As our heritage deteriorates through erosion, human error or natural disasters, it has become more important than ever to preserve our past - even if it is in digital form only. This highly relevant work describes thorough research and methods for preserving cultural heritage objects through the use of 3D digital data. These methods were developed via computer vision and computer graphics technologies. They offer a way of passing our heritage down to future generations.
Origins of Mind (Biosemiotics, #8)
The big question of how and why mindedness evolved necessitates collaborative, multidisciplinary investigation. Biosemiotics provides a new conceptual space that attracts a multitude of thinkers in the biological and cognitive sciences and the humanities who recognize continuity in the biosphere from the simplest to the most complex organisms, and who are united in the project of trying to account for even language and human consciousness in this comprehensive picture of life. The young interdis...
This volume covers topics including: cache performance; multicast routing; TCP/IP performance; ATM networks; networks and performance; parallel and distributed systems; modelling techniques; simulation techniques and applications; and wireless networks.
Modeling Survival Data Using Frailty Models (Industrial and Applied Mathematics)
by David D. Hanagal
When designing and analyzing a medical study, researchers focusing on survival data must take into account the heterogeneity of the study population: due to uncontrollable variation, some members change states more rapidly than others. Survival data measures the time to a certain event or change of state. For example, the event may be death, occurr
Simulation and Inference for Stochastic Differential Equations (Springer Series in Statistics)
by Stefano M Iacus
This book covers a highly relevant and timely topic that is of wide interest, especially in finance, engineering and computational biology. The introductory material on simulation and stochastic differential equation is very accessible and will prove popular with many readers. While there are several recent texts available that cover stochastic differential equations, the concentration here on inference makes this book stand out. No other direct competitors are known to date. With an emphasis on...
Fractal Geometry and Computer Graphics (Beitrage zur Graphischen Datenverarbeitung)
by etc.
Fractal geometry has become popular in the last 15 years, its applications can be found in technology, science, or even arts. Fractal methods and formalism are seen today as a general, abstract, but nevertheless practical instrument for the description of nature in a wide sense. But it was Computer Graphics which made possible the increasing popularity of fractals several years ago, and long after their mathematical formulation. The two disciplines are tightly linked. The book...
Evolutionary Game Design (SpringerBriefs in Computer Science)
by Cameron Browne
The book describes the world's first successful experiment in fully automated board game design. Evolutionary methods were used to derive new rule sets within a custom game description language, and self-play trials used to estimate each derived game's potential to interest human players. The end result is a number of new and interesting games, one of which has proved popular and gone on to be commercially published.
Mit der vorliegenden Schri ft werden mindestens drei verschiedene liele verfolgt. lunachst soll eine EinfUhrung in wesentliche Aspekte der derzeitigen Denkpsychologie gegeben werden. Seit der kognitiven Neube sinnung der Psychologie gegen Mitte der 5Der Jahre, hat auf einigen Gebieten dieser Wissenschaft eine sehr rapide Entwicklung eingesetzt, die unvermindert anhalt. Dabei w-urden teilweise Anregungen aufgenom men, oder auch wieder entdeckt, die schon vor Jahrzehnten (z. B. Selz, 1913,1922) od...
Multi-Agent-Based Simulation III (Lecture Notes in Computer Science, #2927) (Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence, #2927)
This volume presents revised versions of the papers presented at the 4th International Workshop on Multi-agent Based Simulation (MABS 2003), a workshop federated with the2ndInternationalJointConferenceonAutonomousAgentsandMulti-agentSystems (AAMAS 2003), which was held in Melbourne, Australia, in July 2003. In addition to the papers presented at the workshop, three additional papers have been included in this volume (Robertson, Noto et al., and Marietto et al.). Multiagent Based Simulation (MABS...
Summer of Simulation (Simulation Foundations, Methods and Applications)
This book is based on the "Summer Simulation Multi-Conference" (SCSC), which has been a prominent platform for the dissemination of scholarly research in the M&S community for the last 50 years. In keeping with the conference's seasonal title, the authors have called this half-century "the summer of simulation," and it has led not only to simulation-based disciplines but also simulation as a discipline. This book discusses contributions from the SCSC in four sections. The first section is an int...
