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Machine Learning (ML) is a sub field of artificial intelligence
that uses soft computing and algorithms to enable computers to
learn on their own and identify patterns in observed data, build
models that explain the world, and predict things without having
explicit pre-programmed rules and models. This book discusses
various applications of ML in engineering fields and the use of ML
algorithms in solving challenging engineering problems ranging from
biomedical, transport, supply chain and logistics, to manufacturing
and industrial. Through numerous case studies, it will assist
researchers and practitioners in selecting the correct options and
strategies for managing organizational tasks.
Volume I of the first complete English translation of the
chronicles of Fernão Lopes chronicles the reign of Pedro I
(1357-67), dubbed both 'the Just' and 'the Cruel', including his
dealings with the kingdom of Castile, the war between Castile and
Aragon, and the revenge he took on the men who murdered the woman
he loved, Inês de Castro. Until now, the chronicles of Fernão
Lopes (c.1380-c.1460) have only been available in critical editions
or in partial translations. Comparable to the works of Froissart in
France or López de Ayala in Spain, the chronicles provide a wealth
of detail on late fourteenth-century politics, diplomacy, warfare
and economic matters, courtly society, queenship and noble women,
as well as more mundane concerns such as food, health and the
purchasing power of a fluctuating currency. Lopes had a keen eye
for detail and a perspective especially attuned to the common
people, and his chronicles provide an invaluable source for the
history of Western Europe in the later Middle Ages.
Volume III of the first complete English translation of the
chronicles of Fernão Lopes chronicles the War of Succession
(1383-1385), the rise of the House of Avis under João I, and his
acclamation by the Cortes in Coimbra. Until now, the chronicles of
Fernão Lopes (c.1380-c.1460) have only been available in critical
editions or in partial translations. Comparable to the works of
Froissart in France or López de Ayala in Spain, the chronicles
provide a wealth of detail on late fourteenth-century politics,
diplomacy, warfare and economic matters, courtly society, queenship
and noble women, as well as more mundane concerns such as food,
health and the purchasing power of a fluctuating currency. Lopes
had a keen eye for detail and a perspective especially attuned to
the common people, and his chronicles provide an invaluable source
for the history of Western Europe in the later Middle Ages.
Volume IV of the first complete English translation of the
chronicles of Fernão Lopes chronicles the Battle of Aljubarrota
(1385), which secured the throne for João I, his marriage to
Philippa of Lancaster, and his reign up to 1411. Until now, the
chronicles of Fernão Lopes (c.1380-c.1460) have only been
available in critical editions or in partial translations.
Comparable to the works of Froissart in France or López de Ayala
in Spain, the chronicles provide a wealth of detail on late
fourteenth-century politics, diplomacy, warfare and economic
matters, courtly society, queenship and noble women, as well as
more mundane concerns such as food, health and the purchasing power
of a fluctuating currency. Lopes had a keen eye for detail and a
perspective especially attuned to the common people, and his
chronicles provide an invaluable source for the history of Western
Europe in the later Middle Ages.
Volume II of the first complete English translation of the
chronicles of Fernão Lopes chronicles the reign of Fernando I
(1367-1383) including Portugal's involvement in the Hundred Years'
War, the military conflicts with Castile, the alliances with
England, Aragon and Granada, the king's marriage with Leonor Teles,
and the dispute over the succession to the Portuguese throne.'
Toward a Cultural Archive of la Movida revisits the cultural and
social milieu in which la Movida, an explosion of artistic
production in the late 1970s and early 1980s, was articulated
discursively, aesthetically, socially, and politically. We connect
this experience with a broader national and international context
that takes it beyond the city of Madrid and outside the borders of
Spain. This collection of essays links the political and social
undertakings of this cultural period with youth movements in Spain
and other international counter-cultural or underground movements.
