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This handbook contains 38 essays that provide up-to-date scholarship on all aspects of the globally important Seven Years' War (1756-1763). The volume carefully examines the three major areas of conflict in the war -- Europe, South Asia, and the Americas -- treating each theater as distinct from one other but linked in significant ways that helped create a new geopolitics from the 1760s onward. Chapters trace the causes of the war in the interior of America; outline the triumphs of Britain and Prussia in fierce fighting across Europe; and explain how the British under the East India Company came to play an important role in South Asian politics and commerce. The handbook pays due attention to military conflict but does much more than this; contributors also investigate social, cultural, and intellectual developments in a crucial period of reorientation during the mid-eighteenth century. The handbook is notably diverse in its authorship, with leading scholars on the Seven Years' War from Europe and South Asia as well as Britain and North America, providing perspectives from many areas outside an Anglo-American frame. It treats the Seven Years' War as a world-transformative event: important not only in its own right -- in shaping commerce, politics, science, art, demography, religion and gender during the conflict -- but also central to the evolving history of South Asia, Europe, and the Americas in the second half of the eighteenth century.
Trading Spaces
The Colonial Marketplace and the Foundations of American Capitalism
Inbunden, Engelska, 2019
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When we talk about the economy, "the market" is often just an abstraction. While the exchange of goods was historically tied to a particular place, capitalism has gradually eroded this connection to create our current global trading systems. In Trading Spaces, Emma Hart argues that Britain's colonization of North America was a key moment in the market's shift from place to idea, with major consequences for the character of the American economy. Hart's book takes in the shops, auction sites, wharves, taverns, fairs, and homes of seventeenth- and eighteenth-century America--places where new mechanisms and conventions arose as Europeans recreated or adapted continental methods to new surroundings. Since those earlier conventions tended to rely more heavily on regulations than their colonial offspring, what emerged in early America was a less fettered brand of capitalism. By the nineteenth century, this had evolved into a market economy that would not look too foreign to contemporary Americans. To tell this complex transnational story of how our markets came to be, Hart looks back farther than most historians of US capitalism, rooting these markets in the norms of seventeenth- and eighteenth-century Britain. Perhaps most important, this is not a story of specific commodity markets over time, but rather is a history of the trading spaces themselves: the physical sites in which the grubby work of commerce occurred and where the market itself was born.
Trading Spaces
The Colonial Marketplace and the Foundations of American Capitalism
Häftad, Engelska, 2024
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Looks at the shift from the marketplace as an actual place to a theoretical idea and how this shaped the early American economy.When we talk about the economy, “the market” is often just an abstraction. While the exchange of goods was historically tied to a particular place, capitalism has gradually eroded this connection to create our current global trading systems. In Trading Spaces, Emma Hart argues that Britain’s colonization of North America was a key moment in the market’s shift from place to idea, with major consequences for the character of the American economy.Hart’s book takes in the shops, auction sites, wharves, taverns, fairs, and homes of seventeenth- and eighteenth-century America—places where new mechanisms and conventions of trade arose as Europeans re-created or adapted continental methods to new surroundings. Since those earlier conventions tended to rely on regulation more than their colonial offspring did, what emerged in early America was a less-fettered brand of capitalism. By the nineteenth century, this had evolved into a market economy that would not look too foreign to contemporary Americans. To tell this complex transnational story of how our markets came to be, Hart looks back farther than most historians of US capitalism, rooting these markets in the norms of seventeenth- and eighteenth-century Britain. Perhaps most important, this is not a story of specific commodity markets over time but rather is a history of the trading spaces themselves: the physical sites in which the grubby work of commerce occurred and where the market itself was born.
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The Atlantic World was an oceanic system circulating goods, people, and ideas that emerged in the late fifteenth and early sixteenth century. European imperialism was its motor, while its character derived from the interactions between peoples indigenous to Europe, the Americas, and Africa. Much of the everyday workings of this oceanic system took place in urban settings. By sustaining the connections between these disparate regions, cities and towns became essential to the transformations that occurred in this early modern era. This Element, traces the emergence of the Atlantic city as a site of contact, an agent of colonization, a central node in networks of exchange, and an arena of political contestation. Cities of the Atlantic World operated at the juncture of many of the core processes in a global history of capitalism and of rising social and racial inequality. A source of analogous experiences of division as well as unity, they helped shape the Atlantic world as a coherent geography of analysis.
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The Atlantic World was an oceanic system circulating goods, people, and ideas that emerged in the late fifteenth and early sixteenth century. European imperialism was its motor, while its character derived from the interactions between peoples indigenous to Europe, the Americas, and Africa. Much of the everyday workings of this oceanic system took place in urban settings. By sustaining the connections between these disparate regions, cities and towns became essential to the transformations that occurred in this early modern era. This Element, traces the emergence of the Atlantic city as a site of contact, an agent of colonization, a central node in networks of exchange, and an arena of political contestation. Cities of the Atlantic World operated at the juncture of many of the core processes in a global history of capitalism and of rising social and racial inequality. A source of analogous experiences of division as well as unity, they helped shape the Atlantic world as a coherent geography of analysis.
