Parallel and Distributed Computing and Networks

In this groundbreaking work, distinguished contributors explore the myriad relationships between networks of social support and the development, treatment, and rehabilitation of individuals with cardi

Using the tools of complexity theory, Stephen Judd develops a formal description of associative learning in connectionist networks. He rigorously exposes the computational difficulties in training neu

Computers and Thought provides a unified, self-contained introduction to artificial intelligence for readers with little or no computing background.

The evolution of logistics networks during the last decades can be characterized by a strong rationalization of business processes. This ongoing rationalization has led to a constant search for econom

《Theory and Application of Neural Networks（神經網絡理論及應用）》闡述了基於群組及Lp正則項稀疏神經元反應的多種神經網絡建模的思想，介紹了以大腦神經元反應能耗為約束的多目標稀疏優化模型，並針對傳統前饋神經網絡、Pi-Sigma神經網絡，Sigma-Pi-Sigma 神經網絡、遞歸神經網絡、嶺多項式神經網絡、Elman 神經網絡等給出了相關的稀疏優化方案，並針對每種具體的神經網絡模型給出權值的有界性、算法的強、弱收斂性分析，同時通過大量的回歸、分類實例驗證了算法理論的正確性及算法的有效性。

To solve the problems existing in the research and application of elastic tube bundle(ETB)heatexchangers,vibration and heat transfer of ETBs in heat exchangers under shell-side fluid inductionare systematically studied in this book.There are nine chapters,including introduction,numericalcalculation method,vibration of ETBs induced by uniform shell-side fluid,vibration and heat transferanalysis of ETBs induced by actual shell-side fluid,design of a shell-side distributed pulsating flowgenerator,effect of pulsating flow generator on vibration and heat transfer of ETBs,effect of baffleson vibration and heat transfer of TETBs,research on vibration-enhanced heat transfer of IETB heatexchanger,and effect of baffle structure onthe performance of IETB heat exchanger.This book can be used as a reference for researchers and engineering technicians engaged inenergy recycling,enhanced heat transfer,vibration control and other fields.This book can also beused as a reference for teaching courses suc

Timely and reliable information on natural resources, regarding their potential and limitations, is a prerequisite for sustainable development. Geospatial technologies offer immense potential in providing such information in a timely and cost-effective manner. Using orbital sensors data in conjunction with airborne and proximal sensors to generate information on soils and agricultural resources, forests, mineral resources, fossil fuel, wetlands, water resources, and marine resources, this book focuses on the advancements in technologies applicable to managing these resources. It addresses global issues like climate change and land degradation neutrality and introduces Spatial Data Infrastructure (SDI) as a mechanism for sharing geospatial data. It also provides in-depth discussion on drones, crowdsourcing, cloud computing, Internet of Things, machine learning, and their applications.Features Provides a comprehensive resource on the latest developments in geospatial technologies and the

In recent decades, women's political empowerment has become a growing foreign policy and assistance priority. Every year, donor governments and multilateral organizations partner with hundreds of civil society groups to train women to run for office, support women legislators, campaign for gender quotas, and bolster women's networks in political parties and parliaments. The overarching aim is a simple one: to overcome women's persistent political exclusion in most parts of the world. What ideas about gender, power, and political change undergird these aid programs? What have practitioners and advocates learned about their strengths and weaknesses, and how have they adapted their approaches over time? And how might aid actors improve their work in this domain going forward? Drawing on extensive interviews with policymakers, practitioners, women's rights advocates, and politicians in Western donor countries and across Kenya, Morocco, Myanmar, and Nepal, Aiding Empowerment investigates ho

OpenFOAM software and its growing popularity is attributed to the scope of customization for specific applications and large scale parallel simulations. This open source software is widely used in aerospace community and its popularity is increasing at a rapid pace. Introduction to OpenFOAM for Aeronautical Engineers covers aerospace CFD which includes turbulence modelling, external aerodynamics, compressible flows, sprays and combustion from the OpenFOAM usage perspective. The book provides adequate examples covering most of the aspects of CFD code and enables readers to carry out their own modifications. Additionally, modification of existing solvers and utilities to implement new models as well as tips and tricks related to solvers used in aeronautical applications are included. Lastly, a short introduction to Linux and C++ is provided along with references to other easily available sources. Introduction to OpenFOAM for Aeronautical Engineers is for aerospace researchers, engineers,

The sociology of the Middle East has been an expanding field of inquiry since the aftermath of World War II when phenomena as diverse as urbanization, internal and international migration, and peasant societies attracted the attention of scholars working on the region. The Middle East becamecentral in key sociological debates on modernization theory and the critical responses. The Oxford Handbook of the Sociology of the Middle East connects this historical trajectory with the emergence of the sociology of Islam, inspired by Max Weber. It explores how within the global community, the Middle East has become a terrain of heightened concern within the post-Cold War context, where the promising rise of civic (and often religiously-motivated) sociopolitical movements in the 1980s and 1990s has been slowly overwhelmed by the affirmation of jihadist networks, authoritarian states, and complex supranational security apparatuses. This foundational volume starts by engagingin a critical examinati

