Computers - Computer Science

Hardware inaccuracy and imprecision are important considerations when implementing neural algorithms. This book presents a study of synaptic weight noise as a typical fault model for analogue VLSI realisations of MLP neural networks and examines the implications for learning and network performance. The aim...

This text deals with the subject of fuzzy algorithms and their applications to image processing and pattern recognition. Subjects covered include membership functions; fuzzy clustering; fuzzy rulers and defuzzification; fuzzy classifiers; and combined classifiers.Author: Zheru Chi,Hong YanISBN-10: 9810226977ISBN-13: 9789810226978Publisher: World Scientific Publishing CompanyLanguage: EnglishPublished:...

This volume puts together several important lectures on the Hamiltonian Systems and Celestial Mechanics to form a comprehensive and authoritative collection of works on the subject. Their relationship to several aspects of topology, mechanics and dynamical systems in general are also emphasized. The papers...

This book introduces the development process, structural theories and research areas of intelligent control; explains the knowledge representations, searching and reasoning mechanisms as the fundamental techniques of intelligent control; studies the theoretical principles and architectures of various intelligent control systems; analyzes the paradigms of...

This book describes an approach to intelligent task planning in a robotic system. Petri net and fuzzy logic are integrated and used to represent task sequence planning and error recovery. During the generation and execution of task plans, different kinds of uncertainties need to...

This volume deals with the following topics: 2-D, 3-D automata and grammars, parallel architecture for image processing, parallel digital geometry algorithms, data allocation strategies for parallel image processing algorithms, complexity analysis of parallel image operators. The contributions are written by leading experts in the...

This book contains 31 selected papers (out of 136 accepted) from the 9th Scandinavian Conference on Image Analysis, held in Uppsala, Sweden, 6-9 June 1995. They represent the very best of what is currently done in image analysis, world-wide, describing very recent work. The...

Ever since fuzzy logic was introduced by Lotfi Zadeh in the mid-sixties and genetic algorithms by John Holland in the early seventies, these two fields widely been subjects of academic research the world over. During the last few years, they have been experiencing extremely...

This book covers the principles and recent research results in intelligent image database systems design. Special emphasis is placed on spatial reasoning and the techniques for image indexing and retrieval, mainly based on the Theory of Symbolic Projection. In addition, applications of the theory...

Soft computing is a new, emerging discipline rooted in a group of technologies that aim to exploit the tolerance for imprecision and uncertainty in achieving solutions to complex problems. The principal components of soft computing are fuzzy logic, neurocomputing, genetic algorithms and probabilistic reasoning.This...

ExpertMedia is growing in popularity and brings together the well-established disciplines of Human-Computer Interaction and Artificial Intelligence."ExpertMedia" is a neologism from expert systems and hypermedia systems and is intended to synergistically combine the advantages of each of these components: Expert System + HyperMedia System...

Today's electronics industry requires new design automation methodologies that allow designers to incorporate high performance integrated circuits into smaller packaging. The aim of this book is to present current and future techniques and algorithms of high performance multichip modules (MCMs) and other packaging methodologies....

Optical character recognition and document image analysis have become very important areas with a fast growing number of researchers in the field. This comprehensive handbook with contributions by eminent experts, presents both the theoretical and practical aspects at an introductory level wherever possible.Author: Horst...

This edited and reviewed volume consists of papers that were originally presented at a workshop in the Scientific Center at Schloss Dagstuhl, Germany. It gives an overview of the field and presents the latest developments in the areas of modeling and planning for sensor...

Object orientation has become a "must know" subject for managers, researchers, and software practitioners interested in the design, evolution, reuse and management of efficient software components.The book contains technical papers reflecting both theoretical and practical contributions from researchers in the field of object-oriented (OO)...

This text features a broad array of research efforts in computer vision including low level processing, perceptual organization, object recognition and active vision. The volume's nine papers specifically report on topics such as sensor confidence, low level feature extraction schemes, non-parametric multi-scale curve smoothing,...

