Automated Taxon Identification in Systematics: Theory, Approaches and Applications (Systematics Association Special Volume)

Description

Publisher: CRC
Language: english
ISBN: 084938205X
Paperback: 368 pages
Data: July 23, 2007
Format: PDF
Description: The automated identification of biological objects or groups has been a dream among taxonomists and systematists for centuries. However, progress in designing and implementing practical systems for fully automated taxon identification has been frustratingly slow. Regardless, the dream has never died. Recent developments in computer architectures and innovations in software design have placed the tools needed to realize this vision in the hands of the systematics community, not several years hence, but now. And not just for DNA barcodes or other molecular data, but for digital images of organisms, digital sounds, digitized chemical data - essentially any type of digital data. Based on evidence accumulated over the last decade and written by applied researchers, Automated Taxon Identification in Systematics explores contemporary applications of quantitative approaches to the problem of taxon recognition. The book begins by reviewing the current state of systematics and placing automated taxon identification in the context of contemporary trends, needs, and opportunities. The chapters present and evaluate different aspects of current automated system designs. They then provide descriptions of case studies in which different theoretical and practical aspects of the overall group-identification problem are identified, analyzed, and discussed. A recurring theme through the chapters is the relationship between taxonomic identification, automated group identification, and morphometrics. This collection provides a bridge between these communities and between them and the wider world of applied taxonomy. The only book-length treatment that explores automated group identification in systematic context, this text also includes introductions to basic aspects of the fields of contemporary artificial intelligence and mathematical group recognition for the entire biological community.

?| Download - (15 Mb)

Disclaimer:
Contents of this page are indexed from the Internet. All actions are under your responsability. Email us to report illegal contents or external links and we'll remove them immediately.

Download links for "Automated Taxon Identification in Systematics: Theory, Approaches and Applications (Systematics Association Special Volume)":


How to Download
You may need eMule or Bittorrent to download ebook torrents or emule links.

Report Dead Link
Please leave a comment to report dead links, so that someone else may update new links.

1. Ebooks list page : 1319
2. Automated Taxon Identification in Systematics: Theory, Approaches and Applications
3. Automated Taxon Identification in Systematics: Theory, Approaches and Applications
4. Unravelling the algae: the past, present, and future of algal systematics (Systematics Association Special Volumes)
5. Biodiversity Databases: Techniques, Politics, and Applications (Systematics Association Special Volume)
6. Biodiversity Databases: Techniques, Politics, and Applications (Systematics Association Special Volume)
7. Morphology, Shape and Phylogeny (Systematics Association Special Volume)
8. Major Events in Early Vertebrate Evolution (Systematics Association Special Volume)
9. Biodiversity Databases: Techniques, Politics, and Applications (Systematics Association Special Volu
10. Biogeography in a Changing World (Systematics Association Special Volumes)
11. Biological Systematics: The State of the Art
12. Bacterial Systematics (1994)
13. Grasses: Systematics and Evolution
14. Grasses: Systematics and Evolution
15. Gentianaceae: Systematics and Natural History
16. Michael Simpson: Plant Systematics