Search Results - (((((((kant OR wants) OR anti) OR markant) OR cantor) OR anne) OR shared) OR hints) algorithms.

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    A Case for the Existence of God. by Overman, Dean L.

    Published 2008
    Table of Contents: “…A CASE FOR THE EXISTENCE OF GOD; ABRIDGED CONTENTS; CONTENTS; FOREWORD; PREFACE; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; Chapter 01: INTRODUCTION; Chapter 02: THE QUESTION OF GOD'S EXISTENCE; Chapter 03: MANY GENERATIONS OF PHILOSOPHERS HAVE MADE THE MISTAKE OF ASSUMING HUME AND KANT'S OBJECTIONS DISPOSED OF THE COSMOLOGICAL ARGUMENT; Chapter 04: A UNIVERSE WITH AN INFINITE PAST WOULD STILL REQUIRE A NECESSARY BEING TO SUSTAIN ITS EXISTENCE; Chapter 05: BECAUSE THE UNIVERSE (OR MULTIVERSE) HAD A BEGINNING, IT IS CONTINGENT AND HAS A CAUSE FOR ITS COMING INTO EXISTENCE.…”
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    Mechanisms and games for dynamic spectrum allocation

    Published 2013
    Table of Contents: “…7.3.10 Other equilibrium concepts -- 7.4 Learning equilibria -- 7.4.1 Learning Nash equilibria -- 7.4.2 Learning epsilon-equilibrium -- 7.4.3 Learning coarse correlated equilibrium -- 7.4.4 Learning satisfaction equilibrium -- 7.4.5 Discussion -- 7.5 Conclusion -- References -- II Cognitive radio and sharing of unlicensed spectrum -- 8 Cooperation in cognitiveradio networks: from accessto monitoring -- 8.1 Introduction -- 8.1.1 Cooperation in cognitive radio: mutual benefits and costs -- 8.2 An overview of coalitional game theory -- 8.3 Cooperative spectrum exploration and exploitation -- 8.3.1 Motivation -- 8.3.2 Basic problem -- 8.3.3 Joint sensing and access as a cooperative game -- 8.3.4 Coalition formation algorithm for joint sensing and access -- 8.3.5 Numerical results -- 8.4 Cooperative primary user activity monitoring -- 8.4.1 Motivation -- 8.4.2 Primary user activity monitoring: basic model -- 8.4.3 Cooperative primary user monitoring -- 8.4.4 Numerical results -- 8.5 Summary -- Acknowledgements -- Copyright notice -- References -- 9 Cooperative cognitive radios with diffusion networks -- 9.1 Introduction -- 9.2 Preliminaries -- 9.2.1 Basic tools in convex and matrix analysis -- 9.2.2 Graphs -- 9.3 Distributed spectrum sensing -- 9.4 Iterative consensus-based approaches -- 9.4.1 Average consensus algorithms -- 9.4.2 Acceleration techniques for iterative consensus algorithms -- 9.4.3 Empirical evaluation -- 9.5 Consensus techniques based on CoMAC -- 9.6 Adaptive distributed spectrum sensing based on adaptive subgradient techniques -- 9.6.1 Distributed detection with adaptive filters -- 9.6.2 Set-theoretic adaptive filters for distributed detection -- 9.6.3 Empirical evaluation -- 9.7 Channel probing -- 9.7.1 Introduction -- 9.7.2 Admissibility problem -- 9.7.3 Power and admission control algorithms.…”
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    Handbook of power systems. II

