Soft computing, as a collection of techniques exploiting approximation and tolerance for imprecision and uncertainty in traditionally intractable problems, has become very effective and popular especially because of the synergy derived from its components. The integration of constituent technologies provides complementary methods that allow...
This book presents thoroughly revised tutorial papers based on lectures given by leading researchers at the First Summer School on Reasoning Web in Msida, Malta, in July 2005. The objective is to provide a coherent introduction into Semantic Web methods and issues with a particular focus on reasonning.
This book is about inductive databases and constraint-based data mining, emerging
research topics lying at the intersection of data mining and database research. The
aim of the book as to provide an overview of the state-of- the art in this novel and exciting
research area. Of special interest are the recent methods for constraint-based...
This book is about the use of techniques and tools for the design and implementation
of computer systems and software that are free from logical or functional flaws
(in the sense of functional requirements). The word rigorous in the title of this book
is justified by the fact that the arguments for such fault freeness have their roots...
This book contains the papers of the 7th Computer and Games Conference
(CG 2010) held in Kanazawa, Japan. The conference took place during
September 24–26, 2010 in conjunction with the 15th Computer Olympiad and
the 17th World Computer Chess Championship.
The Computer and Games conference series is a major international...
This volume is the last of three volumes devoted to the work of one of the most prominent 20th century mathematicians. Throughout his mathematical work, A.N. Kolmogorov (1903-1987) showed great creativity and versatility and his wide-ranging studies in many different areas, led to the solution of conceptual and fundamental problems and the...
concerned with the study of the development and use of advanced information
technologies and systems for national, international, and societal security-related
applications. In the past few years,we have witnessed that ISI experienced tremendous
growth and attracted significant interest involving academic researchers in
related fields...
The area of aggregation operations is one of the most promising off-springs of
fuzzy sets theory. Before Zadeh introduced fuzzy set connectives in 1965, there
was a wide gap between logic and decision sciences. On the one hand, multiplevalued
logics proposed many-valued extensions of the conjunctions and
disjunctions for which the...
This book suits both graduate students and researchers with a focus on discovering
knowledge from scientific data. The use of computational power for data analysis
and knowledge discovery in scientific disciplines has found its roots with the revolution
of high-performance computing systems. Computational science in physics,...
The Internet already is the broadest and most used source of legal information: in
the web one can find most statutory texts (all in some jurisdictions), a vast amount of
case law, huge repertoires of doctrinal contributions, many blogs and fora discussing
different legal issues. Moreover, as legal activities (legislative,...
BIS 2011 held in Pozna´n, Poland, was the 14th in a series of international conferences
on business information systems. The BIS conference series has been
recognized by professionals from the very beginning as a forum for the exchange
and dissemination of topical research in the development, implementation, application
and...
Over the last few decades, energy minimization methods have become an established
paradigm to resolve a variety of challenges in the fields of computer vision
and pattern recognition. While traditional approaches to computer vision were
often based on a heuristic sequence of processing steps and merely allowed a
very limited...
