Computers - Computer Science

CollaborateCom is an annual international forum for dissemination of original ideas and research results in collaborative computing networks, systems, and applications. A major goal and feature of CollaborateCom is to bring researchers from networking, systems, CSCW, collaborative learning, and collaborative education areas - gether....

This book deals with one of the most important practical problems arising in airport logistics, the assignment of aircraft to gates. The research is based on data from ten major airports in North America, Asia, and Europe. The book provides an overview of problems,...

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 9th European Conference on Symbolic and Quantitative Approaches to Reasoning with Uncertainty, ECSQARU 2007. Coverage in the 78 revised full papers, presented together with three invited papers, includes Bayesian networks, graphical models, learning causal networks, planning,...

The European Conference on Numerical Mathematics and Advanced Applications (ENUMATH) is a series of conferences held every two years to provide a forum for discussion on recent aspects of numerical mathematics and their applications. The ?rst ENUMATH conference was held in Paris (1995), and...

This book constitutes the strictly refereed post-workshop proceedings of the German Conference on Bioinformatics, GCB'96, held in Leipzig, Germany, in September/October 1996. The volume presents 18 revised full papers together with three invited papers; these contributions were selected after a second round of reviewing...

Cuts and metrics are well-known objects that arise - independently, but with many deep and fascinating connections - in diverse fields: in graph theory, combinatorial optimization, geometry of numbers, combinatorial matrix theory, statistical physics, VLSI design etc. This book presents a wealth of results,...

This volume in the NATO Special Programme on Advanced Educational Technology addresses the gap between the mathematics taught to engineering students and the mathematics used by engineers in practice.Author: Yasar ErsoyISBN-10: 3540580107ISBN-13: 9783540580102Publisher: SpringerLanguage: EnglishPublished: 10/27/1994Pages: 254Format: HardcoverWeight: 1.22lbsSize: 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.63d

Computer science departments at universities in the U.S.A. are world renowned. This handy reference guide gives detailed profiles of 40 of the best known among them. The profiles are organized in a uniform layout to present basic information, faculty, curriculum, courses for graduate students,...

The dimmed outlines of phenomenal things all into one another unless we put on the merge focusing-glass of theory, and screw it up some- times to one pitch of definition and sometimes to another, so as to see down into different depths through the...

This book presents a selection of revised full papers accepted for presentation at the First International Conference on Biology, Informatics, and Mathematics, JOBIM 2000, held in Montpellier, France, in May 2000.The 13 papers included in the book were selected after two rounds of reviewing...

We are pleased to present the proceedings of Performance TOOLS 2003, the 13th International Conference on Modelling Techniques and Tools for Computer Performance Evaluation. The series of TOOLS conferences has provided a forum for our community of performance engineers with all their diverse interests....

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Scale Space Methods in Computer Vision, Scale-Space 2003, held at Isle of Skye, UK in June 2003. The 56 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 101 submissions. The...

Welcome to the proceedings of the 2006 International Conference on High- Performance Computing and Communications (HPCC 2006), which was held in Munich, Germany, September 13-15, 2006. This year's conference marks the second edition of the HPCC conference series, and we are honored to serve...

We describe in this book, new methods for analysis and design of hybrid intelligent systems using soft computing techniques. Soft Computing (SC) consists of several computing paradigms, including fuzzy logic, neural networks, and genetic algorithms, which can be used to produce powerful hybrid intelligent...

The three volume set LNCS 3496/3497/3498 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the Second International Symposium on Neural Networks, ISNN 2005, held in Chongqing, China in May/June 2005. The 483 revised papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 1.425 submissions. The papers are organized...

Membrane computing is a branch of natural computing which investigates computing models abstracted from the structure and functioning of living cells and from their interactions in tissues or higher-order biological structures. The models considered, called membrane systems (P systems), are parallel, distributed computing models,...

ICIAR 2004, the International Conference on Image Analysis and Recognition, was the ?rst ICIAR conference, and was held in Porto, Portugal. ICIAR will be organized annually, and will alternate between Europe and North America. ICIAR 2005 will take place in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. The...

