Parallel and Distributed Computing and Networks

Imagination allows individuals and groups to think beyond the here-and-now, to envisage alternatives, to create parallel worlds, and to mentally travel through time. Imagination is both extremely pers

Imagination allows individuals and groups to think beyond the here-and-now, to envisage alternatives, to create parallel worlds, and to mentally travel through time. Imagination is both extremely pers

The second edition of The Music and Literacy Connection expands our understanding of the links between reading and music by examining those skills and learning processes that are directly parallel for

The second edition of The Music and Literacy Connection expands our understanding of the links between reading and music by examining those skills and learning processes that are directly parallel for

This is a collection of essays which aims to illustrate the parallel and overlapping discourses in literary studies, creative writing, and translation studies which propose a view of translation as a

As the computer industry retools to leverage massively parallel graphics processing units (GPUs), this book is designed to meet the needs of working software developers who need to understand GPU prog

This book focuses on the interplay between the discovery of new lands and the rediscovery of old texts, describing the parallel emergence of colonialism and its critique. Utilizing readings that range

This book focuses on the interplay between the discovery of new lands and the rediscovery of old texts, describing the parallel emergence of colonialism and its critique. Utilizing readings that range

The field of human genetics has witnessed tremendous acceleration in the last decade. The parallel advances in genotyping and sequencing technology, our understanding of human genetic variation, and t

Josh Wilson’s high school history project sends him stumbling into a parallel world where the Native American people have not been displaced by colonists. Instead, the people thrive in a powerful doma

This state-of-the-art account unifies material developed in journal articles over the last 35 years, with two central thrusts: It describes a broad class of system models that the authors call 'stochastic processing networks' (SPNs), which include queueing networks and bandwidth sharing networks as prominent special cases; and in that context it explains and illustrates a method for stability analysis based on fluid models. The central mathematical result is a theorem that can be paraphrased as follows: If the fluid model derived from an SPN is stable, then the SPN itself is stable. Two topics discussed in detail are (a) the derivation of fluid models by means of fluid limit analysis, and (b) stability analysis for fluid models using Lyapunov functions. With regard to applications, there are chapters devoted to max-weight and back-pressure control, proportionally fair resource allocation, data center operations, and flow management in packet networks. Geared toward researchers and grad

The crystallization of proteins and nucleic acids and/or their complexes has become more highly automated but is still often a trial and error based approach. In parallel, a number of X-ray diffracti

Cooper (Cambridge U.) investigate the extent to which the themes treated and problems addressed in German and English lyric from the beginning of the 19th century to the middle of the 20th, parallel t

"This volume looks at how cultures use dance as a visual representation of their identity, and how "traditional" dances change. It discusses several "parallel layers" of dance: dances performed at int

Now a New York Times manga bestseller!Parallel to our dimension is a world filled with magic, home to a host of mystical beings and fantastical powers. Humanity has learned to harness these forces and

The video game industry is big business, not only in terms of the substantial revenue generated through retail sales of games themselves, but also in terms of the size and value of parallel and second

Dike Blair is part of a tradition of artists who also write. From an early point in his career Blair has worked on parallel paths, with his writing both reflecting and influencing his artistic product

Drawing a parallel between a healthy family and a healthy society, this work argues that the absence of justice in the American family--highlighted by the number of women who live below the poverty le

The apron-clad, white, stay-at-home mother. Black bus boycotters in Montgomery, Alabama. Ruth Feldstein explains that these two enduring, yet very different, images of the 1950s did not run parallel

In the wake of tragic terrorist attacks in Western Europe, so-called parallel communities have come under increased scrutiny and pressure to be engaged and integrated in the politics and society of th

This textbook presents the concepts and tools necessary to understand, build, and implement algorithms for computing elementary functions (e.g., logarithms, exponentials, and the trigonometric functio

Traveling the country and preaching the Gospel has allowed me to see things within the body of Christ, which should not be. In this book, I reveal the parallel of a common street pimp and a pastor in

From a multidisciplinary, holistic orientation, Hlupic (information systems and computing, Brunel U., UK) points out that Knowledge and Information Management (KIM) are often separated but inseparable

This book is a delight for academics, researchers and professionals working in evolutionary and swarm computing, computational intelligence, machine learning and engineering design, as well as search

This book covers iris and periocular recognition, a prominent field in Biometrics Recognition and Identity Science in the areas of security, computing, and communications research and technologies. Se

This book contains computational methods for numerically computing steady state and Hopf bifurcations. It is probably the first textbook to describe these types of numerical bifurcation techniques. Th

Discrete mathematics is quickly becoming one of the most important areas of mathematical research, with applications to cryptography, linear programming, coding theory and the theory of computing. Th

Java is now a serious computing platform for mission-critical business solutions. Advanced Java technologies are the basic building blocks of any significant corporate business application. This book

Offers advice on safely using social networks, including tips on creating passwords and searching for information.

This is a textbook in numerical analysis and scientific computing intended for students with a year of calculus coursework, and familiarity with matrix algebra and differential equations. Leader prefe

Cloud computing, traditional IT outsourcing, and business process outsourcing create challenges for traditional information security and demand a change in how security professionals evaluate risk and

The book deals with some of the fundamental issues of risk assessment in grid computing environments. The book describes the development of a hybrid probabilistic and possibilistic model for assessing

Graf (computing and information systems, Athabasca U., Canada) et al. bring together 21 articles on the integration of intelligent support and adaptive features into learning systems to provide a bett

Colgren (aerospace engineering, U. of Kansas) presents a textbook for a 40-hour course introducing the language for technical computing in a computer laboratory environment where students work with th

Artificial intelligence (AI) techniques and the finite element method (FEM) are both powerful computing tools, which are extensively used for modeling and optimizing manufacturing processes. The combi

The term ?M-Health? is defined as ?mobile computing, medical sensor, and communications technologies for healthcare.? This book not only addresses the fundamentals and basics of M-Health but also rece

This unique reference offers a balance between methodology and application, illustrating how and why to use quantile regression in a variety of areas such as economics, finance and computing. It prese

Supplying a comprehensive overview of cloud computing technology, this book provides step-by-step instruction on how to develop and secure the cloud. It provides an easy-to-understand, basic level ove

This book represents the views of one of the greatest mathematicians of the twentieth century on the analogies between computing machines and the living human brain. John von Neumann concludes that th

This book is devoted to graduate students and researchers with different scientific background (including physics, mathematics, biology, neuroscience, etc.) who wish to learn brain science beyond the