Product Description: Advances in computer processing power and artificial intelligence necessitate new methods of computing and reasoning to solve increasingly complex problems. These methods include combining several artificial intelligence technologies into one integrated system...read more

Product Description: In presented book the Intelligent Open Learning Systems (IOLS) are proposed, described, discussed, and evaluated. The IOLS is a system in which traditional methods of online teaching are enhanced through the use of artificial intelligence and cognitive science...read more

Product Description: Enhanced, more reliable, and better understood than in the past, artificial intelligence (AI) systems can make providing healthcare more accurate, affordable, accessible, consistent, and efficient. However, AI technologies have not been as well integrated into medicine as predicted...read more

Product Description: Recent years have seen the rise of a remarkable partnership between the social and computational sciences on the phenomena of emotions. Rallying around the term Affective Computing, this research can be seen as revival of the cognitive science revolution, albeit garbed in the cloak of affect, rather than cognition...read more

Product Description: The Fundamental Science in "Computer Science" Is the Science of Thought For the first time, the collective genius of the great 18th-century German cognitive philosopher-scientists Immanuel Kant, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, and Arthur Schopenhauer have been integrated into modern 21st-century computer science...read more

Product Description: Artificial intelligence (AI) is 'the study and design of intelligent agents', where an intelligent agent is a system that perceives its environment and takes actions that maximise its chances of success. In this book, the authors present recent advances in the study of artificial intelligence with topics that include a Twitter specific lexicon for sentiment analysis; hybrid unsupervised-supervised artificial neural networks for modelling activated sludge wastewater treatment plants; fast and visible trajectory planning in 3D urban environments based on local point clouds data; and 'smart brakes' - the neuro-genetic optimization of brake actuation pressure...read more

Ray Kurzweil, the bold futurist and author of the New York Times bestseller The Singularity Is Near, is arguably today’s most influential technological visionary. A pioneering inventor and theorist, he has explored for decades how artificial intelligence can enrich and expand human capabilities. Now, in his much-anticipated How to Create a Mind, he takes this exploration to the next step: reverse-engineering the brain to understand precisely how it works, then applying that knowledge to create vastly intelligent machines.Drawing on the most recent neuroscience research, his own research and inventions in artificial intelligence, and compelling thought experiments, he describes his new theory of how the neocortex (the thinking part of the brain) works: as a self-organizing hierarchical system of pattern recognizers. Kurzweil shows how these insights will enable us to greatly extend the powers of our own mind and provides a road map for the creation of super-intelligence―humankind’s most exciting next venture. We are now at the dawn of an era of radical possibilities in which merging with our technology will enable us to effectively address the world’s grand challenges.How to Create a Mind is certain to be one of the most widely discussed and debated science books in many years―a touchstone for any consideration of the path of human progress.

Product Description: Successful games merge art and technology in truly unique ways. Fused under tight production deadlines and strict performance requirements, shaped by demanding player expectations, games are among the most complex software projects created today...read more

Product Description: This book provides a systematic and comprehensive description of Non-Axiomatic Logic, which is the result of the author's research for about three decades. Non-Axiomatic Logic is designed to provide a uniform logical foundation for Artificial Intelligence, as well as an abstract description of the "laws of thought" followed by the human mind...read more

Product Description: An in-depth look at the latest research, methods, and applications in the field of protein bioinformatics This book presents the latest developments in protein bioinformatics, introducing for the first time cutting-edge research results alongside novel algorithmic and AI methods for the analysis of protein data...read more

Product Description: Continuous developments in software and intelligence sciences have brought together the studies of both natural and machine intelligence and the relationship between the function of the brain and the abstract soft mind; creating a new multidisciplinary field of study...read more

Product Description: Written by leading experts in the field, this volume presents some of the latest advances in cognitive informatics and cognitive computing. The chapters are based on selected and refined papers from the IEEE 7th International Conference on Cognitive Informatics (ICCI 2008) held at Stanford University...read more

Product Description: This self-contained introductory text on the behavior of learning automata focuses on how a sequential decision-maker with a finite number of choices responds in a random environment. Topics include fixed structure automata, variable structure stochastic automata, convergence, 0 and S models, nonstationary environments, interconnected automata and games, and applications of learning automata...read more

Product Description: When I first participated in exploring theories of nonmonotonic reasoning in the late 1970s, I had no idea of the wealth of conceptual and mathematical results that would emerge from those halting first steps. This book by Wiktor Marek and Miroslaw Truszczynski is an elegant treatment of a large body of these results...read more

Product Description: Dating AI is "a meditation on how to prepare for the unknown," a thought experiment designed to stimulate new ideas about issues that are important now as well as in the future. Fictional descriptions of human-android romances are interspersed with commentary about the varying differences between people and AI (Artificial Intelligence), and methods for breaching the chasm between machine and human experience...read more

Product Description: We share our modern world with bots – chatbots to converse with, roombots to clean our houses, spambots to fill our e-mail inboxes, and medibots to assist our surgeons. This book is about computer game bots, virtual companions who accompany us in virtual worlds or sharpen our fighting skills...read more

Product Description: Ray Kurzweil, the bold futurist and author of the New York Times bestseller The Singularity Is Near, is arguably today’s most influential technological visionary. A pioneering inventor and theorist, he has explored for decades how artificial intelligence can enrich and expand human capabilities...read more

Product Description: Intelligent information technologies are continuing to be utilized by a number of organizations to improve productivity. While a large amount of progress has been made, a number of issues still remain unexplored regarding the design and implementation of multi-agent systems for support of organization efficiency...read more

Product Description: This book is dedicated to the memory of Professor Zdzis{\l}aw Pawlak who passed away almost six year ago. He is the founder of the Polish school of Artificial Intelligence and one of the pioneers in Computer Engineering and Computer Science with worldwide influence...read more