Computers - Computer Science

Let's try to play the music and not the background. Ornette Coleman, liner notes of the LP "Free Jazz" 20] WhenIbegantocreateacourseonfreejazz, theriskofsuchanenterprise was immediately apparent: I knew that Cecil Taylor had failed to teach such a matter, and that for other, more academic instructors,...

From the reviews of the French edition "This is a rich and useful volume. The material it treats has relevance well beyond the theory of Lie groups and algebras, ranging from the geometry of regular polytopes and paving problems to current work on finite...

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the Third International Symposium on Algorithmic Number Theory, ANTS-III, held in Portland, Oregon, USA, in June 1998.The volume presents 46 revised full papers together with two invited surveys. The papers are organized in chapters on gcd algorithms,...

The algorithmic solution of problems has always been one of the major concerns of mathematics. For a long time such solutions were based on an intuitive notion of algorithm. It is only in this century that metamathematical problems have led to the intensive search...

This report on the state of the art and future directions of public-key cryptography is published in accordance with the terms of reference of the European Institute for System Security and is addressed to all members of the general computer science community.Author: Thomas BethISBN-10:...

This volume contains selected papers from a symposium on new results and new trends in computer science. Topics covered range over the entire field and the volume should be of interest to computer scientists in almost every area.Author: Hermann MaurerISBN-10: 3540548696ISBN-13: 9783540548690Publisher: SpringerLanguage: EnglishPublished:...

This book provides a unified framework that describes how genetic learning can be used to design pattern recognition and learning systems. It provides a balanced mixture of theories, algorithms and applications, and in particular results from the bioinformatics and Web intelligence domains. The book...

In its thousands of years of history, mathematics has made an extraordinary ca- reer. It started from rules for bookkeeping and computation of areas to become the language of science. Its potential for decision support was fully recognized in the twentieth century only, vitally...

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 14th Annual European Symposium on Algorithms, ESA 2006, held in Zurich, Switzerland, in the context of the combined conference ALGO 2006. The book presents 70 revised full papers together with abstracts of 3 invited lectures. The...

This book collects the proceedings of the International Workshop on Intelligent Computing in Pattern Analysis/Synthesis, IWICPAS 2006, held in Xi'an, China alongside the 18th International Conference on Pattern Recognition, ICPR 2006. The book presents 51 revised full papers and 128 revised poster papers, organized...

Functions which are defined on finite sets occur in almost all fields of mathematics. For more than 80 years algebras whose universes are such functions (so-called function algebras), have been intensively studied. This book gives a broad introduction to the theory of function algebras...

The widespread interest this book has found among professors, scientists and stu- dents working in a variety of fields has made a new edition necessary. I have used this opportunity to add three new chapters on recent developments. One of the most fascinating fields...

The book is an introductory textbook mainly for students of computer science and mathematics. It is an excellently written textbook designed to cater for a very wide-ranging readership. Its guiding phrase is "what every theoretical computer scientist should know about linear programming". A major...

Managers across the world are beating a path to India because it is the global leader for offshore IT-enabled services. This book aims to introduce India and the major players in the Indian service industry, explaining why companies should utilize India as an offshore...

The Web has become one of the major channels for dissemination of culture and knowledge. There is a growing awareness of the need to track and archive Web content. However, the raw nature of Web content, the unpredictable remote changes that can affect it,...

The volume develops a thorough theory of singular fibers of generic differentiable maps. This is the first work that establishes the foundational framework of the global study of singular differentiable maps of negative codimension from the viewpoint of differential topology. The book contains not...

Meshfree Particle Methods is a comprehensive and systematic exposition of particle methods, meshfree Galerkin and partitition of unity methods, molecular dynamics methods, and multiscale methods. Most theories, computational formulations, and simulation results presented are recent developments in meshfree methods. They were either just published...

In this well-reasoned and analytical account of the development and culture of mathematics, the authors address the relationship between modern mathematics and mathematical education. Concrete recommendations for much-needed reform of the teaching of mathematics are offered in hopes of stimulating further debate among the...

