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Advances in Practical Applications of Agents, Multi-Agent Systems, and Cognitive Mimetics. The PAAMS Collection

21st International Conference, PAAMS 2023, Guimarães, Portugal, July 12–14, 2023, Proceedings

Edited by Philippe Mathieu, Frank Dignum, Paulo Novais, Fernando De la Prieta ...

Series series Springer Nature Proceedings Computer Science
This book constitutes the proceedings of the 21st International Conference on Practical Applications of Agents and Multi-Agent Systems, PAAMS 2023, held in Guimaraes, Portugal, in July 2023.The 32 full papers in this book were reviewed and selected from 70 submissions. 5 demonstration papers are also included in this volume. The papers deal with the application and validation of agent-based models ... Read more

$109.99 CAD

This book constitutes the proceedings of the 21st International Conference on Practical Applications of Agents and Multi-Agent Systems, PAAMS 2023, held in Guimaraes, Portugal, in July 2023.The 32 full papers in this book were reviewed and selected from 70 submissions. 5 demonstration papers are also included in this volume. The papers deal with the application and validation of agent-based models
... Read more
Advances in Practical Applications of Agents, Multi-Agent Systems, and Complex Systems Simulation. The PAAMS Collection

20th International Conference, PAAMS 2022, L'Aquila, Italy, July 13–15, 2022, Proceedings

Edited by Frank Dignum, Philippe Mathieu, Juan Manuel Corchado, Fernando De La Prieta ...

Series series Springer Nature Proceedings Computer Science
This book constitutes the proceedings of the 20th International Conference on Practical Applications of Agents and Multi-Agent Systems, PAAMS 2022, held in L'Aquila, Italy in July 2022.The 37 full papers in this book were reviewed and selected from 67 submissions. Another 10 demonstrations papers were selected from 11 submissions are presented here as short papers. The papers deal with the ... Read more

$64.99 CAD

This book constitutes the proceedings of the 20th International Conference on Practical Applications of Agents and Multi-Agent Systems, PAAMS 2022, held in L'Aquila, Italy in July 2022.The 37 full papers in this book were reviewed and selected from 67 submissions. Another 10 demonstrations papers were selected from 11 submissions are presented here as short papers. The papers deal with the
... Read more
Current crop models

