The field of optical thin films continues to expand at a rapid rate in both
commercial application and technology. As individuals and as a technical
community, we continue to gain new understanding as new tools, techniques,
processes, and experimental results become available. Since the publication of the
first edition, enough...
We’re surrounded by electronics these days. Did you ever wonder how it all worked? Do you know just
enough about electricity to be dangerous? Would you like to learn more? Then this book is for you.
There are many excellent textbooks on how electricity works. This is not one of them. This book
helps you get...
In recent years, much has transpired in the field of remote sensing and, in
particular, polarization. Polarization is an outgrowth of multiple, highly
accurate photometric measurements. Plane polarization is the difference
between precision photometric measurements in two mutually perpendicular
directions. Circular polarization...
Fatigue of structures and materials covers a wide scope of different topics.
The purpose of the present book is to explain these topics, to indicate
how they can be analyzed, and how this can contribute to the designing
of fatigue resistant structures and to prevent structural fatigue problems in
service.
More than fifteen years ago, I was faced with the following problem in an assignment
for a class in computer science. A brewery had to deliver beer to five stores, and the task
was to write a computer program for determining the shortest route for the truck driver to
visit all stores and return to the brewery. All my attemps to find a...
The main purpose of statistical theory is to derive from observations of a
random phenomenon an inference about the probability distribution underlying
this phenomenon. That is, it provides either an analysis (description)
of a past phenomenon, or some predictions about a future phenomenon of
a similar nature. In this book, we insist...
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...
Data management has evolved over the years from being strictly associated with
database systems, through active databases, to being a topic that has grown
beyond the scope of a single field encompassing multiple aspects: distributed
systems, event-driven systems, and peer-to-peer and streaming systems. The
present collection of works,...
If you know how to program, you have the skills to turn data into knowledge using the tools of probability and statistics. This concise introduction shows you how to perform statistical analysis computationally, rather than mathematically, with programs written in Python.
This book presents a wide-spectrum illustration of what research in Information Retrieval
has produced or will produce in the next years. The book content includes
chapters on Aggregated Search, Digital Advertising, Digital Libraries, Discovery of
Spam and Opinions in the Web, Evaluation, Information Retrieval in Context, Multimedia...
In medicine, as in any other life sciences discipline, research should start by raising
a question (hypothesis) to solve a problem. Then the scientist should select
the most appropriated method(s) to answer the question and solve the dilemma.
The obtained intermediate and final results may answer the question or may raise
additional...
My interest in oscillators started many years ago when I was an undergraduate
student and one of the laboratory experiments was the design of a Colpitts oscillator.
It was amazing to see how a sinusoidal signal appeared when the power supply
was turned on. What an interesting way of controlling the motion of electrons in
the circuit!...
