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Product Description: The key idea behind active learning is that a machine learning algorithm can perform better with less training if it is allowed to choose the data from which it learns. An active learner may pose "queries," usually in the form of unlabeled data instances to be labeled by an "oracle" (e...read more

Product Description: This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Active Media Technology, AMT 2012, held in Macau, China, in December 2012. The 65 revised full papers were carefully reviewed and selected from a numerous submissions...read more

Product Description: This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Active Media Technology, AMT 2013, held in Maebashi, Japan, in October 2013. The 26 revised full papers presented together with 2 short papers, 16 workshop papers, and 12 special session papers were carefully reviewed and selected from numerous submissions...read more

Product Description: Intelligent robotics has become the focus of extensive research activity. This effort has been motivated by the wide variety of applications that can benefit from the developments. These applications often involve mobile robots, multiple robots working and interacting in the same work area, and operations in hazardous environments like nuclear power plants...read more

Product Description: This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-conference proceedings of the Second International Workshop on Activity Monitoring by Multiple Distributed Sensing, AMMDS 2014, held in Stockholm, Sweden, in August 2014, as a satellite event of ICPR 2014, the 22nd International Conference on Pattern Recognition...read more

Product Description: This carefully edited book takes a walk through recent advances in adaptation and hybridization in the Computational Intelligence (CI) domain. It consists of ten chapters that are divided into three parts. The first part illustrates background information and provides some theoretical foundation tackling the CI domain, the second part deals with the adaptation in CI algorithms, while the third part focuses on the hybridization in CI...read more

Product Description: This book is based on the workshop on Adaptation and Learning in Multi-Agent Systems, held in conjunction with the International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, IJCAI'95, in Montreal, Canada in August 1995.The 14 thoroughly reviewed revised papers reflect the whole scope of current aspects in the field: they describe and analyze, both experimentally and theoretically, new learning and adaption approaches for situations in which several agents have to cooperate or compete...read more

Product Description: Adaptive systems are widely encountered in many applications ranging through adaptive filtering and more generally adaptive signal processing, systems identification and adaptive control, to pattern recognition and machine intelligence: adaptation is now recognised as keystone of "intelligence" within computerised systems...read more

Product Description: This book constitutes the proceedings of the International Conference on Adaptive and Intelligent Systems, ICAIS 2011, held in Klagenfurt, Austria, in September 2011. The 36 full papers included in these proceedings together with the abstracts of 4 invited talks, were carefully reviewed and selected from 72 submissions...read more

Product Description: This book constitutes the proceedings of the International Conference on Adaptive and Intelligent Systems, ICAIS 2014, held in Bournemouth, UK, in September 2014. The 19 full papers included in these proceedings together with the abstracts of 4 invited talks, were carefully reviewed and selected from 32 submissions...read more

Product Description: This volume constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-conference proceedings of the International Workshop on Adaptive and Learning Agents, ALA 2011, held at the 10th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems, AAMAS 2011, in Taipei, Taiwan, in May 2011...read more

Web Personalization can be de?ned as any set of actions that can tailor the Webexperiencetoaparticularuserorsetofusers. Toachievee?ectivepers- alization,organizationsmustrelyonallavailabledata,includingtheusageand click-stream data (re?ecting user behaviour), the site content, the site str- ture,domainknowledge,aswellasuserdemographicsandpro?les. Inaddition, e?cient and intelligent techniques are needed to mine this data for actionable knowledge, and to e?ectively use the discovered knowledge to enhance the users' Web experience. These techniques must address important challenges emanating from the size and the heterogeneous nature of the data itself, as wellasthedynamicnatureofuserinteractionswiththeWeb. Thesechallenges include the scalability of the personalization solutions, data integration, and successful integration of techniques from machine learning, information - trievaland?ltering,databases,agentarchitectures,knowledgerepresentation, data mining, text mining, statistics, user modelling and human-computer - teraction. The Semantic Web adds one more dimension to this. The workshop will focus on the semantic web approach to personalization and adaptation. The Web has been formed to be an integral part of numerous applications inwhichauserinteractswithaserviceprovider,productsellers,governmental organisations, friends and colleagues. Content and services are available at di?erent sources and places. Hence, Web applications need to combine all available knowledge in order to form personalized, user-friendly, and busine- optimal services.

Adaptive business intelligence systems combine prediction and optimization techniques to assist decision makers in complex, rapidly changing environments. These systems address fundamental questions: What is likely to happen in the future? What is the best course of action? Adaptive Business Intelligence explores elements of data mining, predictive modeling, forecasting, optimization, and adaptability. The book explains the application of numerous prediction and optimization techniques, and shows how these concepts can be used to develop adaptive systems. Coverage includes linear regression, time-series forecasting, decision trees and tables, artificial neural networks, genetic programming, fuzzy systems, genetic algorithms, simulated annealing, tabu search, ant systems, and agent-based modeling.

Product Description: The objective of this workshop was to bring together engineers from industry and scientists from universities to focus attention on new developments and practical enhancements for using adaptive control in industry. The workshop provided a forum for a tutorial introduction to the state-of-the-art in adaptive control and helped focus attention on an in-depth view of the problems and needs of adaptive control engineers in industry...read more

Product Description: The fundamental theme of this book is theoretical study of differential evolution and algorithmic analysis of parameter adaptive schemes. The book offers real-world insights into a variety of large-scale complex industrial applications.