Author: Godo Stoyke
Publisher: New Society Publishers
Keywords: carbon, future, free, blueprint, charter
Number of Pages: 160
Published: 2009-07-01
List price: $16.95
ISBN-10: 086571634X
ISBN-13: 9780865716346

As mayors and city councilors seek solutions to climate change, existing policies and legislation can stand in the way of effective change. The Carbon Charter is the first book to describe the municipal bylaws required to abate climate change and create sustainable communities. It provides city councilors with a cut-and-paste set of green bylaws and policies of best practices culled from environmentally advanced communities around the world. They can be taken straight out of the book, placed into a council agenda with minimum modification, and voted on. The Carbon Charter provides city council

Author: Lluis Godo
Publisher: Springer
Keywords: proceedings, july, spain, lecture, notes, intelligence, artificial, barcelona, ecsqaru, approaches, quantitative, reasoning, uncertainty, conference, european, symbolic
Number of Pages: 1028
Published: 2005-08-22
List price: $139.00
ISBN-10: 3540273263
ISBN-13: 9783540273264

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 8th European Conference on Symbolic and Quantitative Approaches to Reasoning with Uncertainty, ECSQARU 2005, held in Barcelona, Spain in July 2005. The 82 revised full papers presented together with 3 invited papers articles were carefully reviewed and selected from 130 submissions for inclusion in the book. The papers are organized in topical sections on Bayesian networks, graphical models, learning causal networks, planning, causality and independence, preference modelling and decision, argumentation systems, inconsistency handling, belie

Authors:Yujiro Hayami, Yoshihisa Godo,
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Keywords: nations, wealth, poverty, economics, development
Number of Pages: 448
Published: 2005-04-07
List price: $182.50
ISBN-10: 0199272700
ISBN-13: 9780199272709

A comprehensive and systematic account of the core topics in development economics, this book examines the reasons why a few countries have achieved a high level of affluence while the majority remain poor and stagnant. It represents an original combination of classical political economy, modern institutional theory, and current development issues, and is held together by the East Asian development experience.

Authors:Cecilio Angulo, Lluis Godo,
Publisher: IOS Press
Keywords: artificial, intelligence, frontiers, applications, development, research, volume
Number of Pages: 450
Published: 2007-10-15
List price: $163.00
ISBN-10: 1586037986
ISBN-13: 9781586037987

We propose that a 2 month, 10 man study of artificial intelligence be carried out during the summer of 1956 at Dartmouth College in Hanover, New Hampshire. The study is to proceed.... Last year the 50th anniversary of the Dartmouth AI project proposal by McCarthy, Minsky, Rochester and Shannon was celebrated. Years later, and following similar traditions of a number of AI associations, a call was launched in 1997 by the Catalan Association for Artificial Intelligence (ACIA) to organize an annual conference to promote synergies in the research community of its influence, the seeder for the 1st