Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 128
Book Description
ICANN's Expansion of Top Level Domains
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 128
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 128
Book Description
Neural Nets WIRN VIETRI-98
Author: Maria Marinaro
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 1447108116
Category : Computers
Languages : en
Pages : 389
Book Description
From its early beginnings in the fifties and sixties, the field of neural networks has been steadily developing to become one of the most interdisciplinary areas of research within computer science. This volume contains selected papers from WIRN Vietri-98, the 10th Italian Workshop on Neural Nets, 21-23 May 1998, Vietri sul Mare, Salerno, Italy. This annual event, sponsored amongst others by the IEEE Neural Network Council and the INNS/SIG Italy, brings together the best of research from all over the world. The papers cover a range of key topics within neural networks, including pattern recognition, signal processing, hybrid systems, mathematical models, hardware and software design, and fuzzy techniques. It also includes two review talks on a Morpho-Functional Model to Describe Variability Found at Hippocampal Synapses and Neural Networks and Speech Processing. By providing the reader with a comprehensive overview of recent research in this area, the volume makes a valuable contribution to the Perspectives in Neural Computing Series.
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 1447108116
Category : Computers
Languages : en
Pages : 389
Book Description
From its early beginnings in the fifties and sixties, the field of neural networks has been steadily developing to become one of the most interdisciplinary areas of research within computer science. This volume contains selected papers from WIRN Vietri-98, the 10th Italian Workshop on Neural Nets, 21-23 May 1998, Vietri sul Mare, Salerno, Italy. This annual event, sponsored amongst others by the IEEE Neural Network Council and the INNS/SIG Italy, brings together the best of research from all over the world. The papers cover a range of key topics within neural networks, including pattern recognition, signal processing, hybrid systems, mathematical models, hardware and software design, and fuzzy techniques. It also includes two review talks on a Morpho-Functional Model to Describe Variability Found at Hippocampal Synapses and Neural Networks and Speech Processing. By providing the reader with a comprehensive overview of recent research in this area, the volume makes a valuable contribution to the Perspectives in Neural Computing Series.
Research and Advanced Technology for Digital Libraries
Author: Serge Abiteboul
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 3540665587
Category : Computers
Languages : en
Pages : 505
Book Description
This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the Third European Conference on Research and Advanced Technology for Digital Libaries, ECDL'99, held in Paris, France in September 1999. The 26 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from a total of 124 submissions. The book is divided in topical sections on image categorization and access, audio and video in digital libraries, information retrieval, user adaptation, knowledge sharing, cross language issues, case studies, and modelling, accessability and connectedness.
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 3540665587
Category : Computers
Languages : en
Pages : 505
Book Description
This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the Third European Conference on Research and Advanced Technology for Digital Libaries, ECDL'99, held in Paris, France in September 1999. The 26 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from a total of 124 submissions. The book is divided in topical sections on image categorization and access, audio and video in digital libraries, information retrieval, user adaptation, knowledge sharing, cross language issues, case studies, and modelling, accessability and connectedness.
Internet Governance and the Information Society
Author: Wolfgang Benedek
Publisher: Eleven International Publishing
ISBN: 9077596569
Category : Computers
Languages : en
Pages : 193
Book Description
The legal, social, and economic implications of the information society permeate every fiber of public life in the real world, influencing politics and policies and testing the limits of traditional notions of law, concepts of regulations, and systems of governance. Uniting an impressive array of authors, this book broaches the challenges of internet governance in the information society. Renowned scholars and practitioners - from, among others, the Council of Europe, the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe, the United Nations Internet Governance Forum, academia, and business - shed light on both the global perspectives and the European dimensions of internet governance. The book brings together presentations delivered at two workshops organized at the University of Graz as part of a project studying the role of multi-stakeholder participation for the implementation of human rights approaches in a connected world. It identifies 2010 as the year where fundamental decisions on the future of the internet as we know it will be reached. The contributions describe the challenges ahead and the road to travel by. It is essential reading for anyone interested in the future of internet governance.
