)] This volume contains the approved and invited papers of the 3rd Congress of Logic Applied to Technology - LAPTEC'2002 held in São Paulo, Brazil, from 11 to 13 November 2002. Logic (Classical and Non-Classical) is being increasingly related with other fields in almost every scientific discipline and human activity. In this volume we have emphasised its role in Artificial Intelligence, Robotics, Informatics in general, Technology, and correlated themes, written by some of the most prominent scientist of today. { 288pp, January 2002; HB, £66.00, 1586032925:9781586032920 , IOS Press } |
| ADVANCES IN MEDICAL BIOLOGY [C Baya (ed)] { 276pp, January 1994; HB, £91.00, 9051991460:9789051991468 , IOS Press } |
| ADVANCES IN MEDICAL INFORMATICS [J Noothoven Van Goor & J P Christensen (eds)] { 456pp, January 1992; HB, £85.00, 9051990588:9789051990584 , IOS Press } |
| ADVANCES IN MINING GRAPHS, TREES & SEQUENCES [L De Raedt, T Washio & J N Kok (eds)] Ever since the early days of machine learning and data mining, it has been realised that the traditional attribute-value and item-set representations are too limited for many practical applications in domains such as chemistry, biology, network analysis and text mining. This has triggered a lot of research on mining and learning within alternative and more expressive representation formalisms such as computational logic, relational algebra, graphs, trees and sequences. The motivation for using graphs, trees and sequences is that they are 1) more expressive than flat representations, and 2) potentially more efficient than multi-relational learning and mining techniques. At the same time, the data structures of graphs, trees and sequences are among the best understood and most widely applied representations within computer science. Thus these representations offer ideal opportunities for developing interesting contributions in data mining and machine learning that are both theoretically well-founded and widely applicable. This book collects recent outstanding studies on mining and learning within graphs, trees and sequences in studies world-wide. { 220pp, January 2005; HB, £59.00, 1586035282:9781586035280 , IOS Press } |
| ADVANCES IN MOLECULAR BIOINFORMATICS [S Schulze Kremer (ed)] Molecular bioinformatics comprises the development and application of algorithms for the purpose of analysis, interpretation and the design of experiments in the biosciences. The heterogeneous collection of original research presented in this book illustrates the use of the wide and diverse range of algorithmic techniques. The application of algorithms from computer sciences, including artificial intelligence, machine learning, genetic programming, evolutionary algorithms and neural nets to molecular biology especially DNA and RNA sequence analysis and protein engineering is broadly examined. Both algorithmic and biological background problems are explained for an interdisciplinary audience. Readers: bioscientists, computer scientists. { 268pp, January 1994; PB, £61.00, 905199172X:9789051991727 , IOS Press } |
| ADVANCES IN MOLECULAR ECOLOGY [G R Carvalho (ed)] In this volume researchers across the fields of animals, plants and microbial communities present a thematic approach, with emphasis on the integration of concepts independently of taxon. Each author was asked to examine how molecular genetic tools have contributed to their specific area of consideration, identifying novel insights, controversies and future priorities. The coverage is not intended to be comprehensive across all contemporary fields in molecular ecology, but rather illustrative of the diversity of approach and application, and with emphasis on the genetic and evolutionary characteristics of the markers employed. It is only through the use of appropriate sampling design, choice of marker or marker combinations, and apposite statistical analysis of data that meaningful tests and interpretations can be attained. The examples presented endorse such an approach by considering not only how molecular markers have impacted on concepts and theory, but also by demonstrating through recent developments how they can be employed with effect. To increase the practical utility of the book, we conclude with a summary of current software that is available for the analysis of data in molecular ecology, detailing information on names of authors, date of latest update, compatible operating systems, types of data handled and analyses supported. A glossary of terms is provided to facilitate access to unfamiliar topics. { 314pp, January 1998; HB, £87.00, 9051994400:9789051994407 , IOS Press } |
| ADVANCES IN MULTIPLE CRITERIA DECISION MAKING & HUMAN SYSTEMS MANAGEMENT: KNOWLEDGE & WISDOM [Y Shi, D.L Olson & A Stam (eds)] This volume, edited as a Festschrift in honor of Prof. Milan Zeleny, reflects and emulates his unmistakable legacy: the essential multidimensionality of human and social affairs. There are many levels of this multidimensionality presented in this volume: 1. Multidisciplinarity of contributed papers 2. Multinationality of their authors, extending even to the editors and the publisher and 3. Multicultural and multilevel exposition, ranging from empirical studies to philosophical foundations. Generally, these papers can be divided into three parts: Multiple Criteria Decision Making; Social and Human System Management; and Information, Knowledge and Wisdom Management. It is the recognition of multidimensionality in decision making, economics, optimisation, systems, cybernetics and the pursuit of knowledge that bear the stamp of specific Zeleny's contributions. His life-long dedication to multidimensionality has produced an ultimate multidimensional being, living in academic 'multiverse', functioning in a boundaryless world of all continents, cultures and countries. This book is as diverse and as multidimensional as the man and his work. { 407pp, May 2007; HB, £78.00, 158603748X:9781586037482 , IOS Press } |
