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Artificial Intelligence: Second CAAI International Conference, CICAI 2022, Beijing, China, August 27–28, 2022, Revised Selected Papers, Part II (Lecture Notes in Computer Science #13605)
by Guangtao Zhai Tao Mei Lu Fang Ruiping Wang Daniel PoveyThis three-volume set LNCS 13604-13606 constitutes revised selected papers presented at the Second CAAI International Conference on Artificial Intelligence, held in Beijing, China, in August 2022. CICAI is a summit forum in the field of artificial intelligence and the 2022 forum was hosted by Chinese Association for Artificial Intelligence (CAAI). The 164 papers were thoroughly reviewed and selected from 521 submissions. CICAI aims to establish a global platform for international academic exchange, promote advanced research in AI and its affiliated disciplines such as machine learning, computer vision, natural language, processing, and data mining, amongst others.
Artificial Intelligence: Second CAAI International Conference, CICAI 2022, Beijing, China, August 27–28, 2022, Revised Selected Papers, Part III (Lecture Notes in Computer Science #13606)
by Guangtao Zhai Tao Mei Lu Fang Ruiping Wang Daniel PoveyThis three-volume set LNCS 13604-13606 constitutes revised selected papers presented at the Second CAAI International Conference on Artificial Intelligence, held in Beijing, China, in August 2022. CICAI is a summit forum in the field of artificial intelligence and the 2022 forum was hosted by Chinese Association for Artificial Intelligence (CAAI). The 164 papers were thoroughly reviewed and selected from 521 submissions. CICAI aims to establish a global platform for international academic exchange, promote advanced research in AI and its affiliated disciplines such as machine learning, computer vision, natural language, processing, and data mining, amongst others.
Artificial Intelligence: Second CCF International Conference, ICAI 2019, Xuzhou, China, August 22-23, 2019, Proceedings (Communications in Computer and Information Science #1001)
by Min-Ling Zhang Kevin Knight Changshui Zhang Geoff HolmesThis book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the Second CCF International Conference on Artificial Intelligence, CCF-ICAI 2019, held in Xuzhou, China in August, 2019. The 23 papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 97 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on deep learning, image and video processing, NLP and recommender system, machine learning algorithms, and AI applications.
Artificial Intelligence: Second International Conference, SLAAI-ICAI 2018, Moratuwa, Sri Lanka, December 20, 2018, Revised Selected Papers (Communications in Computer and Information Science #890)
by Jude Hemanth Thushari Silva Asoka KarunanandaThis book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the Second International Conference, SLAAI-ICAI 2018, held in Moratuwa, Sri Lanka, in December 2018.The 32 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from numerous submissions. The papers are organized in the following topical sections: intelligence systems; neural networks; game theory; ontology engineering; natural language processing; agent based system; signal and image processing.
Artificial Intelligence: Third CAAI International Conference, CICAI 2023, Fuzhou, China, July 22–23, 2023, Revised Selected Papers, Part I (Lecture Notes in Computer Science #14473)
by Guangtao Zhai Jian Pei Lu Fang Ruiping WangThis two-volume set LNAI 14473-14474 constitutes revised selected papers presented at the Third CAAI International Conference, CICAI 2023, in Fuzhou, China, in July 2023. CICAI is a summit forum in the field of artificial intelligence and the 2023 forum was hosted by Chinese Association for Artificial Intelligence (CAAI). The 100 papers were thoroughly reviewed and selected from 376 submissions. CICAI 2023 conference covers a wide range of of AI generated content, computer vision, machine learning, nature language processing, application of AI, and data mining, amongst others.
Artificial Islands: Adventures in the Dominions
by Owen HatherleyShould Britain form a new union with its old 'Dominions' in Canada, Australia and New Zealand? Are they really our closest allies and relations? And is there any reason why they should want to unite again with us?Great Britain has just left one Union, after years of bitter argument and divisive posturing. But what if the island's future lies in another Union altogether, with some of its former colonial &“kith and kin&” across the seas? Why be in a Union with your immediate neighbours, when you could instead be in a trans-oceanic super-state with our old friends in Canada, Australia and New Zealand? Welcome to the strange world of the 'CANZUK Union', the name for a quixotic but apparently serious plan to reunify the white-majority 'Dominions' of the British Empire under the flag of low taxes, strong borders and climate change denialism.Artificial Islands tests the idea that Britain's natural allies and closest relations are in these three countries in North America and the Antipodes, through a good look at the histories, townscapes and spaces of several cities across the settler zones of the British Empire. These are some of the most purely artificial and modern landscapes in the world, British-designed cities that were built with extreme rapidity in forcibly seized territories on the other side of the world from Britain. Were these places really no more than just a reproduction of British Values planted in unlikely corners of the globe? How are people in Auckland, Melbourne, Montreal, Ottawa and Wellington re-imagining their own history, or their countries' role in the British Empire and their complicity in its crimes? And do they have any interest in a union with us?
