Computers - Computer Science

Machine learning and cybernetics play an important role in many modern electronic, computer and communications systems. Automated processing of information by these systems requires intelligent analysis of various types of data and optimal decision making. In recent years, we have witnessed a rapid expansion...

Digital technology determines today's world and will be one of the key technologies of the future. Successful technology development, introduction and management are not only a question of technical issues; due to their complexity a close cooperation between different scientific disciplines is required to...

Thesearetheproceedingsofthe7thWorkshoponCryptographic Hardwareand EmbeddedSystems(CHES2005)heldinEdinburgh, ScotlandfromAugust29to September1,2005.TheCHESworkshophasbeensponsoredbytheInternational Association for Cryptologic Research (IACR) for the last two years. We received a total of 108 paper submissions for CHES 2005. The doub- blindreviewprocessinvolveda27-memberprogramcommittee anda largen- ber of external sub-referees. The review process concluded with a two week d-...

We live in a noisy world! In all applications (telecommunications, hands-free communications, recording, human-machine interfaces, etc.) that require at least one microphone, the signal of interest is usually contaminated by noise and reverberation. As a result, the microphone signal has to be "cleaned" with...

This book constitutes the proceedings of the International Symposium on Neural N- works (ISNN 2004) held in Dalian, Liaoning, China duringAugust 19-21, 2004. ISNN 2004 received over 800 submissions from authors in ?ve continents (Asia, Europe, North America, South America, and Oceania), and 23...

Modern cryptology more and more employs mathematically rigorous concepts and methods from complexity theory. Conversely, current research topics in complexity theory often are motivated by questions and problems from cryptology. This book takes account of this situation and therefore its subject is what may...

Classical Sobolev spaces, based on Lebesgue spaces on an underlying domain with smooth boundary, are not only of considerable intrinsic interest but have for many years proved to be indispensible in the study of partial differential equations and variational problems. Many developments of the...

The 8th Ibero-American Conference on Artificial Intelligence, IBERAMIA 2002, took place in Spain for the second time in 14 years; the first conference was organized in Barcelona in January 1988. The city of Seville hosted this 8th conference, giving the participants the opportunity of...

Author: Volker Simon,Bernhard Weigand,Hassan GomaaISBN-10: 3319848003ISBN-13: 9783319848006Publisher: SpringerLanguage: EnglishPublished: 07/13/2018Pages: 134Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.48lbsSize: 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.32d

This work provides a review of biological networks as a model for analysis, presenting and discussing a number of illuminating analyses. Biological networks are an effective model for providing insights about biological mechanisms. Networks with different characteristics are employed for representing different scenarios. This...

Author: Michael M. ReschISBN-10: 3319467344ISBN-13: 9783319467344Publisher: SpringerLanguage: EnglishPublished: 12/06/2016Pages: 193Format: HardcoverWeight: 1.02lbsSize: 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.50d

This accessible compendium examines a collection of significant technology firms that have helped to shape the field of computing and its impact on society. Each company is introduced with a brief account of its history, followed by a concise account of its key contributions....

The book opens with a short introduction to Indian music, in particular classical Hindustani music, followed by a chapter on the role of statistics in computational musicology. The authors then show how to analyze musical structure using Rubato, the music software package for statistical...

This volume collects selected papers presented at the Ninth International Workshop on Meshfree Methods held in Bonn, Germany in September 2017. They address various aspects of this very active research field and cover topics from applied mathematics, physics and engineering.The numerical treatment of partial...

Author: Thecla Schiphorst,Lian LokeISBN-10: 3030061965ISBN-13: 9783030061968Publisher: SpringerLanguage: EnglishPublished: 07/14/2026Format: Hardcover

This book brings together for the first time two important features of a computer system to be embedded in an organisational context: responsibility, meaning whether the computer system properly supports the organisational responsibilities that people are allocated; and dependability, which means whether it does...

The outsourcing of IT services over the past decade has triggered a need to reassess how IT governance and sourcing should be conducted. IT Governance in a Networked World: Multi-Sourcing Strategies and Social Capital for Corporate Computing provides theories concerning corporate social capital, intellectual...

