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[2] From: Willard McCarty <willard.mccarty@kcl.ac.uk> (301)
Subject: new books
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Date: Wed, 14 May 2003 07:27:49 +0100
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Lecture Notes in Computer Science
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LNCS 1723:
Robert France and Bernhard Rumpe (Eds.)
UML'99 - The Unified Modeling Language. Beyond the Standard
Second International Conference, Fort Collins, CO, USA, October 28-30,
1999. Proceedings
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LNCS 1683:
Jrg Flum and Mario Rodrguez-Artalejo (Eds.)
Computer Science Logic
13th International Workshop, CSL'99, 8th Annual Conference of the EACSL,
Madrid, Spain, September 20-25, 1999. Proceedings
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LNCS 1655:
Seong-Whan Lee and Yasuaki Nakano (Eds.)
Document Analysis Systems: Theory and Practice
Third IAPR Workshop, DAS'98, Nagano, Japan, November 4-6, 1998. Selected Papers
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LNCS 1654:
Edwin R. Hancock and Marcello Pelillo (Eds.)
Energy Minimization Methods in Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Second International Workshop, EMMCVPR'99, York, UK, July 26-29, 1999.
Proceedings
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LNCS 1578:
Wolfgang Thomas (Ed.)
Foundations of Software Science and Computation Structures
Second International Conference, FOSSACS'99, Held as Part of the Joint
European Conferences on Theory and Practice of Software, ETAPS'99,
Amsterdam, The Netherlands, March 1999. Proceedings
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LNAI 1555:
Jrg P. Mller, Munindar P. Singh, and Anand S. Rao (Eds.)
Intelligent Agents V. Agent Theories, Architectures, and Languages
5th International Workshop, ATAL'98, Paris, France, July 4-7, 1998. Proceedings
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LNCS 2641:
P.J. Nrnberg (Ed.):
Metainformatics
International Symposium, MIS 2002 Esbjerg, Denmark, August 7-10, 2002.
Revised Papers
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Date: Wed, 14 May 2003 07:31:43 +0100
From: Willard McCarty <willard.mccarty@kcl.ac.uk>
Subject: new books
(1)
Kluwer is pleased to announce the publication of the following new book:
UML for Real Design of Embedded Real-Time Systems
edited by
Luciano Lavagno
Politecnico di Torino, Italy and Cadence Berkeley Laboratories, CA, USA
Grant Martin
Cadence Berkeley Laboratories, CA, USA
Bran Selic
Rational Software Canada and Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada
The Unified Modeling Language is rapidly gaining acceptance as the
mechanism of choice to model complex software systems at various steps of
their specification and design, using a number of orthogonal views that
illustrate use cases, class diagrams and even detailed state machine-based
behaviors of objects.
UML for Real: Design of Embedded Real-Time Systems aims to show the reality
of UML as a medium for specification and implementation of real-time
systems, illustrating both the current capabilities and limits of UML for
this task, and future directions that will improve its usefulness for
real-time and embedded product design. It will also cover selected
applications examples. The book is an edited volume of solicited chapters.
The table of contents covers:
* UML and the Real-time/Embedded Domain, with chapters on the role of
UML in software development and on UML and Real-Time Systems.
* Representing Key Real-Time Concepts with UML, with chapters on
logical structure, on modeling system-level behavior using MSCs and
extensions, on platform modeling, on hardware and software object modeling,
on fine-grain and high-level patterns for real-time systems, on modeling
Quality Of Service and metric time, and finally on performance and
schedulability analysis using UML.
* Specific Applications, with chapters on UML in the automotive and
telecom domains.
* Process and Tools, with chapters on software performance engineering
and on UML tools for real-time processes.
Hardbound ISBN: 1-4020-7501-4 Date: May 2003 Pages: 369 pp.
EURO 128.00 / USD 125.00 / GBP 80.00
(2)
Kluwer is pleased to announce the publication of the following new book:
Philosophy and Neuroscience
A Ruthlessly Reductive Account
by
John Bickle
Dept. of Philosophy and Neuroscience Graduate Program, University of
Cincinnati, OH, USA
STUDIES IN BRAIN AND MIND -- 2
Philosophy and Neuroscience: A Ruthlessly Reductive Account is the first
book-length treatment of philosophical issues and implications in current
cellular and molecular neuroscience. John Bickle articulates a
philosophical justification for investigating "lower level" neuroscientific
research and describes a set of experimental details that have recently
yielded the reduction of memory consolidation to the molecular mechanisms
of long-term potentiation (LTP). These empirical details suggest answers to
recent philosophical disputes over the nature and possibility of
psycho-neural scientific reduction, including the multiple realization
challenge, mental causation, and relations across explanatory levels.
Bickle concludes by examining recent work in cellular neuroscience
pertaining to features of conscious experience, including the cellular
basis of working memory, the effects of explicit selective attention on
single-cell activity in visual cortex, and sensory experiences induced by
cortical microstimulation. This final chapter poses a challenge both to
"mysterians," who insist that empirical science cannot address particular
features of consciousness, and to cognitivists, who insist that addressing
consciousness scientifically will require experimental and theoretical
resources that go beyond those used in neuroscience's cellular and
molecular core.
