Expert systems / knowledge-based systems

This book presents four contributions to planning research within an integrated framework.

This is a book about systems, including: systems in which humans control machines; systems in which humans interact with humans and the machine component is relatively unimportant; systems which are heavily computerized and those that are not; and governmental, industrial, military and social systems.

With the increasing availability of parallel machines and the raising of interest in large scale and real world applications, research on parallel processing for Artificial Intelligence (AI) is gaining greater importance in the computer science environment.

This book is part of a new series on operational expert systems worldwide.

The rapidly progressing digital revolution is now touching the foundations of the governance of societal structures.

Safety-Critical Real-Time Systems brings together in one place important contributions and up-to-date research results in this fast moving area.

Embedded core processors are becoming a vital part of today's system-on-a-chip in the growing areas of telecommunications, multimedia and consumer electronics.

Real World Speech Processing brings together in one place important contributions and up-to-date research results in this fast-moving area.

With the advent of portable and autonomous computing systems, power con- sumption has emerged as a focal point in many research projects, commercial systems and DoD platforms.

Embedded computer systems use both off-the-shelf microprocessors and application-specific integrated circuits (ASICs) to implement specialized system functions.

Behavioral Intervals in Embedded Software introduces a comprehensive approach to timing, power, and communication analysis of embedded software processes.

The design of computer systems to be embedded in critical real-time applications is a complex task.

This book is the first in aseries on novellow power design architectures, methods and design practices.

The building blocks of today's and future embedded systems are complex intellectual property components, or cores, many of which are programmable processors.

The main intention of this book is to give an impression of the state-of-the-art in system-level memory management (data transfer and storage) related issues for complex data-dominated real-time signal and data processing applications.

According to market analysts, the market for consumer electronics will con- tinue to grow at a rate higher than that of electronic systems in general.

This book will attempt to give a first synthesis of recent works con- cerning reactive system design.

This book is the first comprehensive guide to the intersection of data governance and machine learning (ML) projects.

This book constitutes - in conjunction with the two-volume set LNCS 10954 and LNCS 10955 - the refereed proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Intelligent Computing, ICIC 2018, held in Wuhan, China, in August 2018.

The Transactions on Pattern Languages of Programming subline aims to publish papers on patterns and pattern languages as applied to software design, development, and use, throughout all phases of the software life cycle, from requirements and design to implementation, maintenance and evolution.

This book focuses on mobile data and its applications in the wireless networks of the future.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 18th EPIA Conference on Artificial Intelligence, EPIA 2017, held in Porto, Portugal, in September 2017.

Despite the growing interest in Real-Time Database Systems, there is no single book that acts as a reference to academics, professionals, and practitioners who wish to understand the issues involved in the design and development of RTDBS.

Real-time systems are defined as those for which correctness depends not only on the logical properties of the produced results, but also on the temporal properties of these results.

Many real-time systems rely on static scheduling algorithms.

Operating Systems and Services brings together in one place important contributions and up-to-date research results in this fast moving area.

Reliability, Maintainability, and Supportability play a crucial role in achieving a competitive product.

Real-time computing systems are vital to a wide range of applications.

This volume contains a selection of papers that focus on the state-of- the-art in real-time scheduling and resource management.

system is a complex object containing a significant percentage of elec- A tronics that interacts with the Real World (physical environments, humans, etc.

Formal Techniques in Real-Time and Fault-Tolerant Systems focuses on the state of the art in formal specification, development and verification of fault-tolerant computing systems.

Responsive Computing brings together in one place important contributions and state-of-the-art research results in this rapidly advancing area.

A Practitioner's Handbook for Real-Time Analysis: Guide to Rate Monotonic Analysis for Real-Time Systems contains an invaluable collection of quantitative methods that enable real-time system developers to understand, analyze, and predict the timing behavior of many real-time systems.

Modern electronics is driven by the explosive growth of digital communications and multi-media technology.

Responsive Computer Systems: Steps Towards Fault-Tolerant Real-Time Systems provides an extensive treatment of the most important issues in the design of modern Responsive Computer Systems.

Challenges in Design and Implementation of Middlewares for Real-Time Systems brings together in one place important contributions and up-to-date research results in this fast moving area.

The primary audience for this book are advanced undergraduate students and graduate students.

The second half of the twentieth century has witnessed remarkable advances in technology.

Specification and design methodology has seen significant growth as a research area over the last decade, tracking but lagging behind VLSI design technology in general and the CAD industry in particular.

Business Component-Based Software Engineering, an edited volume, aims to complement some other reputable books on CBSE, by stressing how components are built for large-scale applications, within dedicated development processes and for easy and direct combination.

With the rapid growth of networking and high-computing power, the demand for large-scale and complex software systems has increased dramatically.

Software architectures have gained wide popularity in the last decade.

Advances in social science research methodologies and data analytic methods are changing the way research in information systems is conducted.