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On the Shoulders of Giants : New Approaches to Numeracy.

Table of Contents: “…""Mirror Geometry""""Using Symmetry""; ""Lattices""; ""Dissection""; ""Combinatorial Tools""; ""REPRESENTATION""; ""Models""; ""Maps""; ""Shadows and Lenses""; ""Drawing""; ""Image Reconstruction""; ""Computer Graphics""; ""VISUALIZATION""; ""CURRICULAR ISSUES""; ""Forging Connections""; ""Geometry""; ""Studying Shape""; ""The Study of Shape is Interdisciplinary""; ""The Study of Shape is a Laboratory Subject""; ""The Study of Shape is for Everyone""; ""The Study of Shape is Fun""; ""The Study of Shape is Open Ended""; ""REFERENCES AND RECOMMENDED READING""; ""Change""…”
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What intelligence tests miss : the psychology of rational thought by Stanovich, Keith E., 1950-

Table of Contents: “…Inside George W. Bush's mind : hints at what IQ tests miss -- Dysrationalia : separating rationality and intelligence -- The reflective mind, the algorithmic mind, and the autonomous mind -- Cutting intelligence down to size -- Why intelligent people doing foolish things is no surprise -- The cognitive miser : ways to avoid thinking -- Framing and the cognitive miser -- Myside processing : heads I win, tails I win too! …”
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Integration of swarm intelligence and artificial neural network

Table of Contents: “…Dehuri -- Coherent biclusters of microarray data by imitating the ecosystem : an ant colony algorithmic approach / D. Mishra, A.K. …”
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Intelligent Technologies : From Theory to Applications - The New Trends in Computational Intelligence. by Kvasnicka, V.

Table of Contents: “…Neural Networks; Superconvergence Concept in Machine Learning; Application of the Parallel Population Learning Algorithm to Training Feed-forward ANN; Markovian Architectural Bias of Recurrent Neural Networks; SOFM Training Speedup; Generalized Forecasting Sigma-Pi Neural Network; Human Centered Intelligent Robots Using "Ontological Neural Network"; Trajectory Bounds of Solutions of Delayed Cellular Neural Networks Differential Systems; From Plain to Modular Topology: Automatic Modularization of Structured ANNs.…”
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Bio-inspired computation in telecommunications

Table of Contents: “…Bio-inspired optimization algorithms; 1.4.1. SI-Based Algorithms; 1.4.1.1. Ant and bee algorithms; 1.4.1.2. …”
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Handbook of Mathematical Induction. by Gunderson, David S.

Table of Contents: “…Chapter 14: Logic and languageChapter 15: Graphs; Chapter 16: Recursion and algorithms; Chapter 17: Games and recreations; Chapter 18: Relations and functions; Chapter 19: Linear and abstract algebra; Chapter 20: Geometry; Chapter 21: Ramsey theory; Chapter 22: Probability and statistics; Part III: Solutions and hints to exercises; Chapter 23: Solutions: Foundations; Chapter 24: Solutions: Inductive techniques applied to the infinite; Chapter 25: Solutions: Paradoxes and sophisms; Chapter 26: Solutions: Empirical induction; Chapter 27: Solutions: Identities.…”
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Nonparametric Statistics and Mixture Models : a Festschrift in Honor of Thomas P Hettmansperger. by Hunter, David

Table of Contents: “…Estimation of Hazard Functions with Shape Restrictions Using Regression SplinesMultivariate Models and the First Four Moments; An Empirical Study of Indirect Cross-Validation; Extensions of Reliability Theory; Rank Regression under Possible Model Misspecification; Iterative Conditional Maximization Algorithm for Nonconcave Penalized Likelihood; AUTHOR INDEX.…”
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Artificial intelligence : approaches, tools, and applications

Table of Contents: “…EVOLUTIONARY COMPUTING ; 2.1. Genetic Algorithms ; 2.2. Mechanism of a Genetic Algorithm ; 3. …”
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Evolutionary optimization