This monograph systematically presents the existing identification methods of nonlinear systems using the block-oriented approach It surveys various known approaches to the identification of Wiener and Hammerstein systems which are applicable to both neural network and polynomial models. The book gives a comparative study...

1 2 Jean-Dominique Deuschel and Andreas Greven 1 Fakult] at II - Mathematik und Naturwissenschaften, Institut fur ] Mathematik, Technische Universit] at Berlin, Stra e des 17. Juni 136, D-10623 Berlin Tel. (0049 30) 314-25193, Fax: (0049 30) 314-21695 deuschel@math. tu-berlin. de 2 1...

"Soft Computing and its Applications in Business and Economics," or SC-BE for short, is a work whose importance is hard to exaggerate. Authored by leading contributors to soft computing and its applications, SC-BE is a sequel to an earlier book by Professors R. A....

The large-scale and almost ubiquitous availability of information has become as much of a curse as it is a blessing. The more information is available, the harder it is to locate any particular piece of it. And even when it has been successfully found,...

The three-volume set LNCS 10860, 10861 and 10862 constitutes the proceedings of the 18th International Conference on Computational Science, ICCS 2018, held in Wuxi, China, in June 2018. The total of 155 full and 66 short papers presented in this book set was carefully...

Author: Michael SchäferISBN-10: 3319938908ISBN-13: 9783319938905Publisher: SpringerLanguage: EnglishPublished: 08/22/2018Pages: 209Format: HardcoverWeight: 1.07lbsSize: 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.56d

The three-volume set LNCS 10860, 10861 and 10862 constitutes the proceedings of the 18th International Conference on Computational Science, ICCS 2018, held in Wuxi, China, in June 2018. The total of 155 full and 66 short papers presented in this book set was carefully...

Presents solutions for fault diagnosis problems using an interdisciplinary perspective, combining inverse problem methodology and metaheuristicsOffers a systematic and clear overview of the main ideas, concepts and results in this fieldBrings together tools from mathematics, physics, modeling, optimization and computational intelligenceAuthor: Lídice Camps Echevarría,Orestes...

This rigorous book is a complete and up-to-date reference for the Csound system from the perspective of its main developers and power users. It explains the system, including the basic modes of operation and its programming language; it explores the many ways users can...

Author: Marco Evangelos BiancoliniISBN-10: 3319750097ISBN-13: 9783319750095Publisher: SpringerLanguage: EnglishPublished: 04/16/2018Pages: 358Format: HardcoverWeight: 1.54lbsSize: 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.88d

This book focuses on the modeling, processing and visualization of anisotropy, irrespective of the context in which it emerges, using state-of-the-art mathematical tools. As such, it differs substantially from conventional reference works, which are centered on a particular application. It covers the following topics:...

In this book, leading authors in the field discuss the habitats of tomorrow. These habitats will be connected through autonomous and assistive systems, turning habitats into health resorts. This book discusses how assistance technologies enable a smooth transition from comfortable health support to medical...

Author: Gabriel R. BarrenecheaISBN-10: 3319416383ISBN-13: 9783319416380Publisher: SpringerLanguage: EnglishPublished: 10/04/2016Pages: 433Format: HardcoverWeight: 1.78lbsSize: 9.21h x 6.14w x 1.00d

The research and its outcomes presented in this collection focus on various aspects of high-performance computing (HPC) software and its development which is confronted with various challenges as today's supercomputer technology heads towards exascale computing. The individual chapters address one or more of the...

This book presents interesting, important unsolved problems in the mathematical and computational sciences. The contributing authors are leading researchers in their fields and they explain outstanding challenges in their domains, first by offering basic definitions, explaining the context, and summarizing related algorithms, theorems, and...

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 7th IFIP WG 5.5/SOCOLNET Advanced Doctoral Conference on Computing, Electrical and Industrial Systems, DoCEIS 2016, held in Costa de Caparica, Portugal, in April 2016. The 53 revised full papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 112...

The 30th Anniversary of the ISCIS (International Symposium on Computer and Information Sciences) series of conferences, started by Professor Erol Gelenbe at Bilkent University, Turkey, in 1986, will be held at Imperial College London on September 22-24, 2015. The preceding two ISCIS conferences were...

