Advances in Swarm Intelligence

Advances in Swarm Intelligence
Author: Ying Tan
Publisher: Springer Nature
Total Pages: 467
Release: 2022-06-25
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 3031097262

This two-volume set LNCS 13344 and 13345 constitutes the proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Advances in Swarm Intelligence, ICSI 2022, which took place in Xi’an, China, in July 2022. The theme of this year’s conference was “Serving Life with Swarm Intelligence”. The 85 full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 171 submissions. The papers of the second part cover topics such as: Swarm Robotics and Multi-agent System; Deep Neural Networks; Machine Learning; Data Mining; Other Optimization Applications; ICSI-OC’2022: Competition on Single Objective Bounded Optimization Problems; Swarm Intelligence and Nature-Inspired Computing; Swarm-based Computing Algorithms for Optimization; Particle Swarm Optimization; Ant Colony Optimization; Genetic Algorithm and Evolutionary Computation; Fireworks Algorithms; Brain Storm Optimization Algorithm; Swarm Intelligence Approach-based Applications; Multi-Objective Optimization.

Pattern Recognition, Computer Vision, and Image Processing. ICPR 2022 International Workshops and Challenges

Pattern Recognition, Computer Vision, and Image Processing. ICPR 2022 International Workshops and Challenges
Author: Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Publisher: Springer Nature
Total Pages: 200
Release: 2023-07-28
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 3031377451

This 4-volumes set constitutes the proceedings of the ICPR 2022 Workshops of the 26th International Conference on Pattern Recognition Workshops, ICPR 2022, Montreal, QC, Canada, August 2023. The 167 full papers presented in these 4 volumes were carefully reviewed and selected from numerous submissions. ICPR workshops covered domains related to pattern recognition, artificial intelligence, computer vision, image and sound analysis. Workshops’ contributions reflected the most recent applications related to healthcare, biometrics, ethics, multimodality, cultural heritage, imagery, affective computing, etc.

Representing Landscapes

Representing Landscapes
Author: Nadia Amoroso
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 374
Release: 2022-03-23
Genre: Architecture
ISBN: 1000549968

This volume provides an in-depth historical overview of graphic and visual communication styles, techniques, and outputs from key landscape architects over the past century. Representing Landscapes: One Hundred Years of Visual Communication offers a detailed account of how past and present landscape architects and practitioners have harnessed the power of visualization to frame and situate their designs within the larger cultural, social, ecological, and political milieux. The fifth book in the Representing Landscapes series, the presentations contained within each of the 25 chapters of this work are not merely drawings and illustrations but are rather graphic touchstones whose past and current influence shapes how landscape architects think and operate within the profession. This collected volume of essays gathers notable landscape historians, scholars, and designers to offer their insights on how the landscape has been presented and charts the development and use of new technologies and contemporary theory to reveal the conceptual power of the living medium of the larger landscape. Richly detailed with over 220 colour and black and white illustrations from some of the discipline’s best-known landscape architects and designers, this work is a ‘must-have’ for those studying contemporary landscape design or those fascinated by the profession’s history.

Blue Carbon: Beyond the Inventory

Blue Carbon: Beyond the Inventory
Author: William Edward Newns Austin
Publisher: Frontiers Media SA
Total Pages: 290
Release: 2024-02-20
Genre: Science
ISBN: 2832540570

This Research Topic will coincide with an international Blue Carbon Conference at the Royal Society of Edinburgh in November 2021, during the UNFCCC COP26 climate negotiations; we seek to showcase Blue Carbon as a Nature-based Solution for Climate Change, People and Biodiversity. The conference theme identifies the growing climate mitigation opportunities presented by Blue Carbon, yet also seeks to highlight the emergent research that points to the wider climate mitigation services of carbon in the marine environment - what we are calling "beyond the inventory". We welcome contributions that address the science and policy dimensions of Blue Carbon, particularly where these highlight opportunities and mechanisms for the protection, restoration and creation of Blue Carbon habitats. We also welcome case-study examples that highlight successful partnerships in a wide range of international settings and would particularly encourage contributions that show-case legal, policy or investment opportunities.