| ADVANCES IN OCCUPATIONAL ERGONOMICS & SAFETY-4 [A C Bittner & P C Champney (eds)] The XVth Annual Conference of the International Society for Occupational Ergonomics and Safety brought together technical professionals, educators, and students from around the world to share their emerging research findings, applications experiences, and theoretical understandings. This volume contains the 70 papers that were presented at the conference, representing the work of nearly 200 authors. The papers in this volume are grouped into 13 sections covering both traditional and newly developing areas of research and practice. These include: 1) Cognitive Ergonomics; 2) Cumulative and Acute Musculoskeletal Injury (MSI); 3) Ergonomics Research Principles, Models, and Methodologies; 4) Ergonomic Management and Assessment Programs; 5) Handtool Evaluations; 6) Health and Safety in Agriculture, Fishing and Forestry; 7) Occupational Case-Studies; 8) Special Populations--Military; 9) Special Populations--Seniors and Children; 10) Work Physiology and Ergonomics-Cardiopulmonary; 11) Work Physiology and Ergonomics-Pathomechanics of MSIs; 12) Warnings; and 13) Workstations and Work Areas. These 13 sections broadly reflect both traditional focuses of occupational ergonomics and safety; and emerging areas of interest or concern. This year we have been particularly fortunate to have a nearly equal division between the number of papers that reflect applied or case studies, and those reflecting ergonomic theory and safety & health management. This reflects well both on: the state of occupational ergonomics and safety; and the diversity of the members of our society. { 600pp, January 2001; HB, £93.00, 1586031740:9781586031749 , IOS Press } |
| ADVANCES IN PARALLEL ALGORITHMS [I Dimov & O Tonev (eds)] { 205pp, January 1994; PB, £60.00, 9051991517:9789051991512 , IOS Press } |
| ADVANCES IS HEALTH TELEMATICS EDUCATION : A Nightingale Perspective [J Mantas (ed)] The NIGHTINGALE Project, which started on the 1st of January, 1996, after the approval of the European Commission, and has a 36-month duration is essential in planning and implementation of strategy in Training the Nursing Profession in using and applying healthcare information systems. The NIGHTINGALE Project is contributing towards the appropriate use of the developed Telematics infrastructure across Europe by educating and training nurses in a harmonising way across Europe in the upcoming field of Nursing Informatics. For achieving this objective the NIGHTINGALE Project established a series of European Conferences on Health Telematics Education, and workshops by experts (users, developers and policymakers). NIGHTINGALE has already published under IOS Press the Proceedings of the 1st Year Conferences and Workshops. In this book the Proceedings of the 2nd Year conferences and Workshops are included. These Conferences and Workshops are: The 2nd European Conference on Health Telematics Education held on 6-8 November 1997, in Lisbon, Portugal; 3rd Users and Policymakers Group Workshop held on 9-11 May 1997, in Lojt Kirkeby, Denmark; 2nd Developers and Multimedia Group Workshop held on 30 May-1 June 1997, in Marathon, Greece and 4th Users and Policymakers Group Workshop held on 9 November 1997, in Lisbon, Portugal. { 275, January 1998; HB, £66.00, 9051993897:9789051993899 , IOS Press } |
| AERIAL ARCHAEOLOGY : E-Government as Institutional and Technological Innovation in Public Administration [R.H Bewley & W Raczkowski (eds)] 2006-04-01 { 376pp, January 2002; HB, £74.00, 1586031848:9781586031848 , IOS Press } |
| AFFECTIVE & EMOTIONAL ASPECTS OF HUMAN-COMPUTER INTERACTION : Heterogeneity and interoperability [M Pivec (ed)] The learning process can be seen as an emotional and personal experience that is addictive and motivates learners to proactive behaviour. New research methods in this field are related to affective and emotional approaches to computer-supported learning and human-computer interactions. The major topics discussed are emotions, motivation, games and game-experience. The book is divided in three parts, part I, Game-based Learning, reflects upon the two-way interaction between game and student, thus enabling the game to react to the student's emotional state. Having the possibility to detect and steer the emotional state of the student could have a positive impact on using digital games in education. It is claimed that some commercial computer games increase cognitive skills and may enhance multitasking abilities and the participants' general ability to learn. Part II, Motivation and Learning, analyses whether the absence or presence of social and personal cues in the communication between a tutor and his or her students influence students' learning and their satisfaction with the tutor and the course. The research showed that not all types of personal information are equally important and possibly pictorial information is more important than audible information. Part III, Emotions and Emotional Agents, discusses the production of learning environments which enhance the learner's self esteem, ensure that the learner's best interests are respected through paying attention to the narrative structures of the learner's experience, and the ways in which communication can be enhanced through empathy with the learner. { 332pp, January 2006; PB, £65.00, 158603572X:9781586035723 , IOS Press } |
| AGEING & OUTDOOR MOBILITY : A Means of Ensuring Conflict Prevention, Security and Social Stability. A Case Study: 12-15-Year-Olds in Serbia [H Mollenkopf, F Marcellini, I Ruoppila & M Tacken (eds)] With today's spatial separation of spheres of life, mobility has become an important aspect of ensuring one's everyday life and social participation. Due to the decline of physical and sensory competences, older people will find it difficult to maintain the requisite levels of mobility and, by this, social well-being and quality of life. This book is based on a study carried out in four European countries (five regions), investigating how the mobility behaviour of elderly men and women is affected by various individual resources and differing cultural and environmental conditions. It concludes with implications for problem-solving strategies for meeting the mobility needs of the ageing population. { 168pp, January 2004; HB, £63.00, 1586034014:9781586034016 , IOS Press } |
