Computers - Computer Science

Information systems are complex, including data collecting, storing, processing and delivering. The main components of information systems are computer hardware and software, telecommunications, databases and data warehouses, human resources, and procedures. With the development of information systems, the innovation technologies and their applications continuously...

This book approaches software development from multiple perspectives-not only economic success but also impacts on the environmental impact, development team, and broader society, it also explains how to implement practices and the surprising science behind the practices in an approachable, sometimes cheeky style. Author:...

As artificial intelligence advances at an exponential pace, understanding data science and machine learning has become increasingly essential. Yet, the wide range of available resources can be daunting, posing challenges for beginners. This second book builds on the foundation laid in the first, Data...

Clifford algebra for dual quaternions has emerged recently as an alternative to standard matrix algebra as a computational framework for computer graphics. This book presents dual quaternions and their associated Clifford algebras in a new light, accessible to and geared toward the computer graphics...

This book contains the latest material in the subject, covering NGS applications and meeting the requirements of a complete semester course. This book provides both concept and practice to satisfy the exact need of researchers seeking to use NGS data reprocessing, genome assembly, variant...

This book uses a crime science approach to explore the ways in which child sexual abuse material (CSAM) can be tackled. It describes the CSAM ecosystem, focusing on the ways in which it is produced, distributed and consumed and explores different interventions that can...

A Comprehensive Study of SQL - Practice and Implementation is designed as a textbook and provides a comprehensive approach to SQL (Structured Query Language), the standard programming language for defining, organizing, and exploring data in relational databases. It demonstrates how to leverage the two...

This book throws light on application of AI/ML techniques in the financial capital markets. It discusses the challenges posed by these techniques as these are prone to "black box" syndrome. The complexity of understanding the underlying dynamics of these methods is one of the...

The aim of this book is to draw a holistic picture of ongoing online teaching-activities before and during the lockdown period and present the meaning and future of e-learning from students' points of view, taking into consideration their attitudes and expectations as well as...

The best way to learn design in any field is to study examples, and some of the best examples of software design come from the tools programmers use in their own work. Software Design by Example: A Tool-Based Introduction with JavaScript therefore builds small...

This book presents a systematic approach to analyze evolutionary and nature-inspired population-based search algorithms. The book presents current research on various applications of machine learning and discusses optimization techniques to solve real-life problems.Author: J. Satya EswariISBN-10: 1032273372ISBN-13: 9781032273372Publisher: CRC PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 11/29/2022Pages: 220Format: HardcoverWeight:...

This book is the first comprehensive study of fault-tolerance and fault-caused deadlock effects in asynchronous on-chip networks, aiming to overcome these drawbacks and ensure greater reliability of applications.Author: Wei Song,Guangda ZhangISBN-10: 1032255757ISBN-13: 9781032255750Publisher: CRC PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 05/11/2022Pages: 362Format: HardcoverWeight: 1.49lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x...

AI in and for Africa: A Humanistic Perspective explores the convoluted intersection of artificial intelligence (AI) with Africa's unique socio-economic realities. This book is the first of its kind to provide a comprehensive overview of how AI is currently being deployed on the African...

By deploying time series analysis, Fourier transform, functional analysis, min-plus convolution, and fractional order systems and noise, this book proposes fractal traffic modeling and computations of delay bounds, aiming to improve the quality of service in computer communication networks.Author: Ming LiISBN-10: 1032212861ISBN-13: 9781032212869Publisher: CRC...

Advancements in the technology and availability of data sources have led to the Big Data' era. Working with large data offers the potential to uncover more fine-grained patterns and take timely and accurate decisions, but it also creates a lot of challenges such as...

The book aims to provide comprehensive and practical guidance on magnetismand magnetic materials. It involves four parts, focusing on fundamentalmagnetism, hard magnetic materials, soft magnetic materials andother functional magnetic materials.Part I highlights the ubiquity of magnetism and the close relationshipsbetween magnetic materials and our...

