1.

Record Nr.

UNISA990002950960203316

Autore

BAITZ, Jon Robin

Titolo

La sostanza del fuoco / Jon Robin Baitz ; traduzione di Masolino D'Amico

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Palermo : Sellerio, copyr. 2001

ISBN

88-389-1713-2

Descrizione fisica

87 p. ; 17 cm

Collana

Teatro ; 25

Disciplina

812.54

Collocazione

XIII.1. Coll. 18/ 15

Lingua di pubblicazione

Italiano

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910157789903321

Autore

Mayer Dale

Titolo

Vampire in Chaos

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Valley Publishing

ISBN

1-928122-32-9

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (280 p.) : ill

Soggetti

Supernatural

Vampires

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Sommario/riassunto

The blood farm is gone. Those behind it have either died, been caught, or are on the run. Time to return to the real world. Only normal life isn't



quite what Tessa expected. Good thing, because there is no 'normal' anymore. She's different. Her family is different. Her friends are different. The world around her is different. Trying to find her place is not easy. She wants nothing more than to be a normal teenager and join Cody and his friends on a Friday night out. Cody wants the trouble to be over so he can get back to living the life he used to with one major addition - Tessa. Only Ian and Jewel aren't healing well, Rhia is acting out of character, and Jared keeps tripping over dead bodies. Then there's David, who'll do anything to help Jewel... even something he knows he shouldn't do. Something is wrong, and once again it's up to Tessa to figure out what is happening under the surface of this 'normal' life.

3.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910484271303321

Titolo

Transactions on Computational Collective Intelligence XXIV / / edited by Ngoc Thanh Nguyen, Ryszard Kowalczyk, Joaquim Filipe

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Berlin, Heidelberg : , : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2016

ISBN

3-662-53525-4

Edizione

[1st ed. 2016.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (IX, 169 p. 78 illus.)

Collana

Transactions on Computational Collective Intelligence, , 2190-9288 ; ; 9770

Disciplina

006.3

Soggetti

Artificial intelligence

Computational intelligence

Computers

Computer simulation

Computer networks

Artificial Intelligence

Computational Intelligence

Information Systems and Communication Service

Computation by Abstract Devices

Simulation and Modeling

Computer Communication Networks

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia



Note generali

Includes index.

Nota di contenuto

Dynamic Topologies for Particle Swarms -- Evaluative Study of PSO/Snake Hybrid Algorithm and Gradient Path Labeling for Calculating Solar Differential Rotation -- The Uncertainty Quandary: A Study in the Context of the Evolutionary Optimization in Games and other Uncertain Environments -- Hybrid Single Node Genetic Programming for Symbolic Regression -- L2 Designer: A Tool for Genetic L-system Programming in Context of Generative Art -- Manifold Learning Approach toward Constructing State Representation for Robot Motion Generation -- The Existence of Two Variant Processes in Human Declarative Memory: Evidence Using Machine Learning Classification Techniques in Retrieval Tasks -- Divide and Conquer Ensemble Method for Time Series Forecasting -- Application areas of Ephemeral Computing: A survey.

Sommario/riassunto

These transactions publish research in computer-based methods of computational collective intelligence (CCI) and their applications in a wide range of fields such as the semantic Web, social networks, and multi-agent systems. TCCI strives to cover new methodological, theoretical and practical aspects of CCI understood as the form of intelligence that emerges from the collaboration and competition of many individuals (artificial and/or natural). The application of multiple computational intelligence technologies, such as fuzzy systems, evolutionary computation, neural systems, consensus theory, etc., aims to support human and other collective intelligence and to create new forms of CCI in natural and/or artificial systems. This twenty-forth issue contains 9 carefully selected and revised contributions.p>.



4.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910956130303321

Titolo

History of technology . Volume twenty-two, 2000 / / edited by Graham Hollister-Short

Pubbl/distr/stampa

[London] : , : Bloomsbury Academic, , 2001

ISBN

1-350-01895-3

1-350-01894-5

1-350-01893-7

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (290 p.)

Collana

History of technology

Disciplina

609

Soggetti

Technology - History

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters.

Nota di contenuto

Contents -- Editorial -- The Contributors -- Notes for Contributors -- A Failure to Communicate: The Demise of ELDO / Stephen B. Johnson, University of North Dakota -- Building a Hybrid Landscape to Purify the Ruhr Region, 1890-1935 / Edmund N. Todd, University of New Haven -- The Craft of the Bell Founder: The Chyaryshnikovs, a Russian Bell-Founding Family / Tatyana Shashkina, Odessa, Ukraine -- John Farey and his Treatise on the Steam Engine of 1827 / A.P. Woolrich,  Bridgewater, Somerset -- Summer Breeze and Flushing Toilet: Deception and Reality about our Technical Past / Michael Fores, London -- The Establishment of the Society of Chemical Engineers in pre-War Japan / Yuji Jido, Ritsumeikan Asia Pacific University, Japan -- Wilhelm Ludwig von Eschwege (1777-1855), A German Engineer of Mining and Metallurgy in Portugal and Brazil / Friedrich Toussaint, Velbert-Neviges, Germany.

SYMPOSIUM: THE CURRENT STATE OF THE HISTORY OF TECHNOLOGY IN BRITAIN. Introduction / Graham Hollister-Short -- Reflections on the History of Technology in Britain / David Edgerton, Imperial College, London -- The Flourishing History of Technology in the United Kingdom: A Critique of Antiquarian Complaints of 'Neglect' / Graeme Gooday, University of Leeds -- Where is the History of Technology? / Rupert Hall, formerly Imperial College, London -- Reflections on the Decline of the History of Technology in Britain / R. Angus Buchanan,



University of Bath -- Some Thoughts on the History of Technology and its Current Condition in Britain / H.S. Torrens, Keele University --Pursuing Big Books: Technological Change in Global History / Ian Inkster, Nottingham Trent University -- History of Technology in German. A Success Story? / Hans-Joachim Braun, Universitat der Bundeswehr Hamburg -- Contents of Former Volumes.

Sommario/riassunto

"The technical problems confronting different societies and periods, and the measures taken to solve them, form the concern of this annual collection of essays. History of Technology, Volume 22 deals with the history of technical discovery and change and explores the relation of technology to other aspects of life - social, cultural and economic - and shows how technological development has shaped, and been shaped by, the society in which it occurred. Published under the auspices of the Institute of Historical Research, University of London."--Bloomsbury Publishing.