Computers - Computer Science

Volume 55 covers some particularly hot topics. Linda Harasim writes about education and the Web in "The Virtual University: A State of the Art." She discusses the issues that will need to be addressed if online education is to live up to expectations. Neville...

Machine Learning: A Constraint-Based Approach provides readers with a refreshing look at the basic models and algorithms of machine learning, with an emphasis on current topics of interest that includes neural networks and kernel machines. The book presents the information in a truly unified...

Author: Victor DibiaISBN-13: 9798993101200Publisher: Victor DibiaLanguage: EnglishPublished: 11/14/2025Pages: 398Format: PaperbackWeight: 2.02lbsSize: 9.25h x 7.50w x 1.08d

"Introduction to Computer Networks: Step-by-Step Guide" is a comprehensive resource tailored for students, educators, and professionals seeking foundational and advanced knowledge in computer networking. The book presents a logical progression from basic networking principles to complex concepts, including OSI and TCP/IP models, transmission media,...

Data structure and Basics of Algorithms is a book designed to equip students, educators and aspiring individuals with a comprehensive understanding of the core principles that drive efficient problem-solving in the field of computer science. This book presents well-structured contents that bridges theoretical concepts...

Standards function as safeguards to ensure that data remains interpretable, uniformly queryable, and archivable over time - a critical challenge for digital humanists working with complex linguistic resources. This book provides an overview of essential standards for ensuring the sustainability of data in the...

Side Channel Analysis (SCA) is a method by which an adversary can gather information about a processor by examining the activity being done on a microchip though the environment surrounding the chip. Side Channel Analysis attacks use SCA to attack a microcontroller when it...

This book gives an overview of the works performed by the Computer and Automation Institute of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences. Since the late 1970s, there was a need for the recognition of the fundamental role of adequate abstractions and higher level conceptual models...

This book provides a comprehensive overview of the mathematical aspects of quantum computing. It will be useful for graduate students and researchers interested in quantum computing from different areas of physics, mathematics, informatics and computer science. The lecture notes in this volume are written...

Quantum computation and information is a new, rapidly developing interdisciplinary field. Its fundamental concepts and central results may not be easily understood without facing numerous technical details.Building on the basic concepts introduced in Vol I, this second volume deals with various important aspects, both...

There are numerous publications which introduce and discuss the Internet of Things (IoT). In the midst of these, this work has several unique characteristics which should change the reader's perspective, and in particular, provide a more profound understanding of the impact of the IoT...

This volume is the first of two containing selected papers from the International Conference on Advances in Mathematical Sciences (ICAMS), held at the Vellore Institute of Technology in December 2017. This meeting brought together researchers from around the world to share their work, with...

The study of creative, diagnostic, visual, spatial, analogical, and temporal reasoning has demonstrated that there are many ways of performing intelligent and creative reasoning that cannot be described with the help only of traditional notions of reasoning such as classical logic. Understanding the contribution...

Probabilistic methods are increasingly becoming an important tool in a variety of disciplines including computer science, mathematics, artificial intelligence, epistemology, game andAuthor: B. LoeweISBN-10: 190498715XISBN-13: 9781904987154Publisher: College PublicationsLanguage: EnglishPublished: 10/22/2009Pages: 232Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.73lbsSize: 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.49d

This book provides the first comprehensive and easy-to-read discussion of joint source-channel encoding and decoding for source signals with continuous amplitudes. It is a state-of-the-art presentation of this exciting, thriving field of research, making pioneering contributions to the new concept of source-adaptive modulation.The book...

Covering both the theoretical and practical aspects of fault-tolerant mobile systems, and fault tolerance and analysis, this book tackles the current issues of reliability-based optimization of computer networks, fault-tolerant mobile systems, and fault tolerance and reliability of high speed and hierarchical networks.The book is...

In recent years, the way open source software is developed has taken hold as a valid alternative to commercial proprietary methods, as have the products themselves, e.g., the Linux operating system, Apache web-server software, and Mozilla Firefox browser. But what is open source software?...

