Informatik (15 755 Artikel)

The main subject and objective of this book are logical foundations of non monotonic reasoning. This bears a presumption that there is such a thing as a general theory of non monotonic reasoning, a...

The construction of any broadly understood theory of information or infor mation processing system involves two major methodological processes: (1) abstraction and analysis, (2) reasoning and compu...

This book is concerned with the rich and fruitful interplay between the fields of computational logic and machine learning. The intended audience is senior undergraduates, graduate students, and re...

Data warehouses have captured the attention of practitioners and researchers alike. But the design and optimization of data warehouses remains an art rather than a science. This book presents the f...

The first edition of this book has found great interest among scientists and en gineers dealing with pattern recognition and among psychologists working on psychophysics or Gestalt psychology. This...

An Invitation to the Dance It is an underappreciated fact that sets may have various types of complex ity, and not all types are in harmony with each other. The primary goal of this book is to unif...

As the first book devoted to relational data mining, this coherently written multi-author monograph provides a thorough introduction and systematic overview of the area. The first part introduces t...

Genetic programming (GP), one of the most advanced forms of evolutionary computation, has been highly successful as a technique for getting computers to automatically solve problems without having ...

Pioneering Work in Software During the 50s in Central Europe.- Software as Science--Science as Software.- Commentary on Michael S. Mahoney.- Software as Science? Commentary on Michael S. Mahoney.- ...

Fluids, play an important role in environmental systems, appearing as surface water in rivers, lakes, and coastal regions or in the subsurface as well as in the atmosphere. Mechanics of environment...

Modern cryptography depends heavily on number theory, with primality test ing, factoring, discrete logarithms (indices), and elliptic curves being perhaps the most prominent subject areas. Since my...

1 Introduction.- 2 Background Theory.- 3 Private-Key Cryptosystems.- 4 Public-Key Cryptosystems.- 5 Pseudorandomness.- 6 Hashing.- 7 Digital Signatures.- 8 Authentication.- 9 Secret Sharing.- 10 Gr...

The 30 coherently written chapters by leading researchers presented in this anthology are devoted to basic results achieved in computational intelligence since 1997. The book provides complete cove...

This book addresses the integration of two areas of computer science, namely data mining and evolutionary algorithms. Both these areas have become increas ingly popular in the last few years, and t...

This book is concerned with a number of theories that can be used for describ ing and analyzing systems of interacting components in case it is desirable or necessary to regard their time-dependent...