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Overview: Reinforcement learning is a powerful tool in artificial intelligence in which virtual or physical agents learn to optimize their decision making to achieve long-term goals. In some cases, this machine learning approach can save programmers time, outperform existing controllers, reach super-human performance, and continually adapt to changing conditions. This book argues that these successes show reinforcement learning can be adopted successfully in many different situations, including robot control, stock trading, supply chain optimization, and plant control. However, reinforcement l

Overview: Offers an interesting and original perspective on possibilistic clustering and uncertain data processing.Features a well-balanced material and a down-to-the earth exposition.Represents an important co.The present book outlines a new approach to possibilistic clustering in which the sought clustering structure of the set of objects is based directly on the formal definition of fuzzy cluster and the possibilistic memberships are determined directly from the values of the pairwise similarity of objects.   The proposed approach can be used for solving different classification problems. H

Overview: The most complete anthology addressing a broad panorama of topics regarding relationships between architecture and mathematics Represents the state of the art of multidisciplinary scholarship in archi.Every age and every culture has relied on the incorporation of mathematics in their works of architecture to imbue the built environment with meaning and order. Mathematics is also central to the production of architecture, to its methods of measurement, fabrication and analysis. This two-volume edited collection presents a detailed portrait of the ways in which two seemingly different

Overview: Includes supplementary material: This Springer Brief presents the architectures of small-cell networks and recent advances in interference management. The key challenges and values of small cells are first introduced, followed by the reviews of various small-cell architectures and interference management techniques in both heterogeneous CDMA and heterogeneous OFDMA small-cell networks. New adaptive power control and dynamic spectrum access techniques are discussed to promote a harmonized coexistence of diverse network entities in both 3G and 4G small-cell networks. Analytically devis

Overview: This volume features invited lectures presented in the workshop-cum-symposium on aspects of many-body effects in molecules and extended systems, Calcutta, February 1 - 10, 1988. The organizers invited leading experts to present recent developments of many-body methods as applied to molecules and condensed systems. The panorama portrayed is quite broad, but by no means exhaustive. The emphasis is undoubtedly on a "molecular point of view".978-3-540-50765-9978-3-642-61330-2Series ISSN 0342-4901 Series E-ISSN 2192-6603

Overview: Presents a collection of contributions to the International Cartographic Conference, which is held every two years and is a major focus for research in the discipline.Offers a representative cross-sec.This book presents a selection of manuscripts submitted to the 2017 International Cartographic Conference held in Washington, DC at the beginning of July and made available at the conference. These manuscripts have been selected by the Scientific Program Committee and represent the wide-range of research that is done in the discipline. It also forms an important international collection

Overview: Discusses Russia’s coercive and nuclear deterrence strategy.Reviews new military technologies to forecast the nearest future of arms control and strategic stability changes.Reveals the most worrisome This book examines the recent changes in strategic stability, caused by the collapse of the international security architecture. Against the background of Russia‘s invasion of Ukraine, international experts discuss topics and critical issues such as the revanchist strategy of Russia and the readiness of the United States (US) and Europe to give an adequate response; the influence of new

Overview: .Peer-to-peer (P2P) computing is currently attracting enormous public attention, spurred by the popularity of file-sharing systems such as Napster, Gnutella, and Morpheus. In P2P systems a very large number of autonomous computing nodes, the peers, rely on each other for services. P2P networks are emerging as a new distributed computing paradigm because of their potential to harness the computing power of the hosts composing the network, and because they make their underutilized resources available to each other...This book brings together three especially commissioned invited articl

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Overview: .This book gives an insight into the evaluation of drought in Slovakia and provides an assessment of Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI) as a method suitable for an evaluation of drought in agricultural land. Dry seasons in the time series from 1960 to 2014 were determined according to the monthly Palmer Drought Severity Index (PDSI). The field research was carried out on 12 sites including western Slovakia, Prešov, Trnava and Nitra regions. Data collected from satellite imagery, climate data analyses and drought indices was analysed to determine the value of NDVI as an eva

Overview: Review articles on three topics of considerable current interest make up the present volume. The first, on A-hypernuclei, was solicited by the editors in order to provide nuclear physicists with a general description of the most recent developments in a field which this audience has largely neglected or, perhaps, viewed as a novelty in which a bizarre nuclear system gave some information about the lambda-nuclear intersection. That view was never valid. The very recent developments reviewed here-particularly those pertaining to hypernuclear excitations and the strangeness exchange rea

