Today we live in an information age: information has become a commodity, and every second thousands of new records are created. This explosion of massive data sets created by businesses, science and governments necessitates intelligent and more powerful computing paradigms so that users can benefit from this data. This information needs to be ...
Among the many changes brought by the Internet is the emergence of electronic commerce over the Web. E-commerce activities, such as the online exchange of information, services, and products, are opening up completely new opportunities for business, at new levels of productivity and profitability. In parallel with the emergence of e-commerce, ...
Web Intelligence is a new direction for scientific research and development that explores the fundamental roles as well as practical impacts of artificial intelligence and advanced information technology for the next generation of Web-empowered systems, services, and environments. Web Intelligence is regarded as the key research field for the ...
This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the International Workshop on Autonomous Intelligent Systems: Agents and Data Mining, AIS-ADM 2005, held in St. Petersburg, Russia in June 2005. The 17 revised full papers presented together with 5 invited papers and the abstract of an invited talk were carefully reviewed and selected from 29 ...
"Autonomy Oriented Computing" is a comprehensive reference for scientists, engineers, and other professionals concerned with this promising development in computer science. It can also be used as a text in graduate/undergraduate programs in a broad range of computer-related disciplines, including Robotics and Automation, Amorphous Computing, Image ...
Providing a guided tour of the pioneering work and major technical issues, "Multiagent Robotic Systems" addresses learning and adaptation in decentralized autonomous robots. Its systematic examination demonstrates the interrelationships between the autonomy of individual robots and the emerged global behavior properties of a group performing a ...
This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 6th International Computer Science Conference: Active Media Technology, AMT 2001, held in Hong Kong, China in December 2001. The 39 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from numerous submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on smart digital media; ...
Spatial reasoning and planning is a core constituent in robotics, graphics, computer-aided design, and geographic information systems.After a review of previous work in the related areas, Liu and Daneshmend present here a unified framework for qualitative spatial representation and reasoning, which enables the generation of solutions to spatial ...
This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the First Asia-Pacific Conference on Web Intelligence, WI 2001, held in Maebashi City, Japan, in October 2001. The 28 revised full papers and 45 revised short papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 153 full-length paper submissions. Also included are an introductory survey and ...
Agent engineering concerns the development of autonomous computational or physical entities capable of perceiving, reasoning, adapting, learning, cooperating and delegating in a dynamic environment. It is one of the most promising areas of research and development in information technology, computer science and engineering. This book addresses ...
An autonomous agent is a computational system that acquires sensory data from its environment and decides by itself how to relate the external stimulus to its behaviours in order to attain certain goals. Responding to different stimuli received from its task environment, the agent may select and exhibit different behavioural patterns. The ...
This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-workshop proceedings of the First WICI International Workshop on Web Intelligence meets Brain Informatics, WImBI 2006, which was held in Beijing, China, in December 2006. The WICI (International WIC Institute) is an international, open-educational research organization of the Web Intelligence ...
This volume is an attempt to capture the essence of the state-of-the-art of intelligent agent technology and to identify the new challenges and opportunities that it is or will be facing. The most important feature of the volume is that it emphasizes a multi-faceted, holistic view of this emerging technology, from its computational foundations - ...
A collection of technical papers contributed by active researchers and leading practitioners in intelligent agent technology. It offers a closer look at the state-of-the-art in the development of intelligent agents, and examines in depth the underlying logical, cognitive, physical and biological foundations as well as the performance ...
This book constitutes the throughly refereed post-proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Intelligent Data Engineering and Automated Learning, IDEAL 2003, held in Hong Kong, China in March 2003.The 164 revised papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 321 submissions; for inclusion in this post-proceedings another round ...
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