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High Performance Parallel Database Processing and Grid Databases (Wiley Series on Parallel and Distributed Computing)

John Wiley & Sons, 2008

The latest techniques and principles of parallel and grid database processing

The growth in grid databases, coupled with the utility of parallel query processing, presents an important opportunity to understand and utilize high-performance parallel database processing within a major database management system...

Hardware-based Computer Security Techniques to Defeat Hackers: From Biometrics to Quantum Cryptography

John Wiley & Sons, 2008

The protection of critical information and systems is a major component of today's electronic business community. This valuable reference presents the primary hardware-based computer security approaches in an easy-to-read toolbox format. The techniques discussed show readers how to perform their own evaluation of new and emerging security...

Fractal Geometry: Mathematical Foundations and Applications

John Benjamins Publishing, 2003

An accessible introduction to fractals, useful as a text or reference. Part I is concerned with the general theory of fractals and their geometry, covering dimensions and their methods of calculation, plus the local form of fractals and their projections and intersections. Part II contains examples of fractals drawn from a wide variety of areas in...

Building Robots With Lego Mindstorms : The Ultimate Tool for Mindstorms Maniacs

Syngress Publishing, 2001

This book is about building robots using Lego bricks and components. In the first section of the book (Part I) we will discuss why you might find an interest in robotics as a hobby, and why Lego is an ideal system to have a fast start and great results. If you're reading this book you probably own a Mindstorms set, so you already have an...

Automotive Embedded Systems Handbook (Industrial Information Technology)

CRC Press, 2008

Highlighting requirements, technologies, and business models, the Automotive Embedded Systems Handbook provides a comprehensive overview of existing and future automotive electronic systems. It presents state-of-the-art methodological and technical solutions in the areas of in-vehicle architectures, multipartner development...

Guide to Graphics Software Tools

Springer, 2008

Current graphics software and hardware combine to allow multiple-level functionality and open up new application areas for scientists of all disciplines, and for computer scientists and engineers in particular.

This thoroughly revised edition of this integrated guide explains and lists readily available graphics software tools and their...

Engineering the User Interface: From Research to Practice

Springer, 2008

This book contains a collection of the best papers presented at the VII International Conference on Interacción Persona-Ordenador (IPO), Human-Computer Interaction in Spanish, which took place in Puertollano (Ciudad Real) on November 13th-17th, 2006. In its seventh edition this conference has become a multidisciplinary forum for the...

VoIP Handbook: Applications, Technologies, Reliability, and Security

CRC Press, 2008

The number of worldwide VoIP customers is well over 38 million and thanks to popularity of inexpensive, high quality services such as skype is projected to increase to nearly 250 million within the next three years. The future of voice transport has officially arrived.

The VoIP Handbook: Applications, Technologies, Reliability, and...

Computational Intelligence and Feature Selection: Rough and Fuzzy Approaches (IEEE Press Series on Computational Intelligence)

John Wiley & Sons, 2008

This book provides readers with the background and fundamental ideas behind Feature Selection (FS), with an emphasis on techniques based on rough and fuzzy sets. For readers who are less familiar with the subject, the book begins with an introduction to fuzzy set theory and fuzzy-rough set theory. Next it provides a critical review of FS methods...

The VC-1 and H.264 Video Compression Standards for Broadband Video Services (Multimedia Systems and Applications)

Springer, 2008

The MPEG committee standardized the MPEG AVC (H.264) video coding standard in May 2003. The standard has since seen strong interest and adoption from the industry. A competing standard developed by Microsoft, referred to as VC-1, was standardized in SMPTE in April 2006. VC-1 is essentially a standardized version of Microsoft's Windows Media Video...

Essential CG Lighting Techniques with 3ds Max, Third Edition (Autodesk Media and Entertainment Techniques)

Focal Press, 2008

'In terms of visual impact, lighting can either make or break an animation. In this book, Darren Brooker gives this subject the respect it deserves. Thoroughly recommended reading.'
Brant Drewery, Editor, CGI Magazine

'Darren Brooker has gifted us with a fine addition to our 3D library, to be referenced and considered over and...

An Introduction to Neural Networks

CRC Press, 1997

Covers: artificial neurons as models of their real counterparts; the geometry of network action in pattern space; gradient descent methods, including back-propagation; associative memory and Hopfield nets; and self-organization and feature maps.

This book grew out of a set of course notes for a neural networks module given as part of a...

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