Computers - Computer Science

Remarkable progress has been achieved within recent years in developing flexible, wearable, and stretchable (FWS) electronics. These electronics will play an increasingly significant role in the future of electronics and will open new product paradigms that conventional semiconductors are not capable of. This is...

This book analyzes the multimodal verbal and nonverbal behavior of humans in both an artificial game, based on the well-known Mafia and Resistance games, as well as selected other settings. This book develops statistical results linking different types of facial expressions (e.g. smile, pursed...

The book presents the important fundamental theorems and algorithms on planar graph drawing with easy-to-understand and constructive proofs. Extensively illustrated and with exercises included at the end of each chapter, it is suitable for use in advanced undergraduate and graduate level courses on algorithms,...

This unique book represents the first rigorous and comprehensive study of firewall policy design and analysis. Firewalls are the most critical and widely deployed intrusion prevention systems. Designing new firewall policies and analyzing existing firewall policies have been difficult and error-prone. This book presents...

This book explores the ways in which artists use technology to create different perceptions of time in art in order to reflect on contemporary relationships to technology. By considering the links between technology, movement and contemporary art, the book explores changing relationship between temporality...

A decision procedure is an algorithm that, given a decision problem, terminates with a correct yes/no answer. Here, the authors focus on theories that are expressive enough to model real problems, but are still decidable. Specifically, the book concentrates on decision procedures for first-order...

Plagiarism is a problem with far-reaching consequences for the sciences. However, even today's best software-based systems can only reliably identify copy & paste plagiarism. Disguised plagiarism forms, including paraphrased text, cross-language plagiarism, as well as structural and idea plagiarism often remain undetected. This weakness...

Author: J. DiazISBN-10: 3540123172ISBN-13: 9783540123170Publisher: SpringerLanguage: EnglishPublished: 06/01/1983Pages: 737Format: PaperbackWeight: 2.27lbsSize: 9.21h x 6.14w x 1.49d

Author: R. GoldblattISBN-10: 3540112103ISBN-13: 9783540112105Publisher: SpringerLanguage: EnglishPublished: 03/01/1982Pages: 304Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.99lbsSize: 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.67d

Gabrio Piola works had an enormous impact on the development of applied mathematics and continuum mechanics. An excellent scientific committee who took it upon themselves to translate his complete works. In a second step, they commented Piola's work and compared it to modern theories...

This is a supplemental volume of selected articles with 68 full color illustrations from Memory Dump Analysis Anthology: revised, edited, cross-referenced and thematically organized volumes of selected DumpAnalysis.org blog posts about modern crash dump analysis and debugging written in August 2006 - June 2009...

Author: Dinesh Rajput, Rajesh R. V.ISBN-10: 1789955645ISBN-13: 9781789955644Publisher: Packt PublishingLanguage: EnglishPublished: 12/18/2018Pages: 502Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.88lbsSize: 9.25h x 7.50w x 1.01d

Datasets are growing not just in size but in complexity, creating a demand for rich models and quantification of uncertainty. Bayesian methods are an excellent fit for this demand, but scaling Bayesian inference is a challenge. In response to this challenge, there has been...

Most introductory texts provide a technology-based survey of methods and techniques that leaves the reader without a clear understanding of the interrelationships between methods and techniques. By providing a strategy-based introduction, the reader is given a clear understanding of how to provide overlapping defenses...

In recent years, diversity in learning environments has become a pivotal topic of conversation for educators. By enhancing underrepresented students' computational thinking skills, it creates more room for future career opportunities. Moving Students of Color from Consumers to Producers of Technology is a comprehensive...

Bioinformatics is growing by leaps and bounds; theories/algorithms/statistical techniques are constantly evolving. Nevertheless, a core body of algorithmic ideas have emerged and researchers are beginning to adopt a "problem solving" approach to bioinformatics, wherein they use solutions to well-abstracted problems as building blocks to...

Learn to deploy and support Hyper-V, building on what you know about VMware's vSphere. Whether you're looking to run both hypervisors in parallel or migrate completely, Hyper-V for VMware Administrators has everything you need to get started.The book begins with an overview of Hyper-V...

