Free online book “Intelligent Software Agents on the Internet: An inventory of currently offered functionality in the information society and a prediction of near future developments” by Björn Hermans. …
Tools in Artificial Intelligence
This book offers in 27 chapters a collection of all the technical aspects of specifying, developing, and evaluating the theoretical underpinnings and applied mechanisms of AI tools. Topics covered include neural networks, fuzzy controls, decision trees, rule-based systems, data mining, genetic algorithm and agent systems, among many others. …
Advances in Evolutionary Algorithms
With the recent trends towards massive data sets and significant computational power, combined with evolutionary algorithmic advances evolutionary computation is becoming much more relevant to practice. Aim of the book is to present recent improvements, innovative ideas and concepts in a part of a huge EA field. …
Computer Vision
This book presents research trends on computer vision, especially on application of robotics, and on advanced approachs for computer vision (such as omnidirectional vision). Among them, research on RFID technology integrating stereo vision to localize an indoor mobile robot is included in this book. Besides, this book includes many research on omnidirectional vision, and the combination of omnidirectional vision with robotics. …
Affective Computing
This book provides an overview of state of the art research in Affective Computing. It presents new ideas, original results and practical experiences in this increasingly important research field. The book consists of 23 chapters categorized into four sections. …
Robotics Automation and Control
This book was conceived as a gathering place of new ideas from academia, industry, research and practice in the fields of robotics, automation and control. The aim of the book was to point out interactions among various fields of interests in spite of diversity and narrow specializations which prevail in the current research. …
Introduction to Machine Translation
“An Introduction to Machine Translation” aims to introduce the reader to the well-established core of methods and approaches in Machine Translation, and will be an invaluable test for students of computational linguistics, artificial intelligence, natural language processing and information science. …
Machine Translation: an Introductory Guide
The topic of the book is the art or science of Automatic Translation, or Machine Translation (MT) as it is generally known – the attempt to automate all, or part of the process of translating from one human language to another. The aim of the book is to introduce this topic to the general reader – anyone interested in human language, translation, or computers. …
Advances in Robotics, Automation and Control
The book presents an excellent overview of the recent developments in the different areas of Robotics, Automation and Control. Through its 24 chapters, this book presents topics related to control and robot design; it also introduces new mathematical tools and techniques devoted to improve the system modeling and control. …
Recurrent Neural Networks
The concept of neural network originated from neuroscience, and one of its primitive aims is to help us understand the principle of the central nerve system and related behaviors through mathematical modeling. The first part of the book is a collection of three contributions dedicated to this aim. …