In a time of constant technological and managerial advancement, firms of the 21st century are faced with an ongoing quest for implementing more effective strategies and methodologies to remain at the apex of the information resources management industry. This text provides information on technology...

Outsourcing is currently one of the hottest topics in business practices and in particular in the field of management information systems (MIS) education. Outsourcing Management Information Systems focuses on concepts, processes, and methodologies for firms who are planning to undertake, or are currently involved...

Skills for Managing Rapidly Changing IT Projects addresses management methodologies for projects that change rapidly in requirements and technology. These projects are most common among small to medium enterprises. This book addresses both the value and the skills that an IT project manager must...

Design and Usability of Digital Libraries: Case Studies in the Asia Pacific showcases some of the best digital library practices from organizations in the Asia Pacific. Particular emphasis has been placed on the design, use and usability of digital libraries. Not only are digital...

With the quantity and quality of available works in Information Systems (IS) research, it would seem advantageous to possess a concise list of exemplary works on IS research, in order to enable instructors of IS research courses to better prepare students to publish in...

As digitization continues to bring rapid changes to businesses, companies must remain agile in order to comply with changing regulations and maintain governance and compliance while achieving its business objectives. To achieve this agility, IT staff within these companies must be able to respond...

Identity Based Encryption (IBE) is a type of public key encryption and has been intensely researched in the past decade. Identity-Based Encryption summarizes the available research for IBE and the main ideas that would enable users to pursue further work in this area. This...

Privacy and security risks arising from the application of different data mining techniques to large institutional data repositories have been solely investigated by a new research domain, the so-called privacy preserving data mining. Association rule hiding is a new technique in data mining, which...

In a relatively short span of time, computers have evolved from huge mainframes to small and elegant desktop computers, and now to low-power, ultra-portable handheld devices. Witheachpassinggeneration, computersconsistingofprocessors, memoriesandperipherals becamesmallerandfaster.Forexample, the?rstcommercialcomputerUNIVACIcosted $1 million dollars, occupied 943 cubic feet space and could perform 1,905 operations...

Embodied conversational agents (ECAs) are autonomous software entities with human-like appearance and communication skills. These agents can take on a number of different roles, for example, as an assistant, tutor, information provider, or customer service agent. They may also simply represent or entertain a...

Drawing inspiration from fast and slow thinking, design thinking and our everchanging world, this book contrasts "fast" approaches-such as "quick-and-dirty ethnography, prototyping, and AI-driven automation-with "slow" methodologies that emphasize ethnographic studies, longitudinal research, and participatory design.Author: Mikael WibergISBN-10: 103238154XISBN-13: 9781032381541Publisher: CRC PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 08/07/2025Pages:...

Combination Tutorial and Lab BookDesigned for IBM i RPG & RPGIV based Application Development--- Finally, there is an affordable RPG and RPGIV tutorial for AS /400&IBM i RPG & RPGIV programming . It is much less expensive than other available self-study packages because it...

This book contains a medley of case studies to help you get a better understanding of the range of systems requirements that should be considered. Examples include successes as well as some failures, from which you can learn vicariouslyAuthor: K. J. Thurber,J. A. K....

The consecutive-k system was first studied around 1980, and it soon became a very popular subject. The reasons were many-folded, includ- ing: 1. The system is simple and natural. So most people can understand it and many can do some analysis. Yet it can...

In recent years, the paradigm of video coding has shifted from that of a frame-based approach to a content-based approach, particularly with the finalization of the ISO multimedia coding standard, MPEG-4. MPEG-4 is the emerging standard for the coding of multimedia content. It defines...

Critical Infrastructure Protection II describes original research results and innovative applications in the interdisciplinary field of critical infrastructure protection. Also, it highlights the importance of weaving science, technology and policy in crafting sophisticated solutions that will help secure information, computer and network assets in...

Lean Manufacturing has proved to be one of the most successful and most powerful production business systems over the last decades. Its application enabled many companies to make a big leap towards better utilization of resources and thus provide better service to the customers...

