Computer and Information Science

  • Emerging Applications of Cellular Automata
    Emerging Applications of Cellular Automata NEW
    Editor Alejandro Salcido
    ISBN 978-953-51-1101-6
    196 pages, May, 2013
    Downloads: 195
    Cellular automata have become a core subject in the sciences of complexity due to their conceptual simplicity, easiness of implementation for computer simulation, and ability to exhibit a wide variety of amazingly complex behavior. These features of ...
  • Theory and Applications of Monte Carlo Simulations
    Theory and Applications of Monte Carlo Simulations
    Editor Victor (Wai Kin) Chan
    ISBN 978-953-51-1012-5
    276 pages, March, 2013
    Downloads: 1154
    The purpose of this book is to introduce researchers and practitioners to recent advances and applications of Monte Carlo Simulation (MCS). Random sampling is the key of the MCS technique. The 11 chapters of this book collectively illustrates how suc ...
  • Ant Colony Optimization - Techniques and Applications
    Ant Colony Optimization - Techniques and Applications
    Editor Helio J.C. Barbosa
    ISBN 978-953-51-1001-9
    203 pages, February, 2013
    Downloads: 724
    Ant Colony Optimization (ACO) is the best example of how studies aimed at understanding and modeling the behavior of ants and other social insects can provide inspiration for the development of computational algorithms for the solution of difficult m ...
  • Nuclear Reactor Thermal Hydraulics and Other Applications
    Nuclear Reactor Thermal Hydraulics and Other Applications
    Editor Donna Post Guillen
    ISBN 978-953-51-0987-7
    192 pages, February, 2013
    Downloads: 524
    This book includes contributions from researchers around the world on numerical developments and applications to predict fluid flow and heat transfer, with an emphasis on thermal hydraulics computational fluid dynamics. Our ability to simulate larger ...
  • Search Algorithms for Engineering Optimization
    Search Algorithms for Engineering Optimization
    Editor Taufik Abrão
    ISBN 978-953-51-0983-9
    284 pages, February, 2013
    Downloads: 1990
    Heuristic Search is an important sub-discipline of optimization theory and finds applications in a vast variety of fields, including life science and engineering. Search methods have been useful in solving tough engineering-oriented problems that eit ...
  • Discrete Wavelet Transforms - A Compendium of New Approaches and Recent Applications
    Discrete Wavelet Transforms - A Compendium of New Approaches and Recent Applications
    Editor Awad Kh. Al - Asmari
    ISBN 978-953-51-0940-2
    222 pages, February, 2013
    Downloads: 813
    Discrete Wavelet Transform is a wavelet (DWT) transform that is widely used in numerical and functional analysis. Its key advantage over more traditional transforms, such as the Fourier transform, lies in its ability to offer temporal resolution, i.e ...
  • Artificial Neural Networks - Architectures and Applications
    Artificial Neural Networks - Architectures and Applications
    Editor Kenji Suzuki
    ISBN 978-953-51-0935-8
    256 pages, January, 2013
    Downloads: 2118
    Artificial neural networks may probably be the single most successful technology in the last two decades which has been widely used in a large variety of applications. The purpose of this book is to provide recent advances of architectures, methodol ...
  • Multivariate Analysis in Management, Engineering and the Sciences
    Multivariate Analysis in Management, Engineering and the Sciences
    Editor Leandro Valim de Freitas and Ana Paula Barbosa Rodrigues de Freitas
    ISBN 978-953-51-0921-1
    254 pages, January, 2013
    Downloads: 921
    Recently statistical knowledge has become an important requirement and occupies a prominent position in the exercise of various professions. In the real world, the processes have a large volume of data and are naturally multivariate and as such, requ ...