State-of-the-art and future developments

by Professor Gerrit Hoogenboom, Emeritus Professor Ken Boote, Dr Cheryl H. Porter, Dr Willingthon Pavan, Dr Vakhtang Shelia, Dr Upendra Singh, Dr Jeffrey W. White, Dr Senthold Asseng, Dr Jon I. Lizaso, Dr L. Patricia Moreno0, Dr Santiago Cuadra1, Dr Bruce Kimball2, Dr Alwin Hopf3, Dr Fabio A. A. Oliveira4, Dr Thiago B. Ferreira5, Dr Henrique Boriolo Dias6, Dr Philip Alderman7, Dr William D. Batchelor8, Dr Diego Pequeno9, Dr Kelly R. Thorp0, Dr James W. Jones1, Dr Richard Ogoshi2, Dr L. Anthony Hunt3, Dr Gordon Y. Tsuji4, Dr David Fleisher5, Dr D.J. Timlin6, Dr S. Li7, Dr J. Barnaby8, Dr S. Yesilkoy9, Dr E. Han0, Dr V.R. Reddy1, Dr Z. Wang2, Dr S. Beegum3, Dr A. Mitra4, Dr W. Sun5, Professor Armen Kemanian6, Dr Yuning Shi7, Dr Charlie M. White8, Dr Felipe Montes9, Dr Rachel K. N. Rozum0, Dr Amanda R. Burton1, Dr Ele Saltmarsh2, Dr Claudio O. Stockle3, Professor Tom Sinclair4, Dr Afshin Soltani5, Professor Bruno Basso6, Dr T. Tadiello7, Dr P . Sharma8, Dr L. Price9, Dr J.T. Ritchie0, Dr Bill Salas1, Dr Kyle W. Proctor2, Dr Nilovna Chatterjee3, Dr Curtis Jones4, Dr Colin Hill5, Dr Gayathri Gopalakrishnan6, Dr Jim Kiniry7, Dr Liwang Ma8, Dr Huihui Zhang9, Dr Jon D. Hanson0, Dr Zhiming Qi1, Professor Benjamin Dumont2, Dr Mathieu Delandmeter3, Dr Marie-Odile Bancal4, Dr Nicolas Beaudoin5, Dr Joël Léonard6, Dr Samuel Buis7, Dr Julie Caubel8, Dr Hugues Clivot9, Dr Julie Constantin0, Dr Antoine Couëdel1, Dr Mathilde de Freitas2, Dr Audrey Deheinzelin3, Dr Gatien N. Falconnier4, Dr Fabien Ferchaud5, Dr Iñaki García de Cortázar-Atauri6, Dr Marie Launay7, Dr Patrice Lecharpentier8, Dr Dominique Ripoche9, Dr Anne-Isabelle Graux0, Dr Guillaume Jego1, Dr Arthur Lenoir2, Dr Gaetan Louarn3, Dr Alain Mollier4, Dr Céline Schoving5, Dr Mounir Seghouani6, Dr Loïc Strullu7, Dr Remi Vezy8, Dr Tiphaine Vidal9, Dr Eric Justes0, Dr Jean-Louis Durand1, Dr Myriam Adam2, Dr Gregory Beurier3, Dr Lauriane Rouan4, Dr Michael Dingkuhn5, Dr Florian Larue6, Dr Bertrand Muller7, Dr Xinyou Yin8, Dr A.J.W. de Wit9, Dr Hendrik Boogaard00, Dr Herman Berghuijs01, Dr Martin K. van Ittersum02, Dr Tom Schut03, Dr H.N.C. Berghuijs04, Dr M.K van Ittersum05, Dr Iwan Supit06, Dr P . Groenendijk07, Dr J. van Dam08, Dr M. Mulder09, Dr M. Heinen10, Professor Frank Ewert11, Dr M. Vianna12, Dr A. Enders13, Dr T. Gaiser14, Dr G. Krauss15, Dr T. H. Nguyen16, Dr S. J. Seidel17, Dr E. E. Rezaei18, Dr H. Webber19, Dr A. Tewes20, Dr A. K. Srivastava21, Professor Claas Nendel22, Dr Michael Berg-Mohnicke23, Dr Rachel Escueta24, Dr Gohar Ghazaryan25, Dr Leonardo Inforsato26, Dr Bahareh Kamali27, Dr Marlene Palka28, Dr Ahsan Raza29, Dr Ehsan Eyshi Rezaei30, Dr Xenia Specka31, Dr Jing Yu32, Emeritus Professor Dirk Raes33, Dr Elias Fereres34, Dr Theodore C. Hsiao35, Dr Pasquale Steduto36, Dr Gabriëlle De Lannoy37, Dr Eline Vanuytrecht38, Dr Lee Heng39, Dr Margarita Garcia Vila40, Dr Joost Wellens41, Dr Patricia Mejias Moreno42, Dr Maher Salman43, Dr Kiril Manevski44, Dr Shaohui Zhang45, Dr Yanmin Yang46, Dr Yonghui Yang47, Dr Mohamed Jabloun48, Professor Soora Naresh Kumar49, Dr Bidisha Chakraborty50, Dr Arti Bhatia51, Dr Shweta Panjwani52, Dr DN Swaroopa Rani53, Dr Vikas Kumar54, Dr P .K. Aggarwal55, Dr H. Pathak56, Dr Subhash Chander57, Dr N. Kalra58, Professor Yan Zhu59, Dr Leilei Liu60, Dr Bing Liu61, Dr Liang Tang62, Dr Liujun Xiao63 ...

Series Book 170 - Burleigh Dodds Series in Agricultural Science
Whilst crop models have made significant progress in recent years, different models still diverge and struggle to predict the complex effects of genetic, environmental and management (G x E x M) variables in optimising crop production in the face of climate change.Current crop models: State-of-the-art and future developments provides a comprehensive overview of the major crop models and the ways ... Read more

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Whilst crop models have made significant progress in recent years, different models still diverge and struggle to predict the complex effects of genetic, environmental and management (G x E x M) variables in optimising crop production in the face of climate change.Current crop models: State-of-the-art and future developments provides a comprehensive overview of the major crop models and the ways
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The Long Year

A 2020 Reader

by Andy Horowitz, Éric Charmes, Max Rousseau, Adam Tooze, Joan Wallach Scott, Andrew Lakoff, Keisha N. Blain, Natalia Molina, Marcia Chatelain, Michelle Cera, Gilles Guiheux, Ye Guo, Renyou Hou, Manon Laurent, Jun Li, Anne-Valérie Ruinet, Govindan Venkatasubramanian, Isabelle Guérin, Mathieu Ferry, Marine Al Dahdah, Neha Vora, Sulfikar Amir, Sherihan Radi, Mustafa Dikeç, Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor, Simon Balto, Jeffrey Aaron Snyder, Rachel Nolan, David Schmidt, Julie Livingston, Margaret Morganroth Gullette, Xiaowei Wang, Priscilla Wald, Evan Lieberman, Warwick Anderson, Julia Foulkes, Soledad Álvarez Velasco, Sophie Lewis, Guobin Yang, Sophie Gonick, Margaret O'Mara, Alfonso Fierro, Erick Corrêa, Ananya Roy, Gianpaolo Biaocchi, Jake Carlson, Quentin Ravelli, Jean-Paul Gagnon, Rikki J. Dean, Afsoun Afsahi, Emily Beausoleil, Selen A. Ercan, Miguel Centeno, Gautam Bhan, Joanne Randa Nucho, Yarimar Bonilla, Jacob A.C. Remes, Warren Breckman, Cordula Dittmer, Daniel F. Lorenz, Kathryn Cai, Eric Klinenberg, David S. Barnes, Kavita Sivaramakrishnan, Merlin Chowkwanyun ...

