Advanced Parallel Processing Technologies (Lecture Notes in Computer Science, #2834)
This volume contains the papers presented at the 5th International Workshop on Advanced Parallel Processing Technologies, APPT 2003. This series of workshops is designed to strengthen the cooperation between the German and Chinese institutions active in the area of these technologies. It has continued to grow, providing an excellent forum for reporting advances in parallel processing technologies. The 5th workshop itself addressed the entire gamut of related topics, ranging from the architectura...
A Concise Introduction to Robot Programming with ROS2
by Francisco Martin Rico
A Concise Introduction to Robot Programming with ROS2 provides the reader with the concepts and tools necessary to bring a robot to life through programming. It will equip the reader with the skills necessary to undertake projects in ROS2, the new version of ROS. It is not necessary to have previous experience in ROS2 as it will describe its concepts, tools, and methodologies from the beginning without needing previous experience in ROS. Key Features:Uses the two programming languages officiall...
Algorithmische Informationstheorie
by Kurt-Ulrich Witt and Martin Eric Muller
Dieses Lehrbuch behandelt zunachst zentrale Themen der klassischen Theoretischen Informatik und fuhrt darauf aufbauend in die Grundlagen der Algorithmischen Informationstheorie ein. Behandelt werden insbesondere die Fragestellungen: - Was sind Algorithmen? Was koennen sie und wo liegen ihre Grenzen?- Welche Aussagen sind uber die Laufzeit moeglich? Welches sind die wichtigsten Komplexitatsklassen? Was bedeuten diese fur Theorie und Praxis?- Wie kann die strukturelle Komplexitat von Daten beschri...
The matter of anticipation is, as the editors of this volume state in their preface, a rathernewtopic. Giventhealmostconstantusewemakeofanticipationin our dailyliving,itseemsoddthatthebulk ofpsychologistshavepersistentlyignored it. However, the reason for this disregard is not di?cult to ?nd. The dogma of the scienti?c revolution had from the outset laid down the principle that future conditions and events could not in?uence the present. The law of causation clearly demands that causes should pr...
Public Key Cryptography -- Pkc 2004 (Lecture Notes in Computer Science, #2947)
PKC2004wasthe7thInternationalWorkshoponPracticeandTheoryinPublic Key Cryptography and was sponsored by IACR, the International Association for Cryptologic Research (www. iacr. org). This year the workshop was organized 2 in cooperation with the Institute for Infocomm Research (I R), Singapore. There were 106 paper submissions from 19 countries to PKC 2004. That is the highest submission number in PKC history. Due to the large number of submissionsandthehighqualityofthe submittedpapers,notallthep...
This volume contains the 74 contributed papers and abstracts of 4 of the 5 invited talks presented at the 10th Annual European Symposium on Algorithms (ESA 2002), held at the University of Rome "La Sapienza", Rome, Italy, 17-21 September, 2002. For the ?rst time, ESA had two tracks, with separate program committees, which dealt respectively with: - the design and mathematical analysis of algorithms (the "Design and An- ysis" track); - real-world applications, engineering and experimental analysi...
The proceedings of ECML/PKDD 2004 are published in two separate, albeit - tertwined,volumes:theProceedingsofthe 15thEuropeanConferenceonMac- ne Learning (LNAI 3201) and the Proceedings of the 8th European Conferences on Principles and Practice of Knowledge Discovery in Databases (LNAI 3202). The two conferences were co-located in Pisa, Tuscany, Italy during September 20-24, 2004. It was the fourth time in a row that ECML and PKDD were co-located. - ter the successful co-locations in Freiburg (20...
Brig's Handbook of Methods & Research in Wireless Network Security (2 Volumes)
"What joy to discern the minute in in?nity, the vast to perceive in the small, what divinity!" Jacob Bernoulli (1654-1705) in Ars Conjectandi (1713) We are proud to present to you the proceedings of the Sixth International C- ference on Cellular Automata for Research and Industry (ACRI 2004), held in Amsterdam, The Netherlands on October 25-27, 2004. Since the ?rst conference in Italy, ACRI, which is held biennially, has become the premier conference in the ?eld of cellular automata in Europe an...
Brig's Handbook of Methods & Research in Materials Chemistry and Physics (2 Volumes)
Data and Applications Security XIX (Lecture Notes in Computer Science, #3654)
by Sushil Jajodia
Peertopeer Systems IV (Lecture Notes in Computer Science, #3640)
by Miguel Castro
The4th InternationalWorkshoponPeer-to-PeerSystemswasheld atCornellon February 24th and 25th 2005.The IPTPS workshopcontinued to bring together researchersand practitioners from a variety of disciplines, including networking, theory,databases,security,andscienti?ccomputing. Theydescribedexperim- tal ?ndings, discussed challenges, and presented novel techniques. We received 123 submissions. Submissions were limited to 6 pages, one page morethanin previousyears.ThesubmissionswerereviewedbyaProgramC...
