Computers - Computer Architecture

The increasing adoption of cloud native development, real-time applications, and AI-enabled services requires mastering the trade-offs of the most influential software architecture patterns and antipatterns shaping today's technology landscape. As software systems grow in complexity and scale, applying the right architectural pattern becomes critical...

Struggling to get clean results from your 3D printer?Confused by settings, failed prints, and advice that never seems to work? You're not alone - and you're not doing anything wrong. Most beginner guides assume technical knowledge you don't have yet or overwhelm you with...

In this age of hypercompetition, the Internet constitutes a powerful tool for inventing radical new business models that will leave your rivals scrambling. But as brain scientist and entrepreneur Jeffrey Stibel explains in Wired for Thought, you have to understand its true nature. The...

Integrated Architectures and Network Centric Warfare represent two central concepts in DoD's on-going transformation. The true power of integrated architectures is brought to bear when they are combined with simulation to move beyond a static representation and create an executable architecture. This architecture can...

Introduces you to basic principles and concepts. This title provides an overview of the client/server and Web-based computing models, and develops a solid business case for implementation. It acquaints you with various technologies involved and describes a comprehensive network computing architecture.Author: Mark GoodyearISBN-10: 1138468517ISBN-13:...

There is an urgent need to develop robust strategies to respond to and leverage new and emerging technologies, particularly those based on Artificial Intelligence. An Industrial Engineering's systems-focused approach offers the best mechanism to address this urgent global need.Author: Adedeji B. BadiruISBN-10: 1032658088ISBN-13: 9781032658087Publisher:...

This book highlights the latest advances and explores the new trends in the design and implementation of smarter Cyber-Physical systems (CPS). It introduces integrated model-based and data-driven solutions for CPS that demonstrate both adaptability and interpretability.Author: Yan WanISBN-10: 1032153482ISBN-13: 9781032153483Publisher: CRC PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 08/05/2025Pages:...

An introduction to telephone exchange software, its functions and architectures. With continuous reference to the problems and realities of existing systems, this book analyzes hardware and software architectures adopted for the control of telecommunication switching exchanges.Author: Giuseppe FantauzziISBN-10: 0890064520ISBN-13: 9780890064528Publisher: Artech House PublishersLanguage: EnglishPublished:...

As performance issues evolve with the technologies, so must our approach to evaluation. In System Performance Evaluation, top academic and industrial experts review the major issues now faced in this arena. In a series of structured, focused chapters, they present the state of the...

This book contains the papers that were accepted for presentation at the 1988 NATO Advanced Study Institute on Underwater Acoustic Data Processing, held at the Royal Military College of Canada from 18 to 29 July, 1988. Approximately 110 participants from various NATO countries were...

This is the seventh book in the popular Simplified Design series from John Lenk, which teaches engineers, technicians, and students to use and modify off-the-shelf ICs to suit their individual design needs. The first chapter of this book describes the basic operation of microprocessor...

This book endeavors to help further lift the discipline of EA by providing a reference architecture for an EA function and taking an EA approach to its analysis and documentation. By doing so it aims to demonstrate, explain and rationalize why and how to...

In complex software projects, managing the development process can be as critical to success as writing the code itself. A project may involve dozens of developers, managers, architects, testers, and customers, hundreds of builds, and thousands of opportunities to get off-track. To keep tabs...

Considered a standard industry resource, the Embedded Systems Handbook provided researchers and technicians with the authoritative information needed to launch a wealth of diverse applications, including those in automotive electronics, industrial automated systems, and building automation and control. Now a new resource is required...

The Reference Model of Open Distributed Processing (RM-ODP) is an international standard that provides a solid basis for describing and building widely distributed systems and applications in a systematic way. It stresses the need to build these systems with evolution in mind by identifying...

HPC is used to solve a number of complex questions in computational and data-intensive sciences. These questions include the simulation and modeling of physical phenomena, such as climate change, energy production, drug design, global security, and materials design; the analysis of large data sets...

