Monte Carlo simulation is one of the best tools for performing realistic analysis of complex systems as it allows most of the limiting assumptions on system behavior to be relaxed. The Monte Carlo Simulation Method for System Reliability and Risk Analysis comprehensively illustrates the Monte Carlo simulation method and its application to reliability and system engineering. Readers are given a sound understanding of the fundamentals of Monte Carlo sampling and simulation and its application for...
This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 8th Brazilian Symposium on Bioinformatics, BSB 2013, held in Recife, Brazil, in November 2013. The 18 regular papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected for inclusion in this book. The papers cover all aspects of bioinformatics and computational biology.
Fuzzy Logic and Applications (Lecture Notes in Computer Science, #8256) (Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence, #5571)
This volume constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-workshop proceedings of the 6th International Workshop on Fuzzy Logic and Applications held in September 2005. The 50 revised full papers and 32 short papers presented together with three invited papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 86 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on neuro-fuzzy systems, fuzzy logic and possibility theory, pattern recognition, evolutionary algorithms, control, bioinformatics, image proc...
Proceedings of the International Workshop on Combinatorial Algorithms 2008
Including easily digested information about fundamental techniques and concepts in software construction, this book is distinct in unifying pure theory with pragmatic details. Driven by generic problems and concepts, with brief and complete illustrations from languages including C, Prolog, Java, Scheme, Haskell and HTML. This book is intended to be both a how-to handbook and easy reference guide. Discussions of principle, worked examples and exercises are presented. All concepts outside introdu...
Computing Parliamentary History (Parliamentary History S., v. 13)
Computing techniques are increasingly being used to examine afresh key historical events. This collection of papers shows how they have been applied to four important political and parliamentary events in nineteenth-century Britain; the hitherto little-studied 1835 Municipal Corporation Act, which proved a watershed in the development of political parties; the well-known repeal of the Corn Laws; the equally famous fight for Home Rule for Ireland; and the development of parliamentary collective r...
Puzzled by your PC? Mad at your Macintosh? Tired of technology in general? You're not alone! Even since the HAL 9000, computers have been the gadgets everyone loves to hate. David Lubar brings you a wide-ranging collection full of off-the-mark predictions, bad advice, world-class put-downs, and even occasional words of praise from the"experts" in the field--everyone from Steve Jobs and Thomas J. Watson, Jr. to Woody Allen and George Bush. The perfect gift for anyone who's ever loved or loathed...
Critical Infrastructures at Risk (Topics in Safety, Risk, Reliability and Quality, #9)
by A.V. Gheorghe, M. Masera, M. Weijnen, and L.J. De Vries
Europe witnessed in the last years a number of significant power contingencies. Some of them revealed the potentiality of vast impact on the welfare of society and triggered pressing questions on the reliability of electric power systems. Society has incorporated electricity as an inherent component, indispensable for achieving the expected level of quality of life. Therefore, any impingement on the continuity of the electricity service would be able to distress society as a whole, affecting ind...
Adult Learning and Education in International Contexts: Future Challenges for its Professionalization (Studien zur Paedagogik, Andragogik und Gerontagogik / Studies in Pedagogy, Andragogy, and Gerontagogy, #69) (Studien Zur Padagogik, Andragogik Und Gerontagogik / Studies In Pedagogy, Andragogy, And Gerontagogy, #69)
by Regina Egetenmeyer, Sabine Schmidt-Lauff, and Vanna Boffo
This volume analyses adult education and lifelong learning as international phenomena, which have a strong influence on professionals working in this field. Based on the 2016 Wurzburg Winter School, the book identifies influences on policy at local, national and international levels. It examines the internationalization of adult education and emphasizes the emergence of different dimensions of professionalism in adult education.
This book brings Network Calculus closer to the network professional and will also have real appeal for postgraduates studying network performance. It provides valuable analytical tools and uses J as a means of providing a practical treatment of the subject. It builds a bridge between mathematics theory and the practical use of computers in the field of network performance analysis.
This book integrates the key concepts of mathematical programming (MP) and constraint programming (CP) into a unified framework that allows them to be generalized and combined. The unification of MP and CP creates optimization methods that have much greater modeling power, increased computational speed, and a sizeable reduction computational coding. This integration along with constraint programming being incorporated into a number of programming languages, brings the field a step closer to bein...