Table of Contents: “…Cover -- Contents -- Preface -- Contributing Authors -- Part I Introduction -- 1 Conventional Optimization Techniques -- 1 Classifying Optimization Models -- 2 Linear Programming -- 3 Goal Programming -- 4 Integer Programming -- 5 Nonlinear Programming -- 6 Simulation -- 7 Further Reading -- 2 Evolutionary Computation -- 1 What Is Evolutionary Computation -- 2 A Brief Overview of Evolutionary Computation -- 3 Evolutionary Algorithm and Generate-and-Test Search Algorithm -- 4 Search Operators -- 5 Summary -- Part II Single Objective Optimization -- 3 Evolutionary Algorithms and Constrained Optimization -- 1 Introduction -- 2 General considerations -- 3 Numerical optimization -- 4 Final Remarks -- 4 Constrained Evolutionary Optimization -- 1 Introduction -- 2 The Penalty Function Method -- 3 Stochastic Ranking -- 4 Global Competitive Ranking -- 5 How Penalty Methods Work -- 6 Experimental Study -- 7 Conclusion -- Appendix: Test Function Suite -- Part III Multi-Objective Optimization -- 5 Evolutionary Multiobjective Optimization -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Definitions -- 3 Historical Roots -- 4 A Quick Survey of EMOO Approaches -- 5 Current Research -- 6 Future Research Paths -- 7 Summary -- 6 MEA for Engineering Shape Design -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Multi-Objective Optimization and Pareto-Optimality -- 3 Elitist Non-dominated Sorting GA (NSGA-II) -- 4 Hybrid Approach -- 5 Optimal Shape Design -- 6 Simulation Results -- 7 Conclusion -- 7 Assessment Methodologies for MEAs -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Assessment Methodologies -- 3 Discussion -- 4 Comparing Two Algorithms: An Example -- 5 Conclusions and Future Research Paths -- Part IV Hybrid Algorithms -- 8 Hybrid Genetic Algorithms -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Hybridizing GAs with Local Improvement Procedures -- 3 Adaptive Memory GA's -- 4 Summary -- 9 Combining choices of heuristics -- 1 Introduction -- 2 GAs and parameterised algorithms -- 3 Job Shop Scheduling -- 4 Scheduling chicken catching -- 5 Timetabling -- 6 Discussion and future directions -- 10 Nonlinear Constrained Optimization -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Previous Work -- 3 A General Framework to look for SPdn -- 4 Experimental Results -- 5 Conclusions -- Part V Parameter Selection in EAs -- 11 Parameter Selection -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Parameter tuning vs. parameter control -- 3 An example -- 4 Classification of Control Techniques -- 5 Various forms of control -- 6 Discussion -- Part VI Application of EAs to Practical Problems -- 12 Design of Production Facilities -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Design for Material Flow When the Number of I/O Points is Unconstrained -- 3 Design for Material Flow for a Single I/O Point -- 4 Considering Intradepartmental Flow -- 5 Material Handling System Design -- 6 Concluding Remarks -- 13 Virtual Population and Acceleration Techniques -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Concept of Virtual Population -- 3 Solution Acceleration Techniques -- 4 Accelerated GA and Acceleration Sche.…”
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Power and energy systems III : selected, peer reviewed papers from the 2013 3rd International Conference on Power and Energy Systems (ICPES 2013), November 23-24, Bangkok, Thailand

Table of Contents: “…Fracture Failure Mechanism Analysis of LP Second Stage Blades of a Gas TurbineEffect of Temperature Cycling on Stress Relaxation Behavior of Electrical Connector Contacts; Loss Analysis and Calculation Method of the Switched Reluctance Motor; Research on Characteristics of Variable Pitch Offshore Wind Turbine; Analysis of Plastic Optical Fiber Based Daylight System Suitable for Building Applications; Design and Performance of Horizontal Axis Wind Turbine Using Blade Element Momentum Theory (BEMT).…”
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Structure Formation in Astrophysics. by Chabrier, Gilles

Table of Contents: “…3 Numerical methods for radiation magnetohydrodynamics in astrophysicsAbstract; 3.1 Introduction; 3.2 Magnetohydrodynamic algorithms: the Athena code; 3.3 Radiation-hydrodynamic algorithms: the Orion code; 3.4 Adaptive mesh refinement; 3.5 Conclusions and future directions; Acknowledgements; References; 4 The role of jets in the formation of planets, stars and galaxies; Abstract; 4.1 Introduction; 4.2 Jets in diverse systems; 4.3 Theory of disk winds; 4.4 Gravitation.…”
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Computer Aided Methods in Optimal Design and Operations : Vilnius, Lithuania. by Bogle, I. D. L.

