The chapters of this volume offer a wide range of areas where the technology of soft computing, fuzzy logic, neural networks, evolutionary computation, and probabilistic reasoning are applied, includi
Visitors to the velvet underground of computing are apt to encounter fuzzy sets, neural networks, genetic algorithms, Bayesian belief networks, rough sets, and other methodologies of uncertainty. Comp
International contributors report on new technologies, research, applications, and trends in ubiquitous and pervasive computing. Some topics explored include low power considerations, managing context
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
Sixteen contributions describe the role of pervasive computing in intelligent decision making, online advertising, manufacturing systems, quality control, human resource management, and financial syst
This collection explains cutting-edge handheld computing technologies for mobile commerce, related techniques for wireless networks and security, and new approaches to delivering image and videos to m
Computing Our Way to Paradise? challenges key assumptions concerning the role of Internet and communication technologies in globalization processes. The author argues that while globalization is predi
This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-conference proceedings of the 15th International Meeting on DNA Computing, DNA15, held in Fayetteville, AR, USA, in June 2009.The 16 revised full pap
This book presents the state of the art in simulation on supercomputers. Leading researchers present results achieved on systems of the High Performance Computing Center Stuttgart (HLRS) for the year
Growing more quickly than we can study or come to fully understand it, social computing is much more than the next thing. Whether it is due more to technology-driven convenience or to the basic human
This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Rough Sets, Fuzzy Sets, Data Mining, and Granular Computing, RSFDGrC 2009, held in Delhi, India in December 2009
The two volume set LNCS 5875 and LNCS 5876 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 5th International Symposium on Visual Computing, ISVC 2009, held in Las Vegas, NV, USA, in November/December 2009
The two volume set LNCS 5875 and LNCS 5876 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 5th International Symposium on Visual Computing, ISVC 2009, held in Las Vegas, NV, USA, in November/December 2009
Windows Azure is Microsoft's next-generation cloud-computing operating system and is designed to provide companies with new business opportunities as they migrate toward hosted services.Introducing Mi
This book represents the peer-reviewed proceedings of the Third International Symposium on Intelligent Distributed Computing – IDC 2009 held in Ayia Napa, Cyprus during October 13-14, 2009.The 36 cont
The two-volume set LNCS 5761 and LNCS 5762 constitute the refereed proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Medical Image Computing and Computer-Assisted Intervention, MICCAI 2009, held in
This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 2nd IFIP International Conference on Computer and Computing Technologies in Agriculture.The IFIP series publishes state-of-the-art results in the
The first single-source reference covering the state of the art in grid and utility computing economy research This book presents the first integrated, single-source reference on market-oriented grid
This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Adaptive and Natural Computing Algorithms, ICANNGA 2009, held in Kuopio, Finland, in April 2009.Th
This book constitutes the refereed proceedings ofthe 2nd IFIP International Conference on Computer and Computing Technologies in Agricultureheld in Beijing, Chinaon October 18-20, 2
Designed for senior undergraduate and first-year graduate students, Grid Computing: Techniques and Applications shows professors how to teach this subject in a practical way. Extensively classroom-tes
"The promise of cloud computing is here. These pages provide the 'eyes wide open' insights you need to transform your business." --Christopher Crowhurst, Vice President, Strategic Technology, Thomson
Leverage the power of the Azure Services Platform for cloud computing With the Azure Services Platform, processing and storing data moves from individual corporate servers and Web sites to larger, mo
This book constitutes the refereed post conference proceedings of the Second IFIP WG 9.7 Conference on the History of Nordic Computing, HiNC 2, held in Turku, Finland, in August 2007.The 27 revised fu
This volume presents the latest in pervasive computing and multimedia technologies. It covers an array of topics including video streaming, intelligent behavior modeling, tele-gaming, web service proc
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
Make your computer a green machine and live greener at home and at work Get on board the green machine! Green home computing means making the right technology choice for the environment, whether it b
This book constitutes the refereed proceedings ofthe 2nd IFIP International Conference on Computer and Computing Technologies in Agricultureheld inBeijing, Chinaon October 18-
The book project was launched to access the latest research related to chaos applications in intelligent computing?where researchers from all over the world provide the necessary coverage of the menti
Introduces static and dynamic pattern calculus. This book shows how Lisp is more than just lambda-calculus. It is suitable for researchers with an interest in the foundations of computing, programming
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
At the 19th Annual Conference on Parallel Computational Fluid Dynamics held in Antalya, Turkey, in May 2007, the most recent developments and implementations of large-scale and grid computing were pre
This book reveals conceptual and algorithmic perspectives on research issues, findings, and approaches to mobile and wireless peer-to-peer (P2P) computing. Chapters are in sections on information retr
HANDS-ON VIRTUAL COMPUTING offers students as well as professionals the background in virtualization technology needed to advance in today's technology workplace. It provides an overview of virtualiza
The book includes soft computing implementations of intelligent systems models. The recent popularity of fuzzy systems, neural networks and evolutionary computation, considered as related in AI, are n
The European Computing Conference offers a unique forum for establishing new collaborations within present or upcoming research projects, exchanging useful ideas, presenting recent research results,
The European Computing Conference offers a unique forum for establishing new collaborations within present or upcoming research projects, exchanging useful ideas, presenting recent research results,
The purpose of the 10th Conference on Software Engineering, Artificial Intelligence, Networking and Parallel/Distributed Computing (SNPD 2009) to be held on May 27 – 29, 2009 in Daegu, Korea is to bri
Identifies Recent Technological Developments WorldwideThe field of grid computing has made rapid progress in the past few years, evolving and developing in almost all areas, including concepts, philos
Kelly, a freelance writer and blogger, offers the reader a list of free alternatives to popular commercial software for a variety of computing tasks. Covering applications such as office and productiv