Series series Public Books Series
Some years—1789, 1929, 1989—change the world suddenly. Or do they? In 2020, a pandemic converged with an economic collapse, inequalities exploded, and institutions weakened. Yet these crises sprang not from new risks but from known dangers. The world—like many patients—met 2020 with a host of preexisting conditions, which together tilted the odds toward disaster. Perhaps 2020 wasn’t the year the ... Read more

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Some years—1789, 1929, 1989—change the world suddenly. Or do they? In 2020, a pandemic converged with an economic collapse, inequalities exploded, and institutions weakened. Yet these crises sprang not from new risks but from known dangers. The world—like many patients—met 2020 with a host of preexisting conditions, which together tilted the odds toward disaster. Perhaps 2020 wasn’t the year the
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Black Mirror and Critical Media Theory

by Angela M. Cirucci, Barry Vacker, Michael Mario Albrecht, Osei Alleyne, Francois Allard-Huver, Fernando Gabriel Pagnoni Berns, Derek R. Blackwell, Sarah J. Constant, Mathieu d’Aquin0, Eleanor Drage1, Julie Escurignan2, Erin Espelie3, Antoine Faure4, Matthew Flisfeder5, Julia M. Hildebrand6, Manel Jiménez-Morales7, Hillary A. Jones8, Morten Stinus Kristensen9, Diana Leon-Boys0, Marta Lopera-Mármol1, Romin Rajan2, Carlos A. Scolari3, Erika M. Thomas4, Pinelopi Troullinou5, Macarena Urzúa Opazo6 ...

Black Mirror is The Twilight Zone of the twenty-first century. Already a philosophical classic, the series echoes the angst of an era, a civilization and consciousness fully engulfed in the 24/7 media spectacle spanning the planet. With clever plots and existential themes, Black Mirror presents near-futures where humans collide with technology and each other—tomorrows that might arrive in five ... Read more

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Black Mirror is The Twilight Zone of the twenty-first century. Already a philosophical classic, the series echoes the angst of an era, a civilization and consciousness fully engulfed in the 24/7 media spectacle spanning the planet. With clever plots and existential themes, Black Mirror presents near-futures where humans collide with technology and each other—tomorrows that might arrive in five
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Achieving sustainable cultivation of temperate zone tree fruits and berries Volume 2

Case studies

by Prof. Gregory A. Lang, Dr Pasquale Losciale, Dr José Quero-Garciá, Dr Amy Iezzoni, Dr Gregorio López-Ortega, Dr Cameron Peace, Dr Mathieu Fouché, Dr Elizabeth Dirlewanger, Dr Mirko Schuster, Dr Danielle Guzman0, Dr Dario J. Chavez1, Assoc. Prof. Todd Einhorn2, Dr Amanda Karlström3, Dr Magdalena Cobo Medina4, Dr Richard Harrison5, Dr Pierre-Éric Lauri6, Dr Sylvaine Simon7, Prof Mihai Botu8, Dr Chris Barbey9, Prof Kevin Folta0, Dr Rachel A. Itle1, Prof M. P. Pritts2, Dr T. M. Sjulin3, Dr Ramón Molina-Bravo4, Dr Margaret Leigh Worthington5, Dr Gina E. Fernandez6, Dr Julie Graham7, Dr Alison Dolan8, Dr Dominic Williams9, Dr Nikki Jennings0, Dr Daniel Mancero-Castillo1, Dr Susan McCallum2, Dr Jose X. Chaparro3, Dr Thomas G. Beckman4, Prof Luca Corelli Grappadelli5, Dr Brunella Morandi6, Dr Luigi Manfrini7, Professor Amit Dhingra8, Dr Alison J. Karley9 ...

Series Book 54 - Burleigh Dodds Series in Agricultural Science
Brings together some of the world’s leading experts on the breeding and cultivation of particular fruitsComprehensive coverage of key stone, pome and berry fruitsReviews key advances across the value chain for particular crops that collectively optimise sustainable production ... Read more

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Brings together some of the world’s leading experts on the breeding and cultivation of particular fruitsComprehensive coverage of key stone, pome and berry fruitsReviews key advances across the value chain for particular crops that collectively optimise sustainable production
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The MBR Book

Principles and Applications of Membrane Bioreactors for Water and Wastewater Treatment

by Simon Judd ...

