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Author: Ivan Pope Publisher: Open Road Media ISBN: 1504088905 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 212
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Where do the disappeared go? This novel “skillfully rips away the veneer of our civilized world and exposes a dark and secret one that lurks below our cities” (Julia North, author of Hear Me). Freelance reporter Allen Kimbo wonders about the girls and women who vanish, seldom to resurface. He believes there’s a network of men who guard those who are taken—and keep the silence that surrounds and enables such deeds. Now, despite his girlfriend Emily’s pleas to stay away, an email has lured Allen to Eastern Europe, to a meeting of the Takers and Keepers. In Belgrade, more is revealed than he had ever thought possible. But back home, Emily is missing . . . Will Allen find the answers he is looking for, or will he discover that some questions should never be asked? “A different take on a troubling topic.” —C. M. Thompson, author of What Lies in the Dark
Author: Ivan Pope Publisher: Open Road Media ISBN: 1504088905 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 212
Book Description
Where do the disappeared go? This novel “skillfully rips away the veneer of our civilized world and exposes a dark and secret one that lurks below our cities” (Julia North, author of Hear Me). Freelance reporter Allen Kimbo wonders about the girls and women who vanish, seldom to resurface. He believes there’s a network of men who guard those who are taken—and keep the silence that surrounds and enables such deeds. Now, despite his girlfriend Emily’s pleas to stay away, an email has lured Allen to Eastern Europe, to a meeting of the Takers and Keepers. In Belgrade, more is revealed than he had ever thought possible. But back home, Emily is missing . . . Will Allen find the answers he is looking for, or will he discover that some questions should never be asked? “A different take on a troubling topic.” —C. M. Thompson, author of What Lies in the Dark
Author: Ramakoti Sadananada Publisher: Springer ISBN: 3540368604 Category : Computers Languages : en Pages : 843
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This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 9th Pacific Rim International Workshop on Multi-Agents, PRIMA 2006, held in Guilin, China, in August 2006. The book presents 39 revised full papers and 57 revised short papers together with 4 invited talks, addressing subjects from theoretical and methodological issues to applications. Topics include agent models, agent architectures, agent-oriented software engineering, semantic Web service, collaboration, coordination and negotiation, and more.
Author: Jacek Koronacki Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media ISBN: 3642051766 Category : Computers Languages : en Pages : 521
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Professor Richard S. Michalski passed away on September 20, 2007. Once we learned about his untimely death we immediately realized that we would no longer have with us a truly exceptional scholar and researcher who for several decades had been inf- encing the work of numerous scientists all over the world - not only in his area of expertise, notably machine learning, but also in the broadly understood areas of data analysis, data mining, knowledge discovery and many others. In fact, his influence was even much broader due to his creative vision, integrity, scientific excellence and exceptionally wide intellectual horizons which extended to history, political science and arts. Professor Michalski’s death was a particularly deep loss to the whole Polish sci- tific community and the Polish Academy of Sciences in particular. After graduation, he began his research career at the Institute of Automatic Control, Polish Academy of Science in Warsaw. In 1970 he left his native country and hold various prestigious positions at top US universities. His research gained impetus and he soon established himself as a world authority in his areas of interest – notably, he was widely cons- ered a father of machine learning.
Author: Elizabeth Black Publisher: Springer ISBN: 3642543731 Category : Computers Languages : en Pages : 219
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This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the second International Workshop on the Theory and Applications of Formal Argumentation, TAFA 2013, held in Beijing, China, in August 2013. The Workshop was co-located with IJCAI 2013. The 15 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 22 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections such as abstract argumentation frameworks, social abstract argumentation with votes on attacks, a normal form of argumentation frameworks, assumption-based argumentation, argument schemes for normative practical reasoning.
Author: Matthew E. Taylor Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media ISBN: 3642118135 Category : Computers Languages : en Pages : 149
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This volume constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-conference proceedings of the Second Workshop on Adaptive and Learning Agents, ALA 2009, held as part of the AAMAS 2009 conference in Budapest, Hungary, in May 2009. The 8 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from numerous submissions. They cover a variety of themes: single and multi-agent reinforcement learning, the evolution and emergence of cooperation in agent systems, sensor networks and coordination in multi-resource job scheduling.
