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Hardback. The model of distributed constraints satisfaction and optimization (DisCSPs/DisCOPs) can serve as the basis for the design and investigation of distributed search algorithms, of protocols and of negotiations and search. This book presents a discussion on the field of distributed constraints, its algorithms and its active research areas. Series: Advanced Information and Knowledge Processing. Num Pages: 236 pages, 1, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: UYQ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 240 x 160 x 14. Weight in Grams: 514.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Springer London Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 236
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781848000391
- ISBN
- 9781848000391
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 126.11
€ 126.11
ECSCW 2007: Proceedings of the 10th European Conference on Computer-Su...
. Ed(S): Bannon, Liam; Wagner, Ina; Gutwin, C...
hardcover. The emergence and widespread use of personal computers and network technologies have seen the development of interest in the use of computers to support cooperative work. This title presents the proceedings of the tenth European conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW). Editor(s): Bannon, Liam; Wagner, Ina; Gutwin, Carl; Harper, Richard; Schmidt, Kjeld. Num Pages: 461 pages, biography. BIC Classification: KJ; UY. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 25. Weight in Grams: 1820.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Springer United Kingdom
- Edition
- 2007th Edition
- Number of pages
- 461
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781848000308
- ISBN
- 9781848000308
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 193.55
€ 193.55
Frontiers in Computing Technologies for Manufacturing Applications
Shimizu, Yoshiaki; Zhong, Zhang; Batres, Rafa...
hardcover. In this competitive world, industries focus on shorter lead times, improved quality, reduced cost, improved productivity and better customer service. This book offers an overview of intelligent computing in manufacturing, discussing modeling, data processing, algorithms and computational analysis of problems encountered in advanced manufacturing. Series: Springer Series in Advanced Manufacturing. Num Pages: 324 pages, 178 black & white illustrations, 30 black & white tables, biography. BIC Classification: TD; TGPC; UY. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 19. Weight in Grams: 654.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Springer London Ltd United Kingdom
- Edition
- 2007th Edition
- Number of pages
- 324
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781846289545
- ISBN
- 9781846289545
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 186.23
€ 186.23
hardcover. Discusses novel pattern classification and matching schemes and describes the application of novel tools in biometrics and digital multimedia. This book introduces achievements in theoretical pattern recognition, including statistical and Bayesian pattern recognition, structural pattern recognition, and neural networks. Editor(s): Singh, Sameer; Singh, Maneesha. Series: Advances in Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition. Num Pages: 256 pages, 50 black & white tables, biography. BIC Classification: UYQP. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 235 x 155 x 21. Weight in Grams: 603.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Springer United Kingdom
- Edition
- 2007th Edition
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781846289446
- ISBN
- 9781846289446
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 186.70
€ 186.70
Hardback. Investigates the relevance and relationship artificial intelligence maintains with 'modern strands of computing' that consist of pervasive computing and ambient intelligence, bioinformatics, neuroinformatics, computing and the mind, non-classical computing and novel computing models, as well as DNA computing and quantum computing. Editor(s): Schuster, Alfons. Num Pages: 259 pages, biography. BIC Classification: UYQ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 15. Weight in Grams: 1230.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Springer London Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 259
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781846289422
- ISBN
- 9781846289422
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 126.69
€ 126.69
Hardback. Provides an understanding of how research and practice has contributed towards improving quality issues in software, interaction and value. This book includes chapters on various methods/approaches that enhance the field of usability. It is suitable for those who are interested in exploring usability issues in human-computer interaction. Editor(s): Lai-Chong Law, Effie; Hvannberg, Ebba; Cockton, Gilbert (University of Glasgow). Series: Human-Computer Interaction Series. Num Pages: 454 pages, 28 black & white tables, biography. BIC Classification: UYZ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 25. Weight in Grams: 826.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Springer London Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 454
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781846289408
- ISBN
- 9781846289408
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 193.38
€ 193.38
Hardback. Examines the theoretical and methodological research issues that underlie the design and use of interactive technology. Editor(s): Gill, Satinder P. Series: Human-Computer Interaction Series. Num Pages: 616 pages, 1, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: UYZ. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 33. Weight in Grams: 1034.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Springer London Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 616
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781846289262
- ISBN
- 9781846289262
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 125.46
€ 125.46
Hardback. 'User-designer relations' concerns the sorts of working relationships that arise between developers and end users of IT products. With contributions from leading authors and new voices, this book aims to deepen our understanding of these relationships. Editor(s): Voss, Alex; Hartswood, Mark; Procter, Rob; Rouncefield, Dr. Mark; Slack, Roger S.; Buscher, Monika. Series: Computer Supported Cooperative Work. Num Pages: 262 pages, biography. BIC Classification: UYZ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 203 x 127 x 14. Weight in Grams: 381.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Springer London Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 262
