This text aims to provide a concise, practical introduction to expert systems. It introduces enough theoretical concepts and techinquies to facilitate an understanding of the tools and technologies available to build expert systems.

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An overview of the scope and limitations of professional secrecy in the European Union, the European Economic Area and Switzerland.

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Barbaras is the world s leading Merleau-Ponty scholar, but what makes this book remarkable and philosophically important is that Barbaras distances himself from Merleau-Ponty and develops his own set of concepts with a high level of ...