Encyclopedia of Microcomputers: Volume 12 - Multistrategy Learning to Operations Research: Microcomputer Applications

by Allen Kent (Editor), James G. Williams (Editor)

Overview

"The Encyclopedia of Microcomputers serves as the ideal companion reference to the popular Encyclopedia of Computer Science and Technology. Now in its 10th year of publication, this timely reference work details the broad spectrum of microcomputer technology, including microcomputer history; explains and illustrates the use of microcomputers throughout academe, business, government, and society in general; and assesses the future impact of this rapidly changing technology."

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781040280034
Publisher:	CRC Press
Publication date:	11/01/2024
Series:	Microcomputers Encyclopedia
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	400
File size:	9 MB

About the Author

Allen Kent, James G. Williams

Table of Contents

"Multistrategy Learning, Ryszard S. Michalski and Gheorghe Tecuci Multiuser Programming, Linda S. DeBrunner Mumps, William J. Harvey and Frederick G. Kohun Music Description Languages, Mira Balaban Music Printing, Keith A. Hamel Natural Language Processing, Klaus K. Obermeier Natural Language Understanding, Inger Lytje Natural Resource Management and Agriculture, Applications of Artificial Intelligence, Michael S. Saunders, Robert N. Coulson, and L. Joseph Folse Network-Based Simulation Models, Animation of---see Animation of Network-Based Simulation Models, Volume 1, pages 139-149 Network Optimization on Microcomputers, Richard S. Barr Network Testing System for Digital Data Networks---see Digital Data Networks; Network Testing System, Volume 5, pages 99-122 Networks---Distributed Computing, W. Anthony Mason A Neural Algorithm for Document Clustering, Kevin J. MacLeod Neural Networks, Young B. Park Neural Networks---Connectionism, Peter Dayan Noise Phenomena in VLSI Circuits, Arthur Van Rheenen and Kostas Amberiadis Normalized Object Oriented Method, Henri Habrias The Object-Oriented Paradigm, Chenho Kung Object Recognition and Visual Robot Tracking, Luc J. Van Gool, Dao-Bin Zhang, and André Oosterlinck Office Information Systems Design---see Automated Office Systems Design, Volume 2, pages 67-124 Online Investing Using the Microcomputer, Deanna K. Daniels and Michael D. Chase Open Systems Interconnection, Ray Denenberg Operating Systems---see DOS, Volume 5, pages 151-240 Operations Research, Microcomputer Applications, Peter C. Bell "

Editorial Reviews

Contains 18 contributions that describe current applications of microcomputers in a variety of fields. Some of the topics are an automatic fuzzy-rule-generation method for handwriting recognition, context-sensitive feature selection for lazy learners, farm milk collection routing in New Zealand, and generating samples for random drug testing. Other topics include cluster computing, the nondefinedness notion in expert systems, truth maintenance in the blackboard environment, university course scheduling, user modeling and motion-impaired users, validating decision support systems, virtual reality modeling language, and volume graphics. No index is provided. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

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