Recently, the rapid and fundamental advances in computing technologies have been driving the role and
scope of software systems to a new level. A number of new types of software systems are emerging,
among which service based systems, cloud computing, pervasive computing, and Internet of Things are
eminent examples. For these systems,...
A thorough guide to the classical and contemporary mathematical methods of modern signal and image processing
Discrete Fourier Analysis and Wavelets presents a thorough introduction to the mathematical foundations of signal and image processing. Key concepts and applications are addressed in a thought-provoking...
This book aims to dispel the cloud of these peripheral issues and clarify the foundations on which strong brands are built, with a distinct focus on the higher-order connect between the prospects and the brands. With the help of India-based examples and illustrations, the book analyzes why brands have become indispensable in our lives. It...
"A gifted and thoughtful writer, Metzl brings us to the frontiers of biology and technology, and reveals a world full of promise and peril." ? Siddhartha Mukherjee MD, New York Times bestselling author of The Emperor of All Maladies and The Gene
The world of IT is always evolving, but in every area there are stable, core concepts that anyone just setting out needed to know last year, needs to know this year, and will still need to know next year. The purpose of the Foundations series is to identify these concepts and present them in a way that gives you the...
In todays society the issue of security, understood in the widest context, have become a crucial one. The people of the information age, having instant access to the sources of knowledge and information expect the technology to improve their safety in all respects. That, straightforwardly, leads to the demand for methods, technologies, frameworks...
Learning classi er systems are a machine learning paradigm introduced by John Holland in 1976. They are rule-based systems in which learning is viewed as a process of ongoing adaptation to a partially unknown environment through genetic algorithms and temporal di erence learning.
From the beginning, classi er systems have attracted...
Knowledge Management (KM) is an effort to increase useful knowledge in the organization. It is
a natural outgrowth of late twentieth century movements to make organizational management and
operations more effective, of higher quality, and more responsive to constituents in a rapidly changing
global environment. This document traces...
As the most comprehensive reference work dealing with decision support systems (DSS), this book is essential for the library of every DSS practitioner, researcher, and educator. Written by an international array of DSS luminaries, it contains more than 70 chapters that approach decision support systems from a wide variety of perspectives....
Nutrition in Kidney Disease, Second Edition addresses the relationships between nutrition and (1) normal kidney function and disease, (2) the progressiveness of chronic kidney disease (CKD) and strategies to prevent further compromise, and (3) the treatment and management of kidney failure especially during medical crises, such as acute...
This book is an anthropological investigation into the different forms the economy assumes, and the different purposes it serves, when conceived from the perspective of Islamic micro-finance as a field of everyday practice. It is based on long-term ethnographic research in Java, Indonesia, with Islamic foundations active in managing...
Compressing data is an option naturally selected when faced with problems of high costs or restricted space. Written by a renowned expert in the field, this book offers readers a succinct, reader-friendly foundation to the chief approaches, methods and techniques currently employed in the field of data compression.
