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Progress in WWW Research and Development ; 10th Asia-Pacific Web Conference, APWeb 2008, Shenyang, China, April 26-28, 2008. Proceedings
This book is organized in topical sections on data mining and knowledge discovery, wireless, sensor networks and grid, XML and query processing and optimization, privacy and security, information extraction, presentation and retrieval, P2P, agent systems, ontology, semantic Web and Web applications, data streams, time series analysis and data mining, Web mining and Web search, as well as workflow and middleware.
Progress in Spatial Data Handling ; 12th International Symposium on Spatial Data Handling
The series of International Symposia on Spatial Data Handling started in Zurich, Switzerland, in 1984. Since then it has evolved into a biennial event of high calibre, at which recent trends and developments in geographic information science are discussed. The proceedings of this series have become an important reference for researchers and students in the field of geography, cartography, and geoinformation.
Progress in Artificial Intelligence ; 13th Portuguese Conference on Artificial Intelligence, EPIA 2007, Workshops: GAIW, AIASTS, ALEA, AMITA, BAOSW, BI, CMBSB, IROBOT, MASTA, STCS, and TEMA, Guimarães, Portugal, December 3-7, 2007, Proceedings
This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 13th Portuguese Conference on Artificial Intelligence, EPIA 2007, held in Guimaraes, Portugal, in December 2007 as eleven integrated workshops. In accordance with the eleven constituting workshops, the papers are organized in topical sections on a broad range of subjects.
Progress in Artificial Intelligence ; 12th Portuguese Conference on Artificial Intelligence, EPIA 2005, Covilha, Portugal, December 5-8, 2005, Proceedings
With this edition, EPIA, the Portuguese Conference on Artificial Intelligence, celebrates its 20th anniversary.Like all its previous editions, it has been run - der the auspices of the Portuguese Association for Artificial Intelligence (APPIA), which was established in 1984 and is also celebrating 20 years of activity. The first edition of EPIA was held in Porto, in October 1985, organised by Pavel Brazdil, Miguel Filgueiras, Lu ́ 's Damas and Armando Campos e Matos. EPIA soon evolved to an international conference by adopting in its fourth edition English as the o?cial language and having its proceedings published by Springer, intheLNAIseries.Inrecentyears, theconferencegraduallyprogressed from a plenary organisation to a workshop-based structure. The conference has steadily assumed high-quality standards, both in its scientific management and in the scientific program, with the aim of progressively broadening its audience and improving its impact over young researchers.
Programming Multi-Agent Systems ; Vol. 3346 : 2nd International Workshop ProMAS 2004, New York, NY, July 20, 2004, Selected Revised and Invited Papers
Focusses on a principled way to combine the two dominant paradigms for building multiagent team plans, namely the “belief-desire-intention” (BDI) approach and distributed POMDPs. In this hybrid BDI-POMDP approach, BDI team plans are exploited to improve distributed POMDP tractability and distributed POMDP-based analysis improves BDI team plan performance. Concretely, we focus on role allocation, a fundamental problem in BDI teams – which agents to allocate to the different roles in the team. The hybrid BDI-POMDP approach provides three key contributions. First, unlike prior work in multiagent role allocation, we describe a role allocation technique that takes into account future uncertainties in the domain. The second contribution is a novel decomposition technique, which exploits the structure in the BDI team plans to significantly prune the search space of combinatorially many role allocations. Our third key contribution is a significantly faster policy evaluation algorithm suited for our BDI-POMDP hybrid approach. Finally, we also present experimental results from two domains: mission rehearsal simulation and RoboCupRescue disaster rescue simulation. In the RoboCupRescue domain, we show that the role allocation technique presented in this paper is capable of performing at human expert levels by comparing with the allocations chosen by humans in the actual RoboCupRescue simulation environment.
