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Algorithms and Applications: Alap 2018 (Smart Innovation, Systems And Technologies #88)
by Nabendu Chaki Sajal K. DasThis book presents the proceedings of the Conference on Algorithms and Applications (ALAP 2018), which focuses on various areas of computing, like distributed systems and security, big data and analytics and very-large-scale integration (VLSI) design. The book provides solutions to a broad class of problems in diverse areas of algorithms in our daily lives in a world designed for, and increasingly controlled by algorithms. Written by eminent personalities from academia and industry, the papers included offer insights from a number of perspectives, providing an overview of the state of the art in the field. The book consists of invited talks by respected speakers, papers presented in technical sessions, and tutorials to offer ideas, results, work-in-progress and experiences of various algorithmic aspects of computational science and engineering.
Algorithms and Architectures for Parallel Processing: 18th International Conference, ICA3PP 2018, Guangzhou, China, November 15-17, 2018, Proceedings, Part IV (Lecture Notes in Computer Science #11337)
by Jin Li Jaideep VaidyaThe four-volume set LNCS 11334-11337 constitutes the proceedings of the 18th International Conference on Algorithms and Architectures for Parallel Processing, ICA3PP 2018, held in Guangzhou, China, in November 2018. The 141 full and 50 short papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from numerous submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on Distributed and Parallel Computing; High Performance Computing; Big Data and Information Processing; Internet of Things and Cloud Computing; and Security and Privacy in Computing.
Algorithms and Computational Techniques Applied to Industry (Studies in Systems, Decision and Control #435)
by Arturo Realyvásquez Vargas Jorge Luis García AlcarazThis book presents algorithms and computational applications integrated in software that are being applied in the industry. It shows how companies using these tools are more competitive and efficient in the use and resources management. The book is organized in three sections, depending on the supply chain stage: procurement, including contact with costumers and product design; Production process, including relationship with suppliers and among departments; and Distribution, including logistics and transportation.
Algorithms and Computational Theory for Engineering Applications (Advances in Science, Technology & Innovation)
by Sachin Kumar Sripada Rama SreeThis book goes deeply into the world of algorithms and computational theory and its astounding influence on numerous engineering areas. The book's carefully chosen content highlights the most recent studies, approaches, and real-world applications that are revolutionising engineering. The book is structured into distinct sections, each of which examines an important topic in computational theory and algorithms. The authors propose cutting-edge optimisation methods that revolutionise the way engineers approach engineering problems by allowing them to solve complicated issues quickly and effectively. The book illustrates the techniques and equipment used in the fields of data science and big data analytics to glean insightful information from enormous databases. Data visualisation, predictive modelling, clustering, and anomaly detection are a few examples of how algorithms are used to find patterns and trends that help engineers make well-informed decisions. Before being physically implemented, complex systems are built, tested, and optimised in the virtual environment thanks to computational modelling and simulation. The book examines numerical techniques, finite element analysis, computational fluid dynamics, and other simulation techniques to highlight how algorithms are changing engineering system design and performance optimisation. The book also delves into the intriguing field of robotics and control systems. The book's readers will learn about the algorithms that advance sensor fusion, intelligent control, path planning, and real-time systems, paving the way for innovations in autonomous driving, industrial automation, and smart cities. Readers will learn more about how algorithms and computational theory are modifying engineering environments, opening up new opportunities, and changing industries by examining the book's chapters. This book is a must-have for anyone looking to keep on top of the intersection of algorithms, computational theory, and engineering applications because of its concentration on practical applications and theoretical breakthroughs.