This is a collection of 43 essays about the economics and management of information technology markets. The first part of the book focuses on events, notable birth dates and longstanding trends. The unifying theme revolves around the role of human economic behavior in the...

"Make sense of your data: make it visual with the Google Visualization API."Author: Traci RuthkoskiISBN-10: 1849694362ISBN-13: 9781849694360Publisher: Packt PublishingLanguage: EnglishPublished: 04/18/2013Pages: 252Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.97lbsSize: 9.25h x 7.50w x 0.53d

Author: Anup Kantilal ShahISBN-10: 1849693242ISBN-13: 9781849693240Publisher: Packt PublishingLanguage: EnglishPublished: 11/17/2012Pages: 410Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.55lbsSize: 9.25h x 7.50w x 0.84d

Author: Russell Anderson-WilliamsISBN-10: 1849693021ISBN-13: 9781849693028Publisher: Packt PublishingLanguage: EnglishPublished: 07/16/2012Pages: 258Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.05lbsSize: 9.20h x 7.40w x 0.70d

Author: Liang Yuxian EugeneISBN-10: 1849519862ISBN-13: 9781849519861Publisher: Packt PublishingLanguage: EnglishPublished: 11/17/2012Pages: 96Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.40lbsSize: 9.25h x 7.50w x 0.20d

Author: Paul NygardISBN-10: 1849519005ISBN-13: 9781849519007Publisher: Packt PublishingLanguage: EnglishPublished: 12/20/2012Pages: 388Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.46lbsSize: 9.25h x 7.50w x 0.80d

jQuery Mobile is an award-winning, HTML5/CSS3 based open source cross-platform UI framework. Offer a highly-customizable UX, it is built on the popular jQuery library and uses declarative coding, making it easy to use and learn. This book presents over 100 recipes written in a...

Author: Thomas UrbanISBN-10: 1849513929ISBN-13: 9781849513920Publisher: Packt PublishingLanguage: EnglishPublished: 03/21/2011Pages: 348Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.32lbsSize: 9.25h x 7.50w x 0.72d

The purpose of this book is to question the relationships involved in decision making and the systems designed to support it: decision support systems (DSS). The focus is on how these systems are engineered; to stop and think about the questions to be asked...

The purpose of this book is to question the relationships involved in decision making and the systems designed to support it: decision support systems (DSS). The focus is on how these systems are engineered; to stop and think about the questions to be asked...

This book presents several recent advances in natural language semantics and explores the boundaries between syntax and semantics over the last two decades. It is based on some of the most recent theories in logic, such as linear logic and ludics, first created by...

Labelled Markov processes are probabilistic versions of labelled transition systems with continuous state spaces. The book covers basic probability and measure theory on continuous state spaces and then develops the theory of LMPs.The main topics covered are bisimulation, the logical characterization of bisimulation, metrics...

In quantity and importance, private standards are rapidly taking over the role of public norms in the international and national regulation of product safety. This book provides a comprehensive overview of the rise, role and status of these private product safety standards in the...

Author: Thomas UrbanISBN-10: 1788299183ISBN-13: 9781788299183Publisher: Packt PublishingLanguage: EnglishPublished: 12/26/2017Pages: 420Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.58lbsSize: 9.25h x 7.50w x 0.86d

In the global research community, English has become the main language of scholarly publishing in many disciplines. At the same time, online machine translation systems have become increasingly easy to access and use. Is this a researcher's match made in heaven, or the road...

Over the last three decades, Professor Peter Cheung has made significant contributions to a variety of areas, such as analogue and digital computer-aided design tools, high-level synthesis and hardware/software codesign, low-power and high-performance circuit architectures for signal and image processing, and mixed-signal integrated-circuit design.However,...

Packt Instant Starter: get to grips with a new technology, understand what it is and what it can do for you, and then get to work with the most important features and tasks.This is a Starter which gives you an introduction to Spring for...

