Kategoria BISAC: Computers >> Artificial Intelligence - Expert Systems

This volume constitutes the selected and extended papers of the International Conference on Advances in Security Technology, SecTech 2008, and Its Special Sessions, held in Sanya, Hainan Island, China in December 2008.

The book includes the special sessions on advanced security technologies towards convergence and green IT (AST-CGIT 2008), on biometrics: security and privacy (BSP 2008), on security education (ASSSE 2008), on security engineering environment (SEE 2008), wireless networks (WN 2008).

The Halden Agreement, signed in 1958 by eleven countries, gave birth to the Halden Reactor Project (HRP), which aims to facilitate the safe and efficient operation of nuclear power plants. Initially, the HRP performed research into fuel performance under various operating conditions, but the nuclear meltdown at Three Mile Island in 1979 created an increased interest in human factors issues, which led to the establishment of the Halden Man-Machine Laboratory (HAMMLAB) in 1983. Simulator-Based Human Factors Studies Across 25 Years reflects the history of the human factors research...

In his groundbreaking new book, John Pollock establishes an outpost at the crossroads where artificial intelligence meets philosophy. Specifically, he proposes a general theory of rationality and then describes its implementation in OSCAR, an architecture for an autonomous rational agent he claims is the first AI system capable of performing reasoning that philosophers would regard as epistemically sophisticated.

A sequel to Pollock's How to Build a Person, this volume builds upon that theoretical groundwork for the implementation of rationality through artificial...

Research into grid computing has been driven by the need to solve large-scale, increasingly complex problems for scientific applications. Yet the applications of grid computing for business and casual users did not begin to emerge until the development of the concept of cloud computing, fueled by advances in virtualization techniques, coupled with the increased availability of ever-greater Internet bandwidth. The appeal of this new paradigm is mainly based on its simplicity, and the affordable price for seamless access to both computational and storage resources.

This timely...