General Computing category: 15796 books
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Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2013
Evolutionary algorithms (EAs) are metaheuristics that learn from natural collective behavior and are applied to solve optimization problems in domains such as scheduling, engineering, bioinformatics, and finance. Such applications demand acceptable solutions with high-speed execution using finite...
IPython Interactive Computing and Visualization Cookbook
Over 100 hands-on recipes to sharpen your skills in high-performance numerical computing and data science in the Jupyter Notebook, 2nd Edition
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2018
Learn to use IPython and Jupyter Notebook for your data analysis and visualization work.
Key Features
Leverage the Jupyter Notebook for interactive data science and visualization
Become an expert in high-performance computing and visualization for data analysis and scientific modeling
A comprehensive...
Advances in Unconventional Computing
Volume 2: Prototypes, Models and Algorithms
Language: English
Release Date: July 26, 2016
The unconventional computing is a niche for interdisciplinary science, cross-bred of computer science, physics, mathematics, chemistry, electronic engineering, biology, material science and nanotechnology. The aims of this book are to uncover and exploit principles and mechanisms of information processing...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2015
The book presents recent advances in nature-inspired computing, giving a special emphasis to control systems applications. It reviews different techniques used for simulating physical, chemical, biological or social phenomena at the purpose of designing robust, predictive and adaptive control strategies....
Anthropology-Based Computing
Putting the Human in Human-Computer Interaction
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2016
We have always built tools to improve our productivity and help us lead better lives; however we find ourselves constantly battling against our new computerized tools, making us less productive and putting our health and our lives at risk. This book looks at Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) from a...
by Andrew Adamatzky
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2015
The slime mould Physarum polycephalum is a large cell visible by the unaided eye. It behaves as an intelligent nonlinear spatially extended active medium encapsulated in an elastic membrane. The cell optimises its growth patterns in configurations of attractants and repellents. This behaviour is interpreted...
Calculation and Computation in the Pre-electronic Era
The Mechanical and Electrical Ages
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2018
Although it is popularly assumed that the history of computing before the second half of the 20th century was unimportant, in fact the Industrial Revolution was made possible and even sustained by a parallel revolution in computing technology. An examination and historiographical assessment of key...
Granular-Relational Data Mining
How to Mine Relational Data in the Paradigm of Granular Computing?
Language: English
Release Date: February 3, 2017
This book provides two general granular computing approaches to mining relational data, the first of which uses abstract descriptions of relational objects to build their granular representation, while the second extends existing granular data mining solutions to a relational case.
Both approaches...
Proceedings of the International Conference on Human-centric Computing 2011 and Embedded and Multimedia Computing 2011
HumanCom & EMC 2011
Language: English
Release Date: July 21, 2011
Proceedings of the International Conference on Human-centric Computing and Embedded and Multimedia Computing (HumanCom & EMC 2011) will cover topics of HumanCom and EMC, the current hot topics satisfying the world-wide ever-changing needs.
Human-centric computing is to create novel solutions...
Advances in Unconventional Computing
Volume 1: Theory
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2016
The unconventional computing is a niche for interdisciplinary science, cross-bred of computer science, physics, mathematics, chemistry, electronic engineering, biology, material science and nanotechnology. The aims of this book are to uncover and exploit principles and mechanisms of information processing...
Recent Developments in Intelligent Computing, Communication and Devices
Proceedings of ICCD 2016
Language: English
Release Date: August 10, 2017
The book presents high quality papers presented at 2nd International Conference on Intelligent Computing, Communication & Devices (ICCD 2016) organized by Interscience Institute of Management and Technology (IIMT), Bhubaneswar, Odisha, India, during 13 and 14 August, 2016. The book covers all...
Unconventional Computation and Natural Computation
14th International Conference, UCNC 2015, Auckland, New Zealand, August 30 -- September 3, 2015, Proceedings
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2015
This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Unconventional Computation and Natural Computation, UCNC 2015, held in Auckland, New Zealand, in August/September 2015. The 16 revised full papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 38 submissions. The papers...
Theory and Practice of Natural Computing
7th International Conference, TPNC 2018, Dublin, Ireland, December 12–14, 2018, Proceedings
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2018
This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Theory and Practice of Natural Computing, TPNC 2017, held in Dublin, Ireland, in December 2018. The 35 full papers presented in this book, together with one invited talk, were carefully reviewed and selected from...
Architecting Cloud Computing Solutions
Build cloud strategies that align technology and economics while effectively managing risk
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2018
Accelerating Business and Mission Success with Cloud Computing.
Key Features
A step-by-step guide that will practically guide you through implementing Cloud computing services effectively and efficiently.
Learn to choose the most ideal Cloud service model, and adopt appropriate Cloud design considerations...