Analyzes the changing ways in which users locate information on the Web and how it is presented as a result of a search, examining the problem of Web spam, the centralized approach to Web search, and information validation, and offering solutions that would provide power to users rather than to search engines and advertisers. Original. (All Users)

Product Description: This work reports critical analyses on complexity issues in the continuum setting and on generalization to new examples, which are two basic milestones in learning from examples in connectionist models. The problem of loading the weights of neural networks, which is often framed as continuous optimization, has been the target of many criticisms, since the potential solution of any learning problem is limited by the presence of local minimal in the error function...read more

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Product Description: This book is devoted to adaptive processing of structured information similar to flexible and intelligent information processing by humans - in contrast to merely sequential processing of predominantly symbolic information within a deterministic framework...read more

Product Description: This book presents the refereed proceedings of the 4th Congress of the Italian Association for Artificial Intelligence, AI*IA '95, held in Florence, Italy, in October 1995. The 31 revised full papers and the 12 short presentations contained in the volume were selected from a total of 101 submissions on the basis of a careful reviewing process...read more