Parallel and Distributed Computing and Networks

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This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the First International Multi Topic Conference, IMTIC 2008, held in Jamshoro, Pakistan, in April 2008.The 46 revised full papers presented were carefu

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Learning Together Online: Research on Asynchronous Learning Networks is both a textbook for graduate students and a professional reference for faculty teaching online, researchers conducting studies,

How scientists are using nature as model and metaphor to reinvent computing: a survey of an emerging field.

On June 25, 1876, 611 men of the United States 7th Cavalry rode towards the banks of the Little Bighorn where three thousand Indians stood waiting for battle. The lives of two great war leaders would

Since World War II, a group of scientists has been attempting to understand the human nervous system and to build computer systems that emulate the brain's abilities. Many of the early workers in this

The Message Passing Interface (MPI) specification is widely used for solving significant scientific and engineering problems on parallel computers. There exist more than a dozen implementations on co

Using MPI is a completely up-to-date version of the authors' 1994 introduction to the core functions of MPI. It adds material on the new C++ and Fortran 90 bindings for MPI throughout the book.

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"Vector Models for Data-Parallel Computing "describes a model of parallelism that extends and formalizes the Data-Parallel model on which the Connection Machine and other supercomputers are based. It

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A hands-on, code-based guide to leveraging Julia in a variety of scientific and data-driven scenarios Key Features: Augment your basic computing skills with an in-depth introduction to JuliaFocus on topic-based approaches to scientific problems and visualisationBuild on prior knowledge of programming languages such as Python, R, or C/C++Purchase of the print or Kindle book includes a free PDF eBook Book Description: Julia is a well-constructed programming language which was designed for fast execution speed by using just-in-time LLVM compilation techniques, thus eliminating the classic problem of performing analysis in one language and translating it for performance in a second.This book is a primer on Julia's approach to a wide variety of topics such as scientific computing, statistics, machine learning, simulation, graphics, and distributed computing.Starting off with a refresher on installing and running Julia on different platforms, you'll quickly get to grips with the core concept

Volume 51 is a thematic volume on Prisons and Prisoners. Since 1979, the Crime and Justice series has presented a review of the latest international research, providing expertise to enhance the work of sociologists, psychologists, criminal lawyers, justice scholars, and political scientists. The series explores a full range of issues concerning crime, its causes, and its cures. In both the review and the occasional thematic volumes, Crime and Justice offers an interdisciplinary approach to address core issues in criminology. Periodic thematic volumes present research results, reports, and essays on specific topics in criminology. These include Organizing Crime: Mafias, Markets, and Networks (Volume 49); American Sentencing: What Happens and Why? (Volume 48); Reinventing American Criminal Justice (Volume 46); Sentencing Policies and Practices in Western Countries: Comparative and Cross-National Perspectives (Volume 45); Why Crime Rates Fall, and Why They Don't (Volume 43); Crime and J

Many machine learning algorithms require real-valued feature vectors of data instances as inputs. By projecting data into vector spaces, representation learning techniques have achieved promising performance in many areas such as computer vision and natural language processing. There is also a need to learn representations for discrete relational data, namely networks or graphs. Network Embedding (NE) aims at learning vector representations for each node or vertex in a network to encode the topologic structure. Due to its convincing performance and efficiency, NE has been widely applied in many network applications such as node classification and link prediction.This book provides a comprehensive introduction to the basic concepts, models, and applications of network representation learning (NRL). The book starts with an introduction to the background and rising of network embeddings as a general overview for readers. Then it introduces the development of NE techniques by presenting se

Aslan, Indus, and Poem are three women living uniquely different lives. The way they are within the walls of their home is very different from how they are to the rest of the world, but the reasons for their complicated existence remains the same: they're all a victim to misogyny and the expectations that patriarchy sets for women.Aslan, Indus and Poem take us through the intricacies and complexities of every woman's life.We learn that our society is riddled with misogyny and sexual harassment, and a small fighting force like feminism is what helps women pave a path to a life they can be proud to call theirs.

Although it is popularly assumed that the history of computing before the second half of the 20th century was unimportant, in fact the Industrial Revolution was made possible and even sustained by a p

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Over the last twenty years, the growing availability of computing power has had an enormous impact on the classical fields of direct and inverse scattering. The study of inverse scattering, in particu

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This textbook provides an introduction to Scientific Computing and algorithms that help solve computational problems in science and engineering. The book will be designed to serve both professionals

This book presents an ethnographic study of environmental Christian networks involved in the climate and transition towns movements. Maria Nita examines the ways in which green Christians engage with

This book sketches the history of higher education, in parallel with the development of science. Its goal is to draw attention to the historical tensions between the aims of higher education and those