This book presents an integrated approach to design and optimizing performance for wireless ad hoc and sensor networks. It details both the theory and application of cross-layer design approaches. Coverage first provides an overview of design issues in both strictly layered and cross-layer approaches....

Digital forensics deals with the acquisition, preservation, examination, analysis and presentation of electronic evidence. Networked computing, wireless communications and portable electronic devices have expanded the role of digital forensics beyond traditional computer crime investigations. Practically every crime now involves some aspect of digital evidence;...

This 10th edited volume of the CoreGRID series is based on the 2008 CoreGRID Symposium, organized jointly with the Euro-Par 2008 conference, which seeks to strengthen and advance scientific and technological excellence in grid and peer-to-peer computing.Author: Thierry PriolISBN-10: 0387094547ISBN-13: 9780387094540Publisher: SpringerLanguage: EnglishPublished: 08/01/2008Pages:...

Alan Turing is regarded as one of the greatest scientists of the 20th century. But who was Turing, and what did he achieve during his tragically short life of 41 years? Best known as the genius who broke Germany's most secret codes during the...

Deepfakes, misinformation, AI slop... these are all examples of AI producing content that can -and does- manipulate, persuade, or trick people in one way or another. This book takes a look at AI from another perspective: by taking insights from offensive security, LLM Red...

Have you ever wondered how your favorite recommendation system knows exactly what you're looking for? Or how voice assistants, like Siri or Alexa, can predict your next words with uncanny accuracy? Have you ever asked yourself how weather forecasters know what tomorrow's temperature will...

A new edition of the definitive guide to value sensitive design--chock full of theory, design methods, and hands-on studios and applications for practice. In the midst of technological, environmental, and social turmoil, engineers, policymakers, and designers of all kinds seek approaches to responsible innovation,...

While artificial intelligence has made significant strides in imaging and natural language processing, its utilization in engineering science remains relatively new. This book aims to introduce machine learning techniques to facilitate the emulation of complex fluid flows. The work focuses on projection-based reduced-order models...

Author: Wolfgang SchreinerISBN-10: 3031997042ISBN-13: 9783031997044Publisher: SpringerLanguage: EnglishPublished: 08/30/2025Pages: 641Format: HardcoverWeight: 2.42lbsSize: 9.21h x 6.14w x 1.44d

This book provides essential methodological guidance on IS artifacts to address key challenges in Design Science Research (DSR). As a foundation for understanding and categorizing DSR artifacts, it proposes a more differentiated, empirically justified DSR artifact typology. Additionally, it presents an artifact type-agnostic architecture...

In the field of control engineering, the integration of artificial intelligence (AI) has opened new avenues for innovation and efficiency. By leveraging machine learning, neural networks, and advanced optimization algorithms, AI can enhance system performance, improve decision-making, and enable real-time adaptive control. These technologies...

This volume provides an overview on the decoherence suppression methods in quantum computing, open quantum systems, quantum error correction and fault-tolerant quantum computing. It also includes concepts in geometric quantum computing by composite pulses. Quantum wipe effect is explained as an approach for suppressing...

This volume is the result of the author's many-years of research in this field. These results were presented in the author's two books, Introduction to the Algorithmic Measurement Theory (Moscow, Soviet Radio, 1977), and Codes of the Golden Proportion (Moscow, Radio and Communications, 1984),...

This book shows you -- through examples and puzzles and intriguing questions -- how to make your computer reason logically. To help you, the book includes a CD-ROM with OTTER, the world's most powerful general-purpose reasoning program. The automation of reasoning has advanced markedly...

This book focuses on the most recent advances in the application of visualization and simulation methods to understand the flow behavior of complex fluids used in biomedical engineering and other related fields. It shows the physiological flow behavior in large arteries, microcirculation, respiratory systems...

Synthesizing the contents of three classic textbooks by the authors, this book offers a comprehensive approach to theory and practice, problems, solutions and exercises which thoroughly explore the mathematical principles of Elasticity and Thermal Stress.Author: M. Reza Eslami,Richard B. Hetnarski,Józef IgnaczakISBN-10: 9400763557ISBN-13: 9789400763555Publisher: SpringerLanguage:...