Computers - Computer Science

The present Special Issue of the MDPI journal Mathematics, titled "Mathematical Methods and Operation Research in Logistics, Project Planning, and Scheduling, 2nd Edition", contains a total of eight articles that cover a wide range of topics related to the theory, models, and applications of...

Computer architecture is a critical area of computer engineering, referring to a set of principles and methodologies that define the structure, organization, and operation of computer systems. The goal of computer architecture is to design systems that offer optimal performance, energy efficiency, cost-effectiveness, and...

Robotics is a field of technology that involves the design, construction, operation and use of robots. Robots are machines capable of carrying out tasks autonomously or semi-autonomously, often controlled by computer programs. They integrate sensors, actuators and computational systems to understand their environment, make...

Computer architecture pertains to the principles and frameworks that define the design, operation, and organization of computer systems. It focuses on the programming and modeling of computers, with important areas including logic design, instruction set architecture, implementation, and microarchitecture design. This book attempts to...

Robotics is an interdisciplinary field that integrates computer science, engineering, and technology to design, construct, operate, and use robots. These automated machines are capable of performing tasks traditionally done by humans, often in hazardous or repetitive environments, with precision and efficiency. Robotics comprises a...

Numerical analysis pertains to the exploration of algorithms utilizing numerical approximation to tackle problems of mathematical analysis. Some of the major areas of study within this discipline are interpolation, computing function values, integral and differential equation evaluation, regression, optimization, and extrapolation. In numerical analysis,...

Speech recognition refers to the computational technology enabling computers to comprehend and process spoken language. It involves converting spoken words into textual representations or executable commands, facilitating hands-free interaction with digital systems. This field employs sophisticated algorithms to analyse acoustic signals, identifying linguistic patterns...

Robotics is an interdisciplinary domain containing engineering and computer science, focused on the design, construction and operation of autonomous or semi-autonomous robots. These robots are equipped with actuators for movement, sensors for environmental data acquisition, and control systems for decision-making and task execution. Advances...

Speech recognition is the automated process of converting spoken language into text or commands by a computer system. Using complex algorithms, speech recognition systems analyse audio signals to identify and interpret patterns of speech sounds, known as phonemes, and then convert these into textual...

Computer-Aided Design (CAD) refers to the use of computer systems to assist in the creation, modification, analysis, or optimization of a design. CAD software enhances the productivity of the designer, improves the quality of design, and fosters communication through documentation. It is extensively used...

Pattern recognition is a branch of machine learning focused on the identification and classification of patterns and regularities in data. It involves the use of algorithms and statistical techniques to automatically recognize patterns and make predictions or decisions based on data input. Applications include...

Pattern recognition is a fundamental aspect of artificial intelligence that has versatile applications in diverse fields. It involves identifying regularities in data and extracting meaningful information to make predictions or decisions. In computer vision, pattern recognition enables systems to recognize objects, faces, gestures, and...

Mastering Python is a comprehensive guide that takes you on a practical journey from the fundamentals of Python programming to advanced techniques across various domains. This book is carefully crafted for both beginners and aspiring developers who want to build real-world skills and apply...

This textbook provides a basis for a PhD course on domain-theoretic semantics of functional programming languages and their meta-mathematical properties. It introduces basic domain theory and the technique of logical relations as developed by Scott and Plotkin. The solution of recursive domain equations is...

ThePaci?c-AsiaConferenceonKnowledgeDiscoveryandDataMining(PAKDD) has been held every year since 1997. This year, the eighth in the series (PAKDD 2004) was held at Carlton Crest Hotel, Sydney, Australia, 26-28 May 2004. PAKDD is a leading international conference in the area of data mining. It p- vides an...

The International Conference on Intelligent Computing (ICIC) was formed to provide an annual forum dedicated to the emerging and challenging topics in artificial intelligence, machine learning, bioinformatics, and computational biology, etc. It aims to bring together researchers and practitioners from both academia and industry...

