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1. |  Computation and Storage in the Cloud By: Dong Yuan; Yun Yang; Jinjun Chen Publisher: Elsevier Publication Date: 01-FEB-2013 Insert Date: 22-JAN-2013 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Computation and Storage in the Cloud
Computation and Storage in the Cloud is the first comprehensive and systematic work investigating the issue of computation and storage trade-off in the cloud in order to reduce the overall application cost. Scientific applications are usually computation and data intensive, where complex computation tasks take a long time for execution and the generated datasets are often terabytes or petabytes in size. Storing valuable generated application datasets can save their regeneration cost when they are reused, not to mention the waiting time caused by regeneration. However, the large size of...
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2. |  By: Marek Marek Smoszna Publisher: Elsevier Publication Date: 12-JAN-2013 Insert Date: 22-JAN-2013 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Synchronous Precharge Logic
Precharge logic is used by a variety of industries in applications where processor speed is the primary goal, such as VLSI (very large systems integration) applications. Also called dynamic logic, this type of design uses a clock to synchronize instructions in circuits. This comprehensive book covers the challenges faced by designers when using this logic style, including logic basics, timing, noise considerations, alternative topologies and more. In addition advanced topics such as skew tolerant design are covered in some detail. Overall this is a comprehensive view of precharge logic,...
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3. |  By: S. M. Sinha Publisher: Elsevier Science Publication Date: 12-FEB-2006 Insert Date: 17-AUG-2012 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Mathematical Programming
Mathematical Programming, a branch of Operations Research, is perhaps the most efficient technique in making optimal decisions. It has a very wide application in the analysis of management problems, in business and industry, in economic studies, in military problems and in many other fields of our present day activities. In this keen competetive world, the problems are getting more and more complicated ahnd efforts are being made to deal with these challenging problems. This book presents from the origin to the recent developments in mathematical programming. The book has wide coverage...
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4. |  SVD and Signal Processing, III By: M. Moonen; B. De Moor Publisher: Elsevier Science Publication Date: 16-MAR-1995 Insert Date: 05-AUG-2012 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: SVD and Signal Processing, III
Matrix Singular Value Decomposition (SVD) and its application to problems in signal processing is explored in this book. The papers discuss algorithms and implementation architectures for computing the SVD, as well as a variety of applications such as systems and signal modeling and detection. The publication presents a number of keynote papers, highlighting recent developments in the field, namely large scale SVD applications, isospectral matrix flows, Riemannian SVD and consistent signal reconstruction. It also features a translation of a historical paper by Eugenio Beltrami, containing...
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5. |  Information Flow and Knowledge Sharing By: Flavio Soares Correa da Silva; Jaume Agusti-Cullell; Mary E. James; Frank van Harmelen Publisher: Elsevier Science Publication Date: 10-MAR-2008 Insert Date: 03-AUG-2012 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Information Flow and Knowledge Sharing
Except from the Foreword The stated aim of the book series "Capturing Intelligence" is to publish books on research from all disciplines dealing with and affecting the issue of understanding and reproducing intelligence artificial systems. Of course, much of the work done in the past decades in this area has been of a highly technical nature, varying from hardware design for robots, software design for intelligent agents, and formal logic for reasoning. It is therefore very refreshing to see Information Flow and Knowledge Sharing. This is a courageous book indeed. It is not afraid to...
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6. |  Handbook of Constraint Programming By: Francesca Rossi; Peter van Beek; Toby Walsh Publisher: Elsevier Science Publication Date: 13-OCT-2006 Insert Date: 03-AUG-2012 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Handbook of Constraint Programming
Constraint programming is a powerful paradigm for solving combinatorial search problems that draws on a wide range of techniques from artificial intelligence, computer science, databases, programming languages, and operations research. Constraint programming is currently applied with success to many domains, such as scheduling, planning, vehicle routing, configuration, networks, and bioinformatics. The aim of this handbook is to capture the full breadth and depth of the constraint programming field and to be encyclopedic in its scope and coverage. While there are several excellent books...
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7. |  Handbook of Knowledge Representation By: Frank van Harmelen; Vladimir Lifschitz; Bruce Porter Publisher: Elsevier Science Publication Date: 08-JAN-2008 Insert Date: 03-AUG-2012 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Handbook of Knowledge Representation
Knowledge Representation, which lies at the core of Artificial Intelligence, is concerned with encoding knowledge on computers to enable systems to reason automatically. The Handbook of Knowledge Representation is an up-to-date review of twenty-five key topics in knowledge representation, written by the leaders of each field. This book is an essential resource for students, researchers and practitioners in all areas of Artificial Intelligence. * Make your computer smarter * Handle qualitative and uncertain information * Improve computational tractability to solve your problems easily ...