Table of Contents: “…General Branch and Bound Algorithm.…”
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Mathematical morphology and its applications to image and signal processing

Table of Contents: “…Geodesic Set Definition in Case of Empty Intersection -- The Morphological-Affine Object Deformation -- Affine Invariant Mathematical Morphology Applied to a Generic Shape Recognition Algorithm -- Filtering -- Folding Induced Self-Dual Filters -- Flexible Linear Openings and Closings -- Some Applications of Aperture Filters -- GA Optimisation of Multidimensional Grey-Scale Soft Morphological Filters with Applications in Archive Film Restoration -- Connectivity and Connected Operators -- New Insight on Digital Topology -- Approximate Connectivity and Mathematical Morphology -- Multiresolution Connectivity: An Axiomatic Approach -- Connected Operators Based on Region-Tree Pruning -- Segmentation -- Image Segmentation Based on the Derivative of the Morphological Profile -- Flooding and Segmentation -- A Morphological Multi-Scale Gradient for Color Image Segmentation -- Automatic Watershed Segmentation of Color Images -- Motion Segmentation using Seeded Region Growing -- A Segmentation Pyramid for the Interactive Segmentation of 3-D Images and Video Sequences -- Partition Lattice Operators for Extraction of Semantic Video Objects -- Texture Analysis -- Morphological Granulometric Deconstruction -- Surface Texture Classification from Morphological Transformations -- Content Dependent Image Sampling using Mathematical Morphology: Application to Mipmapping -- Multiresolution Techniques and Scale-Spaces -- Morphological Pyramids and Wavelets Based on the Quincunx Lattice -- Morphological Scale-Space Operators: An Algebraic Framework -- An Idempotent Scale-Space Approach for Morphological Segmentation -- Algorithms -- Efficient Dilation, Erosion, Opening and Closing Algorithms -- Fast Morphological Attribute Operations using Tarjan's Union-Find Algorithm -- A Change Detector Based on Level Sets -- A General Algorithm for Computing Distance Transforms in Linear Time -- The Ordered Queue and the Optimality of the Watershed Approaches -- Discrete 3D Wave Propagation for Computing Morphological Operations from Surface Patches and Unorganized Points -- Applications -- Two-Stage Lossy/Lossless Compression of Grayscale Document Images -- Boosting OCR Classifier by Optimal Edge Noise Filtering -- Morphological Bank Check Logo Segmentation with Few a Priori Knowledge -- Morphological Pseudo Convex Hull to Correct Handwriting Baseline Skew -- Morphological Segmentation of Text and Figures in Renaissance Books (XVI Century) -- Application of Mathematical Morphology and Markov Random Field Theory to the Automatic Extraction of Linear Features in Airborne Images -- Testing Some Morphological Approaches to Face Localization -- Quantitative Description of Telecommunication Networks by Simulation -- Author Index.…”
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Renewable energy integration : practical management of variability, uncertainty and flexibility in power grids by Jones, Lawrence E.

Table of Contents: “…3 Renewable integration in Europe: Challenges and policy responses4 The story of three pioneers: History and future; 5 Trends & future outlook; References; Chapter 2 -- Policies for Accommodating Higher Penetration of Variable Energy Resources: US Outlook and Perspectives; 1 Recent renewable deployment trends; 2 Technical challenges posed by wind generation for power system operation & planning; 3 Economic challenges associated with high wind energy: the potential for curtailment; 4 Transmission development for wind integration: challenges and success stories.…”
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Applied information and digital image technologies, control and power engineering : selected, peer reviewed papers from the International Conference on Energy Efficient Technologie...