We present a new polynomial-time algorithm for determining whether two given graphs are isomorphic or not. We prove that the algorithm is necessary and sufficient for solving the Graph Isomorphism Problem in polynomial-time, thus showing that the Graph Isomorphism Problem is in P. The...

WordPress for Web Developers is a complete guide for web designers and developers who want to begin building and administering sites with WordPress. This book is an update of Beginning WordPress 3, freshened and clarified for web developers who want to make the most...

The structure of this book follows closely the structure of AQA's A level Computer Science specification for first teaching from September 2015. It covers sections 4.5 to 4.12. The content of the book has been constructed with the aim of promoting good teaching and...

This textbook covers sections 4.1 to 4.4 of AQA's A Level Computer Science specification for first teaching from September 2015. These sections cover the fundamentals of programming, data structures, algorithms, and the theory of computation. Fundamentals of programming: data types, programming concepts, arithmetic operations,...

The design and implementation of programming languages, from Fortran and Cobol to Caml and Java, has been one of the key developments in the management of ever more complex computerized systems. Introduction to the Theory of Programming Languages gives the reader the means to...

Recent Advances in Reinforcement Learning addresses current research in an exciting area that is gaining a great deal of popularity in the Artificial Intelligence and Neural Network communities. Reinforcement learning has become a primary paradigm of machine learning. It applies to problems in which...

This handbook provides a consolidated, comprehensive information resource for engineers working with mission and safety critical systems. Principles, regulations, and processes common to all critical design projects are introduced in the opening chapters. Expert contributors then offer development models, process templates, and documentation guidelines...

Thomas Dean explores a wide range of fundamental topics in computer science, from digital logic and machine language to artificial intelligence and the World Wide Web, explaining how computers and computer programs work and how the various subfields of computer science are interconnected. Dean...

Mihail Moiseevich Botvinnik is an electrical engineer by profession; during World War II he headed a high-tension laboratory in the Urals and was decorated by the USSR for his accomplishments. At present, he is the head of the alternating-current machine laboratory at the Moscow...

In Max/MSP/Jitter for Music, expert author and music technologist V. J. Manzo provides a user-friendly introduction to a powerful programming language that can be used to write custom software for musical interaction. Through clear, step-by-step instructions illustrated with numerous examples of working systems, the...

Michael Dertouzos has been an insightful commentator and an active participant in the creation of the Information Age.Now, in What Will Be, he offers a thought-provoking and entertaining vision of the world of the next decade -- and of the next century. Dertouzos examines...

An overview of the most prominent contemporary parallel processing programming models, written in a unique tutorial style.Author: Pavan BalajiISBN-10: 0262528819ISBN-13: 9780262528818Publisher: MIT PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 11/06/2015Pages: 488Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.90lbsSize: 9.00h x 7.90w x 0.90d

An examination of technology and politics in the evolution of the British "government machine."Author: Jon AgarISBN-10: 026253388XISBN-13: 9780262533881Publisher: MIT PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 12/16/2016Pages: 564Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.65lbsSize: 8.90h x 6.00w x 1.20d

The interviews in this volume form the nearest thing possible to an autobiography of eminent computer scientist Donald E. Knuth. Based on the English-language Companion to the Papers of Donald Knuth, also published by CSLI Publications, this book brings the highlights of that material...

This book describes in detail the fundamental mathematics and algorithms of machine learning (an example of artificial intelligence) and signal processing, two of the most important and exciting technologies in the modern information economy. Taking a gradual approach, it builds up concepts in a...

This text presents a family of advanced methods of optimization called Metaheuristics.It covers a range of topics including simulated annealing, tabu search, evolutionary and genetic algorithms, and ant colony optimization. The book contains various case studies from engineering and operations research, and includes commented...

In the dynamic landscape of technology, familiarity with Linux has become increasingly indispensable. Our book offers a comprehensive exploration of the Linux operating system, tailored for both beginners and seasoned users seeking to deepen their understanding and refine their skills. With a blend of...