A year of HBR's essential thinking on tech—all in one place.From quantum computing to VR training and from 3D printing to brain-computer interface, new technologies are reshaping business on the factory floor and in the C-suite. What should you and your company be doing now to take advantage of the new opportunities these technologies are creating—and to avoid falling victim to disruption?The Year in Tech, 2022: The Insights You Need from Harvard Business Review will help you understand what the latest and most important tech innovations mean for your organization and how you can use them to compete and win in today's turbulent business environment.Business is changing. Will you adapt or be left behind?Get up to speed and deepen your understanding of the topics that are shaping your company's future with the Insights You Need from Harvard Business Review series. Featuring HBR's smartest thinking on fast-moving issues—blockchain, cybersecurity, AI, and more—each book provides the founda

AI的進化已擺脫GPU/TPU而進入FPGA/ASIC裏了！物聯網及Humanoid時代，專屬AI晶片將打造未來世界當特斯拉推出Humanoid Robot時，舉世嘩然，人形機器人將成真！當然人形機器人是不會有所謂的GPU在裏面的，相對的，針對人工智慧的專屬硬體已悄然進入我們的世界。從最初深度學習加速器的產業化，到以神經形態計算為基礎的類腦晶片迅速發展，AI晶片在數年內獲得了巨大進步。在未來5年或更長時間內，我們期待以新型記憶體為基礎、利用記憶體內計算的深度學習AI晶片能夠產業化，同時期待類腦晶片逐漸取代深度學習AI晶片。10～20年後AI晶片的形態：除了比現在強大得多的性能、極低的功耗外，它將不是現在這樣硬邦邦的一塊晶圓，而可能是可彎曲、可折疊甚至全透明的薄片，可以隨時隨選列印，可以植入人類體內，甚至可能是一種用蛋白質實現或依照DNA計算、量子計算原理設計的AI晶片。使用GPU/TPU做深度學習早已落伍，本書將帶你進入全新的AI世界，讓你一窺未來20年的巨大革命。本書特色 市面上第一本AI晶片詳解專書 500強企業首席科學家多年研究心血和前瞻未來的傾心總結 1超3強，世界頂級技術公司爭先恐後大力投入AI晶片，看見未來趨勢 超過200張豐富的圖表、表格，佐以深入紮實的講解，知識含金量大上升 讓你洞察5年、10年後的AI理論、技術，以及產業趨勢本書技術內容 深度學習AI晶片 神經形態計算和類腦晶片 近似計算、隨機計算和可逆計算等數學運算 自然計算和仿生計算 元學習與元推理 有機計算和自進化AI晶片 量子場論、規範場論與球形曲面卷積 重整化群與深度學習 超材料與電磁波深度神經網路 量子機器學習與量子神經網路專家推薦This is a timely, comprehensive, and visionary book on AI Chips such as deep learning and neuromorphic computing Chips. In spite of many revolutionary and cutting-edge advances, in both theory and hardware, that made such AI chips possible, the author has succeeded to

Algorithmic graph theory has been expanding at an extremely rapid rate since the middle of the twentieth century, in parallel with the growth of computer science and the accompanying utilization of computers, where efficient algorithms have been a prime goal. This book presents material on developments on graph algorithms and related concepts that will be of value to both mathematicians and computer scientists, at a level suitable for graduate students, researchers and instructors. The fifteen expository chapters, written by acknowledged international experts on their subjects, focus on the application of algorithms to solve particular problems. All chapters were carefully edited to enhance readability and standardize the chapter structure as well as the terminology and notation. The editors provide basic background material in graph theory, and a chapter written by the book's Academic Consultant, Martin Charles Golumbic (University of Haifa, Israel), provides background material on al

The electricity industry - large power stations feeding a nationwide grid - may soon be a thing of the past. This book explains why and what can replace it - decentralized and distributed electrical r

Network flow theory has been used across a number of disciplines, including theoretical computer science, operations research, and discrete math, to model not only problems in the transportation of goods and information, but also a wide range of applications from image segmentation problems in computer vision to deciding when a baseball team has been eliminated from contention. This graduate text and reference presents a succinct, unified view of a wide variety of efficient combinatorial algorithms for network flow problems, including many results not found in other books. It covers maximum flows, minimum-cost flows, generalized flows, multicommodity flows, and global minimum cuts and also presents recent work on computing electrical flows along with recent applications of these flows to classical problems in network flow theory.