Algorithms and Solutions Based on Computer Technology: 5th Scientific International Online Conference Algorithms and Solutions based on Computer Technology (ASBC 2021) (Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems #387)
by Igor Ilin Carlos Jahn László UngváriThis book is a collection of papers compiled from the conference "Algorithms and Computer-Based Solutions" held on June 8-9, 2021 at Peter the Great St. Petersburg Polytechnic University (SPbPU), St. Petersburg, Russia. The authors of the book are leading scientists from Russia, Germany, Netherlands, Greece, Hungary, Kazakhstan, Portugal, and Poland.The reader finds in the book information from experts on the most interesting trends in digitalization - issues of development and implementation of algorithms, IT and digital solutions for various areas of economy and science, prospects for supercomputers and exo-intelligent platforms; applied computer technologies in digital production, healthcare and biomedical systems, digital medicine, logistics and management; digital technologies for visualization and prototyping of physical objects.The book helps the reader to increase his or her expertise in the field of computer technologies discussed.
Algorithms and Subjectivity: The Subversion of Critical Knowledge (Routledge Focus on Digital Media and Culture)
by Eran FisherIn this thought-provoking volume, Eran Fisher interrogates the relationship between algorithms as epistemic devices and modern notions of subjectivity. Over the past few decades, as the instrumentalization of algorithms has created knowledge that informs our decisions, preferences, tastes, and actions, and the very sense of who we are, they have also undercut, and arguably undermined, the Enlightenment-era ideal of the subject. Fisher finds that as algorithms enable a reality in which knowledge is created by circumventing the participation of the self, they also challenge contemporary notions of subjectivity. Through four case-studies, this book provides an empirical and theoretical investigation of this transformation, analyzing how algorithmic knowledge differs from the ideas of critical knowledge which emerged during modernity – Fisher argues that algorithms create a new type of knowledge, which in turn changes our fundamental sense of self and our concept of subjectivity. This book will make a timely contribution to the social study of algorithms and will prove especially valuable for scholars working at the intersections of media and communication studies, internet studies, information studies, the sociology of technology, the philosophy of technology, and science and technology studies.
Algorithms and VLSI Implementations of MIMO Detection
by Basel Halak Ibrahim A. BelloThis book provides a detailed overview of detection algorithms for multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) communications systems focusing on their hardware realisation. The book begins by analysing the maximum likelihood detector, which provides the optimal bit error rate performance in an uncoded communications system. However, the maximum likelihood detector experiences a high complexity that scales exponentially with the number of antennas, which makes it impractical for real-time communications systems. The authors proceed to discuss lower-complexity detection algorithms such as zero-forcing, sphere decoding, and the K-best algorithm, with the aid of detailed algorithmic analysis and several MATLAB code examples. Furthermore, different design examples of MIMO detection algorithms and their hardware implementation results are presented and discussed. Finally, an ASIC design flow for implementing MIMO detection algorithms in hardware is provided, including the system simulation and modelling steps and register transfer level modelling using hardware description languages.Provides an overview of MIMO detection algorithms and discusses their corresponding hardware implementations in detail;Highlights architectural considerations of MIMO detectors in achieving low power consumption and high throughput;Discusses design tradeoffs that will guide readers’ efforts when implementing MIMO algorithms in hardware;Describes a broad range of implementations of different MIMO detectors, enabling readers to make informed design decisions based on their application requirements.
Algorithms as a Basis of Modern Applied Mathematics (Studies in Fuzziness and Soft Computing #404)
by Šárka Hošková-Mayerová Fabrizio Maturo Cristina FlautThis book offers a self-contained guide to advanced algorithms and their applications in various fields of science. Gathering contributions by authoritative researchers in the field of mathematics, statistics and computer science, it aims at offering a comprehensive and up-to-date view of algorithms, including the theory behind them, as well as practical considerations, current limitations and solutions. It covers applications in energy management, decision making, computer networks, materials science, mechanics and process optimization. It offers an integrated and timely guide to important algorithms, and represents a valuable reference resource for graduate students and researchers in various fields of applied mathematics, statistics and engineering.
