Author : C. J. Waller
Publisher :
Page : 152 pages
File Size : 47,13 MB
Release : 2014-04
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781925047738
When deep level oil fracking uncovers a vast subterranean sea, a crack team of cavers and scientists are sent down to investigate. Upon their arrival, they disappear without a trace. A second team, including sedimentologist Dr Megan Stoker, are ordered to seek out Alpha Team and report back their findings. But Alpha team are nowhere to be found - instead, they are faced with something unexpected in the depths. Something ancient. Something huge. Something dangerous. Predator X
Author : David M Bourg
Publisher : "O'Reilly Media, Inc."
Page : 392 pages
File Size : 30,88 MB
Release : 2004-07-23
Category : Computers
ISBN : 1449333109
Written for the novice AI programmer, this text introduces the reader to techniques such as finite state machines, fuzzy logic, neural networks and many others in an easy-to-understand language, supported with code samples throughout the text.
Author : Ed Brubaker
Publisher : Marvel Entertainment
Page : 363 pages
File Size : 17,32 MB
Release : 2008-11-12
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN : 0785171460
Just when it looked like there was no possibility of a future for mutants, hope arrives. But the X-Men aren't there to meet it - the Marauders and Purifiers beat them to it. Now the race is on to get the first new mutant since House of M! This crossover epic may spell the end of mutantkind unless the X-Men can save their entire species from some of their deadliest enemies. Collects X-Men: Messiah Complex One-Shot, Uncanny X-Men (1963) #492-494, New X-Men (2004) #44-46, X-Men (2004) #205-207, X-Factor (2005) #25-27
Author : Stephen Muggleton
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 533 pages
File Size : 18,52 MB
Release : 2021
Category : Computers
ISBN : 0198862539
This book, authored by an array of internationally recognised researchers, is of direct relevance to all those involved in Academia and Industry wanting to obtain insights into the topics at the forefront of the revolution in Artificial Intelligence and Cognitive Science.
Author : John Long
Publisher : Basic Books
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 24,22 MB
Release : 2012-04-03
Category : Science
ISBN : 0465029280
What happens when we let robots play the game of life?br Darwin's Devices, Long tells the story of these evolving biorobots -- how they came to be, and what they can teach us about the biology of living and extinct species. Evolving biorobots can replicate creatures that disappeared from the earth long ago, showing us in real time what happens in the face of unexpected environmental challenges. Biomechanically correct models of backbones functioning as part of an autonomous robot, for example, can help us understand why the first vertebrates evolved them.But the most impressive feature of these robots, as Long shows, is their ability to illustrate the power of evolution to solve difficult technological challenges autonomously -- without human input regarding what a workable solution might be. Even a simple robot can create complex behavior, often learning or evolving greater intelligence than humans could possibly program. This remarkable idea could forever alter the face of engineering, design, and even warfare. An amazing tour through the workings of a fertile mind, Darwin's Devices will make you rethink everything you thought you knew about evolution, robot intelligence, and life itself.
Author : Ying Tan
Publisher : Springer
Page : 639 pages
File Size : 12,99 MB
Release : 2017-07-18
Category : Computers
ISBN : 3319618245
The two-volume set of LNCS 10385 and 10386, constitutes the proceedings of the 8th International Confrence on Advances in Swarm Intelligence, ICSI 2017, held in Fukuoka, Japan, in July/August 2017. The total of 133 papers presented in these volumes was carefully reviewed and selected from 267 submissions. The paper were organized in topical sections as follows: Part I: theories and models of swarm intelligence; novel swarm-based optimization algorithms; particle swarm optimization; applications of particle swarm optimization; ant colony optimization; artificial bee colony algorithms; genetic algorithms; differential evolution; fireworks algorithm; brain storm optimization algorithm; cuckoo searh; and firefly algorithm. Part II: multi-objective optimization; portfolio optimization; community detection; multi-agent systems and swarm robotics; hybrid optimization algorithms and applications; fuzzy and swarm approach; clustering and forecast; classification and detection; planning and routing problems; dialog system applications; robotic control; and other applications.
Author : Stuart L. Pimm
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 29,58 MB
Release : 2002-05-30
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9780226668321
Food webs are diagrams depicting which species interact or in other words, who eats whom. An understanding of the structure and function of food webs is crucial for any study of how an ecosystem works, including attempts to predict which communities might be more vulnerable to disturbance and therefore in more immediate need of conservation. Although it was first published twenty years ago, Stuart Pimm's Food Webs remains the clearest introduction to the study of food webs. Reviewing various hypotheses in the light of theoretical and empirical evidence, Pimm shows that even the most complex food webs follow certain patterns and that those patterns are shaped by a limited number of biological processes, such as population dynamics and energy flow. Pimm provides a variety of mathematical tools for unravelling these patterns and processes, and demonstrates their application through concrete examples. For this edition, he has written a new foreword covering recent developments in the study of food webs and demonstrates their continuing importance to conservation biology.
Author : Gary A. Polis
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 475 pages
File Size : 47,44 MB
Release : 2013-04-17
Category : Science
ISBN : 1461570077
Reflecting the recent surge of activity in food web research fueled by new empirical data, this authoritative volume successfully spans and integrates the areas of theory, basic empirical research, applications, and resource problems. Written by recognized leaders from various branches of ecological research, this work provides an in-depth treatment of the most recent advances in the field and examines the complexity and variability of food webs through reviews, new research, and syntheses of the major issues in food web research. Food Webs features material on the role of nutrients, detritus and microbes in food webs, indirect effects in food webs, the interaction of productivity and consumption, linking cause and effect in food webs, temporal and spatial scales of food web dynamics, applications of food webs to pest management, fisheries, and ecosystem stress. Three comprehensive chapters synthesize important information on the role of indirect effects, productivity and consumer regulation, and temporal, spatial and life history influences on food webs. In addition, numerous tables, figures, and mathematical equations found nowhere else in related literature are presented in this outstanding work. Food Webs offers researchers and graduate students in various branches of ecology an extensive examination of the subject. Ecologists interested in food webs or community ecology will also find this book an invaluable tool for understanding the current state of knowledge of food web research.
Author : Hartmut Bossel
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 501 pages
File Size : 14,90 MB
Release : 2018-10-08
Category : Computers
ISBN : 1439863563
Models and simulations of all kinds are tools for dealing with reality. Humans have always used mental models to better understand the world around them: to make plans, to consider different possibilities, to share ideas with others, to test changes, and to determine whether or not the development of an idea is feasible. The book Modeling and Simulation uses exactly the same approach except that the traditional mental model is translated into a computer model, and the simulations of alternative outcomes under varying conditions are programmed on the computer. The advantage of this method is that the computer can track the multitude of implications and consequences in complex relationships much more quickly and reliably than the human mind. This unique interdisciplinary text not only provides a self contained and complete guide to the methods and mathematical background of modeling and simulation software (SIMPAS) and a collection of 50 systems models on an accompanying diskette. Students from fields as diverse as ecology and economics will find this clear interactive package an instructive and engaging guide.
Author : Michael Wayne Barley
Publisher : Springer
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 13,12 MB
Release : 2005-03-10
Category : Computers
ISBN : 3540321284
This volume contains selected papers from PRIMA 2004, the 7th Pacific Rim InternationalWorkshop on Multi-agents, held in Auckland, New Zealand, during August 8–13, 2004 in conjunction with the 8th Pacific Rim International Conference on Artificial Intelligence (PRICAI 2004).
