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Chapter Preview Top Introduction Knowledge representation and knowledge engineering are central to AI (artificial intelligence) research. Many of the problems machines are expected to solve will require extensive knowledge about the world. This fact was realized in the mid-1970s and implemented in the...
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The search algorithms achieve these two goals by using local or global search approaches, or an integration of both. This chapter deals with the hybridization of PSO with ACO, since the two are arguably the most outstanding techniques of the SI paradigm. It identifies four different types of ...
Chapter Preview Top Machine-To-Machine Communication Infrastructure M2M communication is broadly uses wireless communication technologies, both licensed and license exempt spectrum bands, short-range wireless communication technologies, and cellular system. M2M communications system over cellular network is ...
Chapter Preview Top Background Modern society is faced with a host of large scale problems that often appear to be intractable: extreme weather phenomena attributed to global warming, economic crises, toxic spills, deforestation, desertification, hunger, to name but a few. Projections of future ...
Chapter Preview Top Background In the last decade, progress in low cost, high performance computing networks and digital communications on heterogeneous, mobile and fixed broadband networks (Abad et al., 2012; Kim, 2009; Hofstee, 2005; Pande et al.,, 2005) have supported the development o...
Chapter Preview Top Background The following scenario paints a picture of what the Internet of Things is trying to achieve and how it aims to achieve this. Key Terms in this Chapter Web Service: A Web Service is a software component that is described via WSDL and is capable of being ...
This paper adds to the growing research literature on PPS by developing a research design involving comparison of an organisation's PPS against a normative template. A pilot study of six B2C sites was undertaken, in order to assess the practicability of the design, and provide some initial ...
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