| AGENT-BASED APPROACHES IN ECONOMIC & SOCIAL COMPLEX SYSTEMS [A Namatame, T Terano & K Kurumatani (eds)] This book explores the exciting new field of Artificial Intelligence. It features in-depth coverage of important theoretical areas, including computational organisation, computational economics, computational approaches in social science, and game theory. The concepton of the multi-agent system is particularly attractive, as it promises autonomy based on the conceptual speciality of a rational agent as well as collective behaviour through interactions. The book draws out themes, especially the ideas of connectivity and natural computation, that reveal deep, underlying similarities between phenomena that have formerly been treated as completely distinct. The idea of agent-based approach is particularly rich in fresh approaches applicable to many fields such as artificial intelligence, computational organisation, computational economics, and computational game theory. { 272pp, January 2002; HB, £66.00, 1586032259:9781586032258 , IOS Press } |
| AGILE DEVELOPMENT OF DIAGNOSTIC KNOWLEDGE SYSTEMS [J Baumeister] The success of diagnostic knowledge systems has been proved over the last decades. Nowadays, intelligent systems are embedded in machines within various domains or are used in interaction with a user for solving problems. However, the development of a knowledge system is still a critical issue. Similarly to projects dealing with customised software at a highly innovative level a precise specification often cannot be given in advance. Moreover, necessary requirements of the knowledge system cannot be defined until the project has been started, or are changing during the development phase. This thesis motivates that classical, document-centred approaches cannot be applied in such a setting. We introduce an agile process model for developing diagnostic knowledge systems, mainly inspired by the ideas of the eXtreme Programming methodology known in software engineering. The engineering process is supported at a primary level by the introduction of knowledge containers, that define an organised view of knowledge contained in the system. The actual knowledge is acquired and formalised right from start, & the integration to runnable knowledge systems is done continuously in order to allow for an early & concrete feedback. The validity & maintainability of the collected knowledge is ensured by appropriate test methods & restructuring techniques, respectively. Additionally, we propose learning methods to support the knowledge acquisition process sufficiently. The process model & its activities are evaluated in two real life applications: in a medical & in an environmental project by which the benefits of the agile development are clearly demonstrated. { 272pp, January 2004; PB, £27.00, 1586034634:9781586034634 , IOS Press } |
| AGING IN EUROPE [J J F Schroots, R Fernández-Ballesteros & G Rudinger (eds)] Human aging is perhaps the most complex and important subject that will be facing science and societies in the next century. Persons seem to be living longer and remaining more active than their parents and grandparents. This is leading to social and demographic shifts that must be accommodated by society. On the other hand it presents perplexing questions about the underlying processes and determinants of healthy ageing. This book gives a design for research that will increase our understanding of the factors that influence healthy aging and can lead to improvements in reducing the levels of disability in the population. It's focus is on biobehavioural and psychological factors contributing to healthy aging. Since human aging is determined by many interacting conditions inside and outside of the organism, research should concentrate on ecological relationships between the human organism and its social and physical environment. Not only individual characteristics associated with ageing are discussed in this book, but also their impacts on society. Living longer means most persons will have fewer years to earn money to maintain their lives in a longer retirement. How can these two forces be resolved through public policy? At the same time greater competence in the later years needs clues to ways of releasing this productivity for the benefit of society and individuals. Adding healthy life expectancy and creating as much as possible disability-free years is a goal that can only be reached through fact finding by a multidisciplinary team of scientist collaborating on an international basis. Such a team is present in the collaborators represented in this book. The information presented in 'Aging in Europe' has not been available in any single source before. In many ways this book provides a model of gaining knowledge through co-operation that should guide us in the next century and beyond. { 184pp, January 1999; HB, £88.00, 905199382X:9789051993820 , IOS Press } |
| AIDS RESEARCH AT EC LEVEL [A.E Baert, M.C Razquin, D Tyrrell, M.A Koch & L Montagnier (eds)] At EC level the fight against AIDS, one of the major health problems and socioeconomic diseases today, is also part of the specific RTD programme in the field of biomedicine and health. About 600 research teams are collaborating within 30 concerted actions networks that are underpinned by centralised facilities. For example, the epidemiology research networks are monitored by the WHO/EC collaborating centre in St. Maurice, France. Common experiments on animal models, antiviral screening, genetic analysis of multiple virus strains and provision of reagents for vaccine development are also centralised facilities in AIDS research carried out under the principles of subsidiarity and Community added value. This publication presents an overview of their ongoing research activities in disease control and prevention, viro-immunological research, clinical research and vaccine development. Covered by Current Contents, Life Sciences (ISI), volume 38, no. 19, May 1995, p. 11-12 'Therefore, for anyone doing AIDS research, this is a must volume to have in order to understand what the European Community is doing in AIDS research. Highly recommended for all medical and academic libraries.' - H. Robert Malinowsky, The University of Illinois, Chicago, USA. AIDS Book Review Journal, no. 27, June 1996 { 372pp, January 1995; HB, £77.00, 9051991592:9789051991598 , IOS Press } |