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8. |  By: Bernadette Bouchon-Meunier; Giulianella Coletti; Ronald R. Yager Publisher: Elsevier Science Publication Date: 06-APR-2006 Insert Date: 03-AUG-2012 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Modern Information Processing
The volume "Modern Information Processing: From Theory to Applications," edited by Bernadette Bouchon-Meunier, Giulianella Coletti and Ronald Yager, is a collection of carefully selected papers drawn from the program of IPMU'04, which was held in Perugia, Italy. The book represents the cultural policy of IPMU conference which is not focused on narrow range of methodologies, but on the contrary welcomes all the theories for the management of uncertainty and aggregation of information in intelligent systems, providing a medium for the exchange of ideas between theoreticians and...
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9. |  Parallel Computational Fluid Dynamics 2003 By: Boris Chetverushkin; Jacques Periaux; N. Satofuka; A. Ecer Publisher: Elsevier Science Publication Date: 06-MAY-2004 Insert Date: 03-AUG-2012 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Parallel Computational Fluid Dynamics 2003
The book is devoted to using of parallel multiprocessor computer systems for numerical simulation of the problems which can be described by the equations of continuum mechanics. Parallel algorithms and software, the problems of meta-computing are discussed in details, some results of high performance simulation of modern gas dynamic problems, combustion phenomena, plasma physics etc are presented. · Parallel Algorithms for Multidisciplinary Studies
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10. |  Handbook of Financial Intermediation and Banking By: Anjan V. Thakor; Arnoud Boot Publisher: Elsevier Science Publication Date: 27-MAY-2008 Insert Date: 03-AUG-2012 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Handbook of Financial Intermediation and Banking
The growth of financial intermediation research has yielded a host of questions that have pushed "design" issues to the fore even as the boundary between financial intermediation and corporate finance has blurred. This volume presents review articles on six major topics that are connected by information-theoretic tools and characterized by valuable perspectives and important questions for future research. Touching upon a wide range of issues pertaining to the designs of securities, institutions, trading mechanisms and markets, industry structure, and regulation, this volume will...
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11. |  By: Masaharu Takano; Eiji Arai; Tatsuo Arai Publisher: Elsevier Science Publication Date: 11-APR-2001 Insert Date: 03-AUG-2012 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Human Friendly Mechatronics
The book includes 61 selected papers from 106 presented at the second International Conference on Machine Automation (ICMA2000). The conference focused, for the first time, on human friendly mechantronics which covers machine systems interacting with human beings, psychological, physiological, and physical behaviors of the human being itself, robotics, human-mimetic mechanical systems, commercial application examples and so on. Machine automation has owed a lot to mechatronics technology in the last decades, however, a paradigm shift is desired and emphasized in the 21st century in every...
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12. |  A Computational Framework for Segmentation and Grouping By: G. Medioni; Mi-Suen Lee; Chi-Keung Tang Publisher: Elsevier Science Publication Date: 01-MAR-2000 Insert Date: 03-AUG-2012 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: A Computational Framework for Segmentation and Grouping
This book represents a summary of the research we have been conducting since the early 1990s, and describes a conceptual framework which addresses some current shortcomings, and proposes a unified approach for a broad class of problems. While the framework is defined, our research continues, and some of the elements presented here will no doubt evolve in the coming years.It is organized in eight chapters. In the Introduction chapter, we present the definition of the problems, and give an overview of the proposed approach and its implementation. In particular, we illustrate the limitations...
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13. |  Handbook of the Equity Risk Premium By: Rajnish Mehra Publisher: Elsevier Science Publication Date: 26-OCT-2007 Insert Date: 02-AUG-2012 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Handbook of the Equity Risk Premium Edited by Rajnish Mehra, this volume focuses on the equity risk premium puzzle, a term coined by Mehra and Prescott in 1985 which encompasses a number of empirical regularities in the prices of capital assets that are at odds with the predictions of standard economic theory....