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Books one and two in the New York Times bestselling THE GAME series, together in one delicious package...THE LOVE GAMEMaddie Stevens hated Braden Carter on sight. Arrogant, egotistical, and the playboy of the University of California, Berkeley, he's everything her brother Pearce has taught her to despise. So why, when the girls challenge her to play the player, doesn't she say no? She doesn't know either.And maybe, just maybe, they're exactly what each other needs.PLAYING FOR KEEPSAston Banks never meant to get close to Megan Harper - not even for that one night. Haunted by a childhood he refuses to face, he knew she could break through every wall he'd ever built and tear them down without even realizing she was doing it.Starting a relationship with Aston wasn't on Megan's to-do list, but the second she sees a glimpse of someone other than the arrogant ass she's come to know, she can't walk away.
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Del 15612 - Lecture Notes in Computer Science
Applications of Evolutionary Computation
28th European Conference, EvoApplications 2025, Held as Part of EvoStar 2025, Trieste, Italy, April 23–25, 2025, Proceedings, Part I
Häftad, Engelska, 2025
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This two-volume set, LNCS 15612 and 15613 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 28th European Conference on Applications of Evolutionary Computation, EvoApplications 2025, held as part of EvoStar 2025, in Trieste, Italy, during April 23–25, 2025, and co-located with the EvoStar events, EvoCOP, EvoMUSART, and EuroGP.The 50 full papers and 18 short papers presented in this book were carefully reviewed and selected from 104 submissions. These papers have been organized in the following topical sections:Part I: EvoApplications.Part II: Evolutionary machine learning; 30 years of particle swarm optimisation; Analysis of Evolutionary Computation Methods: Theory, Empirics, and Real-World Applications; Bio-inspired Algorithms for Green Computing and Sustainable Complex Systems; Computational Intelligence for Sustainability; EvoLLMs (Integrating Evolutionary Computing with Large Language Models (LLMs); Evolutionary Computation in Edge, Fog, and Cloud Computing; Evolutionary Computation in Image Analysis, Signal Processing, and Pattern Recognition; Machine Learning and AI in Digital Healthcare and Personalized Medicine; Soft Computing Applied to Games.
Del 15613 - Lecture Notes in Computer Science
Applications of Evolutionary Computation
28th European Conference, EvoApplications 2025, Held as Part of EvoStar 2025, Trieste, Italy, April 23–25, 2025, Proceedings, Part II
Häftad, Engelska, 2025
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This two-volume set, LNCS 15612 and 15613 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 28th European Conference on Applications of Evolutionary Computation, EvoApplications 2025, held as part of EvoStar 2025, in Trieste, Italy, during April 23–25, 2025, and co-located with the EvoStar events, EvoCOP, EvoMUSART, and EuroGP.The 50 full papers and 18 short papers presented in this book were carefully reviewed and selected from 104 submissions. These papers have been organized in the following topical sections:Part I: EvoApplications.Part II: Evolutionary machine learning; 30 years of particle swarm optimisation; Analysis of Evolutionary Computation Methods: Theory, Empirics, and Real-World Applications; Bio-inspired Algorithms for Green Computing and Sustainable Complex Systems; Computational Intelligence for Sustainability; EvoLLMs (Integrating Evolutionary Computing with Large Language Models (LLMs); Evolutionary Computation in Edge, Fog, and Cloud Computing; Evolutionary Computation in Image Analysis, Signal Processing, and Pattern Recognition; Machine Learning and AI in Digital Healthcare and Personalized Medicine; Soft Computing Applied to Games.
Advances in Computational Intelligence Systems
Contributions Presented at The 24th UK Workshop on Computational Intelligence (UKCI 2025), September 3-5, 2025, Edinburgh, UK
Häftad, Engelska, 2026
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This book comprises the accepted papers presented at the 24th UK Workshop on Computational Intelligence (UKCI 2025) held at Edinburgh Napier University, Scotland, UK from 3rd to 5th September 2025. UKCI is the premier UK event for presenting leading research on diverse aspects of Computational Intelligence. This book covers papers in four main areas: Evolutionary Computing; General AI; Large Language Models and Machine Learning.It highlights recent research developments in the broad field of Computational Intelligence and is of interest researchers from the academic community as well as those in industry seeking a greater understanding of advances in both new Computational Intelligence techniques and applications.