    Published 2010
    Table of Contents: “…Cover -- Handbook of Power Systems II13; -- Preface of Volume II13; -- Contents of Volume II13; -- Contents13; of Volume I -- Contributors13; -- Part I Transmission and Distribution Modeling -- Recent Developments in Optimal Power Flow Modeling Techniques -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Physical Network Representation -- 3 Operational Constraints -- 4 Tap-Changing and Regulating Transformers -- 5 FACTS Devices -- 6 OPF Objective Functions and Formulations -- 7 OPF Solution Techniques -- 8 Numerical Examples -- 9 Conclusion -- References -- Algorithms for Finding Optimal Flows in Dynamic Networks -- 1 Optimal Dynamic Network Flow Models and Power Industry -- 2 Minimum Cost Dynamic Single: Commodity Flow Problems and Algorithms for Their Solving -- 3 Minimum Cost Dynamic Multicommodity Flow Problems and Algorithms for Their Solving -- References -- Signal Processing for Improving Power Quality -- 1 Wavelet-based Algorithm for Harmonics Analysis -- 2 Wavelet-based Algorithm for Nonstationary Power System Waveform Analysis -- 3 Wavelet-GA-ANN Based Hybrid Model for Accurate Prediction of Short-term Load Forecast -- 4 Conclusions -- References -- Transmission Valuation Analysis based on Real Options with Price Spikes -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Behavior of Commodity Prices -- 3 Valuation of Obligations and Options -- 4 Valuation in the Presence of Spikes -- 5 Conclusions -- References -- Part II Forecasting in Energy -- Short-term Forecasting in Power Systems: A Guided Tour -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Electricity Load Forecasting -- 3 Wind Power Forecasting -- 4 Forecasting Electricity Prices -- 5 Conclusions -- References -- State-of-the-Art of Electricity Price Forecasting in a Grid Environment -- 1 Introduction -- 2 State-of-the-Art Techniques of Electricity Price Forecasting -- 3 Input8211;Output Specifications of Electricity Price Forecasting Techniques -- 4 Comparing Existing Statistical Techniques for Electricity Price Forecasting -- 5 Implementations of Electricity Price Forecasting in a Grid Environment -- 6 Conclusions -- References -- Modelling the Structure of Long-Term Electricity Forward Prices at Nord Pool -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Long-term Forward Price Process -- 3 Model Estimation -- 4 Conclusions -- References -- Hybrid Bottom-Up/Top-Down Modeling of Prices in Deregulated Wholesale Power Markets -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Top-Down Models for Electricity Price Forecasting -- 3 Hybrid Bottom-Up/Top-Down Modeling -- 4 A Hybrid Model for the New Zealand Electricity Market -- 5 A Hybrid Model for the Australian Electricity Market -- 6 Conclusions -- References -- Part III Energy Auctions and Markets -- Agent-based Modeling and Simulation of Competitive Wholesale Electricity Markets -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Agent-based Modeling and Simulation -- 3 Behavioral Modeling -- 4 Market Modeling -- 5 Conclusions -- References -- Futures Market Trading for Electricity Producers and Retailers -- 1 Introduction: Futures Market Trading -- 2 Producer Trading -- 3 Retailer Trading -- 4 Conclusions -- References -- A Decision Support System for Generation Planning and Operation in Electricity Markets -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Long-term Stochastic Market Planning Model -- 3 Medium-term Stochastic Hydrothermal Coordination Model -- 4 Medium-term Stochastic Simulation Model -- T$29828.…”
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    There's Something about Gödel : The Complete Guide to the Incompleteness Theorem. by Berto, Francesco

    Published 2009
    Table of Contents: “…. -- 6 ... and the unsatisfied logicists, Frege and Russell -- 7 Bits of set theory -- 8 The Abstraction Principle -- 9 Bytes of set theory -- 10 Properties, relations, functions, that is, sets again -- 11 Calculating, computing, enumerating, that is, the notion of algorithm…”
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    Getting Started with Greenplum for Big Data Analytics. by Gollapudi, Sunila

    Published 2013
    Table of Contents: “…Greenplum Unified Analytics Platform (UAP) -- Big Data analytics -- platform requirements -- Greenplum Unified Analytics Platform (UAP) -- Core components -- Greenplum Database -- Hadoop (HD) -- Chorus -- Command Center -- Modules -- Database modules -- HD modules -- Data Integration Accelerator (DIA) modules -- Core architecture concepts -- Data warehousing -- Column-oriented databases -- Parallel versus distributed computing/processing -- Shared nothing, massive parallel processing (MPP) systems, and elastic scalability -- Shared disk data architecture -- Shared memory data architecture -- Shared nothing data architecture -- Data loading patterns -- Greenplum UAP components -- Greenplum Database -- The Greenplum Database physical architecture -- The Greenplum high-availability architecture -- High-speed data loading using external tables.…”
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    High Performance Computing Systems and Applications & OSCAR Symposium. by International Symposium on High Performance Computing Systems and Applications (17th : 2003 : Sherbrooke, Quebec)

