Author: Leszek Berezowski
Publisher: Continuum
Keywords: article, zero, myth
Number of Pages: 149
Published: 2009-08-09
List price: $90.00
ISBN-10: 1441185135
ISBN-13: 9781441185136

Berezowski investigates the origin of the concept of the zero article and clearly demonstrates why it is problematic. The zero article is a staple element of any description of English article usage from advanced research publications down to student grammars, but there has been very little inquiry into its meaning and its other properties. There are copious amounts of publications dealing with the definite and indefinite articles but none about the zero article. Berezowski investigates the origin of the concept of the zero article and shows that it has roots both in structural linguistics of

Author: Leszek Rutkowski
Publisher: Springer
Keywords: techniques, methods, intelligence, computational
Number of Pages: 514
Published: 2008-07-07
List price: $99.00
ISBN-10: 3540762876
ISBN-13: 9783540762874

This book focuses on various techniques of computational intelligence, both single ones and those which form hybrid methods. Those techniques are today commonly applied issues of artificial intelligence, e.g. to process speech and natural language, build expert systems and robots. The first part of the book presents methods of knowledge representation using different techniques, namely the rough sets, type-1 fuzzy sets and type-2 fuzzy sets. Next various neural network architectures are presented and their learning algorithms are derived. Moreover, the family of evolutionary algorithms is disc

Author: Leszek Kolakowski
Publisher: Basic Book
Keywords: philosophers, questions, something
Number of Pages: 240
Published: 2007-11-13
List price: $22.95
ISBN-10: 0465004997
ISBN-13: 9780465004997

A tour of Western thought by one of the world’s most eminent philosophers--in a book that fits in the palm of your hand. Can nature make us happy? How can we know anything? What is justice? Why is there evil in the world? What is the source of truth? Is it possible for God not to exist? Can we really believe what we see? There are questions that have intrigued the world’s great thinkers over the ages, which still touch a chord in all of us today. They are questions that can teach us about the way we live, work, relate to each other and see the world. Here Leszek Kolakowski explor

Author: Leszek A. Utracki
Publisher: Springer
Keywords: volume, handbook, blends, polymer
Number of Pages: 1442
Published: 2002-12-01
List price: unknow
ISBN-10: 1402011105
ISBN-13: 9781402011108

Author: Leszek Kolakowski
Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
Keywords: trial, endless, modernity
Number of Pages: 267
Published: 1997-06-23
List price: $27.50
ISBN-10: 0226450465
ISBN-13: 9780226450469

Leszek Kolakowski delves into some of the most intellectually vigorous questions of our time in this remarkable collection of essays garnished with his characteristic wit. Ten of the essays have never appeared before in English. "Exemplary. . . . It should be celebrated." —Arthur C. Danto, New York Times Book Review "This book . . . express[es] Kolakowski’s thought on God, man, reason, history, moral truth and original sin, prompted by observation of the dramatic struggle among Christianity, the Enlightenment and modern totalitarianism. It is a wonderful collection of topics." —Thoma

Author: Leszek A. Maciaszek
Publisher: Addison-Wesley (C)
Keywords: design, system, analysis, requirements
Number of Pages: 612
Published: 2007-10-15
List price: $115.00
ISBN-10: 0321440366
ISBN-13: 9780321440365

An examination of the methods and techniques used in the analysis and design phases of Information System development. Emphasis is placed upon the application of object technology in enterprise information systems (EIS) with UML being used throughout. Through its excellent balance of practical explanation and theoretical insight the book manages to avoid unnecessary, complicating details without sacrificing rigor. Examples of real-world scenarios are used throughout, giving the reader an understanding of what really goes on within the field of Software Engineering.

Author: Leszek Rutkowski
Publisher: Springer
Keywords: international, springer, series, engineering, science, computer, evaluation, performance, fuzzy, neuro, systems, structures, learning, flexible
Number of Pages: 296
Published: 2004-05-19
List price: $179.00
ISBN-10: 1402080425
ISBN-13: 9781402080425

Flexible Neuro-Fuzzy Systems is the first professional literature about the new class of powerful, flexible fuzzy systems. The author incorporates various flexibility parameters to the construction of neuro-fuzzy systems. This approach dramatically improves their performance, allowing the systems to perfectly represent the pattern encoded in data. Flexible Neuro-Fuzzy Systems is the only book that proposes a flexible approach to fuzzy modeling and fills the gap in existing literature. This book introduces new fuzzy systems which outperform previous approaches to system modeling and classificat