General Computing category: 15796 books
Recoding Gender
Women's Changing Participation in Computing
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2012
The untold history of women and computing: how pioneering women succeeded in a field shaped by gender biases.
Today, women earn a relatively low percentage of computer science degrees and hold proportionately few technical computing jobs. Meanwhile, the stereotype of the male “computer geek”...
Cloud Computing and Services Science
Third International Conference, CLOSER 2013, Aachen, Germany, May 8-10, 2013, Revised Selected Papers
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2014
This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed proceedings of the Third International Conference on Cloud Computing and Services Science, CLOSER 2013, held in Aachen, Germany, in May 2013. The 8 papers presented were selected from 142 paper submissions. The papers cover the following topics: cloud...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2018
In the dawning era of Intelligent Computing and Big-data Services, security issues will be an important consideration in promoting these new technologies into the future. This book presents the proceedings of the 2017 International Conference on Security with Intelligent Computing and Big-data Services,...
Trustworthy Computing and Services
International Conference, ISCTCS 2014, Beijing, China, November 28-29, 2014, Revised Selected papers
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2015
This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the International Standard Conference on Trustworthy Computing and Services, ISCTCS 2014, held in Beijing, China, in November 2014. The 51 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 279 submissions. The topics covered are...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2012
The Cloud Computing and Services Science book comprises a collection of the best papers presented at the International Conference on Cloud Computing and Services Science (CLOSER), which was held in The Netherlands in May 2011. In netting papers from the conference researchers and experts from all...
Mastering Cloud Computing
Foundations and Applications Programming
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2013
Mastering Cloud Computing is designed for undergraduate students learning to develop cloud computing applications. Tomorrow's applications won’t live on a single computer but will be deployed from and reside on a virtual server, accessible anywhere, any time. Tomorrow's application developers need...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2012
The 21st century has seen a number of advancements in technology, including the use of high performance computing. Computing resources are being used by the science and economy fields for data processing, simulation, and modeling. These innovations aid in the support of production, logistics, and mobility...
Architecture of Computing Systems -- ARCS 2016
29th International Conference, Nuremberg, Germany, April 4-7, 2016, Proceedings
Language: English
Release Date: March 24, 2016
This book constitutes the proceedings of the 29th International Conference on Architecture of Computing Systems, ARCS 2016, held in Nuremberg, Germany, in April 2016.
The 29 full papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 87 submissions. They were organized in topical...
Euro-Par 2015: Parallel Processing Workshops
Euro-Par 2015 International Workshops, Vienna, Austria, August 24-25, 2015, Revised Selected Papers
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2015
This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-conference proceedings of 12 workshops held at the 21st International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Computing, Euro-Par 2015, in Vienna, Austria, in August 2015.
The 67 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected...
Affective Computing and Interaction
Psychological, Cognitive and Neuroscientific Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2010
Since interactions may occur between animals, humans, or computational agents, an interdisciplinary approach which investigates foundations of affective communication in a variety of platforms is indispensable. In the field of affective computing, a collection of research, merging decades of research...
Introduction to the History of Computing
A Computing History Primer
Language: English
Release Date: June 21, 2016
Tracing the story of computing from Babylonian counting boards to smartphones, this inspiring textbook provides a concise overview of the key events in the history of computing, together with discussion exercises to stimulate deeper investigation into this fascinating area. Features: provides chapter...
Computing with Cells
Advances in Membrane Computing
Language: English
Release Date: May 21, 2009
Membrane systems are a new class of distributed and parallel model of computation inspired by the subdivision of living cells into compartments delimited by membranes. Their hierarchical internal structure, their locality of interactions, their inherent parallelism and also their capacity to create...
End-User Computing, Development, and Software Engineering
New Challenges
Language: English
Release Date: February 29, 2012
End users have become increasingly integrated into computing environments, necessitating continued inquiry into successful models for end user design and development and the impact that these models have on performance and productivity. End-User Computing, Development and Software Engineering: New Challenges...
Cognitive Computing and Information Processing
Third International Conference, CCIP 2017, Bengaluru, India, December 15-16, 2017, Revised Selected Papers
Language: English
Release Date: April 6, 2018
This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the Third International Conference on Cognitive Computing and Information Processing, CCIP 2017, held in Bengaluru, India, in December 2017.
The 43 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 130 submissions. The papers...