Programming languages and systems ; 31st European symposium on programming, ESOP 2022, Held as Part of the European Joint Conferences on theory and practice of software, ETAPS 2022, Munich, Germany, April 2–7, 2022, Proceedings
This book constitutes the proceedings of the 31st European Symposium on Programming, ESOP 2022, which was held during April 5-7, 2022, in Munich, Germany, as part of the European Joint Conferences on Theory and Practice of Software, ETAPS 2022. The 21 regular papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 64 submissions. They deal with fundamental issues in the specification, design, analysis, and implementation of programming languages and systems.
Privacy Enhancing Technologies ; Vol. 3424 : 4th International Workshop, PET 2004, Toronto, Canada, May 26-28, 2004, Revised Selected Papers
Traditional methods for evaluating the amount of anonymity afforded by various Mix configurations have depended on either measuring the size of the set of possible senders of a particular message (the anonymity set size), or by measuring the entropy associated with the probability distribution of the messages possible senders. This paper explores further an alternative way of assessing the anonymity of a Mix system by considering the capacity of a covert channel from a sender behind the Mix to an observer of the Mix’s output. Initial work considered a simple model [4], with an observer (Eve) restricted to counting the number of messages leaving a Mix configured as a firewall guarding an enclave with one malicious sender (Alice) and some other naive senders (Cluelessi’s). Here, we consider the case where Eve can distinguish between multiple destinations, and the senders can select to which destination their message (if any) is sent each clock tick.
Principles of marketing
Introduces to the fundamental concepts and principles of marketing. also discusses the importance of marketing in today’s business world and how businesses must understand their target market, develop effective marketing strategies, and create value for their customers.dealing with the history and evolution of marketing, the book highlights the key developments and milestones in the field. also it helps the reader understand the fundamental principles and best practices of marketing, as well as the challenges and opportunities facing the industry.
Principles and Practice of Semantic Web Reasoning ; Vol. 4187 ; 4th International Workshop, PPSWR 2006, Budva, Montenegro, June 10-11, 2006, Revised Selected Papers
The papers in this volume represent the proceedings of the 4th International Workshop on Principles and Practice of Semantic Web Reasoning, PPSWR 2006. The book presents 14 revised full papers together with 1 invited talk and 6 system demonstrations, addressing major aspects of semantic Web research, namely forms of reasoning with a strong interest in rule-based languages and methods. Coverage includes theoretical work on reasoning methods, concrete reasoning methods and query languages, and practical applications.
Principles and Practice of Semantic Web Reasoning ; Vol. 3703 : 3rd International Workshop, PPSWR 2005, Dagstuhl Castle, Germany, September 11-16, 2005, Proceedings
Constitutes the refereed proceedings of the Third International Workshop on Principles and Practice of Semantic Web Reasoning, PPSWR 2005, held in Dagstuhl Castle, Germany in September 2005. This title addresses major aspects of semantic Web research namely semantic Web architectures, language issues, and formal reasoning methods.
PRICAI 2008 : Trends in Artificial Intelligence ; 10th Pacific Rim International Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Hanoi, Vietnam, December 15-19, 2008. Proceedings
Constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 10th Pacific Rim International Conference on Artificial Intelligence, PRICAI 2008, held in Hanoi, Vietnam, in December 2008.The 49 revised long papers, 33 revised regular papers, and 32 poster papers presented together with 1 keynote talk and 3 invited lectures were carefully reviewed and selected from 234 submissions. The papers address all current issues of modern AI research with topics such as AI foundations, knowledge representation, knowledge acquisition and ontologies, evolutionary computation, etc. as well as various exciting and innovative applications of AI to many different areas. Particular importance is attached to the areas of machine learning and data mining.
