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This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-conference proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Parallel Processing and Applied Mathematics, PPAM 2007, held in Gdansk, Poland, in September 2007. The 63 revised full papers of the main conference presented together with 85 revised workshop papers were carefully reviewed and selected from over 250 initial submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on parallel/distributed architectures and mobile computing, numerical algorithms and parallel numerics, parallel and distributed non-numerical algorithms, environments and tools for as well as applications of parallel/distributed/grid computing, evolutionary computing, ...
This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 5th European Meeting of the Parallel Virtual Machine and Message Passing Interface Users' Group, PVM/MPI '98, held in Liverpool, UK, in September 1998. The 49 contributed and invited papers presented were carefully reviewed and revised for inclusion in the volume. All current aspects of PVM and MPI are addressed. The papers are organized in topical sections on evaluation and performance, extensions and improvements, implementation issues, tools, and algorithms.
The mind-set that has dominated the history of computer game playing relies on straightforward exploitation of the available computing power. The fact that a machine can explore millions of variations sooner than the sluggish human can wink an eye has inspired hopes that the mystery of intelligence can be cracked, or at least side-stepped, by sheer force. Decades of the steadily growing strength of computer programs have attested to the soundness of this approach. It is clear that deeper understanding can cut the amount of necessary calculations by orders of magnitude. The papers collected in this volume describe how to instill learning skills in game playing machines. The reader is asked to keep in mind that this is not just about games -- the possibility that the discussed techniques will be used in control systems and in decision support always looms in the background.
Computational Science is the scienti?c discipline that aims at the development and understanding of new computational methods and techniques to model and simulate complex systems. The area of application includes natural systems – such as biology, envir- mental and geo-sciences, physics, and chemistry – and synthetic systems such as electronics and ?nancial and economic systems. The discipline is a bridge b- ween ‘classical’ computer science – logic, complexity, architecture, algorithms – mathematics, and the use of computers in the aforementioned areas. The relevance for society stems from the numerous challenges that exist in the various science and engineering disciplines, whi...
The book is divided into two parts, the first one covering the concepts and methodologies, and the second describing the tools and integrated environments that were developed in those projects. In this way, we hope that the reader will find the book useful not only concerning an identification of current trends in parallel program development, but also concerning their practical illustration through concrete tools and environments.
The explosive growth of the Internet and the web have created an ever-growing demand for web-based information systems, and ever-growing challenges for Information Systems Engineering. Some of them include the emerging web services technology, database technologies and application integration, as well as data analysis and knowledge discovery. This book is a showcase of recent, significant advances in web-based information systems as well as data integration and analysis. It provides an overview of various technologies used for building innovative information systems applied to real business solutions. It includes eight chapters that are divided into five parts, namely: web services, database technologies, data and application integration, data analysis and knowledge discovery, and recommended bibliography. The material presented in these chapters will help the reader have an overall idea of the research that is being carried out in universities and companies to develop today's innovative business solutions. Contents: Preface; Web Services; Web Services Technologies for Outsourcing; Conceptual Modelling with Dynamic Object Roles; Temporal Versioning in Data Warehouse; Missing Inform
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