Preface to Volume III

Preface to Volume 13

We also continue to publish work from many different disciplines and, particularly welcome, see that many of our articles represent collaborations between authors coming from different disciplines. Such broad representation and collaboration is the lifeblood of a transdiscipline. It is all too easy for a journal to gravitate towards a particular perspective on research. It is heartening to see ...

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Preface These are the notes based on the course on Ramsey Theory taught at Univer-sität Hamburg in Summer 2011. The lecture was based on the textbook " Ramsey theory " of Graham, Rothschild, and Spencer [44]. In fact, large part of the material is taken from that book. iii Contents Preface iii Chapter 1. Introduction 1 1.1. A few cornerstones in Ramsey theory 1 1.2. A unifying framework 4 1.3. ...

Preface to Part III Adaptive Big Data Analytics

the core of a new frontier of data analysis represented by the . The computerization of data has led to an explosive increase in information, which makes available enormous new sources of data from academia, business, government and all areas beyond. This presents us with the question of how to analyze and process this data in order to discover useful information so giving a better understandin...

Preface: the History of This Volume

User modeling is now approaching its second decade. Its exact age, however, is difficult to determine. Was it born in 1978, when Allen, Cohen, and Perrault started to publish their seminal papers on dialog processing in natural language systems based on Searle's theory of speech acts and the speaker's intentions behind it? Or was it in 1979, when Elain Rich reported on her GRUNDY system, which ...

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