Bickle develops all scientific and philosophical concepts in detail, making
this book accessible to specialists, graduate students, and advanced
undergraduates in either philosophy or the empirical brain and cognitive
sciences. Philosophers of science, mind, neuroscience, and psychology,
neuroscientists working at a variety of levels, and cognitive scientists-or
anyone interested in interactions between contemporary philosophy and
science and the nature of reduction-in-practice that informs current
mainstream neuroscience-will find discussions pertinent to their concerns.
Hardbound ISBN: 1-4020-7394-1 Date: June 2003 Pages: 252 pp.
EURO 100.00 / USD 96.00 / GBP 64.00
(3)
Kluwer is pleased to announce the publication of the following new book:
Yearbook of Morphology 2003
edited by
Geert Booij
Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Jaap van Marle
Open Universiteit, Heerlen, The Netherlands
YEARBOOK OF MORPHOLOGY --
A revival of interest in morphology has occurred during recent years. The
Yearbook of Morphology series, published since 1988, has proven to be an
eminent support for this upswing of morphological research, since it
contains articles on topics which are central in the current theoretical
debates, and which are frequently referred to. Thus it has set a standard
for morphological research.
In the Yearbook of Morphology 2003 a large number of articles is devoted to
the phenomenon of complex predicates consisting of a verb preceded by a
preverb. Such complex predicates exhibit both morphological and syntactic
behaviour, and thus form a testing ground for theories of the relation
between morphology and syntax. Evidence is presented from a wide variety of
languages including Germanic, Romance, Australian, and Uralic languages. A
number of articles present historical evidence on the change of preverbal
elements into prefixes. Topics such as grammaticalization, constructional
idioms, and derivational periphrasis are also discussed.
In addition, this Yearbook of Morphology contains articles on morphological
parsing, and on the role of paradigmatical relations in analogical change.
Audience: Theoretical, descriptive, and historical linguists,
morphologists, phonologists, computational linguists, and psycholinguists
will find this book of interest.
Hardbound ISBN: 1-4020-1272-1 Date: May 2003 Pages: 288 pp.
EURO 122.00 / USD 117.00 / GBP 77.00
(4)
Kluwer is pleased to announce the publication of the following new book:
Video Content Analysis Using Multimodal Information
For Movie Content Extraction, Indexing and Representation
by
Ying Li
IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, Hawthorne, NY, USA
C.C. Jay Kuo
University of Southern California, Los Angeles, USA
Video Content Analysis Using Multimodal Information For Movie
ContentExtraction, Indexing and Representation is on content-based
multimedia analysis, indexing, representation and applications with a focus
on feature films. Presented are the state-of-art techniques in video
content analysis domain, as well as many novel ideas and algorithms for
movie content analysis based on the use of multimodal information.
The authors employ multiple media cues such as audio, visual and face
information to bridge the gap between low-level audiovisual features and
high-level video semantics. Based on sophisticated audio and visual content
processing such as video segmentation and audio classification, the
original video is re-represented in the form of a set of semantic video
scenes or events, where an event is further classified as a 2-speaker
dialog, a multiple-speaker dialog, or a hybrid event. Moreover, desired
speakers are simultaneously identified from the video stream based on
either a supervised or an adaptive speaker identification scheme. All this
information is then integrated together to build the video's ToC (table of
content) as well as the index table. Finally, a video abstraction system,
which can generate either a scene-based summary or an event-based skim, is
presented by exploiting the knowledge of both video semantics and video
production rules.
This monograph will be of great interest to research scientists and
graduate level students working in the area of content-based multimedia
analysis, indexing, representation and applications as well s its related
fields.
CONTENTS
Dedication. List of Figures. List of Tables. Preface. Acknowledgments.
1: Introduction. 1. Audiovisual Content Analysis.
1.1. Audio Content Analysis.
1.2. Visual Content Analysis.
1.3. Audiovisual Content Analysis.
2. Video Indexing, Browsing and Abstraction.
3. MPEG-7 Standard.
4. Roadmap of The Book.
4.1. Video Segmentation.
4.2. Movie Content Analysis.
4.3. Movie Content Abstraction.
2: Background And
Previous Work. 1. Visual Content Analysis.
1.1. Video Shot Detection.
1.2. Video Scene and Event Detection.
2. Audio Content Analysis.
2.1. Audio Segmentation and Classification.
2.2. Audio Analysis for Video Indexing.
3. Speaker Identification.
4. Video Abstraction.
4.1. Video Skimming.
4.2. Video Summarization.
5. Video Indexing and Retrieval.
3: Video Content Pre-Processing. 1. Shot Detection in Raw Data Domain.
