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This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 12th International Workshop on Cryptographic Hardware and Embedded Systems, CHES 2010, held in Santa Barbara, USA during August 17-20, 2010.This y
This book is concerned with the theory of computability and complexity over the real numbers. This theory was initiated by Turing, Grzegorczyk, Lacombe, Banach and Mazur and has seen rapid growth in
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Peer-to-Peer Video Streaming describes novel solutions to enhance video quality, increase robustness to errors, and reduce end-to-end latency in video streaming systems. This book will be of use to bo
This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed proceedings of the First International Conference on InformationTechnology in Bio- and Medical Informatics, held in Bilbao, Spain, in September 2010.The 1
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This book contains the refereed proceedings of the 1st International Conference on Lean Enterprise Software and Systems, LESS 2010, held in Helsinki, Finland, in October 2010. LESS 2010 is the first s
In operations research and computer science it is common practice to evaluate the performance of optimization algorithms on the basis of computational results, and the experimental approach should fol
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This expanded and updated second edition of a classic bestseller continues to take the "mystery" out of designing and analyzing algorithms and their efficacy and efficiency. Expanding on the highly su
This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-conference proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Information Security and Cryptology, Inscrypt 2009, held in Beijing, China, in December
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Yorick Wilks is a central figure in the fields of Natural Language Processing and Artificial Intelligence. This set consists of a volume of selected papers and a volume with contributions from his pee
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This book constitutes the proceedings of the International Conference on Research and Education in Robotics held in La Ferte-Bernard, France, in May 2009.
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