Equine Locomotion

Equine Locomotion

Author: Willem Back

Publisher: Elsevier Health Sciences

Published: 2013-06-06

Total Pages: 527

ISBN-13: 0702052930

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The first edition of Equine Locomotion has established itself as the book in the equine literature that discusses all aspects of equine locomotion and gait analysis, written by an international team of editors and contributors.The new edition continues this trend and gives the reader a complete picture of the horse in motion, at the same time including many recent findings in this area. The book begins with a history of man's association with the horse and then continues to discuss with comprehensive descriptions of the present state of knowledge beginning with the initiation of gait and ending with the more scientific area of computer modeling. In the new edition, the list of contributors continues to comprise of authors who are acknowledged experts in their subject areas and includes many new illustrations.•international team of editors and contributors, with leading experts from the USA, the Netherlands, Sweden and France (all centres of excellence for the study of equine locomotion)•editors are from two of the worlds leading locomotion centres – Utrecht and Michigan•highly illustrated with nearly 500 detailed line drawings and illustrations•covers all you will ever need to know about equine locomotion, gait analysis and much more•international team of editors and contributors, with leading experts from the USA, the Netherlands, Sweden and France (all centres of excellence for the study of equine locomotion)•editors are from two of the worlds leading locomotion centres – Utrecht and Michigan•highly illustrated with nearly 500 detailed line drawings and illustrations•covers all you will ever need to know about equine locomotion, gait analysis and much more


Evolutionary and Biologically Inspired Music, Sound, Art and Design

Evolutionary and Biologically Inspired Music, Sound, Art and Design

Author: Penousal Machado

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2013-03-14

Total Pages: 201

ISBN-13: 3642369553

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This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the Second International Conference on Biologically Inspired Music, Sound, Art and Design, EvoMUSART 2013, held in Vienna, Austria, in March 2013, colocated with the Evo* 2013 events EuroGP, EvoCOP, EvoBIO, and EvoApplications. The 11 revised full papers and 5 poster papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 36 submissions. They cover a wide range of topics and application areas, including: generative approaches to music, graphics, game content, and narrative; robot gait creation; music information retrieval; computational aesthetics; the mechanics of interactive evolutionary computation; and the art theory of evolutionary computation.


Artificial Animals for Computer Animation

Artificial Animals for Computer Animation

Author: Xiaoyuan Tu

Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media

Published: 1999-12-15

Total Pages: 176

ISBN-13: 3540669396

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This book is based on the author's phD thesis, which won the 1996 ACM Doctoral Dissertation Award. The author proposes and develops an artificial life paradigm for computer graphics animation by systematically constructing artificial animals controlled by self-animating autonomous agents. The animation agents emulate the realistic appearance, movement, and behavior of individual animals, as well as the patterns of social behavior evident in groups of animals. The paradigm is based on a computational model capturing the essential characteristics common to all biological creatures: biomechanics, locomotion, perception, and behavior. The approach is validated through the implementation of a virtual marine world inhabited by a variety of lifelike artificial fish, where each fish is a functional autonomous agent.


Advances in Computer Entertainment

Advances in Computer Entertainment

Author: Anton Nijholt

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2012-10-12

Total Pages: 620

ISBN-13: 3642342922

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This book constitutes the refereed conference proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Advances in Computer Entertainment, ACE 2012, held in Kathmandu, Nepal, in November 2012. The 10 full paper and 19 short papers presented together with 5 papers from the special track Arts and Culture and 35 extended abstracts were carefully reviewed and selected from a total of 140 submissions in all categories. The papers cover topics across a wide spectrum of disciplines including computer science, design, arts, sociology, anthropology, psychology, and marketing. Focusing on all areas related to interactive entertainment they aim at stimulating discussion in the development of new and compelling entertainment computing and interactive art concepts and applications.


From Animals to Animats 15

From Animals to Animats 15

Author: Poramate Manoonpong

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2018-08-02

Total Pages: 271

ISBN-13: 3319976281

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This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 15th International Conference on Simulation of Adaptive Behavior, SAB 2018, held in Frankfurt/Main, Germany, in August 2018. The 21 papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 39 submissions. They cover the main areas in animat research, including the animat approach and methodology, perception and motor control, action selection and navigation, learning and adaptation, and collective and social behavior.


Advancing Artificial Intelligence through Biological Process Applications

Advancing Artificial Intelligence through Biological Process Applications

Author: Porto Pazos, Ana B.

Publisher: IGI Global

Published: 2008-07-31

Total Pages: 460

ISBN-13: 159904997X

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As science continues to advance, researchers are continually gaining new insights into the way living beings behave and function, and into the composition of the smallest molecules. Most of these biological processes have been imitated by many scientific disciplines with the purpose of trying to solve different problems, one of which is artificial intelligence. Advancing Artificial Intelligence through Biological Process Applications presents recent advances in the study of certain biological processes related to information processing that are applied to artificial intelligence. Describing the benefits of recently discovered and existing techniques to adaptive artificial intelligence and biology, this book will be a highly valued addition to libraries in the neuroscience, molecular biology, and behavioral science spheres.