Moving away from biographical experiences or the identification of
further participants and works that belong to la Movida, the
articles collected in this volume situate this movement within the
political and social development of post-Franco Spain. Finally, it
also offers a reading of recent politically motivated recoveries of
this cultural phenomenon through exhibitions, state sponsored
documentaries, musicals, or tourist itineraries. The perception of
Spain as representative of a successful dual transition from
dictatorship to democracy and free market capitalism created a
"Spanish model" that has been emulated in countries like Portugal,
Argentina, Chile and Hungary, all formerly ruled by totalitarian
regimes. While social scientists study the promises, contradictions
and failures of the Spanish Transicion-especially on issues of
memory, repression, and (the lack of) reconciliation -our approach
from the humanities offers another vantage point to a wider
discussion of an unfinished chapter in recent Spanish history by
focusing on la Movida as the "cultural archive" whose cultural
transitions parallel the political and economic ones. The
transgressive, urban nature of this movement demonstrated an overt
desire, especially among Spanish youth, to reach onto a global
arena emulating the punk and new wave aesthetic of such cities as
London, New York, Paris, and Berlin. Art, design, film, music,
fashion during this period helped to forge a sense of a modern
urban identity in Spain that also reflected the tensions between
modernity and tradition, global forces and local values,
international mass media technology and regional customs.
The need to understand the migration between the United States and
Mexico is greater today than at any time in its century long
history. Its volume and complexity are greater than most observers
might have imagined even a decade ago; and it operates in a context
charged with serious human, political, and security challenges.
Yet, there is often confusion over the most fundamental questions
about the demography, economics, and political nature of the
movement and its policy responses. The editors of this book bring
together a team of top policy-oriented migration experts from
Mexico and the United States to provide an up-to-date analysis
leading to grounded policy recommendations for both governments.
Their conclusions derive from new analyses as well as from detailed
discussions with policy-makers. Contributors assess the main
characteristics, trends, and factors influencing Mexico-U.S.
migration and recommend actions that should improve migration
management, substantially reduce undocumented flows, and refocus
Mexican migration into legal channels. Also contained within this
book are recommendations of development strategies in Mexico that
should reduce mid- to long-term emigration pressures. The book
shows that collaboration between the U.S. and Mexico is not only
possible, but necessary, as unilateral reforms will continue to
fail until both governments act together to regulate the flow,
improve conditions for the migrants, and make sure that migration
has positive social and economic impacts on both countries.
The need to understand the migration between the United States and
Mexico is greater today than at any time in its century long
history. Its volume and complexity are greater than most observers
might have imagined even a decade ago; and it operates in a context
charged with serious human, political, and security challenges.
Yet, there is often confusion over the most fundamental questions
about the demography, economics, and political nature of the
movement and its policy responses. The editors of this book bring
together a team of top policy-oriented migration experts from
Mexico and the United States to provide an up-to-date analysis
leading to grounded policy recommendations for both governments.
Their conclusions derive from new analyses as well as from detailed
discussions with policy-makers. Contributors assess the main
characteristics, trends, and factors influencing Mexico-U.S.
migration and recommend actions that should improve migration
management, substantially reduce undocumented flows, and refocus
Mexican migration into legal channels. Also contained within this
book are recommendations of development strategies in Mexico that
should reduce mid- to long-term emigration pressures. The book
shows that collaboration between the U.S. and Mexico is not only
possible, but necessary, as unilateral reforms will continue to
fail until both governments act together to regulate the flow,
improve conditions for the migrants, and make sure that migration
has positive social and economic impacts on both countries.
For nearly a century of being underestimated as a literary genre,
the short story is currently experiencing a revival. The editors of
this collection of articles have brought together the contributions
of nine outstanding scholars in the field of the short story to
reveal some of the many directions in which the genre is expanding.
This book is a reasoned and well-documented anthology which casts
light on new aspects of the short story. It participates in the
current trend of short story criticism, characterized by the
gathering in one single volume of a diversity of approaches with
the main aim of promoting discussion on this thriving area of
literary studies. The editors of this volume believe that a
fruitful tension may rise by putting side by side insights into a
not so well known tradition, on the one hand, and fresh
considerations on unexpected developments of the short story, on
the other. All in all, the short story emerges as a dynamic and
flexible form that reacts and adapts itself better than any other
literary genre to the challenges of the sceptical times we live in.
