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Free Download Artificial Intelligence and Knowledge Engineering Applications: A Bioinspired Approach: First International Work-Conference on the Interplay Between Natural and Artificial Computation, IWINAC 2005, Las Palmas, Canary Islands, Spain, June 15-18, 2005, By André V. Abs da Cruz, Marco Aurélio C. Pacheco, Marley Vellasco, Carlos R. Hall Barbosa (auth.), José Mira, José R. Álvarez (eds.)
2005 | 638 Pages | ISBN: 3540263195 | PDF | 10 MB
The two-volume set LNCS 3561 and LNCS 3562 constitute the refereed proceedings of the First International Work-Conference on the Interplay between Natural and Artificial Computation, IWINAC 2005, held in Las Palmas, Canary Islands, Spain in June 2005.The 118 revised papers presented are thematically divided into two volumes; the first includes all the contributions mainly related with the methodological, conceptual, formal, and experimental developments in the fields of Neurophysiology and cognitive science. The second volume collects the papers related with bioinspired programming strategies and all the contributions related with the computational solutions to engineering problems in different application domains.

Free Download Foundations of Information and Knowledge Systems: 4th International Symposium, FoIKS 2006, Budapest, Hungary, Februrary 14-17, 2006. Proceedings By Jan Van den Bussche (auth.), Jürgen Dix, Stephen J. Hegner (eds.)
2006 | 331 Pages | ISBN: 3540317821 | PDF | 4 MB
This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 4th International Symposium on Foundations of Information and Knowledge Systems, FoIKS 2006 held in Budapest, Hungary in February 2006.The 14 revised full papers presented together with three revised short papers and one invited paper were carefully reviewed and selected from 54 submissions.Among the topics covered are the theoretical foundations of information and knowledge systems, as well as mathematical fields such as discrete mathematics, combinatorics, logics and finite model theory, and applications thereof for research on database and knowledge base theory.

Free Download Bernhard Ertl, "E-Collaborative Knowledge Construction: Learning from Computer-Supported and Virtual Environments"
English | 2010 | pages: 360 | ISBN: 1615207295 | PDF | 3,5 mb
In today’s society, the quantity of information available to learners is so vast that new strategies of information processing and exchange must be continually developed and improved. E-Collaborative Knowledge Construction: Learning from Computer-Supported and Virtual Environments explores the construction of beneficial e-collaborative knowledge environments from four vital perspectives: educational, psychological, organizational, and technical. It offers several scenarios where the implementation of e-collaborative knowledge construction is necessary and then not only presents methods for facilitating e-collaborative knowledge construction, but also provides methods for assessing its results. This exciting new publication is a must-have for academics, researchers, and professionals who dare to discover new innovations!

Free Download Rethinking Knowledge Management: From Knowledge Objects to Knowledge Processes By Mark Aakhus (auth.), Claire R. McInerney, Ronald E. Day (eds.)
2007 | 359 Pages | ISBN: 3540710108 | PDF | 4 MB
Rethinking Knowledge Management: From Knowledge Objects to Knowledge Processes readdresses fundamental issues in knowledge management, leading to a new area of study: knowledge processes. These integrate research across a variety of fields, thus reasserting the fundamental insights of knowledge management in organizations and societies. Knowledge processes go far beyond traditional information acquisition and processing by stressing the importance and creative potential of human expression, communication, and learning for successful economic planning and meaningful personal and social existence.McInerney’s and Day’s superb authors from various disciplines offer new and exciting views on knowledge acquisition, generation, sharing and management in a post-industrial environment. Their contributions discuss problems of knowledge acquisition, handling, and learning from a variety of perspectives. Rather than the traditional notion of stores of knowledge that we hold in our mind, the view presented in this book is that of a constantly changing notion of what we know, of feelings related to that knowledge, and of a more holistic understanding of the act of knowing.

Free Download Andrew Lakoff, "Pharmaceutical Reason: Knowledge and Value in Global Psychiatry"
English | 2006 | pages: 218 | ISBN: 0521546664 | PDF | 1,6 mb
When a French biotechnology company seeks patients in Buenos Aires with bipolar disorder for its gene discovery program, they have unexpected trouble finding enough subjects for the study. In Argentina, the predominant form of mental health expertise – psychoanalysis – does not recognize the legitimacy of bipolar disorder as a diagnostic entity. This problem points to a broader set of political and epistemological debates in global psychiatry. Drawing from an ethnography of psychiatric practice in Buenos Aires, Andrew Lakoff follows the contested extension of novel techniques for understanding and intervening in mental illness. He charts the globalization of the new biomedical psychiatry, and illustrates the clashes, conflicts, alliances, and reformulations that take place when psychoanalytic and biological models of illness and cure meet. Highlighting the social and political implications that new forms of expertise about human behavior and thought bring, Lakoff presents an arresting case study that will appeal to scholars and students alike.