Artificial Love: A Story of Machines and Architecture (The\mit Press Ser.)
by Paul ShepheardA vision of architecture that includes sculpture, machines, and technology and encapsulates the history of the human species.According to Paul Shepheard, architecture is the rearranging of the world for human purposes. Sculpture, machines, and landscapes are all architecture-every bit as much as buildings are. In his writings, Shepheard examines old assumptions about architecture and replaces the critical theory of the academic with the active theory of the architect-citizen enamored of the world around him.Artificial Love weaves together three stories about architecture into one. The first, about machines as architecture, leads to speculations about technology and the human condition and to the assertion that machines are the sculptures of today. The second story is about the ways that architecture reflects the tribal and personal desires of those who make it. In the West, ideas of community, multiculturalism, and globalization compete furiously, leaving architecture to exist as it always has, as the past in the present. The third story features individual people experiencing their lives in the context of architecture. Here, Shepheard borrows the rhetorical device of Shakespeare's seven ages of man to propose that each person's life imitates the accumulating history of the human species. Shepheard's version of the history of humans is a technological one, in which machines become sculpture and sculpture becomes architecture. For Shepheard, our machines do not separate us from nature. Rather, our technology is our nature, and we cannot but be in harmony with nature. The change that we have wrought in the world, he says, is a wonderful and powerful thing.
Artificial Neural Networks and Machine Learning – ICANN 2019: 28th International Conference on Artificial Neural Networks, Munich, Germany, September 17–19, 2019, Proceedings (Lecture Notes in Computer Science #11731)
by Věra Kůrková Fabian Theis Igor V. Tetko Pavel KarpovThe proceedings set LNCS 11727, 11728, 11729, 11730, and 11731 constitute the proceedings of the 28th International Conference on Artificial Neural Networks, ICANN 2019, held in Munich, Germany, in September 2019. The total of 277 full papers and 43 short papers presented in these proceedings was carefully reviewed and selected from 494 submissions. They were organized in 5 volumes focusing on theoretical neural computation; deep learning; image processing; text and time series; and workshop and special sessions.
Artificial Neural Networks and Machine Learning – ICANN 2019: 28th International Conference on Artificial Neural Networks, Munich, Germany, September 17–19, 2019, Proceedings, Part I (Lecture Notes in Computer Science #11727)
by Fabian Theis Igor V. Tetko Pavel Karpov Věra KůrkováThe proceedings set LNCS 11727, 11728, 11729, 11730, and 11731 constitute the proceedings of the 28th International Conference on Artificial Neural Networks, ICANN 2019, held in Munich, Germany, in September 2019. The total of 277 full papers and 43 short papers presented in these proceedings was carefully reviewed and selected from 494 submissions. They were organized in 5 volumes focusing on theoretical neural computation; deep learning; image processing; text and time series; and workshop and special sessions.
Artificial Neural Networks and Machine Learning – ICANN 2019: 28th International Conference on Artificial Neural Networks, Munich, Germany, September 17–19, 2019, Proceedings, Part II (Lecture Notes in Computer Science #11728)
by Věra Kůrková Fabian Theis Igor V. Tetko Pavel KarpovThe proceedings set LNCS 11727, 11728, 11729, 11730, and 11731 constitute the proceedings of the 28th International Conference on Artificial Neural Networks, ICANN 2019, held in Munich, Germany, in September 2019. The total of 277 full papers and 43 short papers presented in these proceedings was carefully reviewed and selected from 494 submissions. They were organized in 5 volumes focusing on theoretical neural computation; deep learning; image processing; text and time series; and workshop and special sessions.
