Thirty years ago pattern recognition was dominated by the learning machine concept: that one could automate the process of going from the raw data to a classifier.
This book describes recent studies of soil behaviour in strong ground motion - one of the most important and problematic issues in engineering seismology.
This book highlights a comprehensive overview of research and technical advances related to parametric array loudspeakers (PALs), covering modeling and simulation, measurements, signal processing, beamsteering, and their implementations and applications.
This book highlights the latest developments on the numerical methods for inverse scattering problems associated with acoustic, electromagnetic, and elastic waves.
The topic of surface waves lies at the interface between a number of disci- plines - physics, theoretical and applied mechanics, electroacoustics, ap- plied mathematics, surface science and seismology.
This book presents an analytical theory of the electronic states in ideal low dimensional systems and finite crystals based on a differential equation theory approach.
After many years of sterile arms control negotiations between the super powers, which did not produce a single genuine disarmament measure - and sometimes had the opposite effect of stimulating the development of new weapons to serve as bargaining chips - an agreement to abolish completely two categories of nu- clear weapons, the INF Treaty, was signed and is now being implemented.
Caustics, Catastrophes and Wave Fields in a sense continues the treatment of the earlier volume 6 "e;Geometrical Optics of Inhomogeneous Media"e; in the present book series, by analysing caustics and their fields on the basis of modern catastrophe theory.
This book focuses on two related topics in fluid mechanics, that is, speed of sound through various media and critical flow associated with gas-liquid flows.
The book collects the contributions to the NATO Advanced Study Institute on "e;Speech Recognition and Understanding: Recent Advances, Trends and Applications"e;, held in Cetraro, Italy, during the first two weeks of July 1990.
The optoacoustic method has by now an almost one-centurY-long history of appl ication in spectroscopy, but it was only with the advent of the laser that it became a convenient and effective method among the vast family of spectroscopy techniques.
This book compiles and presents a synopsis on current global research efforts to push forward the state of the art in dialogue technologies, including advances to the classical problems of dialogue management, language generation, question answering, human-robot interaction, chatbots design and evaluation, as well as topics related to the human nature of the conversational phenomena such as humour, social context, specific applications for e-health, understanding, and awareness
For four decades, information theory has been viewed almost exclusively as a theory based upon the Shannon measure of uncertainty and information, usually referred to as Shannon entropy.
Photoacoustic imaging (also called optoacoustic imaging) is a hybrid modality based on the generation and detection of ultrasound in response to optical absorption of tissue.
This book presents fundamental theory of shock and detonation waves as well as selected studies in detonation research in Japan, contributed by selected experts in safety research on explosives, development of industrial explosives, and application of explosives.
The purpose of the Symposium was to provide a meeting place for those working in the field of s*peech perception, whose main in- terest is in the study of the perceptual processes in the deco- ding of connected speech, hence the title Dynamic Aspects of Speech Perception.
Anybody concerned about the maintenance of peace in our world, and in prospects of reaching agreements on arms control and disarmament, is bound to be interested in one of the key pre-conditions for related international treaties: the verification of compliance with such treaties.