The aim of cryptography is to design primitives and protocols that withstand adversarial behavior. Information theoretic cryptography, how-so-ever desirable, is extremely restrictive and most non-trivial cryptographic tasks are known to be information theoretically impossible. In order to realize sophisticated cryptographic primitives, we forgo information...

Summary PostGIS in Action, Second Edition teaches readers of all levels to write spatial queries that solve real-world problems. It first gives you a background in vector-, raster-, and topology-based GIS and then quickly moves into analyzing, viewing, and mapping data. This second edition...

Summary SOA Governance in Action is a hands-on guide for developers and technology leads who need to develop and implement policies for SOA projects. This book introduces the fundamentals of good governance, the best practices for implementing them, and how to support governance using...

This discipline of philosophy and computer science offers an interdisciplinary exchange of ideas that range from philosophical and mathematical logic to epistemology, engineering, ethics or neuroscience. Thinking Machines and the Philosophy of Computer Science: Concepts and Principles presents a conversation between established experts and...

Quality of service provides different priorities to different users to guarantee a certain level of performance to a data flow in accordance with requests from the Internet service provider policy. Quality of Service Architectures for Wireless Networks: Performance Metrics and Management presents a comprehensive...

Whether used for communication, entertainment, socio-economic growth, crowd-sourcing social and political events, monitoring vital signs in patients, helping to drive vehicles, or delivering education, mobile technology has been transformed from a mode to a medium. Mobile Technology Consumption: Opportunities and Challenges explores essential questions...

By combining agent capabilities with computational linguistics, conversational agents can exploit natural language technologies to improve communication between humans and computers. Conversational Agents and Natural Language Interaction: Techniques and Effective Practices is a reference guide for researchers entering the promising field of conversational agents....

Pervasive computing environments based on the ubiquitous communications paradigm have attracted significant research interest and have found increased applicability in commercial settings, attributed to the fact that they provide seamless, customized, and unobtrusive services to their users. Research on pervasive and ubiquitous computing has...

With recent progress in information generation, users are experiencing increasing difficulties in processing the available amounts of high-dimensional data, extracting information from it, and eventually finding a meaning in the structured data. Computational Modeling and Simulation of Intellect: Current State and Future Perspectives confronts...

Recent advancements in technology have influenced major change within many industries. Because of such advancements, businesses and organizations are adapting to a more technology based work environment in order achieve a higher rate of production, output, and accuracy. Methodological Advancements in Intelligent Information Technologies:...

Due to the rise of digital crime and the pressing need for methods of combating these forms of criminal activities, there is an increasing awareness of the importance of digital forensics and investigation. The Handbook of Research on Computational Forensics, Digital Crime, and Investigation:...

With continual computer advances in the information technology age, information systems have become an integral part of many disciplines. Business, medicine, geography, aviation, forensics, agriculture, even traffic lights all have one thing in common - computers. Utilizing Information Technology Systems Across Disciplines: Advancements in...

Increasingly, information technology governance is being considered an integral part of corporate governance. There has been a rapid increase in awareness and adoption of IT governance as well as the desire to conform to national governance requirements to ensure that IT is aligned with...

Provides research on intelligent information technologies to researchers and practitioners in fields such as information systems, intelligent agents, artificial intelligence, and Web engineering.Author: Vijayan SugumaranISBN-10: 1599049589ISBN-13: 9781599049588Publisher: IGI GlobalLanguage: EnglishPublished: 11/30/2007Pages: 346Format: HardcoverWeight: 1.79lbsSize: 10.33h x 7.40w x 0.93dReview Citation(s): Scitech Book News 03/01/2008...

It has become a widely-recognized fact that entrepreneurs and information technology have become the backbone of the world economy. The increasing penetration of IT in society and in most of industries/businesses, as well as the joining forces of entrepreneurship and innovation in the economy,...

After the mainframe and personal computer eras, the third major era in computer science, ubiquitous computing, describes the state of technology in which networked computers would surround every user. The Handbook of Research on Ubiquitous Computing Technology for Real Time Enterprises combines the fundamental...