Research in Computer and Robot Vision is directed toward researchers and graduate students in the field of computer vision. A broad spectrum of recent research is presented including sensing and navigation for mobile robots, the extraction of lines, curves, surfaces, and skeletons from intensity...

This book brings together current research direction in the mapping of dynamic programming recurrence equations for Knapsack Type problems, which include Unbounded Knapsack Problem, 0/1 Knapsack Problem, Subset Sum Problem, Change Making Problem, onto so-called regular parallel architectures. In particular, it focuses on heuristic...

Interest in the automatic processing and analysis of document images has been rapidly increasing during the past few years. This book addresses the different subfields of document image analysis, including preprocessing and segmentation, form processing, handwriting recognition, line drawing and map processing, and contextual...

This book looks at the process of human cognition and the way complex problems are solved by decomposing them into a list of strategic objectives, before focusing individually on each objective to plan for a tactical solution. This process has been formulated by military...

Our understanding of real-time systems is rapidly approaching a level of maturity which calls for a consolidation of our present knowledge and experience. Particularly effective in influencing our understanding has been the conjoining of universal algebra with the theory and practice of real-time system...

This monograph includes expanded selected papers presented in the "Workshop on the Future Directions of Fuzzy Theory and Systems". It contains many recent developments in the field and provides valuable insights into the future direction and applications of fuzzy theory and systems.Author: Kwong-Sak LeungISBN-10:...

This volume focuses on current and future trends in the interplay between software engineering and artificial intelligence.This interplay is now critical to the success of both disciplines, and it also affects a wide range of subject areas. The articles in this volume survey the...

Few technologies in recent years have attracted as much scientific, media and public attention as Virtual Reality. By providing a profoundly new paradigm for human-computer interaction, it is fundamentally changing the way people use and think about computers. Despite being in its infancy, Virtual...

This book is a collection of surveys and exploratory articles about recent developments in the field of computational Euclidean geometry. Topics covered include the history of Euclidean geometry, Voronoi diagrams, randomized geometric algorithms, computational algebra, triangulations, machine proofs, topological designs, finite-element mesh, computer-aided geometric...

This review volume contains a selection of papers by leading experts in the areas of Parallel Image Analysis, 2-D, 3-D Grammars and Automata and Neural Nets and Learning.Author: Katsushi InoueISBN-10: 9810218664ISBN-13: 9789810218669Publisher: World Scientific Publishing CompanyLanguage: EnglishPublished: 08/01/1994Pages: 236Format: HardcoverWeight: 1.23lbsSize: 9.80h x 6.60w...

This volume highlights some of the multidisciplinary aspects of automatic signature verification. The first two chapters serve as an introduction. The first constitutes a review of the literature of the past five years. The second addresses the problem of parallel strategies to construct and...

This book discusses the application of some Artificial Intelligence (AI) technologies to database systems. The integration of AI technology and database management has developed into an important research topic, and many AI methods, such as logic programming, natural language understanding, knowledge-bases, etc., have been...

This book describes the design of a complete, flexible system for perceptual organization in computer vision using graph theoretic techniques, voting methods, and an extension of the Bayesian networks called perceptual inference networks (PINs). The PIN, which forms the heart of the system and...

Computer understanding of natural language (NL) is commonly considered as extracting "sense" from NL texts. This deprives the problem of determinity, since the notion of "sense" lacks a formal definition. However, with a man-to-computer NL dialogue involved in some working process, any address by...

Parallel Substitution Algorithm (PSA) is a new model for distributed (cellular) computations. It provides a concise mapping of distributed computation processes into cellular arrays. A PSA is specified by a set of parallel substitutions operating over a cellular array.Two concepts make PSA a powerful...

The primary aim of the book is to provide a systematic development of the theory of metric spaces of normal, upper semicontinuous fuzzy convex fuzzy sets with compact support sets, mainly on the base space ℜn. An additional aim is to sketch selected applications...