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781846289248
- ISBN
- 9781846289248
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 121.55
€ 121.55
Hardback. Written for researchers, advanced students and practitioners to use as a handbook, this volume captures the very latest state-of-the-art research contributions from leading international researchers in the field. Editor(s): Ratha, N. K.; Govindaraju, Venu. Num Pages: 503 pages, 44 black & white tables, biography. BIC Classification: UYQP. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 28. Weight in Grams: 2000.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Springer London Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 503
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781846289200
- ISBN
- 9781846289200
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 137.09
€ 137.09
Hardback. A collection of papers on anatomy ontologies. It provides readers with a comprehensive understanding of the foundations of anatomical ontologies and developments in terms of tools and applications. Editor(s): Burger, Albert; Davidson, Duncan; Baldock, Richard. Series: Computational Biology. Num Pages: 370 pages, 19 black & white tables, biography. BIC Classification: MBF; MFC; MQW; UY. Category: (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 22. Weight in Grams: 1540.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Springer London Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 370
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781846288845
- ISBN
- 9781846288845
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 191.82
€ 191.82
Hardback. This book covers Curve Modeling with solutions to real life problems relating to Computer Graphics, Vision, Image Processing, Geometric Modeling and CAD/CAM. The book provides a source where the reader can find the latest developments in the field. Num Pages: 350 pages, 39 black & white tables, biography. BIC Classification: UYT. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 32. Weight in Grams: 1540.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Springer London Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 350
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781846288708
- ISBN
- 9781846288708
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 70.77
€ 70.77
Hardback. A guide to the methods and practical aspects of acquiring, modelling, storing and sharing knowledge. Series: Decision Engineering. Num Pages: 188 pages, 15 black & white tables, biography. BIC Classification: UYQE. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 155 x 12. Weight in Grams: 990.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Springer London Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 188
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781846288609
- ISBN
- 9781846288609
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 125.17
€ 125.17
Hardback. Covers the essential material pertaining to neural networks, genetic algorithms, fuzzy systems, rough sets, and chaos. This textbook features material on simulated annealing, Boltzmann machines, and extended fuzzy if-then rules tables. It emphasizes the real-world applications derived from this important area of computer science. Series: Texts in Computer Science. Num Pages: 267 pages, 6 black & white tables, biography. BIC Classification: UYQ. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 244 x 170 x 18. Weight in Grams: 562.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Springer London Ltd United Kingdom
- Edition
- 2nd ed. 2008
- Number of pages
- 267
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781846288388
- ISBN
- 9781846288388
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 101.99
€ 101.99
Applications and Innovations in Intelligent Systems XIV
. Ed(S): Ellis, Richard; Allen, Tony; Tuson, ...
Paperback. Includes papers that are presented at AI-2006, the Twenty-sixth SGAI International Conference on Innovative Techniques and Applications of Artificial Intelligence. This title serves as a key reference as to how AI technology has enabled organisations to solve complex problems and gain significant business benefit. Editor(s): Ellis, Richard; Allen, Tony; Tuson, Andrew. Num Pages: 243 pages, 95 black & white illustrations, 15 black & white tables, biography. BIC Classification: UYQ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 13. Weight in Grams: 397.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- Springer London Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 243
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781846286650
- ISBN
- 9781846286650
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 184.95
€ 184.95
Paperback. Includes refereed technical papers that were presented at AI-2006, the Twenty-sixth SGAI International Conference on Innovative Techniques and Applications of Artificial Intelligence, which was held in Cambridge in December 2006. This title also includes the text of short papers presented as posters at the conference. Editor(s): Bramer, Max; Coenen, Frans; Tuson, Andrew. Num Pages: 419 pages, 85 black & white illustrations, 20 black & white tables, biography. BIC Classification: UYQ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 155 x 23. Weight in Grams: 670.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- Springer London Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 419
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781846286629
- ISBN
- 9781846286629
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 186.33
€ 186.33
Hardback. This updated third edition is a thorough introduction to all aspects of business transformation and analysis. With additional chapters, and brand new case studies it is a valuable resource for all information systems students, as well as professionals. Num Pages: 418 pages, 249 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: UMZ; UYD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 23. Weight in Grams: 774.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Springer London Ltd United Kingdom
- Edition
- 3rd ed. 2008
- Number of pages
- 418
