Computers - Computer Science

Consensus is the problem of making distributed nodes reach agreement. It is a basic building block that can be used in more complex distributed data management systems while retaining correctness guarantees of the state of the data and its recovery. Solving the intricacies of...

This unique open access book applies the functional OCaml programming language to numerical or computational weighted data science, engineering, and scientific applications. This book is based on the authors' first-hand experience building and maintaining Owl, an OCaml-based numerical computing library. You'll first learn the...

Digital Economics is an innovative anthology that explores the intersection of economics and the digital reality of everyday life. Through a collection of carefully curated readings, the volume examines the impact of consumer information, e-commerce, and information and communication technology on the economy and...

Supply Chain 4.0 is designed, planned, managed and optimized using Industry 4.0 technologies. There are many research issues and challenges associated with Supply Chain 4.0, a data rich complex system. The available data can interpret what happened in the past, what is currently happening,...

Funny, clear, deep, and right on target. [Siegfried] lets us get a handle on ideas that are essential for understanding the evolving world.-K. C. Cole, author of The Universe and the Teacup""An eager, ambitious book. A stimulating, accessible introduction to scientific theory.""-Dallas Morning NewsAn...

Human evolution has always been about our tools, and computer technology is the most impactful tool humans have ever invented. Today, digital technology drives everything from PCs to mobile phones, from thermostats to automobiles. We search the Web for a wide variety of information,...

Author: Ron BaeckerISBN-10: 3031187792ISBN-13: 9783031187797Publisher: SpringerLanguage: EnglishPublished: 04/16/2023Pages: 176Format: HardcoverWeight: 1.00lbsSize: 9.61h x 6.85w x 0.71d

Spring Framework 6 remains - by far - the leading de-facto "out of the box" practical Java meta application development framework for building complex enterprise, cloud-native applications as well as web applications and microservices. Introducing Spring Framework 6 is your hands-on tutorial guide for...

This book discusses two questions in Complexity Theory: the Monotonicity Testing problem and the 2-to-2 Games Conjecture.Monotonicity testing is a problem from the field of property testing, first considered by Goldreich et al. in 2000. The input of the algorithm is a function, and...

This book describes a conceptual management system derived from the Business and Technology Relationship Model (BTRM). The BTRM describes the relationship between business and technology and provides simple definitions for service quality, alignment, agility, and governance. It explains our problems with traditional methods, democratizes...

This project-oriented book gives you a hands-on approach to designing, developing, and templating your Snowflake platform delivery. Written by seasoned Snowflake practitioners, the book is full of practical guidance and advice to accelerate and mature your Snowflake journey. Working through the examples helps you...

Softwarecost estimation is the forecasting of development effort and development time mandatory needed to develop a software project. It is considered to be the very primary step of software development process and at the same time considered to be the key task as accurate...

The World Wide Web has become a promising place for electronic commerce, and thousands of "dot-com" and "brick and mortar" companies have set up commercial websites to do business over the Internet (Lightner, 2004; Duffy and Dale, 2002; O'Connor and O'Keefe, 1997). Web Commerce,...

Author: Fadi AldakheelISBN-10: 3030873145ISBN-13: 9783030873141Publisher: SpringerLanguage: EnglishPublished: 03/15/2023Pages: 607Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.89lbsSize: 9.21h x 6.14w x 1.25d

This book covers the latest advances in applying agent-based modelling in social sciences. The Social Simulation Conference is the major global conference devoted to this topic. It is aimed at promoting social simulation and computational social science. This year's special theme is "Social Simulation...

Can computers be intelligent? If yes! Then how to represent intelligence? Thedevelopment of digital computers made possible the invention of human engineeredsystems that show intelligent behaviour. Now a days, the researchers are active with thestudies applying computational intelligence (i.e. numerical methods for implementing anintelligent...