Computational geometry as an area of research in its own right emerged in the early seventies of this century. Right from the beginning, it was obvious that strong connections of various kinds exist to questions studied in the considerably older field of combinatorial geometry....

Author: B. Liskov, R. Atkinson, T. BloomISBN-10: 354010836XISBN-13: 9783540108368Publisher: SpringerLanguage: EnglishPublished: 06/01/1981Pages: 193Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.64lbsSize: 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.43d

This is a softcover reprint of the English translation of 1990 of the revised and expanded version of Bourbaki's, Alg鐫re, Chapters 4 to 7 (1981). This completes Algebra, 1 to 3, by establishing the theories of commutative fields and modules over a principal ideal...

The revised edition of this book offers an extended overview of quantum walks and explains their role in building quantum algorithms, in particular search algorithms.Updated throughout, the book focuses on core topics including Grover's algorithm and the most important quantum walk models, such as...

Celebrates Raymond Smullyan, a mathematician, philosopher, musician, and inventor of logic puzzles, who has made a lasting impact on the study of mathematical logic Is the first book honoring Raymond Smullyan's contributions to self-reference, with new approaches by his peers Collects tributes to Professor...

Discrete Fourier Transform of Distributions.- Homometry and the Phase Retrieval Problem.- Nil Fourier Coefficients and Tilings.- Saliency.- Continuous Spaces, Continuous Fourier Transform.- Phases of Fourier Coefficients.Author: Emmanuel AmiotISBN-10: 3319833235ISBN-13: 9783319833231Publisher: SpringerLanguage: EnglishPublished: 06/16/2018Pages: 206Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.70lbsSize: 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.47d

This book explains the most prominent and some promising new, general techniques that combine metaheuristics with other optimization methods. A first introductory chapter reviews the basic principles of local search, prominent metaheuristics, and tree search, dynamic programming, mixed integer linear programming, and constraint programming...

Understanding foraging strategies improves search processesNo prior knowledge of natural computing assumedValuable for graduate students, academics and practitioners in computer science, informatics, data science, and management scienceAuthor: Anthony Brabazon, Se疣 McGarraghyISBN-10: 331959155XISBN-13: 9783319591551Publisher: SpringerLanguage: EnglishPublished: 10/06/2018Pages: 478Format: HardcoverWeight: 1.92lbsSize: 9.21h x 6.14w x 1.06d

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...

Providing an introduction to isogeometric methods with a focus on their mathematical foundations, this book is composed of four chapters, each devoted to a topic of special interests for isogeometric methods and their theoretical understanding. It contains a tutorial on splines and generalizations that...

This engaging volume celebrates the life and work of Theodor Holm "Ted" Nelson, a pioneer and legendary figure from the history of early computing. Presenting contributions from world-renowned computer scientists and figures from the media industry, the book delves into hypertext, the docuverse, Xanadu...

This book describes how chief information officers (CIOs) can embrace and drive the digital transformation by providing innovative leadership that uses old skills in a novel way. The book explores ways in which new actors and factors will play a key role in this...

This engaging volume celebrates the life and work of Theodor Holm "Ted" Nelson, a pioneer and legendary figure from the history of early computing. Presenting contributions from world-renowned computer scientists and figures from the media industry, the book delves into hypertext, the docuverse, Xanadu...

This collection of science fiction writings by Jayant V. Narlikar offers readers a unique glimpse into the world-famous Indian astrophysicist's vivid and highly imaginative concepts and stories.The fictional material comprises a witty short story ("The rare idol of Ganesha") that cleverly explores the possible...

Basic concepts of structural analysis and graph theory.- Optimal force method of structural analysis.- Optimal displacement method of structural analysis.- Ordering for optimal patterns of structural matrices: graph theory methods.- Ordering for optimal patterns of structural matrices: algebraic graph theory and meta-heuristic methods.- Optimal...

The calculus of relations has been an important component of the development of logic and algebra since the middle of the nineteenth century, when Augustus De Morgan observed that since a horse is an animal we should be able to infer that the head...

