These proceedings deal with a selection of papers presented at the 9th International Conference CASYS'09, on Computing Anticipatory Systems, 3-8 August 2009, held at HEC Management School - University
This book represents the combined peer-reviewed proceedings of the Fourth International Symposium on Intelligent Distributed Computing -- IDC 2010 and of the Second International Workshop on Multi-Age
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This volume constitutes the refereed proceedings of the Third International Conference on Contemporary Computing, IC3 2010, held in Noida, India, in August 2010.
This volume constitutes the refereed proceedings of the Third International Conference on Contemporary Computing, IC3 2010, held in Noida, India, in August 2010.
This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the IFIP WG 9.7 International Conference on the History of Computing, HC 2010, held as part of the 21st World Computer Congress, WCC 2010, in Brisban
This book is a lively introduction to numerical methods, MATLAB and technical computing. It helps readers learn about the mathematical functions in MATLAB, how to appreciate their limitations, and how
A guide to managing cloud projects, Cloud Computing Strategies provides the understanding required to evaluate the technology and determine how it can be best applied to improve business and enhance y
Historians have different views on the core identity of analogue computing. Some portray the technology solely as a precursor to digital computing, whereas others stress that analogue applications exi
Art and Technology of Entertainment Computing and Communication takes a blue sky research perspective on the field of interactive media for entertainment computing. Adrian David Cheok argues that ente
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Explains for the first time how "computing with words" can aid in making subjective judgments Lotfi Zadeh, the father of fuzzy logic, coined the phrase "computing with words" (CWW) to describe a meth
This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-workshop proceedings of the 10th International Workshop on Membrane Computing, WMC 2009, held in Curtea de Arges, Romania, during August 24 to 27, 20
Robust Nano-Computing focuses on various issues of robust nano-computing, defect-tolerance design for nano-technology at different design abstraction levels. It addresses both redundancy- and configur
Computing and Language Variation explores dialects and social difference in language, examining how (and how much) linguistic difference impedes intelligibility, how national borders accelerate and di
Contributors from India, the US, Taiwan, and Australia overview developments in pervasive computing technology, consider security concerns in pervasive computing, and look at innovative applications a
This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Distributed Computing and Networking, ICDCN 2010, held in Kolkata, India, during January 3-6, 2010. There were 16
Oracle Enterprise Manager Grid Control is gaining rapid acceptance among Oracle's installed base, and this will be the first comprehensive book covering the latest release, 10.2.0.5 due in 2009.While
This book constitutes the reviewed proceedings of the first International Conference on Cloud Computing, CloudCom 2009, held in Beijing, China, December 1-4, 2009.The 42 full papers presented together
This book constitutes the proceedings of the 7th Joint International Conference on Service-Oriented Computing, ICSOC-ServiceWave 2009, held in Stockholm, Sweden, in November 2009. The 54 contributions
The easy way to understand and implement cloud computing technology written by a team of experts Cloud computing can be difficult to understand at first, but the cost-saving possibilities are great an
The World Soft Computing (WSC) conference is an annual international online conference on applied and theoretical soft computing technology. The topics covered by the conference range from applied to
Cloud Computing: Implementation, Management, and Security provides an understanding of what cloud computing really means, explores how disruptive it may become in the future, and examines its advantag
An analytical overview of the state of the art, open problems, and future trends in heterogeneous parallel and distributed computing This book provides an overview of the ongoing academic research, d
Service computing is a cutting-edge area,popular in both industry and academia. New challenges have been introduced to develop service-oriented systems with high assurance requirements. High As
Grid technology refers to the infrastructure and set of protocols that enable the sharing, integration, and collaborative use of networked computer-based resources between multiple organizations. In t
Brings the latest advances in nanotechnology and biology to computing This pioneering book demonstrates how nanotechnology can create even faster, denser computing architectures and algorithms. Furth
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This book provides an introduction to the complex field of ubiquitous computingUbiquitous Computing (also commonly referred to as Pervasive Computing) describes the ways in which current technological
Bringing together an extensively researched area with an emerging research issue, Context-Aware Computing and Self-Managing Systems presents the core contributions of context-aware computing in the de
Enterprises are continuously leveraging advances in computing paradigms and techniques to redefine business processes and to increase process effectiveness leading to better productivity. This book b
With Security in Computing Systems, Joachim Biskup introduces, surveys and assesses the fundamentals of security with respect to all activities that individuals or groups directly or indirectly perfor
“Stability Augmentation of a Grid-connected Wind Farm” introduces a comprehensive approach to stabilizing the power output from wind farms, covering both fixed and variable speed wind turbine generato
Service-Oriented Computing (SOC) promises a world of cooperating services loosely connected, creating dynamic business processes and agile applications that span organizations and platforms. As a com
Grids are a crucial enabling technology for scientific and industrial development. Grid and Services Evolution, the 11th edited volume of the CoreGRID series, was based on The CoreGRID Middleware Wor
The opening chapter in this collection defines pervasive computing as "the smart computing environments in which tiny, invisible, wireless and/or mobile computing devices are embedded in objects like