Author: Giuseppe BasileISBN-10: 321181132XISBN-13: 9783211811320Publisher: SpringerLanguage: EnglishPublished: 12/31/1980Pages: 51Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.22lbsSize: 9.61h x 6.69w x 0.11d

Author: Fabrizio LuccioISBN-10: 321181082XISBN-13: 9783211810828Publisher: SpringerLanguage: EnglishPublished: 12/31/1980Pages: 57Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.24lbsSize: 9.61h x 6.69w x 0.12d

Author: Minghua Chen,Sid Chi-Kin ChauISBN-10: 3031115481ISBN-13: 9783031115486Publisher: SpringerLanguage: EnglishPublished: 10/20/2022Pages: 79Format: HardcoverWeight: 0.65lbsSize: 9.61h x 6.69w x 0.47d

Author: Zdravko BotevISBN-10: 3031101928ISBN-13: 9783031101922Publisher: SpringerLanguage: EnglishPublished: 12/01/2022Pages: 420Format: HardcoverWeight: 1.90lbsSize: 9.06h x 5.91w x 0.63d

This book covers methods of Mathematical Morphology to model and simulate random sets and functions (scalar and multivariate). The introduced models concern many physical situations in heterogeneous media, where a probabilistic approach is required, like fracture statistics of materials, scaling up of permeability in...

Author: Spencer SherwinISBN-10: 3030679012ISBN-13: 9783030679019Publisher: SpringerLanguage: EnglishPublished: 07/31/2021Pages: 836Format: HardcoverWeight: 3.00lbsSize: 9.21h x 6.14w x 1.75d

Computers are an integral part of our modern world. Children are being exposed to them at an increasingly young age, so a fundamental understanding of technology has become essential. In this introduction to the world of computers, readers take a look inside a computer...

M. CARPENTIER Director General DG XIII, Telecommunications, Information Industries and Innovation of the Commission of the European Communities It is with great pleasure that I introduce and recommend this collection of guidelines produced by EWICS TC7. This Technical Committee has consistently attracted technical experts...

Demand for this book will come from academics and practising engineers interested in the types of control presented (optimal and supervisory) as well as from those involved in traffic control (particularly in-building passenger traffic control).Author: Sandor A. Markon,Hajime Kita,Hiroshi KiseISBN-10: 1849966044ISBN-13: 9781849966047Publisher: SpringerLanguage: EnglishPublished:...

In process modelling, knowledge of the process under consideration is typically partial with significant disturbances to the model. Disturbances militate against the desirable trait of model reproducibility. "Grey-box" identification takes advantage of two sources of process information that may be available: any invariant prior...

Presenting the latest developments and research results on fault diagnosis approaches using computational intelligence methodologies, Computational Intelligence in Fault Diagnosis reviews the state of the art before focusing on theoretical aspects of computational intelligence methodologies applied to real-world fault diagnosis problems. Chapters deal with...

Boundary representation is the principal solid modelling method used in modern CAD/CAM systems. There have been a long series of developments on which currently available systems are based, full details of which are only partially known. Ian Stroud's thorough coverage of these developments puts...

With support of network ethnography and concepts from Political Science and Human Geography, the author invites the readers to challenge preconceived ideas of how governments and philanthropies work, and peak inside philanthropies' efforts to reform education.Author: Jones Irwin,Marina AvelarISBN-10: 1787076881ISBN-13: 9781787076884Publisher: Peter Lang Ltd,...

Applying mechanisms and principles of human intelligence and converging the brain and artificial intelligence (AI) is currently a research trend. The applications of AI in brain simulation are countless. Brain-inspired intelligent systems will improve next-generation information processing by applying theories, techniques, and applications inspired...

Essential Articulate Studio '09 is designed to help novice to intermediate users of Articulate Studio '09 get the most from using these tools--Presenter, Engage, Quizmaker, and Video Encoder--to develop quality informational and instructional materials. It was written with the following goals in mind: Help...

Aiming to show how more subtle kinds of knowledge can be managed in a distributed international environment, this text describes academic work in the field of knowledge management. A particular focus is given to knowledge that cannot be managed by the capture-codify-store approach.Author: Paul...