Our world today relies to an astonishing degree on systems, tools and services that belong to a vast and still growing domain known as Networking a...

This book presents and discusses research in the field of computer science, with a particular focus on network systems and quantum computing. Topic...

With today's growing and overloading volume of information, it is becoming tremendously difficult to analyse the huge amounts of data that contain ...

With respect to the ever-increasing developments in artificial intelligence and artificial neural network applications in different scopes such as ...

In this book, the authors present topical research in the study of the architectures and modelling in neurocomputing. Topics discussed include a br...

This new book presents and discusses current research in the study of computer networks. Topics discussed include an in-depth analysis of predictio...

This book presents current research in the field of computer science. Topics discussed include reactive diagnosis of active systems; managing IT re...

Presents leading-edge research in the field of computer research, technology and applications. Each contribution has been carefully selected for in...

A common approach for solving simulation-driven engineering problems is by using metamodel-assisted optimization algorithms, namely, in which a met...

Expert systems represent intelligent systems based on knowledge modeling, symbolic representation and its storage which allows for an unconventiona...

This book presents and discusses current research in the study of intelligent sensors and models, with a particular focus on the effects of these t...

Signal processing is the analysis, interpretation, and manipulation of signals. Signals of interest include sound, images, biological signals such ...

Cloud computing enables on-demand access to shared computing resources providing services more quickly and at a lower cost than having agencies mai...

Theoretical computer science focuses on the more abstract, logical and mathematical aspects of computing, such as the theory of computation, analys...

Cryptography is the study of methods to transform information from its original comprehensible form into a scrambled incomprehensible form, such th...

"Get it done well and get it done fast" are twin, apparently opposing, demands. Data architects are increasingly expected to deliver quality data m...

Multimodal interface systems make it possible to interact with computers using speech and hearing, touch and gesture. The role of vision in human c...

How do we design for data when traditional design techniques cannot extend to new database technologies? In this era of big data and the Internet o...

The object-oriented paradigm supplements traditional software engineering by providing solutions to common problems such as modularity and reusabil...

Object-Role Modeling (ORM) is a fact-based approach to data modelling that expresses the information requirements of any business domain simply in ...

Object-Role Modeling (ORM) is a fact-based approach to data modelling that expresses the information requirements of any business domain simply in ...

This book presents new results in the construction and methodology of tools to support the development of parallel programs. It focuses on tools fo...

These reports describe the data protection laws of the European Union (Part I) and of selected foreign countries (Part II). They describe the legal...

This book consists of contributions from preeminent experts in the field of network science, signal processing and machine learning, focusing on th...

This text provides seven practical examples of how Danish companies implemented new information technology in order to transform their internal and...

Parallel & Distributed Computer Graphics

Parallel & Distributed Real-Time Systems

In the not too distant future, every researcher and professional in science and engineering fields will have to understand parallel and distributed...

In quantum computing, and because all of the states of the quantum system can exist simultaneously, all of the paths of the quantum computations tr...

The book is divided into two parts, the first one covering the concepts and methodologies, and the second describing the tools and integrated envir...

Parallel robots are the systems with closed-loop chains. They have the advantage of high speed, high stiffness, accuracy, compactness, time-saving ...

Particle swarm optimisation (PSO) is one of the recently developed swarm intelligent optimisation technologies that offer the advantages of simplic...

This book presents and discusses research in the study of computer science. Topics discussed include biological pathways; supervised learning appro...

This book reviews methods, applications and challenges of pattern analysis. Chapter One addresses the identification problem of the printed medieva...

In this book, the authors present current research in the study of the practices, perspectives and challenges of pattern recognition. Topics includ...

Peer-to-peer (P2P) systems are distributed systems consisting of interconnected nodes, able to self-organise into network topologies with the purpo...

Peer-to-peer (P2P) has proven as a most successful way to produce large scale, reliable, and cost-effective applications, as illustrated for file s...

In this book, the authors review important developments and discuss new strategies for the performance evaluation of parallel, distributed and emer...

Ever since the invention of the computer, users have demanded more and more computational power to tackle increasingly complex problems. A common m...

The advance to the so-called Information Society is leading to an enormous growth in the amount of multimedia information available. The success or...

In the era of quality in interactive communications, persuasion is an implicit attribute in the human-computer interaction process and the human-co...

Pervasive or Ubiquitous computing is a post-desktop model of human-computer interaction in which information processing has been thoroughly integra...

Play is human nature, which we remember and return to because of the excitement involved. Hence, play is in most cultures used in learning common r...

The continuous progress in scientific research is one of the important factors explaining the constantly increasing demand for computational power....