This is the first book to introduce the Huawei Mobile Services (HMS) ecosystem. It gives developers a basic understanding of the ecosystem and how to leverage kit and tool capabilities to make their apps better.Author: Xihai Wang,Yue Wang,Hailiang WuISBN-10: 1032073934ISBN-13: 9781032073934Publisher: CRC PressLanguage: EnglishPublished:...

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States,...

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States,...

The hard disk drive is one of the finest examples of the precision control of mechatronics, with tolerances less than one micrometer achieved while operating at high speed. Increasing demand for higher data density as well as disturbance-prone operating environments continue to test designers'...

This volume provides a comprehensive overview of current reforms in public sector quality management in Eastern Europe. Comparisons are made with trends in Western European countries to draw out the lessons emerging from current developments (including e-governance). Case studies from twelve countries and five...

How do we kick-start girls' involvement with technology? In this dynamic book, Lesley Farmer provides a framework that teachers, librarians, youth workers, and parents can use to empower girls to succeed in today's technology-rich world. Farmer first examines the disconnect many girls have with...

Critical Literacy in a Digital Era offers an examination of the persuasive approaches used in discussions on and about the Internet. Its aim is to increase awareness of what is assumed, unquestioned, and naturalized in our media experience. Using a critical literacy framework for...

Adobe Captivate 4: The Definitive Guide, the follow-up to Wordware's popular Adobe Captivate 3: The Definitive Guide, steps you through all the procedures needed to create Flash movies based on any software on your desktop. You'll learn how to create Flash movies, edit individual...

Ideal for use in a software engineering lab or special topics setting, Developing Real World Software is a practical guide for developing useful, real world software applications that are high performing, secure, reliable, and configurable. It expands upon material presented in traditional software engineering...

The@ first graduate-level textbook to focus on fundamental aspects of numerical methods for stochastic computations, this book describes the class of numerical methods based on generalized polynomial chaos (gPC). These fast, efficient, and accurate methods are an extension of the classical spectral methods of...

The chapters in this volume can be grouped into three parts. Part I provides an introductory course in the design and operation of computers and computer systems. It conveys a knowledge of the basic principles of computer systems along with perspectives on the history...

The proceedings from Parallel CFD 2005 covering all aspects of the theory and applications of parallel computational fluid dynamics from the traditional to the more contemporary issues.Author: A. DeaneISBN-10: 0444522069ISBN-13: 9780444522061Publisher: Elsevier ScienceLanguage: EnglishPublished: 10/01/2006Pages: 538Format: HardcoverWeight: 2.04lbsSize: 9.21h x 6.14w x 1.19d

This book addresses the needs of researchers on the fundamental level as well as those with more advanced knowledge of microgrids and their evolution. This book covers newly emerging trends in fields such as computer science, energy, electrical engineering, and electronics and brings the...

The main purpose of this book is to provide a unified view of the most popular metaheuristic methods. Under this perspective, it has presented the fundamental design principles as well as the operators of metaheuristic approaches which are considered essential.Author: Erik Cuevas,Alma RodriguezISBN-10: 0367438860ISBN-13:...

This book critically examines the cultural desire for anglicisation of the Indian middle class in the context of postcolonial India. It looks at the history of anglicised self-fashioning as one of the major responses of the Indian middle class to British colonialism. The book...

With the evolution of soft computing, bio-inspired algorithms have gained more attention in recent years. This book is aimed at undergraduates, graduates and researchers working in the domain of wireless networks. Author: Damodar Reddy Edla,Mahesh Chowdary Kongara,Amruta LipareISBN-10: 0367342413ISBN-13: 9780367342418Publisher: CRC PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 11/24/2020Pages:...

This book discusses the evolution of security and privacy issues in the Internet of Things (IoT). The book focuses on assembling all security- and privacy-related technologies into a single source so that students, researchers, academics, and those in the industry can easily understand the...