| ALGORITHMIC LEARNING THEORY II [S Arikawa, A Maruoka & T Sato (eds)] { 320pp, January 1992; HB, £68.00, 905199088X:9789051990881 , IOS Press } |
| ALGORITHMS & ARCHITECTURES OF ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE [E Tyugu] This book gives an overview of methods developed in artificial intelligence for search, learning, problem solving and decision-making. It gives an overview of algorithms and architectures of artificial intelligence that have reached the degree of maturity when a method can be presented as an algorithm, or when a well-defined architecture is known, e.g. in neural nets and intelligent agents. It can be used as a handbook for a wide audience of application developers who are interested in using artificial intelligence methods in their software products. Parts of the text are rather independent, so that one can look into the index and go directly to a description of a method presented in the form of an abstract algorithm or an architectural solution. The book can be used also as a textbook for a course in applied artificial intelligence. Exercises on the subject are added at the end of each chapter. Neither programming skills nor specific knowledge in computer science are expected from the reader. However, some parts of the text will be fully understood by those who know the terminology of computing well. { 184pp, August 2007; HB, £61.00, 1586037706:9781586037703 , IOS Press } |
| ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE: A CENTURY OF SCIENTIFIC & CLINICAL RESEARCH : Book edition of NeuroRehabilitation [G Perry, J Avila, J Kinoshita & M.A Smith (eds)] This publication is a landmark work commemorating the centennial of Alois Alzheimer's discovery of what would be known as Alzheimer's disease (AD). The centennial of Alois Alzheimer's original description of the disease that would come to bear his name offers a vantage point from which to commemorate the seminal discoveries in the field. It traces how the true importance of AD as the major cause of late life dementia ultimately came to light and narrates the evolution of the concepts related to AD throughout the years and its recognition as a major public health problem, with an estimated 30-40 million people affected by AD today. To identify the breakthroughs, the editors have used citation analysis, landmark papers identified by current researchers, and drew upon their own experience and insights. This process took into account the perspectives of individuals who recall the impact of findings at the time they were made, as well as of scientists today who have the advantage of hindsight in weighing the lasting influence of these findings. Because modern AD research was triggered by the seminal work of Tomlinson, Blessed, and Roth some four decades ago, it is particularly fortunate that the vast majority of these milestone authors are still with us. { 468pp, July 2006; HB, £82.00, 158603619X:9781586036195 , IOS Press } |
| AMBIENT INTELLIGENCE : The Holistic Approach from Problems to Strategies [G Riva, F Vatalaro, F Davide & M Alcañiz (eds)] The metaphor of Ambient Intelligence (AmI) tries to picture a vision of the future where all of us will be surrounded by 'intelligent' electronic environments, and this ambient has claims to being sensitive and responsive to our needs. Ambient Intelligence without invasion of privacy represents a long-term vision for the EU Information Society Technologies Research programme. A strong multi-disciplinary and collaborative approach is a key requirement for large scale technology innovation and the development of effective applications. Up to now, most of the books and papers related to AmI focus their analysis on the technology potential only. An important feature of this volume is the link between the technology - through the concepts of ubiquitous computing and intelligent interface - and the human experience of interacting in the world - through a neuro-psychological vision centered on the concept of 'presence'. Presence, the sense of being there, is the experience of projecting one's mind through media to other places, people and designed environments. The combination of recent discoveries in cognitive neuroscience - that make it possible to acquire a better understanding of the human aspects of presence, and the breakthroughs at the level of the enabling technologies make it increasingly possible to build novel systems based on this understanding. The goal of this volume is to assess the technologies and processes that are behind the AmI vision to help the development of state-of-the-art applications. More in detail, this volume aims at supporting researchers and scientists, interested in the understanding and exploiting the potential of AmI. { 316pp, January 2005; HB, £74.00, 1586034901:9781586034900 , IOS Press } |
| AMPUTEE SPORTS FOR VICTIMS OF TERRORISM [Center of Excellence - Defence Against Terrorism (eds)] As amputee sports gain world-wide recognition, it is natural that books and articles begin to be written about them. These would be from very different points of view because of the differing individuals and institutions which have an interest here. This book, Amputee Sports for Victims of Terrorism, is an almost entirely new departure, on the one hand because it takes as its topic these new sports, in particular amputee football, and secondly because the workshop which created it brought together the varied interest groups for the first time. The amputee sportsmen, trainers, administrators, medical professionals, social workers, not to forget the army, came together with the common aims of giving theoretical and practical information on amputee sports, promoting their international organisation and regulation, and of increasing awareness of these sports which have been recognised as an effective means of rehabilitating amputees and promoting their well-being. The editors hope that this book will be a useful reference point for future work on amputee sports. { 144pp, January 2008; HB, £79.00, 1586038087:9781586038083 , IOS Press } |