Table of Contents:I. Single Degree of Freedom Systems1. Equations of Motion, Problem Statement, and Solution Methods2. Free Vibration3. Response to Harmonic and Periodic Excitations4. Response to Arbitrary, Step, and Pulse Excitations5. Numerical Evaluation of Dynamic Response6. Earthquake Response of Linear Systems7. Earthquake Response of Inelastic Systems8. Generalized Single-Degree-of-Freedom SystemsII. Multi Degree of Freedom Systems9. Equations of Motion, Problem Statement, and Solution Methods10. Free Vibration11. Damping in Structures12. Dynamic Analysis and Response of Linear Systems13. Earthquake Analysis of Linear Systems14. Analysis of Nonclassically Damped Linear Systems15. Reduction of Degrees of Freedom16. Numerical Evaluation of Dynamic Response17. Systems with Distributed Mass and Elasticity18. Introduction to the Finite Element Method III. Earthquake Response, Design, and Evaluation of Multistory Buildings19. Earthquake Response of Linearly Elastic Buildings20. E

Founded by Robert M. Savini in 1933, Astor Pictures Corporation distributed hundreds of films in its 32 years of operation. The company distributed over 150 first run features in addition to the numer

This cross-disciplinary field utilizes the strange effects of quantum mechanics to enable information processing and computing that would be impossible on traditional 'classical' computers. The field

Sea Rovers, Silver, and Samurai traces the roots of modern global East Asia by focusing on the fascinating history of its seaways. The East Asian maritime realm, from the Straits of Malacca to the Sea of Japan, has been a core region of international trade for millennia, but during the long seventeenth century (1550 to 1700), the velocity and scale of commerce increased dramatically. Chinese, Japanese, and Vietnamese smugglers and pirates forged autonomous networks and maritime polities; they competed and cooperated with one another and with powerful political and economic units, such as the Manchu Qing, Tokugawa Japan, the Portuguese and Spanish crowns, and the Dutch East India Company.Maritime East Asia was a contested and contradictory place, subject to multiple legal, political, and religious jurisdictions, and a dizzying diversity of cultures and ethnicities, with dozens of major languages and countless dialects. Informal networks based on kinship ties or patron-client relations c

Drawing Parallels expands your understanding of the workings of architects by looking at their work from an alternative perspective. The book focuses on parallel projections such as axonometric, isome

'Everyone should read Down Girl. It should be distributed in schools and every board room, athletic department and legislative space' - Soraya ChemalyA powerful, lucid analysis of how misogyny works f

[Why is the horror genre in film and literature so perennially popular? Why do we enjoy vicarious fear? The parallel fields of sociobiology and evolutionary psychology offer an approach to unraveling

With more than 500 species distributed all around the Northern Hemisphere, the genus Quercus L. is a dominant element of a wide variety of habitats including temperate, tropical, subtropical and medit

It is widely accepted that the Viking Age (c. 800–1050) stimulated the development of long-distance, regional and local trade and exchange networks. The clearest archaeological evidence for these cont

What are protest politics and social movement activism today? What are their main features? To what extent can street citizens be seen as a force driving social and political change? Through analyses of original survey data on activists themselves, Marco Giugni and Maria T. Grasso explain the character of contemporary protest politics that we see today - the diverse motivations, social characteristics, values and networks that draw activists to engage politically to tackle the pressing social problems of our time. The study analyzes left-wing protest culture as well as the characteristics of protest politics, from the motivations of street citizens to how they become engaged in demonstrations to the causes they defend and the issues they promote, from their mobilizing structures to their political attitudes and values, as well as other key aspects such as their sense of identity within social movements, their perceived effectiveness, and the role of emotions for protest participation.

Women of letters writes a new history of English women's intellectual worlds using their private letters as evidence of hidden networks of creative exchange. The book argues that many women of this pe

From games and graphics to networks and virtual reality, computers are all around us. Today's computers can draw pictures, play games, send emails, and even land space probes on Mars. But that wasn't

This book addresses the application of computing to cultural heritage and the discipline of Digital Humanities that formed around it. Digital Humanities research is transforming how the Human record c

This textbook provides readers with the tools, techniques and cases required to excel with modern artificial intelligence methods. These embrace the family of neural networks, fuzzy systems and evolut

Using empirical data, including qualitative interviews with law enforcement practitioners and available documentation, this book examines the challenges that sophisticated organised criminal networks

MANAGEMENT OF INFORMATION SECURITY, Sixth Edition prepares you to become an information security management practitioner able to secure systems and networks in a world where continuously emerging thre

The Cemetery Keeper’s Wife tells two parallel stories going back and forth in time. When Rachel Miller moves into Union Cemetery in Hackettstown, New Jersey, with her new husband, Adam, she discovers

Since its inception, the U.S.-Mexico border has invited the creation of cultural, economic, and political networks that often function in defiance of surrounding nation-states. It has also produced in

Since its inception, the U.S.-Mexico border has invited the creation of cultural, economic, and political networks that often function in defiance of surrounding nation-states. It has also produced in