1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910298987403321

Titolo

Artificial Intelligence Applications and Innovations : 10th IFIP WG 12.5 International Conference, AIAI 2014, Rhodes, Greece, September 19-21, 2014, Proceedings / / edited by Lazaros Iliadis, Ilias Maglogiannis, Harris Papadopoulos

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Berlin, Heidelberg : , : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2014

ISBN

3-662-44654-5

Edizione

[1st ed. 2014.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (XIX, 637 p. 237 illus.)

Collana

IFIP Advances in Information and Communication Technology, , 1868-422X ; ; 436

Disciplina

006.3

Soggetti

Artificial intelligence

Pattern recognition systems

Data mining

Computer vision

Education - Data processing

Application software

Artificial Intelligence

Automated Pattern Recognition

Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery

Computer Vision

Computers and Education

Computer and Information Systems Applications

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di contenuto

Learning-ensemble learning -- Social media and mobile applications of AI -- Hybrid-changing environments -- Agent (AGE) -- Classification pattern recognition -- Genetic algorithms -- Image and video processing -- Feature extraction -- Environmental AI -- Simulations and fuzzy modeling -- Data mining forecasting.

Sommario/riassunto

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 10th IFIP WG 12.5 International Conference on Artificial Intelligence Applications and



Innovations, AIAI 2014, held in Rhodes, Greece, in September 2014. The 33 revised full papers and 29 short papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from numerous submissions. They are organized in the following topical sections: learning-ensemble learning; social media and mobile applications of AI; hybrid-changing environments; agent (AGE); classification pattern recognition; genetic algorithms; image and video processing; feature extraction; environmental AI; simulations and fuzzy modeling; and data mining forecasting.

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910827671803321

Autore

Alonso Kassten <1968->

Titolo

The pet thief / / Kassten Alonso

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Tuscaloosa, : FC2, [2013]

ISBN

1-57366-839-7

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (352 p.)

Disciplina

813/.6

Soggetti

Human experimentation in medicine

Science fiction

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 (pages 335-337).

Nota di contenuto

The Pet Thief; Tsokka tsokka tsokka; A Bibliography; In Gratitude

Sommario/riassunto

The Pet Thief is a dystopian fable of science, rebellion, humankind's inhumanity, and the struggle for identity and survival in a post-human world.  When scientists, the government, and venture capitalists conspire to hybridize humans with animals-cats, specifically-for organ harvesting, drug testing, and military applications, the experiment is an irredeemable failure, producing human-like beings with uncanny abilities who are nonetheless fundamentally defective.Oboy and his mentor/tormentor Freda are two wayward hybrids, "cat people," who