| ANALYSIS OF RANDOM WALKS : (Studies on Probability, Optimization & Statistics: Volume 2) [J W Cohen (ed)] In 1983 O.J. Boxma and the author have published a research monograph on Boundary Value Problems in Queuing System Analysis. The continuation of that research is described in the present monograph. The technique developed in the 1983-monograph has appeared to be quite powerful in the construction of explicit expressions for the generating functions and/or Laplace-Stieltjes transforms of characteristic distributions needed in the performance evaluation of stoachistic models stemming from computer system and telecommunication engineering. The book covers the following topics: One- Dimensional Random Walks; Two-Dimensional Random Walks; the Two-Dimensional Workload Process; and the N-Dimensional Random Walk. { 390pp, January 1992; HB, £76.00, 9051990863:9789051990867 , IOS Press } |
| ANALYSIS, DESIGN & IMPLEMENTATION OF SECURE & INTEROPERABLE DISTRIBUTED HEALTH INFORMATION SYSTEMS [B Blobel] This book is an introduction into methodology and practice of analysis, design and implementation of distributed health information systems. Special attention is dedicated to security and interoperability of such systems as well as to advanced electronic health record approaches. In the book, both available architectures and implementations but also current and future innovations are considered. Therefore, the component paradigm, UML, XML, eHealth are discussed in a concise way. Many practical solutions specified and implemented first in the author's environment are presented in greater detail. The book addresses information scientists, administrators, health professionals, managers and other users of health information systems. { 352pp, January 2002; HB, £74.00, 1586032771:9781586032777 , IOS Press } |
| ANDRZEJ MOSTOWSKI & FOUNDATIONAL STUDIES [A Ehrenfeucht, V W Marek & M Srebrny (eds)] Andrzej Mostowski was one of the leading 20th century logicians. His legacy is examined in this volume of papers devoted both to his extraordinary scientific heritage and to the memory of him as a great researcher, teacher, organiser of science and human. Professor Mostowski pioneered and mastered many areas of mathematical logic. His contributions spanned set theory, recursion theory, and model theory - the backbone of foundations of mathematics. He is best known of the Kleene-Mostowski and Davis-Mostowski hierarchies of properties of integers reflecting the complexity of their definitions, and of the very elegant concept of a generalised quantifier which inspired and keeps stimulating a stream of deep work on fundamental issues of logics, deduction and reasoning both in mathematics and in computer science, and also of the contributions and excellent lectures on undecidability, unprovability, consistency and independence of various statements in set theory and arithmetic following Gödel, Tarski and Cohen. The overall content of the volume is designed to cover the current main streams in the field. For many years after WWII, especially in the late sixties, till his untimely death in 1975, Warsaw - where he led the centre of foundational studies - was a place where many leading logicians visited, studied, and started their career. Their memories form an important part of this volume, attempting to bring back the extraordinary achievements and personality of Mostowski. This volume is a collection of fifteen comprehensive research and expository articles, a complete bibliography of Andrzej Mostowski's writings, three biographical and historical articles, and eleven short personal reminiscences, contributed by prominent researchers, all aimed at illuminating Andrzej Mostowski's ideas and personality. Anyone wanting to see the roots of current applications of logic, be it in mathematics, computer science or philosophy, will find in this collection of articles plenty of helpful, stimulating and inspiring material both in science and about the social environment in which science is made. { 460pp, February 2008; HB, £68.00, 158603782X:9781586037826 , IOS Press } |
| ANNOTATION FOR THE SEMANTIC WEB [S Handschuh & S Staab (eds)] The Semantic Web aims at machine agents that thrive on explicitly specified semantics of content in order to search, filter, condense, or negotiate knowledge for their human users. A core technology for making the Semantic Web happen, but also to leverage application areas like Knowledge Management and E-Business, is the field of Semantic Annotation, which turns human-understandable content into a machine understandable form. This book reports on the broad range of technologies that are used to achieve this translation and nourish 3rd millennium applications. The book starts with a survey of the oldest semantic annotations, viz. indexing of publications in libraries. It continues with several techniques for the explicit construction of semantic annotations, including approaches for collaboration and Semantic Web metadata. One of the major means for improving the semantic annotation task is information extraction and much can be learned from the semantic tagging of linguistic corpora. In particular, information extraction is gaining prominence for automating the formerly purely manual annotation task - at least to some extent. An important subclass of information extraction tasks is the goal-oriented extraction of content from HTML and / or XML resources. { 240pp, January 2003; HB, £66.00, 158603345X:9781586033453 , IOS Press } |
| APPLICATIONS OF DATA MINING IN E-BUSINESS & FINANCE [C Soares, Y Peng, J Meng, T Washio & Z.-H Zhou (eds)] The application of Data Mining (DM) technologies has shown an explosive growth in an increasing number of different areas of business, government and science. Two of the most important business areas are finance, in particular in banks and insurance companies, and e-business, such as web portals, e-commerce and ad management services. In spite of the close relationship between research and practice in Data Mining, it is not easy to find information on some of the most important issues involved in real world application of DM technology, from business and data understanding to evaluation and deployment. Papers often describe research that was developed without taking into account constraints imposed by the motivating application. When these issues are taken into account, they are frequently not discussed in detail because the paper must focus on the method. Therefore knowledge that could be useful for those who would like to apply the same approach on a related problem is not shared. The papers in this book address some of these issues. This book is of interest not only to Data Mining researchers and practitioners, but also to students who wish to have an idea of the practical issues involved in Data Mining. { 120pp, August 2008; HB, £71.00, 1586038907:9781586038908 , IOS Press } |