Publisher: Eleven International Publishing
ISBN: 9077596569
Category : Computers
Languages : en
Pages : 193
Book Description
The legal, social, and economic implications of the information society permeate every fiber of public life in the real world, influencing politics and policies and testing the limits of traditional notions of law, concepts of regulations, and systems of governance. Uniting an impressive array of authors, this book broaches the challenges of internet governance in the information society. Renowned scholars and practitioners - from, among others, the Council of Europe, the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe, the United Nations Internet Governance Forum, academia, and business - shed light on both the global perspectives and the European dimensions of internet governance. The book brings together presentations delivered at two workshops organized at the University of Graz as part of a project studying the role of multi-stakeholder participation for the implementation of human rights approaches in a connected world. It identifies 2010 as the year where fundamental decisions on the future of the internet as we know it will be reached. The contributions describe the challenges ahead and the road to travel by. It is essential reading for anyone interested in the future of internet governance.
Neural Networks: Tricks of the Trade
Author: Genevieve B. Orr
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 3540494308
Category : Computers
Languages : en
Pages : 425
Book Description
It is our belief that researchers and practitioners acquire, through experience and word-of-mouth, techniques and heuristics that help them successfully apply neural networks to di cult real world problems. Often these \tricks" are theo- tically well motivated. Sometimes they are the result of trial and error. However, their most common link is that they are usually hidden in people’s heads or in the back pages of space-constrained conference papers. As a result newcomers to the eld waste much time wondering why their networks train so slowly and perform so poorly. This book is an outgrowth of a 1996 NIPS workshop called Tricks of the Trade whose goal was to begin the process of gathering and documenting these tricks. The interest that the workshop generated motivated us to expand our collection and compile it into this book. Although we have no doubt that there are many tricks we have missed, we hope that what we have included will prove to be useful, particularly to those who are relatively new to the eld. Each chapter contains one or more tricks presented by a given author (or authors). We have attempted to group related chapters into sections, though we recognize that the di erent sections are far from disjoint. Some of the chapters (e.g., 1, 13, 17) contain entire systems of tricks that are far more general than the category they have been placed in.
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 3540494308
Category : Computers
Languages : en
Pages : 425
Book Description
It is our belief that researchers and practitioners acquire, through experience and word-of-mouth, techniques and heuristics that help them successfully apply neural networks to di cult real world problems. Often these \tricks" are theo- tically well motivated. Sometimes they are the result of trial and error. However, their most common link is that they are usually hidden in people’s heads or in the back pages of space-constrained conference papers. As a result newcomers to the eld waste much time wondering why their networks train so slowly and perform so poorly. This book is an outgrowth of a 1996 NIPS workshop called Tricks of the Trade whose goal was to begin the process of gathering and documenting these tricks. The interest that the workshop generated motivated us to expand our collection and compile it into this book. Although we have no doubt that there are many tricks we have missed, we hope that what we have included will prove to be useful, particularly to those who are relatively new to the eld. Each chapter contains one or more tricks presented by a given author (or authors). We have attempted to group related chapters into sections, though we recognize that the di erent sections are far from disjoint. Some of the chapters (e.g., 1, 13, 17) contain entire systems of tricks that are far more general than the category they have been placed in.
Multidisciplinary Perspectives in Cryptology and Information Security
Author: Sadkhan Al Maliky, Sattar B.
Publisher: IGI Global
ISBN: 1466658096
Category : Computers
Languages : en
Pages : 463
Book Description
With the prevalence of digital information, IT professionals have encountered new challenges regarding data security. In an effort to address these challenges and offer solutions for securing digital information, new research on cryptology methods is essential. Multidisciplinary Perspectives in Cryptology and Information Security considers an array of multidisciplinary applications and research developments in the field of cryptology and communication security. This publication offers a comprehensive, in-depth analysis of encryption solutions and will be of particular interest to IT professionals, cryptologists, and researchers in the field.
Publisher: IGI Global
ISBN: 1466658096
Category : Computers
Languages : en
Pages : 463
Book Description
With the prevalence of digital information, IT professionals have encountered new challenges regarding data security. In an effort to address these challenges and offer solutions for securing digital information, new research on cryptology methods is essential. Multidisciplinary Perspectives in Cryptology and Information Security considers an array of multidisciplinary applications and research developments in the field of cryptology and communication security. This publication offers a comprehensive, in-depth analysis of encryption solutions and will be of particular interest to IT professionals, cryptologists, and researchers in the field.
Advances in Data and Web Management
Author: Guozhu Dong
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 3540725245
Category : Computers
Languages : en
Pages : 916
Book Description
This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the joint 9th Asia-Pacific Web Conference, APWeb 2007, and the 8th International Conference on Web-Age Information Management, WAIM 2007, held in Huang Shan, China, June 2007. Coverage includes data mining and knowledge discovery, P2P systems, sensor networks, spatial and temporal databases, Web mining, XML and semi-structured data, privacy and security, as well as data mining and data streams.
