Computers - Computer Science

Wireless sensor networks consist of small, mostly battery powered computers. Despite their simplicity, each sensor node is equipped with its own memory, CPU and radio transceiver. A typical application is to scatter many of them over a large area. Some sensor nodes can take...

The two-volume set LNAI 10841 and LNAI 10842 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 17th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Soft Computing, ICAISC 2018, held in Zakopane, Poland in June 2018. The 140 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from...

Explores the boundaries of science and fiction in a refreshingly unconventional fashionIncludes stories of various fictional genres that incorporate topics from mathematics, physics and computer scienceContains comments and annotations by the authorAuthor: Harun SiljakISBN-10: 3319290657ISBN-13: 9783319290652Publisher: SpringerLanguage: EnglishPublished: 06/22/2016Pages: 79Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.30lbsSize: 9.21h x...

"Digital Transformation in Healthcare 5.0: IoT, AI, and Digital Twin" provides a comprehensive overview of the integration of cutting-edge technology with healthcare, from the Fourth Industrial Revolution (4IR) to the introduction of IoT, AI, and Digital Twin technologies. This in-depth discussion of the digital...

This open access book focuses on processing, modeling, and visualization of anisotropy information, which are often addressed by employing sophisticated mathematical constructs such as tensors and other higher-order descriptors. It also discusses adaptations of such constructs to problems encountered in seemingly dissimilar areas of...

With the emergence of global data networks, in conjunction with educational investments made by developing countries, the movement to export work offshore in the United States has experienced a notable rise in popularity. An entire industry has grown up around IT Enabled Services (ITES)...

Please see background and promotional textAuthor: Richard Crandall,Marvin LevichISBN-10: 1461274435ISBN-13: 9781461274438Publisher: SpringerLanguage: EnglishPublished: 09/16/2011Pages: 130Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.49lbsSize: 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.33d

As Ruby and Rails continues to grow, and more and more jobs are coming online that require you to effectively develop Ruby and Rails in the web tier. Beyond the Rails framework, there are still very few proven tools and IDEs to get the...

Automatic Quantum Computer Programming provides an introduction to quantum computing for non-physicists, as well as an introduction to genetic programming for non-computer-scientists. The book explores several ways in which genetic programming can support automatic quantum computer programming and presents detailed descriptions of specific techniques,...

Classical and Fuzzy Concepts in Mathematical Logic and Applications provides a broad, thorough coverage of the fundamentals of two-valued logic, multivalued logic, and fuzzy logic.Exploring the parallels between classical and fuzzy mathematical logic, the book examines the use of logic in computer science, addresses...

Based on author David A. Grier's column "In Our Time," which runs monthly in Computer magazine, Too Soon To Tell presents a collection of essays skillfully written about the computer age, an era that began February 1946. Examining ideas that are both contemporary and...

The World Wide Web is loaded with science and science-related material. For everyone who wants to learn more about this amazing resource, Ed Renehan has compiled this fun and informative guide to what's out there, what's interesting, what's new and who's doing it. Whether...

Addresses the privacy issue of On-Line Analytic Processing systems Details how to keep the performance overhead of these security methods at a reasonable level Examines how a balance between security, availability, and performance can feasibly be achieved in OLAP systemsAuthor: Lingyu Wang,Sushil Jajodia,Duminda WijesekeraISBN-10:...

In the world of information technology, it is no longer the computer in the classical sense where the majority of IT applications is executed; computing is everywhere. More than 20 billion processors have already been fabricated and the majority of them can be assumed...

The papers contained in this volume were presented at the fourth edition of the IFIP International Conference on Theoretical Computer Science (IFIP TCS), held August 23-24, 2006 in Santiago, Chile. They were selected from 44 pa- pers submitted from 17 countries in response to...

In a turbulent world where companies are trying to realign their resources faster than the competition, resilience is defined as the capability to absorb strain and recover from untoward events through continuous reconstruction. Resilience implies a capacity to be robust under conditions of stress...

EUNICE is a network of Universities throughout Europe. The EUNICE network has been created to foster the mobility of students, faculty nembers and research scientists working in the field of information and com llunication technologies and to promote educational and research cooperation between its...