Unlock the full potential of Ableton Live 12 and transform your music production skills with this comprehensive, step-by-step guide. Whether you're a beginner just starting your journey or an experienced producer seeking advanced techniques, this book gives you the confidence and expertise to create...

Building trust with your business stakeholders starts with providing them with accurate, up-to-date information. This book shows you how to create a unified enterprise architecture repository, a central database for all your diagrams, catalogs, and other artifacts. Information supporting stakeholders' decisions may be delivered...

Scalable Data Pipelines Architecting for the Petabyte Era is a timely and essential guide for professionals navigating the explosive growth of data in today's digital world. As organizations generate data at unprecedented rates from everyday user interactions to complex industrial IoT readings the need...

Salesforce, as the leading cloud-based CRM platform, empowers businesses to manage customer relationships and build custom applications. This book serves as your comprehensive guide to mastering this technology, from foundational cloud concepts to advanced development and administration, enabling you to leverage its full potential.This...

DESCRIPTION With the rising complexity of modern software systems, strong, scalable software architecture has become the backbone of any successful application. This book gives you the essential knowledge to grasp the core ideas and methods of effective software design, helping you build strong, flexible...

This book covers Raspberry Pi 5 OS concepts and commands that allow a beginner to perform essential system administration and other operations. Each chapter contains sequential, inline exercises that reinforce the material that comes before them. Author: Robert M. KoretskyISBN-10: 1041099037ISBN-13: 9781041099031Publisher: CRC PressLanguage:...

This book encompasses a collection of topics covering recent advances that are important to the Arabic language in areas of natural language processing, speech and image analysis. This book presents state-of-the-art reviews and fundamentals as well as applications and recent innovations.The book chapters by...

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This book provides detailed coverage of BPEL4WS, its syntax, and where, and how, it is used. It begins with an overview of web services, showing both the foundation of, and need for, BPEL. The web services orchestration stack is explained, including standards such as...

"The objective of this book is to give an insight about cyber-physical systems (CPS) as tools for integrating the dynamics of physical processes with those of the software and networking, providing abstractions and modelling, design, and analysis techniques for their smart manufacturing interoperation"--Author: Pierluigi...

"This book examines recent and on-going research in the area of information systems"--Author: Naveen PrakashISBN-10: 1799829766ISBN-13: 9781799829768Publisher: Engineering Science ReferenceLanguage: EnglishPublished: 01/06/2020Pages: 320Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.23lbsSize: 10.00h x 7.00w x 0.67d

This title includes a number of Open Access chapters.Data structure and software engineering is an integral part of computer science. This volume presents new approaches and methods to knowledge sharing, brain mapping, data integration, and data storage. The author describes how to manage an...

This title includes a number of Open Access chapters.Model-driven engineering (MDE) is the automatic production of software from simplified models of structure and functionality. It mainly involves the automation of the routine and technologically complex programming tasks, thus allowing developers to focus on the...

In the research area of computer science, practitioners are constantly searching for faster platforms with pertinent results. With analytics that span environmental development to computer hardware emulation, problem-solving algorithms are in high demand. Field-Programmable Gate Array (FPGA) is a promising computing platform that can...

Distributed systems intertwine with our everyday lives. The benefits and current shortcomings of the underpinning technologies are experienced by a wide range of people and their smart devices. With the rise of large-scale IoT and similar distributed systems, cloud bursting technologies, and partial outsourcing...

Present day sophisticated, adaptive, and autonomous (to a certain degree) robotic technology is a radically new stimulus for the cognitive system of the human learner from the earliest to the oldest age. It deserves extensive, thorough, and systematic research based on novel frameworks for...

The blockchain revolution has drastically impacted global economics and the strategic practices within different industries. Cryptocurrency specifically has forever changed the face of business and the implementation of business online. While innovative, people are still in the early stages of building and developing blockchain...

In Synthetic Vision: Using Volume Learning and Visual DNA, a holistic model of the human visual system is developed into a working model in C++, informed by the latest neuroscience, DNN, and computer vision research. The author's synthetic visual pathway model includes the eye,...

