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In this must-have for anyone who wants to better understand their love life, a mathematician pulls back the curtain and reveals the hidden patterns--from dating sites to divorce, sex to marriage--behind the rituals of love.The roller coaster of romance is hard to quantify; defining how lovers might ... More

Shortlisted for the 2018 Royal Society Investment Science Book Prize A look inside the algorithms that are shaping our lives and the dilemmas they bring with them. If you were accused of a crime, who would you rather decide your sentence—a mathematically consistent algorithm incapable of empathy... More

The complete story of the universe and absolutely everything in it (minus the boring parts). Despite our clever linguistic abilities, humans are spectacularly ill-equipped to comprehend what’s happening in the universe. Our senses and intuition routinely mislead us. The Complete Guide to Absolutely... More

The perfect stocking stuffer for mathophiles—math has never been merrier. How do you apply game theory to select who should be on your Christmas shopping list? What equations should you use to decorate the Christmas tree? Will calculations show Santa is getting steadily thinner—shimmying up and dow... More

From dour old women to buzzkills who can't take a joke, the stereotype of the humourless feminist has repeatedly been deployed to derail and delegitimize the women's rights movement. This collection skips the tired debates that ask whether feminists can be funny—we know the answer to this already—to... More

This book contains the best papers of the First International Joint Conference on B- medical Engineering Systems and Technologies (BIOSTEC 2008), organized by the Institute for Systems and Technologies of Information Control and Communication (INSTICC), technically co-sponsored by the IEEE Engineeri... More

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-conference proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Agents and Artificial Intelligence, ICAART 2013, held in Barcelona, Spain, in February 2013. The 20 revised full papers presented together with one invited paper were carefully reviewed ... More

This book contains the extended and revised versions of a set of selected papers from the 2nd International Conference on Pattern Recognition (ICPRAM 2013), held in Barcelona, Spain, from 15 to 18 February, 2013. ICPRAM was organized by the Institute for Systems and Technologies of Information, Con... More

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-conference proceedingsof the 4th International Conference on Pattern Recognition, ICPRAM 2015,held in Lisbon, Portugal, in January 2015.   The 20 revised full papers were carefully reviewed and selectedfrom 145 submissions and describe up-to-date a... More

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereedpost-conference proceedings of the Third International Conference on PatternRecognition, ICPRAM 2014, held in Angers, France, in March 2014. The 18 revised full papers were carefully reviewed andselected from 179 submissions and describe up-to-date appli... More

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereedpost-conference proceedings of the 8th International Joint Conference onBiomedical Engineering Systems and Technologies, BIOSTEC 2015, held in Lisbon,Portugal, in January 2015. The 27 revised full papers presented together with aninvited paper were caref... More

These transactions publish research in computer-based methods of computational collective intelligence (CCI) and their applications in a wide range of fields such as the semantic Web, social networks, and multi-agent systems. TCCI strives to cover new methodological, theoretical and practical aspec... More

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed proceedings of the 5th International Joint Conference on Knowledge Discovery, Knowledge Engineering and Knowledge Management, IC3K 2013, held in Vilamoura, Portugal, in September 2013. The 27 full papers presented together with two invited papers were c... More

This book contains the extended and revised versions of a set of selected papers from the 2nd International Conference on Pattern Recognition (ICPRAM 2013), held in Barcelona, Spain, from 15 to 18 February, 2013. ICPRAM was organized by the Institute for Systems and Technologies of Information, Con... More

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-conference proceedings of the 7th International Joint Conference on Biomedical Engineering Systems and Technologies, BIOSTEC 2014, held in Angers, France, in March 2014. The 25 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from... More

This book contains revised and extended versions of selected papers from the 6th International Conference on Pattern Recognition, ICPRAM 2017, held in Porto, Portugal, in February 2017. The 13 full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 139 initial submissions. They aim at makin... More

This book contains revised and extended versions of selected papers from the 7th International Conference on Pattern Recognition, ICPRAM 2018, held in Porto, Portugal, in January 2018. The 10 full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 102 initial submissions.The core of ICPRAM ... More

This book contains revised and extended versions of selected papers from the 8th International Conference on Pattern Recognition, ICPRAM 2019, held in Prague, Czech Republic, in February 2019. The 25 full papers presented together 52 short papers and 32 poster sessions were carefully reviewed and ... More

This book contains revised and extended versions of selected papers from the 9th International Conference on Pattern Recognition, ICPRAM 2020, held in Valletta, Malta, in February 2020. The 7 full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 102 initial submissions. The papers describe... More

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed proceedings of the 8th International Joint Conference on Knowledge Discovery, Knowledge Engineering and Knowledge Management, IC3K 2017, held in Funchal, Madeira, Portugal, in November 2017.The 19 full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selecte... More

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed proceedings of the 10th International Joint Conference on Knowledge Discovery, Knowledge Engineering and Knowledge Management, IC3K 2018, held in Seville, Spain, in September 2018.The 12 full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 167... More

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-conference proceedings of the 12th International Joint Conference on Biomedical Engineering Systems and Technologies, BIOSTEC 2019, held in Prague, Czech Republic, in February 2019.The 22 revised and extended full papers presented were carefully rev... More

This book constitutes the revised selected papers of the 11th International Joint Conference on Knowledge Discovery, Knowledge Engineering and Knowledge Management, IC3K 2019, held in Vienna, Austria, in September 2019.The 25 full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 220 submis... More

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereedproceedings of the International Conference on Communication Technologies forAgeing Well and e-Health, ICT4AgeingWell 2015, held in Lisbon, Portugal, in May2015. The 11 full papers and two invited papers presented were carefully reviewed andselected from... More

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed proceedings of the 6th International Joint Conference on Knowledge Discovery, Knowledge Engineering and Knowledge Management, IC3K 2014, held in Rome, Italy, in October 2015. The 37 full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 287 sub... More