Table of Contents: “…Harmonic Reduction in 3 Phase Diode Clamped Multilevel Inverter by Capacitor Voltage Balancing Using SVM and Fuzzy ControllerPSO Tuned PID-Based Model Reference Adaptive Controller for Coupled Tank System; Performance Analysis and Control of Double Fed Induction Generator Using Modified Direct Power Control Scheme during Nonlinear Loading; Multi-Objective Economic Emission Load Dispatch Solution Using Evolutionary Algorithm with and without Considering Wind Power Penetration and Valve Point Effect…”
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International Conference on Inverse Problems in Engineering 2014. by Szczygiel, Ireneusz

Table of Contents: “…Estimation of the non-lineardiffusion coefficient with MarcovChain Monte Carlo method basedon the integral informationEstimation of the non-linear diffusion coefficient with Marcov Chain Monte Carlo method based on the integral information; RBF-trained POD-accelerated CFD analysis of wind loads on PV systems; Identification of the cancer ablation parameters during RF hyperthermia using gradient, evolutionary and hybrid algorithms; Inverse problem solution for a laser flash studies of a thin layer coatings.…”
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Emerging trends in advanced science : selected, peer reviewed papers from the International Conference on Emerging Trends in Science, Engineering and Technology (ICETSET-2014), Apr...

Table of Contents: “…Emerging Trends in Advanced Science; Preface and Organising Committee; Table of Contents; Analysis, Design and Implementation of DC-DC Boost Converter Using H∞ Loop Shaping Controller; Building Multi-Dimensional Cube to Analyze Public Examination Results: A Business Intelligence Approach; Comparison of Performance Measures of Speed Control for a DC Motor Using Hybrid Intelligent Controller and Optimal LQR; Comparison of Z Source and Embedded Z Source Inverters in Micro Wind Power Generation System; Comparative Analysis of Various Modulation Strategies for Induction Heating System…”
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Handbook of power systems I

Table of Contents: “…Operation planning -- Constructive Dual DP for Reservoir Optimization -- Long- and Medium-term Operations Planning and Stochastic Modelling in Hydro-dominated Power Systems Based on Stochastic Dual Dynamic Programming -- Dynamic Management of Hydropower-Irrigation Systems -- Latest Improvements of EDF Mid-term Power Generation Management -- Large Scale Integration of Wind Power Generation -- Optimization Models in the Natural Gas Industry -- Integrated Electricity-Gas Operations Planning in Long-term Hydroscheduling Based on Stochastic Models -- Recent Progress in Two-stage Mixed-integer Stochastic Programming with Applications to Power Production Planning -- Dealing With Load and Generation Cost Uncertainties in Power System Operation Studies: A Fuzzy Approach -- OBDD-Based Load Shedding Algorithm for Power Systems -- Solution to Short-term Unit Commitment Problem -- A Systems Approach for the Optimal Retrofitting of Utility Networks Under Demand and Market Uncertainties -- Co-Optimization of Energy and Ancillary Service Markets -- Expansion planning -- Investment Decisions Under Uncertainty Using Stochastic Dynamic Programming: A Case Study of Wind Power -- The Integration of Social Concerns into Electricity Power Planning: A Combined Delphi and AHP Approach -- Transmission Network Expansion Planning Under Deliberate Outages -- Long-term and Expansion Planning for Electrical Networks Considering Uncertainties -- Differential Evolution Solution to Transmission Expansion Planning Problem -- Agent-based Global Energy Management Systems for the Process Industry -- Optimal Planning of Distributed Generation via Nonlinear Optimization and Genetic Algorithms.…”
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Special issue on the discreet element method : numerical modeling of discontinue. by Kuhn, Matthew R.

Table of Contents: “…Comparison of experimental and FEM/DEM results for gravitational deposition of identical cubesA 2D polygon/polygon contact model: algorithmic aspects; Selecting a suitable time step for discrete element simulations that use the central difference time integration scheme; Numerical studies of uniaxial powder compaction process by 3D DEM; Thin tunnel liners modelled with particle flow code; Shape selection menu for grand scale discontinua systems.…”
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Microgrids. by Padmanaban, Sanjeevikumar

Table of Contents: “…Wind Power Productions -- 5.1. Wind Energy Conversion System -- 5.2. …”
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