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[1] From: Willard McCarty <willard.mccarty@kcl.ac.uk> (67)
Subject: new book on ethics
[2] From: Willard McCarty <willard.mccarty@kcl.ac.uk> (39)
Subject: book on systems theory
[3] From: Willard McCarty <willard.mccarty@kcl.ac.uk> (62)
Subject: on pattern recognition & string matching
[4] From: Willard McCarty <willard.mccarty@kcl.ac.uk> (55)
Subject: on women in research universities
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Date: Fri, 15 Nov 2002 06:52:28 +0000
From: Willard McCarty <willard.mccarty@kcl.ac.uk>
Subject: new book on ethics
Kluwer is pleased to announce the publication of the following title:
Pragmatist Ethics for a Technological Culture
edited by
Jozef Keulartz
Wageningen University, The Netherlands
Michiel Korthals
Wageningen University, the Netherlands
Maartje Schermer
Dept. of Philosophy, University of Amsterdam and Center for Ethics and
Health of The Netherlands, Zoetermeer/The Hague, The Netherlands
Tsjalling Swierstra
Twente University, Enschede, The Netherlands
THE INTERNATIONAL LIBRARY OF ENVIRONMENTAL, AGRICULTURAL AND FOOD ETHICS -- 3
Our technological culture has an extremely dynamic character: old ways of
reproducing ourselves, managing nature and keeping animals are continually
replaced by new ones; norms and values with respect to our bodies, food
production, health care and environmental protection are regularly being
put up for discussion. This constantly confronts us with new moral problems
and dilemmas. In discussion with other approaches this book argues that
pragmatism, with its strong emphasis on the interaction between technology
and values, gives us both procedural help and stresses the importance of
living and cooperating together in tackling these problems and dilemmas.
The issues in this book include the interaction of technology and ethics,
the status of pragmatism, the concept of practice, and discourse ethics and
deliberative democracy. The book has an interactive design, with original
contributions alternating with critical comments. The book is of interest
for students, scholars and policymakers in the fields of bioethics, animal
ethics, environmental ethics, pragmatist philosophy and science and
technology studies.
CONTENTS AND CONTRIBUTORS
Contributors. Acknowledgements. Introduction.
Part 1: Prologue. 1. Ethics in a Technology Culture; J. Keulartz, et al.
Part 2: Technology
and Ethics. 2. Pragmatic Resources for Biotechnology; L.A. Hickman.
3. Philosophical Tools and Technical Solutions; H. Zwart.
4. How Pragmatic is Bioethics?; M. Schermer, J. Keulartz.
5. Healthcare as a Relational Practice: A Hermeneutic-Pragmatic
Perspective; G.Widdershoven, L.van der Scheer.
Part 3: The Status of Pragmatism. 6. A Modest Proposal: Methodological
Pragmatism for Bioethics; A. Light.
7. Methodological Pragmatism in Bioethics: A Modest Proposal?; B.Gremmen.
8. Pragmatic Epistemology in the Activity of Bioethics; G.McGee.
9. Pragmatism and Pragmata; P.-P. Verbeek.
Part 4: Pragmatism
and Practices. 10. A Multi-Practice Ethics of Domesticated and "Wild"
Animals; M. Korthals.
11. Weak Ethics, Strong Feelings; H. Barbers.
12. Pragmatism for Medical Ethics; G.de Vries.
13. Competitiveness, Ethics and Truth; J. Vorstenbosch.
14. A Pragmatist Epistemology for Adaptive Management; B.G. Norton.
15. How Much Doubt Can a Pragmatist Bear?; H.van den Belt.
Part V: Discourse Ethics and Deliberative
Democracy. 16. Pragmatism, Discourse Ethics and Occasional Philosophy; P.B.
Thompson.
17. Minimalism with a Vengeance; P. Pekelharing.
18. Moral Vocabularies and Public Debate; T. Swierstra.
19. Debating Pragmatism; R.de Wilde.
Part 6: Epilogue. 20. Pragmatism in Action; J.Keulartz, et al.
Hardbound ISBN: 1-4020-0987-9 Date: December 2002 Pages: 292 pp.
EURO 135.00 / USD 130.00 / GBP 86.00
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Paperback ISBN: 1-4020-1115-6 Date: December 2002 Pages: 292 pp.