Past and current research in computer performance analysis has focused primarily on dedicated parallel machines. However, future applications in the area of high-performance computing will not only use individual parallel systems but a large set of networked resources. This scenario of computational and data...

Distributed object systems are a very complex intertwining of heterogene-oushardware, software, and operating systems coupled with communication networks of varying protocols and capacities. Distributed components offer improved performance through parallel processing, improved expansion and scalability opportunities through modularity, improved availability through replication, and improved...

Enterprise Fortress is a comprehensive guide to building secure and resilient enterprise architectures, aimed at professionals navigating the complex world of cybersecurity. Authored by cybersecurity leader Alex Stevens, the book brings together his 20+ years of experience, blending technical expertise with business strategy. Author:...

Quantum computing is at the forefront of technological innovation. This book explains its principles, practical applications, and future implications in a clear and accessible manner. It takes readers on a journey from the fundamental principles of quantum mechanics to practical applications.Author: Shrikant TiwariISBN-10: 1032813687ISBN-13:...

The fourth volume in a new series exploring the basics of Raspberry Pi Operating System administrationAuthor: Robert M. KoretskyISBN-10: 1032752963ISBN-13: 9781032752969Publisher: CRC PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 07/03/2024Pages: 278Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.91lbsSize: 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.61d

The second in a new series, this instalment builds on the insights provided in Volume 1 to provide a compendium of easy-to-use and essential Raspberry Pi OS system administration for the novice userAuthor: Robert M. KoretskyISBN-10: 1032596880ISBN-13: 9781032596884Publisher: CRC PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 12/26/2023Pages: 316Format: PaperbackWeight:...

This book is an integration of computation, networking, and physical processes: the combination of several systems ofdifferent nature whose main purpose is tocontrol a physical process and, through feedback, adapt itself to new conditions, in real time.It includes an in-depth coverage of the latestmodels...

The book covers a large body of knowledge to help practitioners and researchers understand the problems, concepts, methods and tools involved in modern social data analytics. The book includes a wealth of material to choose from for courses in data science and analytics. Author:...

The book examines practices that underly the development of the vast majority of parallel and distributed systems particularly IoT, Grid/Cloud Computing, and supercomputers. Computer architecture, operating systems, and parallel programming techniques as well as models for many-core processors, supercomputers and networks are covered.Author: Alireza...

Derived from industry-training classes that the author teaches at the Embedded Systems Institute at Eindhoven, the Netherlands and at Buskerud University College at Kongsberg in Norway, Systems Architecting: A Business Perspective places the processes of systems architecting in a broader context by juxtaposing the...

This book is for everyone who is interested in understanding what ubiquitous and edge computing means, why it is growing in importance and its opportunities to you as a technologist or decision maker. Author: Haishi Bai,Boris SchollISBN-10: 1032046724ISBN-13: 9781032046723Publisher: CRC PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 10/07/2024Pages: 164Format:...

The term 'systems theory' is used to characterize a set of disparate yet related approaches to fields as varied as information theory, cybernetics, biology, sociology, history, literature, and philosophy. What unites each of these traditions of systems theory is a shared focus on general...

Fault-Tolerant Parallel Computation presents recent advances in algorithmic ways of introducing fault-tolerance in multiprocessors under the constraint of preserving efficiency. The difficulty associated with combining fault-tolerance and efficiency is that the two have conflicting means: fault-tolerance is achieved by introducing redundancy, while efficiency is...

Multiprocessing: Trade-Offs in Computation and Communication presents an in-depth analysis of several commonly observed regular and irregular computations for multiprocessor systems. This book includes techniques which enable researchers and application developers to quantitatively determine the effects of algorithm data dependencies on execution time, on...

This book discusses the development of safety-critical systems under the following standards: IEC 61508; ISO 26262; EN 50128; and IEC 62304. It details the advantages and disadvantages of many architectural and design practices recommended in the standards, ranging from replication and diversification, through anomaly...

This book provides IT professionals and students with the necessary understanding of computer hardware. It addresses the ongoing issues related to computer hardware and discusses the solutions supplied by the industry. The author presents a brief history of computing that explores the evolution of...