This volume reflects the theme of the INFORMS 2004 Meeting in Denver: Back to OR Roots. Emerging as a quantitative approach to problem-solving in World War II, our founders were physicists, mathematicians, and engineers who quickly found peace-time uses. It is fair to say...

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the IFIP Conference on Wireless Sensors and Actor Networks held in Ottawa, Canada, July, 2008. This series publishes state-of-the-art results in the sciences and technologies of information and communication. The scope of the series includes: foundations of...

Virus Bioinformatics reviews state-of-the-art bioinformatics algorithms and recent advances in data analysis in virology.Author: Dmitrij FrishmanISBN-10: 036756419XISBN-13: 9780367564193Publisher: CRC PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 10/04/2024Pages: 280Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.93lbsSize: 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.62d

Techniques for reasoning about actions and change in the physical world are among the classic research topics in artificial intelligence, motivated by the needs of autonomous robots which must be able to anticipate future developments and analyze problems. This monograph presents a novel methodology...

This Special Issue of Axioms entitled "Advances in Fuzzy MCDM, Hybrid Methods, Fuzzy Number Ranking, and Their Applications" consists of a collection of ten papers written by eminent mathematicians and experts in their fields, covering numerous different areas of fuzzy MCDM, hybrid methods, ranking...

In wind engineering, in parallel to all other engineering disciplines, the impact of computational methods is rapidly increasing. As far as computational aspects are concerned, wind engineering embodies a series of specific challenges, including the availability of suitable validation data, the definition of boundaries...

Computer science is the discipline concerned with processes that can be encoded as programs and interact with data. It emphasizes the utilization of algorithms for manipulating, communicating, and storing digital information. It also explores the theoretical aspects of computing. Information science encompasses activities such...

The main aim of this Special Issue was to present the current state of research on the subjects of the theory, modelling, monitoring, and control of the operation of technology systems and processes, along with the research and diagnostics of manufacturing systems and process...

This Reprint, Data Mining and Computational Intelligence for E-learning and Education, presents a collection of cutting-edge research focused on the application of artificial intelligence to educational contexts. The selected contributions explore how data mining and intelligent algorithms can be used to analyze learning behaviors,...

Excel 365 - 100 Tips + Tricks - Part 1The easy Tips + Tricks book series to Excel by ityco! used over a thousand times in training courses well suited for self-learning regardless of age group 420 color images! every step is explained mouse...

Motor and cognitive impairments are commonly examined independently of each other, but the understanding of task-dependent interaction between cognitive and motor systems, each with distinct neuroanatomic substrates, has highlighted an interaction between them. There is increasing evidence on the impact of the motor and...

In a world where video games are more than just entertainment, Current Advances in Serious Games, Game-based Learning and Gamification in Education explores the transformative power of games in shaping learning, awareness, and engagement. This collection highlights groundbreaking research on game-based learning, digital intelligence,...

Time-varying data is generated or measured in domains as diverse as computational fluid dynamics, hurricanes and so on. The data generally contains specific features as well as events that are of interest to an application expert. We present novel art-inspired techniques for visualizing time-varying...

In the last few years ICT projects in developing countries1 have gained tremendously in importance. Nevertheless there has been a lack of case studies dealing with teaching computing in LDCs. So far there has been no case study performed by a scientist with practical...

Gaussian linear modelling cannot address current signal processing demands. In moderncontexts, suchasIndependentComponentAnalysis(ICA), progresshasbeen made speci?cally by imposing non-Gaussian and/or non-linear assumptions. Hence, standard Wiener and Kalman theories no longer enjoy their traditional hegemony in the ?eld, revealing the standard computational engines for these problems....

The book addresses ways and means of organizing computations, highlighting the relationship between algorithms and the basic mechanisms and runtime structures necessary to execute them using machines. It completely abstracts from concrete programming languages and machine architectures, taking instead the lambda calculus as the...

A framework for communication intensive autonomous agents inspired from the immune system is presented in this text. With the rapid increase of computational power and networking technology similarity between computer and biological systems may now practically work. The framework presented fills the need to...

