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Morgan Kaufmann

  • Parallelism and Programming in Classifier Systems

    • 1st Edition
    • Stephanie Forrest
    • English
    Parallelism and Programming in Classifier Systems deals with the computational properties of the underlying parallel machine, including computational completeness, programming and representation techniques, and efficiency of algorithms. In particular, efficient classifier system implementations of symbolic data structures and reasoning procedures are presented and analyzed in detail. The book shows how classifier systems can be used to implement a set of useful operations for the classification of knowledge in semantic networks. A subset of the KL-ONE language was chosen to demonstrate these operations. Specifically, the system performs the following tasks: (1) given the KL-ONE description of a particular semantic network, the system produces a set of production rules (classifiers) that represent the network; and (2) given the description of a new term, the system determines the proper location of the new term in the existing network. These two parts of the system are described in detail. The implementation reveals certain computational properties of classifier systems, including completeness, operations that are particularly natural and efficient, and those that are quite awkward. The book shows how high-level symbolic structures can be built up from classifier systems, and it demonstrates that the parallelism of classifier systems can be exploited to implement them efficiently. This is significant since classifier systems must construct large sophisticated models and reason about them if they are to be truly ""intelligent."" Parallel organizations are of interest to many areas of computer science, such as hardware specification, programming language design, configuration of networks of separate machines, and artificial intelligence This book concentrates on a particular type of parallel organization and a particular problem in the area of AI, but the principles that are elucidated are applicable in the wider setting of computer science.

  • Minimalist Mobile Robotics

    • 1st Edition
    • Jonathan H. Connell
    • English
    Rather than using traditional artificial intelligence techniques, which are ineffective when applied to the complexities of real-world robot navigaiton, Connell describes a methodology of reconstructing intelligent robots with distributed, multiagent control systems. After presenting this methodology, hte author describes a complex, robust, and successful application-a mobile robot "can collection machine" which operates in an unmodified offifce environment occupied by moving people.

  • Cache and Memory Hierarchy Design

    A Performance Directed Approach
    • 1st Edition
    • Steven A. Przybylski
    • English
    An authoritative book for hardware and software designers. Caches are by far the simplest and most effective mechanism for improving computer performance. This innovative book exposes the characteristics of performance-optimal single and multi-level cache hierarchies by approaching the cache design process through the novel perspective of minimizing execution times. It presents useful data on the relative performance of a wide spectrum of machines and offers empirical and analytical evaluations of the underlying phenomena. This book will help computer professionals appreciate the impact of caches and enable designers to maximize performance given particular implementation constraints.

  • Readings in Speech Recognition

    • 1st Edition
    • Alexander Waibel + 1 more
    • English
    After more than two decades of research activity, speech recognition has begun to live up to its promise as a practical technology and interest in the field is growing dramatically. Readings in Speech Recognition provides a collection of seminal papers that have influenced or redirected the field and that illustrate the central insights that have emerged over the years. The editors provide an introduction to the field, its concerns and research problems. Subsequent chapters are devoted to the main schools of thought and design philosophies that have motivated different approaches to speech recognition system design. Each chapter includes an introduction to the papers that highlights the major insights or needs that have motivated an approach to a problem and describes the commonalities and differences of that approach to others in the book.

  • Readings in Planning

    • 1st Edition
    • James Allen + 2 more
    • English
    Readings in Planning

  • A General Explanation-Based Learning Mechanism and its Application to Narrative Understanding

    • 1st Edition
    • Raymond J. Mooney
    • English

  • Proceedings 1989 VLDB Conference

    15th International Conference on Very Large Data Bases
    • 1st Edition
    • VLDB
    • English
    Proceedings of the 15th International Conference (see title), August 1989, Amsterdam, The Netherlands. Contains forty-five papers from worldwide contributors which explore fundamental issues and current developments parallelism, interfaces, statistics, and programming languages.

  • Database Programming Languages 2nd

    • 1st Edition
    • Richard Hull + 2 more
    • English

  • An Introduction to Ray Tracing

    • 1st Edition
    • Andrew S. Glassner
    • English
    The creation of ever more realistic 3-D images is central to the development of computer graphics. The ray tracing technique has become one of the most popular and powerful means by which photo-realistic images can now be created. The simplicity, elegance and ease of implementation makes ray tracing an essential part of understanding and exploiting state-of-the-art computer graphics.An Introduction to Ray Tracing develops from fundamental principles to advanced applications, providing "how-to" procedures as well as a detailed understanding of the scientific foundations of ray tracing. It is also richly illustrated with four-color and black-and-white plates. This is a book which will be welcomed by all concerned with modern computer graphics, image processing, and computer-aided design.

  • Data and Knowledge Bases

    Proceedings of the Third International Conference
    • 1st Edition
    • Catriel Beeri + 2 more
    • English

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