This second edition of C# Game Programming Cookbook for Unity 3D expounds upon the first with more details and techniques. With a fresh array of chapters, updated C# code and examples, Jeff W. Murray's book will help the reader understand structured game development in...

This book was developed to help researchers and practitioners select measures to be used in the evaluation of human/machine systems. The book begins with an overview of the steps involved in developing a test to measure human performance. This is followed by a definition...

The first textbook to teach students how to build data analytic solutions on large data sets using cloud-based technologies.This is the first textbook to teach students how to build data analytic solutions on large data sets (specifically in Internet of Things applications) using cloud-based...

With this text, you gain an understanding of the fundamental concepts of algorithms, the very heart of computer science. It introduces the basic data structures and programming techniques often used in efficient algorithms. Covers use of lists, push-down stacks, queues, trees, and graphs. Later...

Big Data Analytics for Sensor-Network Collected Intelligence explores state-of-the-art methods for using advanced ICT technologies to perform intelligent analysis on sensor collected data. The book shows how to develop systems that automatically detect natural and human-made events, how to examine people's behaviors, and how...

Emerging Trends in Applications and Infrastructures for Computational Biology, Bioinformatics, and Systems Biology: Systems and Applications covers the latest trends in the field with special emphasis on their applications. The first part covers the major areas of computational biology, development and application of data-analytical...

Speech enhancement is a classical problem in signal processing, yet still largely unsolved. Two of the conventional approaches for solving this problem are linear filtering, like the classical Wiener filter, and subspace methods. These approaches have traditionally been treated as different classes of methods...

VHDL-2008: Just the New Stuff, as its title says, introduces the new features added to the latest revision of the IEEE standard for the VHDL hardware description language. Written by the Chair and Technical Editor of the IEEE working group, the book is an...

The theme of this book is the self-generation of information by the self-modification of systems. The author explains why biological and cognitive processes exhibit identity changes in the mathematical and logical sense. This concept is the basis of a new organizational principle which utilizes...

Get a free eBook (PDF or ePub) from Manning as well as access to the online liveBook format (and its AI assistant that will answer your questions in any language) when you purchase the print book. Master Go language fundamentals, learn how to structure...

Get a free eBook (PDF or ePub) from Manning as well as access to the online liveBook format (and its AI assistant that will answer your questions in any language) when you purchase the print book. When DeepSeek started making waves in January 2025,...

Decision-making is a constant feature in the lives of individuals and organizations. Choices, whether simple or complex, are shaped by preferences, experiences and available data, and often involve reconciling multiple points of view. Formally, a decision is the selection of a course of action...

Are you still managing construction projects with scattered files, endless email chains, and manual workflows that slow your team down? Have you wondered how the latest tools in Autodesk Construction Cloud (ACC) can actually transform the way your projects are coordinated, executed, and delivered?...

In today's hyperconnected world, digital threats lurk in every corner of cyberspace. This comprehensive guide equips you with essential knowledge to identify, mitigate, and counter cyber threats, navigating the increasingly dangerous digital landscape.From cryptographic foundations to advanced persistent threats, you'll master the core concepts...

Cyber-physical systems (CPS) integrate computation, communication, control, and physical elements to achieve shared goals with minimal human intervention, encompassing smart technologies such as cities, cloud computing, and smart grids. As CPS components expand, generating vast amounts of data, they face challenges in areas like...

In a world awash with data, language is the final frontier of competitive advantage.Natural Language Processing for Business Applications delivers a pragmatic, enterprise-ready approach to integrating NLP into real-world operations. Designed for business leaders, data professionals, and technical strategists, this book strips away academic...

What if you could peer into the future of artificial intelligence today?Nvidia's NVM 1.0: AI's Next Frontier - What's It All About? takes you on an exhilarating journey into the groundbreaking world of NVM 1.0, the AI model that's redefining what's possible. From its...