Overview: Presents systemic solutions, valuable for a circular economy transition to business and technology.Presents a transdisciplinary approach of Circular Economy.Showcases multiple systemic perspectives fo.The book will explore, using multiple perspectives from multiple contributors, two main aspects for circular economy (CE) business and technology (B&T): systems and value perspectives. Going beyond a linear-economic perspective--the traditional perspective--CE needs to develop intentional and integrated paths to help restore physical resources and regenerate the functions of natural and

Overview: Acute pancreatitis is an often life-threatening gastroenterological disease. Early diagnosis and reliable assessment of the severity of acute pancreatitis can have a decisive influence on the patient‘s prognosis. Alcohol consumption has increased considerably throughout the world in recent years and, in Germany for example, now amounts to between 10 and 12 litres of pure alcohol per head of the population annually. General practitioners and clinicians are therefore increasingly being confronted with patients who drink too much alcohol and complain of upper abdomi­ nal pain. Alcohol i

Overview: This book is a logical continuation of Volume 1 of the series entitled "Scientific Fundamentals of Robotics" which presents all of the basic methods for computerized construction of dynamics of manipulation ro­ bots as well as the essential concepts of computer-aided design of their mechanics. Vol. 1 of the Series also contains the main practical re­ sults from the elastodynamics of manipulation robots, having in mind a need for forming a computer procedure which allows efficient checks of elastic deformations of a manipulator tip or some other of its charac­ teristic points. Wishing

Overview: Professor Maz‘ya has received numerous awards for his outstanding contributions, in particular, the Humboldt Research Prize (1999), the Verdaguer Prize of the French Academy of Sciences (2003).He was .Topics of this volume are close to scientific interests of Professor Maz‘ya and use, directly or indirectly, the fundamental influential Maz‘ya‘s works penetrating, in a sense, the theory of PDEs...In particular, recent advantages in the study of semilinear elliptic equations, stationary Navier-Stokes equations, the Stokes system in convex polyhedra, periodic scattering problems, proble

Overview: This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the sixth International Conference on Artificial Neural Networks - ICANN 96, held in Bochum, Germany in July 1996..The 145 papers included were carefully selected from numerous submissions on the basis of at least three reviews; also included are abstracts of the six invited plenary talks. All in all, the set of papers presented reflects the state of the art in the field of ANNs. Among the topics and areas covered are a broad spectrum of theoretical aspects, applications in various fields, sensory processing, cognitive science and AI,

Overview: In reflecting on this book and the process of writing it, the most pervasive theme I find is that of confluence. I drew much of the energy needed to write the book from the energy that resides at the confluence, or nexus, of contrasting ideas. At the most general level, the topic of arts subsidy offered a means of exploring simultaneously two of my favorite philosophical subjects-aesthetics and politics. The risk of a dual focus is of course that you do neither topic justice. However, the bigger payoff of this strategy resides in finding new and interesting connections between two ot

Overview: .This book constitutes the proceedings of the 26th International Conference on Algorithmic Learning Theory, ALT 2015, held in Banff, AB, Canada, in October 2015, and co-located with the 18th International Conference on Discovery Science, DS 2015. The 23 full papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 44 submissions. In addition the book contains 2 full papers summarizing the invited talks and 2 abstracts of invited talks. The papers are organized in topical sections named: inductive inference; learning from queries, teaching complexity; computational le

Overview: Includes supplementary material: .This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 26th InternationalSymposium on Algorithms and Computation, ISAAC 2015, held in Nagoya, Japan, inDecember 2015...The 65 revised full papers presented together with 3 invited talks were carefullyreviewed and selected from 180 submissions for inclusion in the book. The focusof the volume is on the following topics: computational geometry; datastructures; combinatorial optimization and approximation algorithms; randomizedalgorithms; graph algorithms and FPT; computational complexity; graph drawingand

Overview: Provides numerical solutions to model the micromechanics of laminae.Includes a Python-based computational tool to easily predict the elastic properties.Approaches the elasticity solutions with contigu.This book treats the micromechanics of laminae, i.e., the prediction of the macroscopic mechanical lamina properties based on the mechanical properties of the constituents, i.e., fibers and matrix. The focus is on unidirectional lamina which can be described based on orthotropic constitutive equations. In detail, predictions for the modulus of elasticity in and transverse to the fiber d