Ganesh Ram Santhanam, Samik Basu, Vasant Honavar, "Representing and Reasoning with Qualitative Preferences: Tools and Applications"
English | 2016 | pages: 156 | ISBN: 1627058397 | PDF | 2,1 mb
This book provides a tutorial introduction to modern techniques for representing and reasoning about qualitative preferences with respect to a set of alternatives. The syntax and semantics of several languages for representing preference languages, including CP-nets, TCP-nets, CI-nets, and CP-theories, are reviewed. Some key problems in reasoning about preferences are introduced, including determining whether one alternative is preferred to another, or whether they are equivalent, with respect to a given set of preferences. These tasks can be reduced to model checking in temporal logic. Specifically, an induced preference graph that represents a given set of preferences can be efficiently encoded using a Kripke Structure for Computational Tree Logic (CTL). One can translate preference queries with respect to a set of preferences into an equivalent set of formulae in CTL, such that the CTL formula is satisfied whenever the preference query holds. This allows us to use a model checker to reason about preferences, i.e., answer preference queries, and to obtain a justification as to why a preference query is satisfied (or not) with respect to a set of preferences. This book defines the notions of the equivalence of two sets of preferences, including what it means for one set of preferences to subsume another, and shows how to answer preferential equivalence and subsumption queries using model checking. Furthermore, this book demontrates how to generate alternatives ordered by preference, along with providing ways to deal with inconsistent preference specifications. A description of CRISNER-an open source software implementation of the model checking approach to qualitative preference reasoning in CP-nets, TCP-nets, and CP-theories is included, as well as examples illustrating its use.
Represent: Art and Identity Among the Black Upper-Middle Class By Patricia A. Banks
2010 | 134 Pages | ISBN: 0415800609 | PDF | 3 MB
Patricia A. Banks traverses the New York and Atlanta art worlds to uncover how black identities are cultivated through black art patronage. Drawing on over 100 in-depth interviews, observations at arts events, and photographs of art displayed in homes, Banks elaborates a racial identity theory of consumption that highlights how upper-middle class blacks forge black identities for themselves and their children through the consumption of black visual art. She not only challenges common assumptions about elite cultural participation, but also contributes to the heated debate about the significance of race for elite blacks, and illuminates recent art world developments. In doing so, Banks documents how the salience of race extends into the cultural life of even the most socioeconomically successful blacks.
Regulating Homosexuality in Soviet Russia, 1956-91: A Different History by Rustam Alexander
English | May 25, 2021 | ISBN: 1526155761 | True EPUB | 256 pages | 2.3 MB
This ground-breaking book challenges the widespread view that sex and homosexuality were unmentionable in the USSR. The Khrushchev and Brezhnev eras (1956-82) have remained obscure and unexplored from this perspective. Drawing on previously undiscovered sources, Alexander fills in this critical gap. The book reveals that from 1956 to 1982, doctors, educators, jurists and police officers discussed homosexuality.
Red Revolution, Green Revolution: Scientific Farming in Socialist China by Sigrid Schmalzer
English | January 20, 2016 | ISBN: 022633015X | True EPUB | 320 pages | 24.6 MB
In 1968, the director of USAID coined the term "green revolution" to celebrate the new technological solutions that promised to ease hunger around the world-and forestall the spread of more "red," or socialist, revolutions. Yet in China, where modernization and scientific progress could not be divorced from politics, green and red revolutions proceeded side by side.
Robert Weaver, "Record Breakers: The Tactics Behind Liverpool's andManchester City's Title Triumphs"
English | 2021 | ISBN: 178531985X | 384 pages | EPUB | 13.4 MB
Record Breakers: The Tactics Behind Liverpool and Manchester City's Title Triumphs and Record Points Totals lifts the lid on Jürgen Klopp and Pep Guardiola's tactical systems and strategies. Written by a Premier League analyst, the book focuses on the seasons when these two footballing giants registered the highest points totals in Premier League history. It compares their styles and principles of play both with and without the ball, analyses the differences in the positioning of their players and outlines their specific movement patterns, all in the context of how opposition teams attempted to defend against them. Learn how Leroy Sané and Raheem Sterling were used very differently from Mo Salah and Sadio Mané, how City's system got the best out of Kevin De Bruyne, and how Trent Alexander-Arnold became a unique playmaker from full-back. From 'inverted full-backs' to 'false 9s' via 'free 8s', discover how City and Liverpool's tactics reflect modern football's evolution.
Reckoning with Matter: Calculating Machines, Innovation, and Thinking about Thinking from Pascal to Babbage by Matthew L. Jones
English | November 29, 2016 | ISBN: 022641146X | True EPUB | 336 pages | 24.1 MB
From Blaise Pascal in the 1600s to Charles Babbage in the first half of the nineteenth century, inventors struggled to create the first calculating machines. All failed-but that does not mean we cannot learn from the trail of ideas, correspondence, machines, and arguments they left behind.
Recent Advances in Gearing: Scientific Theory and Applications by Stephen P. Radzevich
English | EPUB | 2022 | 560 Pages | ISBN : 3030646378 | 81 MB
This book presents the most up-to-date accomplishments in gear design and gear production, detailing theory of gearing and its application. As an enormous number of gears are used in such sectors as automobiles, aerospace, machines, and similar industries, even a very small improvement in the gear design or production, for example a 10 cent savings on each gear, can result in huge of savings in manufacturing, underscoring critical importance of the subject of the book. Giving a solid background in theory together with the latest advances in design and production, the book is ideal for product designers working in numerous industries.
Recent Advances in Fuzzy Sets Theory, Fractional Calculus, Dynamic Systems and Optimization
English | 2023 | ISBN: 3031124154 | 496 Pages | PDF (True) | 31 MB
We describe in this book recent advances in fuzzy sets theory, fractional calculus, dynamic systems, and optimization. The book provides a setting for the discussion of recent developments in a wide variety of topics including partial differential equations, dynamic systems, optimization, numerical analysis, fuzzy sets theory, fractional calculus, and its applications. The book is aimed at bringing together contributions from leading academic scientists, researchers, and research scholars to exchange and share their experiences and research results on all aspects of applied mathematics, modeling, algebra, economics, finance, and applications. It also provides an interdisciplinary platform for researchers, practitioners, and educators to present the most recent innovations, trends, and concerns as well as practical challenges encountered and solutions adopted in the fields of applied mathematics. The published chapters address various aspects of academic scientists, researchers, and research scholars in many variety mathematical topics.
Recent Advances in AI-enabled Automated Medical Diagnosis
English | 2022 | ISBN: 1032008431 | 371 Pages | PDF (True) | 20 MB
Developments in deep learning in the past decade have led to phenomenal growth in AI-based automated medical diagnosis, opening a door to a new era of both medical research and medical industry. It is a golden age for researchers involved in the development and application of advanced machine learning techniques for medical and clinical problems. This book captures the most recent important advances in this cross-disciplinary topic and brings the latest advances to a wide audience including experts, researchers, students, industry developers and medical services.
Hal Leonard Publishing Corporation, "Really Easy Piano - Disney Hits"
English | 2015 | pages: 49 | ISBN: 1495055108 | PDF | 4,4 mb
(Really Easy Piano). Kids will love these arrangements that let even beginners play some of Disney's biggest pop hits! 20 songs, including: Be Our Guest * Bundle of Joy * A Dream Is a Wish Your Heart Makes * For the First Time in Forever * I Just Can't Wait to Be King * Immortals * Lava * Let It Go * Part of Your World * Reflection * Shut up and Drive * Strong * That's How You Know * We Belong Together * and more!