Diese mathematisch orientierte Einfuhrung in typische Klimamodelle stellt anhand konkreter Modelle den Prozess von der Modellbildung uber die mathematische Analyse bis zur konkreten Umsetzung (Simulation) am Rechner in den Mittelpunkt. Dabei werden auch die zur Simulation wichtigen Bereiche der Mathematik und der Informatik wie Entwicklung und Konvergenz von Algorithmen und Umgang mit hochdimensionalen Problemen behandelt. Viel Wert wird auf eine verstandliche Erklarung der Grundprinzipien der...
A guide to using Mathematica so as to explore cellular automata within natural phenomena, such as insect colonies, bird flight paths and even DNA sequencing. Designed for physicists, life scientists, and engineers - in fact, everyone dealing with fractals - the book first introduces Mathematica before going on to provide the valuable information needed to properly motivate the code and run the simulations presented in the book. All these simulations have been tested both inside and outside the c...
This book constitutes the proceedings of the 27th International Conference on Architecture of Computing Systems, ARCS 2014, held in Lubeck, Germany, in February 2014. The 20 papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 44 submissions. They are organized in topical sections named: parallelization: applications and methods; self-organization and trust; system design; system design and sensor systems; and virtualization: I/O, memory, cloud; dependability: safety, securi...
Input Modeling with Phase-Type Distributions and Markov Models (SpringerBriefs in Mathematics)
by Peter Buchholz, Jan Kriege, and Iryna Felko
Containing a summary of several recent results on Markov-based input modeling in a coherent notation, this book introduces and compares algorithms for parameter fitting and gives an overview of available software tools in the area. Due to progress made in recent years with respect to new algorithms to generate PH distributions and Markovian arrival processes from measured data, the models outlined are useful alternatives to other distributions or stochastic processes used for input modeling. Gra...
Intelligent Energy Demand Forecasting (Lecture Notes in Energy, #10)
by Wei-Chiang Hong
As industrial, commercial, and residential demands increase and with the rise of privatization and deregulation of the electric energy industry around the world, it is necessary to improve the performance of electric operational management. Intelligent Energy Demand Forecasting offers approaches and methods to calculate optimal electric energy allocation to reach equilibrium of the supply and demand. Evolutionary algorithms and intelligent analytical tools to improve energy demand forecasting ac...
Informatics in Control, Automation and Robotics (Lecture Notes in Electrical Engineering, #133)
Session 2 includes 110 papers selected from 2011 3rd International Asia Conference on Informatics in Control, Automation and Robotics (CAR 2011), held on December 24-25, 2011, Shenzhen, China. As we all know, the ever growing technology in robotics and automation will help build a better human society. This session will provide a unique opportunity for the academic and industrial communities to address new challenges, share solutions, and discuss research directions for the future. Robotics re...
Fpga-Accelerated Simulation of Computer Systems (Synthesis Lectures on Computer Architecture)
by Hari Angepat, Derek Chiou, Eric S Chung, and James C Hoe
To date, the most common form of simulators of computer systems are software-based running on standard computers. One promising approach to improve simulation performance is to apply hardware, specifically reconfigurable hardware in the form of field programmable gate arrays (FPGAs). This manuscript describes various approaches of using FPGAs to accelerate software-implemented simulation of computer systems and selected simulators that incorporate those techniques. More precisely, we describe a...
Parallel Computing Technologies (Theoretical Computer Science and General Issues, #10421) (Lecture Notes in Computer Science, #6873)
This book constitutes the proceedings of the Third International Conference on Parallel Computing Technologies, PaCT '95, held in St. Petersburg, Russia in September 1995. The volume presents 45 revised full papers selected from a total of 98 submissions, including six invited presentations. The proceedings is organized in parts on theory, software, hardware and architecture, and applications to large-scale problems. Parallel processing technologies are shown to be the touchstone of parallel the...
This book is a compilation of 21 papers presented at the International Cramer Symposium on Insurance Mathematics (ICSIM) held at Stockholm University in June, 2013. The book comprises selected contributions from several large research communities in modern insurance mathematics and its applications.The main topics represented in the book are modern risk theory and its applications, stochastic modelling of insurance business, new mathematical problems in life and non-life insurance and related to...
