Computers - Computer Science

Machine learning and deep learning have made tremendous progress over the last decade and have become the de facto standard across a wide range of image, video, text, and sound processing domains, from object recognition to image generation. Recently, deep learning and deep reinforcement...

Complex systems have long been an integral part of modern life and can be encountered everywhere. Undertaking a comprehensive study of such systems is a challenging problem, one which is impossible to solve without the use of contemporary mathematical modeling techniques. Mathematical models form...

The Laser Wakefield Acceleration (LWFA) has advanced the accelerating gradient many orders of magnitude over the conventional technologies. Their application to high energy accelerators has been considered, while a new field of micrometric accelerators appears for medical applications.Author: Toshiki TajimaISBN-10: 3036574727ISBN-13: 9783036574721Publisher: Mdpi AGLanguage:...

The present reprint contains the 13 articles that were accepted and published in the Special Issue "Fuzzy Sets, Fuzzy Logic and Their Applications, 2021" of the MDPI "Mathematics" journal, which cover a wide range of topics connected to the theory and applications of fuzzy...

This book focuses on information and coding theoretic metrics, analyses, and methods applied to future communication and computation systems. Analyses of learning algorithms and information security problems are studied in detail. The main themes addressed are multiple access channels, interference channels, and delay-Doppler domain...

The present reprint contains the 11 papers that were accepted and published in the Special Issue "Applied and Computational Mathematics for Digital Environments" of the MDPI Mathematics journal. The topics of interest include, among others, scientific research, applied tasks, and problems in the following...

This collection of articles includes the latest results related to applications of dynamical systems in the mathematical modelling of engineering problems, such as those concerning power system dynamics, material science, energy systems, gas dynamical networks, etc.Its purpose is to bring together mathematicians with engineers...

This book contains all the articles published in the Special Issue "Dynamic Modeling and Simulation for Control Systems" from the MDPI Mathematics journal. This Special Issue aims to cover important aspects of how to optimize the dynamic behavior of physical systems using special algorithms...

This volume is a reprint of the Honorary Special Issue dedicated to the 60th birthday of Professor Dr. Kalyanmoy Deb, published in the journal Mathematical and Computational Applications (MCA). Kalyanmoy Deb has been a pioneer and highly impactful and influential proponent of Evolutionary Multi-objective...

Kinetic theory stems from statistical mechanics established at the mesoscopic scale. The numerical methods established on kinetic theory perform unique and important roles in almost all studies of fluid dynamics. This book reports the recent advances in this vibrant community. The development of kinetic...

This book presents some of the selected works presented during the 5th Mexican Workshop on Fractional Calculus on October 5-7, 2022, hosted by the Tecnológico de Monterrey in Nuevo León. The works correspond to those recent proposals and applications on fractional calculus carried out...

In honor of Wojciech Zurek's 70th birthday, this Special Issue is dedicated to recent advances in our understanding the emergence of classical reality, and pays tribute to Zurek's seminal contributions to our understanding of the Universe. To this end, "Quantum Darwinism and Friends" collects...

Mathematical fuzzy logic (MFL) specifically targets many-valued logic and has significantly contributed to the logical foundations of fuzzy set theory (FST). It explores the computational and philosophical rationale behind the uncertainty due to imprecision in the backdrop of traditional mathematical logic. Since uncertainty is...

Recent advances in artificial intelligence have the potential to further develop current big data research. The Special Issue on 'Intelligent Computing for Big Data' highlighted a number of recent studies related to the use of intelligent computing techniques in the processing of big data...

This reprint focuses on recent aspects of gravitational theory and cosmology. It contains subjects of particular interest for modified gravity theories and applications to cosmology, special attention is given to Einstein-Gauss-Bonnet, f(R)-gravity, anisotropic inflation, extra dimension theories of gravity, black holes, dark energy, Palatini...

This book presents selected entropy-based applications in economics, finance and management research. The high-quality studies included in this book propose and discuss new tools and concepts derived from information theory to investigate various aspects of entropy with an assortment of applications. A wide variety...