| APPLICATIONS OF GENOMICS & PROTEOMICS OF BACTERIAL WARFARE AGENTS [V.G DelVecchio & V Krcmery (eds)] Recent scientific breakthroughs have improved our understanding of the impact of environmental toxic substances on human health. With the knowledge, new techniques are incorporated into human monitoring programs to identify damage to DNA, other macromolecules and cells that can be used to predict health risk from exposure to environmental genotoxic agents. The molecular and cellular responses are often measured in peripheral lymphocytes because these cells can be collected in a socially and ethically acceptable manner, and via a minimally invasive route. However, other cells such as sperm, buccal or nasal epithelial cells, placental cells, and body fluids such as urine and serum, are also used. From these investigations, it becomes obvious that an individual's genetic constitution and lifestyle activities can significantly influence the exposure effect. Genetic constitution includes inherited variations in genes for chemical metabolism and DNA repair. Lifestyle activities include diet and levels of physical activity. Because of the significant influence of the environmental factors on human health, there is increased interest in monitoring human populations for improvement of health. The major objective of this publication is to enhance the knowledge and expertise of researchers in molecular epidemiology and human monitoring. { 196pp, January 2003; HB, £74.00, 1586033433:9781586033439 , IOS Press } |
| APPLICATIONS OF NATURAL LANGUAGE TO INFORMATION SYSTEMS [R P Van De Riet, J F M Burg & A J Van Der Vos (eds)] Applications of Natural Language to Information Systems covers high academic quality papers on the following topics: natural language interfaces to databases, information retrieval, use of linguistic tools and electronic dictionaries, conceptual modelling, paraphrasing and validating information system models, the use of natural language as a specification interface for the design of information systems, linguistic aspects of database view integration and hypertext facilities for database querying. Furthermore the typical applications of natural language, are addressed, presented both from a scientific as well as an industrial perspective by Peter Chen, the inventor of the ER model, and Gerald Kristen, the founder of the KISS company. Other topics: Natural Language Specification; Natural Language Paraphrasing; Linguistic Tools and Electronic Dictionaries; Database Hypertext Facilities; Information Retrieval; Natural Language Database Interfaces. { 288pp, January 1996; HB, £73.00, 9051992734:9789051992731 , IOS Press } |
| APPLICATIONS OF TRANSPUTERS 3 { January 1940; HB, £106.00, 9051990642:9789051990645 , IOS Press } |
| APPLIED FOURIER TRANSFORM [K Morita (ed)] Jean Baptiste Fourier (1768-1830) published a paper in the year 1807 on partial differential equations for treating the problem of heat conduction through solid materials. In solving the equations, he found that many periodic functions could be expanded by a trigonometric series. In this book, a detailed explanation of an FT itself and stories on related fields of research are given. How to electronically implement an FT in applications is also described. All of the descriptions are aimed at readers in the middle of a university education. Readers: electronic engineering and theoretical physics experts, applied mathematicians. Reviewed in Zentrallblatt fur Mathematik und ihre Grenzgebiete, band 824/95 Abstracted by Mathematical Reviews, issue 96a { 446pp, January 1995; HB, £73.00, 9051991665:9789051991666 , IOS Press } |
| APPLIED PUBLIC KEY INFRASTRUCTURE [J Zhou, M C Kang, F Bao & H H Pang (eds)] Over the past years, Public Key Infrastructure (PKI) technology has evolved and moved from the research laboratories to the mainstream, in which many organisations are now leveraging it as part of their core infrastructure system for providing and building security in their businesses. Understanding the challenges and requirements of PKI related operations through the sharing of case studies are critical to supporting the continued research and development of PKI technologies and related systems and applications to further progress and innovate for enhancing future development and evolution of PKI in the enterprises. This publication includes topics such as: PKI Operation & Case Study; Non-repudiation; Authorisation & Access Control, Authentication & Time-Stamping, Certificate Validation & Revocation and Cryptographic Applications. { 276pp, January 2005; HB, £62.00, 1586035509:9781586035501 , IOS Press } |
| APPROXIMATION METHODS FOR EFFICIENT LEARNING OF BAYESIAN NETWORKS [C Riggelsen] This publication offers and investigates efficient Monte Carlo simulation methods in order to realise 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 feasible, albeit non-Bayesian. Topics discussed are; basic concepts about probabilities, graph theory and conditional independence; Bayesian network learning from data; Monte Carlo simulation techniques; and the concept of incomplete data. In order to provide a coherent treatment of matters, thereby helping the reader to gain a thorough understanding of the whole concept of learning Bayesian networks from (in)complete data, this publication combines in a clarifying way all the issues presented in the papers with previously unpublished work. { 148pp, January 2008; PB, £59.00, 1586038214:9781586038212 , IOS Press } |
