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Author: Jeff Nicholls Publisher: The Crowood Press ISBN: 178500364X Category : Technology & Engineering Languages : en Pages : 339
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For centuries, man and mole have taken from the soil in their bid to survive. This has resulted in bitter conflict between these adversaries and one that continues today. Whatever the season, whatever the weather, wherever the mole, mole catchers have worked to remove moles. Journey through history with the mole catchers of old as you learn of their lives, their work, and their struggle to survive with the pressure of change. Learn of the demands and needs inflicted upon the mole and how it adapts to survive, discover how it exploits the efforts of man, and how they deal with his plight to rid the land of them. Follow Jeff Nicholls through a typical year in the life of a mole catcher and explore the secrets of success to be mole free. Understand the relationship between man and mole both in alliance and conflict, and unearth your passion towards the little man in black. Jeff Nicholls has previously written books on mole catching but this is his most personal composition, providing the knowledge to compete on a level playing field and fully understand the rules of engagement. It will be a mole catcher's handbook for many years to come containing everything you will ever need to know. Fully illustrated with 77 colour photographs.
Author: Patricia Victor Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media ISBN: 9491216082 Category : Computers Languages : en Pages : 210
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This book describes research performed in the context of trust/distrust propagation and aggregation, and their use in recommender systems. This is a hot research topic with important implications for various application areas. The main innovative contributions of the work are: -new bilattice-based model for trust and distrust, allowing for ignorance and inconsistency -proposals for various propagation and aggregation operators, including the analysis of mathematical properties -Evaluation of these operators on real data, including a discussion on the data sets and their characteristics. -A novel approach for identifying controversial items in a recommender system -An analysis on the utility of including distrust in recommender systems -Various approaches for trust based recommendations (a.o. base on collaborative filtering), an in depth experimental analysis, and proposal for a hybrid approach -Analysis of various user types in recommender systems to optimize bootstrapping of cold start users.
Author: Touhid Bhuiyan Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media ISBN: 1461468957 Category : Computers Languages : en Pages : 123
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Recommender systems are one of the recent inventions to deal with the ever-growing information overload in relation to the selection of goods and services in a global economy. Collaborative Filtering (CF) is one of the most popular techniques in recommender systems. The CF recommends items to a target user based on the preferences of a set of similar users known as the neighbors, generated from a database made up of the preferences of past users. In the absence of these ratings, trust between the users could be used to choose the neighbor for recommendation making. Better recommendations can be achieved using an inferred trust network which mimics the real world “friend of a friend” recommendations. To extend the boundaries of the neighbor, an effective trust inference technique is required. This book proposes a trust interference technique called Directed Series Parallel Graph (DSPG) that has empirically outperformed other popular trust inference algorithms, such as TidalTrust and MoleTrust. For times when reliable explicit trust data is not available, this book outlines a new method called SimTrust for developing trust networks based on a user’s interest similarity. To identify the interest similarity, a user’s personalized tagging information is used. However, particular emphasis is given in what resources the user chooses to tag, rather than the text of the tag applied. The commonalities of the resources being tagged by the users can be used to form the neighbors used in the automated recommender system. Through a series of case studies and empirical results, this book highlights the effectiveness of this tag-similarity based method over the traditional collaborative filtering approach, which typically uses rating data. Trust for Intelligent Recommendation is intended for practitioners as a reference guide for developing improved, trust-based recommender systems. Researchers in a related field will also find this book valuable.
Author: Deborah Goodwin Publisher: Routledge ISBN: 1134267290 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 303
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A new investigation of the role of the modern soldier/diplomat and the nature of military negotiation, in comparison with negotiation in other key contexts. This new book presents a detailed analysis of the role of the military in current operations as negotiators and liaison workers in the field. It shows how very few in the academic world are writing on this specific role of the military and the nature of negotiation in this situation, and such a volatile context. This publication is a first in this context, and has a keen audience in light of the current world order. This study breaks new ground in analyzing the nature of military negotiation in relation to more generic forms of negotiation, and assessing the role of the modern soldier/diplomat in recent deployments around the world. The author is an academic working within the military environment, very few people have the same capacity and accessibility to firsthand evidence and observation. Whilst peacekeeping has grown in the last decade or so, no-one has successfully investigated the role of the military and their approach to non-violent conflict resolution on the ground as few have access to such work to make a viable detailed assessment of the nature of negotiation in a violent context, but Dr Goodwin is able to do so.