    Published 2003
    Table of Contents: “…""Table of Contents / Table des matières""; ""Preface""; ""Préface""; ""Symposium Organizers / Comité organisateur""; ""Program Committee / Comité scientifique""; ""Part I: Applications / Partie I: applications""; ""Concurrent Computation and Time Complexity Bounds for Algebraic Fractals""; ""Fast Algorithm to Estimate Dense Disparity Fields""; ""Evolutionary Grids of Interacting Stellar Binaries Containing Neutron Star Accretors""; ""HYDRA-MPI: An Adaptive Particle-Particle, Particle-Mesh Code for Conducting Cosmological Simulations on MPP Architectures""…”
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    Innovative development of industrial manufacturing : selected, peer reviewed papers from the 2014 International Conference on Mechanics, Mechatronics and Materials Research (ICM3R...

    Published 2015
    Table of Contents: “…Nonlinear Response of Carbon-Carbon Laminated Panels to Random Acoustic Excitation under a Gradient Temperature FieldDiscussion on the Complicated Topological Dynamic System of Ordinary Differential Equation (ODE); Design and Simulation Analysis of One-Dimension Projectile Trajectory Corrector for Mortar Shell; Chapter 2: Materials and Processing Technologies; Research on the Anti-Rust Mechanism of T704; Optimization of Anhydrous Coolant's Base Fluid and the Evaluation of Low Temperature Performance; A Simulation Based Study on Gate Oxide Breakdown Characteristics for NMOS.…”
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    Hands-On Reinforcement Learning with Python : Master Reinforcement and Deep Reinforcement Learning Using OpenAI Gym and TensorFlow. by Ravichandiran, Sudharsan

    Published 2018
    Table of Contents: “…Solving the taxi problem using Q learningSARSA; Solving the taxi problem using SARSA; The difference between Q learning and SARSA; Summary; Questions; Further reading; Chapter 6: Multi-Armed Bandit Problem; The MAB problem; The epsilon-greedy policy; The softmax exploration algorithm; The upper confidence bound algorithm; The Thompson sampling algorithm; Applications of MAB; Identifying the right advertisement banner using MAB; Contextual bandits; Summary; Questions; Further reading; Chapter 7: Deep Learning Fundamentals; Artificial neurons; ANNs; Input layer; Hidden layer; Output layer.…”
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    Enterprise artificial intelligence transformation : a playbook for the next generation of business and technology leaders by Haq, Rashed

    Published 2020
    Table of Contents: “…Types of Uses for Machine Learning -- Types of Machine Learning Algorithms -- Supervised, Unsupervised, and Semisupervised Learning -- Making Data More Useful -- Semantic Reasoning -- Applications of AI -- PART II Artificial Intelligence in the Enterprise -- Chapter 3 AI in E-Commerce and Retail -- Digital Advertising -- Marketing and Customer Acquisition -- Cross-Selling, Up-Selling, and Loyalty -- Business-to-Business Customer Intelligence -- Dynamic Pricing and Supply Chain Optimization -- Digital Assistants and Customer Engagement -- Chapter 4 AI in Financial Services -- Anti-Money Laundering.…”
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    Cryptography 101 : From Theory to Practice. by Oppliger, Rolf

