This textbook is designed for two principal photography student types. One group is the student in an
academic setting. Students are expected to acquire a solid grasp of the theories and concepts of their
various courses. This is the Knowledge point of the “KSAs” frequently required by employers. Students
in an academic...
People often ask me why I chose to publish this work. Primarily, this book was
motivated by my experience in industry after having been in the academic world for
many years. We often hear about the need to bridge the gap between industry and
academia, but one can easily intellectually understand something without having
experienced it...
Connections between the theory of hyperbolic manifolds and the theory of
automata are deeply interwoven in the history of mathematics of this century.
The use of symbol sequences to study dynamical systems originates in the
work of Kocbe [Koc27, Koe29] and Morse [Mor87j, who both used symbol
saliences to code geodesies on a...
The use of modular and parallel programming languages, and the development of distributed architectures is having a profound influence on computer programming and systems design; hardware and performance can now conspire to produce much higher operating speeds than could previously be achieved through sequential processing. Executing...
Embedded computer systems are electronic systems that include a microcomputer to perform
specific dedicated tasks. The computer is hidden inside these products. Embedded
systems are ubiquitous. Every week millions of tiny computer chips come pouring out
of factories like Freescale, Microchip, Philips, Texas Instruments, Silicon Labs,...
In the early 1990s, the establishment of the Internet brought forth a
revolutionary viewpoint of information storage, distribution, and processing:
the World-Wide Web is becoming an enormous and expanding
distributed digital library. Along with the development of the Web, image
indexing and retrieval have grown into research areas...
The third edition of this text contains key improvements and changes that continue to
provide instructors and students with the best information technology auditing text
available. This edition has been reorganized and expanded to address the internal control
and audit issues mandated by Sarbanes-Oxley legislation. The third edition...
In the last three decades, machine learning research and practice have
focused on batch learning usually using small datasets. In batch learning, the
whole training data is available to the algorithm, which outputs a decision
model after processing the data eventually (or most of the times) multiple
times. The rationale behind this...
During the 1980's the flat relational model (relational model), which was initiated by
Codd in 1970, gained immense popularity and acceptance in the market place. One of
the main reasons for this success is that the relational model provides physical data
independences i.e. changing the physical organization of the database does not...
Wiley-Interscience Series in Discrete Mathematics and Optimization Advisory Editors Ronald L. Graham Jan Karel Lenstra Robert E. Tarjan Discrete Mathematics and Optimization involves the study of finite structures. It is one of the fastest growing areas in mathematics today. The level and depth of recent advances in the area and the wide...
This book is intended as an introduction to the design of digital processors that are dedicated to
performing a particular task. It presents a number of general methods and also covers general
purpose architectures such as programmable processors and configurable logic. In fact, the
dedicated digital system might be based on a standard...
Ad hoc and sensor networks continue to have a growing impact
on communication. These cost-effective wireless networks provide
location independent computing in environments ranging from
military battlefields to in-home patient monitoring systems. However,
having real-time connectivity to critical information over an open...