The global reception of Samuel Beckett raises numerous questions:
in which areas of the world was Beckett first translated? Why were
Beckett texts sometimes slow to penetrate certain cultures? How
were national literatures impacted by Beckett's oeuvre? Translating
Samuel Beckett around the World brings together leading researchers
in Beckett studies to discuss these questions and explore the fate
of Beckett in their own societies and national languages. The
current text provides ample coverage of the presence of Beckett in
geographical contexts normally ignored by literary criticism, and
reveals unknown aspects of the 1969 Nobel Prize winner interacting
with translators of his work in a number of different countries.
Award-winning British novelist Margaret Drabble is renowned for her
fiction, stories that gave voice to the new woman of the 1960s and
continue to illuminate the conflicting roles of women in the
twenty-first century. Drabble's long affiliation with the
theatrical world also inspired her to experiment with the dramatic
form. She wrote two plays?one for television, Laura (1964), and one
for the stage, Bird of Paradise (1969). Fernandez's penetrating new
critical edition makes both plays available for the first time,
giving Drabble fans a new vantage point from which to understand
her work. In Laura and Bird of Paradise, Drabble mines the familiar
territory of social class, domestic life, and questions of destiny,
which have been the hallmark of her writing. As in her novels, both
plays reveal a deep curiosity about the world and a piercing
commentary on the social issues of her time. The volume's
introduction and accompanying critical essays give valuable insight
into the plays' historical and social context, and explore the
artistic solutions that an accomplished author of fiction found
when writing for the stage. Offering a fascinating complement to
Drabble's prodigious oeuvre, this volume also provides a glimpse
into a specific period in English letters, one that shaped an
influential generation of writers.
The global reception of Samuel Beckett raises numerous questions:
in which areas of the world was Beckett first translated? Why were
Beckett texts sometimes slow to penetrate certain cultures? How
were national literatures impacted by Beckett's oeuvre? Translating
Samuel Beckett around the World brings together leading researchers
in Beckett studies to discuss these questions and explore the fate
of Beckett in their own societies and national languages. The
current text provides ample coverage of the presence of Beckett in
geographical contexts normally ignored by literary criticism, and
reveals unknown aspects of the 1969 Nobel Prize winner interacting
with translators of his work in a number of different countries.
This monograph presents examples of best practices when combining
bioinspired algorithms with parallel architectures. The book
includes recent work by leading researchers in the field and offers
a map with the main paths already explored and new ways towards the
future. Parallel Architectures and Bioinspired Algorithms will be
of value to both specialists in Bioinspired Algorithms, Parallel
and Distributed Computing, as well as computer science students
trying to understand the present and the future of Parallel
Architectures and Bioinspired Algorithms.
Francisco Fern' andez de Vega and Erick Cantu- ' Paz The growing
success of biologically inspired algorithms in solving large and
complex problems has spawned many interesting areas of research.
Over the years, one of the mainstays in bio-inspired research has
been the exploi- tion of parallel and distributed environments to
speedup computations and to enrich the algorithms. From the early
days of research on bio-inspired algorithms, their inherently
parallel nature was recognized and di?erent p- allelization
approaches have been explored. Parallel algorithms promise -
ductions in execution time and open the door to solve increasingly
larger problems. But parallel platforms also inspire new
bio-inspired parallel al- rithms that, while similar to their
sequential counterparts, explore search spaces di?erently and o?er
improvements in solution quality. Our objective in editing this
book was to assemble a sample of the best work in parallel and
distributed biologically inspired algorithms. We invited
researchers in di?erent domains to submit their work. We aimed to
include diverse topics to appeal to a wide audience. Some of the
chapters sum- rize work that has been ongoing for several years,
while others describe more recent exploratory work. Collectively,
these works o?er a global snapshot of the most recent e?orts of
bioinspired algorithms' researchers aiming at pr- iting from
parallel and distributed computer architectures-including GPUs,
Clusters, Grids, volunteer computing and p2p networks as well as
multi-core processors.