Artificial Neural Networks and Machine Learning – ICANN 2019: 28th International Conference on Artificial Neural Networks, Munich, Germany, September 17–19, 2019, Proceedings, Part III (Lecture Notes in Computer Science #11729)
by Věra Kůrková Fabian Theis Igor V. Tetko Pavel KarpovThe proceedings set LNCS 11727, 11728, 11729, 11730, and 11731 constitute the proceedings of the 28th International Conference on Artificial Neural Networks, ICANN 2019, held in Munich, Germany, in September 2019. The total of 277 full papers and 43 short papers presented in these proceedings was carefully reviewed and selected from 494 submissions. They were organized in 5 volumes focusing on theoretical neural computation; deep learning; image processing; text and time series; and workshop and special sessions.
Artificial Neural Networks and Machine Learning – ICANN 2019: 28th International Conference on Artificial Neural Networks, Munich, Germany, September 17–19, 2019, Proceedings, Part IV (Lecture Notes in Computer Science #11730)
by Věra Kůrková Fabian Theis Igor V. Tetko Pavel KarpovThe proceedings set LNCS 11727, 11728, 11729, 11730, and 11731 constitute the proceedings of the 28th International Conference on Artificial Neural Networks, ICANN 2019, held in Munich, Germany, in September 2019. The total of 277 full papers and 43 short papers presented in these proceedings was carefully reviewed and selected from 494 submissions. They were organized in 5 volumes focusing on theoretical neural computation; deep learning; image processing; text and time series; and workshop and special sessions.
Artificial Neural Networks and Machine Learning – ICANN 2021: 30th International Conference on Artificial Neural Networks, Bratislava, Slovakia, September 14–17, 2021, Proceedings, Part I (Lecture Notes in Computer Science #12891)
by Paolo Masulli Stefan Wermter Igor Farkaš Sebastian OtteThe proceedings set LNCS 12891, LNCS 12892, LNCS 12893, LNCS 12894 and LNCS 12895 constitute the proceedings of the 30th International Conference on Artificial Neural Networks, ICANN 2021, held in Bratislava, Slovakia, in September 2021.* The total of 265 full papers presented in these proceedings was carefully reviewed and selected from 496 submissions, and organized in 5 volumes.In this volume, the papers focus on topics such as adversarial machine learning, anomaly detection, attention and transformers, audio and multimodal applications, bioinformatics and biosignal analysis, capsule networks and cognitive models. *The conference was held online 2021 due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Artificial Neural Networks and Machine Learning – ICANN 2021: 30th International Conference on Artificial Neural Networks, Bratislava, Slovakia, September 14–17, 2021, Proceedings, Part II (Lecture Notes in Computer Science #12892)
by Paolo Masulli Stefan Wermter Igor Farkaš Sebastian OtteThe proceedings set LNCS 12891, LNCS 12892, LNCS 12893, LNCS 12894 and LNCS 12895 constitute the proceedings of the 30th International Conference on Artificial Neural Networks, ICANN 2021, held in Bratislava, Slovakia, in September 2021.* The total of 265 full papers presented in these proceedings was carefully reviewed and selected from 496 submissions, and organized in 5 volumes.In this volume, the papers focus on topics such as computer vision and object detection, convolutional neural networks and kernel methods, deep learning and optimization, distributed and continual learning, explainable methods, few-shot learning and generative adversarial networks. *The conference was held online 2021 due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Artificial Neural Networks and Machine Learning – ICANN 2021: 30th International Conference on Artificial Neural Networks, Bratislava, Slovakia, September 14–17, 2021, Proceedings, Part III (Lecture Notes in Computer Science #12893)
by Paolo Masulli Stefan Wermter Igor Farkaš Sebastian OtteThe proceedings set LNCS 12891, LNCS 12892, LNCS 12893, LNCS 12894 and LNCS 12895 constitute the proceedings of the 30th International Conference on Artificial Neural Networks, ICANN 2021, held in Bratislava, Slovakia, in September 2021.* The total of 265 full papers presented in these proceedings was carefully reviewed and selected from 496 submissions, and organized in 5 volumes.In this volume, the papers focus on topics such as generative neural networks, graph neural networks, hierarchical and ensemble models, human pose estimation, image processing, image segmentation, knowledge distillation, and medical image processing. *The conference was held online 2021 due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Artificial Neural Networks and Machine Learning – ICANN 2021: 30th International Conference on Artificial Neural Networks, Bratislava, Slovakia, September 14–17, 2021, Proceedings, Part V (Lecture Notes in Computer Science #12895)