    Published 2021
    Table of Contents: “…12.2.3 Asymmetric Encryption-Based Key Distribution Protocol -- 12.3 KEY AGREEMENT -- 12.4 QUANTUM CRYPTOGRAPHY -- 12.4.1 Basic Principles -- 12.4.2 Quantum Key Exchange Protocol -- 12.4.3 Historical and Recent Developments -- 12.5 FINAL REMARKS -- References -- Chapter 13 Asymmetric Encryption -- 13.1 INTRODUCTION -- 13.2 PROBABILISTIC ENCRYPTION -- 13.2.1 Algorithms -- 13.2.2 Assessment -- 13.3 ASYMMETRIC ENCRYPTION SYSTEMS -- 13.3.1 RSA -- 13.3.2 Rabin -- 13.3.3 Elgamal -- 13.3.4 Cramer-Shoup -- 13.4 IDENTITY-BASED ENCRYPTION -- 13.5 FULLY HOMOMORPHIC ENCRYPTION -- 13.6 FINAL REMARKS -- References -- Chapter 14 Digital Signatures -- 14.1 INTRODUCTION -- 14.2 DIGITAL SIGNATURE SYSTEMS -- 14.2.1 RSA -- 14.2.2 PSS and PSS-R -- 14.2.3 Rabin -- 14.2.4 Elgamal -- 14.2.5 Schnorr -- 14.2.6 DSA -- 14.2.7 ECDSA -- 14.2.8 Cramer-Shoup -- 14.3 IDENTITY-BASED SIGNATURES -- 14.4 ONE-TIME SIGNATURES -- 14.5 VARIANTS -- 14.5.1 Blind Signatures -- 14.5.2 Undeniable Signatures -- 14.5.3 Fail-Stop Signatures -- 14.5.4 Group Signatures -- 14.6 FINAL REMARKS -- References -- Chapter 15 Zero-Knowledge Proofs of Knowledge -- 15.1 INTRODUCTION -- 15.2 ZERO-KNOWLEDGE AUTHENTICATION PROTOCOLS -- 15.2.1 Fiat-Shamir -- 15.2.2 Guillou-Quisquater -- 15.2.3 Schnorr -- 15.3 NONINTERACTIVE ZERO-KNOWLEDGE -- 15.4 FINAL REMARKS -- References -- Part IV CONCLUSIONS -- Chapter 16 Key Management -- 16.1 INTRODUCTION -- 16.1.1 Key Generation -- 16.1.2 Key Distribution -- 16.1.3 Key Storage -- 16.1.4 Key Destruction -- 16.2 SECRET SHARING -- 16.2.1 Shamir's System -- 16.2.2 Blakley's System -- 16.2.3 Verifiable Secret Sharing -- 16.2.4 Visual Cryptography -- 16.3 KEY RECOVERY -- 16.4 CERTIFICATE MANAGEMENT -- 16.4.1 Introduction -- 16.4.2 X.509 Certificates -- 16.4.3 OpenPGP Certificates -- 16.4.4 State of the Art -- 16.5 FINAL REMARKS -- References -- Chapter 17 Summary.…”
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    Innovations in Material Science, Applied Mechanics, Control and Information Technologies

    Published 2015
    Table of Contents: “…Identifying Significant Control Factors of Particle Swarm Optimization Algorithms in Solving Permutation Flowshop Scheduling Problems; Energy Optimal Control of PMSM Drive for Time-Varying Load Torque; Anti-Theft and Temperature Control of Car Wheel; The Measurement of the Fatigue Crack-Tip Displacement and Strain Fields under High Frequency Resonant Loading Applying DIC Method; Comparative Investigation of an Automated Oceanic Wave Surface Glider Robot Influence on Resistance Prediction Using CFD Method; Optimal the Multiple Performances in EDM for SKH57 Using Grey Relational Analysis.…”
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    Smart buildings, smart communities and demand response