This monograph presents examples of best practices when combining
bioinspired algorithms with parallel architectures. The book
includes recent work by leading researchers in the field and offers
a map with the main paths already explored and new ways towards the
future. Parallel Architectures and Bioinspired Algorithms will be
of value to both specialists in Bioinspired Algorithms, Parallel
and Distributed Computing, as well as computer science students
trying to understand the present and the future of Parallel
Architectures and Bioinspired Algorithms.
Samuel Beckett and Translation explores the idea that at the core
of Beckett's work there is no fixed centre but a constant movement
between variants of French and English. This collection of newly
commissioned edited essays opens up original lines of enquiry into
this restless impulse and how it finds a resonance in Beckett's
writing. Topics, including Beckett's self-translations,
translations of other authors and poetics of translation, are
discussed in an Introduction and thirteen chapters followed by a
section of commentary from seasoned translators who have worked on
Beckett's texts. In examining the full range of Beckett's literary
genres, this book presents how the high voltage released by
Beckett's bilingualism informs the intricacies of his literary
production.
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Grid Computing - First European Across Grids Conference, Santiago de Compostela, Spain, February 13-14, 2003, Revised Papers (Paperback, 2004 ed.)
Francisco Fernandez Rivera, Marian Bubak, Andres Gomez Tato, Ramon Doallo
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On behalf of the Program Committee, it is a pleasure for us to
introduce the
proceedingsofthe1stEuropeanAcrossGridsConference.Thiseventwasheldin
SantiagodeCompostela, Spain, February13 14,2003.Theconference,
organized by the University of Santiago (USC), the University of A
Coruna (UDC) and theSupercomputingCenterofGalicia(CESGA),
waspromotedbytheEuropean CrossGrid project and supported by the
GridStart Cluster. The idea of organizing this event was born
within the CrossGrid com- nity. CrossGrid is developing its
middleware, tools and applications in colla- ration with DataGrid
and GridLab and is open to collaboration with other Grid
projects.USC,
UDCandCESGAenthusiasticallysupportedtheconferenceidea. We consider
the Across Grids Conference to be an important contribution to the
objectives of the GridStart project. The aim of this 1st European
Across Grids Conference was to forge an - nual forum in which
researchers linked to European projects could present their
research results in the ?eld of Grid computing. This conference
does not - tend to replace the Global Grid Forum. However, we do
?nd that research being conducted within European projects deserves
a special meeting in which all - searchers participating in the
Grid development challenge can exchange ideas, experiencesand,
chie?y, results.Wewouldlikethee?ortoforganizingthisforum to ?nd
continuity in the following years in other European cities. Our
?rst interest was to bring together as many European Grid projects
as possible. We believe we have been successful in attaining this
aim. Papers and posters from DataGrid, CrossGrid, Damien, DataTAG,
GridWay and GridLab were presented, as well as results of research
funded by national Grid projects, including NORDUGRID and several
Spanish Grid initiatives, such as RedeG
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Applications of Evolutionary Computation - 23rd European Conference, EvoApplications 2020, Held as Part of EvoStar 2020, Seville, Spain, April 15-17, 2020, Proceedings (Paperback, 1st ed. 2020)
Pedro A. Castillo, Juan Luis Jimenez Laredo, Francisco Fernandez De Vega
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R1,692
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This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 23rd European
Conference on Applications of Evolutionary Computation,
EvoApplications 2020, held as part of Evo*2020, in Seville, Spain,
in April 2020, co-located with the Evo*2020 events EuroGP,
EvoMUSART and EvoCOP. The 44 full papers presented in this book
were carefully reviewed and selected from 62 submissions. The
papers cover a wide spectrum of topics, ranging from applications
of bio-inspired techniques on social networks, evolutionary
computation in digital healthcare and personalized medicine,
soft-computing applied to games, applications of deep-bioinspired
algorithms, parallel and distributed systems, and evolutionary
machine learning.