This edited volume summarizes research being pursued within the DFG Priority Programme 1748: "Reliable Simulation Methods in Solid Mechanics. Development of non-standard discretisation methods, mechanical and mathematical analysis", the aim of which was to develop novel discretisation methods based e.g. on mixed finite element...

Looking for a comprehensive guide to the exciting world of deep learning? Look no further than this must-have book! Written by a team of experts, this guide offers a deep dive into the world of artificial intelligence and machine learning. With clear explanations and...

Not since the 1980s has computer architecture been so exciting! This book captures the moment, mining the history of computing to teach key concepts in modern hardware design and introduce the neural and quantum architectures of the future. Computer Architecture is an in-depth exploration...

This book provides a concise but comprehensive guide to the disciplines of database design, construction, implementation, and management. Based on the authors' professional experience in the software engineering and IT industries before making a career switch to academia, the text stresses sound database design...

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 textbook treats graph colouring as an algorithmic problem, with a strong emphasis on practical applications. The author describes and analyses some of the best-known algorithms for colouring graphs, focusing on whether these heuristics can provide optimal solutions in some cases; how they perform...

The first of the four supplementary options in the International Baccalaureate Computer Science Syllabus deals with Databases. All specification points are covered.Author: Sarah ShakibiISBN-10: 1986307700ISBN-13: 9781986307703Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformLanguage: EnglishPublished: 03/07/2018Pages: 90Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.39lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.23d

The book provides a self-contained introduction to computability theory for advanced undergraduate or early graduate students of mathematics and computer science. The technical material is illustrated with plenty of examples, problems with fully worked solutions as well as a range of proposed exercises.Part I...

This book introduces differential geometry and cutting-edge findings from the discipline by incorporating both classical approaches and modern discrete differential geometry across all facets and applications, including graphics and imaging, physics and networks. With curvature as the centerpiece, the authors present the development of...

Learn to use the Ansible open source IT automation tool to automate your VMware infrastructure. This book contains all of the obvious and not-so-obvious best practices of Ansible automation. Each lesson summarizes a specific use case for the modern VMware infrastructure and is focused...

Vulnerabilities in software and IT infrastructure pose a major threat to organizations. In response, the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) developed the Certified Kubernetes Security Specialist (CKS) certification to verify an administrator's proficiency to protect Kubernetes clusters and the cloud native software they contain....

Transfer learning is one of the most important technologies in the era of artificial intelligence and deep learning. It seeks to leverage existing knowledge by transferring it to another, new domain. Over the years, a number of relevant topics have attracted the interest of...

Numerical Algorithmic Science and Engineering (NAS&E), or more compactly, Numerical Algorithmics, is the theoretical and empirical study and the practical implementation and application of algorithms for solving finite-dimensional problems of a numeric nature. The variables of such problems are either discrete-valued, or continuous over...

Urgent deadlines, constant lack of time, permanent delays - these are the most faithful companions and, at the same time, the greatest enemies of the project manager. Even certified project managers, people with enormous knowledge and a lot of experience, find themselves in a...

This book discusses two questions in Complexity Theory: the Monotonicity Testing problem and the 2-to-2 Games Conjecture.Monotonicity testing is a problem from the field of property testing, first considered by Goldreich et al. in 2000. The input of the algorithm is a function, and...

The ability (or inability) to represent or approximate Boolean functions by polynomials is a central concept in complexity theory, underlying interactive and probabilistically checkable proof systems, circuit lower bounds, quantum complexity theory, and more. In this book, the authors survey what is known about...

Author: Rallapalli SrinivasISBN-10: 9811678596ISBN-13: 9789811678592Publisher: SpringerLanguage: EnglishPublished: 02/17/2023Pages: 243Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.79lbsSize: 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.53d

Multidimensional arrays are one of the fundamental computing abstractions to represent data across virtually all areas of science and engineering, and beyond. Due to their ubiquity, multidimensional arrays have been studied extensively across many areas of computer science. This survey provides a comprehensive guide...

