This book introduces context-aware computing, providing definitions, categories, characteristics, and context awareness itself and discussing its applications with a particular focus on smart learning
This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Collaborative Computing: Networking, Applications, and Worksharing, CollaborateCom 2016, held in Beiji
"This book explores membrane computing in the context of the fast developing field of robotics and presents the fundamental concepts of decentralized control, local interaction, stigmergy, and emergin
Cloud computing, a key trend in networking, shows that availability and fault tolerance issues can directly impact on millions of end-users. Now diffused among end-user devices in mobile and wired net
This practically-focused reference presents a comprehensive overview of the state of the art in Cloud Computing, and examines the potential for future Cloud and Cloud-related technologies to address s
The book provides a bottom-up approach to understanding how a computer works and how to use computing to solve real-world problems. It covers the basics of digital logic through the lens of comp
Mobile computing is a form of human-computer interaction facilitated by wireless communications. Some of the significant aspects of this field include mobile communications, mobile software, data tran
Computer scientists describe computing techniques that have been inspired by natural physics, chemistry, biology, and collective intelligence. Their topics include applying an electromagnetism-like
Localization and tracking are key functionalities in ubiquitous computing systems and techniques. In recent years a very high variety of approaches, sensors and techniques for indoor and GPS-denied en
This book offers a concise introduction to morphogenetic computing, showing that its use makes global and local relations, defects in crystal non-Euclidean geometry databases with source and sink, gen
This book summarizes the recent breakthroughs in hardware implementation of neuro-inspired computing using resistive synaptic devices. The authors describe how two-terminal solid-state resistive memor
This book focuses on computing devices and their design at various levels to combat variability. The authors provide a review of key concepts with particular emphasis on timing errors caused by
This book constitutes the proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Green, Pervasive, and Cloud Computing, GPC 2017, held in Cetara, Italy, in May 2017 and the following colocated workshops:
This book presents the first comprehensive overview of various verifiable computing techniques, which allow the computation of a function on outsourced data to be delegated to a server. It provides a
This edited book presents scientific results of the 4th International Conference on Applied Computing and Information Technology (ACIT 2016) which was held on December 12–14, 2016 in Las Vegas, USA. T
The book provides readers with a snapshot of the state of the art in the field of nature-inspired computing and its application in optimization. The approach is mainly practice-oriented: each bio-insp
A Gift of Fire: Social, Legal, and Ethical Issues for Computing Technology, 5/e, is ideal for courses in Computer Ethics and Computers and Society. It is also a useful reference for computer science
Grid and Cloud Computing and Applications is a compendium of articles and papers that were presented at GCA '16, an international conference that serves researchers, scholars, professionals, students,
Internet Computing and the Internet of Things is a compendium of articles and papers that were presented at ICOMP '16, an international conference that serves researchers, scholars, professionals, stu
This book provides two general granular computing approaches to mining relational data, the first of which uses abstract descriptions of relational objects to build their granular representation, whil
In 1944, Britain led the world in electronic computing. By 1974, the British computer industry was all but extinct. What happened in the intervening thirty years holds lessons for all postindustrial s
The pervasiveness of multi-core processors affects a large spectrum of systems from embedded and general-purpose to high-end computing systems. This book assists the programmers in mastering the effic
This book covers the fundamental concepts of visual computing. Whereas past books have treated these concepts within the context of specific fields such as computer graphics, computer vision or image
This book addresses Software-Defined Radio (SDR) baseband processing from the computer architecture point of view, providing a detailed exploration of different computing platforms by classifying diff
The book offers a comprehensive survey of soft-computing models for optical character recognition systems. The various techniques, including fuzzy and rough sets, artificial neural networks and geneti
How are you learning about the most important, essential, and current concepts of information technology?Computing Essentials 2017 Complete allows you to Make IT Work for You by presenting the effect
Trusted Knowledge for Parents encourages and inspires readers in the most important job of all: that of being a parent. The lessons in this book were forged in the crucible that is parenting. They hav
Rugged Embedded Systems: Computing in Harsh Environments describes how to design reliable embedded systems for harsh environments, including architectural approaches, cross-stack hardware/software tec
This book reports on the latest advances on the theories, practices, standards and strategies that are related to the modern technology paradigms, the Mobile Cloud computing (MCC) and Big Data, as the
This book gathers the peer-reviewed and revised versions of papers from the Seventh International Conference on Design Computing and Cognition (DCC'16), held at Northwestern University, Evanston (Chic
This book proposes soft computing techniques for segmenting real-life images in applications such as image processing, image mining, video surveillance, and intelligent transportation systems. The boo
This book unravels the mystery of Big Data computing and its power to transform business operations. The approach it uses will be helpful to any professional who must present a case for realizing Big
The Physics of Computing gives a foundational view of the physical principles underlying computers. Performance, power, thermal behavior, and reliability are all harder and harder to achieve as transi
Editors Turuk, Sahoo, and Addya present readers with a collection of academic and independent research into contemporary best practices in efficient resource management in cloud computing environme
This two volume set LNCS 10039 and 10040 constitutes the refereed post-conference proceedings of the Second International Conference on Cloud Computing and Security, ICCCS 2016, held in Nanjing, China
Computer scientists and engineers and information technology specialists review recent developments in cloud computing and their application in healthcare. Their topics include cloud based wireless in
This volume presents 13 chapters on the use of ambient computing, the internet of things, and smart city design in urban spaces. Information technology, architecture, and other specialists from the
This book will help future scientists to become more intelligent users of computing technology in their practice of science. The content is suitable for introductory courses on the foundations of comp
This book addresses electron spin-qubit based quantum computing and quantum information processing with a strong focus on the background and applications to EPR/ESR technique and spectroscopy. It expl
This book provides an overview of the resources and research projects that are bringing Big Data and High Performance Computing (HPC) on converging tracks. It demystifies Big Data and HPC for the read
