This book provides a historic overview of what is defined as "soft computing" with its techniques: neural networks, fuzzy logic, genetic algorithms and cellular automata.

This book provides a historical background of the monetary system of Bretton Woods, whose conference was held in 1944 in order to establish the rules of the commercial and financial relationships between the main industrialized countries of the world.

This book is a point of reference for all those who want to learn the cataloguing technique in a library. It is divided into three parts. In the first part, the concept and the function of the catalogue is defined, with the questions related to its nature and aims, as well as the cataloguing techniques and the management of the same catalogue, making reference to the cataloguing theories of various librarians of our time. The second part analyzes the organization of the information in a li...

This book traces the origin of the evolution giving an overview of the precursors who inspired Darwin's work. It will be analyzed with all its scientific and philosophic implications.

Starting from a definition of e-learning and its historical overview, this book wants to answer two questions. Which criteria has to follow a project of online didactics? Which models and strategies can be applied? Devoted to teacher and students, the book describes the basis for the construction of an e-learning course, with the figures involved.

This book provides a general overview from the historical and technical point of view of the most known social networks of the Web: Facebook, Twitter, MySpace and LinkedIn.

Google is surely the most important search engine on the Web. But what isGoogle? How was it born? How does it work? This book wants to answer allthese questions through a detailed description of this phenomenon thatcompletely "revolutionized" the history of Internet.

This book wants to provide an overview of nanomedicine. The book particularly deals with the nanomedical applications (drug delivery, LOCs and bioMEMS) and the positive and negative effects of nanotechnologies on human health.

By now, nanotechnologies belong to our daily life. They are used in sport, food, electronics, energy production, and so on. This book wants to describe the way how nanotechnologies can revolutionize the future world.

In this classic work, one of the greatest mathematicians of the twentieth century explores the analogies between computing machines and the living human brain. John von Neumann, whose many contributions to science, mathematics, and engineering include the basic organizational framework at the heart of today's computers, concludes that the brain operates both digitally and analogically, but also has its own peculiar statistical language.In his foreword to this new edition, Ray Kurzw...

From a leading computer scientist, a unifying theory that will revolutionize our understanding of how life evolves and learns.How does life prosper in a complex and erratic world? While we know that nature follows patterns -- such as the law of gravity -- our everyday lives are beyond what known science can predict. We nevertheless muddle through even in the absence of theories of how to act. But how do we do it?In Probably Approximately Correct, c...

Groundbreaking mathematician Gregory Chaitin gives us the first book to posit that we can prove how Darwin’s theory of evolution works on a mathematical level.For years it has been received wisdom among most scientists that, just as Darwin claimed, all of the Earth’s life-forms evolved by blind chance. But does Darwin’s theory function on a purely mathematical level? Has there been enough time for evolution to produce the remarkable biological diversity we see around us? It’s a que...