Distributed systems employed in critical infrastructures must fulfill dependability, timeliness, and performance specifications. Since these systems most often operate in an unpredictable environment,
This book focuses on soft computing techniques for enhancing voltage security in electrical power networks. Artificial neural networks (ANNs) have been chosen as a soft computing tool, since such netw
This book provides an emerging computational intelligence tool in the framework of collective intelligence for modeling and controlling distributed multi-agent systems referred to as Probability Colle
Developing environmental sensing and monitoring technologies become essential especially for industries that may cause severe contamination. Intelligent environmental sensing uses novel sensor techniq
Oxford International Primary Computing takes a real-life, project based approach to teaching young learners the vital computing skills they need for the changing digital world. Each unit builds a seri
Parallel and Distributed Processing Techniques and Applications is a compendium of articles and papers that were presented at PDPTA '14, an international conference that serves researchers, scholars,
The only instrument that measures behaviors associated with emotionally intelligent leadershipThe Emotionally Intelligent Leadership for Students: Inventory is an evidence-based assessment of the capa
The New State-of-the-Art in Information Security: Now Covers Cloud Computing, the Internet of Things, and CyberwarfareIT and security professionals and students have long relied onSecurity in Computin
A how-to guide to help for facilitators and instructors develop emotionally intelligent leadership capacities in their studentsThe Emotionally Intelligent Leadership for Students: Facilitation and Act
The Future of Numerical ComputingWritten by one of the foremost experts in high-performance computing and the inventor of Gustafson’s Law,The End of Error: Unum Computing explains a new approach to co
Delicate, complex drawings tell of a science-fiction world Intelligent Sentient? feels like an artifact from another time—a lost feature in OMNI magazine or the album booklet for a late-1970s Hawkwind
Get the most out of Windows 8.1 for your every day computing tasks, with no jargon. Clear, concise and to the point. This brief book, Everyday Computing With Windows 8.1 provides the essentials of usi
This book presents a collection of state of the art research on GPU Computing and Application. The major part of this book is selected from the work presented at the 2013 Symposium on GPU Computing an
What is the Role of Intelligent Technologies in the Next Generation of Robots ? This monograph gives answers to this question and presents emergent trends of Intelligent Systems and Robotics. After an
This book describes how control of distributed systems can be advanced by an integration of control, communication, and computation. The global control objectives are met by judicious combinations of
Ever since its development in the 1940s, computer scientists have debated the nature of computing as a discipline: "Is computing a scientific, theoretical, or engineering discipline?" This book presen
The Series in Intelligent Systems publishes titles that cover state-of-the-art knowledge and the latest advances in research and development in intelligent systems. Its scope includes theoretical stud
This is volume 2 of the two-volume Soft Computing and Its Applications. This volume discusses several advanced features of soft computing and hybrid methodologies. This new book essentially contains t
The Basic Computing Skills You Need to Enhance Your Academic EducationComputing Fundamentals provides students with the basic computing skills needed to get the most from their educational endeavors,
Mobile computing skills are becoming standard in the IT industryMobile Computing Deployment and Management: Real World Skills for CompTIA Mobility+ Certification and Beyond is the ultimate reference f
This book constitutes the third part of the refereed proceedings of the International Conference on Life System Modeling and Simulation, LSMS 2014, and of the International Conference on Intelligent C
Cloud computing is a relatively new process for acquiring and delivering computing services via information technology (IT) networks. Specifically, it is a means for enabling on-demand access to share
This book describes the challenges that critical infrastructure systems face, and presents state of the art solutions to address them. How can we design intelligent systems or intelligent agents that
Kick start your journey into computing and prepare for your IC3 certification With this essential course book you'll be sending e-mails, surfing the web and understanding the basics of computing in no
This book summarizes the results of various models under normal theory with a brief review of the literature. Statistical Inference for Models with Multivariate t-Distributed Errors:Includes a wide ar
Explore the frontier of electronic discovery in the cloudCloud Computing and Electronic Discovery comprehensively covers the quickly-evolving realm of eDiscovery in cloud computing environments, a com
"This timely new text provides an accessible introduction to teaching Computing, and computer programming. Specifically designed for non-specialists who need to develop new skills in Computing in orde
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This book concludes a trilogy that began with Intelligent Cities: Innovation, Knowledge Systems and digital spaces (Routledge 2002) and Intelligent Cities and Globalisation of Innovation Networks (Rou
If you are a primary trainee or practising teacher you will be learning to teach the new computing curriculum. As well as subject knowledge, you need to know what effective teaching of computing in p
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"Practical Applications of Intelligent Systems" presents selected papers from the 2013 International Conference on Intelligent Systems and Knowledge Engineering (ISKE2013). The aim of this conference
"Foundations of Intelligent Systems" presents selected papers from the 2013 International Conference on Intelligent Systems and Knowledge Engineering (ISKE2013). The aim of this conference is to bring
This book presents cloud computing, using a series of practical and fun examples. It provides comprehensive coverage of Windows Azure cloud platform, the theories behind cloud computing, as well as gu
Humanities Computing, now in paperback for the first time and including a new preface updating the original text, is widely regarded as a foundational text and one of the definitive commentaries on hu
Distributed robotics is a rapidly growing and maturing interdisciplinary research area lying at the intersection of computer science, network science, control theory, and electrical and mechanical eng
Distributed Generation and its Implications for the Utility Industry examines the current state of the electric supply industry; the upstream and downstream of the meter; the various technological, bu
"This book explores the latest innovations with cloud computing and the impact of these new models and technologies, presenting case studies and research on the future of cloud computing technologies
The theme of HumanCom and EMC is focused on the various aspects of human-centric computing for advances in computer science and its applications, embedded and multimedia computing and provides an oppo
The Cloud Computing and Services Science book comprises a collection of the best papers presented at the International Conference on Cloud Computing and Services Science (CLOSER), which was held in Th
