The new Chapter 1 engages students with intriguing facts and figures to get them excited about studying computers and programming. The chapter includes a table of some of...

This is a book on the organization and architecture of theJava Virtual Machine(JVM), the software at the heart of the Java language and is found inside most computers,Web browsers, PDAs, and networked accessories. It also covers general principles of machine organization and architecture, with llustrations from other popular (and...

"Professor Andreas F. Molisch, renowned researcher and educator, has put together the comprehensive book, Wireless Communications. The second edition, which includes a wealth of new material on important topics, ensures the role of the text as the key resource for every student, researcher, and practitioner in the...

T^his book is designed for a two-semester sequence in computer science, beginning with what is typically known as Data Structures and continuing with advanced data structures and algorithm analysis. It is appropriate for the courses from both the two-course and three-course sequences in "B.l...

Steganography and steganalysis, the hiding and detection of a covert payload within an innocent cover object, started to receive attention from the computer science, engineering, and mathematics communities in the 1990s. At first the problems were not clearly defined, but proper statistical foundations were proposed and mathematical...

The present work grew out of lecture notes I prepared for a Vh hour tutorial that I was invited to give at the 29th IEEE Computer Conference (CompCon) in San Francisco on February 27, 1987. I have just completed a substantial update of the material, including the addition of several topics. My main purpose is to provide a...

The important role that discrete structures plays in computer science is gaining recognition. Computing Curricula 2001 (CC2001), the latest curriculum recommendation for computer- related education, was a joint undertaking of the Institute for Electrical and Electronic Engineers/Computer Society (IEEE/CS) and the Association for...

This unique event aims at bringing together researchers from software engineering and security engineering, which might help to unite and further develop the two communities in this and future...

This book and its companion volume, LNCS vols. 6145 and 6146, constitute the proceedings of the International Conference on Swarm Intelligence (ICSI 2010) held in Beijing, the capital of China, during June 12-15, 2010. ICSI 2010 was the first gathering in the world for researchers working on all aspects of swarm intelligence, and...

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