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Software Automatic Tuning
From Concepts to State-of-the-Art Results
Language: English
Release Date: September 9, 2010
Automatic Performance Tuning is a new software paradigm which enables software to be high performance in any computing environment. Its methodologies have been developed over the past decade, and it is now rapidly growing in terms of its scope and applicability, as well as in its scientific knowledge...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2013
Network Science and Cybersecurity introduces new research and development efforts for cybersecurity solutions and applications taking place within various U.S. Government Departments of Defense, industry and academic laboratories.
This book examines new algorithms and tools, technology platforms...
The Digital Glocalization of Entertainment
New Paradigms in the 21st Century Global Mediascape
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2011
In this volume, Paolo Sigismondi explores the dynamics of global media and entertainment, specifically analyzing the implications of the global rise of non-scripted entertainment (as reality TV programs) and the impact and consequences of the Information and Communication Technology (ICT) revolution...
Stochastic Optimization Methods in Finance and Energy
New Financial Products and Energy Market Strategies
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2011
This volume presents a collection of contributions dedicated to applied problems in the financial and energy sectors that have been formulated and solved in a stochastic optimization framework. The invited authors represent a group of scientists and practitioners, who cooperated in recent years to...
Automatic Malware Analysis
An Emulator Based Approach
Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 2012
Malicious software (i.e., malware) has become a severe threat to interconnected computer systems for decades and has caused billions of dollars damages each year. A large volume of new malware samples are discovered daily. Even worse, malware is rapidly evolving becoming more sophisticated and evasive...
Media in Education
Results from the 2011 ICEM and SIIE joint Conference
Language: English
Release Date: July 8, 2014
With the aim of discussing “old” and “new” teaching technologies, based on research and on the strategies and praxis of the use of technologies and methodologies in the different teaching levels, and also embracing the contribution and active participation of researchers, teachers, creators,...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2010
To mark the 20th Anniversary of Voluntas: International Journal of Voluntary and Nonprofit Organizations the editor has compiled a comprehensive overview of contemporary debates in third sector scholarship, comprised of all original research by leaders in the field. The volume will offer a critical...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 25, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: December 25, 2010
The International Conference on Food Engineering is held every four years and draws global participation. ICEF 10 will be held in April 2008 in Chile with the theme of food engineering at interfaces. This will not be a typical proceedings with uneven contributions. Papers will be solicited from each...
Perception-Action Cycle
Models, Architectures, and Hardware
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2011
The perception-action cycle is the circular flow of information that takes place between the organism and its environment in the course of a sensory-guided sequence of behaviour towards a goal. Each action causes changes in the environment that are analyzed bottom-up through the perceptual hierarchy...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2013
Web services and Service-Oriented Computing (SOC) have become thriving areas of academic research, joint university/industry research projects, and novel IT products on the market. SOC is the computing paradigm that uses Web services as building blocks for the engineering of composite, distributed...
Energy, Policy, and the Environment
Modeling Sustainable Development for the North
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2011
This book sets the questions of energy and the environment in the North in the global context and further addresses historical developments, views on energy taxation and tariffs, and effects of EU energy policy.
Climate change appears more frequently than ever on the top of global and national...
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Language: English
Release Date: August 13, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: August 13, 2013
Web services and Service-Oriented Computing (SOC) have become thriving areas of academic research, joint university/industry research projects, and novel IT products on the market. SOC is the computing paradigm that uses Web services as building blocks for the engineering of composite, distributed...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Here is a state-of-the-art survey of artificial intelligence in modern exploration programs. Focussing on standard exploration procedures, the contributions examine the advantages and pitfalls of using these new techniques, and, in the process, provide new, more accurate and consistent methods for...
The Chinese Oil Industry
History and Future
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2012
The Chinese Oil Industry: History and Future presents a wealth of tables and figures with new data on Chinese fossil fuel production and consumption, together with a peak oil model to forecast future trends in energy supply and demand. Energy experts in China and the United States provide you with...