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The book gives an introduction into the theory and practice of the
transdisciplinary field of Character Computing, introduced by Alia
El Bolock. The latest scientific findings indicate that "One size
DOES NOT fit all" in terms of how to design interactive systems and
predict behavior to tailor the interaction experience. Emotions are
one of the essential factors that influence people's daily
experiences; they influence decision making and how different
emotions are interpreted by different individuals. For example,
some people may perform better under stress and others may break.
Building upon Rosalind Picard's vision, if we want computers to be
genuinely intelligent and to interact naturally with us, we must
give computers the ability to recognize, understand, even to have
and express emotions and how different characters perceive and
react to these emotions, hence having richer and truly tailored
interaction experiences. Psychological processes or personality
traits are embedded in the existing fields of Affective and
Personality Computing. However, this book is the first that
systematically addresses this including the whole human character;
namely our stable personality traits, our variable affective,
cognitive and motivational states as well as our morals, beliefs
and socio-cultural embedding. The book gives an introduction into
the theory and practice of the transdisciplinary field of Character
Computing. The emerging field leverages Computer Science and
Psychology to extend technology to include the whole character of
humans and thus paves the way for researchers to truly place humans
at the center of any technological development. Character Computing
is presented from three main perspectives: Profiling and sensing
the character Leveraging characters to build ubiquitous
character-aware systems Investigating how to extend Artificial
Intelligence to create artificial characters
The book gives an introduction into the theory and practice of the
transdisciplinary field of Character Computing, introduced by Alia
El Bolock. The latest scientific findings indicate that "One size
DOES NOT fit all" in terms of how to design interactive systems and
predict behavior to tailor the interaction experience. Emotions are
one of the essential factors that influence people's daily
experiences; they influence decision making and how different
emotions are interpreted by different individuals. For example,
some people may perform better under stress and others may break.
Building upon Rosalind Picard's vision, if we want computers to be
genuinely intelligent and to interact naturally with us, we must
give computers the ability to recognize, understand, even to have
and express emotions and how different characters perceive and
react to these emotions, hence having richer and truly tailored
interaction experiences. Psychological processes or personality
traits are embedded in the existing fields of Affective and
Personality Computing. However, this book is the first that
systematically addresses this including the whole human character;
namely our stable personality traits, our variable affective,
cognitive and motivational states as well as our morals, beliefs
and socio-cultural embedding. The book gives an introduction into
the theory and practice of the transdisciplinary field of Character
Computing. The emerging field leverages Computer Science and
Psychology to extend technology to include the whole character of
humans and thus paves the way for researchers to truly place humans
at the center of any technological development. Character Computing
is presented from three main perspectives: Profiling and sensing
the character Leveraging characters to build ubiquitous
character-aware systems Investigating how to extend Artificial
Intelligence to create artificial characters
The book is a short, concise and complete presentation of constraint programming and reasoning. The use of constraints had its scientific and commercial breakthrough in the 1990s. Programming with constraints makes it possible to model and solve problems with uncertain, incomplete information and combinatorial problems, as they are abundant in industry and commerce, such as scheduling, planning, transportation, resource allocation, layout, design and analysis. The theoretically well-founded presentation includes application examples from real life. It introduces the common classes of constraint programming languages and constraint systems in a uniform way. Constraint solving algorithms are specified and implemented in the constraint handling rules language (CHR). This book is ideally suited as a textbook for graduate students and as a resource for researchers and practitioners. The Internet support includes teaching material, software, latest news and online use and examples of the CHR language.
The use of constraints had its scientific and commercial
breakthrough in the 1990s. Programming with constraints makes it
possible to model and specify problems with uncertain, incomplete
information and to solve combi natorial problems, as they are
abundant in industry and commerce, such as scheduling, planning,
transportation, resource allocation, layout, design, and analysis.
This book is a short, concise, and complete presentation of
constraint programming and reasoning, covering theoretical
foundations, algorithms, implementations, examples, and
applications. It is based on more than a decade of experience in
teaching and research about this subject. This book is intended
primarily for graduate students, researchers, and practitioners in
diverse areas of computer science and related fields, including
programming languages, computational logic, symbolic computation,
and ar tificial intelligence. The book is complemented by a
web-page with teaching material, software, links, and more. We take
the reader on a step-by-step journey through the world of
constraint-based programming and constraint reasoning. Feel free to
join in ... Acknowledgements Thorn thanks his wife Andrea and his
daughter Anna - for everything. He dedicates his contribution to
the book to the memory of his mother, Grete. Slim thanks his wife N
abila and his daughters Shirine and Amira for their ongoing support
and patience."
Das Buch gibt einen kompakten, aber umfassenden UEberblick uber das
Problemloesen und Programmieren mit Constraints (Randbedingungen).
Diese aktuelle Programmiermethodik ermoeglicht es, Aufgaben direkt
zu formulieren und effizient zu loesen. Sie gewinnt zusehends
Bedeutung in Anwendungsbereichen wie Kombinatorische Suchprobleme
(z.B. Zeitplanen, Layout-Optimierung), Berechnungen
(Finanzanalyse), Simulation (Hardware-Verifikation) oder allgemein
Schliessen und Rechnen mit ungenauer oder unvollstandiger
Information (z.B. Kostenschatzung). Die theoretisch fundierte
Darstellung mit Aufgaben und Anwendungsbeispielen aus der Praxis
ist in der Lehre erprobt, aber auch fur Forscher und Praktiker von
Nutzen.
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