Del 9921 - Lecture Notes in Computer Science
Parallel Problem Solving from Nature – PPSN XIV
14th International Conference, Edinburgh, UK, September 17-21, 2016, Proceedings
Häftad, Engelska, 2016
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theory of parallel evolutionary algorithms; promoting diversity in evolutionary optimization: why and how; evolutionary multi-objective optimization; a bridge between optimization over manifolds and evolutionary computation; runtime analysis of evolutionary algorithms: basic introduction;
Applications of Evolutionary Computing
EvoWorkshop 2003: EvoBIO, EvoCOP, EvoIASP, EvoMUSART, EvoROB, and EvoSTIM, Essex, UK, April 14-16, 2003, Proceedings
Häftad, Engelska, 2003
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This book constitutes the joint refereed proceedings of six workshops, EvoWorkshops 2003, held together with EuroGP 2003 in Essex, UK in April 2003.The 63 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from a total of 109 submissions. In accordance with the six workshops covered , the papers are organized in topical sections on bioinformatics, combinatorial optimization, image analysis and signal processing, evolutionary music and art, evolutionary robotics, and scheduling and timetabling.
Artificial Immune Systems
Second International Conference, ICARIS 2003, Edinburgh, UK, September 1-3, 2003, Proceedings
Häftad, Engelska, 2003
538 kr
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This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the Second International Conference on Artificial Immune Systems, ICARIS 2003, held in Edinburgh, UK in September 2003.The 27 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 41 submissions. The book presents the first coherent account of the state of the art in artificial immune systems reserch. The papers are organized in topical sections on applications of artificial immune systems, immunocomputing, emerging metaphors, augmentation of artificial immune systems algorithms, theory of artificial immune systems, and representations and operators.
Applications of Evolutionary Computing
EvoWorkshops 2001: EvoCOP, EvoFlight, EvoIASP, EvoLearn, and EvoSTIM, Como, Italy, April 18-20, 2001 Proceedings
Häftad, Engelska, 2001
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Evolutionary Computation (EC) is a rapidly expanding eld of computer science in which problem solving, optimization, and machine learning techniques ins- red by genetics and natural selection are studied. In recent years, a number of studies and results have been reported in the literature which have disclosed the potentials of EC techniques and shown their capability to solve hard problems in several domains. This volume contains the proceedings of EvoWorkshops 2001, an event - cluding the First European Workshop on Evolutionary Computation in Com- natorial Optimization (EvoCOP), the Second European Workshop on Evolut- nary Aeronautics (EvoFlight), the Third European Workshop on Evolutionary Computation in Image Analysis and Signal Processing (EvoIASP), the First - ropean Workshop on Evolutionary Learning (EvoLearn), and the Second Eu- pean Workshop on Evolutionary Scheduling and Timetabling (EvoSTIM). These workshops were held in Como, Italy, on 18 and 19 April 2001, as part of - roGP 2001, the Fourth European Conference on Genetic Programming.EvoCOP focuses on applications of evolutionary algorithms and related h- ristic search methods to various combinatorial optimization problems. It also covers general methodological aspects of such algorithms like operator analyses, search dynamics, tness landscapes, and algorithmic comparisons, which are the driving force in gaining a better understanding of evolutionary search and hence support the design of e ective evolutionary algorithms for combinatorial op- mization problems of practical relevance. EvoFlight is aimed at bringing together researchers and industrial parties to discuss the use of evolutionary computation in aerospace.
Applications of Evolutionary Computing
EvoWorkshops 2002: EvoCOP, EvoIASP, EvoSTIM/EvoPLAN Kinsale, Ireland, April 3-4, 2002. Proceedings
Häftad, Engelska, 2002
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This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of three workshops on the application of evolutionary programming and algorithms in various domains; these workshops were held in conjunction with the 5th European Conference on Genetic Programming, EuroGP 2002, in Kinsale, Ireland, in April 2002.The 33 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected by the respective program committees. In accordance with the three workshops EvoCOP, EvoIASP, and EvoSTIM/EvoPLAN, the papers are organized in topical sections on combinatorial optimization problems; image analysis and signal processing; and scheduling, timetabling, and AI planning.
Real-World Applications of Evolutionary Computing
EvoWorkshops 2000: EvoIASP, EvoSCONDI, EvoTel, EvoSTIM, EvoRob, and EvoFlight, Edinburgh, Scotland, UK, April 17, 2000 Proceedings
Häftad, Engelska, 2000
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This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of six workshops on evolutionary computation held concurrently as EvoWorkshops 2000 in Edinburgh, Scotland, UK, in April 2000. The 37 revised papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected by the respective program committees. All in all, the book demonstrates the broad application potential of evolutionary computing in a variety of fields. In accordance with the individual workshops, the book is divided into sections on image and signal processing; systems, controls, and drives in industry; telecommunications; scheduling and timetabling; robotics; and aeronautics.