Location Awareness in the Age of Google Maps

Location Awareness in the Age of Google Maps
Author: Rebecca Noone
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Total Pages: 126
Release: 2024-07-12
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 104003263X

Location Awareness in the Age of Google Maps explores the mundane act of navigating cities in the age of digital mapping infrastructures. Noone follows the frictions routing through Google Maps’ categorising and classifying of spatial information. Complicating the assumption that digital maps distort a sense of direction, Noone argues that Google Maps’ location awareness does more than just organise and orient a representation of space—it also organises and orients imaginaries of publicness, selfsufficiency, legibility, and error. At the same time, Location Awareness in the Age of Google Maps helps to animate the ordinary ways people are challenging and refusing Google Maps’ vision of the world. Drawing on an arts-based field study spanning the streets of London, New York, London, Toronto, and Amsterdam, Noone’s encounters of "asking for directions" open up lines of inquiry and spatial scores that cut through Google‘s universal mapping project. Location Awareness in the Age of Google Maps will be essential reading for information studies and media studies scholars and students with an interest in embodied information practices, critical information studies, and critical data studies. The book will also appeal to an urban studies audience engaged in work on the digital city and the datafication of urban environments.

2022 Planner

2022 Planner
Author: 2022 Planner
Publisher:
Total Pages: 120
Release: 2021-10-24
Genre:
ISBN:

2022 Daily Planner 8.5x11 one page per day. Help keep up with daily life, important dates, goals, notes, and etc...

The Family Business Map

The Family Business Map
Author: M. Bennedsen
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 179
Release: 2014-09-29
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1137382368

Combining the expertise of two consultants and academics from East and West, this book provides an international guide for family businesses, showing how to identify and implement the best governance strategies. Packed with case studies and interviews, this is the ultimate guide for family businesses wanting to achieve long-term success.

Blue Ocean Shift

Blue Ocean Shift
Author: W. Chan Kim
Publisher: Hachette Books
Total Pages: 286
Release: 2017-09-26
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 0316314056

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER #1 WALL STREET JOURNAL BESTSELLER Blue Ocean Shift is the essential follow up to Blue Ocean Strategy, the classic and over 4 million copy global bestseller by world-renowned professors W. Chan Kim and Renee Mauborgne. Drawing on more than a decade of new work, Kim and Mauborgne show you how to move beyond competing, inspire your people's confidence, and seize new growth, guiding you step-by-step through how to take your organization from a red ocean crowded with competition to a blue ocean of uncontested market space. By combining the insights of human psychology with practical market-creating tools and real-world guidance, Kim and Mauborgne deliver the definitive guide to shift yourself, your team, or your organization to new heights of confidence, market creation, and growth. They show why nondisruptive creation is as important as disruption in seizing new growth. Blue Ocean Shift is packed with all-new research and examples of how leaders in diverse industries and organizations made the shift and created new markets by applying the process and tools outlined in the book. Whether you are a cash-strapped startup or a large, established company, nonprofit or national government, you will learn how to move from red to blue oceans in a way that builds your people's confidence so that they own and drive the process. With battle-tested lessons learned from successes and failures in the field, Blue Ocean Shift is critical reading for leaders, managers, and entrepreneurs alike. You'll learn what works, what doesn't, and how to avoid the pitfalls along the way. This book will empower you to succeed as you embark on your own blue ocean journey. Blue Ocean Shift is indispensable for anyone committed to building a compelling future.

The Life Map 2022 Creative Planner

The Life Map 2022 Creative Planner
Author: Compiled By Barbour Staff
Publisher: Barbour Publishing
Total Pages: 240
Release: 2021-07
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 9781643529820

Featuring monthly and weekly calendars, a year-at-a-glance section, and more, this planner offers an important reminder when you aspire to more effective living: Make God the center of your plans!