Practical techniques in periodontics and implant dentistry
Offers quick access to the fundamentals of each of the pertinent topics in the field, and provides practitioners the ability to refer to an authoritative and straightforward resource in their daily clinical practice. It includes radiographs, histological images, clinical photographs, and line drawings. A thorough introduction to the anatomy and physiology of the periodontium, including an overview of gingival tissue, embryonic development, and soft tissue physiology. Comprehensive explorations of wound healing, pathology of periodontal disease, and oral medicine and pathology. In-depth discussions of patient examination and initial therapy, surgical anatomy and local anesthesia, and suturing techniques. Fulsome presentations of osseous surgery, clinical crown lengthening, and the principles of implant dentistry
Practical periodontics
Provides evidence-based information on the essentials of clinical periodontology. It covers all aspects of the discipline, including the aetiology of periodontal diseases, clinical management, patient education, paediatric care, and the interaction of periodontology with other dental disciplines such as implant dentistry and orthodontics.
Practical Periodontal Plastic Surgery
Builds on the success of the first edition to provide the qualified and trainee periodontist with an essential guide to the clinical requirements and step-by-step procedures of periodontal plastic surgery.
Practical Aspects of Knowledge Management ; 7th International Conference, PAKM 2008, Yokohama, Japan, November 22-23, 2008. Proceedings
This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Practical Aspects of Knowledge Management, PAKM 2008, held in Yokohama, Japan, in November 2008.The 23 revised full papers presented together with 2 invited lectures were carefully reviewed and selected from 62 submissions. All aspects of knowledge management and their role in next-generation business solutions are addressed in perspective to business and organisation sciences, cognitive science, and computer science. The papers are organized in topical sections on knowledge sharing, collaboration platforms, content-oriented retrieval, knowledge acquisition, knowledge management solutions, knowledge mining from data, text and the Web, ontology, and knowledge utilization.
Practical Advanced Periodontal Surgery
It's a step-by-step guide to cutting-edge surgical techniques and interdisciplinary treatment approaches in periodontology. The book provides solutions to complex daily dental challenges with innovative approaches to each treatment modality. Procedures are described in a practical and accessible style, highlighting complex and advanced procedures using a highly illustrated visual format.
Power Distribution Networks with On-Chip Decoupling Capacitors
Provides insight and intuition into the behavior and design of integrated circuit-based power distribution systems.The book has three primary objectives. The first is to describe the impedance characteristics of the overall power distribution system, from the voltage regulator through the printed circuit board and package onto the integrated circuit to the power terminals of the on-chip circuitry. The second is to discuss the inductive characteristics of on-chip power distribution grids and the related circuit behavior of these structures. The third objective is to present design methodologies for effciently placing on-chip decoupling capacitors in nanoscale integrated circuits.
Portraits of Influential Chinese Educators
This book conveys an understanding of China’s educational development from within. It does so through portraits of eleven influential educators whose ideas have shaped the educational reforms initiated by Deng Xiaoping in 1978. These eleven educators are portrayed in the context of their cultural heritage, families, communities and schools, offering their own deeply reflective interpretations of Chinese education. The book provides glimpses into the educational context of China’s recent move onto the world stage.
Police Code of Silence in Times of Change
Explores the contours of the code of silence and provides policy recommendations geared toward creating an environment less conducive for police misconduct. It responds to the recent calls for police reform, in the wake of the perceived illegitimacy of police actions and the protection that the code of silence seems to provide to the police officers who violate the official rules.Using a case study of a medium-sized U.S. police agency, this book employs the lens of police integrity theory to provide empirically grounded explanations of the code of silence.
Pocket guide to practical psychopharmacology : SSRIs and SNRIs in clinical practice
Provides the most important and practical information on prescribing SSRIs for the treatment of depression and anxiety. The volume outlines the best strategies for choosing medications based on the specific symptoms each patient presents with, and for using them safely and successfully. The information is ready to use and easy to remember; it provides practical checklists for each SSRI medication on the following topics: pharmacodynamic profile and potential efficacy for specific symptoms, indications, contraindications, and ideal candidates for the medication; laboratory monitoring and follow-up; dosages, titration, and personalization strategies; side effects and management strategies; and clinical pearls. Given its features