EURO 75.00 / USD 72.00 / GBP 48.00
Dr Willard McCarty | Senior Lecturer | Centre for Computing in the
Humanities | King's College London | Strand | London WC2R 2LS || +44 (0)20
7848-2784 fax: -2980 || willard.mccarty@kcl.ac.uk
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Date: Fri, 15 Nov 2002 06:53:23 +0000
From: Willard McCarty <willard.mccarty@kcl.ac.uk>
Subject: book on systems theory
Kluwer is pleased to announce the publication of the following title:
Architecture of Systems Problem Solving, Second Edition
by
George J. Klir
State University of New York at Binghamton, USA
Doug Elias
Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, USA
IFSR INTERNATIONAL SERIES ON SYSTEMS SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING --
This is the definitive text for one of the major schools of thought in
systems science. It presents both a comprehensive framework for
characterizing all forms of systems problems, and a set of specific
methodologies for some key problems. These methodologies are based on a
combination of classical and fuzzy set theories, probability and
possibility theories, graph and hypergraph theories, and information
theory, among others. The hardcopy text contains a revised, updated and
condensed version of the first edition, accompanied by a CD containing
supplementary material including additional chapters on related topics,
explanatory material drawn from many years of class presentations and
lectures, exercises, and fully worked out examples showing both the
framework and methodology in operation on actual real-world problems. Fully
operational software is made available on an associated website. The
material is suitable for upper-level undergraduates and first-year graduate
students with a modest background in discrete math, probability and statistics.
CONTENTS
1. Introduction.
2. Source and Data Systems.
3. Generative systems.
4. Structure Systems.
5. Metasystems.
A. Complexity.
B. Goal-Oriented.
C. System Similarity.
6. Architecture, Use, Evolution. Appendices. References. Subject Index.
Author Index.
Hardbound ISBN: 0-306-47357-7 Date: November 2002 Pages: 354 pp.
EURO 128.00 / USD 125.00 / GBP 80.00
Dr Willard McCarty | Senior Lecturer | Centre for Computing in the
Humanities | King's College London | Strand | London WC2R 2LS || +44 (0)20
7848-2784 fax: -2980 || willard.mccarty@kcl.ac.uk
www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/wlm/
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Date: Fri, 15 Nov 2002 06:59:30 +0000
From: Willard McCarty <willard.mccarty@kcl.ac.uk>
Subject: on pattern recognition & string matching
Kluwer is pleased to announce the publication of the following title:
Pattern Recognition and String Matching
edited by
Dechang Chen
Uniformed Services University of Health Sciences, Bethesda, MD, USA
Xiuzhen Cheng
Dept. of Computer Science and Engineering, University of Minnesota,
Minneapolis, USA
COMBINATORIAL OPTIMIZATION -- 13
This volume is the most comprehensive one in its field. It is a collection
of 28 state-of-the-art articles contributed by experts of pattern
recognition, string matching, or both. It contains fundamental concepts and
notations, as well as reports on current research with respect to both
methodology and applications. In particular, it includes string matching
related techniques for structural pattern recognition. It also explores
many applications of pattern recognition strategies to image segmentation,
intrusion detection, handwriting recognition and others.
Audience: This book is a good reference tool for scientists who depend on
problems in pattern recognition and string matching. Target readers include
researchers in computer science, statistics, mathematics, and electrical
Engineering, as well as students. It is suitable for both specialists and
uninformed readers.
CONTENTS AND CONTRIBUTORS
Foreword. Correcting the Training Data; R. Barandela, et al. Context Free
Grammars and Semantic Networks for Flexible Assembly Recognition; C.
Bauckhage, G. Sagerer. Stochastic Recognition of Occluded Objects; B.
Bhanu, et al. Approximate String Matching for Angular String Elements with
Applications to On-Line and Off-line Handwriting Recognition; S.-H. Cha,
S.N. Srihari. Uniform, Fast Convergence of Arbitrarily Tight Upper and
Lower Bounds on the Bayes Error; D. Chen,et al. Building RBF Networks for
Time Series Classification by Boosting; J.R. Diez, C.J.A. Gonzlez.
Similarity Measures and Clustering of String Patterns; A. Fred. Pattern
Recognition for Intrusion Detection in Computer Networks; G. Giacinto, F.
Roli. Model-Based Pattern Recognition; M. Haindl. Structural Pattern
Recognition in Graphs; L. Holder, et al. Deriving Pseudo-Probabilities of
Correctness Given Scores (DPPS); K. Ianakiev, V. Govindaraju. Weighed Mean
and Generalized Median of Strings; Y. Jiang, H. Bunke. A Region-Based
Algorithm for Classifier-Independent Feature Selection; M. Kudo. Inference
of K-Piecewise Testable Tree Languages; D.Lpez, et al. Mining Partially
Periodic Patterns With Unknown Periods From Event tream; S. Ma, J.L.
Hellerstein. Combination of Classifiers for Supervised Learning: A Survey;
S. Ma, C. Ji. Image Segmentation and Pattern Recognition: A Novel Concept,
the Historgram of Connected Elements; D. Maravell, M.. Patricio.