Algorithms for Communications Systems and their Applications
by Nevio Benvenuto Stefano Tomasin Giovanni CherubiniThis welcome second edition to the 2002 original presents the logical arithmetical or computational procedures within communications systems that will ensure the solution to various problems. The authors comprehensively introduce the theoretical elements which are at the basis of the field of algorithms for communications systems. Various applications of these algorithms are then illustrated with a focus on wired and wireless network access technologies. The updated applications will focus on 5G standards, and new material will include MIMO systems (Space-time block coding / Spatial multiplexing / Beamforming and interference management / Channel Estimation /mmWave Model); OFDM and SC-FDMA (Synchronization / Resource allocation (bit and power loading) / Filtered OFDM); Full Duplex Systems (Digital interference cancellation techniques).
Algorithms for Computer-Aided Design of Multivariable Control Systems (Electrical and Computer Engineering)
by Stanoje Bingulac Hugh F. VanlandinghamThis reference/text discusses the structure and concepts of multivariable control systems, offering a balanced presentation of theory, algorithm development, and methods of implementation.;The book contains a powerful software package - L.A.S (Linear Algebra and Systems) which provides a tool for verifying an analysis technique or control design.;Reviewing the fundamentals of linear algebra and system theory, Algorithms for Computer-Aided Design of Multivariable Control Systems: supplies a solid basis for understanding multivariable systems and their characteristics; highlights the most relevant mathematical developments while keeping proofs and detailed derivations to a minimum; emphasizes the use of computer algorithms; provides special sections of application problems and their solutions to enhance learning; presents a unified theory of linear multi-input, multi-output (MIMO) system models; and introduces new results based on pseudo-controllability and pseudo-observability indices, furnishing algorithms for more accurate internodel conversions.;Illustrated with figures, tables and display equations and containing many previously unpublished results, Algorithms for Computer-Aided Design of Multivariable Control Systems is a reference for electrical and electronics, mechanical and control engineers and systems analysts as well as a text for upper-level undergraduate, graduate and continuing-education courses in multivariable control.
Algorithms for Efficient and Fast 3D-HEVC Depth Map Encoding
by Luciano Agostini Gustavo Sanchez César MarconThis book describes and analyzes in detail the encoding effort and the encoding tool usage applied to 3D-HEVC depth map coding. Based on the analyzed information, the authors introduce efficient algorithms for accelerating the available encoding tools. The contributions discussed in this book include four algorithms for reducing intra-frame encoding effort and three algorithms for reducing inter-frame encoding effort. The presented results demonstrate several levels of encoding effort reduction with different impacts in the encoding efficiency, surpassing state-of-the-art solutions by more than 50% the encoding effort with only 0.3% encoding efficiency loss.
Algorithms for Robotic Motion and Manipulation: WAFR 1996
by Mark Overmars Jean-Paul LaumondThis volume deals with core problems in robotics, like motion planning, sensor-based planning, manipulation, and assembly planning. It also discusses the application of robotics algorithms in other domains, such as molecular modeling, computer graphics, and image analysis. Topics Include: - Planning - Sensor Based Motion Planning - Control and Moti
Algorithms for Sample Preparation with Microfluidic Lab-on-Chip
by Krishnendu Chakrabarty Bhargab B. Bhattacharya Sukanta BhattacharjeeRecent microfluidic technologies have brought a complete paradigm shift in automating biochemical processing on a tiny lab-on-chip (a.k.a. biochip) that replaces expensive and bulky instruments traditionally used in implementing bench-top laboratory protocols. Biochips have already made a profound impact on various application domains such as clinical diagnostics, DNA analysis, genetic engineering, and drug discovery, among others. They are capable of precisely manipulating micro-/pico-liter quantities of fluids, and provide integrated support for mixing, storage, transportation, and sensing, on-chip. In almost all bioprotocols, sample preparation plays an important role, which includes dilution and mixing of several fluids satisfying certain volumetric ratios. However, designing algorithms that minimize reactant-cost and sample-preparation time suited for microfluidic chips poses a great challenge from the perspective of protocol mapping, scheduling, and physical design. Algorithms for Sample Preparation with Microfluidic Lab-on-Chip attempts to bridge the widening gap between biologists and engineers by introducing, from the fundamentals, several state-of-the-art computer-aided-design (CAD) algorithms for sample preparation with digital and flow-based microfluidic biochips. Technical topics discussed in the book include: Basics of digital and flow-based microfluidic lab-on-chipComprehensive review of state-of-the-art sample preparation algorithmsSample-preparation algorithms for digital microfluidic lab-on-chipSample-preparation algorithms for flow-based microfluidic lab-on-chip