Depth search machines (DSMs) and their applications for processing combinatorial tasks are investigated and developed in this book. The combinatorial tasks are understood widely and contain sorting and searching, processing NP-complete and isomorphic complete problems, computational geometry, pattern recognition, image analysis and expert reasoning....

Distributed Artificial Intelligence (DAI) is a vibrant sub-field of Artificial Intelligence concerned with coordinating the knowledge and actions of multiple interacting agents. Although DAI has the potential to overcome many of the problems currently associated with constructing software systems which are large, complex and...

This book reports recent major advances in automated reasoning in geometry. The authors have developed a method and implemented a computer program which, for the first time, produces short and readable proofs for hundreds of geometry theorems.The book begins with chapters introducing the method...

This book presents recent trends in the field as perceived by a global selection of researchers and experts. Subjects covered include motion planning of mobile robots in unknown environments, coordination between mobility and manipulability, computation environments for mobile robots, nonlinear control of mobile robots...

To fully appreciate new methods developed in the area of machine vision it is necessary to have facilities which allow experimental verification of such methods. Experimental research is typically a very expensive task in terms of manpower, and consequently it is desirable to adopt...

This book provides a detailed assessment of the state of the art in automated techniques for the analysis of digital mammogram images. Topics covered include a variety of approaches for image processing and pattern recognition aimed at assisting the physician in the task of...

In the past two decades, research in VLSI physical design has been directed toward automation of layout process. Since the cost of fabricating a circuit is a fast growing function of the circuit area, circuit layout techniques are developed with an aim to produce...

This book focuses on the problem of linear approximability, or decomposability for distribution functions. While questions concerning this topics had been raised long ago, only "ad hoc" procedures had been found out. Here, the author deals with the treatment of general methods for this...

Thinning is a technique widely used in the pre-processing stage of a pattern recognition system to compress data and to enhance feature extraction in the subsequent stage. It reduces a digitized pattern to a skeleton so that all resulting branches are 1 pixel thick....

The RLISP '88 programming system introduces an evolutionary approach to software development that enables small groups of programmers to advance the state of the art over a period of many years. Each new system is built on top of the old; yet, like an...

Computational complexity, originated from the interactions between computer science and numerical optimization, is one of the major theories that have revolutionized the approach to solving optimization problems and to analyzing their intrinsic difficulty.The main focus of complexity is the study of whether existing algorithms...

This book contains a selection of papers which were presented at the Vision Interface '92 Conference. It also includes several invited articles from prominent researchers in the field, suggesting future directions in Computer Vision.Author: Anup BasuISBN-10: 9810213921ISBN-13: 9789810213923Publisher: World Scientific Publishing CompanyLanguage: EnglishPublished: 05/01/1993Pages:...

It is well recognized that knowledge acquisition is the critical bottleneck of knowledge engineering. This book presents three major approaches of current research in this field, namely the psychological approach, the artificial intelligence approach and the software engineering approach. Special attention is paid to...

Author: Kevin Bowyer,Horst Bunke,Henrik I. ChristensenISBN-10: 9810213212ISBN-13: 9789810213213Publisher: World Scientific Publishing CompanyLanguage: EnglishPublished: 05/01/1993Pages: 200Format: Hardcover

This book is a comprehensive review of the present state and future prospects of the displays used in entertainment television sets and in data terminals and personal computers. Such a treatment was deemed necessary because of the importance of displays in possible future communications...

This volume contains selected papers of the proceedings of the first Hellenic Conference on Mathematics and Informatics (HERMIS '92). The main theme for HERMIS '92 Conference was Computer Mathematics, with special emphasis on Computational Mathematics, Operational Research and Statistics, and Mathematics in Economic Science....

Over the past few years, there has been a surge of research activities on artificial neural networks. Although the thrust originally came from computer scientists and electrical engineers, neural network research has recently attracted researchers in the fields of operations research, operations management and...

SYSTEM SOFTWARE AND SOFTWARE SYSTEMS: Concepts and Methodology is intended to offer a systematic treatment of the theory and practice of designing and implementing system software.The two volumes systematically develop and apply the systems methodology for software development. For that the concept of a...