The Entity Within The VR Set
The Entity Within The VR Set

Author: Richard Street

Publisher: BookRix

Published: 2020-07-06

Total Pages: 100

ISBN-13: 374874868X

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The story is set in the quaint little village of Bakewell in the Derbyshire Dales. It follows the recent move of David and Danielle Mitchell. A couple that were looking for a change from the city life. What was to follow they would have never imagined. Once they had moved to the new house, they had big plans of renovating the new place into a modern stylish country home. The couple had walked into the village and found a bargain in a local shop, a VR set which could be used to help design their new home. But once they brought the VR set home, they found strange happenings and visions going on. They realized they were not alone in this house and the move became a negative experience for the couple. They never imagined this would have happened to them as they didn’t believe in ghosts and ghouls. Once they sought out the help from a local medium they were shocked to find the most logical explanation isn’t always the correct one.

Rules and Reasoning
Rules and Reasoning

Author: Anna Fensel

Publisher: Springer Nature

Published: 2023-11-15

Total Pages: 269

ISBN-13: 3031450728

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This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 7th International Joint Conference on Rules and Reasoning, RuleML+RR 2023, held in Oslo, Norway, during September 18–20, 2023. The 13 full papers and 3 short papers included in these proceedings were carefully reviewed and selected from 46 submissions. They focus on all aspects of theoretical advances; novel technologies; innovative applications; knowledge representation; reasoning with rules; and research, development, applications of rule-based systems.

Virtual Storytelling; Using Virtual Reality Technologies for Storytelling
Virtual Storytelling; Using Virtual Reality Technologies for Storytelling

Author: Olivier Balet

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2003-11-24

Total Pages: 243

ISBN-13: 3540400141

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This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the Second International Conference on Virtual Storytelling, ICVS 2003, held in Toulouse, France in November 2003. The 27 revised full papers presented together with 3 invited papers were carefully reviewed and selected for presentation. The papers are organized in topical sections on real-time technologies, narrativity and authoring, mediation and interface, virtual characters, mixed reality, and applications.

Artificial Intelligence
Artificial Intelligence

Author: Richard E. Neapolitan

Publisher: CRC Press

Published: 2018-03-12

Total Pages: 481

ISBN-13: 1351384392

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The first edition of this popular textbook, Contemporary Artificial Intelligence, provided an accessible and student friendly introduction to AI. This fully revised and expanded update, Artificial Intelligence: With an Introduction to Machine Learning, Second Edition, retains the same accessibility and problem-solving approach, while providing new material and methods. The book is divided into five sections that focus on the most useful techniques that have emerged from AI. The first section of the book covers logic-based methods, while the second section focuses on probability-based methods. Emergent intelligence is featured in the third section and explores evolutionary computation and methods based on swarm intelligence. The newest section comes next and provides a detailed overview of neural networks and deep learning. The final section of the book focuses on natural language understanding. Suitable for undergraduate and beginning graduate students, this class-tested textbook provides students and other readers with key AI methods and algorithms for solving challenging problems involving systems that behave intelligently in specialized domains such as medical and software diagnostics, financial decision making, speech and text recognition, genetic analysis, and more.

Natural Language Processing and Chinese Computing
Natural Language Processing and Chinese Computing

Author: Wei Lu

Publisher: Springer Nature

Published: 2022-09-23

Total Pages: 878

ISBN-13: 3031171209

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This two-volume set of LNAI 13551 and 13552 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 11th CCF Conference on Natural Language Processing and Chinese Computing, NLPCC 2022, held in Guilin, China, in September 2022. The 62 full papers, 21 poster papers, and 27 workshop papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 327 submissions. They are organized in the following areas: Fundamentals of NLP; Machine Translation and Multilinguality; Machine Learning for NLP; Information Extraction and Knowledge Graph; Summarization and Generation; Question Answering; Dialogue Systems; Social Media and Sentiment Analysis; NLP Applications and Text Mining; and Multimodality and Explainability.

