General Computing category: 15796 books
Big-Data Analytics and Cloud Computing
Theory, Algorithms and Applications
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2016
This book reviews the theoretical concepts, leading-edge techniques and practical tools involved in the latest multi-disciplinary approaches addressing the challenges of big data. Illuminating perspectives from both academia and industry are presented by an international selection of experts in big...
by Yanchang Zhao, Yonghua Cen
Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2013
Data Mining Applications with R is a great resource for researchers and professionals to understand the wide use of R, a free software environment for statistical computing and graphics, in solving different problems in industry. R is widely used in leveraging data mining techniques across many different...
Big Data Analytics with Spark
A Practitioner's Guide to Using Spark for Large Scale Data Analysis
Language: English
Release Date: December 29, 2015
Big Data Analytics with Spark is a step-by-step guide for learning Spark, which is an open-source fast and general-purpose cluster computing framework for large-scale data analysis. You will learn how to use Spark for different types of big data analytics projects, including batch, interactive, graph,...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 2014
‘Entertainment media’ are entertainment products and services that rely on digital technology and include traditional media (such as movies, TV, computer animation etc) as well as emerging services for wireless and broadband, electronic toys, video games, edutainment, and location-based entertainment...
Think Julia
How to Think Like a Computer Scientist
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2019
If you’re just learning how to program, Julia is an excellent JIT-compiled, dynamically typed language with a clean syntax. This hands-on guide uses Julia 1.0 to walk you through programming one step at a time, beginning with basic programming concepts before moving on to more advanced capabilities,...
How to Design Programs
An Introduction to Programming and Computing
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2018
A completely revised edition, offering new design recipes for interactive programs and support for images as plain values, testing, event-driven programming, and even distributed programming.
This introduction to programming places computer science at the core of a liberal arts education. Unlike...
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Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2017
Deep learning is providing exciting solutions for medical image analysis problems and is seen as a key method for future applications. This book gives a clear understanding of the principles and methods of neural network and deep learning concepts, showing how the algorithms that integrate deep learning...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 12, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 12, 2012
Terrorist groups throughout the world have been studied primarily through the use of social science methods. However, major advances in IT during the past decade have led to significant new ways of studying terrorist groups, making forecasts, learning models of their behaviour, and shaping policies...
Mathematical Aspects of Computer and Information Sciences
6th International Conference, MACIS 2015, Berlin, Germany, November 11-13, 2015, Revised Selected Papers
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2016
This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-conference proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Mathematical Aspects of Computer and Information Sciences, MACIS 2015, held in Berlin, Germany, in November 2015.
The 48 revised papers presented together with 7 invited papers were...
Applications of Evolutionary Computation
19th European Conference, EvoApplications 2016, Porto, Portugal, March 30 -- April 1, 2016, Proceedings, Part II
Language: English
Release Date: March 24, 2016
The two volumes LNCS 9597 and 9598 constitute the refereed conference proceedings of the 19th European Conference on the Applications of Evolutionary Computation, EvoApplications 2016, held in Porto, Portugal, in March/April 2016, co-located with the Evo* 2016 events EuroGP, EvoCOP, and EvoMUSART.
The...
Applications of Evolutionary Computation
19th European Conference, EvoApplications 2016, Porto, Portugal, March 30 -- April 1, 2016, Proceedings, Part I
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2016
The two volumes LNCS 9597 and 9598 constitute the refereed conference proceedings of the 19th European Conference on the Applications of Evolutionary Computation, EvoApplications 2016, held in Porto, Portugal, in March/April 2016, co-located with the Evo* 2016 events EuroGP, EvoCOP, and EvoMUSART.
The...
by Paul Cockshott, Lewis M. Mackenzie, Gregory Michaelson
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2012
Computation and its Limits is an innovative cross-disciplinary investigation of the relationship between computing and physical reality. It begins by exploring the mystery of why mathematics is so effective in science and seeks to explain this in terms of the modelling of one part of physical reality...
by Dylan Day
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2017
Have you wanted to design and build consumer electronics? Have you thought my ideas can make me a million, if only I had the right raw materials? In that case, you are ready to take a crash course in product design, development and deployment using the low-cost, ultra versatile computing platform known...
Descriptional Complexity of Formal Systems
17th International Workshop, DCFS 2015, Waterloo, ON, Canada, June 25-27, 2015. Proceedings
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2015
This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 17th International Conference on Descriptional Complexity of Formal Systems, DCFS 2015, held in Waterloo, ON, Canada, in June 2015. The 23 full papers presented together with 2 invited talks were carefully reviewed and selected from 29 submissions....