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The author of the best-selling $20 Per Gallon traces the rise of computerized decision making to explore how it has become a pervasive aspect of life, revealing how cleverly designed bots are helping
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This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 9th Conference on Computability in Europe, CiE 2013, held in Milan, Italy, in July 2013. The 48 revised papers presented together with 1 invited l
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This volume provides approaches and solutions to challenges occurring at the interface of research fields such as, e.g., data analysis, data mining and knowledge discovery, computer science, operation
