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Quick ViewThis two-volume collection of diverse international experiences and perspectives on the current use of computers in education is a joint effort of fifty-seven authors from sixteen countries. Most of the chapters describe current work of the authors on the use of computers in their respective areas of education. The first volume includes chapters describing history…
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Quick ViewArtificial Intelligence (AI) has become a popular research topic recently. Pattern recognition (PR) is an important part of an AI system. If the AI is considered as the digital “brain”, then the PR is the visual and auditory “cortex” that converts the optical signals from the eyes and the acoustic signals from the ears to…
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Quick ViewSince the beginning of the 1980s, configuration software has developed and evolved. It should be said that configuration software, as a kind of application software, rose with the development of personal computers. The development of configuration software is closely related to the development of the industrial control system. With the rapid development of modern industries,…
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Quick ViewThis book provides comprehensive research on the communication performance of a real time industrial fieldbus. Several important topics were investigated, such as how to ensure the transmission of real-time messages within a maximum bound time along the industrial fieldbus mentioned in this book. Profibus, FF, WorldFIP and CAN are all well-proved solutions for real-time communication…
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Quick ViewThis book reviews methods, applications and challenges of pattern analysis. Chapter One addresses the identification problem of the printed medieval documents origin. The authors of Chapter Two perform a review on current cheiloscopic techniques, addressing the study methodology and usefulness of lip print patterns study. Chapter Three examines theoretical bases of human identification using palatal…
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Quick ViewIn this book, Chapter One reviews basis elementary of residence security, classical residence security and health care surveillance system versus computer vision technique system, as well as directional versus omnidirectional imaging. Chapter Two provides practical guidelines for specialists who design, tune and evaluate video surveillance systems based on the automated tracking of moving objects. Chapter…
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Quick ViewParticle swarm optimization (PSO) is one of the recently developed swarm intelligent optimization technologies that offer the advantages of simplicity and fast biological convergence. The technique originated from the theory of artificial life and evolution, which is based on the optimization that is achieved as a result of swarm behaviour. PSO can be easily implemented…
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Quick ViewThe recent advances in computer networks and the widespread use of the Internet, together with other developments in telecommunications technology have made it possible to send messages and exchange information around the whole world. The high variety and the large amount of data exchanged across communication networks have increased over the last few years. This…
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Quick ViewAfter decades of basic research and more promises than impressive applications, artificial intelligence (AI) is starting to deliver benefits. A convergence of advances is motivating this new surge of AI development and applications. Computer capability as it has evolved from high throughput and high performance computing systems is increasing. AI models and operations research adaptations…
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Quick ViewIn chapter one, Lei Jia, PhD and Hua Gao, PhD analyze machine learning applications in small molecule and macromolecule drug discovery and development while comparing the similarities and differences between the two. They also examine their advantages and limitations with the intent to encourage further creative machine learning applications in drug discovery and development. During…
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Quick ViewStergios Papadimitriou and Lefteris Moussiades begin Chapter One by comparing and contrasting some aspects of ScalaLab and GroovyLab, the MATLAB-like environments for the Java Virtual Machine. Additionally, this chapter highlights the strengths and weaknesses of the two environments while examining the dilemma of whether to use dynamic typing or static typing for scientific programming. Next,…
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Quick ViewWith today’s growing and overloading volume of information, it is becoming tremendously difficult to analyze the huge amounts of data that contain this information. It makes it very strenuous and inconvenient to introduce an appropriate methodology of decision-making fast enough to the point that it can be considered as real-time. The demand for real-time processing…
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Quick ViewThis book has the primary goal of presenting and discussing some recent advances and ongoing developments in the Handwritten Text Recognition (HTR) field, resulting from works done on different HTR-related topics for the achievement of more accurate and efficient recognition systems. Nowadays, there is an enormous worldwide interest in HTR systems, which is mostly driven…
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Quick ViewIn Chapter One, a revision and complementary analysis of three interesting cases where stochastic strategies are applied to get the optimal design of intensified schemes is presented. The revisited cases include multicomponent, extractive and reactive thermally coupled distillation. Chapter Two performs parameter optimization on a genetic algorithm to skip the tuning parameter process during unmanned…
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Quick ViewThis current book provides new research on artificial neural networks (ANNs). Topics discussed include the application of ANNs in chemistry and chemical engineering fields; the application of ANNs in the prediction of biodiesel fuel properties from fatty acid constituents; the use of ANNs for solar radiation estimation; the use of in silico methods to design…
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Quick ViewThe use of unconventional methods of artificial intelligence is the modern trend in the computer support of the solution of the decision-making methods. These methods are based on the use of knowledge of skilled professionals – experts, where this knowledge forms the basis for their high-quality knowledge mental models. Chapter One introduces the expert systems…
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Quick ViewThis book is comprised of eleven chapters about computer application and research areas to discuss the latest issues and technologies. Interesting and important topics like fuzzy and cognitive applications, fuzzy classifiers, neural network, data analytics, clustering and classification models, artificial intelligence, controller area network, digital technology industry 4.0, etc. are included in this book. The…
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Quick ViewThe use of image processing is presenting nowadays an exponential increase in the development of new solutions to deal with challenges in the industry and in the day-to-day life of Society. The improvements of technology enable the recurrent use of image processing based applications with a market which has reached mobile supporting devices such as…
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Quick ViewThe evolution of open source Web GIS technology in integration with contemporary commercial solutions not only provides an immediate solution at every level of small and medium-sized industry, but has also attracted students/scholars from a diverse background (computer science, information technology, electronics, civil engineering, geography, geomatics, earth sciences, hydrology, etc.) who are interested in growing…
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Quick ViewComputer Simulations: Advances in Research and Applications begins with a concise overview and background of the topic during the past decade. The finite element method and the commercial available codes are introduced with an emphasis on Abaqus as the mostly used software in this field. The next part deals with the tire geometry and creation…
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Quick ViewVirtual Worlds: Concepts, Applications and Future Directions explores the rich and fascinating topic of virtual worlds by bringing together research findings and discussion pieces from an international group of leading practitioners in the field. There are many different definitions of virtual worlds, but they all share the characteristic of enabling real-time interaction between users who…
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The object-oriented paradigm supplements traditional software engineering by providing solutions to common problems such as modularity and reusability. Objects can be written for a specific purpose acting as an encapsulated black-box API that can work with other components by forming a complex system. This book provides a comprehensive overview of the many facets of the…
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Quick ViewThis book presents the journey of Turbo-Codes from their first invention and initial design as error correcting codes to their application as video compression tools. This journey is presented in three milestones. First, Turbo-Codes are introduced as a channel coding tool. Different encoding structures and decoding algorithms are discussed from theoretical and practical aspects, for…
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