The growth in the amount of data collected and generated has exploded in recent times with the widespread automation of various day-to-day activities, advances in high-level scienti?c and engineering research and the development of e?cient data collection tools. This has given rise to the need for automa- callyanalyzingthedatainordertoextractknowledgefromit, therebymaking the data potentially more useful. Knowledge discovery and data mining (KDD) is the process of identifying valid, novel, potentially useful and ultimately understandable patterns from massive data repositories. It is a...
The growth in the amount of data collected and generated has exploded in recent times with the widespread automation of various day-to-day activities,...
Rapid formation and development of new theories of systems science have become an important part of modern science and technology. For - ample, since the 1940s, there have appeared systems theory, information theory, fuzzy mathematics, cybernetics, dissipative structures, synergetics, catastrophe theory, chaos theory, bifurcations, ultra circulations, dynamics, and many other systems theories. Grey systems theory is also one of such systems theories that appeared initially in the 1980s. When the research of systems science and the method and technology of systems engineering are applied in...
Rapid formation and development of new theories of systems science have become an important part of modern science and technology. For - ample, since ...
Details recent research in areas such as ontology design for information integration, metadata generation and management, and representation and management of distributed ontologies.
Provides decision support on the use of novel technologies, information about potential problems, and guidelines for the successful application of existing technologies.
Details recent research in areas such as ontology design for information integration, metadata generation and management, and representation and ma...
A big amount of important, economically relevant information, is buried within the huge mass of multimedia documents that correspond to some form of narrative description.
Due to the ubiquity of these narrative resources, being able to represent in a general, accurate, and effective way their semantic content i.e., their key meaning is then both conceptually relevant and economically important. In this book, we present the main properties of NKRL ( Narrative Knowledge Representation Language ), a language expressly designed for representing, in a standardised way, the meaning of complex...
A big amount of important, economically relevant information, is buried within the huge mass of multimedia documents that correspond to some form o...
Distributed search by agents is an important topic of distributed AI and has not been treated thoroughly as such. While the scope of work on multi-agent systems has grown steadily over the last decade, very little of it has spilled into distributed search. In conrast, the constraints processing community has produced a sizable body of work on distributed constrained search. Parado- cally, a community that concentrates on search algorithms and heuristics has created a distributed model for agents that cooperate on solving hard search problems. Traditionally, this ?eld has been named Ditributed...
Distributed search by agents is an important topic of distributed AI and has not been treated thoroughly as such. While the scope of work on multi-age...
Relatively new research ?elds such as ambient intelligence, intelligent envir- ments, ubiquitous computing, and wearable devices have emerged in recent years. These ?elds are related by a common theme: making use of novel technologies to enhance user experience by providing user-centric intelligent environments, - moving computers from the desktop and making computing available anywhere and anytime. It must be said that the concept of intelligent environments is not new and beganwithhomeautomation. Thechoiceofnameforthe?eldvariessomewhatfrom continent to continent in the English-speaking...
Relatively new research ?elds such as ambient intelligence, intelligent envir- ments, ubiquitous computing, and wearable devices have emerged in recen...
The project of writing this monograph was conceived in August 2006. It is a m- ter of delight and satisfaction that this monograph would be published during the centenary year (May 27, 2008 - May 26, 2009) of our dear alma mater, the Indian Institute of Science, which is truly a magni cent temple and an eternal source of inspiration, with a splendid ambiance for research. Studying the rational behavior of entities interacting with each other in or- nized or ad-hoc marketplaces has been the bread and butter of our research group here at the Electronic Commerce Laboratory, Department of...
The project of writing this monograph was conceived in August 2006. It is a m- ter of delight and satisfaction that this monograph would be published ...
Agent systems are being used to model complex systems like societies, markets and biological systems. In this book we investigate issues of agent systems related to convergence and interactivity using techniques from agent based modelling to simulate complex systems, and demonstrate that interactivity/exchange and convergence in multi-agent systems are issues that are significantly interrelated.
Topic and features: - Introduces the state of the art in multi-agent systems, with an emphasis on agent-based computational economics. - Sheds light on the fundamental concepts behind the...
Agent systems are being used to model complex systems like societies, markets and biological systems. In this book we investigate issues of agent s...
This work summarizes the theoretical and algorithmic basis of optimized pr- abilistic advising. It developed from a series of targeted research projects s- ported both by the European Commission and Czech grant bodies. The source text has served as a common basis of communication for the research team. When accumulating and re?ning the material we found that the text could also serve as - a grand example of the strength of dynamic Bayesian decision making, - a practical demonstration that computational aspects do matter, - a reference to ready particular solutions in learning and optimization...
This work summarizes the theoretical and algorithmic basis of optimized pr- abilistic advising. It developed from a series of targeted research projec...
This book brings together high quality articles exploring the design, implementation, management, funding, promotion and evaluation of networked information systems that advocate sustainability and the protection of natural ecosystems. Case studies of deployed and planned information systems complement theoretical work on the methodological, technological and organizational foundations of environmental online communication.
This book brings together high quality articles exploring the design, implementation, management, funding, promotion and evaluation of networked infor...
