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...
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,...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Every year ESWC brings together researchers and practitioners dealing with
different aspects of semantic technologies. Following a successful re-launch in
2010 as a multi-track conference, the 8th Extended Semantic Web Conference
built on the success of the ESWC conference series initiated in 2004. Through its
extended concept this...
This book is designed to accompany a final year undergraduate or masters level
course in pervasive computing, although it could serve well as a course for introducing
sensors or experiment design to students in earlier years at university with
some skimming over the research focus; or equally as a getting-started guide for
PhD level...
The purpose of this book is to provide up-to-date progress both in Multiple Criteria
Programming (MCP) and Support Vector Machines (SVMs) that have become powerful
tools in the field of data mining. Most of the content in this book are directly
from the research and application activities that our research group has conducted
over the...
Approximation methods are of vital importance in many challenging applications
from computational science and engineering. This book collects papers
from world experts in a broad variety of relevant applications of approximation
theory, including pattern recognition and machine learning, multiscale modelling
of fluid flow, metrology,...
This book is for anyone who wants to implement large-scale software reuse through
object-oriented (00) application frameworks. Its purpose is to help the reader understand
one of the hottest technologies related to software reuse-frameworks-and provide
guidelines for making decisions about this technology. Decision makers such as...
This book has its origin in lecture notes created at the Naval Postgraduate School (NPS), whose student and faculty support made The book is written for senior undergraduates and first dents. Practicing engineers should especially find the book the basic knowledge of detection and estimation theory. the text deals with detection aspects,...