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Record Nr.

UNINA9910783833003321

Autore

Feenberg Andrew

Titolo

Questioning technology / / Andrew Feenberg

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 1999

ISBN

1-134-73797-1

0-86571-205-0

0-203-02231-9

1-134-73798-X

0-203-15935-7

1-280-33344-8

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (256 p.)

Disciplina

306.4/6

Soggetti

Technology - Social aspects

Technology - Political aspects

Technology - Philosophy

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 (p. 227-235) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Front Cover; Questioning Technology; Copyright Page; Contents; List of charts; Preface; 1. Technology, Philosophy, Politics; Part I:The Politicizing of Technology; 2.Technocracy and Rebellion: The May Events of 1968; 3. Environmentalism and the Politics of Technology; Part II:Democratic Rationalization; 4. The Limits of Technical Rationality; 5. The Problem of Agency; 6. Democratizing Technology; Part III:Technology and Modernity; 7. Critical Theories of Technology; 8. Technology and Meaning; 9. Impure Reason; References; Index

Sommario/riassunto

In this extraordinary introduction to the study of the philosophy of technology, Andrew Feenberg argues that techonological design is central to the social and political structure of modern societies. Environmentalism, information technology, and medical advances testify to technology's crucial importance.In his lucid and engaging style, Feenberg shows that technology is the medium of daily life. Every major technical changes reverberates at countless levels: economic, political, and cultural. If we continue to see the social and technical



domains as being seperate, then we are essentially

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Record Nr.

UNINA9910437901003321

Titolo

Hybrid metaheuristics / / El-Ghazali Talbi (ed.)

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Heidelberg ; ; New York, : Springer, c2013

ISBN

9783642306716

3642306713

Edizione

[1st ed. 2013.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (XXVI, 458 p.)

Collana

Studies in computational intelligence, , 1860-949X ; ; 434

Altri autori (Persone)

TalbiEl-Ghazali <1965->

Disciplina

006.3

Soggetti

Mathematical optimization - Data processing

Computer algorithms

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Nota di contenuto

Part I Hybrid metaheuristics for mono and multi-objective optimization, and optimization under uncertainty -- Part II Combining metaheuristics with (complementary) metaheuristics -- Part III Combining metaheuristics with exact methods from mathematical programming approaches -- Part IV Combining metaheuristics with constraint programming approaches -- Part V Combining metaheuristics with machine learning and data mining techniques.

Sommario/riassunto

The main goal of this book is to provide a state of the art of hybrid metaheuristics. The book provides a complete background that enables readers to design and implement hybrid metaheuristics to solve complex optimization problems (continuous/discrete, mono-objective/multi-objective, optimization under uncertainty) in a diverse range of application domains. Readers learn to solve large scale problems quickly and efficiently combining metaheuristics with complementary metaheuristics, mathematical programming, constraint programming and machine learning. Numerous real-world examples of problems and solutions demonstrate how hybrid metaheuristics are applied in such fields as networks, logistics and transportation, bio-medical, engineering design, scheduling.