Most histories of the personal computer industry focus ontechnology or business. John Markoff’s landmark book is about theculture and consciousness behind the first PCs—the culture beingcounter– and the consciousness expanded, sometimes chemically. It’sa brilliant evocation of Stanford, California, in the 1960s and’70s, where a group of visionaries set out to turn computers into ameans for freeing minds and information. In these pages oneencounters Ken Kesey and the phone hacker Cap’n Crunch, est andLSD, The Whole Earth Catalog and the Homebrew Computer Lab. What the Dormouse Said is a poignant, funny, and inspiringbook by one of the smartest technology writers around.

The Internet and the World Wide Web are becoming increasingly important in our highly interconnected world. This book addresses the topic of querying the data available, with regard to its quality, in a systematic and comprehensive way, from a database point of view. First, information quality and information quality measures are systematically introduced before ranking algorithms are developed for selecting Web sources for access. The second part is devoted to quality-driven query answering, particularly to query planning methods and algorithms. The in-depth presentation of algorithms and techniques for quality-oriented querying will serve as a valuable source of reference for R&D professionals and for IT business people. In addition, the work will provide students with a comprehensible introduction to cutting-edge research.

本书是一部英文版的数学专著，中文书名或可译为《非交换几何、规范理论和重整化：一般简介与非交换量子场论的重整化》。现在，非交换几何在数学上是一个新兴发展的领域，同时也呈现为前景可观的现代物理学框架。非交换空间上的量子场论确实需要全面的探索，并且得到新的有趣的特征。本书提供了一个对非交换几何、畸变量子化与量子场论的重整化：Wilson和BPHZ的对标量理论的方法以及对规范理论的代数方法的基本概念的教育性的介绍。本书能够帮助读者理解几个一般性的非交换量子场论的问题。基于作者的博士论文，本书给出了欧氏Moyal空间上的量子场论的重整化问题的概览，并且特别着重于Grosse-Wulkenhaar模型，以及与其相关的规范理论和其数学解释。本书适用于想要理解这个前沿的数学和物理研究领域的研究生和科研人员。

This book is the first comprehensive approach to the construction and the management of cooperative information systems. From a set of input database schemes describing the information content of multiple sources, the techniques presented yield a structured, integrated and consistent de*ion of the information content represented in a suitable data repository. The author builds his work on skilled and controlled use of results and methods from various fields of computer science, such as data mining, algorithmic learning, knowledge representation, database management, etc. The approach presented has been implemented in the prototype system DIKE, Database Intensional Knowledge Extractor, which has been studied in various application contexts.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the Second Hellenic Conference on Artificial Intelligence, SETN 2002, held in Thessaloniki, Greece, in April 2002. The 42 revised full papers presented together with two invited contributions were carefully reviewed and selected for inclusion in the book. The papers are organized in topical sections on knowledge representation and reasoning, logic programming and constraint satisfaction, planning and scheduling, natural language processing, human-computer interaction, machine learning, intelligent Internet and multiagent systems, and intelligent applications.

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