Computer Science, or Informatics as it is often called in Europe, is viewed by many as being both a science and a technology. Clearly, its technological aspects are very much upon us on a day to day basis. Yet all other exact sciences such as physics, biology or chemistry are also very present in ourdaily lives through the technologies...
Color is one of the most fascinating areas to study. Color forms an integral part
of nature, and we humans are exposed to it every day. We all have an intuitive
understanding of what color is, but by studying the underlying physics, chemistry,
optics, and human visual perception, the true beauty and complexity of color can
be...
The objective of this book is to present a substantial introduction to the ideas, phenomena and methods of the problems that are frequently observed in mathematics, mathematical physics and engineering technology. The book can be appreciated at a considerable number of levels and is designed for everyone from amateurs to research workmen.
With the increasing popularization of the Internet, together with the rapid
development of 3D scanning technologies and modeling tools, 3D model
databases have become more and more common in fields such as biology,
chemistry, archaeology and geography. People can distribute their own 3D works
over the Internet, search and download 3D...
The new and exciting field of computational science, and in particular sim-
ulational science, has seen rapid change since the first edition of this book
came out. New methods have been found, fresh points of view have
emerged, and features hidden so far have been uncovered. Almost all the
methods presented in the first addition have...
The chapters in this volume were presented at the July–August 2006 NATO
Advanced Study Institute on Imaging for Detection and Identification. The
conference was held at the beautiful Il Ciocco resort near Lucca, in the glorious
Tuscany region of northern Italy. For the eighth time we gathered at this
idyllic spot to explore and...
Grid Computing was a vision of using and sharing computers and data in the early
1990s. The integration, coordination, and sharing of computer resources which are
geographically disperse among different physical domains and organizations
became an every day reality. This emerging infrastructure aims to provide a mechanism
for sharing...
This work deals with a well-defined class of probabilistic models. The focus
is on polymers. More precisely I should say that the focus is on the
equilibrium statistical mechanics of a class of polymers: dynamical and
non-equilibrium phenomena are not treated, reflecting the fact that these
directions are at the moment...
A major thrust of computer science is the design, analysis, implementation, and scicntific
evaluation of algorithms to solve critical problems. In addition, new challenges are being
offered to computer scientists in the field of computational science and engineering, which
includes challenging problems in computational biology,...
With knowledge representation we face more or less the same problem as Augustine
(354–430) when thinking about time: if nobody asks what it is, it seems
clear enough, but being asked it proves to be very difficult to provide an answer.
At the beginning of our research we thought that a solution for the problem
of...
This volume presents the fundamentals of graph theory and then goes on to discuss specific chemical applications. Chapter 1 provides a historical setting for the current upsurge of interest in chemical graph theory. chapter 2 gives a full background of the basic ideas and mathematical formalism of graph theory and includes such chemically...
Today is the most exciting time to be working in nanotechnology, and bionanotechnology
in particular. Chemistry, biology, and physics have revealed
an immense amount of information on molecular structure and
function, and now we are poised to make use of it for atomic-level engineering.
New discoveries are being made every day, and...