Algorithms for Satellite Orbital Dynamics (Springer Series in Astrophysics and Cosmology)
by Lin LiuThis book highlights the fundamental physics of orbit theory, dynamical models, methods of orbit determination, design, measurement, adjustment, and complete calculations for the position, tracking, and prediction of satellites and deep spacecraft. It emphasizes specific methods, related mathematical calculations, and worked examples and exercises. Therefore, technicians and engineers in the aerospace industry can directly apply them to their practical work. Dedicated to undergraduate students and graduate students, researchers, and professionals in astronomy, physics, space science, and related aerospace industries, the book is an integrated work based on the accumulated knowledge in satellite orbit dynamics and the author’s more than five decades of personal research and teaching experience in astronomy and aerospace dynamics.
Algorithms for Variable-Size Optimization: Applications in Space Systems and Renewable Energy
by Ossama AbdelkhalikMany systems architecture optimization problems are characterized by a variable number of optimization variables. Many classical optimization algorithms are not suitable for such problems. The book presents recently developed optimization concepts that are designed to solve such problems. These new concepts are implemented using genetic algorithms and differential evolution. The examples and applications presented show the effectiveness of the use of these new algorithms in optimizing systems architectures. The book focuses on systems architecture optimization. It covers new algorithms and its applications, besides reviewing fundamental mathematical concepts and classical optimization methods. It also provides detailed modeling of sample engineering problems. The book is suitable for graduate engineering students and engineers. The second part of the book includes numerical examples on classical optimization algorithms, which are useful for undergraduate engineering students. While focusing on the algorithms and their implementation, the applications in this book cover the space trajectory optimization problem, the optimization of earth orbiting satellites orbits, and the optimization of the wave energy converter dynamic system: architecture and control. These applications are illustrated in the starting of the book, and are used as case studies in later chapters for the optimization methods presented in the book.
Algorithms in Machine Learning Paradigms (Studies in Computational Intelligence #870)
by Paramartha Dutta Jyotsna Kumar Mandal Somnath Mukhopadhyay Kousik DasguptaThis book presents studies involving algorithms in the machine learning paradigms. It discusses a variety of learning problems with diverse applications, including prediction, concept learning, explanation-based learning, case-based (exemplar-based) learning, statistical rule-based learning, feature extraction-based learning, optimization-based learning, quantum-inspired learning, multi-criteria-based learning and hybrid intelligence-based learning.
Algorithms of Resistance: The Everyday Fight against Platform Power
by Emiliano Trere Tiziano BoniniHow global workers, influencers, and activists develop tactics of algorithmic resistance by appropriating and repurposing the same algorithms that control our lives.Algorithms are all around us, permeating more and more aspects of our daily lives. While accounts of platform power tend to come across as bleak and monolithic, Algorithms of Resistance shows how people can resist algorithms across a variety of domains. Drawing from rich ethnographic materials and perspectives from both the Global North and South, authors Tiziano Bonini and Emiliano Treré explore how people appropriate and reconfigure algorithms to pursue their objectives in three domains of everyday life: gig work, cultural industries, and politics. They reveal how forms of algorithmic agency and resistance are endemic and mundane and how the platform society is a contested battleground of contrasting forces. Bonini and Treré begin by outlining their key theoretical framework of moral economies. This framework argues that algorithms exist on a continuum. At its two extremes are two competing moral economies: the user moral economy and the platform moral economy. From here, Algorithms of Resistance chronicles the various inventive ways that individuals can work to achieve agency and resist the ubiquitous power of algorithms. Casting a wide net with a diverse range of case studies, Bonini and Treré reveal the moral imperative for all of us—from delivery drivers to artists to social movements—to resist algorithms.
