Maths for computer scientists

This volume constitutes selected papers presented at the First International Conference on Artificial Intelligence: Theories and Applications, ICAITA 2022, held in Mascara, Algeria, in November 2022.

The main intended audience for this book is undergraduate students in pure and applied sciences, especially those in engineering.

These two volumes constitute the proceedings of the 10th International Symposium on Integrated Uncertainty in Knowledge Modelling and Decision Making, IUKM 2023, held in Kanazawa, Japan, during November 2-4, 2023.

This book presents a short introduction to the main tools of optimization methodology including linear programming, steepest descent, conjugate gradients, and the Karush-Kuhn-Tucker-John conditions.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Graph Transformation, ICGT 2021, which took place virtually during June 24-25, 2021.

The 9th ISMM conference covered a very diverse collection of papers, bound together by the central themes of mathematical morphology, namely, the tre- ment of images in terms of set and lattice theory.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 15th International Conference on Combinatorics on Words, WORDS 2025, held in Nancy, France, during June 30– July 4, 2025.

A strong and fluent competency in mathematics is a necessary condition for scientific, technological and economic progress.

This volume constitutes the proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Variable Neighborhood Search, ICVNS 2023, held in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, in October 2022.

This book offers a self-contained exposition of the theory of computability in a higher-order context, where 'computable operations' may themselves be passed as arguments to other computable operations.

This volume reflects the theme of the INFORMS 2004 Meeting in Denver: Back to OR Roots.

One of the most well-known of all network optimization problems is the shortest path problem, where a shortest connection between two locations in a road network is to be found.

This two-volume set LNCS 13968 and 13969 constitutes the proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Advances in Swarm Intelligence, ICSI 2023, which took place in Shenzhen, China, China, in July 2023.

This book constitutes the proceedings of the 16th International Conference on Quantitative Evaluation Systems, QEST 2019, held in Glasgow, UK, in September 2019.

Numerical Algorithmic Science and Engineering (NAS&E), or more compactly, Numerical Algorithmics, is the theoretical and empirical study and the practical implementation and application of algorithms for solving finite-dimensional problems of a numeric nature.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Neural Computing for Advanced Applications, NCAA 2024, held in Guilin, China, during July 5-7, 2024.

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed proceedings of the 32nd International Conference on Industrial, Engineering and Other Applications of Applied Intelligent Systems, IEA/AIE 2019, held in Graz, Austria, in July 2019.

The two-volume set, LNCS 15434 and 15435, constitutes the refereed post-conference proceedings of the 17th International Conference on Combinatorial Optimization and Applications, COCOA 2024, held in Beijing, China, during December 6–8, 2024.

Science involves descriptions of the world we live in.

Data Approximation by Low-complexity Models details the theory, algorithms, and applications of structured low-rank approximation.

This book presents thoughts and pathways to build revolutionary machine learning models with the new paradigm of machine learning to adapt behaviorism.

Emphasizes the strategy of experimentation, data analysis, and the interpretation of experimental results.

Sparse grids are a popular tool for the numerical treatment of high-dimensional problems.

This 2-volume set constitutes the refereed proceedings of 1st International Conference on Robotics and Rehabilitation Intelligence, ICRRI 2020, held in Fushun, China, in September 2020.

The five-volume set LNCS 14073-14077 constitutes the proceedings of the 23rd International Conference on Computational Science, ICCS 2023, held in Prague, Czech Republic, during July 3-5, 2023.

The present textbook contains the recordsof a two-semester course on que- ing theory, including an introduction to matrix-analytic methods.

Probabilistic Modelling in Bioinformatics and Medical Informatics has been written for researchers and students in statistics, machine learning, and the biological sciences.

The multi-volume set LNAI 13713 until 13718 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the European Conference on Machine Learning and Knowledge Discovery in Databases, ECML PKDD 2022, which took place in Grenoble, France, in September 2022.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 46th International Conference on Current Trends in Theory and Practice of Informatics, SOFSEM 2020, held in Limassol, Cyprus, in January 2020.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 20th European Workshop on Computer Performance Engineering, EPEW 2024, held in Venice, Italy, on June 14, 2024.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Graph Transformation, ICGT 2019, held as part of STAF 2019, in Eindhoven, The Netherlands, in July2019.

This highly practical Guide to Geometric Algebra in Practice reviews algebraic techniques for geometrical problems in computer science and engineering, and the relationships between them.

A classical queueing model consists of three parts - arrival process, service process, and queue discipline.

This book LNCS 15411 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 19th International Conference and Workshops on Algorithms and Computation, WALCOM 2025, held in Chengdu, China, during February 28 - March 2, 2025.

This two-volume set, CCIS 2146 and CCIS 2147, constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 14th International Symposium on Intelligence Computation and Applications, ISICA 2023, held in Guangzhou, China, during November 18-19, 2023.

Foreword by Dieter Jungnickel Finite Commutative Rings and their Applications answers a need for an introductory reference in finite commutative ring theory as applied to information and communication theory.

Asymptotic Combinatorial Coding Theory is devoted to the investigation of the combinatorial properties of transmission systems using discrete signals.

This book constitutes the refereed post-conference proceedings of the 15th EAI International Conference on Quality, Reliability, Security and Robustness in Heterogeneous Networks, QShine 2020, held in November 2020.

This book is a comprehensive and accessible introduction to the cross-entropy (CE) method.

This book offers an introduction to applications prompted by tensor analysis, especially by the spectral tensor theory developed in recent years.

Methods of dimensionality reduction provide a way to understand and visualize the structure of complex data sets.

Taken literally, the title "e;All of Statistics"e; is an exaggeration.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 11th International Workshop on Computer Algebra in Scientific Computing, CASC 2009, held in Kobe, Japan, in September 2009.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 22nd International Conference on Distributed and Computer and Communication Networks, DCCN 2019, held in Moscow, Russia, in September 2019.

The 6-volume set LNAI 14645-14650 constitutes the proceedings of the 28th Pacific-Asia Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining, PAKDD 2024, which took place in Taipei, Taiwan, during May 7-10, 2024.

This book features selected papers from the 5th International Conference on Mathematics and Computing (ICMC 2019), organized by the School of Computer Engineering, Kalinga Institute of Industrial Technology Bhubaneswar, India, on February 6 - 9, 2019.

Introduction to Discrete Event Systems is a comprehensive introduction to the field of discrete event systems, offering a breadth of coverage that makes the material accessible to readers of varied backgrounds.