Algorithmic composition - composing by means of formalizable methods - has a century old tradition not only in occidental music history. This is the first book to provide a detailed overview of prominent procedures of algorithmic composition in a pragmatic way rather than by...

1 Introduction.- 2 Preliminaries.- 3 Linguistic Linked Open Data Cloud.- 4 Modelling lexical resources as Linked Data.- 5 Representing annotated texts as RDF.- 6 Modelling linguistic annotations.- 7 Modelling metadata of language resources.- 8 Linguistic Categories.- 9 Converting language resources into Linked Data.- 10...

This book introduces the peridynamic (PD) differential operator, which enables the nonlocal form of local differentiation. PD is a bridge between differentiation and integration. It provides the computational solution of complex field equations and evaluation of derivatives of smooth or scattered data in the...

An easy & simple guide to analyzing programs and algorithms using Big-O, Big Omega, & Big Theta, including cheat sheets and practice problems.Author: Rodney AndersonISBN-10: 1983380741ISBN-13: 9781983380747Publisher: Independently PublishedLanguage: EnglishPublished: 07/07/2018Pages: 130Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.44lbsSize: 9.02h x 5.98w x 0.31d

Agda is an advanced programming language based on Type Theory. Agda's type system is expressive enough to support full functional verification of programs, in two styles. In external verification, we write pure functional programs and then write proofs of properties about them. The proofs...

The Fourier transform is one of the most fundamental tools for computing the frequency representation of signals. It plays a central role in signal processing, communications, audio and video compression, medical imaging, genomics, astronomy, as well as many other areas. Because of its widespread...

This book covers the fundamentals of digital signal processing (DSP) in a concise format, accessible to anyone with a technical background, enabling the reader for further DSP training, research, and development. The authors explore many subjects, including discrete time (digital) signals and systems, with...

Data stream algorithms as an active research agenda emerged only over the past few years, even though the concept of making few passes over the data for performing computations has been around since the early days of Automata Theory. The data stream agenda now...

Software Narratology found its successful application in software diagnostics of abnormal software behaviour in software logs. This is a transcript of Software Diagnostics Services Webinar on the new application of software narratology to network trace analysis with examples from Wireshark.Author: Dmitry Vostokov, Software Diagnostics...

The full transcript of Software Diagnostics Services (former Memory Dump Analysis Services) Webinar on pattern-driven software troubleshooting, debugging, and maintenance. Topics include: A Short History of DumpAnalysis.org Memory Dump Analysis Patterns Troubleshooting and Debugging Tools (Debugware) Patterns Software Trace Analysis Patterns From Software Defects...

The series Advances in Industrial Control aims to report and encourage technology transfer in control engineering. The rapid development of control technology has an impact on all areas of the control discipline. New theory, new controllers, actuators, sensors, new industrial processes, computer methods, new...

This book demystifies the often-complex mathematics used in the creation of 2D and 3D computer graphics. Starting with the underlying mathematical ideas, it gradually leads the reader to a sufficient understanding of the detail to be able to implement libraries and programs for 2D...

The research programme Semantics and Syntax: A Legacy of Alan Turing, held at the Isaac Newton Institute for the Mathematical Sciences in Cambridge, UK, 9 January - 6 July 2012, was one of the central activities of the Alan Turing Year 2012, the world-wide...

Computational models can be found everywhere in present day science and engineering. In providing a logical framework and foundation for the specification and design of specification languages, Raymond Turner uses this framework to introduce and study computable models. In doing so he presents the...

This book is a detailed description of the basics of three-dimensional digital image processing. A 3D digital image (abbreviated as "3D image" below) is a digitalized representation of a 3D object or an entire 3D space, stored in a computer as a 3D array....

This book provides an in-depth discussion of autonomous and autonomic systems, their interdependencies, differences and similarities. Current and pending issues in these evermore increasingly important subjects are highlighted and discussed. Concepts, ideas and experiences are explored in relation to real-life NASA systems in spacecraft...