World of Warcraft is more than a game. There is no ultimate goal,no winning hand, no princess to be rescued. WoW is an immersive virtual world inwhich characters must cope in a dangerous environment,
Ethnography and Virtual Worlds is the only book of its kind--a concise, comprehensive, and practical guide for students, teachers, designers, and scholars interested in using ethnographic methods to s
This book is the culmination of 7 years of experience in running Java on VMware vSphere both internally at VMware and at VMware customer sites. In fact many of VMware’s customers run critical enterpri
Tells of a dystopian future - the machine has taken over the lives of men and it has an uncomfortable resonance when so much human activity depends on computers.
Ethnography and Virtual Worlds is the only book of its kind--a concise, comprehensive, and practical guide for students, teachers, designers, and scholars interested in using ethnographic methods to s
Today's Web-enabled deluge of electronic data calls for automated methods of dataanalysis. Machine learning provides these, developing methods that can automatically detect patternsin data and then us
This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-conference proceedings of the First International Conference on Virtual and Networked Organizations, Emergent Technologies, and Tools, ViNOrg 2011,he
This two-volume set LNAI 7523 and LNAI 7524 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the European Conference on Machine Learning and Knowledge Discovery in Databases: ECML PKDD 2012, held in Bristol, U
This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Intelligent Virtual Agents, IVA 2012, held in Santa Cruz, CA, USA, in September 2012. The 17 revised full papers
Bob's just moved in near his granddad. He finds everything boring until he discovers a time machine in his granddad's attic. Bob and his new friend, Tom, are sent on a mission to stop Bob's evil great
Bob's just moved in near his granddad. He finds everything boring until he discovers a time machine in his granddad's attic. Bob and his new friend, Tom, are sent on a mission to stop Bob's evil great
This book presents fundamental topics and algorithms that form the core of machine learning (ML) research, as well as emerging paradigms in intelligent system design. The multidisciplinary nature of
A deep underground machine awakens after thousands of years and foretells ominous events including a catastrophic prediction involving Richard Rahl and Kahlan Amnell.
Reinforcement and Systemic Machine Learning for Decision MakingThere are always difficulties in making machines that learn from experience. Complete information is not always availableor it beco
Most of the contributors are in education, instructional systems, and communications and are concerned with the media for virtual learning, but others are from professions that would be taught through
The 21 papers in this collection develop new algorithms for helping machines learn from previous data and describe the application of machine learning algorithms to image retrieval, computer vision, h
Today's new social and virtual platforms and technologies can help you transform the way you market through tradeshows, exhibits, and events - helping you supercharge performance on every metric that
"This book examines a variety of issues related to virtual communities and social networking, addressing issues related to team identification, leader-member issues, social networking for education, p
The Penguin English Library Edition of The Time Machine by H. G. Wells 'Great shapes like big machines rose out of the dimness, and cast grotesque black shadows, in which dim spectral Morlocks shelter
In 1934, New York’s Museum of Modern Art staged a major exhibition of ball bearings, airplane propellers, pots and pans, cocktail tumblers, petri dishes, protractors, and other machine parts and produ