Die Logik der Forschung in der Wissenschaft der Logistik
by Wolf-Rudiger Bretzke
Ziel dieses Buches ist es, ein Nachdenken (idealerweise eine Diskussion) über ein grundlegendes, methodologisches Problem in der Wissenschaft von der Logistik anzuregen (gelegentlich auch zu provozieren) - ein Problem, über das niemand spricht, obwohl es für die Fortentwicklung dieser Disziplin von grundlegender Bedeutung ist. Dieser Disziplin mangelt es an einer kritischen Reflexion der Erfolgsvoraussetzungen und Grenzen des eigenen Forschens, und das gilt im Grundsatz für alle drei hier beleuc...
This book describes new theories and applications of artificial neural networks, with a special focus on neural computation, cognitive science and machine learning. It discusses cutting-edge research at the intersection between different fields, from topics such as cognition and behavior, motivation and emotions, to neurocomputing, deep learning, classification and clustering. Further topics include signal processing methods, robotics and neurobionics, and computer vision alike. The book include...
Transactions on Computational Collective Intelligence XV (Transactions on Computational Collective Intelligence, #8670)
These transactions publish research in computer-based methods of computational collective intelligence (CCI) and their applications in a wide range of fields such as the Semantic Web, social networks, and multi-agent systems. TCCI strives to cover new methodological, theoretical and practical aspects of CCI understood as the form of intelligence that emerges from the collaboration and competition of many individuals (artificial and/or natural). The application of multiple computational intellige...
This volume contains the research papers presented at the Eighth Eurographics Workshop on Computer Animation and Simulation which took place in Budapest, Hungary, September 2-3, 1997. The workshop is an international forum for research in human animation, physically-based modeling, motion control, animation systems, and other key aspects of animation and simulation. The problem of realistically and efficiently modeling the motion of people, ob- jects, fluids, etc. remains a significant challenge...
Multi-Agent Systems and Agent-Based Simulation (Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence, #1534) (Lecture Notes in Computer Science, #1534)
Fifteen papers were presented at the first workshop on Multi-Agent Systems and Agent-Based Simulation held as part of the Agents World conference in Paris, July 4-- 6, 1998. The workshop was designed to bring together two developing communities: the multi-agent systems researchers who were the core participants at Agents World, and social scientists interested in using MAS as a research tool. Most of the social sciences were represented, with contributions touching on sociology, management scien...
Bond Graph Modelling for Control, Fault Diagnosis and Failure Prognosis
by Wolfgang Borutzky
This book shows in a comprehensive presentation how Bond Graph methodology can support model-based control, model-based fault diagnosis, fault accommodation, and failure prognosis by reviewing the state-of-the-art, presenting a hybrid integrated approach to Bond Graph model-based fault diagnosis and failure prognosis, and by providing a review of software that can be used for these tasks. The structured text illustrates on numerous small examples how the computational structure superimposed on...
Web-basierte Referenzarchitektur fur virtuelle Techniken (Essentials)
by Sarah Brauns, Hilko Hoffmann, and Peter Zimmermann
In diesem essential zum Verbundprojekt ARVIDA wird von den Autoren die zunehmende Bedeutung der Virtuellen Techniken (VT) in der industriellen Produktentwicklung und Produktionsplanung pragnant und in Kurze beschrieben. Als Resultat der neuen, vielfaltigen Anforderungen, die sich aus den Entwicklungen rund um Industrie 4.0 ergeben, wird eine erheblich flexiblere Gestaltung von VT-Systemen notwendig. Der gewahlte Ansatz nutzt etablierte, dienstorientierte Web-Technologien sowie Konzepte aus dem S...
The Isogeometric Boundary Element Method (Lecture Notes in Applied and Computational Mechanics, #90)
by Gernot Beer, Benjamin Marussig, and Christian Duenser
This book discusses the introduction of isogeometric technology to the boundary element method (BEM) in order to establish an improved link between simulation and computer aided design (CAD) that does not require mesh generation. In the isogeometric BEM, non-uniform rational B-splines replace the Lagrange polynomials used in conventional BEM. This may seem a trivial exercise, but if implemented rigorously, it has profound implications for the programming, resulting in software that is extremely...
Predictive Modeling of Dynamic Processes: A Tribute to Professor Klaus Thoma
by Stefan Hiermaier
Numerical Methods for Wave Propagation (Fluid Mechanics and Its Applications, #47)
In May 1995 a meeting took place at the Manchester Metropolitan Uni versity, UK, with the title International Workshop on Numerical Methods for Wave Propagation Phenomena. The Workshop, which was attended by 60 scientists from 13 countries, was preceded by a short course enti tled High-Resolution Numerical Methods for Wave Propagation Phenom ena. The course participants could then join the Workshop and listen to discussions of the latest work in the field led by experts responsible for such d...