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Download or read book Advances in Intelligent Computing and Communication written by Mihir Narayan Mohanty and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2020-01-13 with total page 563 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book features high-quality research papers presented at the 2nd International Conference on Intelligent Computing and Advances in Communication (ICAC 2019), held at Siksha ‘O’ Anusandhan Deemed to be University, Bhubaneswar, Odisha, India, in November 2019. Covering a wide variety of topics, including management of clean and smart energy systems and environmental challenges, it is a valuable resource for researchers and practicing engineers working in various fields of renewable energy generation, and clean and smart energy management.
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Download or read book Rapid Modelling and Quick Response written by Gerald Reiner and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2010-09-16 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rapid Modelling and Quick Response presents new research developments in the fields of rapid modelling and quick response linked with performance improvements (based on lead time reduction, etc., as well as financial performance measures). The papers and teaching cases in this book were presented at the second Rapid Modelling Conference: "Quick Response – Intersection of Theory and Practice". The main focus of this collection is the transfer of knowledge from theory to practice, providing the theoretical foundations for successful performance improvement. This conference volume challenges the traditional notions of rapid modelling, and offers valuable contributions to the scientific communities of operations management, production management, supply chain management, industrial engineering and operations research. Rapid Modelling and Quick Response will give the interested reader (researcher, as well as practitioner) a good overview of new developments in this field.
Download or read book Machine Learning written by Andrea Mechelli and published by Academic Press. This book was released on 2019-11-14 with total page 412 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Machine Learning is an area of artificial intelligence involving the development of algorithms to discover trends and patterns in existing data; this information can then be used to make predictions on new data. A growing number of researchers and clinicians are using machine learning methods to develop and validate tools for assisting the diagnosis and treatment of patients with brain disorders. Machine Learning: Methods and Applications to Brain Disorders provides an up-to-date overview of how these methods can be applied to brain disorders, including both psychiatric and neurological disease. This book is written for a non-technical audience, such as neuroscientists, psychologists, psychiatrists, neurologists and health care practitioners. - Provides a non-technical introduction to machine learning and applications to brain disorders - Includes a detailed description of the most commonly used machine learning algorithms as well as some novel and promising approaches - Covers the main methodological challenges in the application of machine learning to brain disorders - Provides a step-by-step tutorial for implementing a machine learning pipeline to neuroimaging data in Python
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