The MBR Book covers all essential aspects of membrane bioreactors in water and wastewater treatment, including the working principles of MBR technologies. The book aims to separate science from engineering, in an attempt to avoid confusion and to help readers understand the ideas of MBR. The text is divided into five chapters; the membrane and biological aspects are discussed in chapter 2 along ... Read more

$183.19 CAD

The MBR Book covers all essential aspects of membrane bioreactors in water and wastewater treatment, including the working principles of MBR technologies. The book aims to separate science from engineering, in an attempt to avoid confusion and to help readers understand the ideas of MBR. The text is divided into five chapters; the membrane and biological aspects are discussed in chapter 2 along
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Empty Planet

The Shock of Global Population Decline

by Darrell Bricker, John Ibbitson ...

From the authors of the bestselling The Big Shift, a provocative argument that the global population will soon begin to decline, dramatically reshaping the social, political, and economic landscape.For half a century, statisticians, pundits, and politicians have warned that a burgeoning population will soon overwhelm the earth’s resources. But a growing number of experts are sounding a different ... Read more

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From the authors of the bestselling The Big Shift, a provocative argument that the global population will soon begin to decline, dramatically reshaping the social, political, and economic landscape.For half a century, statisticians, pundits, and politicians have warned that a burgeoning population will soon overwhelm the earth’s resources. But a growing number of experts are sounding a different
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Soil Ecology and Ecosystem Services

Edited by Diana H. Wall, Richard D. Bardgett, Valerie Behan-Pelletier, Jeffrey E. Herrick, Johan Six, Donald R. Strong, Wim H. van der Putten, Karl Ritz, Hefin Jones ...

This multi-contributor, international volume synthesizes contributions from the world's leading soil scientists and ecologists, describing cutting-edge research that provides a basis for the maintenance of soil health and sustainability. The book covers these advances from a unique perspective of examining the ecosystem services produced by soil biota across different scales - from biotic ... Read more

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This multi-contributor, international volume synthesizes contributions from the world's leading soil scientists and ecologists, describing cutting-edge research that provides a basis for the maintenance of soil health and sustainability. The book covers these advances from a unique perspective of examining the ecosystem services produced by soil biota across different scales - from biotic
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Advances in Practical Applications of Cyber-Physical Multi-Agent Systems: The PAAMS Collection

15th International Conference, PAAMS 2017, Porto, Portugal, June 21-23, 2017, Proceedings

Edited by Yves Demazeau, Paul Davidsson, Javier Bajo, Zita Vale ...

Series series Springer Nature Proceedings Computer Science
This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 15th International Conference on Practical Applications of Scalable Multi-Agent Systems, PAAMS 2017, held in Porto, Portugal, in June 2017.The 11 revised full papers, 11 short papers, and 17 Demo papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 63 submissions. The papers report on the application and validation of agent-based models, methods, ... Read more

$64.99 CAD

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 15th International Conference on Practical Applications of Scalable Multi-Agent Systems, PAAMS 2017, held in Porto, Portugal, in June 2017.The 11 revised full papers, 11 short papers, and 17 Demo papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 63 submissions. The papers report on the application and validation of agent-based models, methods,
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Remote Sensing of Plant Biodiversity

Edited by Jeannine Cavender-Bares, John A. Gamon, Philip A. Townsend ...

Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
This Open Access volume aims to methodologically improve our understanding of biodiversity by linking disciplines that incorporate remote sensing, and uniting data and perspectives in the fields of biology, landscape ecology, and geography. The book provides a framework for how biodiversity can be detected and evaluated—focusing particularly on plants—using proximal and remotely sensed ... Read more

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This Open Access volume aims to methodologically improve our understanding of biodiversity by linking disciplines that incorporate remote sensing, and uniting data and perspectives in the fields of biology, landscape ecology, and geography. The book provides a framework for how biodiversity can be detected and evaluated—focusing particularly on plants—using proximal and remotely sensed
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Wheat Improvement

Food Security in a Changing Climate

Edited by Matthew P. Reynolds, Hans-Joachim Braun ...

Series series Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
This open-access textbook provides a comprehensive, up-to-date guide for students and practitioners wishing to access in a single volume the key disciplines and principles of wheat breeding. Wheat is a cornerstone of food security: it is the most widely grown of any crop and provides 20% of all human calories and protein. The authorship of this book includes world class researchers and breeders ... Read more

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This open-access textbook provides a comprehensive, up-to-date guide for students and practitioners wishing to access in a single volume the key disciplines and principles of wheat breeding. Wheat is a cornerstone of food security: it is the most widely grown of any crop and provides 20% of all human calories and protein. The authorship of this book includes world class researchers and breeders
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Current crop models

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Black Mirror and Critical Media Theory

Achieving sustainable cultivation of temperate zone tree fruits and berries Volume 2

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