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Despite means of fault prevention such as extensive testing or formal verification, errors inevitably occur during system operation. To avoid subsequent system failures, critical distributed systems, therefore, require engineering of means for fault tolerance. Achieving fault tolerance requires some redundancy, which, unfortunately,...

This international student version of Data Structures and Algorithms in Java provides an introduction to data structures and algorithms, including their design, analysis, and implementation. In terms of curricula based on the IEEEIACM 2001 Computing Curriculum, this book is appropriate for use in the courses CS102 (1I01B versions), CS103...

This book addresses the fundamentals of communications systems and networks, providing models and analytical methods for evaluating their performance. It is divided into ten chapters, which are the result of a joint effort by the authors and contributors. The authors and the contributors have a long history of collaboration, both in...

Historically, computer security is related to both cryptography and access control in operating systems. Cryptography, although mostly applied in the military and diplomacy, was used to protect communication channels and storage facilities (especially the backups). In the seventies there was a breakthrough in cryptography - the...

If wo try to identify those contributions of computer science which will be long lasting, surely one of these will be the refinement of the concept called algorithm. Ever since man invented the idea of a machine which could per form basic mathematical operations, the study of what can be computed and how it can be done well was...

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Just Enough Programming Logic and Design is a guide to developing structured program logic for the beginning programmer. Th is book contains only seven chapters and two appendices—just enough to get the student comfortable with programming logic before tackling the syntax of a programming language. Th is book is intended to...

The aim of this work is to provide a practical introduction to the formal specification of concurrent and real-time systems. It is intended for those with some basic knowledge or experience of computing but does not assume knowledge of the particular problems of concurrent and real-time systems. It concentrates on one group of languages,...

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We wrote this book for business school students who want an in-depth look at how today's business firms use information technologies and systems to achieve corporate objectives. Information systems are one of the major tools available to business managers for achieving operational excellence, developing new products and services,...