| ARCHITECTURES, LANGUAGES & PATTERNS FOR PARALLEL & DISTRIBUTED APPLICATIONS : WoTug 21 [P H Welch & A W P Bakkers (eds)] This publication addresses the theory, technology and applications of parallel and distributed computing. At the application level, the emphasis will be on reporting how the theory and technology was used to design patterns leading to simple, secure and efficient systems. Experiences on the use of Java, Limbo and occam/Handel (to design and implement both hardware and software) are particularly relevant. { 294pp, January 1998; PB, £62.00, 9051993919:9789051993912 , IOS Press } |
| ARTIFICIAL GENERAL INTELLIGENCE 2008 : Proceedings of the First AGI Conference [P Wang, B Goertzel & S Franklin (eds)] The field of Artificial Intelligence (AI) was initially directly aimed at the construction of 'thinking machines' -- that is, computer systems with human-like general intelligence. But this task proved more difficult than expected. As the years passed, AI researchers gradually shifted focus to producing AI systems that intelligently approached specific tasks in relatively narrow domains. In recent years, however, more and more AI researchers have recognized the necessity -- and the feasibility -- of returning to the original goal of the field. Increasingly, there is a call to focus less on highly specialized 'narrow AI' problem solving systems, and more on confronting the difficult issues involved in creating 'human-level intelligence', and ultimately general intelligence that goes beyond the human level in various ways. Artificial General Intelligence (AGI), as this renewed focus has come to be called, attempts to study and reproduce intelligence as a whole in a domain independent way. Encouraged by the recent success of several smaller-scale AGI-related meetings and special tracks at conferences, the initiative to organize the very first international conference on AGI was taken, with the goal to give researchers in the field an opportunity to present relevant research results and to exchange ideas on topics of common interest. In this collection you will find the conference papers: full-length papers, short position statements and also the papers presented in the post conference workshop on the sociocultural, ethical and futurological implications of AGI. { 520pp, February 2008; HB, £105.00, 1586038338:9781586038335 , IOS Press } |
| ARTIFICIAL INTELL EDUC OPEN { January 1999; HB, £89.00, 9051994524:9789051994520 , IOS Press } |
| ARTIFICIAL INTELL TECHNOLOGY [F Mizoguchi (ed)] { 300pp, January 1990; HB, £62.00, 9051990502:9789051990508 , IOS Press } |
| ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE : Methodology, Systems, Applications [A M Ramsay (ed)] This book on AI research and development presents a wide range of topics of interest, including automated reasoning: theorem proving, reasoning about action and change, reasoning about time and space, constraint satisfaction, reasoning on uncertainty and with fuzzy sets, analogy and induction, machine learning. Logics for AI: logics for knowledge, belief and intention, multi-valued logics, modal and temporal logics, epistemic logics, fuzzy logics. Languages, structures and algorithms for AI: logic programming, inductive logic programming, constraint programming, multi-agent systems, connectionist systems, genetic algorithms, parallel processing for AI. Knowledge-based systems: languages and systems for representing knowledge, object-based knowledge representation systems, knowledge acquisition, validation of knowledge-based systems. Natural language processing: syntax, semantics, discourse, speech recognition and understanding, natural language generation, natural language front ends. Perception and action: computer vision, object recognition, stereo vision, active vision, robotics systems, robot programming, robot motion planning, mobile robotics, behaviour-based reactive robots. Principles of AI applications: AI for decision systems, AI in education, AI in engineering design, AI in manufacturing control, AI in medicine, AI in molecular biology, AI in environmental sciences. { 352pp, January 1996; PB, £67.00, 905199270X:9789051992700 , IOS Press } |
| ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE & HEURISTIC METHODS IN BIOINFORMATICS : (NATO Science Series: Computer & Systems Sciences: Volume 183) [P Frasconi & R Shamir (eds)] Computational tools are already of paramount importance for the development of molecular biology. Recent genome-sequencing projects and the availability of high-throughput technologies, such as DNA micro-arrays are generating an unprecedented wealth of data. The interpretation and elicitation of biological knowledge from data may deeply affect our understanding of life at the molecular level, with the potential for a revolutionary impact on biotechnology, pharmacology, and medicine. However, moving from data to knowledge requires powerful and sophisticated tools. This book will mainly focus on methods and algorithms developed within the artificial intelligence community. These include machine learning, data mining, knowledge discovery, pattern recognition, optimisation techniques, and knowledge representation. All these methods can provide key solutions for the new challenges posed by the progressive transformation of biology into a data-massive science and are extremely important for the development of bioinformatics services and prediction tools. The book is targeted to computer scientists and bioinformatics researchers/practitioners who want to learn about the state-of-the-art in this area. { 256pp, January 2003; HB, £74.00, 1586032941:9781586032944 , IOS Press } |
| ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE FOR EDUCATION 01 [J D Moore, C L Redfield & W L Johnson (eds)] AIED'01 is the 10th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Education, part of an ongoing series of biennal international conferences designed to report top quality research in the field of intelligent system theory and technology for educational applications. It provides opportunities for the cross-fertilisation of information and ideas from researchers in the many fields that make up this interdisciplinary research area, including: computer science, psychology, linguistics, sociology, and philosophy. The theme of the 2001 conference was AI-ED in a Wired and Wireless Future. Papers that explore the emerging roles of mobile computing and distributed technologies in intelligent educational applications were particularly encouraged. { 800pp, January 2001; HB, £81.00, 1586031732:9781586031732 , IOS Press } |
| ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE IN EDUCATION : Sharing Representations and Flow in Collaborative Learning Environments [H.U Hoppe, M.F Verdejo & J Kay (eds)] This book reports on state-of-the-art research into intelligent systems, models, and architectures for educational computing applications. It provides cross-fertilisation of information and ideas from researchers in the many fields that make up this interdisciplinary research area, including computer science, education, educational technology, psychology, and linguistics. The focus is on developing computational models of relevant aspects of learning and teaching processes. One of the central ideas behind Artificial Intelligence in Education, from the very origins of this research area, has been to develop computational learning support systems that maintain a close connection to the development of general cognitive models and architectures. In this sense, an important part of AI-ED is "applied cognitive science". This also implies a certain methodological rigor in the evaluation of intelligently supported learning environments. The subtitle "Shaping the Future of Learning through Intelligent Technologies" indicates a wide range of advanced information and communication technologies and computational methods applied to education and training. Innovation is sought in both the technology and in the educational scenarios. More and more, "design" is seen as a critical element in innovative learning scenarios. Relevant design aspects include interface and interaction design, as well as educational or instructional design. { 560pp, January 2003; HB, £77.00, 1586033565:9781586033569 , IOS Press } |
| ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE IN EDUCATION : Knowledge & Media in Learning Systems [W du Boulay & R Mizoguchi (eds)] The theme of this book is Knowledge and Media in Learning Systems, and papers that explore the emerging roles of intelligent multimedia and distributed technologies as well as computer supported collaboration within that theme are included. The spread of topics is very wide encompassing both well- established areas such as student modelling as well as more novel topics such as distributed intelligent tutoring on the World Wide Web. Far from undermining the need to understand how learning and teaching interact, the newer media continue to emphasise the interdependence of these two processes. Collaboration and tools for collaboration are the major topics of interest. Understanding how human learners collaborate, how peer tutoring works and how the computer can play a useful role as either a more able of even a less able learning partner are all explored here. { 702pp, January 1997; PB, £84.00, 9051993536:9789051993530 , IOS Press } |
| ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE IN EDUCATION : Case Studies in Parametric Design Problem Solving [R Luckin, K.R Koedinger & J Greer (eds)] The nature of technology has changed since Artificial Intelligence in Education (AIED) was conceptualised as a research community and Interactive Learning Environments were initially developed. Technology is smaller, more mobile, networked, pervasive and often ubiquitous as well as being provided by the standard desktop PC. This creates the potential for technology supported learning wherever and whenever learners need and want it. However, in order to take advantage of this potential for greater flexibility we need to understand and model learners and the contexts with which they interact in a manner that enables us to design, deploy and evaluate technology to most effectively support learning across multiple locations, subjects and times. The AIED community has much to contribute to this endeavour. { 738pp, June 2007; HB, £88.00, 1586037641:9781586037642 , IOS Press } |
| ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE IN EDUCATION : The ConIPF Methodology [C.-K Looi, G McCalla, B Bredeweg & J Breuker (eds)] The field of Artificial Intelligence in Education has continued to broaden and now includes research and researchers from many areas of technology and social science. This study opens opportunities for the cross-fertilisation of information and ideas from researchers in the many fields that make up this interdisciplinary research area, including artificial intelligence, other areas of computer science, cognitive science, education, learning sciences, educational technology, psychology, philosophy, sociology, anthropology, linguistics, and the many domain-specific areas for which Artificial Intelligence in Education systems have been designed and built. An explicit goal is to appeal to those researchers who share the perspective that true progress in learning technology requires both deep insight into technology and also deep insight into learners, learning, and the context of learning. The theme reflects this basic duality. { 1040pp, January 2005; HB, £114.00, 1586035304:9781586035303 , IOS Press } |
| ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE IN THE PACIFIC RIM [H Tanaka (ed)] { 940pp, January 1991; HB, £108.00, 9051990537:9789051990539 , IOS Press } |
| ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE RESEARCH & DEVELOPMENT [M Polit, T Talbert, B López & J Meléndez (eds)] Artificial Intelligence (AI) forms an essential branch of computer science. The field covered by AI is multiform and gathers subjects as various as the engineering of knowledge, the automatic treatment of the language, the training, to quote only some of them. The history of AI knew various periods of evolution passing from periods of doubt at very fertile periods. AI is now in its maturity and did not remain an isolated field of computer science, but approached various fields like statistics, data analysis, linguistics and cognitive psychology or databases. AI is focused on providing solutions to real life problems and is used now in routine in medicine, economics, military or strategy game. This book focuses on subjects including: Machine Learning, Reasoning, Neural Networks, Computer Vision, Plan |