A concise overview of this multidisciplinary field, presenting key concepts, central issues, and current research, along with concrete examples and case studies.The emergence of the environmental huma
An argument that agreement and agreementless languages are unified under an expanded view of grammatical features including both phi-features and certain discourse configurational features. Much att
The Italian philosopher Giorgio Agamben has always been an original reader of texts, understanding their many rich historical, aesthetic, and political meanings and effects. InProfanations, Agamben ha
In this long-awaited book, Claudio Lomnitz tells a groundbreaking story about theexperiences and ideology of American and Mexican revolutionary collaborators of the Mexicananarchist Ricardo Flores Mag
In The Geometry of Meaning, Peter Gardenfors proposes a theory ofsemantics that bridges cognitive science and linguistics and shows how theories of cognitiveprocesses, in particular concept formation,
In The Aesthetics of Imagination in Design, Mads Folkmanninvestigates design in both material and immaterial terms. Design objects, Folkmann argues, willalways be dual phenomena -- material and immate
Multiagent systems are made up of multiple interacting intelligent agents -- computational entities to some degree autonomous and able to cooperate, compete, communicate, act flexibly, and exercise co
Garbage, considered both materially and culturally, elicits mixed responses. Ourresponsibility toward the objects we love and then discard is entangled with our responsibilitytoward the systems that m
Garbage, considered both materially and culturally, elicits mixed responses. Ourresponsibility toward the objects we love and then discard is entangled with our responsibilitytoward the systems that m
The interplay between optimization and machine learning is one of the most importantdevelopments in modern computational science. Optimization formulations and methods are proving tobe vital in design
Robotics: Science and Systems VI spans a wide spectrum of robotics, bringing togetherresearchers working on the foundations of robotics, robotics applications, and the analysis ofrobotics systems. Thi
In The Connectives, Lloyd Humberstone examines the semantics and pragmatics ofnatural language sentence connectives (and, or, if, not), giving special attention to their formalbehavior according to pr
Ludwig Wittgenstein’s Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus (1922) and Philosophical Investigations (1953) are among the most influential philosophical books of the twentieth century, and also among t
Combining formal argument with informal conversations and design proposals, Architecture at the Edge of Everything Else offers creative ideas for "thinking and acting architecture differently.&q
This rich collection of writings by pioneering digital artist Mark Amerika mixes (and remixes) personal memoir, net art theory, fictional narrative, satirical reportage, scholarly history, and networ
Online decision making under uncertainty and time constraints represents one of the most challenging problems for robust intelligent agents. In an increasingly dynamic, interconnected, and real-time
Analysis of climate change policy innovations across North America at transnational, federal, state, and local levels, involving public, private, and civic actors. North American policy responses to
This reprint of Hartree's principal work also includes his inaugural Cambridge lecture, Calculating Machines: Recent and Prospective Developments and Their Impact on Mathematical Physics, which is ext
Service-Oriented Computing (SOC) promises a world of cooperating services loosely connected, creating dynamic business processes and agile applications that span organizations and platforms. As a com
This volume offers researchers and engineers practical solutions for learning from large-scale datasets, with detailed descriptions of algorithms and experiments carried out on realistically large dat
Twentieth-century artist Joseph Beuys (1921-1986)—legendary and self-mythologizing, enigmatic and controversial—remains an important influence on artists today. Beuys embraced radically d
Leading American and European economists discuss monetary and fiscal policy from an international macroeconomic perspective in a companion volume to the NBER Macroeconomics Annual: cutting-edge resear
This rich collection of writings by pioneering digital artist Mark Amerika mixes (and remixes) personal memoir, net art theory, fictional narrative, satirical reportage, scholarly history, and networ
Signal processing and neural computation have separately and significantly influencedmany disciplines, but the cross-fertilization of the two fields has begun only recently. Researchnow shows that eac
As our social institutions migrate into cyberspace, the digitally disenfranchisedface increasing hardships. What happens when -- in search of quick and cheap fixes -- a governmentoffice shuts down and
In this original and provocative study of computational creativity in music, David Cope asks whether computer programs can effectively model creativity—and whether computer programs themselves
Discussions of the different theoretical and empirical paradigms for setting and predicting exchange rates. Recent theoretical developments in exchange rate economics have led to important new insig
Lessons from database research have been applied in academic fields ranging frombioinformatics to next-generation Internet architecture and in industrial uses including Web-basede-commerce and search
This book shows how to understand our interactions with technology: considering the emotional, intellectual, and sensual aspects of the user experience.In "Technology as Experience", John McCarthy and
This book provides a comprehensive economic assessment of institutional investment. It charts the development and performance of the asset management industry and analyzes the implications of rising
Machine Musicianship is both a programming tutorial and an exploration of the foundational concepts of musical analysis, performance, and composition. The theoretical foundations are derived from the
Visual Reconstruction presents a unified and highly original approach to thetreatment of continuity in vision. It introduces, analyzes, and illustrates two new concepts. Thefirst -- the weak continuit
The NBER Macroeconomics Annual presents, extends, and applies pioneering work inmacroeconomics and stimulates work by macroeconomists on important policy issues. Each paper in theAnnual is followed by
A study of two bridges between science and society: governmental science policy and scientists' voluntary public-interest associations. According to a widespread stereotype, scientists occupy an ivo
A study of two bridges between science and society: governmental science policy and scientists' voluntary public-interest associations. According to a widespread stereotype, scientists occupy an ivo
Comprehensive guides to the latest Beowulf tools and methodologies. Beowulf clusters, which exploit mass-market PC hardware and software in conjunction with cost-effective commercial network technolog
A model for strategic negotiation for intelligent agents.As computers advance from isolated workstations to linked elements in complex communities of systems and people, cooperation and coordination v
Bernd and Hilla Becher have profoundly influenced the international photography world over the past several decades. Their unique genre, which falls somewhere between topological documentation and co
A great deal of research has focused on the role of governments, nongovernmental organizations, and advocacy groups in promoting environmental ideologies. Researchers and activists have generally assu
The term "eco-efficiency" describes business activities that create economic valuewhile reducing ecological impact and resource use. This book outlines the principles ofeco-efficiency and presents cas