This monograph deals with buckling and postbuckling behavior of thin plates and thin-walled structures with flat wall subjected to static and dynamic load. It introduces two methods that will allow for a wider understanding of the phenomenon.Author: Tomasz KubiakISBN-10: 3319006533ISBN-13: 9783319006536Publisher: SpringerLanguage: EnglishPublished: 07/10/2013Pages:...

This Special Issue covers symmetry and asymmetry phenomena occurring in real-life problems. We invited authors to submit their theoretical or experimental research presenting engineering and economic problem solution models dealing with the symmetry or asymmetry of different types of information. The issue gained interest...

This book provides different technologies and procedures related to imaging sensors. Active or passive imaging sensors capture electromagnetic radiation across the whole spectra or acoustic echoes, which, conveniently arranged in images, allow the extraction of useful information. Researchers, engineers and industry professionals can find...

The increasing share of renewable energy sources is drawing attention to a critical challenge. The availability of wind turbines and photovoltaic solar cells is limited and difficult to predict. They usually provide a fluctuating feed-in to the grid, so energy reserves, e.g., conventional thermal...

This book develops methods for two key problems in the analysis of large-scale surveys: dealing with incomplete data and making inferences about sparsely represented subdomains. Author: Nicholas T. LongfordISBN-10: 1852337605ISBN-13: 9781852337605Publisher: SpringerLanguage: EnglishPublished: 08/05/2005Pages: 360Format: HardcoverWeight: 1.39lbsSize: 9.54h x 6.34w x 0.87d

Marvelous progress in computer networks and information technology has had, and will continue to have a tremendous impact on our modern world. From the business and economy domains to scientific discovery, government and entrepreneurial management, healthcare, warfare, education, and entertainment, computer networks and information...

Author: Chetna H. KakkadISBN-10: 1512191906ISBN-13: 9781512191905Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformLanguage: EnglishPublished: 03/01/2012Pages: 134Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.72lbsSize: 11.00h x 8.50w x 0.29d

The team that brought you the bestselling Beginning iPhone Development, the book that taught the world to program on the iPhone, is back again, bringing this definitive guide up-to-date with Apple's latest and greatest new iOS 8 and its SDK, as well as with...

Practical HTML5 Projects is a collection of valuable web techniques that any developer or designer can use. This book is all about saving time. Busy web developers should not have to plow through pages of theory or history only to discover that no practical...

The Algorithms such as SVD, Eigen decomposition, Gaussian Mixture Model, HMM etc. are presently scattered in different fields. There remains a need to collect all such algorithms for quick reference. Also there is the need to view such algorithms in application point of view....

Originally published in 1983, this book elucidates the urgent problems of disadvantaged and delinquency-prone post-adolescents at the time by providing a comprehensive theoretical framework and a pragmatic outlook based on recent rehabilitation experiments.Author: Reuven Kohen-RazISBN-10: 103238560XISBN-13: 9781032385600Publisher: RoutledgeLanguage: EnglishPublished: 12/15/2024Pages: 224Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.75lbsSize: 9.21h...

Mark Davison examines several legal models designed to protect databases, and specifically, the E.U. Directive--the history of its adoption and its transposition into national laws. Davison compares the Directive with various American legislative proposals, as well as the principles of misappropriation that are behind...

In Robots We Trust explores the evolving relationship between humans and intelligent machines, focusing on the critical issue of trust. As robots become more integrated into our daily lives - from self-driving cars to delivery drones - our society faces a critical question: can...

Big Data Analytics will assist managers in providing an overview of the drivers for introducing big data technology into the organization and for understanding the types of business problems best suited to big data analytics solutions, understanding the value drivers and benefits, strategic planning,...

This two-volume set provides a comprehensive study of fractional random vibration from the perspective of theory and practice. Volume II provides the analytical expressions for the responses of seven classes of fractional vibration systems excited by six types of random processes.It examines the responses...

This book is based on the author's experience of 30 years of teaching programming at the University of Oxford and is an excellent choice for early programming courses offered by universities worldwide. It is a rigorous and thoughtfully structured textbook designed to equip students...