Books

A new book provides a comprehensive framework to organizations for using behavioral insights (BI) to achieve better outcomes, improve overall efficiency, and engage stakeholders.

Amsterdam, March 8, 2021 - IOS Press is pleased to announce the publication of the second edition of the classic Handbook of Satisfiability.

MIT Professor Alan Lightman's new book, "Probable Impossibilities: Musings on Beginnings and Endings," is a companion for readers who like to ponder how the universe evolved, how life on Earth started, or how some chemical elements could create consciousness.

In her new book, titled Relationships in Recovery: Repairing Damage and Building Healthy Connections While Overcoming Addiction, Kelly E. Green has expanded upon what she has learned as a researcher and clinician and turned it into a self-help workbook that focuses on relationship skills specifically for people in recovery. Her book is designed to be beneficial to people at all stages of recovery -- early, middle and later.

New research reveals for the first time the personal efforts and innovations behind major efforts in the 20th century to publish classic Russian literature in accessible and affordable English translations.

Media coverage of COVID during the first few months of the pandemic was relatively positive according to several international studies, notes a researcher from the Universidad Carlos III de Madrid (UC3M), who has published a paper analysing misinformation processes in the public sphere and the informative ecosystem during the COVID-19 pandemic. In addition to this, in general, subscriptions to digital media outlets increased considerably.

This book lays a new foundation toward achieving artificial self-intelligence by future machines such as intelligent vehicles. Its chapters provide broad coverage of the three key modules behind the design and development of intelligent vehicles for the ultimate purpose of actively ensuring safe driving as well as accident prevention. Self-contained and unified in presentation, the book explains in detail the fundamental solutions to autonomous vehicles' perception, decision-making, and action-taking, in a pedagogic order.

Asia has been the greatest show on Earth since Japan's rise after World War II. However, the continent's dream run is coming to an end as the pandemic exposes sharp weaknesses in state capacity, and globalisation goes into reverse gear.

This unique compendium discusses some core ideas for the development and implementation of machine learning from three different angles: the statistical perspective, the artificial neural network perspective, and the deep learning methodology.

A Thousand Brains provides a new theory of intelligence, how it can lead to the creation of truly intelligent AI, and implications for the future of humanity. "Brilliant...exhilarating" - from the foreword by Richard Dawkins.