Prototype Extraction for k-NN Classifiers using Median Srings;
C.D.Martnez-Hinarejos, et al. Cyclic String Matching: Efficient Exact and
Approximate Algorithms; A. Marzal, et al. Homogeneity, Autocorrelation and
Anisotropy in Patterns; A. Molina. Robust Structural Indexing through
Quasi-Invariant Shape Signatures and Feature Generation; H. Nishida. Energy
Minimisation Methods for Static and Dynamic Curve Matching; E. Nyssen, et
al. Recent Feature Selection Methods in Statistical Pattern Recognition; P.
Pudil, et al. Fast Image Segmentation under Noise; R.M. Romano, D.
Vitulano. Set Analysis of Coincident Errors and Its Applications for
Combining Classifiers; D. Ruta, B. Gabrys. Enhanced Neighbourhood
Specifications for Pattern Classification; J.S. Snchez, A.I. Marqus.
Algorithmic Synthesis in Neural Network Training for Pattern Recognition;
K.Sirlantzis. Binary Strings and multi-class learning problems; T.Windeatt,
R. Ghaderi.
Hardbound ISBN: 1-4020-0953-4 Date: December 2002 Pages: 772 pp.
EURO 257.00 / USD 245.00 / GBP 164.00
Dr Willard McCarty | Senior Lecturer | Centre for Computing in the
Humanities | King's College London | Strand | London WC2R 2LS || +44 (0)20
7848-2784 fax: -2980 || willard.mccarty@kcl.ac.uk
www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/wlm/
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Date: Fri, 15 Nov 2002 07:00:22 +0000
From: Willard McCarty <willard.mccarty@kcl.ac.uk>
Subject: on women in research universities
Kluwer is pleased to announce the publication of the following title:
Equal Rites, Unequal Outcomes
Women in American Research Universities
edited by
Lilli S. Hornig
The Committee for the Equality of Women at Harvard, Little Compton, RI, USA
INNOVATIONS IN SCIENCE EDUCATION AND TECHNOLOGY --
This book is based on a conference held at Harvard University in November
1998. It is sponsored by grants from the Ford Foundation, the Sloan
Foundation, and the Albert Gordon Foundation. The intent of the conference
is to focus on women faculty in research universities, seeking to identify
and disseminate innovative approaches to increasing faculty positions and
opportunities for women there. Faculty positions in these institutions are
essential to establishing productive scholarly careers, especially so in
the natural sciences, but also in the social sciences and humanities. The
contributors are considered quite stellar and are some of the most
important leaders in their individual fields of study.
CONTENTS AND CONTRIBUTORS
Introduction; L.S. Hornig.
Part I.
1. Dreaming and Scheming: Moving Towards Our University; C.R. Stimpson.
2. The Current Status of Women in Research Universities; L.S. Hornig.
3. A National Profile of Academic Women in Research Universities; H.S.
Astin, C.M. Cress.
Part
II.
4. Gender, Faculty, and Doctoral Education in Science and Engineering; M.F.
Fox.
5. You've Come a Long Way: Data on Women Doctoral Scientists and Engineers
in Research Universities; C.V. Kuh.
6. The Presence and Participation of Women in Academic Science and
Engineering: 1973-1995; J.S. Long.
7. Explaining Sex Differences in Publication Productivity among
Postsecondary Faculty; K.A. Shauman, Y.Xie.
Part III.
8. Women in the Academy: Confronting Barriers to Equality; C. Hollenshead.
9. Organizational Change to Support Success of Women: A Model and Its
Lessons; L.P. Fried, et al.
Part IV.
10. Primatology, Archaeology, and Human Origins: Feminist Interventions; L.
Schiebinger.
11. Transforming Knowledges: Anthropology's Encounters with Feminism(s); P.
Chatterjee.
Part V.
12. Women's Uneven Progress in Academia: Problems and Solutions; M.A. Ferber.
13. Work/Family/Life Issues and Programs in Higher Education What's
New; K.Sullivan. Old Issues, New Solutions: Family and Work; Response to
Kathleen Sullivan; R. Simpson.
Conclusions.
14. Conclusions; L.S.Hornig, B. Lazarus. Bibliography. Index.
Paperback ISBN: 0-306-47351-8 Date: November 2002 Pages: 394 pp.
EURO 43.00 / USD 42.50 / GBP 27.00
Dr Willard McCarty | Senior Lecturer | Centre for Computing in the
Humanities | King's College London | Strand | London WC2R 2LS || +44 (0)20
7848-2784 fax: -2980 || willard.mccarty@kcl.ac.uk
www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/wlm/
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