During the last decade of Franco's repressive rule, the Spanish
outlook on sex, drugs, and fashion shifted dramatically, creating a
favourable cultural environment for the return of democracy.
Exploring changes in urban planning, narratives of sexual and
gender identity, recreational drug use, and fashion design during
the seventies, Sex, Drugs, and Fashion in 1970s Madrid argues that
it was during this decade that the material and emotional
conditions for the groundbreaking transition to democracy first
began to develop. Thanks in part to a mass media saturated with
international trends, citizens of Madrid began to adopt practices,
behaviours, and attitudes that would ultimately render Franco's
military dictatorship obsolete. This cultural history examines
these modest but irreversible changes in the way people lived and
thought about their lives during the last decade of the regime's
creed. Not a revolution necessarily, but transformational
nevertheless, these changes in collective sensibility eased the
political transition to democracy and the emergence of the 1980s'
cultural movement la Movida.
The first complete English translation of one of the major
chronicles of medieval Europe, by 'the father of Portuguese
historiography' Covering the reigns of Pedro I, Fernando I and
João I up to the signing of the 1411 treaty with Castile which
confirmed the survival of the Portuguese kingdom, the chronicles
provide a wealth of detail on late fourteenth-century politics,
diplomacy, warfare and economic matters, courtly society, queenship
and noble women, as well as more mundane concerns such as food,
health and the purchasing power of a fluctuating currency. Lopes
had a keen eye for detail and a perspective especially attuned to
the common people, and his chronicles provide an invaluable source
for the history of Western Europe in the later Middle Ages. The
first four volumes are accompanied by introductions and
bibliographies setting the translations in context, and the fifth
volume contains a general bibliography and a comprehensive general
index encompassing all of the chronicles.
Fashioning Spain is a cultural history of Spanish fashion in the
20th and 21st centuries, a period of significant social, political,
and economic upheaval. As Spain moved from dictatorship to
democracy and, most recently, to the digital age, fashion has
experienced seismic shifts. The chapters in this collection reveal
how women empowered themselves through fashion choices, detail
Balenciaga's international stardom, present female photographers
challenging gender roles under Franco's rule, and uncover the
politicization of the mantilla. In the visual culture of Spanish
fashion, tradition and modernity coexist and compete, reflecting
society's changing affects. Using a range of case studies and
approaches, this collection explores fashion in films, comics from
la Movida, Rosalia's music videos, and both brick-and-mortar and
virtual museums. It demonstrates that fashion is ripe with
historical meaning, and offers unique insights into the many facets
of Spanish cultural life.
Francisco Fern' andez de Vega and Erick Cantu- ' Paz The growing
success of biologically inspired algorithms in solving large and
complex problems has spawned many interesting areas of research.
Over the years, one of the mainstays in bio-inspired research has
been the exploi- tion of parallel and distributed environments to
speedup computations and to enrich the algorithms. From the early
days of research on bio-inspired algorithms, their inherently
parallel nature was recognized and di?erent p- allelization
approaches have been explored. Parallel algorithms promise -
ductions in execution time and open the door to solve increasingly
larger problems. But parallel platforms also inspire new
bio-inspired parallel al- rithms that, while similar to their
sequential counterparts, explore search spaces di?erently and o?er
improvements in solution quality. Our objective in editing this
book was to assemble a sample of the best work in parallel and
distributed biologically inspired algorithms. We invited
researchers in di?erent domains to submit their work. We aimed to
include diverse topics to appeal to a wide audience. Some of the
chapters sum- rize work that has been ongoing for several years,
while others describe more recent exploratory work. Collectively,
these works o?er a global snapshot of the most recent e?orts of
bioinspired algorithms' researchers aiming at pr- iting from
parallel and distributed computer architectures-including GPUs,
Clusters, Grids, volunteer computing and p2p networks as well as
multi-core processors.
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Don't give up (Paperback)
Maria Garmilla; Francisco Fernandez Del Castillo
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