Computers - Computer Science

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:...

In this book, the authors demonstrate how an integration of hermeneutical understanding and scientific explanation can be done via the construction of suited geometrical models with neural networks of processes of understanding. The goal is a unified science.Author: Jürgen Klüver,Christina KlüverISBN-10: 9048199107ISBN-13: 9789048199105Publisher: SpringerLanguage:...

Foreword. I. INTRODUCTION. Synergy between design and technology; Michel Brillouët. II. EMERGING TECHNOLOGY AND DEVICES. New state variable opportunities beyond CMOS: a system perspective; Victor V. Zhirnov, Ralph K. Cavin, George I. Bourianoff. A simple compact model to analyze he impact of ballistic and...

The ?rst International Meeting of Advances in Robot Kinematics, ARK, occurred in September 1988, by invitation to Ljubljana, Slovenia, of a group of 20 int- nationally recognized researchers, representing six different countries from three continents. There were 22 lectures and approximately 150 attendees. This...

IT Security Management provides an insight on how to create and stimulate a team of passionate IT security professionals, so called "securiteers". Their added value to the business is to improve the information security position of organisations.Author: Alberto Partida,Diego AndinaISBN-10: 9048188814ISBN-13: 9789048188819Publisher: SpringerLanguage: EnglishPublished:...

Robust Nano-Computing focuses on various issues of robust nano-computing, defect-tolerance design for nano-technology at different design abstraction levels. It addresses both redundancy- and configuration-based methods as well as fault detecting techniques through the development of accurate computation models and tools. The contents present an...

Efficient Test Methodologies for High-Speed Serial Links describes in detail several new and promising techniques for cost-effectively testing high-speed interfaces with a high test coverage. One primary focus of Efficient Test Methodologies for High-Speed Serial Links is on efficient testing methods for jitter and...

This book describes the theory, design and realization of dynamic offset compensated CMOS amplifiers. It focuses on the design of general-purpose broadband operational amplifiers and instrumentation amplifiers. It also introduces chopper offset stabilization.Author: Frerik Witte,Kofi Makinwa,Johan HuijsingISBN-10: 9048127556ISBN-13: 9789048127559Publisher: SpringerLanguage: EnglishPublished: 07/21/2009Pages: 168Format: HardcoverWeight:...

Agent-based modeling/simulation is an emerging field that uses bottom-up and experimental analysis in the social sciences. Selected research from that presented at the Third International Workshop on Agent-Based Approaches in Economic and Social Complex Systems 2004, held in May 2004 in Kyoto, Japan, is...

In today's knowledge driven society, the efficiency of the transfer and acquisition of knowledge has gained importance. In order to acquire new knowledge, a user needs information about the problem domain and the concepts within the knowledge structure. This information is required to create...

This work investigates the quantifier elimination problem in real closed fields with respect to the application in description logics. The motivation for the investigation in this topic is mainly based on the demand for an extension of description logic systems to support a default...

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Intelligent Computing, ICIC 2012, held in Huangshan, China, in July 2012. The 242 revised full papers presented in the three volumes LNCS 7389, LNAI 7390, and CCIS 304 were carefully reviewed and...

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Theory and Applications of Models of Computation, TAMC 2012, held in Beijing, China, in May 2012. The conference was combined with the Turing Lectures 2012, dedicated to celebrating Alan Turing's unique impact...

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 6th International Frontiers of Algorithmics Workshop, FAW 2012, and the 8th International Conference on Algorithmic Aspects in Information and Management, AAIM 2012, jointly held in Beijing, China, in May 2012. The 33 revised full papers presented...

The LNCS journal Transactions on Computational Science reflects recent developments in the field of Computational Science, conceiving the field not as a mere ancillary science but rather as an innovative approach supporting many other scientific disciplines. The journal focuses on original high-quality research in...

The LNCS journal Transactions on Large-Scale Data- and Knowledge-Centered Systems focuses on data management, knowledge discovery, and knowledge processing, which are core and hot topics in computer science. Since the 1990s, the Internet has become the main driving force behind application development in all...

Author: Viktor KuncakISBN-10: 3642279392ISBN-13: 9783642279393Publisher: SpringerLanguage: EnglishPublished: 01/12/2012Pages: 457Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.55lbsSize: 9.20h x 6.10w x 1.00d

Author: Natarajan MeghanathanISBN-10: 3642273076ISBN-13: 9783642273070Publisher: SpringerLanguage: EnglishPublished: 12/13/2011Pages: 667Format: PaperbackWeight: 2.30lbsSize: 9.20h x 6.20w x 1.40d

Author: Natarajan MeghanathanISBN-10: 3642272983ISBN-13: 9783642272981Publisher: SpringerLanguage: EnglishPublished: 12/13/2011Pages: 645Format: PaperbackWeight: 2.20lbsSize: 9.20h x 6.20w x 1.30d

Author: Uli FahrenbergISBN-10: 3642243096ISBN-13: 9783642243097Publisher: SpringerLanguage: EnglishPublished: 09/12/2011Pages: 353Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.15lbsSize: 9.20h x 6.10w x 0.80d

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 5th International Workshop on Reachability Problems, RP 2011, held in Genoa, Italy, in September 2011. The 16 papers presented together with 4 invited talks were carefully reviewed and selected from 24 submissions. The workshop deals with...

Author: Hans Van DitmarschISBN-10: 3642241298ISBN-13: 9783642241291Publisher: SpringerLanguage: EnglishPublished: 09/13/2011Pages: 403Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.30lbsSize: 9.20h x 6.10w x 0.90d

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Intelligent Data Engineering and Automated Learning, IDEAL 2011, held in Norwich, UK, in September 2011. The 59 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from numerous submissions for inclusion in...

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 19th Annual European Symposium on Algorithms, ESA 2011, held in Saarbrücken, Germany, in September 2011 in the context of the combined conference ALGO 2011. The 67 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from...

Author: Jun ZhangISBN-10: 3642232256ISBN-13: 9783642232251Publisher: SpringerLanguage: EnglishPublished: 08/02/2011Pages: 727Format: PaperbackWeight: 2.50lbsSize: 9.30h x 6.00w x 1.60d

The five volume set CCIS 224-228 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the International conference on Applied Informatics and Communication, ICAIC 2011, held in Xi'an, China in August 2011. The 446 revised papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from numerous submissions. The papers cover...

The five volume set CCIS 224-228 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the International conference on Applied Informatics and Communication, ICAIC 2011, held in Xi'an, China in August 2011.The 446 revised papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from numerous submissions. The papers cover a...