Author: Matthew Taylor Publisher: Springer ISBN: 3642018823 Category : Technology & Engineering Languages : en Pages : 237
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In reinforcement learning (RL) problems, learning agents sequentially execute actions with the goal of maximizing a reward signal. The RL framework has gained popularity with the development of algorithms capable of mastering increasingly complex problems, but learning difficult tasks is often slow or infeasible when RL agents begin with no prior knowledge. The key insight behind "transfer learning" is that generalization may occur not only within tasks, but also across tasks. While transfer has been studied in the psychological literature for many years, the RL community has only recently begun to investigate the benefits of transferring knowledge. This book provides an introduction to the RL transfer problem and discusses methods which demonstrate the promise of this exciting area of research. The key contributions of this book are: Definition of the transfer problem in RL domains Background on RL, sufficient to allow a wide audience to understand discussed transfer concepts Taxonomy for transfer methods in RL Survey of existing approaches In-depth presentation of selected transfer methods Discussion of key open questions By way of the research presented in this book, the author has established himself as the pre-eminent worldwide expert on transfer learning in sequential decision making tasks. A particular strength of the research is its very thorough and methodical empirical evaluation, which Matthew presents, motivates, and analyzes clearly in prose throughout the book. Whether this is your initial introduction to the concept of transfer learning, or whether you are a practitioner in the field looking for nuanced details, I trust that you will find this book to be an enjoyable and enlightening read. Peter Stone, Associate Professor of Computer Science
Author: Andreas Birk Publisher: Springer ISBN: 3540456031 Category : Technology & Engineering Languages : en Pages : 782
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This book is the fifth official archival publication devoted to RoboCup. It documents the achievements presented at the 5th Robot World Cup Soccer Games and Conferences held in Seattle, Washington, USA, in August 2001.The book contains the following parts: introduction, champion teams, challenge award finalists, technical papers, poster presentations, and team descriptions (arranged according to various leagues).This book is mandatory reading for the rapidly growing RoboCup community as well as a valuable source of references and inspiration for R&D professionals interested in multi-agent systems, distributed artificial intelligence, and intelligent robotics.
Author: Dr. Kang Li Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media ISBN: 3540747680 Category : Computers Languages : en Pages : 823
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This book is part of a two-volume work that constitutes the refereed proceedings of the International Conference on Life System Modeling and Simulation, LSMS 2007, held in Shanghai, China, September 2007. Coverage includes advanced neural network theory, advanced evolutionary computing theory, ant colonies and particle swarm optimization, intelligent modeling, monitoring, and control of complex nonlinear systems, as well as biomedical signal processing, imaging and visualization.
Author: Marie F. Dubreuil Publisher: Xlibris Corporation ISBN: 1499080204 Category : Health & Fitness Languages : en Pages : 251
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This book is a precious gift that anyone can be happy to receive, have, read, and empower themselves with beneficial knowledge to be healthy and stay healthy as long as possible. To be healthy makes no distinction in religion, race, color, creed, power, well-being, social status or how famous and talented you are or what political party you choose. What’s in this book makes no distinction about your choice of love, romance, and type of family, work, career, business, and sexual preference. The goal of this book is to be happy, healthy, live a prosperous life, get along with each other, and tolerate each other, smile, and laugh, say hi, hello, look at each other, and do much more with each other. Once in a while, take time ask yourself, who am I? Why am I here on this earth at this time in this century with all these other people? You can say to yourself, I could’ve been born in another century with all the other people. But I am here in this century with all the other people with you and me. Let us be healthy, love each other, and live longer.
Author: Ivan Pope
Author: Ivan Pope
Author: Ramakoti Sadananada
Author: Jacek Koronacki
Author: Elizabeth Black
Author: Matthew E. Taylor
Author: Matthew Taylor
Author: Andreas Birk
Author: Dr. Kang Li
Author: Marie F. Dubreuil
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