Authors:Thomas G. Hays, Arthur W. Sjoquist, Los Angeles Poli
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
Keywords: america, california, images, department, angeles, police, los
Number of Pages: 128
Published: 2005-10-10
List price: $19.99
ISBN-10: 0738530255
ISBN-13: 9780738530253

No police force in history has gained as much fame and notoriety as the Los Angeles Police Department. The acronym LAPD is practically synonymous with the idea of professional law enforcement. The men in blue who patrol Hollywood and the sprawling metropolis of L.A. have been investigated by screenwriters more times than vice versa. With more than 9,300 sworn officers today, the LAPD endures seemingly endless controversies and media circuses. But then there’s the other side of L.A.’s protective shield the story of the force’s evolution alongside the spectacular growth of its

Authors:M. Peruzzini, R. Poli,
Publisher: Elsevier Science
Keywords: chemistry, hydride, advances, recent
Number of Pages: 578
Published: 2002-02-13
List price: $320.00
ISBN-10: 0444507337
ISBN-13: 9780444507334

This book has been conceived to collect the most important recent advances in all areas of hydride chemistry research, including chemical reactivity, instrumental investigation, theory, and applications in the areas of catalysis, biochemistry and materials science. Many of the chapters have been written by the plenary lecturers of the EURO-Hydrides 2000 conference, but other leading scientists in this field have also been invited to contribute. The first part of the book focuses on the chemistry and catalysis of transition metal hydrides. Another block of chapters illustrates the most recent a

Author: Corrado Poli BS MS Ph.D Ohio State
Publisher: Butterworth-Heinema
Keywords: approach, structured, manufacturing, design
Number of Pages: 424
Published: 2001-09-14
List price: $109.00
ISBN-10: 0750673419
ISBN-13: 9780750673419

Design for Manufacturing assists anyone not familiar with various manufacturing processes in better visualizing and understanding the relationship between part design and the ease or difficulty of producing the part. Decisions made during the early conceptual stages of design have a great effect on subsequent stages. In fact, quite often more than 70% of the manufacturing cost of a product is determined at this conceptual stage, yet manufacturing is not involved. Through this book, designers will gain insight that will allow them to assess the impact of their proposed design on manufacturing d

Authors:William B. Langdon, Riccardo Poli,
Publisher: Springer
Keywords: programming, genetic, foundations
Number of Pages: 260
Published: 2002-03-22
List price: $69.95
ISBN-10: 3540424512
ISBN-13: 9783540424512

Genetic programming (GP), one of the most advanced forms of evolutionary computation, has been highly successful as a technique for getting computers to automatically solve problems without having to tell them explicitly how. Since its inceptions more than ten years ago, GP has been used to solve practical problems in a variety of application fields. Along with this ad-hoc engineering approaches interest increased in how and why GP works. This book provides a coherent consolidation of recent work on the theoretical foundations of GP. A concise introduction to GP and genetic algorithms (GA) is

Authors:Llorenc Huguet, Alain Poli,
Publisher: Springer
Keywords: june, spain, menorca, proceedings, lecture, science, computer, notes, aaecc, conference, algorithms, algebraic, algebra, error, correcting, international, codes, applied
Number of Pages: 417
Published: 1989-07-10
List price: $72.95
ISBN-10: 3540510826
ISBN-13: 9783540510826

The present volume contains the proceedings of the AAECC-5 Conference held at Menorca (Balearic Islands), June 15-19, 1987. The annual International AAECC Conference covers a range of topics related to Applied Algebra, Error-Correcting Codes, Finite Algebraic Structures, Computational Methods and Complexity in Algebra and Geometry. For the AAECC-5 Conference 73 papers were presented. Out of these thirty papers were selected for publication in the proceedings. They deal with topics such as error correcting codes (concerning problems of covering radius, decoding methods, expert systems and gener

Authors:Riccardo Poli, William B. Langdon, Nicholas Freitag
Publisher: Lulu Enterprises, UK Ltd
Keywords: programming, genetic, guide, field
Number of Pages: 252
Published: 2008-03-26
List price: $15.50
ISBN-10: 1409200736
ISBN-13: 9781409200734

Genetic programming (GP) is a systematic, domain-independent method for getting computers to solve problems automatically starting from a high-level statement of what needs to be done. Using ideas from natural evolution, GP starts from an ooze of random computer programs, and progressively refines them through processes of mutation and sexual recombination, until high-fitness solutions emerge. All this without the user having to know or specify the form or structure of solutions in advance. GP has generated a plethora of human-competitive results and applications, including novel scientific di

Authors:Robert C. Reid, John M. Prausnitz, Bruce E. Poli
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Companie
Keywords: liquids, gases, properties
Number of Pages: 741
Published: 1987-04-01
List price: $110.00
ISBN-10: 0070517991
ISBN-13: 9780070517998

Completely rewritten and reorganized to reflect the latest developments in estimating the properties of gases and liquids, this new edition of the highly regarded reference presents a comprehensive survey of the most reliable estimation methods in use today. It provides instantly usable information on estimating both physical and thermodynamic properties when experimental data are not available (for example, constants such as critical temperature, critical pressure, acentric factor, and others); thermodynamic properties of gases and liquids, both pure and mixtures, including enthalpies, entrop