Natural language processing (NLP) is one of the most important technologies in use today, especially due to the large and growing amount of online text, which needs to be understood in order to fully ascertain its enormous value. During the last decade, the application...

The aim of ITISE 2022 is to create a friendly environment that could lead to the establishment or strengthening of scientific collaborations and exchanges among attendees. Therefore, ITISE 2022 is soliciting high-quality original research papers (including significant works-in-progress) on any aspect time series analysis...

Intensive studies on light-matter interactions and technological breakthroughs, especially conducted in the field of dressed photon research, have led to a growing concern regarding unsettled off-shell quantum field interactions. The Special Issue, entitled "Quantum Fields and Off-Shell Sciences", was organized to promote the progress...

In recent decades, laser cooling of solids based on anti-Stokes fluorescence, also known as Pringsheim 's optical cooling, has garnered a great deal of scientific interest due to its applications, including optical solid-state coolers, radiation-balanced lasers and rare-earth-doped particles for biological applications. This Reprint...

Over the past decade, computational methods, including machine learning (ML) and deep learning (DL), have been exponentially growing in their development of solutions in various domains, especially medicine, cybersecurity, finance, and education. While these applications of machine learning algorithms have been proven beneficial in...

The start of high-volume production of field-effect transistors with a feature size below 100 nm at the end of the 20th century signaled the transition from microelectronics to nanoelectronics. Since then, downscaling in the semiconductor industry has continued until the recent development of sub-10...

Coastal systems are unique environments that provide socioeconomic benefits via a variety of different functions. These functions are influenced by changing morphology, which results from erosion and sedimentation at different spatiotemporal scales, from both natural forcing and human interventions. Additionally, interactions between coastal processes...

The Special Issue contains theoretical and experimental works that report on studies of impurities in quantum gases, fundamental properties and universal aspects of quasiparticles and other related many-body phenomena. Particular focus is placed on the Fermi and Bose polarons.The Special Issue contains ten research...

The present book contains 14 articles that were accepted for publication in the Special Issue "Numerical Computation, Data Analysis and Software in Mathematics and Engineering" of the MDPI journal Mathematics. The topics of these articles include the aspects of the meshless method, numerical simulation,...

The first experiments on electron scattering were completed before the "official" discovery of this particle by J. J. Thomson. In spite of this, our knowledge of cross sections is still far from complete.More recent experiments had some unexpected results, like selective fragmentation of DNA...

The latest proliferation of Internet of Things deployments and edge computing combined with artificial intelligence has led to new exciting application scenarios, where embedded digital devices are essential enablers. Moreover, new powerful and efficient devices are appearing to cope with workloads formerly reserved for...

Data science, information theory, probability theory, statistical learning and other related disciplines greatly benefit from non-negative measures of dissimilarity between pairs of probability measures. These are known as divergence measures, and exploring their mathematical foundations and diverse applications is of significant interest. The present...

This Special Issue brings together original research papers, in all areas of mathematics, that are concerned with inequalities or the role of inequalities. The research results presented in this Special Issue are related to improvements in classical inequalities, highlighting their applications and promoting an...

In recent years, fractional calculus has led to tremendous progress in various areas of science and mathematics. New definitions of fractional derivatives and integrals have been uncovered, extending their classical definitions in various ways. Moreover, rigorous analysis of the functional properties of these new...

This textbook "Applied Mathematics in Ferroelectricity and Piezoelectricity" was authored to provide the reader solid mathematical background for studying "ferroelectricity and piezoelectricity", as a supplemental reference to my three course books; "Ferroelectric Devices 2nd Edition (2010)", "Micromechatronics 2nd Edition (2019)", and "FEM and Micromechatronics...

This Special Issue is devoted to some serious problems that the Fractional Calculus (FC) is currently confronted with and aims at providing some answers to the questions like "What are the fractional integrals and derivatives?", "What are their decisive mathematical properties?", "What fractional operators...

"This is without question the best PhD thesis that I have read since the 1970s. Its coverage is breathtaking." Robert Sedgewick Quicksort is the fastest general-purpose sorting method in practice and a showcase for the paradigms of the mathematical analysis of algorithms: it can...

