Download or read book Neuro fuzzy Controllers written by Jelena Godjevac and published by EPFL Press. This book was released on 1997-01-01 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Download or read book Neural Networks written by Gérard Dreyfus and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2005-11-25 with total page 509 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Neural networks represent a powerful data processing technique that has reached maturity and broad application. When clearly understood and appropriately used, they are a mandatory component in the toolbox of any engineer who wants make the best use of the available data, in order to build models, make predictions, mine data, recognize shapes or signals, etc. Ranging from theoretical foundations to real-life applications, this book is intended to provide engineers and researchers with clear methodologies for taking advantage of neural networks in industrial, financial or banking applications, many instances of which are presented in the book. For the benefit of readers wishing to gain deeper knowledge of the topics, the book features appendices that provide theoretical details for greater insight, and algorithmic details for efficient programming and implementation. The chapters have been written by experts and edited to present a coherent and comprehensive, yet not redundant, practically oriented introduction.

Download or read book Traitement du signal et de l image pour la biom trie written by NAÏT-ALI Amine and published by Lavoisier. This book was released on 2012-09-14 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ce livre met en évidence l'utilisation des différentes approches de traitement du signal et de l'image dans des applications d'identification ou d'authentification des individus. Son contenu s'adresse, en particulier, aux étudiants de 3ème cycle, chercheurs et ingénieurs qui souhaitent s'initier au développement d'algorithmes spécifiques et leur intégration dans des systèmes biométriques. Le lecteur y trouvera, d'une part, des chapitres introductifs, orientés pédagogie et d'autre part, des chapitres à vocation recherche. Evidemment, la reconnaissance faciale 2D/3D, la reconnaissance par l'iris et les traits de la main sont considérés, mais les auteurs ont également souhaité renforcer le contenu de cet ouvrage par des chapitres portant sur la multi-biométrie, l'évaluation des performances des systèmes biométriques ainsi que certains outils de traitement du signal tels que la classification, la cryptographie et la protection des données. Enfin, il est également présenté dans cet ouvrage de nouveaux concepts et orientations récentes. Ce travail est le fruit de la contribution de plusieurs acteurs du milieu académique et de l'industrie, actifs dans le domaine de la biométrie et de la sécurité.

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Download or read book Philosophie de l esprit et sciences du cerveau written by Jean-Pierre Changeux and published by Librairie Philosophique Vrin. This book was released on 1991 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: De nos jours existe un extraordinaire engouement pour les sciences du cerveau qui captivent de plus en plus de penseurs. Des philosophes americains encouragent leurs pairs a s'initier aux neurosciences. Des hommes de science, conscients des enjeux metaphysiques inherents a leur domaine, invitent les philosophes a decouvrir les faits nouveaux apportes par les decouvertes sur le systeme nerveux. Il parait donc legitime que le philosophe soit concerne par les developpements recents des sciences du cerveau. Par la diversite des points de vus et des perspectives, le present recueil souhaite contribuer a eclairer, dans la mesure du possible, quelques-unes des questions inherentes aux interactions entre la philosophie et les neurosciences.

Download or read book Optimization of the Electron Donor Supply to Sulphate Reducing Bioreactors Treating Inorganic Wastewater written by Luis Carlos Reyes-Alvarado and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2018-09-03 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The main objective of this research was to optimize the electron donor supply in sulphate reducing bioreactors treating sulphate rich wastewater. Two types of electron donor were tested: lactate and slow release electron donors such as carbohydrate based polymers and lignocellulosic biowastes. Biological sulphate reduction was evaluated in different bioreactor configurations: the inverse fluidized bed, sequencing batch and batch reactors. The reactors were tested under steady-state, high-rate and transient-state feeding conditions of electron donor and acceptor, respectively. The results showed that the inverse fluidized bed reactor configuration is robust and resilient to transient and high-rate feeding conditions at a hydraulic retention time as low as 0.125 d. The biological sulphate reduction was limited by the COD:sulphate ratio ( 82% either using carbohydrate based polymers or lignocellulosic bio-wastes, in batch bioreactors. The biological sulphate reduction was limited by the hydrolysis-fermentation rate and by the complexity of the slow release electron donors.

Download or read book Besoins informationnels et extraction d information Vers une conscience artificielle written by TURENNE Nicolas and published by Lavoisier. This book was released on 2013-02-01 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cet ouvrage réconcilie la philosophie, la biologie, la sociologie et les sciences cognitives grâce à un dénominateur commun, la conscience. Il en présente un aspect particulier, le concept d’auto-motivation de champ d’activité en tant que moteur biologique d’un état de conscience, et dont l’informatique systémique permet de révéler l’existence. Si la conscience est mal définie, un cadre réduit permet d’en donner une définition plus précise, observable malgré toute la complexité psychologique, sociale et technique de l’individu. Ces observations sont de deux natures : une nature d’activité principale et une nature cognitivo-linguistique, modulées par des facteurs de contrôle intrinsèques et extrinsèques. L’argument exposé consiste à présenter un état de conscience relatif à la notion de besoin informationnel instinctif, donc physiologique, et dont les traces porteuses sur les supports physiques (revues, abonnements, etc.) ou numériques (sms, web, etc.), sont analysables par l’extraction de connaissances.

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