This volume features key contributions from the International Conference on Pattern Recognition Applications and Methods, (ICPRAM 2012,) held in Vilamoura, Algarve, Portugal from February 6th-8th, 2012. The conference provided a major point of collaboration between researchers, engineers and practitioners in the areas of Pattern Recognition, bot...

This book constitutes the proceedings of the First International Workshop on Similarity Based Pattern Recognition, SIMBAD 2011, held in Venice, Italy, in September 2011. The 16 full papers and 7 poster papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 35 submissions. The contributions are organized in topical sections on dissimilarity c...

This book constitutes the Selected Papers of the 8th International Workshop on Graphics Recognition, Achievements, Challenges and Evolution, held in La Rochelle, France, in July 2009.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 4th Mexican Conference on Pattern Recognition, MCPR 2012, held in Huatulco, Mexico, in June 2012. The 31 revised full papers and 3 keynotes presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 64 submissions and are organized in topical sections on image processing; computer vision and image r...

This volume has as its primary aim the examination of issues concerning executive function and...

Una fábula encantadora situada en Persia enla que se encuentran el romance, la aventura y las adivinanzas...La historia de una joven que está decidida a tejer su propio destino.«Una historia absorbente que entreteje la cultura persa, la historia y sus circunstancias con el retrato de la vida de una joven y su búsqueda del a...

En los llamados siglos oscuros del Alto Medievo italiano, entre los años 891-932, tres mujeres se hicieron con el poder en la sombra en Roma y manejaron sin pudor el papado. A lo largo de esos cuarenta años, quince papas ocuparon la cátedra de Pedro; papas que fueron en ocasiones seducidos, en otras embaucados, amados, en o...

"Native Americans Today: A Biographical Dictionary" focuses on the lives of contemporary Native...

LA SERIE ‘LA ESPADA NEGRA’ CONTIENE LA MAGIA, LA PASIÓN Y LA FURIA DE LOS LEGENDARIOS GUERREROS ESCOCESES… PARA LOS QUE SIEMPRE MERECE LA PENA LUCHAR POR EL AMOR. Nacida druida y bendecida con la magia, Isla es uno de los demonios más mortíferos que han servido a las fuerzas de la oscuridad. Como guerrero inmortal de las ...

Edited by language and communications expert Paul Cobley, this new reference work is an accessible and invaluable key to the complex field of liguistics and semiotics. The ten introductory essays are written by pace-setting figures in the field, and provide unique background to the 200+ A-Z entries that follow. Among the latter are entries on ke...