This paper discusses whether computers, using Artifical Intelligence (AI), could create art. The first part concerns AI-based tools for assisting with art making. The history of technologies that automated aspects of art is covered, including photography and animation. In each case, we see initial fears and denial of the technology, followed by a blossoming of new creative and professional oppo...

We describe our recent research and advances in building a framework enabling artifical life (ALife) systems on real robotic hardware. Our framework allows our iCub humanoid to build better visual perception, improve its motion capabilities and even provide a sense of proprioception. This paper presents how we can use various techniques, such as, e.g., genetic programming, to build subsystems f...

One of the most used artificial neural networks (ANNs) models is the well-known MultiLayer Perceptron (MLP) [Haykin, 1998]. The training process of MLPs for pattern classification problems consists of two tasks, the first one is the selection of an appropriate architecture for the problem, and the second is the adjustment of the connection weights of the network. Extensive research work has bee...

We present a meshless technique which can be seen as an alternative to the Method of Fundamental Solutions (MFS). It calculates homogeneous solutions of the Laplacian (i.e. harmonic functions) for given boundary data by a direct collocation technique on the boundary using kernels which are harmonic in two variables. In contrast to the MFS, there is no artifical boundary needed, and there is a f...

Spend your time even for only few minutes to read a book. Reading a book will never reduce and waste your time to be useless. Reading, for some people become a need that is to do every day such as spending time for eating. Now, what about you? Do you like to read a book? Now, we will show you a new book enPDFd the dissimilarity representation for pattern recognition foundations and applications...

In 1967 Veselago considered the possibility of materials with (relative) permittivity and (relative) permeability μ both negative [1]. Building on the long history of artifical dielectrics for high-frequency applications (see, for example, [2, 3, 4]), in 1999 Pendry et al. proposed a technique for fabrication of metamaterials with both negative and negative μ within a certain frequency range [5...

We study the calculation of quasi-bound states (QBS) in MOS inversion layers, which represent the major source of tunneling electrons. The calculation of QBS is performed by the perfectly matched layer (PML) method. Introducing a complex coordinate stretching enables us to apply artifical absorbing layers at the boundaries. This allows us to determine the QBS as the eigenvalues of a linear non-...