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Mastering and effective exploration of the web environment needs new ideas, adaptation of known methods as well as application of sophisticated and robust technical implementations. Among new research directions present in relation to Web applications, a remarkable place is occupied by intelligent methods defining the topic of soft computing. This edited book includes reports from the front of diverse fields of the Web: application of artificial intelligence, design, information retrieval and interpretation, user profiling, security, engineering, etc. The material has been presented at the 5th Atlantic Web Intelligence Conference ? AWIC?2007 held in Fontainbleau (France) and organized by Esigetel, Technical University of Lodz, and Polish Academy of Sciences. more...

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Logic (both classical and non-classical) is being increasingly related with other fields in almost every scientific discipline and human activity. This work covers its role in artificial intelligence, robotics, informatics, technology, and correlated themes. more...

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There has been tremendous emphasis in unmanned aerial vehicles, both of fixed (airplanes) and rotary wing (vertical take off and landing, helicopters) types over the past ten years. Applications span both civilian and military domains, the latter being the most important at this stage. This edited book provides a solid and diversified reference source related to basic, applied research and development on small and miniature unmanned aerial vehicles, both fixed and rotary wing. As such, the book offers background information on the evolution of such vehicles over the years, followed by modeling and control fundamentals that are of paramount importance due to unmanned aerial vehicle model complexity, nonlinearity, coupling, inhirent instability and parameter values uncertainty. Aspects of navigation, including visual-based navigation and target tracking are discussed, followed by applications to attitude estimation on micro unmanned aerial vehicles, autonomous solar unmanned aerial vehicle, biomimetic sensing for autonomous flights in near-earth environments, localization of air-ground wireless sensor networks, decentralized formation tracking, design of an unmanned aerial vehicle for volcanic gas sampling and design of an on-board processing controller for miniature helicopters. more...

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Agenda Relevance is the first volume in the authors' omnibus investigation of. the logic of practical reasoning, under the collective title, A Practical Logic. of Cognitive Systems. In this highly original approach, practical reasoning is. identified as reasoning performed with comparatively few cognitive assets,. including resources such as information, time and computational capacity. Unlike. what is proposed in optimization models of human cognition, a practical reasoner. lacks perfect information, boundless time and unconstrained access to. computational complexity. The practical reasoner is therefore obliged to be a. cognitive economizer and to achieve his cognitive ends with considerable. efficiency. Accordingly, the practical reasoner avails himself of various. scarce-resource compensation strategies. He also possesses neurocognitive. traits that abet him in his reasoning tasks. Prominent among these is the. practical agent's striking (though not perfect) adeptness at evading irrelevant. information and staying on task. On the approach taken here, irrelevancies are. impediments to the attainment of cognitive ends. Thus, in its most basic sense,. relevant information is cognitively helpful information. Information can then be. said to be relevant for a practical reasoner to the extent that it advances or. closes some cognitive agenda of his. The book explores this idea with a. conceptual detail and nuance not seen the standard semantic, probabilistic and. pragmatic approaches to relevance; but wherever possible, the authors seek to. integrate alternative conceptions rather than reject them outright. A further. attraction of the agenda-relevance approach is the extent to which its principal. conceptual findings lend themselves to technically sophisticated re-expression. in formal models that marshal the resources of time and action logics and. label led deductive systems. Agenda Relevance is necessary reading for researchers in logic, belief. dynamics, more...

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