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781846286544
- ISBN
- 9781846286544
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.49
€ 66.49
Hardback. People naturally identify the rhythm of music as they tap their feet and sway in time with the beat. Underlying such motions is an act of cognition that is not easily reproduced in a computer program or automated by machine. This work asks (and answers) the question: How can we build a device that can "tap its foot" along with the music? Num Pages: 336 pages, 15 black & white tables, biography. BIC Classification: AVA; UYU. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 20. Weight in Grams: 669.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Springer London Ltd United Kingdom
- Edition
- 2007
- Number of pages
- 336
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781846286391
- ISBN
- 9781846286391
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 175.95
€ 175.95
Hardback. Details an approach to real-time machine vision for the understanding of dynamic scenes, viewed from a moving platform that begins with spatio-temporal representations of motion for hypothesized objects whose parameters are adjusted by well-known prediction error feedback and recursive estimation techniques. Num Pages: 474 pages, 244 black & white illustrations, 17 black & white tables, biography. BIC Classification: TJFM; UYQV. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 155 x 30. Weight in Grams: 991.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Springer London Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 474
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781846286377
- ISBN
- 9781846286377
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 189.19
€ 189.19
Paperback. Editor(s): Bryan-Kinns, Nick; Blandford, Ann; Curzon, Paul; Nigay, Laurence. Num Pages: 282 pages, biography. BIC Classification: UYZ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 15. Weight in Grams: 424.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- Springer London Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 282
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781846285882
- ISBN
- 9781846285882
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 184.63
€ 184.63
Hardback. Presents topics in the field of document analysis. This book covers: document structure analysis followed by OCR of Japanese, Tibetan and Indian printed scripts; online and offline handwritten text recognition approaches; Japanese postal and Arabic check processing; and biometric and forensic aspects - individuality of handwriting detection. Editor(s): Chaudhuri, Bidyut B. Series: Advances in Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition. Num Pages: 484 pages, 190 black & white illustrations, 43 black & white tables, biography. BIC Classification: UY. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 26. Weight in Grams: 857.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- Springer London Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 484
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781846285011
- ISBN
- 9781846285011
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 194.33
€ 194.33
Hardback. Brings together work on the emergence of communication and language drawing on diverse disciplines, including linguistics, psychology, neuroscience, anthropology and computer science. This book examines the role of simulations as a novel way to express theories in science. Editor(s): Lyon, Caroline; Nehaniv, Chrystopher L. (University of Hertfordshire); Cangelosi, Angelo. Num Pages: 438 pages, 89 black & white illustrations, 11 black & white tables, biography. BIC Classification: UYQ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 25. Weight in Grams: 835.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- Springer London Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 438
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781846284915
- ISBN
- 9781846284915
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 188.18
€ 188.18
Hardback. We have witnessed the thriving development of new mathematical, computational and theoretical approaches, such as bioinformatics and neuroinformatics, to tackle fundamental issues in biology. This title explores the concept in full, featuring contributions from a global group of contributors, many of whom are pre-eminent in their field. Editor(s): Feng, Jianfeng; Jost, Juergen; Qian, Minping. Num Pages: 318 pages, 89 black & white illustrations, 22 black & white tables, biography. BIC Classification: PS; UY. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 20. Weight in Grams: 667.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Springer London Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 318
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781846284854
- ISBN
- 9781846284854
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 123.14
€ 123.14
Hardback. Operating systems kernels are central to the functioning of computers. Security of the overall system, as well as its reliability and responsiveness, depend upon the correct functioning of the kernel. This title presents a formal specification of a kernel, starting with basic constructs and developing a set of kernels. Num Pages: 333 pages, biography. BIC Classification: UYF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 20. Weight in Grams: 684.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- Springer London Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 333
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781846283758
- ISBN
- 9781846283758
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 187.26
€ 187.26
Paperback. Presents generic computational models and techniques that can be used for the development of evolving, adaptive modelling systems, as well as various trends including computational neuro-genetic modelling and quantum information processing related to evolving systems. This book covers various applications in bioinformatics and brain studies. Num Pages: 451 pages, 185 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: UYQN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 24. Weight in Grams: 730.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Springer London Ltd United Kingdom
- Edition
- 2 Rev ed
- Number of pages
- 451
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781846283451
- ISBN
- 9781846283451
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 186.70
€ 186.70