Europar 2005 Parallel Processing (Lecture Notes in Computer Science, #3648) (Theoretical Computer Science and General Issues, #3648)
by Jose C Cunha
This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the '11th International Conference on Parallel Computing, Euro-Par 2005', held in Lisbon, Portugal, in August-September 2005. The 120 revised papers presented together with 4 invited papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 388 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on support tools and environments, performance prediction and evaluation, scheduling and load balancing, compilers for high performance, parallel and distri...
Unconventional Computation (Lecture Notes in Computer Science, #3699)
by Cristian S. Calude
The Fourth International Conference on Unconventional Computation, UC 2005, organized under the auspices of EATCS by the Centre for Discrete Mathematics and Theoretical Computer Science and the Department of C- puter Science and Arti?cial Intelligence of the University of Seville, was held in Seville, October 3-7, 2005. Seville, one of the most beautiful cities in Spain, is at its best in October. An explosion of colour and contrast: ?amenco, bull?ghting, and a lively at- sphere in the streets d...
Vector and Parallel Processing - Vecpar 2000 (Lecture Notes in Computer Science, #1981)
This book is the ?nal outcome of VECPAR 2000 - 4th International Meeting on Vector and Parallel Processing. VECPAR constitutes a series of conferences, which have been organized by the Faculty of Engineering of the University of Porto since 1993, with the main objective of disseminating new knowledge on parallel computing. Readership of This Book The book is aimed at an audience of researchers and graduate students in a broad range of scienti?c areas, including not only computer science, but als...
Advanced Lectures on Machine Learning (Lecture Notes in Computer Science, #2600)
The Computers and Games (CG) series began in 1998 with the objective of showcasing new developments in arti?cial intelligence (AI) research that used games as the experimental test-bed. The ?rst two CG conferences were held at Hamamatsu,Japan(1998,2000).ComputersandGames2002(CG2002)wasthe third event in this biennial series. The conference was held at the University of Alberta(Edmonton,Alberta,Canada),July25-27,2002.Theprogramconsisted of the main conference featuring refereed papers and keynote...
WithgreatpleasurewewelcomedtheattendeestoEWSN2004,the1stEuropean Workshop on Wireless Sensor Networks, held in the exciting and lively city of Berlin. Wireless sensor networks are a key technology for new ways of interaction betweencomputersandthephysicalenvironmentwhichsurroundsus.Compared to traditional networking technologies, wireless sensor networks are faced with a rather unique mix of challenges: scalability, energy e?ciency, self-con?guration, constrainedcomputationandmemoryresourcesinin...
This book introduces readers to modern computational mechanics based on the finite element method. It helps students succeed in mechanics courses by showing them how to apply the fundamental knowledge they gained in the first years of their engineering education to more advanced topics. In order to deepen readers’ understanding of the derived equations and theories, each chapter also includes supplementary problems. These problems start with fundamental knowledge questions on the theory present...
Search algorithms aim to find solution or data with specific properties from a massive set of data. This book is packed with practical explanations of the search algorithms used in various computer systems. The book mainly targets wide group range of researches and master students. The book deals rather with the search algorithms applications than the search algorithms itself.
Are all film stars linked to Kevin Bacon? Why do the stock markets rise and fall sharply on the strength of a vague rumour? How does gossip spread so quickly? Are we all related through six degrees of separation? There is a growing awareness of the complex networks that pervade modern society. We see them in the rapid growth of the internet, the ease of global communication, the swift spread of news and information, and in the way epidemics and financial crises develop with startling speed and i...
This is a self-contained introduction to algebraic curves over finite fields and geometric Goppa codes. There are four main divisions in the book. The first is a brief exposition of basic concepts and facts of the theory of error-correcting codes (Part I). The second is a complete presentation of the theory of algebraic curves, especially the curves defined over finite fields (Part II). The third is a detailed description of the theory of classical modular curves and their reduction modulo a pri...
Invariant Methods in Discrete and Computational Geometry
Invariant, or coordinate-free methods provide a natural framework for many geometric questions. Invariant Methods in Discrete and Computational Geometry provides a basic introduction to several aspects of invariant theory, including the supersymmetric algebra, the Grassmann-Cayler algebra, and Chow forms. It also presents a number of current research papers on invariant theory and its applications to problems in geometry, such as automated theorem proving and computer vision. Audience:...