Partial Order Concepts in Applied Sciences
Partial Order Concepts in Applied Sciences

Author: Marco Fattore

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2016-12-22

Total Pages: 305

ISBN-13: 3319454218

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TThis book illustrates recent advances in applications of partial order theory and Hasse diagram techniques to data analysis, mainly in the socio-economic and environmental sciences. For years, partial order theory has been considered a fundamental branch of mathematics of only theoretical interest. In recent years, its effectiveness as a tool for data analysis is increasingly being realized and many applications of partially ordered sets to real problems in statistics and applied sciences have appeared. Main examples pertain to the analysis of complex and multidimensional systems of ordinal data and to problems of multi-criteria decision making, so relevant in social and environmental sciences. Partial Order Concepts in Applied Sciences presents new theoretical and methodological developments in partial order for data analysis, together with a wide range of applications to different topics: multidimensional poverty, economic development, inequality measurement, ecology and pollution, and biology, to mention a few. The book is of interest for applied mathematicians, statisticians, social scientists, environmental scientists and all those aiming at keeping pace with innovation in this interesting, growing and promising research field.

Multi-indicator Systems and Modelling in Partial Order
Multi-indicator Systems and Modelling in Partial Order

Author: Rainer Brüggemann

Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media

Published: 2013-11-12

Total Pages: 441

ISBN-13: 1461482232

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“Multi-indicator Systems and Modelling in Partial Order” contains the newest theoretical concepts as well as new applications or even applications, where standard multivariate statistics fail. Some of the presentations have their counterpart in the book; however, there are many contributions, which are completely new in the field of applied partial order.

Partial Order in Environmental Sciences and Chemistry
Partial Order in Environmental Sciences and Chemistry

Author: Rainer Brüggemann

Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media

Published: 2006-08-31

Total Pages: 404

ISBN-13: 3540339701

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This book explains the theory and practice of order relations in such a way that no specific mathematical skill is needed to understand the advantages of this algebraization. It acts as a primer in a mathematical technique which is useful in many expanding disciplines, like genomics, techniques of decision support, and sustainability. This book is recommended to those who are interested in the interface between sciences and management.

Other Things
Other Things

Author: Bill Brown

Publisher: University of Chicago Press

Published: 2016-01-08

Total Pages: 435

ISBN-13: 022628316X

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From the pencil to the puppet to the drone—the humanities and the social sciences continue to ride a wave of interest in material culture and the world of things. How should we understand the force and figure of that wave as it shapes different disciplines? Other Things explores this question by considering a wide assortment of objects—from beach glass to cell phones, sneakers to skyscrapers—that have fascinated a range of writers and artists, including Virginia Woolf, Man Ray, Spike Lee, and Don DeLillo. The book ranges across the literary, visual, and plastic arts to depict the curious lives of things. Beginning with Achilles’s Shield, then tracking the object/thing distinction as it appears in the work of Martin Heidegger and Jacques Lacan, Bill Brown ultimately focuses on the thingness disclosed by specific literary and artistic works. Combining history and literature, criticism and theory, Other Things provides a new way of understanding the inanimate object world and the place of the human within it, encouraging us to think anew about what we mean by materiality itself.

Advances in Intelligent Data Analysis. Reasoning about Data
Advances in Intelligent Data Analysis. Reasoning about Data

Author: Xiaohui Liu

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2006-06-08

Total Pages: 605

ISBN-13: 3540695206

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This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the Second International Symposium on Intelligent Data Analysis, IDA-97, held in London, UK, in August 1997. The volume presents 50 revised full papers selected from a total of 107 submissions. Also included is a keynote, Intelligent Data Analysis: Issues and Opportunities, by David J. Hand. The papers are organized in sections on exploratory data analysis, preprocessing and tools; classification and feature selection; medical applications; soft computing; knowledge discovery and data mining; estimation and clustering; data quality; qualitative models.

Becomings
Becomings

Author: Elizabeth Grosz

Publisher: Cornell University Press

Published: 1999

Total Pages: 260

ISBN-13: 9780801485909

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This volume explores the ontological, epistemic, and political implications of rethinking time as a dynamic and irreversible force. Its authors seek to stimulate research in the sciences and humanities which highlight the temporal foundations.

The Apprehension of Beauty
The Apprehension of Beauty

Author: Donald Meltzer

Publisher: Harris Meltzer Trust

Published: 2018-04-30

Total Pages: 343

ISBN-13: 1912567075

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This volume has grown over the years as a family project of Martha Harris, her two daughters Meg and Morag and her husband, Donald Meltzer. It therefore has its roots in English literature and its branches waving wildly about in psychoanalysis. It is earnestly hoped that it will reveal more problems than it will solve.