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14. |  Temporal QOS Management in Scientific Cloud Workflow Systems By: Xiao Liu; Jinjun Chen; Yun Yang Publisher: Elsevier Publication Date: 23-FEB-2012 Insert Date: 02-AUG-2012 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Temporal QOS Management in Scientific Cloud Workflow Systems
Cloud computing can provide virtually unlimited scalable high performance computing resources. Cloud workflows often underlie many large scale data/computation intensive e-science applications such as earthquake modelling, weather forecasting and astrophysics. During application modelling, these sophisticated processes are redesigned as cloud workflows, and at runtime, the models are executed by employing the supercomputing and data sharing ability of the underlying cloud computing infrastructures. Temporal QOS Management in Scientific Cloud Workflow Systems focuses on real world...
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15. |  Lifelong Learning for Engineers and Scientists in the Information Age By: Ashok Naimpally; Hema Ramachandran; Caroline Smith Publisher: Elsevier Publication Date: 12-DEC-2011 Insert Date: 01-AUG-2012 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Lifelong Learning for Engineers and Scientists in the Information Age
The book provides a comprehensive review of lifelong learning, information literacy and internships including assessment techniques for lifelong learning, teamwork and information literacy as defined by the ABET criteria. It also discusses critical thinking skills for scientists and engineers and their role in lifelong learning in the information age. It will be invaluable for: Engineering educators including librarians interested in developing programs to satisfy the ABET criteria for lifelong learning and teamwork. Engineering librarians developing programs and assessment...
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16. |  The Future of the Financial Exchanges By: Herbie Skeete Publisher: Elsevier Science Publication Date: 29-SEP-2008 Insert Date: 01-AUG-2012 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: The Future of the Financial Exchanges
In May 2007, an extraordinary meeting took place in London ? The Exchange Forum. Chief executives from many of the world's most important financial exchanges came together with senior executives from a wide array of global banking, trading, and investing firms, index providers, regulators, system suppliers, and key academics to discuss the rapidly changing business and technological environment in which exchanges function. The forum was an exclusive event, open only to the most senior-level individuals in the global exchanges community: those who run exchanges, who are clients of...
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17. |  By: Ian T. Cameron; Rafiqul Gani Publisher: Elsevier Publication Date: 12-SEP-2011 Insert Date: 06-JUL-2012 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Product and Process Modelling
This book covers the area of product and process modelling via a case study approach. It addresses a wide range of modelling applications with emphasis on modelling methodology and the subsequent in-depth analysis of mathematical models to gain insight via structural aspects of the models. These approaches are put into the context of life cycle modelling, where multiscale and multiform modelling is increasingly prevalent in the 21st century. The book commences with a discussion of modern product and process modelling theory and practice followed by a series of case studies drawn from a...
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18. |  Logistics Operations and Management By: Reza Farahani; Shabnam Rezapour; Laleh Kardar Publisher: Elsevier Publication Date: 01-MAY-2011 Insert Date: 09-APR-2012 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Logistics Operations and Management
This book provides a comprehensive overview of how to strategically manage the movement and storage of products or materials from any point in the manufacturing process to customer fulfillment. Topics covered include important tools for strategic decision making, transport, packaging, warehousing, retailing, customer services and future trends. An introduction to logistics Provides practical applications Discusses trends and new strategies in major parts of the logistic industry
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19. |  By: Virginio Cantoni; Stefano Levialdi; Bertrand Zavidovique Publisher: Elsevier Publication Date: 01-MAY-2011 Insert Date: 03-APR-2012 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: 3C Vision
The exponential explosion of images and videos concerns everybody's common life, since this media is now present everywhere and in all human activities. Scientists, artists and engineers, in any field, need to be aware of the basic mechanisms that allow them to understand how images are essentially information carriers. Images bear a strong evocative power, because their perception quickly brings into mind a number of related pictorial contents of past experiences, and even of abstract concepts like pleasure, attraction or aversion. This book analyzes the visual hints, thanks to...
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20. |  By: Michael Gorham; Nidhi Singh Publisher: Elsevier Science Publication Date: 29-MAY-2009 Insert Date: 03-APR-2012 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Electronic Exchanges
Anyone reading the business section of a newspaper lately knows that the financial exchanges--stock, bonds, FX, commodities, and so forth--are undergoing tremendous transformations. Fund managers, market makers, traders, exchange professionals, marekt data providers and analyzers, investors--anyone involved with the financial exchanges needs to understand the major forces pushing this transformation in order to position themselves and their institutions to the best advantage. In this book, veteran exchange expert Michael Gorham joins his twenty-five years of experience with CME and CBOT...
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