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In a nutshell, this book treats the methods, structures, and cases on the representation(s) of the environment in multi-agent systems. The individual agents in the systems are based on the Interactivist-Expectative Theory of Agency and Learning (IETAL). During their sojourn in the environment, the agents interact with it and build their intrinsic...
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This book will give the reader a perspective into the core theory and practice of data mining and knowledge discovery (DM and KD). Its chapters combine many theoretical foundations for various DM and KD methods, and they present a rich array of examples – many of which are drawn from real-life applications. Most of the theoretical...
The book supports the developers of services and applications for mobile phones, PDAs and smart phones. This new emerging domain is characterized by a very fast pace of change in the underlying technology, exposing products and applications to a constant risk of obsolescence. The relative youth of this field means that knowledge is comparatively...
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