The papers of this volume focus on the foundational aspects of computer science, the thematic origin and stronghold of LNCS, under the title "Computing and Software Science: State of the Art and Perspectives". They are organized in two parts: The first part, Computation and...

"Only a small community has concentrated on general intelligence. No one has tried to make a thinking machine ... The bottom line is that we really haven't progressed too far toward a truly intelligent machine. We have collections of dumb specialists in small domains;...

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed revised selected papers of the 16th International Symposium on Trends in Functional Programming, TFP 2015, held in Sophia Antipolis, France, in June 2015. The 8 revised full papers included in this volume were carefully and selected from 26...

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 5th International Workshop on Hybrid Systems Biology, HSB 2016, held in Grenoble, France, in October 2016.The 11 full papers presented in this book were carefully reviewed and selected from 26 submissions. They were organized and presented...

This book introduces basic supervised learning algorithms applicable to natural language processing (NLP) and shows how the performance of these algorithms can often be improved by exploiting the marginal distribution of large amounts of unlabeled data. One reason for that is data sparsity, i.e.,...

The open access two-volume set LNCS 12224 and 12225 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 32st International Conference on Computer Aided Verification, CAV 2020, held in Los Angeles, CA, USA, in July 2020.* The 43 full papers presented together with 18 tool papers and...

At its very core multimedia information retrieval means the process of searching for and finding multimedia documents; the corresponding research field is concerned with building the best possible multimedia search engines. The intriguing bit here is that the query itself can be a multimedia...

The open access two-volume set LNCS 12224 and 12225 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 32st International Conference on Computer Aided Verification, CAV 2020, held in Los Angeles, CA, USA, in July 2020.* The 43 full papers presented together with 18 tool papers and...

Information technology strategies are critical to business as they can deliver not only effective business operations, but also competitively differentiated products and services for firms. Yet many business and government enterprises have found their IT organizations to be misaligned with business strategies, or even...

Research has deeply investigated several issues related to the use of integrity constraints on relational databases. In particular, a great deal of attention has been devoted to the problem of extracting "reliable" information from databases containing pieces of information inconsistent with regard to some...

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Optimizing HPC Applications with Intel(R) Cluster Tools takes the reader on a tour of the fast-growing area of high performance computing and the optimization of hybrid programs. These programs typically combine distributed memory and shared memory programming models and use the Message Passing Interface...

Foundations of Information Technology in the Era of Network and Mobile Computing is presented in two distinct but interrelated tracks: -Algorithms, Complexity and Models of Computation; -Logic, Semantics, Specification and Verification.This volume contains 45 original and significant contributions addressing these foundational questions, as well...

This open access two-volume set LNCS 10980 and 10981 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 30th International Conference on Computer Aided Verification, CAV 2018, held in Oxford, UK, in July 2018. The 52 full and 13 tool papers presented together with 3 invited papers...

This book is Open Access under a CC BY licence. This book constitutes the proceedings of the 22nd International Conference on Fundamental Approaches to Software Engineering, FASE 2019, which took place in Prague, Czech Republic in April 2019, held as Part of the European...

The open access two-volume set LNCS 11561 and 11562 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 31st International Conference on Computer Aided Verification, CAV 2019, held in New York City, USA, in July 2019. The 52 full papers presented together with 13 tool papers and...

This book constitutes the proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Principles of Security and Trust, POST 2018, which took place in Thessaloniki, Greece, in April 2018, held as part of the European Joint Conference on Theory and Practice of Software, ETAPS 2018.The 13...

This volume uses a rhetorical criticism perspective to examine new media and technologies. It is intended for scholars and students in comm, rhetoric, & education concerned with how talk about comm technology affects how we think about it.Author: Barbara WarnickISBN-10: 0805841164ISBN-13: 9780805841169Publisher: RoutledgeLanguage: EnglishPublished:...

