This volume constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 12th International Workshop on Combinatorial Image Analysis, IWCIA 2008, held in Buffalo, NY, USA, in April 2008.
The 28 revised full papers and 10 revised poster papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 117 initial submissions. The papers are organized in topical...
“This is a source book for the history of the future.
Vint Cerf, Senior Vice President, Internet Architecture and Engineering, MCI Communications
The grid promises to fundamentally change the way we think about and use computing. This infrastructure will connect multiple regional and national computational...
The confluence of cloud computing, parallelism and advanced machine intelligence approaches has created a world in which the optimum knowledge system will usually be architected from the combination of two or more knowledge-generating systems. There is a need, then, to provide a reusable, broadly-applicable set of design patterns to empower...
This book offers a unique insight into the building of virtual machines for sequential, object-oriented and parallel languages, and uses comparisons of different VMs to provide actual, practical examples.
State transitions are used as a formal technique for the specification of virtual machines throughout and – in addition...
Platform Based Design at the Electronic System Level presents a multi-faceted view of the set of problems that the electronic industry currently faces in the development and integration of complex heterogeneous systems (including both hardware and software components). It analyses and proposes solutions related to the...
This book focuses on the synthesis of lower-mobility parallel manipulators, presenting a group-theory-based method that has the advantage of being geometrically intrinsic. Rotations and translations of a rigid body as well as a combination of the two can be expressed and handled elegantly using the group algebraic structure of the set of...
As a PHP developer, you have some great tools for developing web applications. Ruby on Rails is another key tool to add to your web development toolbox. Rails is a high-level web development framework that emphasizes high productivity and clean code. However, the Ruby language and Rails framework take a different approach from the way many PHP...
With the unprecedented rate at which data is being collected today in almost all
elds of human endeavor, there is an emerging economic and scienti c need to
extract useful information from it. For example, many companies already have
data-warehouses in the terabyte range (e.g., FedEx, Walmart). The World Wide
Web has an estimated 800...
There is a growing interest in large computing systems which operate
in a highly parallel manner, in computing machines which can construct
copies or variants of themselves, and in models for biological reproduc
tion. Cellular automata provide a common basis for investigations in
all these areas. The major pioneering work in...
Intel® Xeon Phi™ Coprocessor Architecture and Tools: The Guide for Application Developers provides developers a comprehensive introduction and in-depth look at the Intel Xeon Phi coprocessor architecture and the corresponding parallel data structure tools and...