Are you looking for a book with in-depth information on data analysis with Python? Do you want to know the basics of programming and know more in a short time? Know the data analysis with an easy and accessible programming language?"Python for Data Analysis"...

Although this may seem a paradox, all exact science is dominated by the idea of approximation. Bertrand Russell (1872-1970) Most natural optimization problems, including those arising in important application areas, are NP-hard. Therefore, under the widely believed con- jecture that P -=/= NP, their...

Submodular functions are relevant to machine learning for at least two reasons: (1) some problems may be expressed directly as the optimization of submodular functions and (2) the Lov疽z extension of submodular functions provides a useful set of regularization functions for supervised and unsupervised...

Beginning C# Object-Oriented Programming brings you into the modern world of development as you master the fundamentals of programming with C# and learn to develop efficient, reusable, elegant code through the object-oriented programming (OOP) methodology. Take your skills out of the 20th century and...

Presenting a ground-breaking view of technology trends and their impact on our society, Artificial Era contributes to the current debate about the consequences of technological innovations. Alongside different viewpoints and statistics on the use of robots worldwide, productivity, and job displacement, Gissel Velarde identifies...

Author: Muharrem KılıçISBN-10: 9819963265ISBN-13: 9789819963263Publisher: SpringerLanguage: EnglishPublished: 10/22/2023Pages: 226Format: HardcoverWeight: 1.15lbsSize: 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.63d

This book offers a practical approach to modeling real-world discrete systems and performing analysis. The theory behind the book is the Colored Petri nets, and the tool used for simulations is general-purpose Petri net simulator (GPenSIM). The theory part is kept to a minimum,...

This book is a comprehensive guide to Vulnerability Assessment and Penetration Testing (VAPT), designed to teach and empower readers of all cybersecurity backgrounds. Whether you are a beginner or an experienced IT professional, this book will give you the knowledge and practical skills you...

Designed for the introductory computing and computer science course, the student-friendly Computer Science Illuminated, Eighth Edition provides students with a solid foundation for further study, and offers non-majors a complete introduction to computing. Fully revised and updated, the eighth edition of this best-selling text...

Part I: Computational Models and Systems. About the Authors. Preface: Intelligent Help Systems for UNIX. Editorial Part I: Intelligent Help Systems for UNIX; Computational Models and Systems. An Intelligent Human-Computer Interface for Provision of On-Line Help; J. Jerrams-Smith. Virtues and Problems of an Active...

Systems Medicine introduces the topic of physiological circuits, in which cells and organs communicate. It is written in a very accessible style, suitable for anyone with a background in biology, engineering, physics, math, engineering, computer science, chemistry or other subjects.Author: Uri AlonISBN-10: 1032411856ISBN-13: 9781032411859Publisher:...

Reconfigurable Computing marks a revolutionary and hot topic that bridges the gap between the separate worlds of hardware and software design-- the key feature of reconfigurable computing is its groundbreaking ability to perform computations in hardware to increase performance while retaining the flexibility of...

Model based testing is the most powerful technique for testing hardware and software systems. Models in Hardware Testing describes the use of models at all the levels of hardware testing. The relevant fault models for nanoscaled CMOS technology are introduced, and their implications on...

Computing and information, and their philosophy in the broad sense, play a most important scientific, technological and conceptual role in our world. This book collects together, for the first time, the views and experiences of some of the visionary pioneers and most influential thinkers...

As the first book about software culture, this book discusses software culture from three perspectives including historical perspective, the classification of software and software applications. This book takes credit from the view of science and technology development. It analyzed scientific innovations and the social...

1 Thisbookis an outcomeof the SocionicsResearch Framework. Therootsof Socionics lie in the 1980s when computer scientists in search of new methods and techniques of distributed and coordinated problem-solving ?rst began to take an engineering interest in sociological concepts and theories. Just as biological phenomenaare...