Artificial Immune Systems
8th International Conference, ICARIS 2009, York, UK, August 9-12, 2009, Proceedings
Häftad, Engelska, 2009
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Arti?cial immune systems (AIS) is a diverse and maturing area of research that bridges the disciplines of immunology and engineering. The scope of AIS ranges fromimmune-inspiredalgorithmsandengineeringsolutionsinsoftwareandha- ware, to the understanding of immunology through modeling and simulation of immune system concepts. AIS algorithms have been applied to a wide variety of applications, including computer security, fault tolerance, data mining and optimization. In addition, theoretical aspects of arti?cial and real immune s- tems have been the subject of mathematical and computational models and simulations. The 8th InternationalConference on AIS (ICARIS 2009)built on the success of previous years, providing a forum for a diverse group of AIS researchers to present and discuss their latest results and advances. After two years outside Europe, ICARIS 2009 returned to England, the venue for the ?rst ICARIS back in 2002. This year’s conference was located in the historic city of York, and was held in St. William’s College, the conference venue of York Minster, northern Europe’s largest Gothic cathedral.
Bioinspired Models of Network, Information, and Computing Systems
4th International Conference, December 9-11, 2009, Revised Selected Papers
Häftad, Engelska, 2010
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This volume of LNICST is a collection of the papers of the 4th International Conference on Bio-Inspired Models of Network, Information, and Computing Systems (Bionetics). The event took place in the medieval city of Avignon, known also as the City of the Popes, during December 9 to 11, 2009. Bionetics main objective is to bring b- inspired paradigms into computer engineereing and networking, and to enhance the fruitful interactions between these fields and biology. The program of the conference indeed includes applications of various paradigms that have their origin in biology: population dynamics, branching processes, ant c- ony optimization. The proceedings include 19 papers covering a broad range of - portant issues in areas related to bio-inspired technologies. They correspond to pr- entations at 6 technical sessions. Four papers correspond to an invited session on the Epidemic-type forwarding in DTNs (sparse mobile ad-hoc wireless networks) org- ized by Dr Francesco De Pellegrini, (Italy, CREATE-NET). The following 9 papers (selected out of 15 submissions) correspond to contributions to regular sessions on Bio-inspired security, Bio-Inspired Networking, Bioinspired algorithms and software systems. The remaining 6 papers (selected out of a total of 9 submissions) are de- cated to work in progress. For each paper, we have provided at least two independent reviews, most of which were offered by members of the TPC.
Bio-Inspired Models of Network, Information, and Computing Systems
6th International ICST Conference, BIONETICS 2011, York, UK, December 5-6, 2011, Revised Selected Papers
Häftad, Engelska, 2012
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This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-conference proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Bio-Inspired Models of Network, Information, and Computing Systems (Bionetics). The event took place in the city of York, UK, in December 2011. Bionetics main objective is to bring bio-inspired paradigms into computer engineering and networking, and to enhance the fruitful interactions between these fields and biology. The papers of the conference were accepted in 2 categories: full papers and work-in progress. Full papers describe significant advances in the Bionetics field, while work-in-progress papers present an opportunity to discuss breaking research which is currently being evaluated. The topics are ranging from robotic coordination to attack detection in peer-to-peer networks, biological mechanisms including evolution, flocking and artificial immune systems, and nano-scale communication and networking.
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Kommande
This book provides a synthesis of current, state-of-the-art scientific and technological knowledge concerning robot evolution. It explores the potential and limitations of the principle “If evolution can create intelligence, artificial evolution can create artificial intelligence”. It focusses on embodied artificial intelligence, where intelligence emerges from the interaction between a physical body and its environment as exemplified by robots. The long-term vision behind the book is that of robots that evolve, learn, and improve their bodies and brains ‘on the job’.The book consists of three parts. Part I elaborates on natural evolution, its digital counterpart, evolutionary computing, and then reviews the history of Evolutionary Robotics, highlighting significant milestones. Part II discusses how evolutionary robotics can be implemented. It lays the groundwork by outlining the fundamental components of any Evolutionary Robotics system and then turns to increasingly sophisticated systems for controller evolution, the simultaneous evolution of morphology and control, and the augmentation of such systems with lifetime learning to improve evolved controllers. Part III looks toward the future, examining the prospect of the Evolution of Things, evolving physical robots in real time and real space, and highlighting emerging paradigms that are reshaping the field.The book is an entry point and a reference work, rich in case studies, design patterns, and adaptable algorithmic recipes that researchers and advanced students can reuse and extend. It is written as a didactic guide, structured to support both self-study and teaching. To enable hands-on exploration, the book is accompanied by open-source software, supporting experimentation, prototyping, and reproducible research.This volume serves as an accessible introduction to students in artificial intelligence, computer science, robotics, or related fields. AI experts, AI practitioners, roboticists, biologists and researchers in life science will find the book as a valuable reference work and an inspiration for their research.