Donald Michie was many things; a computing pioneer in machine intelligence, a cryptographer who made key breakthroughs at Bletchley Park, and a geneticist. Tragically, two years ago he died in a car crash. Here, Ashwin Srinivasan presents an engaging collection of lively essays from Michie's writings, on thinking computers, mice, and much more.

Includes 25 build-it-yourself projects featuring high-tech gadgetry that can map, manipulate, and improve the greatest computer on earth - the human brain.

The field of robot vision guidance is developing rapidly. The benefits of sophisticated vision technology include savings, improved quality, reliability, safety and productivity. Robot vision is used for part identification and navigation. This book presents research in the field.

The definitive history of artificial intelligence (AI), from the dreams of early pioneers to the achievements of modern research.

The definitive history of artificial intelligence (AI), from the dreams of early pioneers to the achievements of modern research.

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The Epistemological and EcoCognitive Dimensions of Hypothetical Reasoning. .

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Intelligent IT (iIT) encompasses the theories and applications of artificial intelligence. This collection of papers covers new or major topics in iIT, such as data mining agents, soft computing in MAS, Web agents, ontology technology in MAS, intelligent agents in e-commerce, and more.

Answers commonly asked questions about coordination in agent-oriented distributed systems. Based on the practical deployed applications and various opportunities, this book identifies and examines trends, challenges, and various agent-oriented research directions. It is suitable for advanced-level students in computer science and engineering.

Intends to clarify the role ontologies play in knowledge representation. This book discusses the distinctions with their use in philosophy, gives insight in the features, rationale and limitations of the OWL 2 web ontology language, and provides a review of methodologies and design principles advocated to improve the quality of ontologies.

Combines philosophical, societal, and artificial intelligence concepts with those of computer science and information technology to demonstrate novel ways in which computers can simplify data mining on the Internet.

Data Analysis, Data Handling and Business Intelligence are research areas at the intersection of computer science, artificial intelligence, mathematics, and statistics. This work contains the revised versions of selected papers presented during the 32nd Annual Conference of the German Classification Society (Gesellschaft fur Klassifikation (GfKl).

This work includes theoretical and applicational papers in the field of neural networks, fuzzy systems and mainly evolutionary computations which application potential was increased by progress in computer power.

This work tracks the development of an interdisciplinary theory about knowledge of spatial objects, by means of a three-stage process involving adoption of the linguistic theory, implementation of this into a Prolog programme and its integration into a powerful language-understanding system.