This collection presents a diverse overview of where the development of artificial minds is as the twenty-first century begins. Examined from nearly all viewpoints, this book includes perspectives from philosophy, psychology, cognitive science, social studies and artificial intelligence. The...

"This book examines innovative research in the emerging, multidisciplinary field of cognitive informatics, portraying the connections between natural science and informatics that are investigated in this fundamental collection of cognitive informatics research"--Provided by publisher.

"This book is a comprehensive collection of work from researchers in related fields such as information systems, distributed AI, intelligent agents, and collaborative work that explores and discusses various aspects of design and development of intelligent technologies"--Provided by publisher.

"This book presents the recent advances in multi-mobile agent systems, the product development process, fuzzy logic systems, neural networks and ambient intelligent environments among many other innovations in this exciting field"--Provided by publisher.

Section 1. Project management and cost estimation -- Chapter 1. Software project and quality modelling using Bayesian networks / Norman Fenton, Peter Hearty, Martin Neil, Lukasz Radlinski -- Chapter 2. Using Bayesian networks for web effort estimation / Emilia Mendes -- Chapter 3. Optimizing...

Intelligent assistant systems information is becoming the raw material of modern society. Access to information spaces and the capability to use them effectively and efficiently has become a key economical success factor. This book contributes to the development of particular kinds of software...

Collecting and presenting the latest research and development results from the leading researchers in the field of intelligent databases, this book provides a single record of current research and practical applications in this field. It integrates data management in databases with intelligent...

"This book presents recent research efforts in Artificial Intelligence about building artificial systems capable of performing cognitive tasks. A fundamental issue addressed in this book is if these cognitive processes can have any meaningfulness to the artificial system being built"--Provided...