Winner of the 2017 De Groot Prize awarded by the International Society for Bayesian Analysis (ISBA)A relatively new area of research, adversarial risk analysis (ARA) informs decision making when there are intelligent opponents and uncertain outcomes. Adversarial Risk Analysis develops methods for allocating defensive or offensive resources against

This book constitutes the revised selected extended papers of the 8th IEEE Colombian Conference on Applications of Computational Intelligence, ColCACI 2025, held in Armenia, Colombia, during August 27–29, 2025.The 17 full papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 61 submissions. They explore various topics in the area of computational intelligence (CI), such as control applications, microseismical signal analysis, optimization problems, industry, agriculture, and biomedical ...

This book CCIS 2212 constitutes the referred proceedings of the 7th IEEE Colombian Conference on Applications of Computational Intelligence, ColCACI 2024, held in Pamplona, Colombia, during July 17–19, 2024.The 11 full papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 35 submissions. They explore various topics in the area of computational intelligence (CI), such as solar and photovoltaic forecasting, microseismical signal analysis, LLM performance analysis, evolution in translate s...

This Element overviews recent research on children's adjustment to adoption and its relevance for key questions addressed in developmental science. First, a historical perspective on trends in adoption practice and adoptive family life is offered. Second, research on children's adjustment to adoption is reviewed, including the impact of early adversity on their development, as well as biological and social factors related to their recovery from adversity. Third, factors impacting adoptive ...

This book constitutes revised and extended selected papers of the 4th IEEE Colombian Conference, ColCACI 2021, which was held virtually in Colombia at the end of May 2021.The 7 full papers presented in the volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 22 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on biomedical applications and alternative proposals and its applications.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 5th IEEE Colombian Conference on Applications of Computational Intelligence, ColCACI 2022, held in Cali, Colombia during July 27–29, 2022.The 7 extended papers included in this book were carefully reviewed and selected from 38 submissions. They were organized in topical sections as follows: Design of a segmentation and classification system for seed detection based on pixel intensity thresholds and convolutional neural networks....

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 6th IEEE Colombian Conference on Applications of Computational Intelligence, ColCACI 2023, held in Bogota, Colombia during July 2023.A total of 11 full papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 42 submissions. They were organized in topical sections as follows: Biomedical Applications, Biological Applications, Engineering Applications.

This book constitutes revised and extended selected papers of the Third IEEE Colombian Conference, ColCACI 2020, held in Cali, Colombia, August 2020. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic the conference was held online.The12 full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 65 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on earth sciences applications; biomedical and power applications; alternative proposals and its applications.

Beyond the peaks and valleys of the Himalaya Mountains lies a magical sanctuary. Protected from the chaos of man, it is home to immortal beings and mystical creatures. When Vijaya, a young human, is brought into the sanctuary for her protection, some immortals fear her presence may lead to their ruin. But as mankind draws ever closer to the sanctuary’s border, Vijaya will have to prove that there is more to being human than the violence her new family fears beyond their borders. David Jesu...

Hello Step into the realm of divine power with me in "Divine Power: Unveiling the Source and Influence." Drawing from personal experiences and timeless wisdom, this book is a guiding light for anyone seeking to understand and harness the extraordinary power of God.Growing up, I often wondered about the mysteries of divine power and its impact on our lives. It wasn't until I delved into my own spiritual journey that I began to uncover the profound truth: the source of all ...

Just in time for the Apocalypse comes a new Biblical scripture from God and thirteen-time Emmy Award–winning comedy writer David Javerbaum.3,000 years ago, King David wrote The Book of Psalms—hymns in praise of God that became famous worldwide. Now, with humanity on the verge of a self-generated catastrophe, God (with the help of another David) has decided to return, and reverse, the favor.God has collected a cornucopia of insults of the human race...

Focusing on two central conjectures of Asymptotic Geometric Analysis, the Kannan-Lovász-Simonovits spectral gap conjecture and the variance conjecture, these Lecture Notes present the theory in an accessible way, so that interested readers, even those who are not experts in the field, will be able to appreciate the treated topics. Offering a presentation suitable for professionals with little background in analysis, geometry or probability, the work goes directly to the connection between ...