This open access book offers comprehensive coverage on Ordered Fuzzy Numbers, providing readers with both the basic information and the necessary expertise to use them in a variety of real-world applications. The respective chapters, written by leading researchers, discuss the main techniques and...
Inventors have long dreamed of creating machines that think. This desire dates back to at least the time of ancient Greece. The mythical ?gures Pygmalion,Daedalus, and Hephaestus may all be interpreted as legendary inventors, and Galatea, Talos, and Pandora may all be regarded as artificial life...
Multiagent systems consist of multiple autonomous entities having different information and/or diverging interests. This comprehensive introduction to the field offers a computer science perspective, but also draws on ideas from game theory, economics, operations research, logic, philosophy and...
This book is meant to provide an introduction to vectors, matrices, and least squares methods, basic topics in applied linear algebra. Our goal is to give the beginning student, with little or no prior exposure to linear algebra, a good grounding in the basic ideas, as well as an appreciation for...
Graph theory is a very popular area of discrete mathematics with not only numerous theoretical developments, but also countless applications to practical problems. As a research area, graph theory is still relatively young, but it is maturing rapidly with many deep results having been discovered...
Cluster analysis is an important technique in the rapidly growing field known as exploratory data analysis and is being applied in a variety of engineering and scientific disciplines such as biology, psychology, medicine, marketing, computer vision, and remote sensing. Cluster analysis organizes...
One of the best ways to stifle the growth of an idea is to enshrine it in an educational curriculum. The textbook publishers, certification panels, professional organizations, the folks who write the college entrance exams--once they've settled on an approach, they become frozen in a straitjacket...
This online ebook is a companion to the influential computer-science text Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs, by Abelson, Sussman, and Sussman. Its purpose is to demonstrate the Web's potential to be a channel for innovative support for textbook users. The material on this site is...
Lester del Rey, American science fiction author and editor once said that science fiction is largely based on writing rationally about alternative possible worlds or futures. It's somewhat related to its very close counterpart - the fantasy genre, but sci-fi tends to lean more towards elements and...