This seminal volume delivers a comprehensive introduction to the emerging field of digital minds, exploring the moral implications of AI systems that can potentially think, feel and experience the world around them in ways that are likely to be very different from humans.
This seminal volume delivers a comprehensive introduction to the emerging field of digital minds, exploring the moral implications of AI systems that can potentially think, feel and experience the world around them in ways that are likely to be very different from humans.
This three-volume set CCIS 2861-2863 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Computational Intelligence in Communications and Business Analytics, CICBA 2025, held in Kolkata, India, during July 4-6, 2025.
This three-volume set CCIS 2861-2863 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Computational Intelligence in Communications and Business Analytics, CICBA 2025, held in Kolkata, India, during July 4-6, 2025.
The 16th volume of ToPNoC contains revised and extended versions of a selection of the best workshop and tutorial papers presented at the 41st International Conference on Application and Theory of Petri Nets and Concurrency, Petri Nets 2020, and the 20th International Conference on Application of Concurrency to System Design, ACSD 2020.
The 16th volume of ToPNoC contains revised and extended versions of a selection of the best workshop and tutorial papers presented at the 41st International Conference on Application and Theory of Petri Nets and Concurrency, Petri Nets 2020, and the 20th International Conference on Application of Concurrency to System Design, ACSD 2020.
This book offers a comprehensive discussion of the growing importance of ethical considerations in algorithmic systems to introduce practical frameworks and tools for identifying ethical risks, ensuring fair outcomes, and maintaining transparency in algorithmic processes.
This book offers a comprehensive discussion of the growing importance of ethical considerations in algorithmic systems to introduce practical frameworks and tools for identifying ethical risks, ensuring fair outcomes, and maintaining transparency in algorithmic processes.
These transactions publish research in computer-based methods of computational collective intelligence (CCI) and their applications in a wide range of fields such as performance optimization in IoT, big data, reliability, privacy, security, service selection, QoS and machine learning.
These transactions publish research in computer-based methods of computational collective intelligence (CCI) and their applications in a wide range of fields such as performance optimization in IoT, big data, reliability, privacy, security, service selection, QoS and machine learning.
Advanced Filter Structure Handbook: From Design to Optimization is an essential resource for anyone involved in managing and processing large datasets.
Despite decades of work in evolutionary algorithms, there remains a lot of uncertainty as to when it is beneficial or detrimental to use recombination or mutation.
The 30 coherently written chapters by leading researchers presented in this anthology are devoted to basic results achieved in computational intelligence since 1997.
During the first week of September 1999, the Second EvoNet Summer School on Theoretical Aspects of Evolutionary Computing was held at the Middelheim cam- pus of the University of Antwerp, Belgium.
Evolutionary Algorithms, in particular Evolution Strategies, Genetic Algorithms, or Evolutionary Programming, have found wide acceptance as robust optimization algorithms in the last ten years.
This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 16th International Conference on Optimization and Applications, OPTIMA 2025, held in Petrovac, Montenegro, during September 22-26, 2025.
This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 16th International Conference on Optimization and Applications, OPTIMA 2025, held in Petrovac, Montenegro, during September 22-26, 2025.
Advanced Filter Structure Handbook: From Design to Optimization is an essential resource for anyone involved in managing and processing large datasets.
Summarizing is the process of reducing the large volume of information in something like a novel or a scientific paper to a short summary or abstract comprising only the most essential points.
The study of the genetic basis for evolution has flourished in this century, as well as our understanding of the evolvability and programmability of biological systems.
This introduction to cryptography employs a programming-oriented approach to study the most important cryptographic schemes in current use and the main cryptanalytic attacks against them.
In the 1970s researchers noticed that radioactive particles produced by elements naturally present in packaging material could cause bits to flip in sensitive areas of electronic chips.
The first part of this book covers the key concepts of cryptography on an undergraduate level, from encryption and digital signatures to cryptographic protocols.
This is a comprehensive description of the cryptographic hash function BLAKE, one of the five final contenders in the NIST SHA3 competition, and of BLAKE2, an improved version popular among developers.
"e;UNIX Operating System: The Development Tutorial via UNIX Kernel Services"e; introduces the hierarchical structure, principles, applications, kernel, shells, development, and management of the UNIX operation systems multi-dimensionally and systematically.
The term evolutionary computing refers to the study of the foundations and applications of certain heuristic techniques based on the principles of natural evolution; thus the aim of designing evolutionary algorithms (EAs) is to mimic some of the processes taking place in natural evolution.
Content protection and digital rights management (DRM) are fields that receive a lot of attention: content owners require systems that protect and maximize their revenues; consumers want backwards compatibility, while they fear that content owners will spy on their viewing habits; and academics are afraid that DRM may be a barrier to knowledge sharing.
In operations research and computer science it is common practice to evaluate the performance of optimization algorithms on the basis of computational results, and the experimental approach should follow accepted principles that guarantee the reliability and reproducibility of results.
In today's world, data must be sent around the world cheaply and securely, and that requires origin authentication, integrity protection, and confidentiality - the recipient of a message should be able to ascertain who sent the message, be sure that the message has not been changed en route, and be sure that the data arrives without having been read by anyone else.
