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...
Although speech is the most natural form of communication between humans, most people find using speech to communicate with machines anything but natural. Drawing from psychology, human-computer interaction, linguistics, and communication theory, Practical Speech User Interface Design provides a comprehensive yet concise...
The 16th edition of the International Conference on Reliable Software Technologies
– Ada-Europe 2011—took place in the John McIntyre Conference Centre,
Edinburgh (UK). Previous editions of the conference were held in Switzerland
(Montreux 1996 and Geneva 2007), United Kingdom (London 1997 and York
2005), Sweden (Uppsala...
It is our pleasure to welcome you to the third edition of the International Symposium
on Engineering Secure Software and Systems.
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...
The area of pattern recognition and computer vision, after over 35 years of
continued development, has now reached its maturity. The theories, techniques
and algorithms are mostly well developed. There are a number of applications
which are still being explored. New approaches motivated by applications and new
computer architectures...
The present book includes a set of selected papers from the fourth “International
Conference on Informatics in Control Automation and Robotics” (ICINCO 2007),
held at the University of Angers, France, from 9 to 12 May 2007. The conference was
organized in three simultaneous tracks: “Intelligent Control Systems and...
Additives are added to food to perform different technological functions, for
example, to increase shelf life (preservatives), or to protect against rancidity
(antioxidants). The use of additives in food is controlled by separate legislation
relating to, for example, colours in food, sweeteners, miscellaneous additives
(other than...
Parallel computing has been confined, for much of its over 40 year history, to highly
specialized, technology-wise advanced domains such as scientific computing or
telecommunications. There were only a few experts who had the background and
experience to write efficient, robust and scalable programs for these parallel machines.
In the emerging era of Web 3.0, securing cyberspace has gradually evolved into a
critical organizational and national research agenda inviting interest from a multidisciplinary
scientific workforce. There are many avenues into this area, and, in recent
research, machine-learning and data-mining techniques have been applied to design,...
Welcome to the special issue of the International Journal of High Speed Electronics and Systems on "High-Speed Mixed-Signal Integrated Circuits". Silicon, in particular MOS silicon, has rapidly become the de facto technology for mixed-signal integrated circuit design due to the high levels of integration possible as device...
The 3rd Eastern European Conference on Advances in Databases and Information
Systems (ADBIS’99) took place on 13-16- September 1999, in Maribor, Slovenia.
It was organized in cooperation with ACM SIGMOD, the Moscow chapter of
ACM SIGMOD, Slovenian Society Informatika, and the Slovenian Ministry of
Technology.
This book consists of 9 chapters encompassing both the fundamental
aspects of dynamic fracture mechanics as well as the studies of fracture
mechanics in novel engineering materials. The chapters have been
written by leading authorities in various fields of fracture mechanics
from all over the world. These chapters have been arranged...