    Published 2021
    Table of Contents: “…Demand Response in Smart Zero Energy Buildings and Grids / Nikos Kampelis -- DR in Smart and Near-zero Energy Buildings: The Leaf Community / Nikos Kampelis, Konstantinos Gobakis, Vagias Vagias, Denia Kolokotsa, Laura Standardi, Daniela Isidori, Cristina Cristalli, Fabio Maria Montagnino, Filippo Paredes, Pietro Muratore, Luca Venezia, Marina Kyprianou Dracou, Alaric Montenon, Andri Pyrgou, Theoni Karlessi, Mattheos Santamouris -- Performance of Industrial and Residential Near-zero Energy Buildings / Nikos Kampelis, Konstantinos Gobakis, Vagias Vagias, Denia Kolokotsa, Laura Standardi, Daniela Isidori, Cristina Cristalli, Fabio Maria Montagnino, Filippo Paredes, Pietro Muratore, Luca Venezia, Marina Kyprianou Dracou, Alaric Montenon, Andri Pyrgou, Theoni Karlessi, Mattheos Santamouris -- HVAC Optimization Genetic Algorithm for Industrial Near-Zero Energy Building Demand Response / Nikos Kampelis, Nikolaos Sifakis, Denia Kolokotsa, Konstantinos Gobakis, Konstantinos Kalaitzakis, Daniela Isidori, Cristina Cristalli -- Smart Grid/Community Load Shifting GA Optimization Based on Day-ahead ANN Power Predictions / Nikos Kampelis, Elisavet Tsekeri, Denia Kolokotsa, Konstantinos Kalaitzakis, Daniela Isidori, Cristina Cristalli -- Conclusions and Recommendations.…”
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    Selected papers of Alan Hoffman with commentary by Hoffman, Alan J.

    Published 2003
    Table of Contents: “…Fulkerson and Rosa Oppenheim -- A generalization of max flow-min cut -- On lattice polyhedra III: blockers and anti-blockers of lattice clutters -- Local unimodularity in the matching polytope / with Rosa Oppenheim -- A fast algorithm that makes matrices optimally sparse / with S. …”
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    The Theory of Critical Phenomena : an Introduction to the Renormalization Group. by Binney, J. J.

    Published 1992
    Table of Contents: “…4.2.2 General structure of numerical algorithms -- 4.3 Monte Carlo methods -- 4.3.1 The Metropolis algorithm -- 4.4 Molecular dynamics -- 4.4.1 Ergodicity and integrability -- 4.4.2 From microcanonical to canonical averages -- 4.5 Langevin equations -- 4.5.1 Comparison of the Langevin and molecular-dynamics methods -- 4.6 Independence of configurations -- 4.6.1 Correlations along the path -- 4.6.2 Critical slowing down -- 4.6.3 The Swendsen-Wang algorithm -- 4.6.4 The Wolff algorithm -- 4.7 Calculation of critical exponents from simulations -- Problems -- 5 Real-space renormalization.…”
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    Robotic Control for Industrial and Service Applications by Wang, Hesheng

    Published 2018
    Table of Contents: “…Cover; Guest editorial; Robot learning human stiffness regulation for hybrid manufacture; Neurodynamics-based leader-follower formation tracking of multiple nonholonomic vehicles; Visual servoing of dynamic wheeled mobile robots with anti-interference finite-time controllers; Fuzzy model predictive control for 2-DOF robotic arms; Design of the tip state estimator for hybrid-structured flexible manipulator based on SDFT and FLAKF; Nonlinear time-optimal trajectory planning for varying-rope-length overhead cranes…”
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    Social sensing : building reliable systems on unreliable data by Wang, Dong, Abdelzaher, Tarek, Kaplan, Lance

    Published 2015
    Table of Contents: “…4.3.2 Source Credibility4.4 The Iterative Algorithm; 4.5 Examples and Results; 4.6 Discussion; Appendix; Chapter 5: Social Sensing: A maximum likelihood estimation approach; 5.1 The Social Sensing Problem; 5.2 Expectation Maximization; 5.2.1 Background; 5.2.2 Mathematical Formulation; 5.2.3 Deriving the E-Step and M-Step; 5.3 The EM Fact-Finding Algorithm; 5.4 Examples and Results; 5.4.1 A Simulation Study; 5.4.2 A Geotagging Case Study; 5.4.3 A Real World Application; 5.5 Discussion; Chapter 6: Confidence bounds in social sensing; 6.1 The Reliability Assurance Problem.…”
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