1.1. YUV Color Space.
1.2. Metrics for Frame Differencing.
1.3. Camera Break Detection.
1.4. Gradual Transition Detection.
1.5. Camera Motion Detection.
1.6. Illumination Change Detection.
1.7. A Review of the Proposed System.
2. Shot Detection in Compressed Domain.
2.1. DC-image and DC-sequence.
3. Audio Feature Analysis.
4. Commercial Break Detection.
4.1. Features of A Commercial Break.
4.2. Feature Extraction.
4.3. The Proposed Detection Scheme.
5. Experimental Results.
5.1. Shot Detection Results.
5.2. Commercial Break Detection Results.
4: Content-Based Movie Scene And Event Extraction. 1. Movie Scene Extraction.
1.1. Sink-based Scene Construction.
1.2. Audiovisual-based Scene Refinement.
1.3. User Interaction.
2. Movie Event Extraction.
2.1. Sink Clustering and Categorization.
2.2. Event Extraction and Classification.
2.3. Integrating Speech and Face Information.
3. Experimental Results.
3.1. Scene Extraction Results.
3.2. Event Extraction Results.
5: Speaker Identification For Movies.
1. Supervised Speaker Identification for Movie Dialogs.
1.1. Feature Selection and Extraction.
1.2. Gaussian Mixture Model.
1.3. Likelihood Calculation and Score Normalization.
1.4. Speech Segment Isolation.
2. Adaptive Speaker Identification.
2.1. Face Detection, Recognition and Mouth Tracking.
2.2. Speech Segmentation and Clustering.
2.3. Initial Speaker Modeling.
2.4. Likelihood-based Speaker Identification.
2.5. Audiovisual Integration for Speaker Identification.
2.6. Unsupervised Speaker Model Adaptation.
3. Experimental Results.
3.1. Supervised Speaker Identification Results.
3.2. Adaptive Speaker Identification Results.
3.3. An Example of Movie Content Annotation.
6: Scene-Based
Movie Summarization. 1. An Overview of the Proposed System.
2. Hierarchical Keyframe Extraction. 2.1. Scene Importance Computation.
2.2. Sink Importance Computation.
2.3. Shot Importance Computation.
2.4. Frame Importance Computation.
2.5. Keyframe Selection.
3. Scalable Movie Summarization and Navigation.
4. Experimental Results.
4.1. Keyframe Extraction Results.
4.2. User Study.
4.3. System Interface Design.
4.4. Applications.
7: Event-Based
Movie Skimming. 1. Introduction.
2. An Overview of the Proposed System.
3. Extended Event Set Construction.
4. Extended Event Feature Extraction.
5. Video Skim Generation.
6. More Thoughts on the Video Skim.
6.1. When More Judging Rules Are Needed.
6.2. Sub-sampling the Video Skim.
6.3. Discovering the Story and Visual Structure.
7. Experimental Results.
8: Conclusion And Future Work. 1. Conclusion.
2. Future Work.
2.1. System Refinement.
2.2. New Research Topics. References. Index.
Hardbound ISBN: 1-4020-7490-5 Date: June 2003 Pages: 224 pp.
EURO 127.00 / USD 115.00 / GBP 72.00
(5)
Kluwer is pleased to announce the publication of the following new book:
A Guide to Classical and Modern Model Theory
by
Annalisa Marcja
University of Florence, Italy
Carlo Toffalori
University of Camerino, Italy
TRENDS IN LOGIC -- 19
Since its birth, Model Theory has been developing a number of methods and
concepts that have their intrinsic relevance, but also provide fruitful and
notable applications in various fields of Mathematics. It is a lively and
fertile research area which deserves the attention of the mathematical world.
This volume
* is easily accessible to young people and mathematicians unfamiliar
with logic;
* gives a terse historical picture of Model Theory;
* introduces the latest developments in the area;
* provides 'hands-on' proofs of elimination of quantifiers, elimination
of imaginaries and other relevant matters.
A Guide to Classical and Modern Model Theory is for trainees and
professional model theorists, mathematicians working in Algebra and
Geometry and young people with a basic knowledge of logic.
Hardbound ISBN: 1-4020-1330-2 Date: June 2003 Pages: 384 pp.
EURO 120.00 / USD 115.00 / GBP 77.00
(6)
Kluwer is pleased to announce the publication of the following new book:
Observation and Experiment in the Natural and Social Sciences
edited by
Maria Carla Galavotti
Dept. of Philosophy, University of Bologna, Italy
BOSTON STUDIES IN THE PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE -- 232
Traditionally, philosophers of science have distinguished between a
"context of justification" and a "context of discovery". Only the first was
conceived as the proper field of application of philosophy of science,
while the second was regarded as concerning scientists, not philosophers.
Recently it was admitted that the context of justification forms a
continuum with the context of discovery, and as a result observation and
experimentation have become an important field of inquiry. The present
volume is meant as a contribution to the ongoing debate on this topic.
This volume is meant for researchers and advanced students in Philosophy of
Science, and for natural and social scientists interested in foundational
topics. It combines the viewpoint of philosophers and scientists and casts
a new interdisciplinary perspective on the problem of observation and
experimentation. It spans a wide range of disciplines, including physics,
economics and psychology.
Hardbound ISBN: 1-4020-1251-9 Date: April 2003 Pages: 356 pp.
EURO 109.00 / USD 105.00 / GBP 70.00
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