From Instrumentalism to Constructive Realism
From Instrumentalism to Constructive Realism

Author: Theo A.F. Kuipers

Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media

Published: 2013-04-18

Total Pages: 374

ISBN-13: 9401716188

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Surprisingly, modified versions of the confirmation theory (Carnap and Hempel) and truth approximation theory (Popper) turn out to be smoothly sythesizable. The glue between the two appears to be the instrumentalist methodology, rather than that of the falsificationalist. The instrumentalist methodology, used in the separate, comparative evaluation of theories in terms of their successes and problems (hence, even if already falsified), provides in theory and practice the straight road to short-term empirical progress in science ( à la Laudan). It is also argued that such progress is also functional for all kinds of truth approximation: observational, referential, and theoretical. This sheds new light on the long-term dynamics of science and hence on the relation between the main epistemological positions, viz., instrumentalism (Toulmin, Laudan), constructive empiricism (Van Fraassen), referential realism (Hacking, Cartwright), and theory realism of a non-essentialist nature (constructive realism à la Popper). Readership: Open minded philosophers and scientists. The book explains and justifies the scientist's intuition that the debate among philosophers about instrumentalism and realism has almost no practical consequences.

Advances in Case-Based Reasoning
Advances in Case-Based Reasoning

Author: Ian Smith

Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media

Published: 1996-10-23

Total Pages: 548

ISBN-13: 9783540619550

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This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the Third European Workshop on Case-Based Reasoning, EWCBR-96, held in Lausanne, Switzerland, in November 1996. Case-based reasoning is an appealing technique for dealing with the knowledge acquisition bottleneck in computer applications; solutions to new problems are found by adapting similar experience from the past, called cases. The 38 revised full papers presented were carefully selected from a broad variety of submissions after a thorough refereeing process. The volume refleats the state of the art in case-based reasoning research and applications.

Advances in Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining
Advances in Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining

Author: Qiang Yang

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2019-04-03

Total Pages: 654

ISBN-13: 303016148X

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The three-volume set LNAI 11439, 11440, and 11441 constitutes the thoroughly refereed proceedings of the 23rd Pacific-Asia Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining, PAKDD 2019, held in Macau, China, in April 2019. The 137 full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 542 submissions. The papers present new ideas, original research results, and practical development experiences from all KDD related areas, including data mining, data warehousing, machine learning, artificial intelligence, databases, statistics, knowledge engineering, visualization, decision-making systems, and the emerging applications. They are organized in the following topical sections: classification and supervised learning; text and opinion mining; spatio-temporal and stream data mining; factor and tensor analysis; healthcare, bioinformatics and related topics; clustering and anomaly detection; deep learning models and applications; sequential pattern mining; weakly supervised learning; recommender system; social network and graph mining; data pre-processing and feature selection; representation learning and embedding; mining unstructured and semi-structured data; behavioral data mining; visual data mining; and knowledge graph and interpretable data mining.

Advances in Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining
Advances in Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining

Author: Hady W. Lauw

Publisher: Springer Nature

Published: 2020-05-08

Total Pages: 906

ISBN-13: 3030474267

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The two-volume set LNAI 12084 and 12085 constitutes the thoroughly refereed proceedings of the 24th Pacific-Asia Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining, PAKDD 2020, which was due to be held in Singapore, in May 2020. The conference was held virtually due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The 135 full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 628 submissions. The papers present new ideas, original research results, and practical development experiences from all KDD related areas, including data mining, data warehousing, machine learning, artificial intelligence, databases, statistics, knowledge engineering, visualization, decision-making systems, and the emerging applications. They are organized in the following topical sections: recommender systems; classification; clustering; mining social networks; representation learning and embedding; mining behavioral data; deep learning; feature extraction and selection; human, domain, organizational and social factors in data mining; mining sequential data; mining imbalanced data; association; privacy and security; supervised learning; novel algorithms; mining multi-media/multi-dimensional data; application; mining graph and network data; anomaly detection and analytics; mining spatial, temporal, unstructured and semi-structured data; sentiment analysis; statistical/graphical model; multi-source/distributed/parallel/cloud computing.