Resolution Way

Resolution Way

Author: Carl Neville

Publisher: Watkins Media Limited

Published: 2016-06-21

Total Pages: 423

ISBN-13: 191092413X

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A financially comfortable but troubled young London author, Alex Hargreaves stumbles across the work of an unknown writer from the early 1990s, Vernon Crane, and presuming the missing Crane is dead, decides to pass the work off as his own. The problem is that the novel he wishes to plagiarize has been split among Crane’s disparate and scattered group of friends, all of whom, twenty years later, are struggling with the demands of a life in a Britain in which current trends toward inequality and the concentration of political power have accelerated. Hargreave’s mission to track down Crane's work sets in motion a series of encounters alternately tragic, redemptive and liberating and threatens to destroy Hargreaves own world in the process. Combining the best elements of a literary thriller and speculative fiction, Resolution Way is a bleakly humorous satire on contemporary Britain, a meditation on the power of the past, the forces that shape our lives and the ways in which the possibility of the miraculous still remains.


Conflict Resolution

Conflict Resolution

Author: Barry K. Weinhold

Publisher:

Published: 2009-01-01

Total Pages: 336

ISBN-13: 9780891083399

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This work is a breakthrough in the field of conflict resolution. If offers a framework for identifying the primary case of conflicts in all human systems and also offers practical tools for resolving them.


Planning Algorithms

Planning Algorithms

Author: Steven M. LaValle

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2006-05-29

Total Pages: 1029

ISBN-13: 1139455176

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Planning algorithms are impacting technical disciplines and industries around the world, including robotics, computer-aided design, manufacturing, computer graphics, aerospace applications, drug design, and protein folding. This coherent and comprehensive book unifies material from several sources, including robotics, control theory, artificial intelligence, and algorithms. The treatment is centered on robot motion planning, but integrates material on planning in discrete spaces. A major part of the book is devoted to planning under uncertainty, including decision theory, Markov decision processes, and information spaces, which are the 'configuration spaces' of all sensor-based planning problems. The last part of the book delves into planning under differential constraints that arise when automating the motions of virtually any mechanical system. This text and reference is intended for students, engineers, and researchers in robotics, artificial intelligence, and control theory as well as computer graphics, algorithms, and computational biology.


Entrepreneurship

Entrepreneurship

Author: George Vozikis

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2014-12-18

Total Pages: 750

ISBN-13: 1317471342

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The authors present core concepts of entrepreneurship in an easy-to-follow, logical sequence. Starting with basic definitions and an overarching conceptual framework in Part I, the book then addresses topics pertaining to Venture Initiation (Part II), Venture Management (Part III), and Venture Development (Part IV). Each chapter contains a case study in which a real-life entrepreneur, who confronts the issues of growth and competition, is followed. Venture initiation and development are key components of this book. Entrepreneurship has all the standard features that entrepreneurs-in-training need. The book's strength, however, lies in the clear, straightforward, and logical manner in which the various topics within this complex subject are presented. The book also includes learning objectives, outlines, terms, and review questions.


Constraint Solving and Language Processing

Constraint Solving and Language Processing

Author: Denys Duchier

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2013-10-12

Total Pages: 187

ISBN-13: 3642415784

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The Constraint Solving and Language Processing (CSLP) workshop considers the role of constraints in the representation of language and the implementation of language processing applications. This theme should be interpreted inclusively: it includes contributions from linguistics, computer science, psycholinguistics and related areas, with a particular interest in interdisciplinary perspectives. Constraints are widely used in linguistics, computer science, and psychology. How they are used, however, varies widely according to the research domain: knowledge representation, cognitive modelling, problem solving mechanisms, etc. These different perspectives are complementary, each one adding a piece to the puzzle.


Business Law 2012-2013

Business Law 2012-2013

Author: J. Scott Slorach

Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA

Published: 2012-08-09

Total Pages: 388

ISBN-13: 019965705X

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This title contains detailed coverage of partnerships, company law, taxation, EC law, and insolvency, making the book ideally suited to the Legal Practice Course.


Advanced Intelligent Computing Theories and Applications

Advanced Intelligent Computing Theories and Applications

Author: De-Shuang Huang

Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media

Published: 2012-01-03

Total Pages: 751

ISBN-13: 364225943X

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This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-conference proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Intelligent Computing, ICIC 2011, held in Zhengzhou, China, in August 2011. The 94 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 832 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on intelligent computing in scheduling; local feature descriptors for image processing and recognition; combinatorial and numerical optimization; machine learning theory and methods; intelligent control and automation; knowledge representation/reasoning and expert systems; intelligent computing in pattern recognition; intelligent computing in image processing; intelligent computing in computer vision; biometrics with applications to individual security/forensic sciences; modeling, theory, and applications of positive systems; sparse manifold learning methods and applications; advances in intelligent information processing.


Advances in Visual Information Systems

Advances in Visual Information Systems

Author: Robert Laurini

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2003-07-31

Total Pages: 552

ISBN-13: 3540400532

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Presently, in our world, visual information dominates. The turn of the millenium marks the age of visual information systems. Enabled by picture sensors of all kinds turning digital, visual information will not only enhance the value of existing information, it will also open up a new horizon of previously untapped information sources. There is a huge demand for visual information access from the consumer. As well, the handling of visual information is boosted by the rapid increase of hardware and Internet capabilities. Advanced technology for visual information systems is more urgently needed than ever before: not only new computational methods to retrieve, index, compress and uncover pictorial information, but also new metaphors to organize user interfaces. Also, new ideas and algorithms are needed which allow access to very large databases of digital pictures and videos. Finally we should not forget new systems with visual interfaces integrating the above components into new types of image, video or multimedia databases and hyperdocuments. All of these technologies will enable the construction of systems that are radically different from conventional information systems. Many novel issues will need to be addressed: query formulation for pictorial information, consistency management thereof, indexing and assessing the quality of these systems. Historically, the expression Visual Information Systems can be understood either as a system for image information or as visual system for any kind information.