by Paolo Masulli Stefan Wermter Igor Farkaš Sebastian OtteThe proceedings set LNCS 12891, LNCS 12892, LNCS 12893, LNCS 12894 and LNCS 12895 constitute the proceedings of the 30th International Conference on Artificial Neural Networks, ICANN 2021, held in Bratislava, Slovakia, in September 2021.* The total of 265 full papers presented in these proceedings was carefully reviewed and selected from 496 submissions, and organized in 5 volumes.In this volume, the papers focus on topics such as representation learning, reservoir computing, semi- and unsupervised learning, spiking neural networks, text understanding, transfers and meta learning, and video processing. *The conference was held online 2021 due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Artificial Neural Networks and Machine Learning – ICANN 2022: 31st International Conference on Artificial Neural Networks, Bristol, UK, September 6–9, 2022, Proceedings; Part IV (Lecture Notes in Computer Science #13532)
by Plamen Angelov Elias Pimenidis Chrisina Jayne Antonios Papaleonidas Mehmet AydinThe 4-volumes set of LNCS 13529, 13530, 13531, and 13532 constitutes the proceedings of the 31st International Conference on Artificial Neural Networks, ICANN 2022, held in Bristol, UK, in September 2022. The total of 255 full papers presented in these proceedings was carefully reviewed and selected from 561 submissions. ICANN 2022 is a dual-track conference featuring tracks in brain inspired computing and machine learning and artificial neural networks, with strong cross-disciplinary interactions and applications.
Artificial Neural Networks in Pattern Recognition: 10th IAPR TC3 Workshop, ANNPR 2022, Dubai, United Arab Emirates, November 24–26, 2022, Proceedings (Lecture Notes in Computer Science #13739)
by Neamat El Gayar Edmondo Trentin Mirco Ravanelli Hazem AbbasThis book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 10th IAPR TC3 International Workshop on Artificial Neural Networks in Pattern Recognition, ANNPR 2022, held in Dubai, UAE, in November 2022. The 16 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 24 submissions. The conference presents papers on subject such as pattern recognition and machine learning based on artificial neural networks.
Artificial Neural Networks in Pattern Recognition: 8th Iapr Tc3 Workshop, Annpr 2018, Siena, Italy, September 19-21, 2018, Proceedings (Lecture Notes in Computer Science #11081)
by Friedhelm Schwenker Edmondo Trentin Luca PancioniThis book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 8th IAPR TC3 International Workshop on Artificial Neural Networks in Pattern Recognition, ANNPR 2018, held in Siena, Italy, in September 2018.The 29 revised full papers presented together with 2 invited papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 35 submissions. The papers present and discuss the latest research in all areas of neural network- and machine learning-based pattern recognition. They are organized in two sections: learning algorithms and architectures, and applications. Chapter "Bounded Rational Decision-Making with Adaptive Neural Network Priors" is available open access under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License via link.springer.com.
Artificial Neural Networks in Pattern Recognition: 9th IAPR TC3 Workshop, ANNPR 2020, Winterthur, Switzerland, September 2–4, 2020, Proceedings (Lecture Notes in Computer Science #12294)
by Thilo Stadelmann Frank-Peter SchillingThis book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 9th IAPR TC3 International Workshop on Artificial Neural Networks in Pattern Recognition, ANNPR 2020, held in Winterthur, Switzerland, in September 2020. The conference was held virtually due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The 22 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 34 submissions. The papers present and discuss the latest research in all areas of neural network-and machine learning-based pattern recognition. They are organized in two sections: learning algorithms and architectures, and applications.
Artificial Women: Sex Dolls, Robot Caregivers, and More Facsimile Females
by Julie WoskWhat distinguishes humanity from artificial beings? What do constructed creatures tell us about ourselves? From sex dolls to Siri, talking Barbies to robotic mothers, Artificial Women explores the ways in which today's simulated females—both real and fictional—reflect and expose our own ideas about gender and female identity. Join Julie Wosk as she probes the realm of compliant sex workers, nurturing caretakers, genial servants, and rebellious creations in film, television, literature, art, photography, and current developments in robotics. These modern-day Galateas must embrace their own synthetic nature while also striving for authenticity and autonomy, all the while foregrounding gender stereotypes and changing perceptions of women and their roles. They embody the paradoxes and tensions that continue to arise in our increasingly simulated world, where the lines between the real and the virtual only continue to blur. As these "artificial women" become ever more lifelike, so too do the questions they raise become more provocative, and more illuminating of our own conceptions and conventions. Artificial Women pushes the boundaries of gender, sexuality, and culture studies to consider new digital technologies, artificial intelligences, and burgeoning simulations.