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 3540725245
Category : Computers
Languages : en
Pages : 916
Book Description
This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the joint 9th Asia-Pacific Web Conference, APWeb 2007, and the 8th International Conference on Web-Age Information Management, WAIM 2007, held in Huang Shan, China, June 2007. Coverage includes data mining and knowledge discovery, P2P systems, sensor networks, spatial and temporal databases, Web mining, XML and semi-structured data, privacy and security, as well as data mining and data streams.
Independent Component Analysis and Blind Signal Separation
Author: Carlos G. Puntonet
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 3540301100
Category : Mathematics
Languages : en
Pages : 1287
Book Description
In many situations found both in Nature and in human-built systems, a set of mixed signals is observed (frequently also with noise), and it is of great scientific and technological relevance to be able to isolate or separate them so that the information in each of the signals can be utilized. Blind source separation (BSS) research is one of the more interesting emerging fields now a days in the field of signal processing. It deals with the algorithms that allow the recovery of the original sources from a set of mixtures only. The adjective "blind" is applied because the purpose is to estimate the original sources without any a priori knowledge about either the sources or the mixing system. Most of the models employed in BSS assume the hypothesis about the independence of the original sources. Under this hypothesis, a BSS problem can be considered as a particular case of independent component analysis(ICA), a linear transformation technique that, starting from a multivariate representation of the data, minimizes the statistical dependence between the components of the representation. It can be claimed that most of the advances in ICA have been motivated by the search for solutions to the BSS problem and, the other way around, advances in ICA have been immediately applied to BSS. ICA and BSS algorithms start from a mixture model, whose parameters are estimated from the observed mixtures. Separation is achieved by applying the inverse mixture model to the observed signals(separating or unmixing model). Mixturem- els usually fall into three broad categories: instantaneous linear models, convolutive models and nonlinear models, the?rstone being the simplest but, in general, not near realistic applications. The development and test of the algorithms can be accomplished through synthetic data or with real-world data. Obviously, the most important aim(and most difficult) is the separation of real-world mixtures. BSS and ICA have strong relations also, apart from signal processing, with other fields such as statistics and artificial neural networks. As long as we can find a system that emits signals propagated through a mean, andthosesignalsarereceivedbyasetofsensorsandthereisaninterestinrecovering the original sources, we have a potential field of application for BSS and ICA. Inside that wide range of applications we can find, for instance: noise reduction applications, biomedical applications, audio systems, telecommunications, and many others. This volume comes out just 20 years after the first contributions in ICA and BSS 1 appeared . Therein after, the number of research groups working in ICA and BSS has been constantly growing, so that nowadays we can estimate that far more than 100 groups are researching in these fields. As proof of the recognition among the scientific community of ICA and BSS developments there have been numerous special sessions and special issues in several well- 1 J. Herault, B. Ans, "Circuits neuronaux à synapses modi?ables: décodage de messages composites para apprentissage non supervise", C.R. de l'Académie des Sciences, vol. 299, no. III-13,pp.525-528,1984
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 3540301100
Category : Mathematics
Languages : en
Pages : 1287
Book Description
In many situations found both in Nature and in human-built systems, a set of mixed signals is observed (frequently also with noise), and it is of great scientific and technological relevance to be able to isolate or separate them so that the information in each of the signals can be utilized. Blind source separation (BSS) research is one of the more interesting emerging fields now a days in the field of signal processing. It deals with the algorithms that allow the recovery of the original sources from a set of mixtures only. The adjective "blind" is applied because the purpose is to estimate the original sources without any a priori knowledge about either the sources or the mixing system. Most of the models employed in BSS assume the hypothesis about the independence of the original sources. Under this hypothesis, a BSS problem can be considered as a particular case of independent component analysis(ICA), a linear transformation technique that, starting from a multivariate representation of the data, minimizes the statistical dependence between the components of the representation. It can be claimed that most of the advances in ICA have been motivated by the search for solutions to the BSS problem and, the other way around, advances in ICA have been immediately applied to BSS. ICA and BSS algorithms start from a mixture model, whose parameters are estimated from the observed mixtures. Separation is achieved by applying the inverse mixture model to the observed signals(separating or unmixing model). Mixturem- els usually fall into three broad categories: instantaneous linear models, convolutive models and nonlinear models, the?rstone being the simplest but, in general, not near realistic applications. The development and test of the algorithms can be accomplished through synthetic data or with real-world data. Obviously, the most important aim(and most