"The Meca Sapiens Blueprint" is a Cognitive Architecture that describes, in detail, how to build a conscious machine using standard software techniques. A robotic system based on The Meca Sapiens Blueprint would be a unique and autonomous entity that is self-aware and capable of...

New developments in computing hardware, algorithms, and data sources have led to an explosion of interest in Artificial Intelligence (AI). Widely viewed as a "strategic technology," governments, companies, and venture firms are investing in AI and rushing to create powerful applications -- with economic,...

Computer Science Design Series Programming with MFC & Visual C++ Prerequisite: Microsoft Visual C++ 6.0 or equivalent. Recommended especially if you are new to MFC: Jeff Prosise "Programming Windows with MFC" (1337 pages, ISBN 1572 316 950) This text is about how to use...

Communities of Computing is the first book-length history of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), founded in 1947 and with a membership today of 100,000 worldwide. It profiles ACM's notable SIGs, active chapters, and individual members, setting ACM's history into a rich social and...

The Handbook of Multimodal-Multisensor Interfaces provides the first authoritative resource on what has become the dominant paradigm for new computer interfaces: user input involving new media (speech, multi-touch, hand and body gestures, facial expressions, writing) embedded in multimodal-multisensor interfaces that often include biosignals. This...

Let's Ask AI explores philosophical questions through the lens of Artificial Intelligence. The brilliance of AI answers questions from centuries-old philosophy questions, ranging from existentialism, ethics, life, God, and more recent ideas of qualia and singularity. By approaching this subject matter philosophically, Let's Ask...

Nash equilibrium is the central solution concept in Game Theory. Since Nash's original paper in 1951, it has found countless applications in modeling strategic behavior of traders in markets, (human) drivers and (electronic) routers in congested networks, nations in nuclear disarmament negotiations, and more....

This book explores how to conduct information system (IS) research using various approaches that are grounded in proven scientific methods. It is primarily for consumers of IS research and for individuals involved in any type of academic research across various disciplines. This book is...

This book, The Nature of Computing, is written for students of computing in Universities and Colleges. It contains discussions of applied computing in the areas of image processing, robotics, wind energy (turbines and wind farms), neural circuits, and multi-programming. This revised and extended edition...

This volume of the Texts in Algorithmics series is a collection of work by the participants and friends of London Stringology Days (LSD) and London Algorithmic Workshop (LAW) 2008, sponsored by the Department of Computer Science, King's College London. The form of this volume...

Quantum Mechanics (QM) is emerging from physics into non-physics domains (domains traditionally found outside of physics) such as human language, cognition, information processing, AI, biology, political science, economics, organizations, and social interaction. The Second Quantum Interaction Symposium advances and applies the methods and structures...

The International Workshop on Combinatorial Algorithms was established in 1989 as the Australasian Workshop on Combinatorial Algorithms. As a consequence of the workshop's success in attracting mathematicians and computer scientists from around the world, it was decided at the 2006 meeting to go global,...

Automata and Dictionaries is aimed at students and specialists in natural language processing and related disciplines where efficient text analysis plays a role. Large linguistic resources, in particular lexica, are now recognized as a fundamental pre-requisite for all natural language processing tasks. Specialists in...

This volume is a collection of papers that explore various areas of common interest between philosophy, computing, and cognition. The book illustrates the rich intrigue of this fascinating recent intellectual story. It begins by providing a new analysis of the ideas related to computer...

This book provides an invaluable overview of the reach of logic. It provides reference to some of the most important, well-established results in logic, while at the same time offering insight into the lattest research issues in the area. It also has a balance...

This book provides an invaluable overview of the reach of logic. It provides reference to some of the most important, well-established results in logic, while at the same time offering insight into the latest research issues in the area. It also has a balance...

Author: Brian Youngblood, Stefano IacovellaISBN-10: 1849516685ISBN-13: 9781849516686Publisher: Packt PublishingLanguage: EnglishPublished: 02/11/2013Pages: 350Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.33lbsSize: 9.25h x 7.50w x 0.73d