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.

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.

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 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.

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.

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 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.

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.

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...

A concise guide on how to write a good essay, written by someone who has graded a heck of a lot of them. It contains essay writing strategies, helpful tips, and a step-by-step process guide. The second edition has a sample essay and extensive examples of pragraph structure and paraphrasing. Learn how to get the highest grade possible for your work and avoid the mistakes that so many students make.

Desperate after being evicted from his home and having his last car repossessed, Floridian Vic Johnson stumbled across a simple online formula that's made him five-six figures every month for the past ten years (and it's RECESSION RESISTANT).Johnson says his formula is not complicated or original, as he copied ever step of it. And he believes the formula is so simple that anyone who's not afraid of a little work can copy what he's done.Once inside you'll learn...* H...