difficult) is the separation of real-world mixtures. BSS and ICA have strong relations also, apart from signal processing, with other fields such as statistics and artificial neural networks. As long as we can find a system that emits signals propagated through a mean, andthosesignalsarereceivedbyasetofsensorsandthereisaninterestinrecovering the original sources, we have a potential field of application for BSS and ICA. Inside that wide range of applications we can find, for instance: noise reduction applications, biomedical applications, audio systems, telecommunications, and many others. This volume comes out just 20 years after the first contributions in ICA and BSS 1 appeared . Therein after, the number of research groups working in ICA and BSS has been constantly growing, so that nowadays we can estimate that far more than 100 groups are researching in these fields. As proof of the recognition among the scientific community of ICA and BSS developments there have been numerous special sessions and special issues in several well- 1 J. Herault, B. Ans, "Circuits neuronaux à synapses modi?ables: décodage de messages composites para apprentissage non supervise", C.R. de l'Académie des Sciences, vol. 299, no. III-13,pp.525-528,1984
Machine Learning and Its Applications
Author: Georgios Paliouras
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 3540424903
Category : Computers
Languages : en
Pages : 334
Book Description
In recent years machine learning has made its way from artificial intelligence into areas of administration, commerce, and industry. Data mining is perhaps the most widely known demonstration of this migration, complemented by less publicized applications of machine learning like adaptive systems in industry, financial prediction, medical diagnosis and the construction of user profiles for Web browsers. This book presents the capabilities of machine learning methods and ideas on how these methods could be used to solve real-world problems. The first ten chapters assess the current state of the art of machine learning, from symbolic concept learning and conceptual clustering to case-based reasoning, neural networks, and genetic algorithms. The second part introduces the reader to innovative applications of ML techniques in fields such as data mining, knowledge discovery, human language technology, user modeling, data analysis, discovery science, agent technology, finance, etc.
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 3540424903
Category : Computers
Languages : en
Pages : 334
Book Description
In recent years machine learning has made its way from artificial intelligence into areas of administration, commerce, and industry. Data mining is perhaps the most widely known demonstration of this migration, complemented by less publicized applications of machine learning like adaptive systems in industry, financial prediction, medical diagnosis and the construction of user profiles for Web browsers. This book presents the capabilities of machine learning methods and ideas on how these methods could be used to solve real-world problems. The first ten chapters assess the current state of the art of machine learning, from symbolic concept learning and conceptual clustering to case-based reasoning, neural networks, and genetic algorithms. The second part introduces the reader to innovative applications of ML techniques in fields such as data mining, knowledge discovery, human language technology, user modeling, data analysis, discovery science, agent technology, finance, etc.
Spiking Neuron Models
Author: Wulfram Gerstner
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521890793
Category : Computers
Languages : en
Pages : 498
Book Description
Neurons in the brain communicate by short electrical pulses, the so-called action potentials or spikes. How can we understand the process of spike generation? How can we understand information transmission by neurons? What happens if thousands of neurons are coupled together in a seemingly random network? How does the network connectivity determine the activity patterns? And, vice versa, how does the spike activity influence the connectivity pattern? These questions are addressed in this 2002 introduction to spiking neurons aimed at those taking courses in computational neuroscience, theoretical biology, biophysics, or neural networks. The approach will suit students of physics, mathematics, or computer science; it will also be useful for biologists who are interested in mathematical modelling. The text is enhanced by many worked examples and illustrations. There are no mathematical prerequisites beyond what the audience would meet as undergraduates: more advanced techniques are introduced in an elementary, concrete fashion when needed.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521890793
Category : Computers
Languages : en
Pages : 498
Book Description
Neurons in the brain communicate by short electrical pulses, the so-called action potentials or spikes. How can we understand the process of spike generation? How can we understand information transmission by neurons? What happens if thousands of neurons are coupled together in a seemingly random network? How does the network connectivity determine the activity patterns? And, vice versa, how does the spike activity influence the connectivity pattern? These questions are addressed in this 2002 introduction to spiking neurons aimed at those taking courses in computational neuroscience, theoretical biology, biophysics, or neural networks. The approach will suit students of physics, mathematics, or computer science; it will also be useful for biologists who are interested in mathematical modelling. The text is enhanced by many worked examples and illustrations. There are no mathematical prerequisites beyond what the audience would meet as undergraduates: more advanced techniques are introduced in an elementary, concrete fashion when needed.