Autonomy Oriented Computing
is a comprehensive reference for scientists, engineers, and other professionals concerned with this promising development in computer science. It can also be used as a text in graduate/undergraduate programs in a broad range of computer-related disciplines, including Robotics and Automation, Amorphous Computing, Image Processing, Programming Paradigms, Computational Biology, etc.
Part One describes the basic concepts and characteristics of an AOC system and enumerates the critical design and engineering issues faced in AOC system development. Part Two gives detailed analyses of methodologies and case studies to evaluate AOC used in problem solving and complex system modeling. The final chapter outlines possibilities for future research and development.
Numerous illustrative examples, experimental case studies, and exercises at the end of each chapter of
Autonomy Oriented Computing
help particularize and consolidate the methodologies and theories presented.
Reviews / Votes
From the reviews: "The book contains numerous illustrative examples and experimental case studies, and there is a rich collection of online resources at http://www.comp.hkbu.edu.hk/~jiming, including software (with source code), slides, and links. In this sense, the book has potential as a resource for a graduate course in evolutionary computation... In summary, as a coherent treatment of a substantial body of work, with implications and challenges for the broader field of emergent behavior, the book contains a fair amount of interesting and thoughtfully presented material, and will be of interest to many. In addition, the care taken by the authors to package the book with commentary on the approach and the place of the work in the fields, and the impressive collection of additional resources, is a model that others should be encouraged to follow." (L. Sonenberg, Association for Computing Machinery, Reviews.com, Sep 9 2005)
Series
Edition
1st ed. Softcover of orig. ed. 2005
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Place of publication
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Research
Illustrations
57 s/w Abbildungen
XXXII, 216 p. 57 illus.
Dimensions
Height: 235 mm
Width: 155 mm
Thickness: 14 mm
Weight
ISBN-13
978-1-4419-5480-0 (9781441954800)
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Prof. Jiming Liu has been Chair Professor in Computer Science at Hong Kong Baptist University since 2010, where he also directs Centre for Health Informatics, as well as Joint Research Laboratory for Intelligent Disease Surveillance and Control (a research partnership with Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention). He received his MEng and PhD in Electrical Engineering (Robotics) from McGill University, after earning a BSc in Physics from East China Normal University and an interdisciplinary Master of Arts from Concordia University. He has been a Fellow of the IEEE since 2011. Prof. Liu's research interests include AI for Social Good, Machine Learning, Complex Systems, Data-Driven Modeling, Complex Networks, Web Intelligence (WI), and Autonomy-Oriented Computing (AOC) Paradigms. He has served as Editor-in-Chief of Web Intelligence Journal, and Associate Editor of Big Data and Information Analytics, IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering, IEEE Transactions on Cybernetics, and Computational Intelligence, among a dozen of others.Dr. Shang Xia is currently an Associate Professor at the National Institute of Parasitic Diseases, Chinese Center for Diseases Control and Prevention (NIPD, China CDC), which is also recognized as the Chinese Center for Tropical Diseases Research (CTDR), and WHO Collaborating Centre for Tropical Diseases. He also works as a member of Joint Research Laboratory for Intelligent Disease Surveillance and Control (a research partnership with Hong Kong Baptist University). He received his PhD degree in Computer Science from Hong Kong Baptist University (HKBU) in Hong Kong, having obtained MEng and BEng degrees from Shanghai Jiao Tong University (SJTU), China. He has completed his Postdoctoral Research Program in the Chinese Center for Diseases Control and Prevention (China CDC) in Beijing, China. He is the committee member of International Society of Geospatial Health (GnosisGIS). He has served as the section editors of BMC Infectious Diseases of Poverty (IDP), and Climate Change Research (in Chinese).
Fundamentals.- From Autonomy to AOC.- AOC at a Glance.- Design and Engineering Issues.- A Formal Framework of AOC.- AOC in Depth.- AOC in Constraint Satisfaction.- AOC in Complex Systems Modeling.- AOC in Optimization.- Challenges and Opportunities.
