Artificial Intelligence for .NET: Speech, Language, and Search
Author(s):Nishith Pathak | Publisher:Apress | Year:2017 | Language:English | Pages:278 | Size:8 MB | Extension:pdf
Get introduced to the world of artificial intelligence with this accessible and practical guide. Build applications that make intelligent use of language and user interaction to better compete in today’s marketplace. Discover how your application can deeply understand and interpret content on the web or a user’s machine, intelligently react to direct user interaction through speech or text, or make smart recommendations on products or services that are tailored to each individual user.
With Microsoft Cognitive Services, you can do all this and more utilizing a set of easy-to-use APIs that can be consumed on the desktop, web, or mobile devices. Developers normally think of AI implementation as a tough task involving writing complex algorithms. This book aims to remove the anxiety by creating a cognitive application with a few lines of code. There is a wide range of Cognitive Services APIs available. This book focuses on some of the most useful and powerful ways that your application can make intelligent use of language.
Who This Book Is For
Developers working on a range of platforms, from .NET and Windows to mobile devices. Examples are given in C#. No prior experience with AI techniques or theory is required.
Regional Aspects of Monetary Policy in Europe
Michael Horvath (auth.), Jürgen von Hagen, Christopher J. Waller (eds.)
Smart and Multifunctional Concrete Toward Sustainable Infrastructures
Title: Smart and Multifunctional Concrete Toward Sustainable Infrastructures | Author(s): Baoguo Han, Liqing Zhang, Jinping Ou (auth.) | Publisher: Springer | Year: 2017 | Language: English | Pages: 409 | Size: 17 MB | Extension: pdf
This book presents the latest research advances and findings in the field of smart/multifunctional concretes, focusing on the principles, design and fabrication, test and characterization, performance and mechanism, and their applications in infrastructures. It also discusses future challenges in the development and application of smart/multifunctional concretes, providing useful theory, ideas and principles, as well as insights and practical guidance for developing sustainable infrastructures. It is a valuable resource for researchers, scientists and engineers in the field of civil-engineering materials and infrastructures.
Table of contents :
Front Matter....Pages i-xxv
General Introduction of Smart and Multifunctional Concrete....Pages 1-9
Self-Compacting Concrete....Pages 11-36
Self-Expanding Concrete....Pages 37-53
Self-Curing Concrete....Pages 55-66
Self-Shaping Concrete....Pages 67-80
Self-Sensing Concrete....Pages 81-116
Self-Healing Concrete....Pages 117-155
Self-Adjusting Concrete....Pages 157-176
Damping Concrete....Pages 177-190
Anti-Spalling Concrete....Pages 191-222
Wear-Resisting Concrete....Pages 223-233
Aircraft Arresting Concrete....Pages 235-245
Electrically Conductive Concrete....Pages 247-259
Electrothermal Concrete....Pages 261-271
Light-Transmitting Concrete....Pages 273-283
Light-Emitting Concrete....Pages 285-297
Photocatalytic Concrete....Pages 299-311
Electromagnetic Wave Shielding/Absorbing Concrete....Pages 313-328
Radiation Shielding Concrete....Pages 329-337
Hydrophobic/Superhydrophobic Concrete....Pages 339-357
Permeable Concrete....Pages 359-368
Non-Dispersible Underwater Concrete....Pages 369-377
Energy-Harvesting Concrete....Pages 379-390
Future Developments and Challenges of Smart and Multifunctional Concrete....Pages 391-400
Vector-valued Laplace Transforms and Cauchy Problems
Wolfgang Arendt, Charles J. K. Batty, Matthias Hieber, Frank Neubrander (auth.)
Java 9 Regular Expressions
Author(s):Anubhava Srivastava | Publisher:Packt Publishing | Year:2017 | Language:English | Pages:197 | Size:876 kB | Extension:pdf
Regular expressions are a powerful tool in the programmer’s toolbox and allow pattern matching. They are also used for manipulating text and data. This book will provide you with the know-how (and practical examples) to solve real-world problems using regex in Java.