Free Download Multimedia Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery By Valery A. Petrushin (auth.), Valery A. Petrushin MS, PhD, Latifur Khan BS, MS, PhD (eds.)
2007 | 521 Pages | ISBN: 1846284368 | PDF | 12 MB
Multimedia information is ubiquitous and essential in many applications, and repositories of multimedia are numerous and extremely large. Consequently, researchers and professionals need new techniques and tools for extracting the hidden, useful knowledge embedded within multimedia collections, thereby helping them discover relationships between the various elements and using this knowledge in decision-making applications.Multimedia Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery, assembling the work of leading academic and professional/industrial researchers worldwide, provides an overview of the current state-of-the-art in the field of multimedia data mining and knowledge discovery, and discusses the variety of hot topics in multimedia data mining research. Consisting of an introductory section and four topical parts, the book describes the objectives and current tendencies in multimedia data mining research and their applications. Each part contains an overview of its chapters and leads the reader with a structured approach through the diverse subjects in the field.Topics and Features:* Features a comprehensive introduction to multimedia data mining and its relevance today* Presents a global perspective of the field and its various components* Provides broad, yet thorough and detailed coverage of the subject* Numerous chapters reference websites with supplementary materials and demonstrations* Explores multimedia data exploration, multimedia data modeling and evaluation, and visualization* Offers an entire part devoted to applications and case studiesWritten with graduate students in mind, this much needed comprehensive survey of the current state of multimedia data mining and knowledge discovery will also serve as a valuable resource for researchers with interests in multimedia data mining, summarization, indexing, and retrieval.

Free Download Knowledge Networks for Business Growth By Ellen Enkel, Andrea Back, Georg von Krogh (auth.), Georg von Krogh, Professor Dr. Andrea Back, Dr. Ellen Enkel (eds.)
2007 | 226 Pages | ISBN: 3540330720 | PDF | 2 MB
Companies are constantly searching for new ways of creating higher profit and a larger market share. Growth seems to be the most appropriate tactic for surviving economically in difficult times. New instruments and methods as a support to a company’s growth strategy can be essential in gaining a competitive advantage. Knowledge management is one of the answers to this challenge. It can support strategic goals such as the improvement of efficiency, the minimization of risk and an increase in innovation, but also has inherent potentials which have not been leveraged yet. The first part of the book contains three case studis which illustrate the idea of knowledge networks for growth. The step-by-step methodology of the second part shows the reader how to build up and maintain these networks . The templates in the last part of the book ease the adaptation of networks for the reader’s own company or his or her specific business needs.

Free Download Knowledge Management Systems: Information and Communication Technologies for Knowledge Management By Professor Dr. Ronald Maier (auth.)
2007 | 720 Pages | ISBN: 3540714081 | PDF | 6 MB
Information and knowledge have profoundly transformed businesses, organizations and society. Knowledge management promises concepts and instruments that help organizations to provide an environment supportive of knowledge creation, sharing and application. Information and communication technologies are often regarded as the enabler for the effective and especially efficient implementation of knowledge management. The book presents an almost encyclopedic treatise of the many important facets, concepts and theories that have influenced knowledge management and integrates them into a framework consisting of strategy, organization, systems and economics guiding the design of successful initiatives. The third edition particularly extends coverage of the two pillars of implementing knowledge management initiatives, i.e. organization and systems

Free Download Réka Krizmanics, "Historical Knowledge Production Cultures in Late Socialist Hungary and Croatia: Expertise Unsettled"
English | ISBN: 1666933236 | 2024 | 250 pages | PDF | 1161 KB
Historical Knowledge Production Cultures in Late Socialist Hungary and Croatia: Expertise Unsettled offers a comparative study and analysis from the Hungarian case, and integrating academic, party, and popular historiography into a single analytical framework. Narratives concerning the history of the interwar period and the Second World War, and circumstances of their elaboration are at the forefront of this study. Réka Krizmanics argues that even within state socialist Eastern Europe, different enabling and restrictive factors were at play, and investigates the specificities of late socialism while embedding them in the context of their interwar, Stalinist and post-Stalinist legacies. "Expertise Unsettled" refers to the growing peril of historians, who proved to be often divided among themselves, and were increasingly on the defense as a guild, when literature, cinema, and interested non-professionals got involved in making and criticizing narratives of the recent past. Party history and party historians have been often sidelined in intellectual history, but the author argues that their inclusion is crucial both for a more complex understanding of what (late) state socialism meant for historians and to historicize practices of contemporary post-socialist, especially illiberal memory regimes.

Free Download Emerging Technologies in Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining: PAKDD 2007 International Workshops Nanjing, China, May 22-25, 2007 Revised Selected Papers By Joshua Zhexue Huang, Yunming Ye (auth.), Takashi Washio, Zhi-Hua Zhou, Joshua Zhexue Huang, Xiaohua Hu, Jinyan Li, Chao Xie, Jieyue He, Deqing Zou, Kuan-Ching Li, Mário M. Freire (eds.)
2007 | 678 Pages | ISBN: 354077016X | PDF | 13 MB
This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-proceedings of three workshops and an industrial track held in conjunction with the 11th Pacific-Asia Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining, PAKDD 2007, held in Nanjing, China in May 2007.The 62 revised full papers presented together with an overview article to each workshop were carefully reviewed and selected from 355 submissions. The volume contains papers of the PAKDD 2007 industrial track, that promotes industry applications of new data mining techniques, methodologies and systems, the workshop on Data Mining for Biomedical Applications (BioDM 2007), the workshop on High Performance Data Mining and Applications (HPDMA 2007), as well as the workshop on Service, Security and its Data management for Ubiquitous Computing (SSDU 2007).