Algorithms, Humans, and Interactions: How Do Algorithms Interact with People? Designing Meaningful AI Experiences
by Don Donghee ShinAmidst the rampant use of algorithmization enabled by AI, the common theme of AI systems is the human factor. Humans play an essential role in designing, developing, and operationalizing AI systems. We have a remit to ensure those systems run transparently, perform equitably, value our privacy, and effectively fulfill human needs. This book takes an interdisciplinary approach to contribute to the ongoing development of human–AI interaction with a particular focus on the "human" dimension and provides insights to improve the design of AI that could be genuinely beneficial and effectively used in society. The readers of this book will benefit by gaining insights into various perspectives about how AI has impacted people and society and how it will do so in the future, and understanding how we can design algorithm systems that are beneficial, legitimate, usable by humans, and designed considering and respecting human values. This book provides a horizontal set of guidelines and insight into how humans can be empowered by making choices about AI designs that allow them meaningful control over AI. Designing meaningful AI experiences has garnered great attention to address responsibility gaps and mitigate them by establishing conditions that enable the proper attribution of responsibility to humans. This book helps us understand the possibilities of what AI systems can do and how they can and should be integrated into our society.
Algorithms: A Beginner's Guide (The MIT Press Essential Knowledge series)
by Panos LouridasIn the tradition of Real World Algorithms: A Beginner's Guide, Panos Louridas is back to introduce algorithms in an accessible manner, utilizing various examples to explain not just what algorithms are but how they work.Digital technology runs on algorithms, sets of instructions that describe how to do something efficiently. Application areas range from search engines to tournament scheduling, DNA sequencing, and machine learning. Arguing that every educated person today needs to have some understanding of algorithms and what they do, in this volume in the MIT Press Essential Knowledge series, Panos Louridas offers an introduction to algorithms that is accessible to the nonspecialist reader. Louridas explains not just what algorithms are but also how they work, offering a wide range of examples and keeping mathematics to a minimum.
Alien Encounters Exposed! (The Unexplained: Fact or Fiction?)
by Megan Cooley PetersonCould aliens from outer space really exist? And have they visited Earth? Readers will be captivated by exciting tales of alien encounters while also learning the facts about each claim. Which stories could be true and which fakes will be exposed? Exciting, easy-to-read text and compelling images will keep struggling and reluctant readers alike flipping the pages to find out.
Alien Gene Transfer in Crop Plants, Volume 1: Innovations, Methods and Risk Assessment
by Aditya Pratap Jitendra KumarGenetic engineering and biotechnology along with conventional breeding have played an important role in developing superior cultivars by transferring economically important traits from distant, wild and even unrelated species to the cultivated varieties which otherwise could not have been possible with conventional breeding. There is a vast amount of literature pertaining to the genetic improvement of crops over last few decades. However, the wonderful results achieved by crop scientists in food legumes’ research and development over the years are scattered in different journals of the World. <P><P> The two volumes in the series ‘Alien Gene Transfer in Crop Plants’ address this issue and offer a comprehensive reference on the developments made in major food crops of the world. These volumes aim at bringing the contributions from globally renowned scientists at one platform in a reader-friendly manner.<P><P> The 1st volume entitled, ‘Alien Gene Transfer in Crop Plants: Innovations, Methods and Risk Assessment” will deal exclusively with the process and methodology. The contents of this volume have been designed to appraise the readers with all the theoretical and practical aspects of wide hybridization and gene transfer like processes and methods of gene transfer, role of biotechnology with special reference to embryo rescue, genetic transformation, protoplast fusion and molecular marker technology, problems such as cross incompatibility and barriers to distant hybridization and solutions to overcome them. Since wild and weedy relatives of crop plants may have negative traits associated with them, there are always possibilities of linkage drag while transferring alien alleles. Therefore, problems and limitations of alien gene transfer from these species will also be discussed in this series. Further, the associated risks with this and assessment of risks will also be given due weightage.
