Tools for Innovation
Tools for Innovation

Author: Arthur B. Markman

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2009-08-13

Total Pages: 257

ISBN-13: 0195381637

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It is widely known that innovation is crucial to sustain success in business, government, and engineering. But capturing the effective means of fostering innovation remains elusive. How can organizations actively promote innovation, which arises from a complex combination of cognition and domain expertise? Researchers across an array of fields are studying innovation, with exciting new findings suggesting that science is beginning to understand how it can be cultivated. It is now more important than ever for seemingly distant fields to share conclusions and, in concert, translate them into viable applications.In this unique and exciting collaboration, engineers, cognitive scientists, psychologists, computer scientists, and marketers explore the practical methods that support innovation and creative design, from different ways of thinking and conceptualizing to computer-based tools. The authors present research on processes as well as on the evaluation of existing methods. Their lessons drawn are at the forefront of the interdisciplinary movement to use science to help organizations thrive.

Random Access 2
Random Access 2

Author: Pavel Büchler

Publisher:

Published: 1996

Total Pages: 240

ISBN-13:

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Is culture in crisis? Are the political conditions of modern creative work transforming contemporary culture? What anxieties and desires define modern art? Random Access 2 poses these and other questions on art practice and cultural developments and considers the relationship between practice and criticism in contemporary culture. Essays from celebrated artists and thinkers cover topics ranging from criminality among the British urban poor to art teaching, art as memory, interpretation of dance, to the death of Bohemia.

Data Privacy Management and Autonomous Spontaneous Security
Data Privacy Management and Autonomous Spontaneous Security

Author: Roberto Di Pietro

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2013-01-12

Total Pages: 344

ISBN-13: 364235890X

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This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed joint post proceedings of two international workshops, the 7th International Workshop on Data Privacy Management, DPM 2012, and the 5th International Workshop on Autonomous and Spontaneous Security, SETOP 2012, held in Pisa, Italy, in September 2012. The volume contains 13 full papers selected out of 31 submissions and 3 keynote lectures from the DPM workshop and 10 papers selected among numerous submissions from the SETOP workshop. The contributions from DPM cover topics from location privacy, citizens' privacy, privacy, authentication with anonymity, privacy in distributed systems, privacy policies, and automated privacy enforcement. The SETOP contributions provide a unique view of ongoing security research work in a number of emerging environments that are becoming part of the global ICT infrastructure, from content-centric to mobile and wireless networks. Also, some of them cover the key role of run-time enforcement in process and service security. The topics of SETOP papers include: security policy deployment; distributed intrusion detection; autonomous and spontaneous response; privacy policies; secure localization; context aware and ubiquitous computing; identity management.

Ubiquitous Intelligence and Computing
Ubiquitous Intelligence and Computing

Author: Jadwiga Indulska

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2007-08-15

Total Pages: 1280

ISBN-13: 3540735496

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A fascinating bird’s eye view on a hugely relevant topic. This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Ubiquitous Intelligence and Computing held in Hong Kong, China in 2007, co-located with ATC 2007, the 4th International Conference on Autonomic and Trusted Computing. The 119 revised full papers presented together with 1 keynote paper and 1 invited paper were carefully reviewed and selected from 463 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections.

The Spontaneous Brain
The Spontaneous Brain

Author: Georg Northoff

Publisher: MIT Press

Published: 2024-08-06

Total Pages: 533

ISBN-13: 0262552825

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An argument for a Copernican revolution in our consideration of mental features—a shift in which the world-brain problem supersedes the mind-body problem. Philosophers have long debated the mind-body problem—whether to attribute such mental features as consciousness to mind or to body. Meanwhile, neuroscientists search for empirical answers, seeking neural correlates for consciousness, self, and free will. In this book, Georg Northoff does not propose new solutions to the mind-body problem; instead, he questions the problem itself, arguing that it is an empirically, ontologically, and conceptually implausible way to address the existence and reality of mental features. We are better off, he contends, by addressing consciousness and other mental features in terms of the relationship between world and brain; philosophers should consider the world-brain problem rather than the mind-body problem. This calls for a Copernican shift in vantage point—from within the mind or brain to beyond the brain—in our consideration of mental features. Northoff, a neuroscientist, psychiatrist, and philosopher, explains that empirical evidence suggests that the brain's spontaneous activity and its spatiotemporal structure are central to aligning and integrating the brain within the world. This spatiotemporal structure allows the brain to extend beyond itself into body and world, creating the “world-brain relation” that is central to mental features. Northoff makes his argument in empirical, ontological, and epistemic-methodological terms. He discusses current models of the brain and applies these models to recent data on neuronal features underlying consciousness and proposes the world-brain relation as the ontological predisposition for consciousness.

Pattern Recognition in Speech and Language Processing
Pattern Recognition in Speech and Language Processing

Author: Wu Chou

Publisher: CRC Press

Published: 2003-02-26

Total Pages: 413

ISBN-13: 0203010523

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Over the last 20 years, approaches to designing speech and language processing algorithms have moved from methods based on linguistics and speech science to data-driven pattern recognition techniques. These techniques have been the focus of intense, fast-moving research and have contributed to significant advances in this field. Pattern Reco

Ubiquitous Intelligence and Computing
Ubiquitous Intelligence and Computing

Author: Frode Eika Sandnes

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2008-06-20

Total Pages: 780

ISBN-13: 3540692932

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This volume contains the proceedings of UIC 2008, the 5th International C- ference on Ubiquitous Intelligence and Computing: Building Smart Worlds in Real and Cyber Spaces. The conference was held in Oslo, Norway, during June 23–25, 2008. The event was the ?fth meeting of this conference series. USW 2005 (First International Workshop on Ubiquitous Smart World), held in March 2005 in Taiwan, was the ?rst event in the series. This event was followed by UISW 2005 (SecondInternationalSymposiumonUbiquitousIntelligenceandSmartWorlds) held in December 2005 in Japan, by UIC 2006 (Third International Conference on Ubiquitous Intelligence and Computing: Building Smart Worlds in Real and Cyber Spaces) held in September 2006 in Wuhan and Three Gorges, China, and by UIC 2007 held in July 2007 in Hong Kong. Ubiquitous computers, networks and information are paving the road to a smart world in which computational intelligence is distributed throughout the physical environment to provide trustworthy and relevant services to people.