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Privacy, Security and Trust within the Context of Pervasive Computing is an edited volume based on a post workshop at the second international conference on Pervasive Computing. The workshop was held April18-23, 2004, in Vienna, Austria. The goal of the workshop was not to focus on specific, even novel mechanisms, but rather on the interfaces between mechanisms in different technical and social problem spaces. An investigation of the interfaces between the notions of context, privacy, security, and trust will result in a deeper understanding of the “atomic” problems, leading to a more complete understanding of the social and technical issues in pervasive computing…. More >>
Privacy, Security and Trust within the Context of Pervasive Computing
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Privacy, Security and Trust within the Context of Pervasive Computing
Category Computing
Parallel I/O for High Performance Computing
Category Computing
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Scientific and technical programmers can no longer afford to treat I/O as an afterthought. The speed, memory size, and disk capacity of parallel computers continue to grow rapidly, but the rate at which disk drives can read and write data is improving far less quickly. As a result, the performance of carefully tuned parallel programs can slow dramatically when they read or write files-and the problem is likely to get far worse.
Parallel input and output techniques can help solve this problem by creating multiple data paths between memory and disks. However, simply adding disk drives to an I/O system without considering the overall software design will not significantly improve performance. To reap t… More >> Parallel I/O for High Performance Computing
Handbook of Research on Scalable Computing Technologies
Category Computing
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The past decade has witnessed a fruitful proliferation of increasingly high performance scalable computing systems mainly due to the availability of enabling technologies in hardware, software, and networks. The Handbook of Research on Scalable Computing Technologies presents ideas, results, and experiences in significant advancements and future challenges of enabling technologies. A defining body of research on topics such as service-oriented computing, data-intensive computing, and cluster and grid computing, this Handbook of Research contains valuable findings for those involved with developing programming tools and environments in computing as well as those in related upper-level undergraduate an… More >>
Handbook of Research on Scalable Computing Technologies
The Computer Boys Take Over: Computers, Programmers, and the Politics of Technical Expertise
Category Computing
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Of all of the revolutionary technological innovations of the 20th century, none is as widely recognized, as celebrated, or as profoundly influential as the invention of the electronic digital computer. But like all great social and technological developments, the computer revolution of the twentieth century didn’t just happen. It had to be made to happen, and made to happen by people, not impersonal processes.
In The Computer Boys Take Over, Nathan Ensmenger describes the emergence of a new breed of technical specialists — computer programmers, systems analysts, and data processing managers — who built their careers around the powerful new technology of electronic computing. It was these largely anon… More >>
The Computer Boys Take Over: Computers, Programmers, and the Politics of Technical Expertise
Distibuted Computing and Networking: 11th International Conference, ICDCN 2010, Kolkata, India, January 3-6, 2010, Proceedings
Category Computing
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This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Distributed Computing and Networking, ICDCN 2010, held in Kolkata, India, during January 3-6, 2010. There were 169 submissions, 96 to the networking track and 73 to the distributed computing track. After review the committee selected 23 papers for the networking and 21 for the distributed computing track. The topics addressed are network protocol and applications, fault-tolerance and security, sensor networks, distributed algorithms and optimization, peer-to-peer networks and network tracing, parallel and distributed systems, wireless networks, applications and distributed systems, optical, cellular and mobile ad hoc networ… More >>
Distibuted Computing and Networking: 11th International Conference, ICDCN 2010, Kolkata, India, January 3-6, 2010, Proceedings
Logic and Information Flow
Category Computing
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The thirteen chapters written expressly for this book by logicians, theoretical computer scientists, philosophers, and semanticists address, from the perspective of mathematical logic, the problems of understanding and studying the flow of information through any information-processing system. The logic of information flow has applications in both computer science and natural language processing and is a growing area within mathematical and philosophical logic. Consequently, Logic and Information Flow will be of interest to theoretical computer scientists wanting information on up-to-date formalisms of dynamic logic, and their possible applications; logicians who wish to expand their discipline beyond… More >>
Logic and Information Flow
Natural Computing in Computational Finance
Category Computing
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Natural Computing in Computational Finance is a innovative volume containing fifteen chapters which illustrate cutting-edge applications of natural computing or agent-based modeling in modern computational finance. Following an introductory chapter the book is organized into three sections. The first section deals with optimization applications of natural computing demonstrating the application of a broad range of algorithms including, genetic algorithms, differential evolution, evolution strategies, quantum-inspired evolutionary algorithms and bacterial foraging algorithms to multiple financial applications including portfolio optimization, fund allocation and asset pricing. The second section explores the u… More >>
Natural Computing in Computational Finance
Neural Computing for Optimization and Combinatorics
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Since Hopfield proposed neural network computing for optimization and combinatorics problems, many neural network investigators have been working on optimization problems. In this book a variety of optimization problems and combinatorics problems are presented by respective experts. A very useful reference book for those who want to solve real-world applications, this book contains applications in graph theory, mathematics, stochastic computing including the multiple relaxation, associative memory and control, resource allocation problems, system identification and dynamic control, and job-stop scheduling…. More >>
Neural Computing for Optimization and Combinatorics
Design Computing and Cognition ‘04
Category Computing
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Artificial intelligence provides an environmentally rich paradigm within which design research based on computational constructions can be carried out. This has been one of the foundations for the developing field called… More >>
Design Computing and Cognition ‘04
Distributed Computing with IBM MQSeries
Category Computing
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A complete guide to developing and managing robust distributed business applications with IBM’s MQSeries Coauthored by a former IBM professional who was intimately connected with the development of IBM’s MQSeries and a middleware expert who is building products based on MQSeries, this book/CD package provides you with all the expert guidance, tips, and software tools you need to get the most out of this incredibly versatile technology. Distributed Computing with IBM MQSeries is the first book to approach MQSeries implementation from a business/management perspective. Throughout, the emphasis is on using MQSeries messaging and queuing software to solve current and future business problems. Len Gilman a… More >>
Distributed Computing with IBM MQSeries