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Intelligent Agents to Improve Adaptivity in A Web-Based Learning Environment
This chapter focuses on the use of intelligent agents in on-line learning environments in which educational organizations can equip students with... -
Intelligent Agents that Learn to Deliver Online Materials to Students Better: Agent Design, Simulation and Assumptions
In this chapter, we discuss an integrated framework of case-based learning (CBL) in an agent that intelligently delivers learning materials to... -
Voronoi-Based Outdoor Traversable Region Modelling
Nowadays, the interest in mobile robotics working in outdoor environments is increasing due to the new applications focussed on aiding humans. To... -
Granular Nested Causal Complexes
Causal reasoning occupies a central position in human reasoning. In many ways, causality is granular. This is true for: perception, commonsense... -
The Evolution of the Concept of Fuzzy Measure
Most information discovery processes need to understand the reasons of the success of the inference methods or the usability of the new information,... -
Uncertain Knowledge Association Through Information Gain
The problem of entity association is at the core of information mining techniques. In this work we propose an approach that links the similarity of... -
Integrated Clustering Modeling with Backpropagation Neural Network for Effcient Customer Relationship Management
The rapid progress in digital data acquisition and storage technology has lead to the fast growing tremendous and amount of data stored in databases,... -
Soft Computing Paradigms for Web Access Pattern Analysis
Web servers play a crucial role to convey knowledge and information to the end users. With the popularity of the WWW, discovering the hidden... -
A Longitudinal Comparison of Supervised and Unsupervised Learning Approaches to Iso-Resource Grou** for Acute Healthcare in Australia
Estimating resource consumption of hospital patients is important for various tasks such as hospital funding, and management and allocation of... -
Current Status of Computerized Decision Support Systems in Mammography
Breast cancer is one of the most devastating and deadly diseases for women today. Despite advances in cancer treatment, early mammographic detection... -
Analysis and Architecture of Clinical Workflow Systems using Agent-Oriented Lifecycle Models
Healthcare executives are grappling with a climate of great change in the healthcare industry. This is coming from a number of sources. First, there... -
Reinforcement Learning: A Brief Overview
Learning techniques can be usefully grouped by the type of feedback that is available to the learner. A commonly drawn distinction is that between... -
Applications of Fuzzy Logic in Mobile Robots Control
Fuzzy logic is a mathematical tool that can manipulate human reasoning, concepts and linguistic terms. It suits ill-defined systems since it can... -
6 Stochastic Passivity
Passivity of deterministic linear systems plays an important role in network theory and in adaptive control. The fact that a system is passive... -
4 Continuous-time Systems: Tracking Control
In this chapter we treat the problem of H∞ tracking with stochastic multiplicative white noise. We extend the work of [98], which does not involve... -
Virtual Reality in Healthcare
In our modern 21st century, daily life would be unthinkable without computers. Multimedia and virtual reality are useful for people with special... -
Access to Information on Demand by the aid of Digital Talking Books
This chapter addresses the concept and the fundamental ideas of the digital talking book (DTB), with a particular focus on DTBs in the DAISY format.... -
Decision Support versus Knowledge Creation Support
After introductory remarks on interactive computerized decision support and the concept of supporting creativity, this chapter briefly describes the... -
Vibrations of X-Braced Multi-Story Frames
The study of vibrations for the x-braced portal frames in the last chapter is extended to high-rise x-braced multi-story frames in this chapter.... -
Vibrations of Frames with Inclined Members
The model established for the vibration of the inclined bars in the last chapter now is applied to two- and three-bar frames with inclined members.