"Case was the sharpest data thief in the matrix--until he crossed the wrong people and they crippled his nervous system, banishing him from cyberspace. Now a mysterious new employer has recruited him for a last-chance run at an unthinkably powerful artificial intelligence. With a dead man riding shotgun and Molly, a mirror-eyed street samurai, to watch his back, Case is ready for the adventure that upped the ante on an entire genre of fiction" --...

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Ambient Intelligence (AmI) is an integrating technology for supporting a pervasive and transparent infrastructure for implementing smart environments. Such technology is used to enable environments for detecting events and behaviors of people and for responding in a contextually relevant fashion. AmI proposes a multi-disciplinary approach for enhancing human machine interaction. Ambient Intelligence: A Novel Paradigm is a compilation of edited chapters...

Increase profits and reduce costs by utilizing this collection of models of the most commonly asked data mining questions. In order to find new ways to improve customer sales and support, and as well as manage risk, business managers must be able to mine company databases. This book provides a step-by-step guide to creating and implementing models of the most commonly asked data mining questions. Readers will learn how to prepare data to mine, and...

Elements of artificial neural networks provides a clear introduction to neural networks for those who want to use them rather than simply study them. The authors, who have been team-teaching the material in a one-semester course over the past six years, describe most of the basic neural network models (with several detailed solved examples) and discuss their rationale and relative advantages. Their approach requires little mathematical or technical...

The author looks at the construction of the Semantic Web, which enables computers to automatically and independently consume Web-based information.