Alien Gene Transfer in Crop Plants, Volume 2: Achievements and Impacts
by Aditya Pratap Jitendra KumarGenetic engineering and biotechnology along with conventional breeding have played an important role in developing superior cultivars by transferring economically important traits from distant, wild and even unrelated species to the cultivated varieties which otherwise could not have been possible with conventional breeding. There is a vast amount of literature pertaining to the genetic improvement of crops over last few decades. However, the wonderful results achieved by crop scientists in food legumes’ research and development over the years are scattered in different journals of the World. <P><P> The two volumes in the series ‘Alien Gene Transfer in Crop Plants’ address this issue and offer a comprehensive reference on the developments made in major food crops of the world. These volumes aim at bringing the contributions from globally renowned scientists at one platform in a reader-friendly manner. The second volume entitled, “Alien Gene Transfer in Crop Plants: Achievements and Impact” will deal more with the practical aspects. This volume will cover achievements of alien gene transfer in major food crops of the world and their impact on development of newer genetic variability and additional avenues for selection; development of superior cultivars for increased yield, resistance to biotic and abiotic stresses, improved nutritional and industrial quality; innovation of new techniques and positive as well as negative environmental implications. This volume has been divided into four groups with an aim to cover all major cereals, pulses, oilseeds and other crops (vegetable and horticultural crops) which are of economic importance.
Alien Introgression in Wheat: Cytogenetics, Molecular Biology, and Genomics
by Márta Molnár-Láng Carla Ceoloni Jaroslav DoleželThis book provides an overview of the latest advancements in the field of alien introgression in wheat. The discovery and wide application of molecular genetic techniques including molecular markers, in situ hybridization, and genomics has led to a surge in interspecific and intergeneric hybridization in recent decades. The work begins with the taxonomy of cereals, especially of those species which are potential gene sources for wheat improvement. The text then goes on to cover the origin of wheat, breeding in connection with alien introgressions, and the problems of producing intergeneric hybrids and backcross derivatives. These problems can include crossability, sterility, and unequal chromosome transmission. The work then covers alien introgressions according to the related species used, as well as new results in the field of genomics of wild wheat relatives and introgressions.
Alien Invaders (2 Books in 1): Two Book Bind-up
by Max SilverDiscover the explosive world of Alien Invaders in this awesome introduction to the series - featuring Cosmo's first two adventures in full! Travel at hyperspeed to the moon of Garr where you will battle the first invader ROCKHEAD, the living mountain. Then, fly your own Dragster 7000 spaceship to the jungle planet of Zaman, where you will battle the second invader INFERNOX, the firestarter!Complete with bonus games and puzzles - and fantastic gaming cards that allow you to do battle alongside Cosmo!
Alien Summer #1 (Area 51 Interns)
by James S. Murray Carsen Smith"An exciting series opener."—Kirkus From the mind of Murr from the Impractical Jokers comes a new hilarious, action-packed series about a world of bizarre creatures, wacky gadgets, and four kid interns at the most interesting place on Earth: Area 51!It's the first day of summer vacation, and Viv Harlow just wants to relax with her friends at the beach before they all go to different high schools next year. She is definitely not interested in visiting her mom's office, even if Director Harlow works at the famous Area 51. But when an alarm sounds beneath the secret base and a whole race of aliens escape, she's about to get much more than she bargained for. Viv, Charlotte, Ray, and Elijah (who Viv is totally NOT crushing on) will have to work together, gear up with gadgets, and even protect a baby alien to save the day and defend Area 51.The debut middle-grade series from Murr of the Impractical Jokers, Area 51 Interns is filled with enough high-tech hijinks, bizarre creatures, and laugh-out-loud humor (plus an extra color insert full of gadgets) to make even alien skeptics hooked for more!