Contents: Learning From Relational Data (J R Quinlan); The Implementation of Two-Layer Binary Perceptrons (Jacob L Cybulski et al.); A Speech Application of a Probabilistically Conditioned Neural Network (David Bijl & Frank Fallside); Prolog-Linda: An Embedding of Linda in muProlog (Geoff Sutcliffe & James...

This volume is a celebration of Leslie Valiant's scientific and intellectual achievements. It contains eight of Valiant's most impactful research works, along with accompanying contributions providing modern perspectives on these landmark papers in the context of contemporary research in complexity theory, parallel computing, computational...

This book is designed primarily for use as a textbook in a one-semester course on compiler design for undergraduate students and beginning graduate students. The only prerequisites for this book are familiarity with basic algorithms and data structures (lists, maps, recursion, etc.), a rudimentary...

Forward Deployed Engineering is one of the fastest-growing and least understood roles in software today - and most of what's written about it is a single paragraph on a careers page.How to Become a Forward Deployed Engineer is the complete field guide to this...

The guiding philosophy of "Agent2Agent Communication" is rooted in pragmatic execution. In the modern technology industry, theoretical knowledge must translate into tangible, working software. This book rely upon the belief that the best way to understand complex multi-agent systems is to build them from...

Artificial intelligence is no longer a future concept. It is already used in factories, hospitals, vehicles, power systems, banks, warehouses, smartphones, and digital services.But what does AI actually do in practice? Where does it create real value, and when is traditional automation still the...

The core objective of this book is to deliver a highly practical, implementation-oriented book. It is designed to take you from the absolute basics of setting up a development environment to the final, live production deployment of AI applications tailored for net-zero engineering. Every...

Go beyond "secure your app" - understand how Android security actually works.Most Android security resources give you a checklist: encrypt this, pin that, don't hardcode secrets. This book teaches you the mental model underneath the checklist.If you've ever wondered why an exported Activity becomes...

The central philosophy of "Business Intelligence and Data Warehousing" is rooted in the belief that true engineering mastery is achieved strictly through practical implementation. For too long, educational texts in the domain of data management have prioritized abstract theories, mathematical proofs, and conceptual architectures...

Your child is already using AI. The only question is whether someone who loves them is helping them use it well.Maybe you've seen the suspiciously polished essay. Maybe you're worried about cheating. Or maybe you just feel a step behind - the technology moved...

Máté István-Mátyás: The Code of Life IV. - The Code of IntelligenceWhat if we rebuilt artificial intelligence entirely from scratch?Today's artificial intelligence development is producing astonishing leaps, yet the global focus remains largely confined to bigger models, massive amounts of data, and brutal computing...

Artificial intelligence is everywhere now - in conversations, courses, job descriptions, business tools, apps, news, classrooms, and everyday decisions.But for many readers, the hardest part of AI is not the technology itself.It is the language.Words like machine learning, deep learning, neural network, dataset, model,...

What if you had a superpower that could help you write stories, solve problems, create amazing art, learn faster, and bring your biggest ideas to life? That superpower already exists. It is called artificial intelligence. AI Is Your Superpower is a fun, kid-friendly guide...

MASTER INDUSTRIAL COMMUNICATION - FROM THEORY TO REAL IMPLEMENTATIONAre you struggling to bridge the gap between industrial protocols and real-world embedded implementation?Most books will teach you what PROFIBUS is.Very few will show you how to actually build it.This book does exactly that.WHAT MAKES THIS...

Cybersecurity for EveryoneHow Digital Threats Really Work - and How to Stay SafeCybersecurity is no longer just a technical issue.It affects everyday life, trust, and personal freedom in a digital world.Cybersecurity for Everyone explains digital threats in a clear, human, and accessible way -...

For sixty years, software engineering ran on one assumption: same input, same output, every time. Large language models broke that promise, and most teams are still pretending they didn't.Rebuilding the SDLC for Probabilistic AI is a practical guide for senior engineers, architects, and team...