Modeling and Using Context (Lecture Notes in Computer Science, #3554) (Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence, #3554)
by Anind Dey
Context is of crucial importance for research and applications in many disciplines, as evidenced by many workshops, symposia, seminars, and conferences on specific aspects of context. The International and Interdisciplinary Conference on Modeling and Using Context (CONTEXT), the oldest conference series focusing on context, provides a unique interdisciplinary emphasis, bringing together participants from a wide range of disciplines, including artificial intelligence, cognitive science, computer...
User Modeling 2005 (Lecture Notes in Computer Science, #3538) (Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence, #3538)
by Liliana Ardissono
The 33 revised full papers and 30 poster summaries presented together with papers of 12 selected doctoral consortium articles and the abstracts of 3 invited lectures were carefully reviewed and selected from 160 submissions. The book offers topical sections on adaptive hypermedia, affective computing, data mining for personalization and cross-recommendation, ITS and adaptive advice, modeling and recognizing human activity, multimodality and ubiquitous computing, recommender systems, student mod...
The Use of Parallel Processors in Meteorology
This text presents collected papers of the Third Workshop on this topic held at the European Centre of Medium-Range Weather Forecasts (ECMWF). It provides an insight into the state of the art in using parallel processors operationally, and allows extrapolation to other time-critical applications. It also documents the advent of massively parallel systems to cope with these applications.
Background Subtraction (Synthesis Lectures on Computer Vision)
by Ahmed Elgammal
Background subtraction is a widely used concept for detection of moving objects in videos. In the last two decades there has been a lot of development in designing algorithms for background subtraction, as well as wide use of these algorithms in various important applications, such as visual surveillance, sports video analysis, motion capture, etc. Various statistical approaches have been proposed to model scene backgrounds. The concept of background subtraction also has been extended to detect...
Mathematical Computational with Maple V: Ideas and Applications
This volume contains the proceedings for the second annual Maple Summer Workshop and Symposium (MSWS '93) held at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, on June 28-30, 1993. The goal of this international conference was to encourage innovative applications of the Maple V mathematical computation system. Papers were presented on a wide range of application areas by authors from many countries including USA, Canada, France, and Japan. The papers in this collection are organized into four subject a...
Iutam Symposium on Modelling Nanomaterials and Nanosystems (IUTAM Bookseries, #13)
Recent interest in nanotechnology is challenging the community to analyse, develop and design nanometer to micrometer-sized devices for applications in new generations of computer, electronics, photonics and drug delivery systems. To successfully design and fabricate novel nanomaterials and nanosystems, we must necessarily bridge the gap in our understanding of mechanical properties and processes at length scales ranging from 100 nanometers (where atomistic simulations are currently possible) to...
Influence of Climate Change on the Changing Arctic and Sub-Arctic Conditions
Introduction to Evolutionary Algorithms (Decision Engineering)
by Xinjie Yu and Mitsuo Gen
Fuzzy Database Modeling with XML (Advances in Database Systems, #29)
by Zongmin Ma
Fuzzy Database Modeling with XML aims to provide a single record of current research and practical applications in the fuzzy databases. This volume is the outgrowth of research the author has conducted in recent years. Fuzzy Database Modeling with XML introduces state-of-the-art information to the database research, while at the same time serving the information technology professional faced with a non-traditional application that defeats conventional approaches. The research on fuzzy conceptual...
The goal of the International Workshop on Expert Systems in Engineering is to stimulate the flow of information between researchers working on theoretical and applied research topics in this area. It puts special emphasis on new technologies relevant to industrial engineering expert systems, such as model-based diagnosis, qualitative reasoning, planning, and design, and to the conditions in which they operate, in real time, with database support. The workshop is especially relevant for engineeri...
Practice of Constitutive Modelling for Saturated Soils
by Zhen-Yu Yin, Pierre-Yves Hicher, and Yin-Fu Jin
This book describes the development of a constitutive modeling platform for soil testing, which is one of the key components in geomechanics and geotechnics. It discusses the fundamentals of the constitutive modeling of soils and illustrates the use of these models to simulate various laboratory tests. To help readers understand the fundamentals and modeling of soil behaviors, it first introduces the general stress-strain relationship of soils and the principles and modeling approaches of variou...