Author: Tom Lichtenberg Publisher: Tom Lichtenberg ISBN: Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 61
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Some psycho kidnaps his would-be girlfiend, gets chased by the cops halfway across the state, runs out of gas right outside your house, where you and your spouse are enjoying a quiet evening at home, and now you're held hostage at gunpoint and surrounded by police. It could happen.
Author: Claudia Heß Publisher: IOS Press ISBN: 9783898383165 Category : Artificial Intelligence Languages : en Pages : 246
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The huge interest in social networking applications – Friendster.com, for example, has more than 40 million users – led to a considerable research interest in using this data for generating recommendations. Especially recommendation techniques that analyze trust networks were found to provide very accurate and highly personalized results. The main contribution of this thesis is to extend the approach to trust-based recommendations, which up to now have been made for unlinked items such as products or movies, to linked resources, in particular documents. Therefore, a second type of network, namely a document reference network, is considered apart from the trust network. This is, for example, the citation network of scientific publications or the hyperlink graph of webpages. Recommendations for documents are typically made by reference-based visibility measures which consider a document to be the more important, the more often it is referenced by important documents. These two networks, as well as further networks such as organization networks, are integrated in a multi-layer network. This architecture allows for combining classical measures for the visibility of a document with trust-based recommendations, giving trust-enhanced visibility measures. Moreover, an approximation approach is introduced which considers the uncertainty induced by duplicate documents. These measures are evaluated in simulation studies. The trust-based recommender system for scientific publications SPRec implements a two-layer architecture and provides personalized recommendations via a web interface.
Author: Marcus Allen Meriwether Publisher: Lulu.com ISBN: 1365291472 Category : Religion Languages : en Pages : 310
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The Elect are aware, but the rest of the world needs to recognize its faults, before it falls. These heroes are here to provide that protection, beginning as casino heist-artists known as the Munificent 6, they eventually become the Eminent Gentelmen Ten or EGX. The dark horse, though, is Franco Shaddix - and while he vaguely knows John Homme - the two will have to team up with many other heroes in the end times as Stuporboy and Johnny Honesty.
Author: Ron Townsen Publisher: Author House ISBN: 1477270299 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 385
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With a complex game of spies and military conflicts both on Earth and across galaxies, the roller coaster r i d e evolves f r o m Earth where t h e highly classified deep black DARPA BELLOWS team w i t h i t s M+ theory-derived t o o l s has to deal with terrorists, Russian infiltrators, a n d w a r. A variety of races - all escaping their dying galaxies - begin dealing with races across the multi-verse in an attempt to organize and start a massive migration. they must escape from the destructive, advancing force as the newly born universe collision begins pushing i n t o o u r older universe. W i t h the unique Watcher communications network connecting rare Watcher life forms across o u r universe, advanced races are discovering the extraordinary abilities of a younger one in the Milky Way galaxy, including unexpected abilities t h a t only the most powerful m a t h provides hints of. The ancient r a c e s moving across t h e universe have to deal with o t h e r destructive forces attempting to annihilate all life different from their own. As l e a d u n i t s of the Ancients jump across the universe to reach E a r t h , t h e human race is f o r c e d into the process of coming to grips with the n e w reality of not being alone.
Author: Tom Gallagher Publisher: Routledge ISBN: 1134472390 Category : Political Science Languages : en Pages : 490
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At the end of the Cold War, the Balkan states of South East Europe were in crisis. They had emerged from two decades of hardline communism with their economies in disarray and authoritarian leaders poised to whip up nationalist feelings so as to cling on to power. The break up of Yugoslavia followed in 1991 along with prolonged instability in Romania, Bulgaria and Albania. The Balkans After The Cold War analyzes these turbulent events, which led to violence on a scale not seen in Europe for nearly 50 years and offers a detailed critique of Western policy towards the region. This volume follows on from the recently published Outcast Europe: The Balkans, 1789 - 1989 - from the Ottomans to Milosevic, also by Tom Gallagher.
Author: Milos Stankovic
Author: Milos Stankovic
Author: Jeff Nicholls
Author: Patricia Victor
Author: Touhid Bhuiyan
Author: Deborah Goodwin
Author: Tom Lichtenberg
Author: Claudia Heß
Author: Marcus Allen Meriwether
Author: Ron Townsen
Author: Tom Gallagher