Artillery Warfare, 1939–1945
by Simon Forty Jonathan Forty“From mountain warfare with guns on mules to V2 rockets and everything between makes it well worth a place on anyone’s reference shelf.” —Clash of SteelIt is said that artillery won the Second World War for the Allies—that Soviet guns wore down German forces on the Eastern Front, negating their superior tactics and fighting ability, and that the accuracy and intensity of the British and American artillery was a major reason for the success of Allied forces in North Africa from El Alamein, in Italy and Normandy, and played a vital role in the battles of 1944 and 1945. Yet the range of weapons used is often overlooked or taken for granted—which is why this highly illustrated history by Simon and Jonathan Forty is of such value. They stress the importance of artillery on every front and analyze how artillery equipment, training and tactical techniques developed during the conflict.The selection of wartime photographs—many from east European sources—and the extensive quotations from contemporary documents give a graphic impression of how the guns were used on all sides. The photographs emphasize the wide range of pieces employed as field, antiaircraft and antitank artillery without forgetting self-propelled guns, coastal and other heavyweights and the development of rockets. The authors offer a fascinating insight into the weapons that served in the artillery over seventy years ago.“Superbly illustrated, this is testament to the courage and skills of extraordinary men in the execution of their duty. An amazing book.” —Books Monthly
Artisan Air-Dry Clay: The Beginner's Guide to Easy, Inexpensive & Stylish No-Kiln Pottery
by Radka HostasovaNo Kiln? No Problem! Learn to make beautifully textured home décor accents with inexpensive air-dry clay! The process is easy, and the results are surprisingly stylish when you follow the tips, advice, and instruction from author and clay artist-designer Radka Hostasova. Aimed at absolute beginners—this book starts with an overview of the tools and materials needed to produce the best results. A comprehensive "Getting Started" chapter teaches essential home pottery techniques such as rolling slab, coiling, sculpting, and pinching. Also included are creative ideas for adding color with acrylic paint, watercolor, and metallics. At the book's heart are a range of beautiful projects, including trinket bowls, napkin rings, wall hangings, coasters, and others. Each lesson comes with a detailed reference photograph and easy-to-follow step-by-step instructions. Roll, coil, sculpt and carve air-dry clay to create beautiful projects Make modern and stylish projects such as coasters, trinket dishes, home décor accents, kid's projects, and more Use easy home pottery as a mode of relaxation and stress relief
Artisan Filigree: Wire-Wrapping Jewelry Techniques and Projects
by Jodi BombardierEnjoy a collection of 20+ beautiful wire projects! Inspired by the ironwork so prevalent in her native Tucson, Jodi Bombardier fashions her signature heavygauge wire frames into sinuous shapes, cold-joining them with fine wire to form open, lacy filigree patterns. Learn Jodi's techniques, including the correct ways to use tools, hold wire, and create shaped wire frames consistently and precisely. Create airy pieces that are still strong and stable enough to withstand daily wear. Build confidence in your wirework skills as projects increase in complexity. In addition to providing project instructions, Jodi demonstrates how her scrolled designs can be manipulated, joined, or rearranged to create endless variations limited only by the imagination.
Artisan and Handicraft Entrepreneurs: Past, Present, and Future (Contributions to Management Science)
by Léo-Paul Dana Veland Ramadani Ramo Palalic Aidin SalamzadehIn handicrafts and artisanal products, industry has witnessed both a technological shift and a renewed interest among customers, especially after the challenges and limitations of mass production became evident under the COVID-19 pandemic. This book portrays the worldwide development of this trend, the nature of entrepreneurship in these industries, and the unique challenges and opportunities that entrepreneurs face. The book shows how these businesses are gaining a resurgence due to customers preferring ethical, regional, and climate-friendly options to fulfill their needs. The chapters focus on artisan entrepreneurs' contribution to society by not only creating businesses, but also in terms of tourism development. The book reiterates that artisan entrepreneurs enable crucial cultural connections with tradition due to their affinity to a region, city, village, or community. Small business and entrepreneurship researchers as well as policymakers in the cultural sector would benefit from this book.