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Illustrating theoretical foundations and incorporating practitioners' first-hand experience, book is a practical guide to successful Autonomous Experimentation.Author: Marcus NoackISBN-10: 1032314656ISBN-13: 9781032314655Publisher: CRC PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 12/14/2023Pages: 402Format: HardcoverWeight: 2.17lbsSize: 10.00h x 7.00w x 1.00d

"Unlocking the Power of AI Prompts: A Beginner's Guide" is a comprehensive guide to the emerging field of AI prompt engineering. This book is designed to provide beginners with a solid foundation in the fundamentals of AI prompt engineering, including AI language models, natural...

Practice VB.NET & ASP.NET in simple stepsKey FeaturesVB.NET and ASP.NET topics are demonstrated with various examples in-depth.Includes detailed explanations of all VB.NET and ASP.NET programming statements.Numerous hands-on exercises demonstrating database and backend programming.DescriptionThe book teaches the essentials of VB.NET and Active Server Pages (ASP.NET)...

This guide provides a comprehensive overview of High Performance Computing (HPC) to equip students with a full skill set including cluster setup, network selection, and a background of supercomputing competitions. It covers the system, architecture, evaluating approaches, and other practical supercomputing techniques. As the...

Physicalsystemswhichrightthemselvesafterbeingdisturbedevokeourcuriosity becausewe wantto understand howsuchsystemsareableto reactto unexpected stimuli. Themechanismsareallthe morefascinatingwhensystemsarecomposed of small, simple units, and the ability of the system to self-stabilize emerges out of its components. Faithful computer simulations of such physical systems exhibit the self-stabilizing property, but in the realm of computing,...

, A preliminary version o the programming language Pascal was dra ted in 1968. It ollowed in its spirit the A1gol-6m and Algo1-W 1ine o 1anguages. A ter an extensive deve10pment phase, a irst compiler became operational in 197m, and pub1ication ollowed a year...

Scheduling, vehicle routing and timetabling are all examples of constraint problems, and methods to solve them rely on the idea of constraint propagation and search. This book meets the need for a modern, multidisciplinary introduction to the field that covers foundations and applications. Written...

Get more out of your data with step-by-step tutorials for the Excel features you need to know Excel is still the most popular tool for organizing and analyzing data, and today's professionals are expected to have a high degree of fluency with it. Complex...

Author: Information Reso Management AssociationISBN-10: 166842956XISBN-13: 9781668429563Publisher: Engineering Science ReferenceLanguage: EnglishPublished: 08/11/2017Pages: 564Format: HardcoverWeight: 3.49lbsSize: 11.00h x 8.50w x 1.25d

This book answers two central questions: firstly, is it at all possible to verify electronic equipment procured from untrusted vendors? Secondly, can I build trust into my products in such a way that I support verification by untrusting customers? In separate chapters the book...

Our purpose in writing this book was to provide a compendium of stochastic optimizationtechniques, someguidesto wheneachisappropriateinpractical situations, and a few useful ways of thinking about optimization as a p- cess of search in some very rich con?guration spaces. Each of us has come to...

Evolutionary algorithms (EAs) are accepted as a mature problem-solving family of heuristics that has found its way into many important real-life problems and into leading-edge scientific research. The unique properties of spatially structured EAs evoke new dynamical features that can be harnessed to solve...

Integration is the sixth and last of the books that form the core of the Bourbaki series; it draws abundantly on the preceding five Books, especially General Topology and Topological Vector Spaces, making it a culmination of the core six. The power of the...

One of the most promising emerging non-volatile memories is magnetic tunnel junction (MTJ); this is a Spintronic element where electronic charge and spin are both used for storing and manipulating digital information. Indeed, many companies have proposed this as a universal memory targeting embedded...

Humanized AI (HAI), emerging as the next of the AI waves, refers to artificial social beings that are very close to humans in various aspects, beings who are machine-race humans, not digital slaves. Foundation, Architecture, and Prototyping of HAI deploy a novel smalldata approach...