Welcome to our book review site go-pdf.online!

You may have to Search all our reviewed books and magazines, click the sign up button below to create a free account.

Sign up

Statistical Approaches for Hidden Variables in Ecology
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 258

Statistical Approaches for Hidden Variables in Ecology

The study of ecological systems is often impeded by components that escape perfect observation, such as the trajectories of moving animals or the status of plant seed banks. These hidden components can be efficiently handled with statistical modeling by using hidden variables, which are often called latent variables. Notably, the hidden variables framework enables us to model an underlying interaction structure between variables (including random effects in regression models) and perform data clustering, which are useful tools in the analysis of ecological data. This book provides an introduction to hidden variables in ecology, through recent works on statistical modeling as well as on estimation in models with latent variables. All models are illustrated with ecological examples involving different types of latent variables at different scales of organization, from individuals to ecosystems. Readers have access to the data and R codes to facilitate understanding of the model and to adapt inference tools to their own data.

Agroecological Transitions: From Theory to Practice in Local Participatory Design
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 335

Agroecological Transitions: From Theory to Practice in Local Participatory Design

  • Type: Book
  • -
  • Published: 2019-02-28
  • -
  • Publisher: Springer

This Open Access book presents feedback from the ‘Territorial Agroecological Transition in Action’- TATA-BOX research project, which was devoted to these specific issues. The multidisciplinary and multi-organisation research team steered a four-year action-research process in two territories of France. It also presents: i) the key dimensions to be considered when dealing with agroecological transition: diversity of agriculture models, management of uncertainties, polycentric governance, autonomies, and role of actors’ networks; ii) an operational and original participatory process and associated boundary tools to support local stakeholders in shifting from a shared diagnosis to a shared action plan for transition, and in so doing developing mutual understanding and involvement; iii) an analysis of the main effects of the methodology on research organisation and on stakeholders’ development and application; iv) critical analysis and foresights on the main outcomes of TATA-BOX, provided by external researchers.

Statistical Methods for Spatio-Temporal Systems
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 314

Statistical Methods for Spatio-Temporal Systems

  • Type: Book
  • -
  • Published: 2006-10-20
  • -
  • Publisher: CRC Press

Statistical Methods for Spatio-Temporal Systems presents current statistical research issues on spatio-temporal data modeling and will promote advances in research and a greater understanding between the mechanistic and the statistical modeling communities. Contributed by leading researchers in the field, each self-contained chapter starts w

ECAI 2012
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 1056

ECAI 2012

  • Type: Book
  • -
  • Published: 2012-08-15
  • -
  • Publisher: IOS Press

Artificial intelligence (AI) plays a vital part in the continued development of computer science and informatics. The AI applications employed in fields such as medicine, economics, linguistics, philosophy, psychology and logical analysis, not forgetting industry, are now indispensable for the effective functioning of a multitude of systems. This book presents the papers from the 20th biennial European Conference on Artificial Intelligence, ECAI 2012, held in Montpellier, France, in August 2012. The ECAI conference remains Europe's principal opportunity for researchers and practitioners of Artificial Intelligence to gather and to discuss the latest trends and challenges in all subfields of A...

Principles and Practice of Constraint Programing-CP 2013
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 916

Principles and Practice of Constraint Programing-CP 2013

  • Type: Book
  • -
  • Published: 2013-09-07
  • -
  • Publisher: Springer

This book constitutes the refereed conference proceedings of the 18th International Conference on Principles and Practice of Constraint Programming (CP 2013), held in Uppsala, Sweden, in September 2013. The 61 revised papers presented together with 3 invited talks were carefully selected from 138 submissions. The scope of the conference is on all aspects of computing with constraints, including: theory, algorithms, environments, languages, models and systems, applications such as decision making, resource allocation, and agreement technologies.

Model-Based Clustering and Classification for Data Science
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 446

Model-Based Clustering and Classification for Data Science

Colorful example-rich introduction to the state-of-the-art for students in data science, as well as researchers and practitioners.

PRIMA 2015: Principles and Practice of Multi-Agent Systems
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 725

PRIMA 2015: Principles and Practice of Multi-Agent Systems

  • Type: Book
  • -
  • Published: 2015-10-20
  • -
  • Publisher: Springer

This book constitutes the proceedings of the 18th International Conference on Principles and Practice of Multi-Agent Systems, PRIMA 2015, held in Bertinoro, Italy, in October 2015. The 29 full papers and 24 short papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 94 submissions. The conference brings together active researchers, developers and practitioners from both academia and industry to showcase, share and promote research in several domains, ranging from foundations of agent theory and engineering aspects of agent systems, to emerging interdisciplinary areas of agent-based research.

ECAI 2014
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 1264

ECAI 2014

  • Type: Book
  • -
  • Published: 2014-08
  • -
  • Publisher: IOS Press

The role of artificial intelligence (AI) applications in fields as diverse as medicine, economics, linguistics, logical analysis and industry continues to grow in scope and importance. AI has become integral to the effective functioning of much of the technical infrastructure we all now take for granted as part of our daily lives. This book presents the papers from the 21st biennial European Conference on Artificial Intelligence, ECAI 2014, held in Prague, Czech Republic, in August 2014. The ECAI conference remains Europe's principal opportunity for researchers and practitioners of Artificial Intelligence to gather and to discuss the latest trends and challenges in all subfields of AI, as we...

ECAI 2006
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 892

ECAI 2006

  • Type: Book
  • -
  • Published: 2006-08-10
  • -
  • Publisher: IOS Press

In the summer of 1956, John McCarthy organized the famous Dartmouth Conference which is now commonly viewed as the founding event for the field of Artificial Intelligence. During the last 50 years, AI has seen a tremendous development and is now a well-established scientific discipline all over the world. Also in Europe AI is in excellent shape, as witnessed by the large number of high quality papers in this publication. In comparison with ECAI 2004, there’s a strong increase in the relative number of submissions from Distributed AI / Agents and Cognitive Modelling. Knowledge Representation & Reasoning is traditionally strong in Europe and remains the biggest area of ECAI-06. One reason the figures for Case-Based Reasoning are rather low is that much of the high quality work in this area has found its way into prestigious applications and is thus represented under the heading of PAIS.