Condition Monitoring Using Computational Intelligence Methods

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Using autoethnographic and autopoetic methods based on analysis of his own experiences of growing up black in Louisiana and then working his way through the "White Ivory Tower," Alexander (communicati

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Joseph Romm, one of Rolling Stone magazine’s top “100 Agents of Change,” has focused his talents on helping us all to increase our Language Intelligence and to better understand the art of persuasion.

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In Ambient Intelligence (AmI) systems, reasoning is fundamental for triggering actions or adaptations according to specific situations that may be meaningful and relevant to some applications. However

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Using a combination of anthropological and psychoanalytic methods, Farrell relates the fantasies of "play-death" to the Renaissance belief that through self-effacement an individual may achieve autono

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This book and its companion volume, LNCS vols. 7331 and 7332, constitute the Proceedings of the Third International conference on Swarm Intelligence, ICSI 2012, held in Shenzhen, China in June 2012. T

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This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 25th Canadian Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Canadian AI 2012, held in Toronto, Canada, in May 2012.The 23 regular papers, 16 short papers

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This book provides an in-depth analysis of UK-US intelligence cooperation in the post-9/11 world.Seeking to connect an analysis of intelligence liaison with the wider realm of Anglo-American Relations

This book is the first full history of South African intelligence and provides a detailed examination of the various stages in the evolution of South Africa’s intelligence organizations and structures

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