BTEC Level 3 National IT Teaching Resource Pack (BTEC National for IT Practitioners)
by Jenny Lawson, Jenny Phillips, Richard McGill, Karen Anderson, Alan Jarvis, and Andrew Smith.
Save planning time: Schemes of work, lesson plans and PowerPoint presentations help tutors make the most of their planning time they can be used as they stand or edited to suit tutors' needs. Inspirational lesson ideas: A variety of activities for use with assignments - or as a starter stimulus for group discussion - to support and stretch learners. Tutors can photocopy them as many times as needed. It's easy to update your VLE with BTEC resources: All schemes of work, lesson plans and activit...
Randomized Algorithms for Analysis and Control of Uncertain Systems (Communications and Control Engineering)
by Roberto Tempo, Giuseppe Calafiore, and Fabrizio Dabbene
Moving on from earlier stochastic and robust control paradigms, this book introduces the fundamentals of probabilistic methods in the analysis and design of uncertain systems. The use of randomized algorithms, guarantees a reduction in the computational complexity of classical robust control algorithms and in the conservativeness of methods like H-infinity control. Features: * self-contained treatment explaining randomized algorithms from their genesis in the principles of probability theory...
Sets, Logic and Maths for Computing (Undergraduate Topics in Computer Science)
by David Makinson
This book equips the student with essential intellectual tools that are needed from the very beginning of university studies in computing. These consist of abilities and skills - to pass from a concrete problem to an abstract representation, reason with the abstract structure coherently and usefully, and return with booty to the specific situation. The most basic and useful concepts needed come from the worlds of sets (with also their employment as relations and functions), structures (notably t...
A Concise Introduction to Languages and Machines (Undergraduate Topics in Computer Science)
by Alan P Parkes
A Concise Introduction to Languages, Machines and Logic provides an accessible introduction to three key topics within computer science: formal languages, abstract machines and formal logic. Written in an easy-to-read, informal style, this textbook assumes only a basic knowledge of programming on the part of the reader. The approach is deliberately non-mathematical, and features: - Clear explanations of formal notation and jargon, - Extensive use of examples to illustrate algorithms and proofs,...
The O'Leary Series: Microsoft Office 2013 with Simnet Access Card
by Linda I O'Leary and Timothy J O'Leary
The use of parallel programming and architectures is essential for simulating and solving problems in modern computational practice. There has been rapid progress in microprocessor architecture, interconnection technology and software devel- ment, which are in?uencing directly the rapid growth of parallel and distributed computing. However, in order to make these bene?ts usable in practice, this dev- opment must be accompanied by progress in the design, analysis and application aspects of parall...
Activity theory is a way of describing and characterizing the structure of human - tivity of all kinds. First introduced by Russian psychologists Rubinshtein, Leontiev, and Vigotsky in the early part of the last century, activity theory has more recently gained increasing attention among interaction designers and others in the hum- computer interaction and usability communities (see, for example, Gay and H- brooke, 2004). Interest was given a signi?cant boost when Donald Norman suggested activit...
Natural Language Processing and Text Mining not only discusses applications of Natural Language Processing techniques to certain Text Mining tasks, but also the converse, the use of Text Mining to assist NLP. It assembles a diverse views from internationally recognized researchers and emphasizes caveats in the attempt to apply Natural Language Processing to text mining. This state-of-the-art survey is a must-have for advanced students, professionals, and researchers.
The Complete Systems Administrator
by Curt Freeland and Dwight McKay
The Complete Systems Administrator is a cross-platform manual aimed at equipping IT professionals with no-nonsense solutions to everyday challenges involved in installing, configuring, and maintaining today's heterogeneous networks. Information on mission-critical tasks, tools, and required skills is drawn directly from the authors' collective 40+ years of experience as IT professionals, consultants, and educators. Extraordinarily complete coverage includes detailed, technical explanations for t...
This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Theory and Applications of Models of Computation, TAMC 2013, held in Hong Kong, China, in May 2013. The 31 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 70 submissions. Bringing together a wide range of researchers with interests in computational theory and applications, the papers address the three main themes of the conference which were computability, complexity, and algorithms and...